The World Cup is really here! And setting up this company will really pay off while I’m doing my ‘work’ on the couch next week while watching Colombia v Japan at 1pm on Tuesday while people who have proper jobs will be grafting.
LEAGUE NEWS
Everything is pointing towards the NEW TUESDAY LEAGUE which kicks off on 3RD JULY (unless England finish second in their group, in which case no one will want to play…..). There’s plenty of teams sniffing around, trying to get lads to commit, but the two spaces we’ve got will go to those who get in first! Friendly games are available over the next couple of weeks if you want to try before you buy!
While the SUNDAY LEAGUE is full, we continue to get enquiries, so we’re looking to add a 4 team mini league in over the next few weeks. If you want to get involved, again spaces probably won’t stick around long.
We have ONE SPACE in the top division of the MONDAY LEAGUE, so for an immediate start at a decent level, that’s the place to look.
For more details, to register a team, or to book in your one off friendly, fill in a ‘JOIN A LEAGUE‘ form on the homepage, call or text 07809252658.
SUNDAY LEAGUE
With bank holidays a thing of the past it should have been smooth sailing for a couple of months, but along comes Parklife and SoccerAid on the same weekend to make this week’s Sunday review possibly the shortest one ever! We’ll struggle to find many words for the only game of the Premiership this week, as as much as the game was a belter, the form of both keepers meant there were no goals to write about in the first half. Kinky would have expected to pick up the win as they looked to continue their unbeaten start to the season, but they were rocked by Kieran Norris’ goal 9 minutes from time that turned out to be the only goal of the game, much to the other Premiership teams delight. That’s right, a 50 minute 6-a-side game finished 1-0……
Just the one game in the Championship too as Team Tom returned to league action after a friendly victory last week. Their league struggles looked set to continue as two goals from Jake Hamilton put Wellspring into a comfortable lead at the break. A third 4 minutes into the second half from the same player looked to have the result in the bag, and two more goals in the last two minutes from Hamilton and George Quayle set the seal on Wellspring’s first points of the season.
Ladzio have hit the ground running in their debut season, but faced another team with a 100% record in Sevilla Lacatalent this week with both teams records on the line. The more experienced Ballers team took the lead through Daniel McDonald’s 3rd minute opener, and an otherwise tight first half burst into life in the final 5 minutes as Jack Shepherd and George Cox scored to turn things Ladio’s way, before Jake Riley hit a quickfire brace on the stroke of half time to give Sevilla a 3-2 lead. We were all square again two minutes after the restart as Lewis Findlow made it 3-3, and the game edged back in Ladzio’s favour again as Cox got his second 15 minutes from time. That was the final goal of the game as Ladzio make it three wins from three in the early stages of the season. The other game in League One saw Inter Your Sister, who had represented Japan in the World Cup heats that day, take on Step Brothers. It was quickly fairly clear to see that Inter would struggle having already played an hour of football in the hot weather that afternoon, and Tom Cioffi got one and Chris Moore two as they went into a three goal lead in the opening 12 minutes. Craig Johnson pulled one back for Inter, but it was 7-1 at the break as Moore and Dom Cioffi grabbed one each and ‘guest player’ added another couple. An own goal pulled one back for Inter 5 minutes after the break, but there was no chance of a comeback as Moore, Dom and Tom Cioffi added another goal each to go alongside another guest goal before Matthew Kealy grabbed a last minute consolation for an Inter team who were out on their feet by this point.
Deportivo Lack Of Talent needed a little help this week after getting carried away with themselves after putting a team out for two whole games in a row, but they got a team on the pitch for a third week and started well as Jamie Berrisford scored two and Rob Parker another as they went three up against Rooneytunes in the opening 14 minutes. Rooneytunes hit back though, and after Chris Sinclair got them on the board Cian Gillespie and Dec Church both scored in the final 4 minutes of the half to make it 3-3 at the break. Goals from Parker, Berrisford and Ben Proctor in the opening 8 minutes of the second half restored Deportivo’s three goal lead, but this time there was no way back for Rooneytunes as Berrisford added another 4 goals alongside a third from Parker to give them a comfortable win. Beercalona will fancy their chances of an escape from the basement this season, and their game against SK Six was one of those game of two halves things you hear about. Plenty of goals in the first half as Beercalona twice came from behind as Ste Bowler and Baz Swan leveled up after Henry Cooke and Max Blunsten Shepherd had put SK in front. Beercalona took control for the rest of the half and two goals from Rob Prince and another from Scott Williams gave them a 5-2 half time lead. And that was it! No more goals in the second half as Beercalona pick up a first win to see them climb into third place.
THE SUNDAY LEAGUE IS FULL! BUT WE’LL MAKE SPACE FOR A MINI LEAGUE AS THE ENQUIRIES CONTINUE TO COME IN. GET IN TOUCH FOR DETAILS.
MONDAY LEAGUE
For the second week in a row, Not A Chance had their title credentials tested against former champs AC Milmanchester due to a last minute reshuffle of fixtures (you know, cos we’re dead flexible and everything). Last week’s game was a tight one, and despite ACM starting the better and taking the lead through Jason Singleton’s 10th minute opener, it looked like being another tight one as Kyle Bell and Dom Andrew scored to give the Chancers the lead 4 minutes before the break. Simon Hackney made it Desmond at the interval, and Martin Gordon put them back in front three minutes after the restart, but Chris Priestley made it all square again within three minutes. Hackney and Bell both scored within minutes of each other to keep us level at 4-4 heading into the final 9 minutes, before Jamal Branker finished to ease ACM back in front. The key moment of the latter stages came when Priestley missed a penalty that would have brought us level at 5-5 again, before Branker scored again a minute from time to give us a two goal gap for the first time in the game. Bell did grab his third with the final kick of the game, but Milmanchester take the win that keeps them in the mix up in this really interesting division. Another close looking game was the match up between Pink Panthers and Phantom Brazilians, and although the Panthers dominated the opening period it took 14 minutes for the deadlock to be broken as Rory Breslin finally found a way past Max Paterson in the Phantom goal. That was the only goal of the opening period but they quickly added a second through Ray Donnelly’s goal in the first minute of the second period, and Breslin’s third with 15 to go looked to have wrapped up the victory. The returning Craig Birkhead pulled one back for Phantom three minutes later, and things got interesting when Andrew Shaw made it 3-2 with 5 minutes still to play. There were a few hairy moments, but Pink Panthers held on for their first official Ballers Premiership win.
Diva Fever put their 100% record on the line for another week in the competitive Championship against the hit and miss Nice Buns who only had two points to show from 5 games despite some decent performances. It was Buns who took charge through Charlie Williamson’s opening minute goal and Dale Kirkham’s 6th minute strike, but Daniel (just Daniel) pulled one back for Diva a minute later. Williamson grabbed another couple in the final 5 minutes of the half to put Buns in charge at the break, and when he added his 4th 4 minutes after the break this one looked done. Joe Dodd pulled one back for Diva with 6 minutes to play, and though he scored again a minute from time there wasn’t time to complete a comeback and Buns end the 100% record with their first win of the season. Jeremy Cheadle have games in hand as they look to make a play for promotion, and a win over Netsix & Chill would put them in a very strong position. It was Netsix that struck first through Aaron Campbell’s 3rd minute goal, but in an otherwise tight first half we were level at the break as Jack Whelan scored 6 minutes later. Joe Knight and Whelan both scored to give Cheadle a 3-1 lead 10 minutes into the second half, and though Mike Pinder pulled one back with 13 still to play, Knight scored his second three minutes from time to give Cheadle a hard fought win.
WE HAVE SPACE FOR ONE NEW TEAM IN THE TOP DIVISION OF THE MONDAY LEAGUE AS WE APPROACH THE LATTER STAGES OF THE SEASON. GET IN TOUCH FOR DETAILS.
TUESDAY LEAGUE
The Tuesday league will need some new blood ahead of the new season, as a few of our formerly reliable teams have had to leave us for various reasons, meaning no Premiership games were played this week.
Stroke Titty were looking to make it a perfect 10 ahead of their promotion to the top flight, but an improving Black Jack looked likely to give them some problems this week. Stroke took early control as Jay Willingham, Sam Tattersall and David Dunn gave them a three goal lead in the opening 12 minutes. Danny Stringer and Alex Harper got Black Jack back in contention with two minutes of the half to go, but they couldn’t go in just the one behind as Joe Lailey made it 4-2 just before the break. When Lailey added his second three minutes after the interval there was no way back for Black Jack this week, as two more from Willingham, two more from Tattersall, two more from Lailey and another from Dunn saw the Championship winners to a comfortable final victory, with Pat Bradshaw’s consolation the only Black Jack goal of the second period. That win for Stroke meant that a win for Wellspring over Beercalona would all but guarantee them a spot back in the top division, and they looked likely to get it as Callum Walmsley, Nathan Wilkinson, Jake Hamilton, George Quayle and an own goal helped them to a 5-2 half time lead, with Tom Ratcliffe and and own goal on the sheet for a Beercalona team who were looking to bounce back from last week’s disappointing defeat to Black Jack. The game burst into life in the early stages of the second period as Martin Bell scored twice and Craig Scanlon got another as Beercalona got themselves level again at 5-5. Wellspring regathered themselves and restored their lead with 14 to play through Shane Bridges goal, and they all but wrapped up the victory as Wilkinson and Quayle added further goals. Ratcliffe got his second for Beercalona in the final minute, but they ran out of time and suffer a third straight defeat. Class On Fake Grass stepped into the void left by Turkish Delight (for now) and took on an LQ FC team who may have been bottom of the league but were competitive in most games. After defeat to Wellspring in their first game last week Class went in front thanks to an 8th minute own goal, but Matthew Brierley leveled things up just a minute later. LQ hit the front through Max Brookes goal, but that lead didn’t last until the break as Mike Cocks drew Class level again a couple of minutes from the whistle. The new team took control early in the second half as Sean Moore and Callum Graham scored in the first 7 minutes to give them a two goal advantage, and the same two players added their second of the game to ease Class to their first Ballers victory.
Duno came in and gave Premiership winners Gangs Of Dwight Yorke a game, and the Tuesday regulars ran out 11-4 winners with Jake Dean grabbing 4 of them.
SPACES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR AN IMMEDIATE START IN THE TUESDAY LEAGUE, WITH THE NEW LEAGUE SET TO START IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
WEDNESDAY LEAGUE
A fairly rare quiet night involving no polish swear words in the Wednesday league this week, with Polish Army on holiday until September and Magpie unable to field a team this week. We were also missing Exeter Gently, so the only league game saw Stockport Eagles take on the still relatively new Ajax Treesdown knowing that they needed snookers in order to be able to claim the title from Michu At De Gea Ba. A storming opening 10 minutes saw Eagles recover from Sam Cawthra’s opening minute goal to lead 4-1 after 7 minutes as Callum Donnelly, Liam Watson, Ben Waugh and Callum Jones all found the net. Daniel Kitchingham pulled one back a minute later, and then struck two more in a minute to make it 4-4 9 minutes from half time. Evan Farrell eased Ajax in front, but we were level at the break as Jones grabbed his second of the half. Defences didn’t get on top after the break as the goals continued to rain in. Jordan Hardman eased Ajax in front two minutes in, but Waugh made it 6-6 with 15 minutes to play. Those final 15 minutes were enough time for 9 more goals, Hardman and Donnelly got one each to keep us level at 7-7, Donnelly and Cawthra did the same to make it 8-8 before Farrell and Hardman finally gave Ajax a bit of daylight at 10-8. Jones pulled one back from the spot with two to play, but Hardman struck again to render Paul Waugh’s goal with the final touch of the game meaningless.
The team formerly known as Petr Cech Yourself, who will continue to be known as this until they give us a better name, joined us as they are back for the summer with a few new faces, but the rustiness showed in a tough first game against the now newly crowned Wednesday Champions Michu At De Gea Ba. The returning Jamie Longworth and Fidelis Eberegbe both grabbed three in a comfortable 10-3 win, but there should be more to come from the newbies.
THE WEDNESDAY LEAGUE LOOKS TO BE FULL AHEAD OF THE START OF THE NEW SEASON IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. THE OTHER NIGHTS ARE WHERE YOU WANT TO BE LOOKING.