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Sunday leagues

Kipsta Cobras vs The Veterans

We’re very much at the business end of the season, and The Veterans continue to be the surprise package of the Championship season, retaining an unlikely promotion push. This week they faced off against a Kipsta Cobras team who looked destined for a return to the Premiership at the first time of asking, but who’d struggled to field a team for the last couple of weeks.

Kipsta started the stronger but fell behind in the 8th minute when Ben Mercer made the most of a mistake from the Kipsta ‘keeper to prod home the opener. An own goal a minute later drew Kipsta level, but Andy ‘Egg’ Carrington chipped the keeper from the kick off to restore The Vets lead.Dylan Lowth scored the 4th goal in 6 minutes to draw Kipsta level again half way through the period, but Paul Atherton put The Veterans in front a minute before the break.

The second half was extremely tight, with The Vets looking to hold onto their lead, and as the Kipsta pressure built, Simon Grainger broke away two minutes from time to seal the win that takes The Vets top with a week of the season left to play.

FC AOTS vs Under Rated FC

Under Rated have stumbled of late as they looked to complete what looked like being an inevitable League One title win, including losing to this weeks opponents AOTS, but they still retained pole position and could clinch the title with a win this week.

Jimmy Nation got them off to the ideal start with a goal in the opening minute, and a tight first half saw only one more goal as Stuart Carter doubled their lead two minutes from the break.

AOTS got themselves back in the game through a Carl Buckley goal three minutes after the break, but Carter’s second three minutes later put Under Rated back in control. Buckley grabbed his second to keep things tight with 15 minutes remaining, but the crucial moment came when Nation grabbed a quickfire double inside the final 10 minutes to ease Under Rated clear. Chris Leah added another three minutes from time, before their heart was made to flutter by Adam Duty scoring a couple of late goals for AOTS to close the gap up again. Under Rated held on, and claim the League One title for the season.

Team GM vs Pathetico Madrid

Stockport Eagles vs SFC Club

Week three for SFC Club saw them taking on Stockport Eagles with a few new additions to their squad. Eagles can’t go anywhere this season and will be spending another campaign in League Two next season.

There’s really not a lot worth dwelling on for the new boys from this one, as the Eagles swooped with alarming regularity to go 8-0 up at the break. Ben Waugh grabbed 4 first half goals to go alongside two each from Alecs Paterson and Ryan McAndrew.

The second half actually managed to get worse, as the Waugh’s of Ben and Paul got a goal each, Paterson another two, McAndrew another 4 and Michael Winn a second half hat trick. Matthew Aked did at least get SFC on the board with a ‘consolation’ goal three minutes from time. It can only get better from here……

The McMuffin Men vs SK Dons

SK Dons could claim second spot this week if they could pick up a win from either of the two games they were playing. The first of those was the toughest game they could have asked for at this level, against League Two winners The McMuffin Men.

It was the Dons who struck first after 7 minutes through Matthew Richardson’s goal, but Jack Derbyshire scored a 5 minute hat trick in the latter stages of the half to see the title winners into the break with a 3-1 lead.

Mark Bailey made it 4-1 two minutes into the second period, and when Charley Eyre and Chris Ogden added further goals the result was pretty much done and dusted. Kyle Norris pulled one back for SK, but Eyre’s second a minute later restored the McMuffin 5 goal lead. The Dons finished with a bit of a flourish as Richardson and Norris both grabbed their second of the game to make it a three goal game at the final whistle.

SK Dons vs Pathetico Madrid

It was a second chance for SK Dons to claim second place in League Two for this season as they took on a Pathetico Madrid team who were the only team who could still catch them.

The Dons hit the front on three minutes through an own goal, but that lead lasted just 6 minutes before Sam Henderson levelled things up for Pathetico. Matthew Richardson restored the Dons lead 11 minutes from the break, but it was Desmond at half time as Adam Norton grabbed a second equiliser two minutes from the break.

The Dons went in front for a third time 14 minutes from time as Kyle Norris got himself on the score sheet, but for a third time Pathetico got themselves back in it, John Lodge with their third. A minute later and the Dons were in front for a 4th time as Norris got his second, but predictably Pathetico hit back again through Norton’s second. Richardson’s second three minutes from time had the Dons back in front for a 5th time, but this time they were able to see it through as Jamie Davenport’s goal in the final minute gave the Dons the win and second spot in the final League Two table.

The McMuffin Men vs SFC Club

The only surviving game in an evening decimated by teams wanting to watch the fireworks! The McMuffin Men decided to put on a show of their own as they took on 5th placed SFC Club.

It took a little while for the action to get going on this one with us having to wait until the 16th minute to see Phil Carroll open the scoring for SFC Club. Jack Derbyshire drew the game level two minutes later with his first goal of the game. Mark Bailey gave McMuffin men the advantage going into the break with his 24th minute goal.

Top of the league McMuffin Men were clearly not content with a 1 goal lead, second half goals from Jack (2), Charley and Sam (2) showed why they are divisional champions with a flurry of goals in the second half (most of which we got on Facbook live!). Phil Carroll got his second of the game with a minute left on the clock but it was scant consolation.