A bitterly cold, wet windy morning saw some question whether the match should go ahead but having conferred with the parents, a majority view of "well we're here now, so we might as well play" prevailed. The boys acquitted themselves ably in a 12 aside match against a game Hoylake team and won. Although due to numbness from cold, the exact score escapes me, it was probably somewhere between 3-1 and 4-0.