London Blitz won BritBowl XXIII!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Matteo
BritBowl XXIII Champions: London Blitz!
Image by palmamod via Flickr

Yes, we won BritBowl XXIII!!!

What a weekend it was! We drove towards Doncaster on Saturday, leaving Finsbury Park around midday. A big, double-decker bus, plus a trailer for all our kits and bags and, needless to say, the London Blitz in their best shape. We spent the night by Barlborough, having some rest, dinner together and the very final meetings to recap what we’d been studying for the last 2 or 3 weeks, to be 110% ready to take on the Coventry Jets.

In the morning we had a last walk-through of the game-plan and a nice brunch, then the whole of the team squeezed into a tiny room to watch this video:

And the second part


This was incredible, you could see tears in the eyes of many of us, and this is what I think made us all realise we were there, ready to go, ready to win.

We finally got on the bus to Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster. The feeling was incredible, 70+ guys all dressed the same, all focussed on a moment only a few hours away, all focussed on a game to win and a trophy to hold.

We did so. We beat the Coventry Jets 26-7 (the only 7 points we conceded them in the 3 times we played them this season), obtaining a well deserved revenge after last year’s final. We practised hard all season, we won games and stayed focussed. We won, and we celebrated.

I’m so proud of being part of all this.

Team. Pride. Blitz. Family.

(you can see, and buy, Dan’s pictures pre-, post- and in-game)

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Matteo completed a Masters degree in Digital Humanities at King’s College, London, and worked on property search at Lokku Ltd. Matteo currently works in the magical kingdom of Social Media analytics at We Are Social. Mac user, loves Northern Soul and Ska music, as well as watching Football. You can meet him at MatteoStarri.com or Google+.
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  • http://fourdinnersisback.blogspot.com/ Four Dinners

    I would offer you a game against The Old Pretenders FC but we play proper football….;-)

    Also the defensive line of The OP's totals 219 years old so we may die if we put on all that gear to play your sort of football. I doubt we could move in that let alone run!!!!

    Well done old bean (I do actually like American Football – ever since it first hit the UK TV screens in…er…um…I chose The Dolphins that year and they won The Superbowl…therefore I was hooked)

    Congrats

  • http://fourdinnersisback.blogspot.com/ Four Dinners

    I would offer you a game against The Old Pretenders FC but we play proper football….;-)

    Also the defensive line of The OP's totals 219 years old so we may die if we put on all that gear to play your sort of football. I doubt we could move in that let alone run!!!!

    Well done old bean (I do actually like American Football – ever since it first hit the UK TV screens in…er…um…I chose The Dolphins that year and they won The Superbowl…therefore I was hooked)

    Congrats