We were down to the final four teams in our Trophy competition – they were Retainer's Academy, Wonder Vision, Rubidium Loftus Cheek and Rain Dragons.

First up on Pitch A was Retainers Academy versus Wonder Vision. Wonder Vision defeated Team Beefcake in the previous round – Team Beefcake had a goal difference of 2-27. Their opponents in this game, Retainers Academy, had a very similar record of 1-27. Wonder Vision saw off the challenge of Team Beefcake (6-1), Retainers Academy were set in their sights.

Retainers Academy were proving a much tougher nut to crack. The two teams reached the half time change of ends and both were locked together at 0-0. In the second half, the deadlock was broken. Shaun Giles of Retainers Academy was the man with the crucial breakthrough. At 1-0 the lead was precarious but at 2-0 they had daylight. Shaun Giles was the man with the golden touch again as he doubled the lead.

There was no way back for Wonder Vision as Matthew Wood and his defence kept their first clean of the day. Retainers Academy were heading to the Trophy Final, Wonder Vision were heading home.

So, who would meet Retainers Academy in the Trophy Final? Would it be Rubidium Loftus Cheek or Rain Dragons?

This game would need penalties to decide matters. In normal time Will Watkins put Rain Dragons 1-0 up but Fraser Harker's third goal of the tournament equalized and necessitated the shoot-out.

It was Rain Dragons who would take the first spot kick and up stepped Will Watkins. Following his goal in the match itself he had no problem putting his team 1-0 up against Tom Newbigging in goal. Rubidium Loftus Cheek responded in kind as their scorer in the game, Fraser Harker, stepped up first and duly levelled things up. Josh Curtis Hale was next up for Rain Dragons as he made it 2-1. Sam Woods then slotted home, left-footed to the bottom left corner for 2-2. Yulong Meng sent Tom Newbigging the wrong way to make it 3-2. The pressure was on Nick Roberts to take us into sudden death. He struck the penalty well and Andy Jeffries in goal for Rain Dragons got a touch on it but couldn't prevent the goal, 3-3.

Tom Care went high and down the middle to make it 4-3 to the Rain Dragons. Peter Durling sent Andy Jeffries the wrong way for 4-4. Andy Jeffries went from goalkeeper to goalscorer as he made it 5-4. Tom Newbigging was injured all day so was unable to take his spot-kick so Rubidium Loftus Cheek players were now taking their spot-kicks again. Fraser Harker converted to make it 5-5. The Rain Dragons could now take a second penalty each and Will Wakins scored for the second time to make it 6-5.

Just as we thought the shoot-out would never end we had a winner. Andy Jeffries was the hero for Rain Dragons. Sam Woods went bottom right but Jeffries went the correct way and palmed the ball away to safety.

It was all over for Rubidium Loftus Cheek for this year. They have hinted they will return to eurofootballfives.com action next year for another crack at success. We hope they do and wish them better luck with injuries and flights.