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Tom
Witham looks forward to the day in prospect
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Bert
Lloyd was making his NSC Tournament debut
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Kev
the Ape Ticehurst had signed up for a second
season of Team Croc duties following his
controversial poaching from Team NSC
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Potter
was sporting two right handed gardening gloves
in an attempt to flair things up. Unfortunately,
these lasted only five minutes before being
tossed away
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McCarthy
was sporting the delightful St Etienne home
shirt of two years ago
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Tom
Cutting was back in Brighton, back in Crocs
colours and back to wearing gay headbands
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Bert
Lloyd, Neil Kane, Scott McCarthy, Mark Potter,
Tom Witham, Tom Cutting, Kev Ticehurst and
Spencer Slaughter line up for duty
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Kane
skips past Jenkins before sliding the ball past
Oaf to net in our second group game, a 3-1 win
over Sporting Bad Haircuts
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The
board doesn't lie - an unbeaten record sees the
Crocs head through to the semi finals
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Slaughter
and Kane both make it onto the top goalscorers
list
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Witham
is delighted with the situation that the board
spells out
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A
2-1 semi final victory over the Allstars somehow
puts the Crocs into the final
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The
2009 North Stand Chat Final gets underway -
Crocs v Exiles
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Kane
sees his penalty strike the bar and go over
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Exiles
keeper Simon Huffer pulls off a stop to deny
Lloyd in the shoot out
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The
teams are locked at 3-3 at the end of regular
penalties. McCarthy steps up to net the first
sudden death penalty
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He
then saves the following Exiles kick to give the
Crocs their first ever NSC Title
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The
rest of the team bundle the captain
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McCarthy
and Witham celebrate a feat that only 6 hours
earlier seemed unbelievable for their team
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Mendoza
crowns the Crocs as the third ever NSC Champions
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McCarthy
lifts the trophy, much to the delight of the
traveling Croc Croc Yellow Army
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The
players begin their celebrations
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Kane
lifts the trophy
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Championes
championes ole ole ole
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Slaughter
raises one arm in a Slade-esque salute
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The
players congratulate each other on their
unexpected triumph
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Team
Croc Class of 2009 will forever go down in
history - eight yellow heroes
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