Albion are Midlands Masters!

14 June 2003

In their first year entering the Masters Football contest, televised live on Sky Sports, Albion won the Midlands tournament held today at the Coventry Arena. Fighting off competition from Wolves and Blues, and watched by a bunch of happy Boing readers who won tickets for the event here last week, Albion's side ended up in the final against Aston Villa, who they flattened with an impressive 4-1 scoreline. Richard Sneekes won Player of the Tournament, and we're pretty sure that Wayne Fereday ended up as top scorer for the day. Albion now join Newcastle United, winner of last week's North East tournament, in the finals, along with whoever wins the remaining regional events. Honourable mentions to Tony Lange, who made a string of fine saves in the Albion goal, to the ever-committed Gary Strodder and the remainder of the squad: Micky Forsyth, Gary Hackett, Ian Benjamin, Nicky Cross, Gary Robson and last - but definitely not least - player/manager John Trewick. Don Goodman made a promising start for Wolves, banging in a few goals, and Tony Daley, Gary Parker and Nigel Spink looked useful for Villa. In other events, watch out for other ex-Baggies: Cyrille Regis, Sean Flynn, David Smith, Ruel Fox, Brian Talbot, Bryan Robson, Arthur Albiston, Phil King, Imre Varadi, Simon Garner, Colin West, Paul Beesley, Nicky Reid and - erm - Brett Angel. I think that's the lot - but let us know if you spot any more. Personally, I enjoyed seeing the hordes of Wolves fans, all noisy and full of their new found Premiership status, gradually get quieter and quieter as the day wore on and their side dropped towards the foot of the table - but perhaps that was just me. Villa were 15/8 favourites to win the event, with Albion predicted to finish bottom. Pundits proved wrong shock! The whole event is repeated at 1am tonight on Sky Sports 2, and again at 7am, so set the video for 3 hours. Full Results: ? Birmingham 2 4 Wolves ? Albion 2 3 Villa Fereday, Forsyth Wolves 1 2 Villa ? Birmingham 1 5 Albion Fereday 2, Sneekes 2, Robson Wolves 2 2 Albion Robson, Benjamin Villa 3 4 Birmingham ? League Table: ? Team Pld Pts GD Villa 3 6 +1 Albion 3 4 +3 Wolves 3 4 +1 Birmingham 3 3 -5 Final: ? Villa 1 4 Albion Strodder, Benjamin, Cross 2

Gratuitously sexy dancing to start off with... Errr... what were the rules again? Crikey! We've won it! Crikey. THEY'VE won it...

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