Words to follow, here's the pictures (click-through for a larger image). Suffice to say that it was a fantastic day.
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A few of the lads show how happy they are to be in Steve Craddock's Hugh Jarse
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Perrywood and Grammar School boys show how it's done
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Brown's Clowns go through their warm-up routine and just await the custard pies to turn up so they can slap themselves in the face when they lose to the schoolboy teams
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Harding came straight from his day job as a set of traffic lights
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Brown's Clowns bring their own big top
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The thin red line
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Mansbridge with a breathtaking save and Wait gives Bennett a friendly nudge
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Chris starts crying as Hamish once again tells him that the 1st XI are the elite and much more important than anyone else in the club
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Hubble Bubble...
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True Blue Talent
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A highly-charged piece of action sees Patel break away with Shopland alongside - the reds taking slightly longer to react
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Over everyone, Puddles speeds to intercept - possibly the last sighting of Tony.Z's ball
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One Martin, One Harding, One Nine-Two
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Barclays Bank on geeting at least one of them through
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Pink to make the boys wink
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A three mile trek and teeny-tiny goals did not detract from the quality off football in Group Three
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Reigatians old, new, past, present and, hopefully, future
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Steve leads by example...and does his famous “I'm a teapot” rendition
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Ros once again gets her hands around a long shaft with a glistening aperture and brings it up to her face
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A close one for Shopland, although Alan Tully looks slightly miffed about something
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Close up on Mr Tully losing his rag (actually he was calling “Inside” although, as you can see, he was too!
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John must have been running at break-neck speed whilst in chase for the ball with Pete Softley, as his neck disappeared!
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Tode denies Shopland, leaving him with newt
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Harding peels away after scoring a hotly disputed penalty whilst Shopland holds on to his valuables
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OK Daddy, I'll explain the offside rule once more...
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A Fine clearance
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Zanzottera once again finds himself between the legs of a strong, young footballer
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After an honourable 0-0 draw, it goes to penalties - Fine starts the proceedings
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Tension mounts in the penalty shoot-out
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Spice Boy makes himself look big (without out the aid of suction pumps for once)
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Hyett does everything right, but he can't deny skipper Zanzottera who buries his penalty perfectly
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Scud silences the critics by putting away his penalty
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It's goalward bound, but did it go in?
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The winning penalty, scored by Rick Patel past Kenny Hyett, who both played terrifically
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The Peter Millican Trophy
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Organiser, Tony Davies, takes a well-earned breather and gets a well-earned hug from Banu. Great stuff Tony, well done.
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The Millican family watch on and try to ignore the strange waft of B.O. from somewhere
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The Runners Up collect their medals
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Tony.Z collects the cup
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The winning side
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