One of the worlds great football clubs, Inter Milan, was formed on 9th March 1908. Almost exactly one hundred years later another team was born, sadly that’s where the similarity ends, but I guess you never know, as they say in football “it’s a funny old game”…

Wednesday 16th July marked the date of the Synergy XI’s first outing, following an invite from our good friends at Action Images, who kindly invited us to the contest. Following a good deal of debate, and many hours in the fifth floor bar (after work of course), the team took to the pitch at the glamorous location of Spurs Lodge, the training home of the mighty Tottenham Hotspur.

Backed to the hilt by our support team (with massive thanks to Powerade – without you I am nothing, frankly, with you I’m little more, but at least I started with professional hydration!) the match kicked off. Things did not start quite as planned, clearly our ‘zonal’ marking was not what we had envisaged in our strategic team tactics sessions. We were a goal down inside 20 seconds and we’d not even touched the ball! A little room for improvement one might say.

“Things can only get better” was the battle cry, or wishful hope to be more precise. So, we soldiered on and to our delight, with a great piece of content and without a bit of clutter, we were back on level terms. That move really set the tone for the Synergy men and throughout 90 minutes of pulsating (should that be pulse racing?) action the debutants put on a fine display of ’sexy’ football eventually coming out on top 9-3. Success at the first attempt, and our very own ’special one’ believes he’s now a candidate for the Chelsea helm when it next becomes available.

What next? Well, I’m not sure we’ll be seeking global sponsorship just yet, but we will be looking to keep up a fine track record. After all, we’ve got a reputation to uphold, who knows in 2108 we may just be the new Inter Milan.

Please get in touch if you fancy a game (but please just give us all a few weeks to recover!).

By Ben Wilkinson on July 22nd, 2008

Tags: Football, Sponsorship