League: Sunday League

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Mid Life Crisis FC vs Step Brothers

Two teams who’ve struggled for a consistent side this season met up with the main aim of both sides simply being survival this season.

A frantic opening 10 minutes saw 4 goals and us sitting at Desmond after Jamie Berrisford twice gave Crisis the lead only for Chris Simpson and Tom Cioffi to pull the Brotherhood back level both times. The Brothers were in front when Cioffi grabbed his second, and they jumped into a 4 goal lead as Simpson added two more and Cioffi his third. Danny Garvey reduced the deficit in the final minute of the half, but it was still a long way back for Crisis from here.

The game looked up for Crisis 7 minutes into the second half when Rob Sheldon made it 7-3, but they showed their mettle as three more Garvey goals in 7 minutes pulled them right back into it going into the final 7. There was only to be one more goal in this one, and it was a goal that clinched the win for the Brothers as Cioffi grabbed his 4th of the game to give them their first actual win of the season.

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Exeter Gently vs El Caliente B

The El Caliente B team has had a bit of a mix up of players this season following promotion last time around, and fielded three new players this week against an Exeter Gently team who seemed to be pretty much back to full strength this week.

The first half was tight, with Danny McDonald’s 7th minute goal for Exeter all that either team had to show for the opening quarter of the game. Tom Harrison doubled the lead 6 minutes from the break, but Fidelis Eberegbe pulled on back for the ‘B’s a minutes before half time.

A second goal each for McDonald and Harrison eased Exeter into a 4-1 lead in the first 5 minutes, and Maison Owen looked to have killed the game off as a contest with 19 minutes still to play. Nathaniel Odysseus-Kingsley pulled one back for Caliente, but within a minute Owen had scored again for Exeter, and Harrision scored again with 11 minutes left. The two teams shared 6 goals in the final 10 minutes, Owen, Mike Belshaw and Harrison striking again for Exeter, with O-K grabbing three more for himself. Exeter are back with a victory, now they just need to be able to field a side every week……

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Expected Toulose vs Stockport Eagles

Two teams still looking for their first point of the season went head to head this week, as Expected Toulose (who are still searching for that first point in their second spell with us) took on a Stockport Eagles team who will feel they have under achieved this season.

It looked unlikely that Toulose would be getting something from this game as the Eagles soared into an early lead through Paul Waugh’s 3rd minute goal, but the young side gathered themselves and came back into the game as the half went on. The half was tight with few chances at either end, and Toulose had struck the woodwork twice before the grabbed a deserved leveller on the stroke of half time through Brad Bent’s ruthless finish.

Having gone into the half time break on a positive note, Toulose switched off at the start of the second period and went behind again through Ben Waugh’as close range header. It didn’t take them as long to hit back this time, as Kane Jordan scored two minutes later to make it Desmond. As the half wore on it was the Eagles who began to look the more likely to go on and win it, and when Paul Waugh put them back in front for the third time with 16 minutes remaining they didn’t look back. Ben Waugh joined Paul on two goals for the game with 8 minutes left, and Michael Winn finished it off two minutes from time. Eagles off the mark for the season, while the quest for that first point is getting closer and closer for Expected Toulose.

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Dench FC vs The Veterans

If they aren’t careful, The Veterans may find themselves in a Championship promotion fight at this rate! They took on a Dench team this week who were looking to recover from the defeat to Kipsta last week, and keep themselves in contention at the top end themselves.

The Vets got off to a flyer, racing into a two goal lead in the opening two minutes, Dean Minshull scoring the first and David Dunn the second. Phil Carroll pulled one back for Dench with 10 minutes on the clock, but Dunn made it 3-1 Veterans 8 minutes before the break, and Ryan Prestwich gave them a three goal lead 5 minutes later. Carroll’s second of the game gave Dench some hope of launching a second half comeback.

Those hopes came to fruition in the early part of the period as Matt McKelvey scored two in the first 4 minutes of the period to give us a level game, and they hit the front for the first time 4 minutes later when George Eaton grabbed himself a goal. That lead last all of a minute as Simon Grainger grabbed an equiliser for the Vets, and with 8 minutes left he scored again to put The Veterans back into the lead. Again, this was a lead that was short lived as Carroll completed his hat trick two minutes later, sending us into the final 5 minutes with all to play for. The game started as it ended, with a Minshull goal for The Veterans in the final minute to give them a win from a breathless game. The Vets join Dench on 6 points in the race for the Premiership.

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Kipsta Cobras vs Team Tom

Team Tom haven’t had a particularly good run of things lately. A random succession of teams were unable to field sides against them towards the end of last season, and now their Championship campaign hasn’t exactly got off to the best of starts. They faced a tough game this week against Kipsta Cobras, who are looking for a return ticket to the top flight after having to rebuild their squad for the new season.

They’ve done that pretty well so far, and from the time Josh Schofield gave them the lead on 10 minutes they barely looked back. Jack Horgan made it 20- three minutes later, and by the time the break came it was 4-0 as Warren Yeo grabbed a brace as the half time whistle loomed.

With the game seemingly won in the opening half, Kipsta went about killing the game off entirely, and two goals from Schofield, and another each from Yeo and Horgan did just that. Team Tom did get on the score sheet through the most unlikely of marksmen, their ‘keeper Blake Reynolds (we’re not sure how, but it happened) with 10 minutes left to play, but in those 10 minutes Kipsta scored 5 more to finish the game with a flourish. Kieron Doherty got himself on the sheet, Horgan and Yeo added to their tally, and Callum Jones and Matt Toft scored the final two to give them a comfortable win.

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Under Rated FC vs Inter Your Sister

Under Rated were only kept in League One for this season as a result of one particularly heavy defeat during their mini league campaign prior to joining the full league, but they seem to be up for making it a one season only deal as they went into this week’s game with a 100% record for the season. Inter Your Sister needed a decent second half to the last campaign to stay at this level, but had picked up their two points this season with draws against teams who look likely to be competing with Under Rated for promotion.

Stuart Carter gave Under Rated the lead on 8 minutes, but that lead lasted just 60 seconds as Gaz Sumner quickly drew Inter level. Carter’s second a minute later put Under Rated back in front, and James McIver made it 3-1 11 minutes from half time. Steve Johnson dragged inter back into it again with a goal 6 minutes before the break, but Steven Batho grabbed two in a minute before the break to give Under Rated a 5-2 half time lead.

It was a lead they looked unlikely to surrender in the second period as McIver’s second, followed by further goals from Jimmy Nation and Batho increased that lead to 8-2. Batho grabbed his 4th of the game to draw a line under this one, but Dave Smythe grabbed the final goal of the game for Inter, who fall to their second defeat of the season as Under Rated go a whopping 8 points clear at the top of the table (though other teams do have games in hand).

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FC Stront Bakken vs The McMuffin Men

This one looked like being a tricky game to call as The McMuffin Men, who’d lost out in the top of the table clash last week to Pathetico Madrid, took on an FC Stront Bakken team who are looking to prove a point this season after being dropped two divisions following a disastrous season in the Championship.

Two goals in the opening 10 minutes, one from Charley Eyre and the other from Abz Ahmed, gave the McMuffin’s the early advantage, but Stront Bakken hit back to draw level heading into the final 5 minutes of the period as Patrick Mitchell and Declan Matthews grabbed a goal each. Jack Searle restored the McMuffin’s lead in the 21st minute and they held that lead going into the break.

A spell of three goals in 11 second half minutes from Mac Eyre, Ahmed and Jack Derbyshire put the McMuffin Men in complete control at 6-2, but Lukas Voveris pulled one back for the Bucket Boys with 12 minutes remaining to give them a glimmer of hope. Charley Eyre extinguished that hope with three minutes left to get the McMuffin Men back to winning ways, back to the top of the table (Pathetico didn’t play this week), and eased them three points clear of a Stront Bakken team who are likely to be promotion rivals.

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