Mark "Dogger" Thomas, was born in Truro way way back in 1981. His hero's include his Mum, his Nan, Daniel Code, Wort, and Thomas Armstrong.

Dogger was once only known for his off the pitch antics. These antics include being a well repected teacher at a local Truro School that tops the National School Leagues each year without fail.

Obviously Dogger had made a hugh impact in Premier Sixes when a certain Cunning Stunts chose to join the footballing revolution. However it is not being part of this successful team that made Dogger stand out from the rest of the crowd and become a true Premier Sixes Legend.

There comes a time in every young boys life where they must stand up and become counted, stand up for what they believe in. This day for Dogger was Saturday 22nd July 2006, and will go down in history from this point forth as " Dogger Day"

Here is how Dogger Day came about:

It originally started out as a publicity exercise but quickly turned into an epic adventure.

11pm Thursday evening Phil Pascoe the TMS manager recieved a phone call from Dan about the possibility of entering a team in the tournament. Phil wanted to know how good the team was an at first it was a belter. The initial line up was to include some of the greatest players to grace P6. The eight man squad was to be:

Dan 'Collina' Code & Ryan 'Curtpup' Curtis were in the squad as the two representatives of the league.
The Superstars included
Ringa (twice keeper of the season)
Scott Palmer
Mikey 'Memhet Scholl' Davies
Matt Hallett
Sam Eglinton
Phil Lowry

The idea was to steam roll the tourney, unfortunately the galacticos bar Ringa were all unavailable so plan B was hatched. Put together the most random side ever assembled and try to somehow grind out a victory while having a laugh along the way.

The Dirty Dozen (well 8 that became 7)

The new look team would feature a truly bizarre mix of players. Ringa, Dan and Curtis were still there from the original squad, so a combination of advertising for players on the forum, curtis rounding up the troops and chance emails/ conversations through together the following squad.

Ringa, Dan and Curtis
Shaggy (Jamies Pasty Shop) - Pulled in by Curtis and a greatacquisition as we all know what a solid and dependable defender he is.
Tony Cock (Tavern Terriers) - The Matt Le Tissier of the league was recruited for his ability o get a goal from nothing.
Tom Currah (Keep it Local) - P6 greatest and most consistent goal scorer of all time. Currah was targeted right from the off and we knew we had a chance when he signed up.
Matty Jago (C-Unit) - Jago replied to the thread on the forum and sealed his slot in the squad just for the comedy value he would bring along.
Mickey Hurricane (Jamies Pasty Shop) - found out about the set up only after the initial squad had been assembled but joined up after Sam 'Mustapha Hadji/Spadey05' Lahlimi dropped out to take care of his pasty empire. In the squad as reserve keeper/awkward striker.

And there they were.

Wheres Jago?

Saturday morning came round and despite holiday traffic it didn't lookmlike the boys would be that late until Shaggy got a phone call from Curtis. Jago had to abandon the tourney as he had been hauled into work so the team bus had to make a diversion to Cubert to pick up Curtis the team mascot. We made it there suprisingly in lots of time, the boys got kitted out in the freshly printed P6 shirts and we had a quick discussion about tactics before our first game.

Game 1 - Cornish Devils 0 - 3 Premier Sixes
The first game was a breeze. Currah was on fire and smashed home a hat-trick as the Devils hardly threatened Ringer in nets. Surely it wasn't all going to be this easy?

1 game 3 points goal diff +3

Game 2 - TMS 'A' 0 - 0 Premier Sixes
This was the game were P6 quickly found that 5 minutes each way and a small pitch can be a leveller. P6 had more possession and chances but never really created anything clear cut. Ringer needed to make a couple of saves to deny the TMS boys.

2 games 4 points goal diff +3

Game 3 - Pedros 0 - 2 Premier Sixes
This was more like it. Mickey Hurricane stole the headlines as his brace helped P6 overcome the battling Pedros team that featured Dogger and Buler of the Cunning Stunts and former P6er Dean Harris of Real Treliske. 7 points in the bag but we weren't top of the group, TMS 'B' were and they had won every game and they were up next.....

3 games 7 points goal diff +5
TMS 'B' 0 - 1 Premier Sixes
This won put P6 top of the group thanks to a strike from the golden boy Currah. There was still wotk to be done however, despite 10 points from 4 games and having not conceeded a goal there was a very real chance we could be knocked out of the tournament if we lost our final game. That surely couldn't happen as we had pretty comfortably beaten these boys and they had beat Railway 3-1 earlier.....

4 games 10 points goal diff +6

Game 5 Railway 2 - 0 Premier Sixes
Disaster. The P6 boys gave the Railway team no respect and were made to pay as first Curtis was caught on the ball and Railway scored on the break before they bagged their second minutes later again hitting P6 on the break. Some really sloppy and desperate fooball followed as the P6 boys were suddenly staring at the prospect of being knocked out of the tournament. A miracle was needed as P6 sat in second place in the group having played all their matches, with TMS 'B' still to play lying 1 point behind them but with the game in hand against Doggers Pedros team ho were only playing for a laugh and were out of the tourney sitting near the bottom of the table.

Arise Sir Dogger
The P6 team had virtually accepted their fate but in one final attempt to reverse the odds stayed to watch Doggers match. Prior to k.o. we called him over and told him that if his fellas hung out for a draw then we would be through on goal difference.

Underdogs are a team pitted in a fight, battle, or conflict they are not expected to win. Dogger's team Pedros had entered the world wide famous Threemilestone Tournament alongside the P6 Allstar boys. This is when Dogger turned to his lads and gave his motivational speach:

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. You ask, what are our tactics? I say it is to wage war upon our opponents. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to win nothing else will do. To win THAT ARE OUR TACTICS!!
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival of the Premier Sixes Allstars that have travelled so far for their triumph.
Let that be realized. No survival for the P6 Allstars, no survival for all that the Premier Sixes has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength, and bring down this other team."

Dogger and the rest of the Pedros team played like men possessed as they were cheered on by the P6 seven. At no point during the history of the TMS 5-a-side has a side ever had such vocal support. Against all odds Pedros were looking good for a draw when out of the blue their zipply little midfielder darted down the left and fired across the keeper and into the bottom corner. Pedros were winning, P6 were going mental on the sidelines. The boys did well and held out for a 1-0 win which was more than enough to send the P6 team through. This sparked huge celebrations culminating in a pitch invasion and pile on as the whole P6 team mobbed their new hero Dogger. We were through to the semi's and dogger was now the 8th member of the squad in spirit.

Your off and your off too....

We qualified in second place and meant we would be playing the tournament favourites Fort in the semi's. the game took place on the other pitch (we had player all out qulifiers on a different pitch) which meant we had a different ref. The game started well and by half-time P6 had ground out the better chances and were unlucky not to be in the lead, the ref was starting to wind a few P6 players up and when someone called him a cheat I think he decided he was going to let fort go through no matter what. The second half followed suit, except the ref was starting to rattle a few cages when he missed a fort player lunge in with a sliding tackle and let play go on. A tame challenge by Curtis resulted in a Fort free-kick, Curtpup threw the ball down in anger and was shown a blue card (sin bin), curtis kept mouthing of and was shown a second blue card meaning he was of for good and would miss the final. 1 minute later and Currah shielded the ball out for a goal-kick, but no, the cheating ref had awarded Fort a penalty with only minutes to play because someone had gone in the area. Who was the question Dan wanted to know, was it Doggers spirit was it from when we were warming up at the start because no one had been in the area in the match. The tirade of you're a F#@king cheat you F#$king c*&t didn't help and Dan was duely dismissed to. This left P6 with Currah and Tony as the only remaining outfield players. Fort sent the penalty over and somehow the boys held out for extra-time.
Tony was replaced by Shaggy and the boys set out to try against all odds to stifle Fort to get the game to penalties. Every time Ringer got the ball he kicked it out of the field in a bid to waste time and P6 at one point amazingly won a corner. Shaggy then took the greatest time wasting corner as he kicked the ball in to touch as hard as he could, the beauty of it was the fact he kicked the ball in the opposite direction to play meaning another stoppage for a ball to be retrieved. P6 held on for spot kicks but it looked bleak again when Shaggy sent his penalty straight don the middle. The spot kicks had been reduced to the best of 3 due to the sending offs. Ringa made amends saving the next one, Currah scored his and then Ringa saved another. It was now down to Ringa to score to send P6 through. He calmly placed it in the corner leading to pile on number two and the boys were there in the final.

Whats that coming over the hill....is it a Huricane

P6 were in the final to play Railway the team that had beaten them in the group stages. P6 also had the bare 5 as Dan and Ryan had to sit on the sidelines suspended for the big game. The boys battled well but without fresh legs to come on the pitch they were starting to look increasingly tired. Railway took a 1-0 lead in the first half and it looked like the voyage was over. The seond half and the rest of the action were then caught on tape.

Threemilestone Footage #5 - The Boys collect the Trophy	Threemilestone Winners 2006

And it's all thanks to the LEGEND that is Dogger!!