21/06/2026
🏆 South Coast Festival Awards 2026🏆
After surviving ridiculous temperatures, several football matches and approximately 47 litres of water, the awards committee is pleased to announce the winners:
🥇 Gazebo Engineer & Catering Manager Award
Hazel
For single-handedly erecting the gazebo, keeping the team fed, watered and preventing a mass heat-related mutiny.
🥇 Golden Boot Award
Kate
For scoring and ensuring we had an actual football achievement to talk about today.
🥇 Goalkeeper Against the Elements Award
Sue
For standing in goal while the rest of us occasionally found shade and questioned our life choices.
🥇 Manager of the Tournament Award
Elaine
For coaching, organising, motivating and even playing despite injuring herself on Friday simply by walking. Proof that nothing, not even her own body, was stopping her taking part.
🥇 Networking Enthusiast Award
Jayne
For repeatedly suggesting we go and meet other teams and make new friends. Unfortunately, the rest of the squad voted overwhelmingly in favour of sitting under the gazebo and avoiding all social interaction.
🥇 Chip Focus & Long-Term Planning Award
Jayne
For beginning preparations for post-match chips sometime before the first kick-off.
🥇 Official Team Photographer Award
Oscar
For being entrusted with tournament photography duties and producing a carefully curated collection of approximately six photographs.
🥇 Wardrobe Reduction Award
Cathy
For gradually removing items throughout the day as temperatures rose and then rounding things off with a sending off. A tournament performance nobody will forget.
🥇 Tactical Advisor Award
Claire
For providing encouragement, support and tactical observations throughout the day, whether requested or not.
🥇 Survivor of the South Coast Sahara Award
The Entire Squad
For somehow completing a football tournament in temperatures normally associated with barbecue coals.
🏆 Overall Winners
Everyone who managed to stand up after the final whistle.