A Boro Fiuk would play their second game of the tournament against a team just beginning their campaign. Csabgyongye made their debut in the 2011 Budapest Fives and almost created history when they were only seconds away from knocking Olympic Phil Babb out in the Cup Semi-Finals and preventing them retaining their (then) 100% record of 4 Cup wins. They then went on to compete in the 2011 Valencia Fives where they won Group A with a 100% record. It was a surprise to see them go out in the Cup Quarter Finals in a 9-goal thriller, 6-3 to Spanish side Rollert FS. In the 2012 Budapest Fives they played their knock-out football in the Plate competition and they went all the way to the final which they won 4-2. In 2013 they reached the Plate Semi-Finals of the Lisbon Tournament and won the Plate Champion of Champions Tournament in Budapest. Could it be a hat-trick of success in 2014?

They started well as they took a first half lead through Peter Dovak – he swept in the rebound from a flowing Csabagyongye move after Matt WB had made a good save for A Boro Fiuk. The game was then defined by one hugely controversial moment which has to go down as a refereeing howler. In our tournaments, when the goalkeeper has possession in hand he can re-start play by rolling/throwing the ball out or kicking the ball from the floor – he is not permitted to kick from the hand. This is what happened here and the goalkeeper scored from the free-kick.

The “goal” should have been chalked off immediately but it was allowed to stand and with both teams arguing their case plus intervention from the tournament co-ordinator and tournament director it was eventually disallowed. It did take a lot of time out of the game which was not sufficiently added on. With that Csabagyongye took all 3 points. A Boro Fiuk were justifiably aggrieved.