Hull Coasters completed the double over Raging Fever yesterday morning. Like the main event in the afternoon this game was scoreless at half-time, but the away side collapsed in the second half as a combination of age, lethargy and the previous night’s socialising got the better of them.

The conditions weren’t exactly conducive to free-flowing football, which is just as well as that’s not Raging Fever’s strength. What is the Fever’s strength is drinking beer, eating chips and having a lie-in in the morning, which is all very well for those squad members who were able to stay overnight in Hull, but less fun for the remainder, who had to drive up from Oxford at 7 in the morning, and still got to the ground before the others.

This game of two halves, both of 45 minutes, began well for the visitors, who dominated the first period and were unlucky not to score, Gary Silver spurning an excellent opportunity when he went for power rather than placement. At the other end Joel Harrison was hardly troubled in goal. What changed after half-time? Perhaps it was that in the second period the goal that Fever were defending was a quagmire, which meant that the defence was reluctant to push up too far to help the midfield, or perhaps it was that Fever’s wingplay suffered as the conditions led to tiredness. Or perhaps we were just crap. Whatever, we lost, they won and the pattern was repeated in the afternoon. Some days getting up in the morning just isn’t worth it.