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…
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…
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. Â Â 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…
McDermont, cap in hand, returns to Sassco and begs forgiveness. A massively depleted squad was given an extra edge when McDermont decided to miss the 4-2 defeat against the Colliery Tavern…
Depleted squad lifted by Sangha’s first ever assist. Loads missing; not happy at all. Scott Smith is out for a while due to shin splints, Gourlay was injured, Stoker and Langan…
Stoker busts Macca’s lip. Dave and Scott Smith, plus Campbell were missing from this expected win. It didn’t start too well. We weren’t under any real threat, but the early goal…
Lack of numbers; inevitable defeat. I was as surprised as anyone on the pitch that we were 2-0 up in a difficult first half. Gourlay had struck first and Muers struck…
The new Bunker sponsored Adidas shirt for the Summer friendly games and the 2010-2011 season as well as beyond. The type is Adidas Toque and it contains the usual Sassco embroidered…
Delighted to announce that The Bunker will be taking on the role of main 11-a-side sponsor for next season. This now means that they sponsor the 11-a-side and the 6-a-side. Thanks…
Brian, as Team Secretary, has known all the background goings on within the Sassco Organisation for the last few years. Brian has always been involved in football even from an early…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…