Halifax football team members embarked on a reckless rampage around campus the night before their College Cup victory last week in an annual celebration they call the ‘World Tour’.
Witnesses reported that a team member threw a chair down the stairwell from the top floor of the library. Unconfirmed allegations laid against the team include egging D Bar. The full extent of the carnage is unknown, although they have been banned from the college’s premises.
A midnight drunken swim was on the cards for the sportsmen, and they were spotted causing havoc in the library, as the photo opposite shows. ‘World Tour’ is a yearly occasion for the Halifax football team, and Vision reported on similar antics in 2010.
The team dressed in drag and striker Conor Brennan kept his fishnets on for the final the next day. Captain Tom Ragan was unavailable for comment, but did mention he was surprised they won the match following ‘World Tour’.
The team will be punished if it is found that the night got out of hand, as has been suggested by witnesses. ‘World Tour’ concludes a year of rowdy out-of-control sports teams.
Halifax Provost Karen Fritz was unimpressed. She said, “As I haven’t yet met with the footballers, I don’t want to pre-judge. I will be disappointed in their behaviour if the allegations are found to be true as it would detract from the pleasure of winning.”
She continued, “I have found that somehow the beautiful game does not always engender beautiful behaviour.”
Jack Beadle, next year’s captain informed Vision that the less palatable aspects of their social was due to “two or three silly members.” About 30 to 40 squad players are believed to have taken part. He wished to highlight the lack of support the wilder members of the team commanded.
Goal-scorer Conor Brennan commented jokily, “World Tour is bantz, lol.”
Another footballer added confidenty, “World Tour showed that the best sporting college in the University also have the best socials.”
He said, “most importantly though, the fact that many key first team players were out until the early hours demonstrated how superior we are to the Derwent scum. This was despite their best efforts to hamper Halifax through bribing referees and playing games at a ridiculous time. Halifax rule supreme.”
York Sport President Sam Asfahani confirmed to Vision that the outrageous and unfounded allegations of attempted match-fixing by a Halifax footballer on Derwent are not to be investigated.
Sports teams have been widely criticised this year for allowing their socials to get out of hand, although the York Sport dinner on Sunday night is said to have gone off without scandal.
The “other footballer” quotes sounds like a right tool
TBF trying to re-arrange a match to the day after you know your opponent’s team has organised a social is pretty low, Derwent.
I was in the library that night studying for exams and I thought the behaviour was appalling; a load of drunken, rude albeit admittidely handsome lads storming round like chickens let out of their cage. One individual in particular disgusted me hugely; a great, uncouth, common looking lad with a chavvy haircut. He asked for my number; I politely declined. In a second, he was in a rage, effing and blinding. It was horrendous. I think he said his name was dumpster or something. All in all a horrorshow of a human being. Ruined my whole year at uni
The behavior of the Halifax team is consistently disgraceful.
Either Karen Fritz or Sam Asfahani need to take strong action.
Also Pav, are you having a laugh?! Having a social the night before a game is the problem, not vice versa!
Re-arrange? What are you on about Dhande? Another in a long line of misinformed comments from you
I used to really like this World Tour malarky; the lads fit, good at football and tend to win games of football the morning after whilst the opposition are at home in bed, content after a Thursday night pasta supper.
However, this year, they’ve taken it too ruddy far. I let my daughter go out unnattended.
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Please can we delete this article?
I do not want to read about the shame of Derwent, my once proud college, and how they got beaten by a team of knackered, hungover cross-dressers.
Oh the shame!!
This sounds like the sort of harmless chaos me and Darren Huckerby used to get up to back in Cov.
Wait a minute, a football team went on a night out to celebrate winning a game of football that they hadn’t even won yet? How did they know they were going to win, 12 hours before kicking a ball? Oh I’m going to need Jonathan’s help on this one.
You BARSTARDS!!
I think these “lads” need to get a life. They should be fined and suspended from university for their “banter.” About time the uni stopped pandering to these types of irritants and came down hard on them.
blahb, ur clearly guted u have never been invited on such an event, pipe down.
blahb your clearly just gutted you’ve never been invited to such an event….sooooo pipe down!!!!
I want to make it known that I was not present during any of this. I was in Willow as per.
Fuck off Blackburn
WORLD TOUR! DO YOU STILL WANT MORE???!!!
“Halifax Provost Karen Fritz was unimpressed. She said, “As I haven’t yet met with the footballers, I don’t want to pre-judge. I will be disappointed in their behaviour if the allegations are found to be true as it would detract from the pleasure of winning.””
It’s only wrong because it detracts from the pleasure of winning?
Pitifully lame.
Dont say I didnt warn you about the perils of ‘World Party’ little sis, you’re just too much of a know-it-all to listen. However, looking at things objectively, whats worse; a few lads getting a bit carried away on a well meaning and generally well mannered social; or a few racist knobs like a select few of the rugby club airing their bigoted views for all the world to see? In my ethnic Italian opinion, this has once again been blown out of proportion in the grand scheme of things in York.
P.s Lange/ Huckerby partnership for Coventry was the ultimate big man/ little man team
Here at FIFA we take match fixing allegations very seriously. I will be in touch with “other footballer” to discuss this as well as launching a full investigation into the re-arranging of the match. To be honest though, Halifax won despite being hungover and guilt-ridden from trashing the library so I guess Derwent never really stood a chance.
I’d like to take to this public forum to apologise to all the proper upstanding Derwent old boy lads who we, Derwent have disgraced with this performance. I wish I could say more than we suck and HALIFAX rule.
I’m sorry, forgive me, please. Club D sucks too.
Thanks for my mention up there.
Firstly one of the guys in that photo is not actually a member of this university any more. Secondly everyone has socials and does stupid stuff. This social only happens once a term and they still won!! Its bad for those who were studying obviously but They have hardly disgraced the college!!
is it worth a £675 fine after UYRUFC were openly racist on twitter. NO. Love a personally fucked off and politically correct halifax winner! FYUAEII
World Tour is hilarious. But, what people need to realize on this thread is that College Football is an irrelevance, and winning the college cup is tantamount to entering the Paralympics.
Sniff me?
EASY, EASY, EASY!