Priorities in life:

1. Cambridge South Hockey
2. New born baby
3. A sleeping Wife
4. Your own sleep
5. Everything else

A home game in the middle of the day? Should be easy to get a team out, yet we keep coming up with new ways of not being able to play. The Fan Oven was still suffering from his fancy dress knee injury and Super Mario failed a match-day fitness test, still feeling the effects of his ‘no parachute skydiving attempt’ last week at Deeping. In addition, Barney would have to leave his debut appearance at some point during the second half.

It was left to father-of-the-year Dan Loy to make up the numbers. With his wife having given birth to the newest member of the club (daughter Hallela) at some point in the early hours of the morning, it was excused when he was a little late for the team meet and warm-up. Still attempting to not have enough players to start the game, Dr Kim (well, really he's a dentist) did his best to take a look at a bloody-mouthed Georgie, who had just taken a ball to the face at the tail end of the Ladies 1s' game. He's never on time anyway, and there was no time for a warm-up on the pitch.

Shorn of the usual attacking options, vice-captain Anns suggested putting Wizard through the middle. His decision was rewarded within two minutes when a slick passing (yes, passing, not running with the ball) move was converted when Adam (Nightingale - spelt with a K… yes we marked our MoM & LoM voting) pulled back to Wizard on the spot. 1-0 and the game had barely started.

Barney was growing frustrated with not getting a touch in the middle, so charged on to a run to the far post, Shin smashed it across the D and Barney guided it into the far corner. Note to club statisticians (Jan): has anyone ever scored with their first touch for the club?

At 2-0 and with barely five minutes gone, attention quickly flicked to the cricket and how many runs England would be chasing to win the series. This was supposed to be just the supporters on the side-line, but the vibe obviously made its way onto the pitch; it was either that or the fact that everyone thought they were going to score, and thus a bit of ‘you attack, we attack’ hockey started. Some good solid defending by the usual suspects snuffed out all the danger and launched the counter punch. A swift counter-attack ended up on 'BabyMaker' Loy's stick and it was 3-0.

Half-time came and went with just the one bag of Haribo. The idea was floated that to keep possession of the ball would reward us with more goals if only we would play fewer Hollywood passes (apparently something Jonjo Shelvey is guilty of).

The second half saw a better team performance, capped with two incredibly scrappy goals. The first started with Shin in the D, twisting and turning. A short while passed, during which he largely managed to avoid his own feet, our other players, giving Jon a decent shot and the Wisbech tackles. Eventually, his shot (‘going wide’) was turned in by Adam. Finishing the ‘going wide’ chances seems to be a specialty for Adam, who got a second in similar fashion, turning in Dan's shot. Apparently having a baby and still playing isn’t enough to stop people stealing your goals. The hat-trick was surely to follow, with the chance to deflect another shot that this time actually was going wide, but he fluffed his lines, earning him a tightly contested lemon win.

There was enough time after the game for a weekend suitcase to make an appearance. It wouldn't have been out of place being pulled down a Mile High aisle. Presumably the bearer had to make a quick exit after being spotted doing pushups and stretches in the middle of the pitch (as the other team attacked). Maybe the winter break was a little long for this high-flyer.