Cardiff University’s men’s hockey team celebrated a 3-0 victory over their Swansea rivals at Sport Wales’ hockey Astroturf. With one of Cardiff university’s hockey teams winning four out of their last five games, the odds looked to be in the men’s favour. However, Swansea would start the game off strong, making plenty of advances and aims towards the goal.
Unfortunately for Swansea, the balls that did find their way into the net were invalid, leaving them goalless. Tensions ran high towards the end of the game, as a scuffle broke out between a Cardiff and Swansea player. After intervention from the referees and security, a Swansea player was given a yellow card before the game continued.
Tensions ran high towards the end of the game, as a scuffle broke out
Cardiff was awarded a penalty in the fourth quarter, resulting in a final score of 3-0 to the home team. Commenting on their victory, Cardiff player George Hardy said: “Bit of a punch up and the end but think we deserved the win. Highlight would be somebody taking a pea flick off me – pretty standard from this team.
Nice to be out on a good pitch, not at Taly, with a good bunch of boys”. Despite winning both Swansea teams in their 2022/23 league games and a win at Varsity 2022, Cardiff women’s hockey team suffered a defeat an hour earlier. Following a closely played game which ended in a 1-1 tie, the outcome of the match would come down to penalties.
Swansea took victory after a close result of 5-4, with the away fans erupting into cheers. CULHC is one of the biggest societies at Cardiff University, with a whopping seven teams. Both sets of fans approached the game with optimism as Cardiff and Swansea teams have been fierce, yet close rivals throughout the 2022/23 season.
Recently, Cardiff 1s have been promoted to the West Women’s Premier League after winning the South Wales Women’s Hockey Leauge, just two points above Swansea 2s. Discussing the penalties, the commentator said that both goalkeepers did “a very good job because there is nothing harder as a goalkeeper than trying to save those goals from going in, I mean, it’s really difficult.”