Sun 9 Nov: Teddington Athletic 1-0 Abbey Rangers (Surrey Cup 1st Round)

The best things in life aren't free; the sweetest victories are the ones won hardest. Although Teddington have many times triumphed at a canter, piling up 160 goals in 14 months, their latest success – a first-ever 1-0 scoreline – came through dogged perseverance, tactical awareness and great teamwork... and sparked arguably their most rapturous celebrations.

As the opening opponents in each of Teddington's two seasons, Abbey Rangers have a special place in Athletic folklore – but the story is changing. The outfit who came to Bushy Park in the Surrey Cup this weekend are not the team swept aside 6-2 on the first day of the season; nor are they the Abbey Rangers Diamonds side who succumbed 9-0, 14-0 and 7-2 last campaign.

Having strengthened significantly since that first week of this season, this is now a side more befitting the Abbey Rangers club who have become a respected fixture in the local leagues. Determined, muscular, well-drilled and largely successful, they have beaten four of the other six teams in the league, only coming up short – and not by much – against title favourites Wimbledon and Crystal Palace; they are just four points behind second-placed Teddington with a game in hand.

The Teddington squad rotated as usual, with Sinead Morris under the weather, Ale Fairn on duty at a Remembrance Day event and Anna Kauffmann succumbing to a troubling ankle problem that may effectively keep her out until Christmas. Ella V donned the gloves, and the management team opted to stiffen the defence to a back three of Ella Parkinson-Mearns and Saskia Brewster either side of Millie Theobald.

Ruby Rudkin anchored the midfield with Emily Coulson, behind a front three of Millie MacEacharn on the left, Amy Hallett up top and Phoebe Head on the right – despite the latter two suffering from colds. Sadie Day, Ella Dodd, Carla Novakovic and Sophie Wallman stood by as subs, urging on their comrades.

The home side had been pre-warned that this Abbey side would be better than any previous versions, and it quickly became obvious that they may also be the biggest opponents the side has yet faced. Still, the home side held firm and nimbly threatened: first Millie Mac burst through and fired over, then Emily sent Phoebe clear down the right, and with Emily bursting to get into the middle while Amy tracked toward the near post, Phoebe surprised everyone by looping a cross toward the far corner, from where it was pushed over by the alert goalkeeper.

By 15 minutes Phoebe had to come off for Sadie, and although home side had had the clearer chances, Jelly was becoming the busier goalkeeper as the strong Abbey girls won the midfield battles and tried to turn the Teddington defence – who were coping admirably, playing on the half-turn and diligently covering each other, Millie T gradually readjusting to a middle-centre-back role she hadn't played since the team's earliest days.

The rest of the first half was spent with Teddington fending off Abbey's attempts and occasionally creating a chance up the other end, notably when Emily wriggled clear in the box and warmed the goalkeeper's hands with a left-foot shot.

Half-time brought tactical tweaks and three substitutions. Ruby and Millie Mac had run themselves in the ground – the latter practically begged to come off – and not uncoincidentally produced their best performances of the season, while Amy had also defied her illness to keep chipping away up front. On came Doddsy, Carla (up top) and Phoebe (on the left), with Sophie being saved for later.

Gaining extra zip from Doddsy's physical presence, Phoebe's thrust and Carla's energy, Teddington started to dominate, helped by intelligent use of space. With Doddsy's extra insurance keeping Abbey quieter, Emily pushed on into her favoured trequartista role – and when the visitors pulled back an extra defender, that merely gave Doddsy more room to manoeuvre in midfield.

The first strong example came in the 43rd minute. Having quietly sought half-time advice on how to deal with being overloaded on her left flank, Saskia calmly retained possession and send Phoebe flying up the left to cleverly pull back for the oncoming Doddsy, who fired just wide. A couple of minutes later, the same move brought the same result, but Teddington were getting nearer.

Not that they were without scares at the other end. One one occasion, a weak Jelly free-kick from the right-back area was intercepted by an Abbey midfielder who cleverly tried to lob in from the half-way line, but the goalkeeper got back to clear. And shortly after Doddsy's second shot wide, Rangers broke away and produced a fierce shot pushed wide by Jelly. This was developing into a proper end-to-end cup tie.

Someone had to win, via extra-time and penalties if necessary, and it could have gone either way, with Abbey especially dangerous from set-pieces, but the home side – lately augmented by Sophie, playing in an unfamiliar wide-right role with typical keenness and athleticism – held their nerve and scored with just under 10 minutes left.

It was with a certain delicious irony that Teddington scored from a corner, theretofore Abbey's most threatening method, and with a goal that illustrates how the tiny can be mighty by using their intelligence. Before it even reached the near post the left-wing corner found Carla, all three foot nothing of her, hovering just inside the six-yard box and less than a yard from the bye-line.

As Abbey's much larger defenders began to converge on her, Carla calmly nutmegged the goalkeeper and watched as the ball gently ambled through the morning dew and over the goal-line. It probably didn't even have enough energy to reach the net, but by that point nobody was watching as the team (including pitch-length sprinting goalkeeper Jelly) celebrated exultantly, piling on the diminutive yet dangerous and now delirious goalscorer, marking her first goal since she began regularly playing up front.

It was undoubtedly tough on Abbey but deserved from Teddington, who had earned their lead by out-thinking their opponents. Now they had the best part of a quarter of an hour to maintain or extend the lead, and with Rangers pushing forward for an equaliser, gaps were certainly appearing.

Breaks in play for a dog on the pitch and the 11am Remembrance silence, observed on pitches across the land, irked visiting supporters but the home side's rapid counters looked as likely to cause a goal as Abbey's set-piece physicality, which was increasingly being nullified by the towering Doddsy.

As it was, the scoreline stayed at 1-0 – a first for this Teddington side, who now progress to a Surrey Cup quarter-final at Molesey Juniors. Based just over the Thames, Molesey are third in a closely-fought Division One, having won four and drawn one of seven league games in which they have only conceded six goals; in the cup, they dispatched struggling Abbey Rangers Diamonds 9-1, but they have lost league games to both Caterham Pumas and Kempton Girls.

Should Teddington beat Molesey, they would progress to a semi-final against either Fleet Town (who beat Kempton 3-1) or Crystal Palace Blues (the Division One team, who won 3-2 at Carshalton after extra time). With next weekend's trip to Colne Valley marking the start of their Capital Cup adventure, it will be intriguing to see how far Teddington go, geographically and developmentally.

TEDDINGTON ATHLETIC (3-2-3): Ella V; Ella Parkinson-Mearns, Millie Theobald, Saskia Brewster; Ruby Rudkin, Emily Coulson; Phoebe Head, Amy Hallett, Millie MacEacharn. SUBS Sadie Day, Ella Dodd, Carla Novakovic (1) and Sophie Wallman.

Sun 2 Nov: Teddington Athletic 2-1 Colne Valley

The word cliché derives from printers' jargon for a stereotype block: a passage of words used so frequently that the inky-fingered workers would keep it ready-made. It was first used figuratively in 1888, just as the English started the world's first national football league, and ever since then the game has collected clichés.

Take, for instance, "There's no easy games in this league". It's so often trotted out as to become trite, but the thing about clichés is that they are often true – that's why they're universally recognised. And that particular cliché was the latest lesson for Teddington Athletic's debut Premier League season.

Last week's draw – another first – at Croydon was Teddington's seventh top-flight game: they had faced all their Premier League opponents once, with two more encounters per team. Surveying the table at that point, they may have surmised that Colne Valley were the division's weak link: played 7, lost 7, scored 4, conceded 31.

Furthermore, when Colne turned up with only eight girls – none of them a goalkeeper – Teddington, up in third place on 13 points, might have expected a relatively easy morning. They got anything but.

It has to be said that the conditions were awful: constant rain battered the participants, with the poor pitch markings also presenting a problem – many a player dribbled straight off the sidelines. But to roll out another true cliché, the conditions were the same for both sides.

As has become the norm, the starting line-up was designed to give game-time to the squad's less experienced players. Fresh from half-term goalkeeper practice in the back garden, Anna Kauffmann pulled on the gloves (which got so wet they had to be replaced at half-time). With Millie Theobald away, Ella Parkinson-Mearns returned to the defence alongside Saskia Brewster. Sophie Wallman came back into midfield alongside Emily Coulson and Carla Novakovic; Sadie Day and Millie MacEacharn added width either side of Ale Fairn.

After a strong opening 10 minutes from the numerically superior home side, Colne started to show a greater desire for the game. Twice Parky had to head the ball clear, with visibly growing confidence in her own ability to do so; then Colne broke down their inside-right channel and Anna had to come out of her box to execute a block tackle.

On 11 minutes, Colne took the lead. The long throw flew past Parky, bounced high onto the chest of Sas, who couldn't control and clear, and evaded Carla before being tucked home by the striker. For the third successive week, Teddington had conceded the first goal. Another major test, then.

The goal didn't panic the home players, who endeavoured to rectify the situation. Emily started to come deep to orchestrate the comeback, and passed well to either wing; she was also one of several players to get involved in a somewhat frantic defensive action after Anna was penalised for handling outside the barely visible lines of the penalty area. The resultant free-kick was half-cleared six or seven times by various doughty defenders before the home side finally managed to banish the peril.

However, Teddington lacked penetration going forward. Two minutes before half-time, Ale did well to bustle through and fire a shot on target – but it may well have been the home side's first of the day.

Changes were needed, and they came at half-time with a quadruple substitution. Phoebe Head and Sinead Morris replaced Sadie and Millie Mac out wide, while Ella V and Ella Dodd replaced Sophie and Ale to bolster the midfield, with Carla switching up front. Within 10 seconds Teddington almost equalised: Jelly released Phoebe down the right, the cross wasn't quite gathered and the goalkeeper parried Carla's shot wide.

From the corner Phoebe got another shot on target and four or five followed soon thereafter, but Teddington also displayed the first signs of hurrying, shooting from distance instead of waiting for the right opening.

Still the chances kept coming. Given more attacking rein with the two Ellas behind her, Emily skipped past a couple of players and was brought down, to a harmonised "Ooh" from Sinead's parents under the cover of the cricket club awning. Emily wiped herself down to get the free kick on target, and although the goalkeeper spilled it, she recovered to parry Carla's rebound effort wide – and when Doddsy powered Jelly's corner on target, the keeper again did well to hold on.

Once more Teddington were facing a fine goalkeeping display – this time from a girl who hadn't done it before and needed some heavy persuading to don the gloves. When Emily powered through the middle on a 3v3 break and fired toward the top corner, the newby net-minder stretched up to save impressively.

As the game ticked into its final quarter, some were wondering if the equaliser would ever come. On 53 minutes Phoebe fired into the side netting, and a minute later a corner from the left evaded the goalkeeper but flew over Carla's head and Phoebe couldn't quite turn it in at the far post.

The goal finally came with 14 minutes to go, with a slight slice of luck born of attacking in numbers. Winning the ball in left midfield, Emily tried to find Doddsy breaking through the middle but the ball sailed straight past to Phoebe, who rifled it inside the near post. Cue knee-sliding celebration and a quick reminder from a thoroughly undersatisfied manager that the score was still only 1-1.

Teddington could have endeavoured to throw it away – some players seemed guilty of assuming things would happen rather than making it so, being reactive rather than proactive – but Colne feared the worst as the home side continued to press.

Just after the hour Phoebe ran almost the entire length of the right touchline to cross toward Sinead, Emily and Carla; the diminutive striker found Emily, but the shot went straight at the goalkeeper. It was more of a miss than save, but Emily made up for it two minutes later with her second successive vital late goal... even if last week's was controversially chalked off. On this occasion, after intense pressure in the visitors' box the ball fell for her to fire home past the goalkeeper's right hand and seal the points.

The result was not unexpected, but was unlucky for Colne, who played with a desire far outweighing Teddington's. Let's not go overboard – the win put Athletic up to second, only behind leaders Wimbledon on goal difference – but over the last few weeks the Premier League newbies have frequently failed to show how good they really are, and at a post-match inquest the manager asked how much the girls want to kick on to the next level.

There are no league games for the next three weekends: firstly it's Abbey Rangers in the Surrey Cup, then Teddington travel to Colne again in the Capital Cup, after which the whole of women's football has the day off to watch England vs Germany at Wembley.

It's a month that should hopefully inspire this promising team, who have the talent to be whatever they want to be, but will need to remember that nothing worth fighting for comes without effort. When they return to league action on November 30th, Teddington face a rematch with the champions and league leaders AFC Wimbledon. One way or another, that game will reveal much about exactly how good this team can become.

TEDDINGTON ATHLETIC (2-3-3): Anna Kauffmann; Ella Parkinson-Mearns, Saskia Brewster; Sophie Wallman, Emily Coulson (1), Carla Novakovic; Sadie Day, Ale Fairn, Millie MacEacharn. SUBS Ella Dodd, Ella V, Sinead Morris, Phoebe Head (1).

Sun 26 Oct: Croydon Borough 1-1 Teddington Athletic

Virgo Fidelis ("Faithful Virgin") Convent Senior School was founded in 1848 by Henriette le Forestier d'Osseville, aka Mother Saint Mary, with funds provided by her father, Count Theodose le Forestier d'Osseville. The first Catholic orphanage in England since the reformation, Saint Mary's school sought to shelter the Victorian unfortunates left to fend for themselves by lack of familial protection. 

Under the school's imposing Gothic gables, a different story of family ties was played out this Sunday. Parental enthusiasm for their children's sporting pursuits is the motor that drives kids' football, and long may it continue. Around every Sunday-morning pitch you'll find a gallery of doting dads and well-meaning mums, there as taxi-drivers, emotional counsellors and food-finders.

Teddington Athletic's assembly of parents and kids headed over to Norwood in numbers, boosted by the return of three midweek injury doubts. With Sinead Morris over her knee injury, Carla Novakovic shaking off a cold and Sadie Day's ankle healing, Teddington had 12 to choose from – until Ruby Rudkin aggravated a knee problem in the warm-up. 

With Ella V covering in goal for Anna Kauffmann, Ella Dodd away and Ruby hobbled, Teddington were forced into Plan D for the vital defensive-midfield role – and the choice was perhaps surprising. The diminutive but indefatigable Carla stepped into a role that often demands physical strength, but equally requires football intelligence and positional discipline, both abilities she has displayed in spades. 

With Carla in midfield were Emily Coulson and Amy Hallett – another tiny terror playing in a position unusual to her. Sinead switched to the right wing, with Millie Mac out left; at the back, Saskia Brewster and Millie Theobald continued, with mooted replacement Ella Parkinson-Mearns troubled by a barking cough.

Again, Teddington didn't start well on a poorly-marked, uneven pitch with very long grass, and curious things started happening. Awarded a handball, Teddington were surprised to see the ball moved back three yards to be outside the area, the referee's reasoning being that "I couldn't see the lines". When questioned why he allowed the home wall to stand substantially less than 10 yards back, the ref replied "My pitch, my opinions, my rules". 

Later, after whistling for a foul without signalling a direction for the free-kick, the ref was asked which way. "Our ball," he replied, instantly demolishing any pretence at impartiality. 

The two sides continued to play out a hard-fought match – occasionally too hard-fought, as certain players got involved in unnecessary niggles with their opposite numbers. But amid the battling were glimpses of class. 

One came from Millie T, a reliable defender but one who looks to keep rather than clear the ball. Arriving in time to effect a clearance, she noted that Sinead was breaking right, altered her body shape and changed the clearance into a clever through-ball. Sinead went through and scooped it over the goalkeeper but just past the post.

Teddington attack and defend as a team, as displayed in the 25th minute when Jelly couldn't cut out a corner and the shot was fired in from the edge of the box; with Jelly beaten, Carla threw herself bodily in the way of the ball to block a certain goal. 

Jelly recovered her poise to deny Croydon's impressive centre-forward three minutes later. Although she was second favourite to reach the cross, the No.12 did very well to turn the shot goalwards, but Jelly clawed it over to keep the sheet clean.

Just after the half-hour Sinead did well to win the ball in midfield and feed Amy, who slipped it through for Ale to chase down. She and the goalkeeper clashed – malice-free, but hard enough to injure both players. Touchline tempers were rising.

Half-time brought substantial changes from the visitors. Ale limped off, with Amy also withdrawn, and the initially unwilling Millie Mac went in goal. Parky came in on the right of what was now a back three and Jelly joined Emily in midfield; Carla moved up front, Sinead switched back to the left and Sadie came on to the right wing.  

The changes helped but the game was still even and disappointingly stop-start. Emily showed a flash of creativity by bustling down the right and pulling a shot just wide of the far post, but it wasn't an enormous surprise when Croydon took the lead in the 47th minute. As the home side broke through, Parky doggedly got back to block them but the ball squirmed out for the striker to lob a strange little shot over Millie Mac from three yards. 

For the third time in three weeks, Teddington found themselves behind – and for the third time in three weeks, they responded resiliently, if still somewhat haphazardly. When their pressure forced a 52nd-minute corner, Emily took it and watched it roll along the bar; a minute later, Sinead burst through and fired wide of the far post. 

Then in the 58th minute came the most eyebrow-raising moment of the game, and indeed any other that this correspondent has seen in 20 years of covering football for a living. Straining to take a long throw within her own half, Jelly may well have stolen a yard or two, but the game continued; Sinead battled for the ball and fed Emily, who burst through on goal and hammered home the equaliser… except it wasn't. 

The Croydon coaches remonstrated with the referee that the throw had been taken from the wrong position. The referee suddenly seemed to agree, but didn't restart with a retaken throw from the correct position, as should happen; instead, play restarted with the ball in the Croydon goalkeeper's hands. Cue fury on the touchline. 

Ten minutes later, Carla was fouled out on the left-wing. Jelly's fired free-kick hit the near post, bounced off the goalkeeper's back and nestled in the net. It was cruel on the net-minder, but at least it was some consolation for the disgusted visitors. Within seconds of the restart, the referee ended the match curiously early. 

Under the circumstances, Teddington did admirably to keep their thought processes in order – in the "blue head", as they learned pre-season. Theirs was very far from a good performance, but it was also far from the worst on display. 

Kids' football is not about winning and losing. But nor is it about clear bias. In the build-up to the game, Croydon had been affability personified, enthusiastic about their visitors' season so far and helpful with directions, parking advice – the little things that go so far to making the fixtures friendly and pleasant.

Sadly, that is not the memory that will abide from this game. You don't have to agree with a referee; you don't have to like him, but you do have to respect him. Respect is automatically assumed and conferred upon impartial football officials, as it should be, but in the wider world respect is hard won and easily lost. With his manner and his actions, his words and his decisions, this referee systematically destroyed that respect – and that cannot help but reflect badly on Croydon, with whom he is clearly very familiar… too familiar, considering he was cuddling some of the home players and was driven away from the game in the home manager's car.

Croydon are a good club, and it is to be hoped that the two clubs can get over this whole sorry episode. After all, the two teams must face each other at least twice more this season. Let's just hope that next time, the attention is on the players rather than the ref.

TEDDINGTON ATHLETIC (2-3-3) Ella V; Millie Theobald, Saskia Brewster; Carla Novakovic, Amy Hallett, Emily Coulson; Sinead Morris, Ale Fairn, Millie Mac. SUBS Ella Parkinson-Mearns, Sadie Day, Ruby Rudkin (unused, injured). Pics by David Theobald

Sun 19 Oct: Teddington Athletic 5-2 South Park

Becoming a better footballer isn't all about seeing how many goals you can score. Also crucial to development is overcoming adversity as a group: finding different ways to thwart your opponents while utilising all squad members.

For the second time in three weeks Teddington toughed out a hard-fought first half, learning valuable lessons about playing without the ball and covering each other within a system, before pulling away from their opponents with a second-half display of confident ability.

Despite having come all the way from Reigate, South Park were at Bushy Park nice and early, "to see the deer" as the visiting manager put it. But it was some other local wildlife that threatened early on.

As is usually the case, Athletic – buoyed by a final pre-match pilates session from sponsor Narelle, and a stringent warm-up – started the stronger. Emily Coulson released Sinead Morris down the left but the flying winger was soon met by the visiting goalkeeper, who deflected her effort wide.

From Sinead's dangerous resultant corner, Sophie Wallman could have scored her first goal for the club but chose the wrong foot to shoot with. Getting off the mark would be suitable reward for Sophie, who has shown increasing maturity in midfield: having long been happy to chase around and do her defensive duty, she is now rapidly learning the positional discipline necessary at this level.

How necessary was shown on 12 minutes when South Park's movement outwitted Teddington's defence and the visiting striker found herself eye-to-eye with callow goalkeeper Anna Kauffmann, barely six yards out. Remembering the pre-match instruction to make herself big, the Danish newcomer threw out an arm to parry the shot, then instantly recovered to smother the second shot on the rebound. These were reactions to make a Schmeichel smile: more evidence of ever-improving education.

There remains much to learn, though, and South Park were gaining the upper hand. Despite the odd bright spot – notably Emily drifting past a couple of players and sending Sadie Day chasing a diagonal to which the goalkeeper got there first, in a brave tangle of malice-free limbs – it was no real surprise when the visitors took the lead. There was much to praise in the turn and shot from the edge of the area, and no blame attached to Anna, but the defence and midfield shouldn't have allowed so much time in such a position.

This was something new: Teddington's first experience of being behind before half-time in a league game. They responded with determination, especially Ruby Rudkin, who had disappointed herself with a couple of fluffed goal-kicks before getting firmly back into blue-head mode. First, from Sinead's throw, Ruby hammered a first-time volley from well outside the area which the goalkeeper did well to save; then, after Emily had tortured the left-back with some stepovers, she collected the cross, sidestepped her opponent and whipped in another fierce shot which the goalkeeper again dealt with impressively.

For the fourth game in succession, Teddington were facing an expert glove-wearer. By the management's admission she had helped the side settle considerably since joining in the second week of the season; in each of the last three games, she had helped keep the opposition down to a single goal, allowing them to amass seven points from three games. Could Teddington find a way past her?

That question was answered emphatically after a triple half-time substitution which completely remodelled the midfield. Ella Dodd and Phoebe Head replaced Ruby and Sadie, with Amy Hallett coming on up top and Carla Novakovic dropping back in to replace Sophie. It showcased the strength of the squad and simply demolished South Park: within 13 minutes, Teddington had scored four goals, more than any opponents had managed in the full 70 minutes except champions Wimbledon in the goalkeeperless season opener.

Again, the template was set early on. Ninety seconds into the half, the fresh Phoebe tore down the right wing and crossed in to where Emily was running from deep; taking her time with the confidence of excellence, Em controlled the ball and used the outside of her right foot to stroke it precisely into the bottom-left corner.

South Park pressed to regain their lead but found themselves bossed out of it by Doddsy. Striding out of defence after breaking up an attack, she calmly sent Phoebe away down the right again; streaking past the left-back on the outside then switching inside, Pheebs used the forward runs of Sinead and Amy as a decoy and drilled through the goalkeeper's legs to put Teddington in front. It had taken six minutes to come from behind.

Still South Park pressed, with two shots in three minutes saved somewhat unorthodoxly by the increasingly confident Anna. She's growing into the job and starting to enjoy herself between the sticks; obviously she needs more practice, but she's lucky enough to have a goalframe in her grassed back garden and a father who's very keen to help. A half-term of muddy elbows may await…

Having retained their lead through Anna's saves, Teddington extended it through their top scorer. Sent fizzing through yet again, Sinead was not to be denied again by her begloved nemesis, lashing an unstoppable first-timer into the top-left corner for 3-1.

And within three minutes it was 4-1 with a beautiful goal which seemed to happen in slow motion: the cleared cross falling with such inevitability to Emily's perfectly executed left-foot volley that one rather hairy Teddington coach was heard to shout "Wallop!". Sorry, South Park, no mischief intended, just enjoyment of a superbly taken goal.

A minute later, Emily almost sealed a hat-trick of rare distinction. Receiving possession from a throw-in two yards from the goal-line, the No.99 lobbed the goalkeeper and watched the ball hit the far post and roll along the line.

When the fifth goal did arrive it was somewhat scrappier but very welcome indeed. Cutting in from the left, Sinead expertly and selflessly spread the ball along the edge of the box to Phoebe, whose shot hit the bar; following up like a good centre-forward should, Amy hit the post with her first effort but forced home the rebound. It was the diminutive but determined forward's first goal since before Christmas, and well earned as Amy seeks to establish herself against girls who are often much bigger than her.

5-1 up with 15 minutes to go, that should have been more or less job done, but as the coaching staff discussed which players should be put in new positions to extend their education, South Park were allowed to get close enough to fire a shot inside Anna's right-hand post from the edge of the area.

That lent the closing stages more of an edge, but there was still time for Sophie to get some more minutes on the pitch as the "defensive" midfielder – allowing Doddsy to rampage forward – and Ruby to extend her palette by playing as one of the two defenders.

It's all part of the continuing campaign to improve all members of the squad as much as possible, while enjoying themselves and winning. With Teddington in third and only two points off the summit, it doesn't seem to be going too badly so far.

TEDDINGTON ATHLETIC (2-3-3): Anna Kauffmann; Millie Theobald, Saskia Brewster; Ruby Rudkin, Sophie Wallman, Emily Coulson (2); Sadie Day, Carla Novakovic, Sinead Morris (1). SUBS Ella Dodd, Phoebe Head (1), Amy Hallett (1). 
Pics this week by David Theobald - ta!