Saturday. Day 28.

LEAGUE: Match 26. LONDON CITY (74.6) v FC JELEZNIK (66.5)

Result: LONDON 4-2 JELEZNIK
Goals: Yashin 4pen, Zola 19, Robins 51, Criban 83, Damgaard 84, Damgaard 85pen
M.o.M: Percy Robins

Going into the match lying 2nd on goal difference, we knew that we had to better Alcudia's result, to win the league. Oleg Yashin got us off to a dream start, when he converted a penalty after only 4 minutes. Adam Zola doubled our lead midway through the half when he slotted home after being put through by Marius Olsen. Six minutes into the second period, Percy Robins made space for himself and calmly stroked home our third. The score remained at 3-0 until a crazy last few minutes. When Yonni Criban scored our fourth with just seven minutes on the clock, it looked all over. But straight from the restart, Simon Damgaard pulled one back for the visitors. Within a minute, Jeremiah Whyte was red carded for a foul in the box, and Damgaard added his second from the spot. It was an agonising last few minutes for us, but we hung on. Now it was just a four and a half hour wait for Alcudia to play their final match.

OTHER LEAGUE RESULTS:
Danis 3-2 Phetchana, Kukula 4-4 Legends, Yakuza 1-2 Tongfang, Shileno 5-1 Olympiakos, Lalas 1-1 Real, Alcudia 1-0 Minh.


TEAM TALK:

After winning our afternoon game, we had an anxious wait for the very last fixture in our league, between first placed Alcudia and third placed Minh Chi. A win for Alcudia would land them the title. Anything else, and the trophy would be ours. We sat round watching this match and were getting excited as the game reached the 90 minute mark, with the teams locked at 0-0. But our dreams were shattered when Alcudia grabbed a late winner, deep into stoppage time, to deny us top spot. So near, and yet so far.

FINAL TABLE

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