The M4s arrived on Saturday morning as league champions and looking for a final home win of the season to cap off the celebrations. 
Unfortunately, the victory lap didn't get off to an auspicious start. Jordan had dressed for the middle of winter so decided to do his best Chippendales impression during Danny's pre-match speech, meaning the vital tactics the skipper had chosen to share weren't really absorbed by the squad.

Sadly, this showed in the first ten minutes, with St Neots 2s getting two quick goals before the M4s had remembered how to play hockey. 

The M4s then woke up and started to build some promising plays. The short corner defending also improved, in part through Matt Need's excellent tactic of using a well/unfortunately timed voice break to shout "go" in his best Mickey Mouse impression, baffling the St Neots attack and leading to the danger being cleared. Sadly, however, St Neots were able to sneak in one more before half time and the M4s went in 3-0 down. 

This time, however, there was nothing distracting the M4s from their half time team talk and it showed, with a well worked attack early in the second half leading to Man of the Match and goal king contender Jamie slotting home. 

South were the stronger team for the rest of the second half but couldn't convert any more chances, despite bodies being put on the line; a final push towards the end of the match leading to Phil collapsing in a (admittedly slightly meltodramatic) heap with cramp. Unfortunately for him, his teammates showed little sympathy and voted him lemon. A lucky escape for Micky Mouse and Magic Mike which Phil has taken with good grace...

Anyway, fair to say St Neots cramped M4's style (I thank you) and the champagne will have to wait for next week. At least that means celebrating at City