Sunday, July 03, 2011

FIH CHANGE FINALS LINE UP from Peter Savage at the Champions Trophy in Amsterdam

In a new format Champions Trophy, which has strange enough rules anyway, there was a shock decision last night when the Tournament Director was faced with an appeal by the Argentine team regarding the line up for the final.

The original appeal was turned down by the Tournament Director but the matter went to a Jury of Appeal and as a result it was ruled that Argentina had finished second in the final pool, and as a consequence they will face The Netherlands in this afternoon's final instead of Korea. England's match remains unchanged.

Further details of this matter, with full details of the appeal, will appear in the August edition of our on-line magazine HockeyTalk.