In the first of a series of interviews, Michael Pearson, a long standing, original member of the team, now Assistant Coach, answers some in-depth questions. Michael was selected by General Manager,…
Sassco have been invited, and are likely to take part (in some form or another) in a training experiment involving Newcastle Science City (http://www.newcastlesciencecity.com). Eric Foch, Lead Innovater, contacted us regarding…
Apart from his goal, Emu did f**k all and now owes £24 to Durham FA. Pearson opened the scoring but I was bricking it as the nice white shirts we were…
A few weeks back, as I was getting booted around the pitch by the Lay brother’s (both not even twenty years of age at the time), I decided that it’s either…
Muer’s gets a hat-trick, but Pearson persuades Park View to give the Man-of-the-match to Langan. Yes, we may have our fancy website; the best around. We do have our over ambitious,…
Undefeated in four games with a comfortable win. The players decided to bring a Nike match ball to play with today, much to my disagreement, so much that I threatened to…
The sleeveless shirt for the next tour. This has been purchased already. Printing and logos have been decided, as Spain is our eventual destination. It’s likely that Red Fox will sponsor…
Another comeback. Sassco are widely becoming the comeback kings now. Two weeks ago, it was a 3-0 deficit, now it was a 3-1 reverse. Greenwell, after the traumatic experience of being…
Hylton won 4-2 on penalties. I’m in preparation to be hauled up and bent over in front of the discipline committee, who will take turns running along the corridor to boot…
Sangha defies Bell, Walker, Anderson and co. (Kyle wasn’t that good). Sassco.co.uk 2 WWC 0.The last game of the night sprung a surprise. Sangha drafted in two ex-Hendon players, McConville and…
DF FC 6 Sassco.co.uk 4. Day 3, the final day of the tour. I was up at 7:00am and by 8:00am was making my way to McDonalds for breakfast. Nothing was…
Juventude Sport Campinense 1 Sassco.co.uk 1. As expected, the paranoia kicked in about 6:00pm on the Thursday evening. I must have sent around seven or eight (or more) texts to everyone…
Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Sunny Max: 26°C 79°F Sunrise: 07:40 Sunny Max: 26°CSunrise: 07:41 Sunny Max: 25°CSunrise: 07:42 Sunny Max: 26°CSunrise: 07:43 Wind, humidity, pressure and visibility Wind: ESE 11mphHum: 43%…
“Yes Trigger” suffers flares and abuse. Enquiry underway. Wear Consulting 3 Hendon Rovers 1. Keith Mouat somehow grabbed two goals in Wear Consulting’s 3-0 win over Hendon Rovers. The other goal…
More publicity in Portugal. Algarve Resident, the local newspaper (online and in print) for the area, will be featuring Sassco’s tour. Thanks to Inês Lopes at the newspaper and also Gary Thomas at…
Pleased to announce that the local radio station, KISS FM Algarve will be mentioning our tour and also the match details up to and on game days. When we were in Malta…
After our late game on Friday (the day we land in Portugal), we’ve been invited into the restaurant/bar in the Imortal Stadium, as they have put on chicken and chips for after the match. Cost…
2-0 up, then 4-2 and 4-3 down. Poor second half. Disappointing game, really. We were 2-0 ahead, but succumbed to a quick response and then a difficult second half. Both teams…
Josh Lay scores a brilliant single goal to outshine Kurt Baxendale’s double hat-trick. WWC 3 Sassco.co.uk 1 Stevie “Borat” Anderson fired in an accurate shot through Wayne Greenwell’s gangly legs to…
Poor defending, but dirtier drop-outs. Dirty drop-outs were Macca and Titch. Anth Langan didn’t reply to any texts during the week, so I assumed he would not be there. We drafted…
He steals the show again. WWC 3 IPS 0. It was all Teeb again. He turned up with instructions to wear white shorts and white socks, but in “Teeb World” white…
Stubba assists with two. I take the blame for todays defeat. Why? Well, not for the on the pitch theatrics, but because I spent a couple of seasons trying to get…
“Ancient” Steve Lawson megs Rikki Kennedy to lay Kev McCluskey on for his equaliser. Redhouse Fusion 1 Downhill Impact 1.An amazing result from the rapidly improving Downhill team. Redhouse Fusion were…
Two fat ladies on top and two goals a piece. A few changes for the Park View game. Bri Watson was missing and enjoying a dirty weekend at Lumley Castle and…
Anth Pearson’s rare double strike! Unfortunately, Hendon Rovers have withdrawn from the competition due to lack of available players. This combined with Redhouse Stars leaving means that we are back down…
Good effort, but nothing to show for it. Despite the negative scoreline, it was Sassco’s best 90 minute performance after two poor opening games. But, being realistic, it was just another…
Wasted second half opportunity. We were definitely going to be short this week. I knew this from last week when Nelly, Farquhar, Stoker and Langan all scarpered without getting the nets…
Thunder still on top, but Fusion closing in. Wear Consulting 3 Hendon Rovers 0 match awardedHendon Rovers were unable to field a team, so Wear Consulting received the three points. Hendon…
Tyson reaches the summit and wants to stay there. Town End Thunder 7 Sassco.co.uk 2It was shocking that goalkeeper Simpson, despite carrying an injury got Sassco’s goals, but more shocking that…
The traffic beats the Tash. On a busy Saturday afternoon, both main routes into Cramlington from our side of the county were struggling with road works. I chose both the wrong…
Two new pictures of the Municipal 3G pitch, courtesy of tour operator, Gary Thomas. This is the venue for our Friday afternoon game against Juventude Sport Campinense/Loulé. Looks quite impressive and…
Organised chaos! Thanks to Town End Thunder who stayed behind and managed to play their game thirty minutes late, despite lacking a regular player. Also, thanks to Ken Street for stepping…
But Town End with four men and Tyson’s hat-trick defeat IPS! Town End Thunder 5 IPS 2It seemed as if Town End Thunder’s bad luck was following them again when a…
The enemy within strikes. William Harper’s task as the newly installed Team Coach was to restrict the score to no more than eight goals. Admittedly, this was said in jest as…
Our very own Dave Graham single handily (his own words) took on a mainly youth based Cheltenham Town FC in a friendly for his Royal Corps of Signals team. He wasn’t…
Controversial “goal” gives Sassco their first points. The third day of Season 14 took place amidst a downpour. Sassco.co.uk 4 Wear Consulting 2When the downpour began, Sassco were coasting at 2-0…
An impressive result on everyones day off. The Sunday games closer to the season start pose a bit of a problem for me in getting a squad together. Most of the…
Tyson, Richardson and Mouat are dismissed in Town End’s 2-0 win. One more team was added to the League to take the total up to a healthy nine teams. Darren Duggan…
The driving force behind the tour has been myself (Davinder Sangha) as well as all the players who came on the Malta Tour 2009. I expected Malta to be a one…
3-0 down. Simma the Legend, McConville the Hero, Stoker the Albanian. An away trip up North to Geordie Land. The Tyne Tunnel was closed, so it was the long way around.…
An unexpected win for Hendon over Town End. A great start to Season 14. After the doom and gloom over the last few weeks, the original five teams which battled in…
Sassco, pride themselves on running professionally organised 5-a-side and 6-a-side Leagues based in Sunderland, Gateshead and Washington. Since 2010, the 6-a-side has been converted to 5-a-side to cater for the different…
Remember the pre-match handshakes when we played our three games in Malta? We received pennants and emblems from the opponents, while all Dave Gourlay could offer was a handshake and a…
Sounds better than it actually was. A shambles of a performance from start to finish. Mistakes were being made by everyone and the result wasn’t surprising in the end. Being a…
Surprised and pleased to get a few emails just now from Brian Watson. He’s coming back on board as Team Secretary. He’ll be busy for the next few weeks, but when…
It’s finally happened. After around eight years of battles against each other, William Harper (commonly known as Billy, The Tash and various other names) has decided to cut his losses and…
We will be playing Northern League opponents, West Auckland Town FC. The venue is Gateshead’s 3G artificial turf. West Auckland are the same famous club which was founded in 1893. They…
Another solid performance from IPS fails to gain a goal, but Sassco cruise past their opponents. AA Fabrications 1 IPS 0Yet another stubborn performance from IPS. Mark Moon’s goal settled the…
A good run out and a good performance. A humid day and a good victory with a full Sassco team despite missing quite a few of the regular players. Macca, Marky,…
It’s AA v IPS and Sassco v Hendon in the Semi Finals. The final set of games to decide the semi final placings took place tonight in searing heat. AA gained…
Four players from Sassco out of a squad of six took part on the behalf of Azure-design.com in the PowerLeague Five-a-side Cup in Gateshead. The players involved were Davinder Sangha (in…
The final set of games for the AGUK Super League take place on Tuesday 23rd to decide the Semi Finalists. Both Sassco and Hendon will most likely be joining them, however,…
AA hit Hendon for eight and Hylton Castle fail to show. A demoralising start to the evening occured when Hylton failed to present a team. This means that they have been…
16th October (Friday) Juventude Sport Campinense/Loulé 8:30pm Municipal 3G pitch 17th October (Saturday) FC Ferreiras 5:00pm Estadio Da Nora 18th October (Sunday) Destination Football FC 11:00am Hotel Alfamar pitch
The costings for the tour are in. The total to pay overall is £258 per person based on the 13 who are travelling. Obviously, you take off the deposit paid from…
Delighted to say that iKobo have renewed their seasonal sponsorship with the 11-a-side team. This is actually the first time that a sponsor has renewed for a second season with the…
Hendon get two back to back wins! A night which saw Murton summarily dismissed from the field (possibly never to be seen again – as predicted) and Hendon Rovers gain two…
AA draw first blood against Hylton Castle. A decent start for the new AGUK Super League cup, despite all the teams no longer involved. Sporting Redhouse were added to Redhouse Youth’s…
Our usual comprehensive pre-season programme is underway. The first game was the 2-1 home defeat against Redhouse FC on 23rd May for the AGUK Cup (report further down the page). The…
…while Tommy Bell struggles in agony. Sassco.co.uk 4 Castletown FC 0 Sassco with Murton and Robinson featuring, despite their humiliation on Wednesday, sprayed the ball about against Castletown. Murton feared facing…
Previous, current and future shirts. As expected, we have comprehensive records of the shirts in the team kits worn by the various teams throughout the years. We’ve always had images and…
Pre-season in full swing as Sassco let a 1-0 lead slip. The so called regular cup game against Redhouse FC didn’t materialise during the season, so we managed to get it…
The new Portugal Tour 2009 shirt is as shown in the image. The brand is Adidas (obviously) and the sizes are based on the requests made by the individual player. The…
The icons show the team badges. These are the current teams active within the League. Sassco.co.ukManagementDavinder Sangha Redhouse RocketsManagementMickey Jones Bunker UKManagementConor Staples Downhill ImpactManagementAnthony Pearson Wear ConsultingManagementKevin Cooper Roker RoarManagementJohn…
An amazing four goals for Jimmy Raeper. I read a mini-riot act prior to the game, threatening those with outstanding subs to pay up or be benched. Also, the threat was…
Flights The flights are by easyJet and take off from Newcastle. Friday 16 OctoberCheck in opens Fri 16 Oct 04:20 Closes Fri 16 Oct 05:40 We need to ensure that we…
01 Dave Smith Returns as goalkeeper for the tour. Currently playing for Sassco on Saturday when the manager gets one of his sadistic moments and forces Simpson to play outfield. An…
A good second half is thwarted by missed chances. I was the first one there. I arrive long before kick off at around 4:50pm and instead of twiddling with my dipstick,…
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The venue we use is the Washington Leisure Centre, run by Everyone Active, based on the other side of Asda in the centre of Washington Galleries. This brand-new centre was opened…
The newly built Downhill Hub has replaced the previous Community North Sports Complex, and lies on the north west City boundary PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU NEED A QR CODE TO…
The best performance this season, with a rare full-strength team. The team pictured prior to the game in the new Adidas second shirts (previously worn against The Fort in our home…