The non-biblical remake of David vs Goliath had David Haye vs Valuev, the giant Russian. The pre-fight hype was well mustered, mainly by the trash-talking Hayemaker:

“He's an ugly type of fighter, he tries to lean on you, tries to brawl and comes out with a really hairy chest that gets matted and is disgusting.
“The size I am, I sort of come up to his chest and apparently the word around the campfire is that he doesn't smell too sweet.
“Hopefully he runs a cold tap over himself or someone hoses him down outside before he comes in.” - David Haye

While a lot of people might find him disrespectful (well, let's face it - he is), I think boxing needs people like him to reignite the dwindling embers of a once glorious heavyweight division. Anyway, I did think Haye could get a result and went out on a limb and put five whole pounds on a points victory.
He fought a near perfect fight, staying out of trouble and doing enough to win most of the rounds. He even managed to rock the giant in the final round and leave punters wondering what could have been had he been more adventurous (or hadn't allegedly damaged his hand) earlier on. In fact the result could have gone either way, but I think justice was served as the more skilled fighter won and I got my £10 bumper prize.

Another mouth-watering, pants moistening fight involved Manny Pacquiao against the very respectable Miguel Cotto. The Pacman is generally regarded as pound for pound the best fighter in the world and although Money Mayweather might have something to say about that, he simply blew away Cotto in a savage one-sided encounter. Cotto was the bigger man (as was De La Hoya and Hatton before him), but he was gobbled up by Pacquiao and bullied by the smaller Filipino from about the second round onwards, culminating in a 12th round TKO. You have to feel sorry for Cotto, who started brightly and was brave throughout, but he just couldn't keep up with the ferocious pace of his opponent, who must clearly have been eating some kind of power pills! :p

And C4 have won their last five matches in a row. We started with comfortable wins against the second team and Hughes Hall, before following it up with two league wins against St John's 2nds and Trinity Hall 2nds. In between that, we beat Robinson 1sts 4-2 in the first round of the cuppers competition:

Robinson 2 - 4 CCCC (8.11.09)
Although we've come close in the past, this was our first win over a first team and it came in the Cuppers competition.

I can't remember much of what happened as it was over two weeks ago...

I reffed the first half as had played two matches the day before and against the run of play, we went 1-0 down. We responded well though and we took control ofthe game again. Minh won a penalty and Shu dispatched it with consumate ease. Chung scored our second in off the cross bar - it bounced across the line and out again, but their linesman was honest enough to award it.

We scored again (can't remember how!) before they got their second goal to make it 3-2 and set up a tense finale. However, a scuffed shot from Luong went straight into Shu's midriff/groin area, but the player of the season controlled it well and rifled in from close range to seal the game.

Trinity Hall 2nds 2 - 4 CCCC (15.11.09)
Lewis, Wingo, Dang, Frankie, Shaf, Chung, Be, Shu, Jake, Luong, Minh
Subs: Squeeky, Oleg

Only our second league match and we faced a surprisingly resilient Tit Hall side.

The first half was dominated by C4 and we kept them quiet while creating good chances at the business end. Despite being far the more dangerous team, our first goal was laced with a plentiful dose of fortune. Minh whipped in looping corner which was probably goal bound anyway, but the keeper could only get a hand to it and help it on its way to make it 1 - 0 to the visiting team. Be and particularly Shu had bossed the midfield, and indeed a measured through ball from the Japanese maestro put Luong through on goal. For once, the flag stayed down and he raced through to steer it in at the far corner to double our lead.

With a healthy two goal margin, perhaps we relaxed a little as a Trinity Hall midfielder picked up a loose ball from midfield and was allowed to advance before firing a swerving shot from about 30 yards. Lewis had it covered for most of the way, but misjudged it and it was allowed to squirm out of his grasp and into our net. The shot was from some distance and destined for Lewis's gloves, but it was a mistake to give the player space to shoot in the first place.

We felt a little hard done by, but picked oursleves up again. Not long after, Frankie controlled a lofted clearance right into the danger area and Luong beat the offside trap to round the keeper to restore the two goal cushion. However, we let them back into the game again with a loose back pass that allowed their striker to lift a finish over our keeper to make it 2 - 3 and that was how we went into half time.

We made some changes with Oleg coming on and alas the second half was a scrappier affair. With the combination of an outrageous long throw and oyur gung ho approach, we made it difficult for ourselves.

Although we had the much better of the chances, with Oleg, Minh and Shu all coming close, we had to wait until the 85th minute to make it safe. And again it was the effervescent Shu who finished off a strong run with a finish from a tight angle.

It was a tough match and we definitely deserved the win. However, the overly musclebound Chung went off at about half time with a fractured metatarsal and will be out of action for up to six weeks.
with the score at 1 - 3 at halftime.