The annual tradition of the clash of the messes took place
on Tuesday 16th December 2003.
It was a very cold and icy day, and the referee LSgt "Barry" Doudican nearly
called the match off, until he realised that there had been much training
completed by both sides for this match and didn't want to disappoint. Others
believed that if the match was called off then the teams would have to take
part in a CFT being planned for everyone else......not sure what I believe
really.
The match was won by the Sergeants' Mess with a final score of 3 - 2.
A brief run down of the match is below:
1 - 0 Goal to the Officers Mess
Scored by Capt Overton (the Families Officer)
1 - 1 Goal to the Sergeants' Mess
scored by CQMS "John" Sheard
It should be noted that this was a penalty caused by an obvious fowl by Maj
MacKean, naughty Sir, very naughty!
2 - 1 Goal to the Officers Mess
Scored again by Capt Overton
2 - 2 Goal to the Sergeants' Mess
Scored with a cracking header by CSgt "Phil" Weatherall
3 - 2 Goal to the Sergeants' Mess
Winning goal scored by The Master Chef WOII "Shaun" Mancrief