Welcome aboard the home of Hype Train Football Club. Here, you can read the match reports from the Train's outing across Saturday & Sunday League action throughout the 2024/25 season, with the team competing in the East Berkshire Football League (EBFL) and the Reading & District Sunday League (RDSL). All aboard.
Match Report: Hype Train FC
Date: Saturday 9th November 2024
Competition: BBFA David Grainge Trophy - Round 1
Opposition: Old Windsor FC Reserves
Location: Waingels College, Woodley, Reading, RG5 4RF
Final Score: Hype Train FC 2-2 Old Windsor FC Reserves (Windsor win 9-8 on penalties)
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Match Report:
The Train's encounter against Old Windsor was our 11th fixture of the 2024/25 season in the East Berkshire Football League, with the team competing in the Berks & Bucks FA David Grainge Trophy, a county cup competition featuring teams outside of top divisions in the BBFA region. This was our second encounter against Old Windsor this season, having had the previous game in the competition abandoned after 13 minutes, with the County ruling for a replay.
Old Windsor took the lead during the 6th minute after the visitors won a free-kick by the referee for handball when the ball hit the chest of one of Mitchell Saunders. The resulting free-kick was nodded forward towards an attacker in an offside position that netted at the second time of asking. The team drew level in the 40th minute when a pin-point Ciaran Carolan corner was headed home by Saunders at the back post.
In the second-half the Train took the lead in the 81st minute when Carolan set up Bad Burles-Nash across goal, with the winger finishing with a good finish into the bottom right corner. The lead didn't last long though as in the 84th minute the visitors equalised, starting when the referee didn't blow for a foul when Manny Cudjoe was stamped on late when missing the ball, with the Windsor attacker assisting their forward, who on the turn finished well. The team would then end the game with 10 players when Burles-Nash was sin-binned, which all led to penalty kicks.
In a marathon shoot out with all 22 outfield players ending up taking a penalty, Windsor prevailed 9-8 with 2 efforts saved or missed, whilst Burles-Nash missed the crucial 21st penalty, allowing the visitors a route to win the game with the 22nd effort. Good luck to Old Windsor in the next round of the competition.
Hype Train FC: Matchday Squad
Manager: Robert Austin
Starting 11:
GK: Robert Austin
DEF: Lewis Warder-Green (Burles-Nash 69')
DEF: Chris Marshall
DEF: Mitchell Saunders
DEF: Emmanuel Cudjoe
MID: Obeydah Abdulwahab (Langa 46')
MID: Nadim Gharabli
MID: Mark Bush
MID: Ilyas Abdulwahab
MID: Conall Gorman (O. Abdulwahab 69', Gorman 90+1')
FOR: Ciaran Carolan
Substitutes:
SUB: Brad Burles-Nash
SUB: Taren Langa
Goals & Assists:
Goal 1: Saunders (goal), Carolan (assist)
Goal 2: Burles-Nash (goal), Carolan (assist)
Penalty Kicks:
Pen 1: Carolan (scored)
Pen 2: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 3: Saunders (scored)
Pen 4: Old Windsor (saved)
Pen 5: Cudjoe (scored)
Pen 6: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 7: Gorman (missed)
Pen 8: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 9: Bush (scored)
Pen 10: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 11: I. Abdulwahab (scored)
Pen 12: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 13: Gharabli (scored)
Pen 14: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 15: Marshall (saved)
Pen 16: Old Windsor (missed)
Pen 17: Langa (scored)
Pen 18: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 19: Austin (scored)
Pen 20: Old Windsor (scored)
Pen 21: Burles-Nash (missed)
Pen 22: Old Windsor (scored)
Want to know more about The Hype Train?
The Hype Train is an entertainment website founded in 2015, specialising in general football and Fantasy sports reporting, starting with Fantasy Premier League (FPL), before expanding to MLS Fantasy coverage in 2018.
We pride ourselves in providing beautiful graphics, statistics, in-depth analytical reporting and free weekly insight for hopeful players attempting to climb rankings tables. We are also occasional media reviewers, with a keen interest to review games, live sport, and professional wrestling.
In 2019, Hype Train Football Club was formed, becoming the first Fantasy Football website to take to the field. HTFC is a socially active team across social and web channels, providing regular match highlights, match reports, comprehensive player statistics and unique player profiles. We won both Goal of the Season Awards in the Berkshire and County FA regions, with Callum Parr-Jones winning the Berks & Bucks FA award, whilst Martin King won the PlaySport UK award.
In 2021, we formed the Reading Sunday Social League (RSSL), a competitive Sunday League involving 8 teams in its debut season. During the 2021/22 season, we won our first-ever trophy, lifting the East Berkshire Football League's Presidents Cup!
The Hype Train were nominated and shortlisted for the 'Best Football Blog' in 2016 by the Football Bloggers Association at their annual Football Blogging Awards (The FBA's), and were again shortlisted as a finalist in 2019 in the 'Best Fantasy Football Blog' category.
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