Danny Hall, the former Great Britain centre forward, scored a hat-trick for East Grinstead in his first competitive game for his new club. Hall (pictured here playing for his former club) has made the switch from Guildford and was playing for Sussex club Grinstead in the annual pre-season PLUM tournament at Chelmsford. His goals helped them to beat Havant 4-3. East Grinstead are attempting to win the event for the third successive year. Hall (2) and David Du Prez gave the Sussex club a 3-0 lead but they started to give the ball away too easily and let Havant back into the game. Later Grinstead were held to a 2-2 draw by host club Chelmsford in their second match.
English champions Reading, another of six English Premier League sides in the event, failed to impress in their opening game and scraped a 1-0 win with a second half goal by Simon Pinks, another former Guildford player.
Wales gained promotion to the European Women’s Trophy by defeating Slovakia 4-1 in their European Challenge semi-final at Zagreb.
