Our 17th ever Trophy Final now awaited us and we had been treated to some superb Finals before. Today, it was Skidmarks versus Moles Salah.

Many of them had been very close with 6 of the previous 16 had going to penalties In Valencia 2012, Sporting Abeergut held off a late rally from FC Dad to win it 3-2. At the 2014 Budapest Fives, Contejus Hurricanes (with a man sent off) held on to a close 2-1 win over Cava Sundays.

They had all been close affairs until 2014 when we saw Ziar Crew beat Fireball 5-1 in Bratislava and Elcombe Old Boys beat SV Zoo 5-0 in Barcelona. These remain the highest scoring Trophy Finals. Since then they have become closer affairs again. We have had Trophy winners from England, Ireland, Latvia, Oman, Slovakia and Spain. We knew we would have another English name to add to the list from this contest.

If Skidmarks were to win they would be the third team to have won Cup & Trophy titles in our tournaments after Elcombe Old Boys (both Barcelona) and Slovakia's GSF Drunkerz (who had the full set of Cup, Plate & Trophy wins).

If we were looking for a form guide we could look no further back than to Game 12 of Group D of this morning's competition when the teams met head-to-head. On that occasion, Moles Salah won 2-0. Could they repeat the feat or could Skidmarks exact their revenge?

Since that group game, Skidmarks had lost their final group game (1-0) but bounced back with two good wins. 2-0 over Southgate Rascals and 1-0 over Los Swallacticos. Luke Hatfield had found his scoring touch and the defence had only conceded 1 in 3 games. For their part, Moles Salah finished off the group with a 5-0 defeat to White Collar Revolution but brushed that off by defeating the current Barcelona Fives Plate champions 2-1 in the last round.

The stage was set and both teams were ready to go – who would be picking up the winners medals in the presentation?