4-2 defeat against South Shields. Two defeats from three at The Beacon in 2024, with Sassco’s latest side containing a few under 40 ringers, as they struggled against a strong South…
Harper / Harley hat-trick. David Murton turned up with a youthful looking team with dilated pupils, while the Sassco team was mainly aging, with a couple of youngsters on it. The…
Photo above. Standing: Paul McConville, Brad Wilson, Aidan Low, “Clicker” Clarkson, Dillon White, Gareth Williams, Dan Mearman. Sitting: Davinder Sangha, Neil Sim, James Cassidy, Mike Barker, John Harper. We were all…
A late strike secures it for M.U.A.S in a steaming “Barn”. A 9-a-side competitive and equally balanced friendly game at The ⁵ of Light saw Sassco.co.uk’s select chasing the game against…
Wonderful morning for football though. After the heights of last seasons’ three game series and wins, it was crashing back down to Earth on a warm day in Rickleton. The squad,…
“There’s nee one here!” …said Bunta in an SMS message which even looked angry. Luckily for him the players were there, he just didn’t know them. Most of the players didn’t…
Over 60’s superstar, Nelly Richardson, fires in a (geri)hat-trick. Only 5 players remained from our previous, resounding 8-4 win over AFC Washington. This time we were playing on Washington’s favoured day,…
Best performance for a while. Our third 11-a-side game was rapidly coming up and the squad was a bit up and down. We had entrants, then drop-outs, and with temperatures heading…
Washington Deaf walloping. So, heading back to the car; tails between our legs and blowing out of our arses, then finding out some shithousery activity. Washington Hub was where the game…
Post-pandemic Sassco unbeaten so far in 2021. Our first game after the lock down saw a similar team and similar performance to the previous game v Hillarys. We were 2-1 down…
Another defeat for the 11-a-side. A late report from the 11-a-side game back in October, Sassco’s last one for 2020. A mix of players with debuts from Michael Brown, David Cruickshanks.…
9 then 15 then 12 before ending up with 11 Not a great deal to say. We had, what I thought was, our biggest squad since I created an imaginary Sassco…
Introductions on Facebook Messenger . . . after the game. As with all things, the hectic prelude to the game completely gets turned around by the performance. This was one of…
Overconfidence…something unusual for Sassco. We were exceptionally confident for this one. So confident I even suggested a strong goalkeeper to them. So confident I told Kyle Burns he was centre half…
It takes a total of 16 minutes for McDermont to come alive. Our rearranged encounter v Newton & Co. which was originally abandoned on around 25 minutes when one of our…
Sunday morning pasting. It was the first game after the tragic events from the previous Wednesday, tragic as we had to wear white socks instead of our usual red ones, as…
Muers steals the show. It was horrifying. Muers in agony on the floor and the paramedic, scissors in hand, cutting away his boot and sock. It was too much for me…
Muers, McDermont and Nelly provide the pace. We were returning to our old stomping ground and nothing has really changed. It was The Shipwright’s Field in Redhouse. Shite on the pitch,…
That’s 25 goals scored in two games Shockingly, after the last game’s dirty drop outs, all 12 turned up for this one, and it was in distant Durham. Stubba and Muers…
Drop outs; panic attacks; vintage players returning and a handsome victory. The usual for Sassco. 12 announced and then slowly whittled back to around 10 – but what a 10! Before…