One of our U11 teams was invited to go to Crystal Palace’s football academy to play on 28th October. This follows a successful first match 18 months ago. The boys spent the day at the academy which is located at the National Sports Centre. We played inside in the football dome against a group of Palace trialists whose ages ranged from 9 to 13.

In the morning the boys benefitted from coaching from 2 of Palace’s coaching staff as they were mixed in with the Palace boys to play a series of small sided games. Then after lunch we played 4 periods of 20 minutes 9v9 with Palace scoring the equaliser to make it 3-3 in the last couple of minutes. Our boys played superbly and were a great credit to the Club. We had a great day out and both parties are keen to make this an annual event.