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LEAGUE NEWS

We are down to the LAST SPACE for the NEW TUESDAY CHAMPIONSHIP, starting NEXT WEEK, the 20th February. This league is made up of the bottom two teams from the current league, and 4 brand new teams, so for an immediate start get in touch with us as soon as is humanly possible!

Following on from that, just a couple of weeks later the BRAND NEW SUNDAY LEAGUE kicks off on 4th March. As our biggest league night we have the variety of standards to suit all teams, and with available pitch space we can even expand our 4 divisions to 5 if the demand dictates. Given that there’s still a couple of weeks to go, there is still time to get a friendly or two under your belt to give it a go and dust off the cobwebs before the season starts.

Last but not least, we’ll be adding a NEW MONDAY CHAMPIONSHIP back into the Monday league at the half way point of the season, starting on 12th March. Again, due to the time frame we can accommodate new teams who might want a tune up game or two in the run up to the big kick off!

For more information on any of the above, go to the homepage, click ‘Join A League’ and fill in some details.

SUNDAY LEAGUE

Week 10 is the last official week of the season, so quite a few things are now decided, with just the games that have been missed throughout the season looking to be caught up over the next couple of weeks. The Premiership title is done and dusted for the season as Kinky Slipper secured their second crown last week, but they still had an encounter with second placed Duno to get through before the season was out. As it turns out it was a Duno side missing a couple of regular lads, and Kinky strolled into a 6-0 half time lead through 4 goals from Jordan Hutchinson to go alongside goals from Joe Lailey and James Radcliffe. Lailey and Radcliffe added two more in the second period before Jack Cope got Duno on the board. Radcliffe and Lailey both completed their hat tricks in the final stages as Kinky ran out comfortable winners. El Caliente have a temporary new leader as current El Capitain Danny Murphy takes some time out injured, and they’ve also got some new players. They faced a tough game this week against a resurgent Kipsta Cobras, but they got off to the better start as Kieran Norris and Jay Berrisford put them two up inside the first 15 minutes. Dillon Lowth quickly pulled one back for Kipsta to make it 2-1 at half time, but that’s how the score remained as we headed into the final 10 minutes. Kipsta turned it around with two goals in three minutes from Matty Aked and Matthew Sheehan, and Kipsta now sit just a point behind last season’s champions Insole in 4th place.

It’s a straight fight between Team Tom and Dench FC for the Championship title, with both teams well clear of the chasing pack. The Tommers were up first as they took on a struggling Step Brothers, who themselves were looking for points to maintain their Championship status. This one was tight from start to finish, with Rob Sheldon’s goal for Step Brothers the only one of the opening period. Team Tom were level two minutes into the second period through Andy Walker’s goal, but the recent improvement in Step Brothers form continued as an own goal 8 minutes from time gave them the win. This gave Dench the chance to pull themselves level at the top of the table, with a game in hand if they could beat The McMuffin Men for the second time in successive weeks. McMuffin’s started well last week and they took the lead here too as Dustin Lizaba opened the scoring on 5 minutes, but as with last week, a much changed Dench turned it round and lead 2-1 at the break as Jonny McAuley and Phil Carroll scored. Unlike last week, the second half belonged to McMuffin Men as two goals in a minute from Charely Eyre and Sam Delgado put them in front with 14 minutes to go. A goal each from Eyre’s Charely and Mac, also inside a minute put the McMuffins out of sight with 6 minutes still to play, in which time Mac Eyre and Calan Sherer added two more to give the strugglers a surprisingly comfortable win.

On paper, Inter Row Z pretty much had the League One title wrapped up, and depending on results it could all be settled this week. It was a goal fest in the opening period of Inters game with Polish Army, with the poles hitting the front early as Pawel grabbed a 5th minute opener. Ray Donnelly grabbed three in as many minutes to put Inter 3-1 up before Salwek and Pawel drew the poles level again with two more just as quickly. Donnelly grabbed his 4th a minute later to make it 4-3 after a spell of 6 goals in 6 minutes! It was a whole 4 minutes before the net was found again, this time Jamie Kealey put Inter two goals up again, and that’s how it remained at the break. Both teams remembered how to defend in the second half, with just goals from Kealey and Callum Donnelly easing Inter to a 7-3 win. Wellspring faced a tricky match (in their new, very bright shirts) against the only team that could catch them for second place, FC AOTS, knowing they needed to win to retain a mathematical chance of catching the leaders. It took 14 minutes for the deadlock to be broken, as Lewis Arden struck first for Wellspring, but Adam Atherton fired AOTS level 5 minutes before the break. We were second away from going into half time all square, but Mike Devitt restored the Wellspring lead in the final minute of the period. Nathan Wilkinson made it 3-1 with 16 minutes to play, but Atherton reduced the deficit with 5 minutes remaining. Arden’s second of the game two minutes later rubber stamped the win for Wellspring, and left them needing just a 64 goal win from their final game to claim the title…… There’s every possibility that SK Dons and Rooneytunes could be playing each other again next season, as the new look Dons continued to look for their first win of the season. Both teams exchanged early goals as Danny Brookes put the Dons in front before Cian Gillespie leveled things up, but the Dons had the better of the half as Paddy Bannister, Paul Russell and Kyle Norris put them 4-1 up at the break. A further two Brookes goals put Dons out of sight with 10 minutes left to play, and Bannister got his second and Norris two more to give them a comfortable win with Chris Sinclair and Gillespie grabbing a couple of consolation goals for Rooneytunes.

We could have had a dramatic final day to the League Two season if SFC Club were still with us to make Stockport Eagles play for the title, but a forfeit win for the Eagles handed them the title before Deportivo had even played. Deportivo started off like a house on fire against Pathetico Madrid, as Rhys Moult, Dougie McCallum, Rob Parker, Brad Peet and Jake Riley all finding the net in the opening 13 minutes. James Norton got one back for Pathetico, but that was as close as they got in the opening period, and they slipped further behind in the second half as McCallum, Peet and Riley all added their second goals to put Deportivo 8-1 up with 8 minutes left. Adam Norton did pull one back for Pathetico, but the final deficit was back to 7 as Peet got his third 4 minutes from time. Deportivo will join Eagles in League One for the new season. Another team wearing new Ballers shirts this week were FC Stront Bakken, and they were involved in a tight game this week with Inter Your Sister. It was 1-1 at the break as Andy Carrington drew Inter Level after Declan Matthews had given the Bucket Boys the lead. Stront Bakken looked to be heading towards a rare win for them this season as Matthews and Dylan Marinarisa scored a couple of quickfire goals to make it 3-1 with 15 minutes to play, and they held that lead going into the final stages before Martin Keogh and Chris Murray scored a couple of late goals to nick a point for Inter.

THE NEW SUNDAY LEAGUE SEASON KICKS OFF ON 4TH MARCH. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON REGISTERING A TEAM OR TO BOOK A ONE OFF FRIENDLY IN BEFORE THEN, GET IN TOUCH.

TUESDAY LEAGUE

City’s stroll in Basel might have lost us a game or two this week, but we welcomed a new team down for their first game in Black Jack, and they took on Shaka, who were here for their second Tuesday night game. There doesn’t really seem to be any title race as such, as Gangs Of Dwight Yorke seem to be strolling to the finish line, and they started this weeks game with Blake’s 7 in impressive fashion, with Wez Barker, Anthony Pugh, and an Aden Jones treble putting them 5 up in the opening 16 minutes. Shaun Mather got Blake’s on the score sheet, but they were 5 down at the break when Pugh got his second just before half time. When Ryan McAndrew pulled a couple more back for Blake’s in the first 6 minutes of the second half, it looked like they were looking to make sure the final scoreline was respectable, but when he added two more and Matty Aked also scored, all of a sudden we were level at 6-6 with 10 minutes to play. There was to be no fairy tale ending for the underdogs though, as Callum Jones goal a minute later was quickly followed by three more from Aden, another from Callum and a Chris Singleton strike to make the final score look a little more straightforward than it actually was. Conditions were a little tricky on Tuesday as the temperature dropped, but the game between Inter Mi Van and Only Kruls & Horses was a cracker. 11 minutes were on the clock when Seb Etchells put the improving Kruls in front, but Brad (just Brad) drew Inter level a minute later for a team who were looking to get back to the form they had shown when they joined. Etchells put Kruls back in front after a mix up in the Inter defence, but it was 2-2 at half time as Phil (just Phil) scored two minutes before the whistle. There was very little to choose between the teams in the second half, in fact there was just the one goal, scored by Marcus Acott that gave Kruls a third straight win that sees them move up to third in the table. Shaka and Black Jack will be facing each other in the new Tuesday Championship that start next week, but for Black Jack this was just a game to check the place out and get used to the set up. They started slowly and were two down in the opening three minutes as Sam Holtham and Tom Hannan scored for a Shaka team who were looking to bounce back from a heavy defeat last week. Ryan Alderson scored Jack’s first Ballers goal on 6 minutes, and Luke Waiting notched just before the break to make it Desmond at half time. Waiting put Jack in front for the first time a minute into the second half, but Connor Atkinson made it 3-3 with 19 minute to play. The last 10 minutes were end to end as Kev McClean put Jack in front on 42 minutes, before Sam Holtham leveled it up again three minutes later. Waiting scored the final goal of the game to give Black Jack their first win, but it all starts for real next week!

WE HAVE 11 OUT OF THE 12 TEAMS WE NEED TO CONSIDER THE TUESDAY LEAGUE FULL, SO THERE’S ONE SPACE LEFT FOR ANYONE WANTING TO GET STARTED IN A BRAND NEW LEAGUE NEXT WEEK!

MONDAY LEAGUE

With Expected Toulouse’ game going down late this week, it was a chance for AC Milmanchester to go top if they could beat a Strikeforce team who were unbeaten so far this season. It was a patched up Strikeforce team this week, so a hard task was made harder before a ball had been kicked. They held out for 11 minutes, but once Martin Gordon had broken the deadlock, he added two more, Jason Singleton and Simon Hackney one each, with just the one Matthew Ricketts goal in response for Strikeforce in the opening period. Grant Gregory pulled Strikeforce within three at the start of the second period, but there was never really any danger of them causing a massive shock and goals in the final 11 minutes from Melford Knight, Singleton, Callum Jones and James Elmore eased ACM to victory. Phantom Brazilians have had a shaky start to the season and came into this week’s game with FC Rhino Ket off the back of two straight defeats (since they got their new shirts…..). Rhino Ket seemed to be heading the other way, as after a poor start they had won their last two, but this one headed the way most people would have predicted before kick off, with Phantom going into the break 4-0 up as Matt Barton, Paul Wilkinson(2) and Andrew Shaw took the chances that came their way. The game wasn’t was one way as the scoreline suggested, but Phantom were more clinical in front of goal and Wilkinson grabbed another couple either side of a Ryan Clayton goal to make it 7-0 with 13 minutes to play. Rhino Ket finally got a goal when Jake Shaw took one of their chances, but Wilkinson scored again straight away with the final goal of the game to help Phantom to a comfortable win. Pathetico Madrid seem to be counting down the days til the split in the league to get back into a comfortable Championship spot, while last season’s Championship winners Not A Chance will be looking to retain a top 6 place at the half way point. Phil Carroll put the Chancers in front on 7 minutes, but that looked like being it for the opening period until Kyle Bell and Paul Bardsley scored as we approached the half time whistle. Bell got two more in the early stages of the second half, before Liam Needham got Pathetico off the mark with 18 minutes to play. Bell added two more in the next two minutes, and Chris Priestley scored the Chancers 8th in the 40th minute. Needham got a second 5 minutes from time, but Carroll scored the final goal of the game to send Not A Chance into 4th place. We had a new team down for a friendly this week, but we’re not going to go into too much detail of this 26 goal thriller, as Team Randommer beat Rooneytunes 17-8.

THE BRAND NEW MONDAY CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS ON 12TH MARCH, TWO SPACES LEFT. FRIENDLIES AVAILABLE FOR ANY NEW TEAMS WANTING TO GIVE IT A GO BEFORE THE BIG KICK OFF.

WEDNESDAY LEAGUE

Exeter Gently and Magpie FC were the only teams not under the thumb this Valentine’s Day, so the choice of Game Of The Day was quite an easy one. Exeter have been much improved in recent weeks and they were looking to make it three wins on the bounce. They started well, and were three up inside the opening 14 minutes as Mehrad Torkian, Tom Harrison and Kristian Igo hit the net. Magpie pulled one back at the back end of the half through Radoslaw Leszczak’s finish. Exeter started the second half very sloppily, and Leszczak grabbed his second two minutes in, but two almost identical Igo goals put Exeter three goals in front again.James Magnani sealed the win three minutes from time, with Tomasz Glebiowski’s last minute goal just a consolation.

DESPITE THE TURNOUT THIS WEEK, THE WEDNESDAY LEAGUE REMAINS FULL. IF YOU’RE WANTING TO PLAY ON SUNDAY, MONDAY OR TUESDAY EVENINGS, GET IN TOUCH!