Team changes. A number of teams have struggled in past weeks and are in the process of being replaced. The ones named are Fusion, Soca and Roar. Seaburn Soca (Wear Consulting)…
Professional hammering. The next day, we got a bit of an early morning hammering from our esteemed opponents, UE Sants. They were very good and played quick Futsal. Hembrough was getting…
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22nd October (Friday) Port de Barcelona 6:00pm Pabello Zal, Port de Barcelona, Indoor Gym. 23rd October (Saturday) Ashwan FC 1:00pm Complex Sportius Llars Mundet, Outdoor 3G. 23rd October (Saturday) ALM FC…
Looks like we’ll be watching Espanyol take on Levante at 4:00pm on the 24th October. Our tickets (five of them) are for the main stand. They’ve been reserved by the Espanyol…
Seaburn trounce Sassco. Seaburn Soca 3 Sassco.co.uk 0.The second headline says it all. Seaburn easily beat an almost completely different looking Sassco side in the opening game. Sassco had the veteran…
1st April 2008 Sassco shock the favourites in the Final. A 0-0 shut out ends with a 3-1 shoot out victory for Sassco. Sassco pictured with the AGUK Super League Trophy.…
League Games August 24 2002 Sassco.co.uk 5 – 2 Low Fell Jon Wardle 0 Jon Wardle 0 Chris Dixon 0 Keith Mouat 0 Phil McNerney 0 Sassco.co.uk: David Watson; Michael Booth;…
6th May 2004 End of season show. Wardle, Gourlay, Muers, Kelsey and Junt on the score sheet I expected another dodgy day. We were very short of staff. Stapes, Cola Boy,…
13th and 20th December 2005 Treble clinched. Wearview defeated in an edgy Final. Sporting Redhouse 2 Wearview Elite 0 Wearview were a bit short of players so Steve Lawson was recalled…
Select win with a 9 point gap. With so many strong teams in, it was expected that Select would have a challenge on their hands to retain their title. But, as…
League Games May 09 2000 BHD Windows 1 – 7 Durham Pine Craig Harding 0 Brian Gettins 0 Gary Ewitt 0 Gary Ewitt 0 Peter Rackstraw 0 Dave Pitt 0 Peter…
28th May 2003 Extraordinary finish Final day win against a very good team. Yes, we did it. Sassco finally won a game in style. Up against the New Derby, we had…
Cup results 4th SFL Cup July 10 2001 JJB Sports 4 – 0 CDS Security Alan Burn 0 Alan Burn 0 Alan Burn 0 Alan Burn 0 JJB Sports: Paul Burn;…
28th April 2007 Season Review. 2006-2007. And don’t think I spent all day writing this out. It’s been done bit by bit over the last few weeks and just edited in…
6th May 2006 Sassco.co.uk 2 TWR 4. Twice in the lead, same old story. Lets look at the positives first. Greenwell and Wardle are now back as regulars, although we’ll have…
8th March 2005 Crown win it back. Wardle’s strike takes it to penalties. Stroking the ball about and adding further pressure on an haphazard Crown team, Fulwell were looking to add…
8th August 2007 AFC Redhouse triumphant. Murton dismissed, but AFC hold out against Hylton Castle. AFC Redhouse 2 Hylton Castle 0 Final Report by Gareth Brazier. Hylton Castle started the game…
Our dispute with the Tyne & Wear League in the Summer of 2004 dragged on. We had looked to move to a Saturday morning league elsewhere, which included a Christian League.…
14th June 2008 Season review. A disturbing pre-season for Sassco meant that by the start of the competitive games, the team and squad were in no way set. I was quite…
Royal Mail, a team ahead of its time. When Royal Mail elected to join the league, they revolutionised everyones attitude towards the game. Ruled with an iron fist by Jamie Fleming…
Back in 2004, Sassco were without a league and undertook an odyssey of friendly games, pre-season and also throughout the season. A total of 18 games were played after the 2004…
League Games February 01 2000 Durham Pine 2 – 2 Herrenknecht Brian Storey 0 Pen Brian Gettins 0 Gavin Wilson 0 John Hunt 0 Durham Pine: Ian Forrest; Gary Ewitt; Paul…
League Games June 26 2003 Dadcheck.com 2 – 1 Barclays Sunderland Simon Williamson 0 Simon Williamson 0 Pen Steve Smith 0 Dadcheck.com: Anthony Mouat; Chris Dixon; David Leithes; Davinder Sangha; Ryan…
Division 1 League Games November 14 2000 Crown Electrics 3 – 2 Select Gary Rolls 0 John Wardle 0 John Wardle 0 David Ellis 0 Jason Amour 0 Crown Electrics: Paul…
A winning line up. Back row shows Dave Robason, Dave Watson, Wayne Greenwell. The front row shows Steve Clark, David Staples, Jon Wardle with the trophy and James “Jiff” Dickinson. Southwell…
League Games June 01 2004 Crown Electrics 6 – 0 FM Foods Mark Baker 0 Jon Wardle 0 Mark Baker 0 Steve Stubbs 0 Steve Stubbs 0 Jon Wardle 0 Crown…
Sassco bludgeon the “Dream Team” but Danni Lay’s Nissan look like the favourites. A more than impressive start to the new, experimental Wednesday League. With only four official teams (with Sporting…
12th May 2009 Nearly there. Late strike for AA sees off Redhouse Youth’s. Sporting Redhouse 4 Castletown FC 0 A strong looking Sporting side easily bludgeoned Castletown FC, who seem to…
League Games May 20 2003 Ellie Leisure 1 – 5 SR-1 Gary Tyzack 0 Lee Cuddihy 0 Lee Cuddihy 0 Mark Lyall 0 Stephen Hutchinson 0 Chris Ward 0 Ellie Leisure:…
10th October 2006 Youth’s win their first Cup. Game ends in a minor controversy. Redhouse Youths 3 Crown Electrics 2 Both teams were worthy finalists. However, neutrals would have put Crown…
Murton’s chaos delivers a result. Sangha is humiliated in front of a large crowd. Murton and Robinson proved their worth in front of the big crowd of around ten people. Sangha’s…
18th August 2005| back to top Southwell retain the League. A day of draws keeps Southwell nervous until the end. Southwell FC 0 Sporting Redhouse 0 Typical 0-0 draw. Both these…
Select inevitably. Weak challenges and team removals didn’t help anyone’s cause, but it’s quite obvious that Select would continue to dominate. The gap was again 11 points, The closest rivals were…
Sporting walk it. Sporting Redhouse, shown here with their trophy double in Season 1. It looked like plain sailing for them until their penultimate game where a 2-2 draw with Durham…
League Games June 18 2002 Boldon Wanderers 1 – 3 SR-1 Simon Keir 0 Mark Lyall 0 Lee Cuddihy 0 Lee Cuddihy 0 Boldon Wanderers: Simon Keir; Steve Harris; Jeff Moorehouse;…
–20th July 2006| Hylton Castle win the Tournament. Pulsating 4-3 win over Sassco. Hylton Castle 4 Sassco.co.uk 3 A fitting end to an enjoyable tournament. Hylton Castle and Sassco both had…
Select set to dominate. When Tarnjit Sangha took over an obscure TCB Accountancy team from Season 1 and 2 and opened with a defeat against Crown, little did anyone expect what…
16th December 2008 Sporting overwhelm Sassco. Sassco’s form dipped when they had six men. Sporting Redhouse 9 Sassco.co.uk 1 Final After fighting tooth and nail to get to the final, Sassco…
–21st June 2007 | back to top Sassco’s first trophy since 2001. The overwhelming favourites are out-thought in the Final. The winning Sassco.co.uk team, pictured with the CNSC Cup. Standing are…
Heavy defeat for Sassco and a major setback for Fulwell. Two major games on the night between the top two, Nissan and Fulwell, and bottom two, Sassco and Downhill. Both ended…
League Games August 16 2003 Sassco.co.uk 2 – 2 Studio 2000 Chris Dixon 0 James Dickinson 0 Sassco.co.uk: David Watson; Michael Booth; Steve Stubbs; Neil Maven; Wayne Galey; David Staples; James…
League Games February 07 2006 Crown Electrics 3 – 3 Millfield Diamonds Tom Robason 0 Wayne Greenwell 0 Wayne Greenwell 0 Pen Jamie Wilson 0 Mark Eden 0 Mark Eden 0…
A fascinating year spent shadowing Toddy’s as a part time substitute (“Harper, I’m not a centre half – I can’t head the ball.” – “Dov, you’re in centre defence….”) ended in…
League Games September 03 2005 Sassco.co.uk 3 – 3 Redhouse FC Tommy Bell 0 Mark Muers 0 David “Bunta” Murton 0 Sassco.co.uk: Gav Kershaw; Steve Stubbs; Mark Sammut; Jason Amour; Michael…
Well, a few weeks have now gone by since my last report. So heres the good, the bad and the ugly of the last few weeks. Starting with the good. The…
Sassco.co.uk 7 Sunderland African FC. Match report from 9th July 2005 originally posted here Travel problems weren’t too bad. I had to pick up Stapes, Muers, Hembrough and Minnie, but when…
Another average season from Sassco, blighted by inconsistency. Unlike previous seasons, this campaign saw some heavy defeats against teams, transformed by handsome wins or, at least, massive improvements in results and…
League Games November 01 2001 Grangetown Rangers 1 – 3 Redhouse – Downhill Glenn Whelam 0 David Taylor 0 Kevin Waites 0 Kyle Robinson 0 Grangetown Rangers: Scott Hembrough; Stephen Wolfe;…
CNSC Cup 18th November FINAL Southwell win a thriller. Bainy equalises twice but Greenwell scores the winner. Final Southwell 3 Jon Wardle 2, Wayne Greenwell Wearview 2 Neil Bainbridge Southwell: Dave…
2001 League Games March 29 2001 Blue Bell 0 – 2 Sunderland Gas Control Paul Grier 0 Kevin Doyle 0 Blue Bell: Neil Ayre; Paul Watson; Mark Watson; Scott Hunnam; Glen…
League Games March 29 2005 Fulwell FC 5 – 1 dadcheck.com Liam McBride 0 Mark Dugdale 0 Tommy Bell 0 Tommy Bell 0 Tommy Bell 0 Stephen “Pud” Jackson 0 Fulwell…
23rd May 2009 Sassco.co.uk 1 Redhouse FC 2. 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…
Sassco.co.uk 3 Fulwell Blue Bell 1. Sassco at their best. A set of up and down games over the last twenty years, but this one was one of the better ones…
League Games February 19 2004 Dadcheck.com 3 – 2 JJ FC Trevor Walker 0 Trevor Walker 0 Trevor Walker 0 John Cunningham 0 Sean Hounslow 0 Dadcheck.com: Steve Logan; Trevor Walker;…
League Games July 18 2001 Bethany’s Flowers 0 – 0 Snowdons F.C Bethany’s Flowers: Steve Wilson; Mick Lonsdale; Tony Lonsdale; Lee Richardson (Paul Humble 15); Ray Turnbull; Paul Charlton (Paul Liddle…
Management Tarnjit Sangha –Manager If William Harper is the prime motivator of the Toddy’s team. Tarnjit Sangha is seen as the prime visionary in the path the team hopes to be…
Select’s swan song. For the first time ever, Select had a real opponent to deal with. Durham City were essentially Sporting Redhouse under a new name. A star studded line up…
Downhill cancel out Fusion. After two missing weeks, I’ve come back to missing kits and teams suffering shortages forcing players from other teams to play for them. Sassco.co.uk 4 Roker Roar…
Welcome to the Premier League! I can only apologise to all our thousands of fans, sponsors and related hanger ons for the debacle today. we had reasonable hopes, and actually started…
Old timers run out of steam after Callum’s hat-trick. It was expanding bellies and unfit legs, and we weren’t talking about Muers, who managed to cover his cast-iron cast with padding…
Seaburn win again. Soul Cal’s impressive debut. Downhill’s steady progress. Pleased to say that the Tuesday League is thriving. From a low number of teams back when last season ended, to…
Howe equalises as Sassco tighten up. It only really happens to Sassco. A player refusing to be captain, then the team wandering around in circles around the sports complex, looking for…
Roker Roar suffer a heavy defeat. Downhill Impact 4 Roker Roar 0.Despite having Rikki Kennedy, who showed his age and lack of fitness with a poor performance, Downhill were lucky to…
Worrying times ahead. I’m being a bit pessimistic; after all we were missing a fair few players from the previous game. Andy Turner, Chris Dixon, Mark Muers, Nick Smith, Dan Young,…
Redhouse Storm’s debut ends in a defeat. Sassco.co.uk 4 Bunker UK 0.Sassco comfortably defeated Bunker with two goals from Bell and two from Muers. The first half was 1-0 and there…
Ramsay’s second half goal gives Sassco their first win. Quite a few chances from last week’s game against Northern Alliance Chemfica. In came Nicky Smith, Nick Danks, Dan Young, Andy Turner…
Rockets are shocked by a Roker winner. Redhouse Fusion 7 Sassco.co.uk 2.Sassco were brimming with confidence, having added Stevie Weavie Borat and Thomas and Teeb to the team from the ashes…
Greenwell’s return marred by an expected defeat. Two games were actually played. The first was a standard 45 minute each way game, ending in a 5-0 defeat, while the second one…
More humiliation. We were already struggling with players. Dan Young and David Oxley both dropped the team in it, but we managed to scrape together ten players and persuaded Dan Carson…
New team, Seaburn Soca, suffer against Sassco. Redhouse Fusion 7 Bunker UK 0.Fusion took their time to open the scoring against the Bunker, but once they did, they looked unstoppable. When…
Second defeat in pre-season. Bit of a disaster again. Blanks up front, with shots wayward and not a Jabulani in sight. Any other shots were soft and usually direct at the…
Rockets comeback to defeat The Bunker. Redhouse Fusion 6 Downhill Impact 1.A more than useful Downhill side were walloped in the searing heat. The domination was so complete in that the…
David Smith and Mark Muers. Dave Smith almost unanimously won the Player of the Season award, with around 99.99% of the vote. Muers won the Leading Goalscorer award. Both were presented…
Another defeat for the “A” team. Firstly, thanks to Dave Smith and Scott Smith for arranging the extra players: Simon Graney, Liam Murray, Nick Danks and Dan Young. Also, thanks to…
Strong opening from Redhouse Rockets. Redhouse Fusion 5 Redhouse Rockets 3.For a first game, it was more than impressive from the newly formed Redhouse Rockets, with their manager, Kurt Richardson, in…
Campbell’s heroics for Impact. Downhill Impact 6 Sassco.co.uk 1.Another disaster from Sassco as Downhill easily out ran them and took a commanding lead. WWC 1 Redhouse Fusion 0.A preview of the…
Sangha puts Sassco 3 points ahead. That’s all that matters. Well would you believe it? Expecting a hammering, the brave Sassco bunch: Dave Smith, Dave Simpson, Mark Muers, Marc McDermont, myself…
Even Sangha scores! WWC FC 5 Downhill Impact* 2.Downhill Impact were temporarily “replaced” by Conor Staples’ new team. Their opponents were WWC, who while smarting from a surprise defeat last week,…
Teeb and Teeb Senior = WWC defeat. After a good few months in hibernation, the Tuesday 6-a-side League returned to action in glorious sunshine. Sassco.co.uk 4 WWC FC 1. It was…
Possibly the poorest Sassco season for a number of years, easily the most disappointing since we dropped out of the top division in 2005, without a single win to our name.…
Redhouse stumble to the finishing line with a win. Scott Dixon strode up confidently and stroked the penalty to score for Redhouse FC, early in the second half to settle the…
Muers misses chance after chance while Campbell went to watch Michael Bublé. While Campbell was listening to the droning voice of Michael Buble, I was left on the sidelines in the…
Muers is substituted for Sangha. Another depleted squad, but this time, a superb win. Sassco eventually ground Arms Citys down and scored two second half goals to make the 1-1 half-time…
Simma’s conceded nine goals in two games. A chaotic back line, with Simma seemingly forgetting how he was supposed to be a goalkeeper. Even then, it was mistakes all over the…
Dave Gourlay, languishing on the sidelines for varying reasons, decided to grill his General Manager, Sangha, with some Jeremy Paxman like questions. Q/ Sassco has been running over 10…
Revitalised performance. After the midweek chaos, it was back to bare bones again and near panic as Titch decided to go camping two hours before kick off. I managed to get…
Same old, same old with Sassco. A more than decent line up ended in a farcical performance and swathes of in-fighting including “you’re shitter than me” competitions amongst individual players; namely…
Walking wounded. Bit of a disaster. The first ever Monday evening game in the WCFL for Sassco. It didn’t start well considering we had to rely on the ever unreliable Wayne…
Brave performance from nine men. Well what can I say? Yes, my legs weren’t as long as I thought they were and didn’t reach the ball, which went on through for…
Narrow but dominant win. Champagne corks popping as Stoker misses a penalty. Chances were well missed. The loudest cheer was when Stoker stepped up and missed a penalty. The cheering came…
You want a report? Well here’s a report. Ever since Macca returned to the fold after his fling with Cambridge, the team has gone backwards. A depleted team were still more…