The Top of the D has already given you the low-down on the two teams contesting the first semi final in the end of season play-offs in part one here. Today, it is the turn of the teams who placed second and third in the league and who face each other this weekend in the other semi final: Canterbury and Surbiton. Continue reading
The end of season Championship Play-Offs are almost upon us once again. Last year, Reading edged out East Grinstead with an Andy Watts penalty corner goal after the final whistle. The semi-final line-up promises to serve up a feast of entertaining hockey and plenty of drama at Sonning Lane this weekend. The Top of the D takes a look at the contenders. First up, Reading and Beeston, who face off in first of the semi-finals.
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
With the league phase now behind us it is time once again for the top four indoor teams in the men’s domestic game to take to the floor at Wembley Arena to battle it out in the men’s semi-finals and final to see who will take home the coveted Maxifuel Supersixes title.
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