Many incidents happened
the night the club celebrated it's Junior Cup win at the 1996 presentation night at the Oasthouse,
Hoddesdon.Everyone who attended the evening still remark to this day what a great night was had
by all, and reminisce about what tricks certain players got up to that evening.
Earlier in the
evening the club presented individual Division One league trophies to all it's players. Some of
these players were heard to remark about how shite the league trophies were, some even launched
their trophies at other players. Two players went to the extraordinary lengths of placing their
trophies on the floor, and were heard shouting "what a pile of shite" as they jumped up and down on
them!
A wonderful buffet had been laid out for the evening, and not even this escaped the antics
of a few players who's names won't be mentioned. Sausage rolls, chicken wings, and even a pickled
onion were seen flying through the air at some point in the evening.
One player, and he knows who
he is, decided that anything Paul Daniels could do he could do better, and bigger!!
The thirty
foot buffet table was the subject of the old tablecloth trick. But instead of pulling the tablecloth
away leaving all the food still in it's place, the unmentioned player failed miserably, and
everyone's food for that evening settled rather messily onto the floor.
But surely the most
creative antic of that evening was pulled off by a certain ex-goalkeeper of the club.
In his
rather inebriated state he decided that he'd had enough to drink and it was time to go home. But
living so far away he was a little worried about going it alone, so he looked for company.
He was
accompanied out of the Oasthouse a few minutes later by the buffer machine that was used to clean
the dance floor of the nightclub. He managed to drag it past all the security cameras, past the
bouncers and down two flights of stairs, a feat indeed considering it takes two people to lift the
damn thing.
It is not known to this day how far he managed to drag the buffer through Hoddesdon,
it is still on the club's missing files list.
A subsequent ban on all players visiting the
Oasthouse was enforced, and a bill was received for £350 to cover their costs (which was never paid).
No presentation evening has ever been held at the Oasthouse since.