Ph.Creative got together last weekend to take part in the DLIB (Downtown Liverpool In Business) 5 A-Side Football Tournament. 20 Corporate Companies from around Liverpool each put together their best 7 players to battle it out against each other in what turned out to be a hard 8 minutes a game.

As I regularly play 5 A-Side and manage a Sunday League Football Team, Bryan made me captain and chief organiser for the event. This gave me the responsibility of encouraging 6 of our finest to involve themselves in what I kept referring to as team bonding, we’re as Bryan and Steve said losing wasn’t an option... the pressure was on.

We arrived at Peter Lloyd’s Sports Centre before noon, where we signed in and received our fixtures for the day. 4 leagues with 5 teams in each league. Unfortunately a team had failed to turn up; meaning we only had 3 games. The 2 top teams of each league went through to the knock-out stages.

Since Ph.Creative had become my Sunday League Football Team’s sponsor for the forthcoming season, I supplied the kits which included Ph’s logo on.

Team selection was a simple ‘pick numbers’ which left Bryan, Alex and myself on the bench.
Daz, who was the extra man for us, was our keeper for all our games. First on were Craig, Steve, Paul and Joel. It quickly became apparent the team we were playing, were much better than we were, and by half time (4 minutes later) we were 5-0 down. Steve, the athlete of the team, dropped out first so I ran on to take his place, there wasn’t much I could in 2 minutes, but was lucky enough to score for us.

Team Ph didn’t get a break and were straight back on for the 2nd game. Bryan, Alex and I replaced Steve, Craig and Paul. Both halves we conceded a goal with both keepers making great saves. 2-0 felt disappointing as we could have beaten the opposition.

Because a team had dropped out we were given a 5-0 win, which turned out to be our only win of the day! Our last game we played were probably the best team in our league.

Alex, Steve, Paul and I started the half, which ended 1-0 to us with Alex scoring. 2 quick substitutions were made at half time, with Bryan and Craig coming on for Alex and I. Before you could say ‘that was a good half’ we were 3-1 down.

The results didn’t matter at the end of the day, everyone enjoyed themselves, and we’re now talking about making Team Ph a regular thing, so if you’re a local company and fancy playing against us, get in touch!