Welcome aboard the home of Hype Train Football Club. Here, you can read the match reports from the Train's outings across Saturday League action throughout the 2024/25 season, with the team competing in the East Berkshire Football League (EBFL). All aboard.
Match Report: Hype Train FC
Date: Saturday 11th January 2025
Competition: EBFL Division One (Game 7)
Opposition: Slough Heating FC Reserves
Location: Waingels College, Woodley, Reading, RG5 4RF
Final Score: Hype Train FC 2-6 Slough Heating FC Reserves
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Match Report:
The Train's encounter against Slough Heating was our 15th fixture of the 2024/25 season in the East Berkshire Football League, with the team competing in EBFL's Division One to start the new year. This was our second encounter against Slough, having lost 2-0 in the first round of the EBFL Presidents Cup last year.
The team took the lead after 6 minutes when Mitchell Saunders played through Padraig Gorman, who cut in and finished calmly, but were 2-1 down in a matter of minutes due to a brace of set-piece goals, including a penalty. A giveaway at the back would seal a 3-1 lead heading into half-time, before a lob attempt made the score 4-1.
During the 61st minute of the game, Kie Longmate's long ball forward was flicked towards Slough's goal and a miss kick by their goalkeeper allowed Obeydah Abdulwahab to capitalise, netting his first goal for the club with a lofted finish past a final defending attempting to block the effort. A brace of quick-fire late goals would seal the points for the visitors, who ended the game with 10 players when one of their central defenders was shown a straight red card after a horror tackle on Ashley Rockall with 5 minutes left to play.
Next up, The Train visit Real Saracens FC in EBFL Division One on Saturday 18th January 2024.
Hype Train FC: Matchday Squad
Manager: Robert Austin
Starting 11:
GK: Robert Austin
DEF: Anwar Mmanga (Burles-Nash 75')
DEF: Emmanuel Boateng (Longmate 46')
DEF: Ashley Rockall
DEF: Emmanuel Cudjoe (Boateng 77')
MID: Conall Gorman (Anderson 65')
MID: Ilyas Abdulwahab (Coe 55')
MID: Mark Bush (O. Abdulwahab 55')
MID: Mitchell Saunders
MID: Padraig Gorman (I. Abdulwahab 82')
FOR: Shay Edwards
Substitutes:
SUB: Brad Burles-Nash
SUB: Connor Anderson
SUB: Obeydah Abdulwahab
SUB: Kie Longmate
SUB: Lucas Coe
Want to know more about The Hype Train?
The Hype Train is an entertainment website founded in 2015, specialising in general football and Fantasy sports reporting, starting with Fantasy Premier League (FPL), before expanding to MLS Fantasy coverage in 2018.
We pride ourselves in providing beautiful graphics, statistics, in-depth analytical reporting and free weekly insight for hopeful players attempting to climb rankings tables. We are also occasional media reviewers, with a keen interest to review games, live sport, and professional wrestling.
In 2019, Hype Train Football Club was formed, becoming the first Fantasy Football website to take to the field. HTFC is a socially active team across social and web channels, providing regular match highlights, match reports, comprehensive player statistics and unique player profiles. We won both Goal of the Season Awards in the Berkshire and County FA regions, with Callum Parr-Jones winning the Berks & Bucks FA award, whilst Martin King won the PlaySport UK award.
In 2021, we formed the Reading Sunday Social League (RSSL), a competitive Sunday League involving 8 teams in its debut season. During the 2021/22 season, we won our first-ever trophy, lifting the East Berkshire Football League's Presidents Cup!
The Hype Train were nominated and shortlisted for the 'Best Football Blog' in 2016 by the Football Bloggers Association at their annual Football Blogging Awards (The FBA's), and were again shortlisted as a finalist in 2019 in the 'Best Fantasy Football Blog' category.
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