Oldboys Spoon: We Hate Ben 4-2 We Hate Ben Oldboys

We Hate Ben managed to regain control of the Oldboys Spoon and returned some pride after their 6-0 thrashing in last year's game. The Shield winners, who had just come off the back of a historic ADL season managed to win the match 4-2 with an excellent second-half performance.

The game started with a guard of honour for WHB as Oldboys congratulated them on their Shield win, as many of the players in the Oldboys team were involved in the loss to Pier in the Shield back in 2010. The two teams then took part in a minutes applause for David Beckham's career.

Kick-off then started and the Oldboys looked the better team for most of the first-half but still still had to be on guard from the WHB counter. It was Oldboys however who drew first blood, with Ross Pope scoring at the far post. Both teams had chances but the score remained 1-0 to Oldboys at the break. After the break both teams tried to get a goal but it was WHB who scored an equaliser through Nathan Lang. WHB took the lead as the game became open and Jay Walker scored. Oldboys had a couple of chances to equalise but the game was put beyond doubt when both James Everett and Jordan Watkins scored to put WHB 4-1 ahead. A late penalty converted by Darrell Rees with the last kick of the game made the score more respectable, but Oldboys will feel they deserved more particularly after their first half performance.

Oldboys did however win the traditional end of game penalty shoot-out.

WHB Oldboys
Team (4-2-3-1)

Fleming - Shaw, Pemberton, L'argent, Townsend - Rees (C), Adams - Pope, Court, Williams - Naik.

Subs: Jones, Webster, Warren, Dodsworth, Edgerley, Grosvenor, Cross.
Goals: Pope, Rees (pen)
MOTM: Williams.

We Hate Ben
Team (4-4-2)

Phillips - Davies, Oliver, Everett, Nicholls - Lewis, Fellows, Hughes, Lang - Wilson, Scutt (C).
Subs: Watkins, Johnson, Muir, Rhodes, Amos, Walker, P. Thomas.
Goals: Lang, Walker, Everett, Watkins.
MOTM: Nicholls.