'The Church' sevens, the Redback and 'The Church'

If you've never been in London as a backpacker, you may not have heard of the weekly Sunday session that is 'The Church' (http://www.thechurch.co.uk/). It started many years ago as a group of Aussies and Kiwis who met up for a Sunday session each week and despite several venue changes over the years, it's still going strong.

For the last 2 years The Church has sponsored a rugby sevens tournament as a way of raising funds for a charity. Seven's rugby is basically the same as normal 15 a side rugby Union, except there are only 7 players per team and two 7 minute halves. This makes high scoring games as well as you can play a whole round robin tournament and have a final in one day.

So a few of us that play Rugby together plus a few other blokes made a team called the 'Fulham Phantoms'. We didnt win our division but we did have good fun and we ended up at another infamous 'antipodean' pub called the Redback.

The next day we had free tickets to the church but out of all of us who were there on the Saturday, only 4 of us made it to the Church!!! There were some casualties after a hard day out on the Saturday. So now I've been to the church, I can tick that one off the list. It was fun but I'm not sure that I'll make it a regular thing as it was very tempting to kick on afterwards (it finishes at 3pm) which would make Monday rather painful!