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A different kind of football comes to the Hood on Sunday 5 Feb – the American kind. Join us at Merton FC’s fortress for a splendid evening filled with darts, Remember The Titans, Any Given Sunday, Cool Runnings, a sumptuous Texan BBQ spread and a large amount of drinking. Oh, and some Super Bowl action too. Best advised to call in sick for work the next day; this won’t be an early night

Nicks funeral took place yesterday. It was an emotionally charged and an unashamedly tearful service with his family and friends telling how Nick had such a positive impact on their lives in his short life. They spoke of his love for life, his family, his friends and sport and, of course his smile. I recalled that when we posted the dreadful news of his death on this website Lofty, his captain last season, commented that ‘He played with a smile on his face’. It seemed appropr…iate that we should sponsor ‘Smile Train’ a charity to create two new smiles in his memory. Smile Train organises cleft palate operations for children in the developing world. Two children who could not smile because of their cleft palate and probably did not have much to smile about will have the operation and will soon be able to ‘smile’. Today there was an outpouring of love for Nick and grief at the loss but it was an uplifting experience for his friends and family. It was an honour to be part of this and our love goes to them.

Youth Results with all the teams on their travels. U9s beat Spelthorne Skys 4-2 U11s beat Claygate Royals 5-4 in a thrilling Cup match.U13s beat Epsom Town Youth 3-1 and moved up to second place in the league with a game in hand. U14s beat Croygas 6-3 and stay top. U15s lost 6-0 but it was to top of the table Bedfont Eagles. So a pretty good day. Well done to all the lads and managers and of course parents.

Good day at the Hood 1s beat Economicals 3-1 in tight cup match. (Browner MOM) 2s beat a depleted Kew side 9-2 a much needed league win.(DQ Dick of the day) 4s lose 2-1 at Actonians. 5s lose on pens in the cup after 0-0 draw. 6s win 4-2 at the Bank of England and 7s draw 2-2 with Old Blues. Pics of the bar. Bar buzzing when i left

Todays Youth Results and the Hood was playable.
U9s lost 7-2 against Epsom an Ewell colts.
U11s beat Hanworth Sports Bees 4-0
U13s beat Epsom and Ewell Colts 2-0
U14s beat Rocks Lane 13-2 and …
U15s lost 7-1 to Wallington Wanderers.
Well done boys.

Todays Results;

1s won 4-0 in a good cup game against Old Blues, (Goals from Nick, Jonny, Rat and Chas (pic) 2s drew 1-1 with Kew ass 2s late goals and we missed a pen (pic) 3s lost 3-1 at Actonians, 4s lost 6-1 old Sals res. 5s lost 5-0 in the Cup to Poly 5s. 6s drew 3-3 with Old Blues 4s and 7s opened their account against Alleyn O Bs 8-3. Well done boys. I left Kew with our 1s and 2s still enjoying the social side.

A good set of results from the Youth section.

The U9s beat Esher Colts Orange 3-1.

The U11s beat Esher Colts Yellows 5-1.

The U13s beat CB Hounslow 11-2.

The U14s had a good cup win 6-4 against Haslemere Town.

The U15s lost 1-0 to Met Police Reds. Well done to the Hoodies as Steve calls them.

Great night at the Hood for The Merton Way Quiz with ‘I am Spartacus’ (1s with some Gridley experience) running out winners. Thanks to Peter, Steve and Jasper for working the bar and our waiters and of course to the quizmaster on the night, Sherbs. Great fun. Great performance from winners and close runners up ‘Buffs and Muffs’ and some dodgy stuff from Team Handsome. Special mention to ‘Norfolk and Chance’ who would have won the drinking competition, had there been one. Buffs and Muffs getting full marks on Film lines. And of course to Whistlestop (Raynes Park) for great fish and chips!!!

Results from the Hood

With a bad down pour in the night/morning the 1s, 5s, 6s and 7s all got called off.

2s drew 0-0 in a very good game with table topping HSBC. Well reffed by Gheorghe Moraru (pic)

3s lost away against Civil Service 2 – 1.

4s lost 2-1 in a close game with BB Eagles.