The game started well with Barbarians taking the upper hand. Phil Heggli recently back from a tour of Bangladesh was drafted into defence. It was his quick free kick from deep in our own half that put Claudius Hildebrand through on goal for the opener. 1-0. Andrew Evans, marauding on the left wing, provided the second with a clean clinical strike. 2-0. The first of our tough tackling anchor men to score was Samy, charging through the defence and beating the keeper to the ball. He finished with a delicate chip then clattered with the keeper. 3-0. Shortly before half time, re-organization at the back put an end to Thumb Korea's wing play. The half time talk was focused on defending well and keeping the clean sheet.

An interesting encounter that saw us pegged against our closest rivals this season. They now sit 4 points ahead of us and still have the Beijing Rockers game which will give them a 6-0 victory. We won’t meet them again this season, but we can still beat them in the table. Our current position puts us above Celtics and Renda with Azzurri reachable and Italy 10 points clear. Our objective this season should be first to retain our current position, then to beat Azzurri on the table, our super objective is to finish above Italy in the top four. If we all pull together and play our best, I believe these objectives are attainable.

The game started well with the teams evenly matched for the most part. A defensive error lead to the first opportunity but nobody could stop the pace of the Azzurri forward who rounded a number of defenders before finishing from an impossible angle.