The road to Barcelona sadly came to an end for The Raging Bulls 5 a side footy team last week, although they bowed out with their heads held high.  Since September our budding starlets have been competing in the Yahoo! Premier League agency tournament battling against other Search departments.  With the winners rewarded with a trip to Barcelona for two nights fun and tickets to watch Messi and Co. at the Nou Camp the tournament has been enjoyable with some hard fought battles, memorable goals and silky skills along the way.    

After squeezing into the semi-finals on the last day of the season with a last minute goal The Raging Bulls were unfortunately beaten 7-2 by tournament favourites OMD.  Despite going down to a heavy defeat to end their hopes of partying on Las Ramblas The Raging Bulls have had an entertaining first season with some memorable moments along the way… 

Highlights of the season:

• An unstoppable Ollie Bishop scoring 5 against MPG, knocking down their keeper and defender in the process of one goal.
• Dan McIntosh scoring the winning goal with almost the last kick off the game against Unique to send us through to the semi-finals.
• Mark Joseph and Gareth Owen combining for goal of the tournament against OMD (well that’s what we’re claiming anyway!)

 Well done to all those that took part.

Top L-R: Gareth Owen, Warren Dell, Mark Joseph, Robert Wilde, Ollie Bishop

Bottom L-R: Daniel McIntosh, James Robins, Jorge Anastasiu

Steak’s Raging Bulls have made a winning start to the inaugural Yahoo! Premier League season.  The 5 a side competition sees 12 agencies battling it out over 2 groups  for the right to be crowned the first ever Ad League Champions and our very own Rooneys and Ronaldos have picked up two wins from the opening two games. 

 After a convincing 9-2 victory over Unique in the season opener things were a lot tougher against I-Spy with Steak leaving it late to score three times and seal a 6-3 victory in a hotly contested game with passions running high.  The team’s 100% record will be on the line against the tournament hosts Yahoo! in a fortnight as they look to build on their fine start.

The Raging Bulls are sadly not on winning form just yet. The second match of the season saw us lose to Publicis, 29-14. A dramatic come back from 19-2 wasn’t enough to take the lead, although it seems we’ve learned that the more alcohol consumed, the better we play!

Louise Fisher, Team Captain

Thursday night saw the start of the summer softball season with Steak taking on KLP in division 3 of the LASL (London Advertising Softball League).

Unfortunately KLP beat our Raging Bulls 17-14.

But… considering at one point we were 14-1 down (coincidentally the point at which Ollie turned up – he’s claiming full victory for clawing the score back up)… not a bad result.

Better luck next week!?

Louise Fisher, Team Captain