Brentham Colts 4 v 3 Kensington Dragons U13s A warmish Autumn morning greeted the U13s on their trip to Brentham, on a tight pitch and an opposition containing 3 players who size would have not have been out of place in a first team fixture. Brentham opened the scoring following a goal mouth scramble as…
AFC Southall 1 v 3 Kensington Dragons Reserves After the management shook things up, the Reserves were able to cling on to some positivity after a poor run of 3 straight defeats. With numerous players in new positions they started sloppily with an array of misplaced passes. However the defence, also with a new look,…
Lancaster 1 v Kensington Dragons 3 The week off did nothing to help the team’s rhythm on the pitch or so it appeared in the opening exchanges in the game where the tempo and quality were lower than expected. This was matched by limp attempts off the ball to regain possession and the inevitable happened…
Variable weather saw various Dragons on various pitches on this Remembrance Sunday: The U11’s lost to unbeaten London Athletic at St Marks in a better performance than the score line would suggest. A full squad, sporting their new look football kit, roared into action and after ten minutes were winning 2-0 with a Premier League…
Pinstars FC 3 v 7 Kensington Dragons U14 Eagles We dug deep, pulled together, never let our heads drop, and though the odds, at times, were against it – we finally made it to Pinner. But if the patient opposition were hoping our lack of pre-match preparation would give them the edge, they were sorely disappointed. In…
Kensington Dragons U13s 2 v 2 Hayes and Yeading After a 4 week gap in match action the U13s finally got to play a game, Dean the coach made a tactical adjustment playing one of our centre halves in midfield to add some height to it and we also had two new players making their debuts.…
Kensington Dragons U11s 3 v 7 London Athletic A full squad of U11Kensington Dragons sporting their new look football kits roared into action and after ten minutes were winning 2-0 with a Premier League quality goal that had the spectators roaring with delight. Half time saw London Athletic, the league leaders who are unbeaten this…
British Airways 2 v Kensington Dragons Reserves 0 – MCFL Snr Reserve Division Cup Looking to respond from back to back defeats, the Dragons arrived in good spirits but lacking one of their center backs who went AWOL. Sadly this meant playing the returning striker in defence and this cost them going forward, the team…
Winter hit with a vengeance. After constant rain all Saturday night your correspondent was not the only Dragon whose twinge of regret at his game being called off was less pronounced than it should have been. The only games played were: The Firsts beat Hillingdon Abbots 4-0 away in the second round of the Middlesex…
Harlington 5 v 2 Kensington Dragons U11s An ice cold Sunday near Heathrow saw a player short KD squad put on a really strong performance against a Harlington team seeking revenge with a player wearing the number 24 shirt looking more like a 15 year old than an U11. Nevertheless the team showed character and…