In their first game of 2008, Icarus traveled to the windy hills of Bath to play DMG in the now traditional January fixture. This was an important fixture for a number of reasons; it saw the return to action after injury of Joe Griffin, a first start in a number of months for Steve Ricketts and a chance to try out a 4-3-3 formation.

The team started well, with Rutherford, Griffin and Hodgkinson controlling the middle of the park and Beer, Bond and Hetherington making intelligent runs up front. Both Bond and Beer went close in the first 15 minutes, both just failing to get on the end of good balls from Griffin and Hodgkinson.

It was to everyone's surprise when the hard working Bath team opened the scoring with a well taken goal after Kev Farrell was accidentally tripped while moving to intercept a cross field pass. Icarus soon replied with Hetherington having a shot tipped over the bar by the Bath keeper and Griffin shooting narrowly over from 35 yards.

Icarus thought that they should have had a penalty when Bond was pushed down in the box by the Bath keeper, but the referee gave the foul the other way. Hodgkinson leveled things 10 minutes later when he burst onto a superb Bond through ball to dink the ball over the advancing keeper and into the goal. 5 minutes later Bond had the ball in the back of the net, only to find that he had been flagged off side.

At half time Rich Lewis made his way into the action to get some match practice after having missed most of the season so far. With Arnison now raiding down the Bath left and Griffin continuing to pull the strings from deep Icarus took control of the game. A series of Griffin corners some failed to see Icarus score from one the the many goal month scrambles and it was from a superb Lewis cross that Pete Beer headed home his 3rd goal of the season.

Not long after this Joe Griffin scored a goal of the season contender from 35 yards. Picking the ball up from the excellent Shane Rutherford in space he advanced 10 yards before unleashing a thunderbolt into the top left hand corner of the goal.

As the game progress Icarus hit the post twice and continued to maintain good possession. Whieldon was having another solid game at centre half and Turner was maintaining his good form from 2007 into 2008. When the final whistle blew both sides shook hands after a good spirited encounter and a fine game of football.

Team: Ricketts, Turner, Farrell (Lewis 45), Whieldon, Arnison, Rutherford, Griffin, Hetherington (Russ 45), Hodgkinson, Bond, Beer