The Top of the D has already looked at the first 8 teams contesting the KO16 this weekend in Amsterdam in part one. Here is all you need to know about the other eight sides fighting to win European Club Hockey’s most prestigious prize.
This weekend sees the resumption of the Euro Hockey League with the KO16 all set for Amsterdam. The creme de la creme of European Hockey are ready and raring to go. The Top of the D takes a look a the runners and riders.
Sarah Thomas is Welsh Hockey’s golden girl. The country’s only representative in both Men’s and Women’s Great Britain squads at London 2012 and the first Welsh outfield player to compete at consecutive Olympic games, it is fair to say the former Rotterdam forward has a lot to be proud of. Continue reading
Darren Cheesman is a very interesting character. A product of the Arsenal “In the community scheme” his life could easily have taken a wrong turn and ended up very different but for his involvement in hockey. He’s spent a year playing in Holland, scooped the English Premier League Player of the Year in 2008 and scored on his Great Britain debut in 2010. He is by no means finished there, however. The Reading star spoke to The Top of the D about giving something back, his faith and his international ambitions. Continue reading
East Grinstead won their fifth National Indoor title in a row with a hugely impressive display to overcome old foes Reading at Wembley this afternoon.
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