Penalty shoot outs decide 5 a side Football Tournaments at the 16th Railsport Games held in Stanley park, Blackpool, on the 20th / 21st June 2009, while Rail Gourmet and Northern Rail’s Big Girls Blouses won Cricket and Rounders respectively for the third successive year.

The weather proved ideal this year, not too hot, a slight wind at times, but more importantly it stayed dry throughout the two days, although we did have a few spots of rain on the Sunday during the 5 a side Football quarter finals. 

Thirty two teams won through to the final day’s play of the 5 a-side Football which was held as a straight knockout.  In a dramatic penalty shoot out London Over Rail (LOROL) kept their nerve to win 16-15 against Network Rail Shrewsbury’s “The Untouchables” 16- 15.  Earlier in the semi Finals LOROL had defeated a good Unipart Rail (Virgin Prunes) team 2-1 and in the quarter finals beat London Midland (New Street Conductors) 3-2.  The Untouchables route to the final included a semi final win over First Rail Support 2-0, as well as wins over Eurostar FC 1-0 and Inter Lucchine (Manchester) 2-1.

In the over 35’s 5 a-side Football,  the British Transport Police team from Leeds “The Commissioners” beat Manchester’s “The Metrolinkers”  2-1 after the game went to extra time, then penalties.

Rail Gourmet’s dominance at 6-a-side Cricket continued with their third successive victory, defeating Railway Safety and Standards Board and Arriva Trains Wales in a final group of three teams.  Each team had qualified for the final by earlier winning through their qualifying group stage.  Scores in the final were:
Match 1: Rail Gourmet (57 for 1) beat Arriva Trains Wales (48 for 5).
Match 2: RSSB Stingers (48 for 1) beat Arriva Trains Wales (47 for 1).
Match 3: Rail Gourmet (73 for 1) beat RSSB Stingers (45 for 2).