Oxshott Royals Football Club

On Saturday 9th January, after several months of planning Oxshott Royals U9A were due to play a friendly against Arsenal’s U9 Advanced Soccer Schools Team in North London, just a few minutes from the Emirates Stadium. In the event the snow which had caused Arsenal to postpone its mid-week Premier League fixture against Bolton hadn’t cleared from the pitch we were due to play on near Caledonian Road tube and our match was postponed. Both teams are now trying to re-arrange a game at the end of the season.

Not all was lost as Arsenal still kindly arranged tickets for us to go up to the Emirates and watch Arsenal play Everton in one of the only professional matches to survive the snowy weather. The pictures show the boys at the ground where we were sat right behind one of the goals and directly in the path of the second half blizzard. It was a brilliant chance for some of the boys to witness their first premiership match and to savour the atmosphere as we were close to the away section containing 3000 singing Everton fans.

A fantastic day out was completed for all the boys and dad’s at the Hope Workers café on the Holloway Road where all 18 of us ate supper for an average cost of £4.17!

Following Arsenal it was back to Bookham in the Epsom & Ewell League Cup where we showed all of Arsenal’s finesse and newly found grit (okay I’m biased) to narrowly beat our local rivals 2-1. Well played boys, another excellent performance from everyone.