This particular November the Fifth brought with it the threat of a massacre as big in scale as the one planned 401 years ago. A struggling Logica side travelled to high flying Varsovia fearing the worst, and the cameras were dispatched to the Acton Sports Ground to record the carnage.

The home side sat comfortably astride the Division Two table, having won all seven of their league games to date with something to spare and 40 goals already in the back of the onion bag. Varsovia had put eight past both Kew Green and the Danes, whilst their lowest margin of victory had come the previous Sunday as they leaped above the previous league leaders Fulham Utd with a 4-2 win.

On that same Sunday, Logica were going down to an uninspiring 2-0 defeat to SW Alliance, a result that left them precariously perched in the lower half of the table. For this testing match they would be without their creative hub and most tenacious tackler as , and were all unavailable.

Further misfortune befell the visitors on the morning of the match. Inspirational woke up with a runny nose and was unable to travel with the team; young striker failed to materialise at the pre-match meet; and old striker failed a late fitness test on a calf strain.

There was some good news at least when both and were able to answer a ninth hour call for reinforcements. But the cameramen at the ground were licking their lips at the expected goal-fest to follow, and Logica's expectations were not much higher. When a young scamp from some youth team turned the key left hanging on the outside of Logica's dressing room door, 's amusing quip that the players might quietly stay locked in their dressing room for the next ninety minutes to obtain merely an awarded defeat was given serious consideration.

Thus it is greatly to the team's credit that they put in a good battling performance in which for the most part they gave as good as they got. Logica were once again given a lesson in finishing as Varsovia ruthlessly buried the chances their neat approach play carved out, but even then could claim the best goal of the game. When his sublime long-distance strike pulled the scoreline back to 3-1, Logica were entitled to feel hopeful of making life more uncomfortable for Varsovia on the balance of play so far. But three further lethal strikes from the leaders were a harsh statistical punishment after Logica's improved performance.

In the first half, Logica set about their opponents with tenacity. Strong tackling and intelligent harrying repeatedly interrupted Varsovia's flow, with and putting in fine performances in the middle of the park. Logica were playing some good football in patches too, and created the best of the early openings when a sweeping passing move from right to left played in Hoyland in space, but his first touch let him down as the keeper dived at his feet and the chance was gone.

Logica were just starting to think that Varsovia were not as good as they feared, when the home side showed what they were about. A patient build-up down the right saw a Varsovian nutmeg before pulling the ball back for their lank-haired number ten to fire home mercilessly from 15 yards [0-1]. A combination of and somehow managed to deflect a point-blank effort on to the post, but Varsovia added a second before the interval as their elusive number ten again fired home a pulled back pass [0-2].

Logica's intent was characterised by at the restart when he chased down an opponent straight from the kick-off and won the ball with a fiery sliding challenge. But before long Varsovia's dexterous play added a seemingly decisive third as a neat one-two on the edge of the box freed number ten to flick the ball over the advancing , with 's acrobatic attempt to hook off the line unluckily just failing [0-3].

Logica might have given up at this stage but instead redoubled their efforts. A good spell of pressure was rewarded when Logica pulled a goal back with a rapier-like counter attack. forcefully broke up a Varsovian attack and advanced purposefully towards half way. With the outside of the boot he picked out a run from in the inside right channel with a lofted pass. The striker allowed the ball to fall over his shoulder and as two defenders converged on him, he unleashed a sublime and fizzing volley that arced perfectly over a helpless keeper and into the top left hand corner [1-3].

The visitors now had the initiative and pressed to reduce the deficit further. Some promising moves just failed to find a final pass to match, whilst tried his luck from distance. Logica came closest to adding a second when another sharp break culminated with unleashing a blistering drive from 20 yards that the Varsovian keeper did well to just tip around his near post.

Logica's rally was cut dead in its tracks when some uncharacteristically distracted defending allowed a cross from the left to find an unmarked Varsovian who, somewhat predictably by now, headed home lethally [1-4]. Such a final scoreline might have been a reasonable reflection of Varsovian quality, but the home side did not rest on their laurels, and added two further goals late on that further showed off their combination of neat approach play and clinical finishing [1-6].

Despite the scoreline, the mood was upbeat in the dressing room afterwards as the Logica players ironically felt they had produced a far better performance than the previous week. Indeed the Varsovian fireworks anticipated by many commentators before the game had not really materialised. Rather it was a series of controlled explosions that had plotted Logica's downfall.