Eagles u17 Yellows - 07/08 Season
Under 17 Yellows Cup Final
Letchworth Garden City Eagles Yellows 1 Hitchin Town Youth 6
This was always going to be a tough game for the Eagles up against the Hitchin Academy team. Hitchin had walked away with the first division title going unbeaten. Eagles had the first real chance of the game with the goalkeeper making an instinctive save from Elliott. For forty minutes you would not have known which team were the Academy team in an even contest. In the 40th minute Hitchin took the lead from a header inside the box. Eagles then went down to ten men whilst Miller received treatment. During this time Hitchin were awarded a soft penalty. 2-0 at half time.
Eagles came out in the second half determined to put up a fight and again had the goalie at full stretch to deny a goal. Shortly afterwards Hitchin were 3-0 up from a free kick. Unfortunately 3 more goals were conceded from long range the sort of shots that 9 times out of 10 go anywhere but the net.
The Eagles did have the last say when Platt scored a goal that would be shown over and over again if Ronaldo had scored it. Unfortunately SKY did not choose to broadcast this game.
At the end of the day the players did themselves and the name of Letchworth Garden City Eagles proud by reaching the final and finishing third in the league.
