A successful early morning trip to Cambridge University saw the following players gain their degrees or other academic awards

Professor Barry (Trinity College) - for research into the space time continuum of fetching the ball from the corner
Doctor Dean (Queens College) - PhD in tackling and shutting down space
Doctor Darren (Sidney Sussex College)- PhD in metronomic ball circulation.
Paul (Peterhouse) - MSc in Hand Biology. Also bravery award for showing no pain.
Jamie (Pembroke College) - BSc in Vaping Studies prior to vigorous exercise. Also Footlights comedy award for accidental misogyny when joking with Dr Dean and being overheard by umpire.
Mark (Magdelene College) - BA (Hons) in Ethics and the Dark Arts after not admitting to conceding a long corner.
Charlie (King's College) - BA in Ethics for studies into knocking the ball away after the whistle
Ethan (Jesus College) - BSc for research into clumsy tackling and avoiding censure
Dan (Homerton College) - BEng for driving an orange car
Tatty (Gonville and Caius) - BA(Hons) for studies in awareness of defender on line and Green card pushing
Kethan (Emmanuel College) - BSc (Hons) First Class for studies in reaction time and diverting ball into goal
Aman (Downing College) - BA in Fashion Studies for research into whether white shorts are the new blue?
Joe (Corpus Christi) - BSc in theoretical disappearance of the ball.
Jack (Clare College) - BSc for disappearing straight after the game to play golf
Adam (Christ's) - BA in inability to get ball out of feet when running on goal from halfway line.

All players were presented with their awards in the bar after a ceremonial Jacket Potato dinner (with the obvious exception of Jack) where they were roundly applauded by the students, except they weren't. They didn't go back to their own clubhouse or were they having a debrief in how a bunch of old boys and young lads managed to turn them over?
We won 1-0 and played fantastically well. They had, as you would expect loads of the ball but didn't really do much with it. We were super compact and competed in all areas. We were good on the break. Kethan scored our goal after Paul smashed a ball across the D, Tatty deflected it and Kethan reacted on the far post to deflect it in. Some would less charitably say it hit him while he was taking evasive action but I was right behind it and he definitely deflected it goalwards. They hit the post early on but other than that Prof Barry only had to make a few standard saves.
After last week's poor second half against Ely this was a great comeback and sets us in good stead for this week's game against Spalding where we aim to correct our defeat in the Fens earlier in the season.

The game also featured a first for me (pretty amazing after all the games I've played). We had four umpires!! One did the whole game. One started the game but had never done a game in her life and hot footed it off once a National League umpire in jeans and Timberlands wandered by the pitch. He was good but was sadly replaced a half time by what we assumed was the late arriving original umpire. Come on - with all your A* A levels sort the organisation out!!