The various videos from the 6-a-side, 11-a-side and overseas tour documentaries and footage are all now located on our YouTube page. We also have a limited presence on Vimeo.
11-a-side - 30th May 2019
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...Read More
11-a-side - 19th May 2019
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...Read More
11-a-side - 16th May 2019
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...Read More
11-a-side - 28th April 2019
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, a...Read More
Netherlands Tour 2020 - 9th April 2019
A weekend in Amsterdam. Thanks to Robert Elenbaas at Powerleague in Amsterdam for agreeing to host us for a few games and a likely tournament. Powerleague is the original and premier provider...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 8th April 2019
Redhouse Fusion back on top. ..which was no surprise, but the real surprise was Independent FC finishing bottom, while the "B" team fared well overall with a victory over the "A" team...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 5th April 2019
Three games, with four players in a five a side tour Our 12th tour kicked off, and seemed to be steeped in a little chaos. From 6 players, we were left...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 4th April 2019
Leading twice, but then Dixon.... The second game was our last game as a group of 4 (in a 5-a-side tour - as Tim still hadn't turned up). We needed some...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 2nd April 2019
And then there were three. Chris Dixon, who last watched SAFC when they were in the Champions League, sipping champagne in the corporate boxes, decided that it was really important that...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 25th March 2019
Yes, it's Sassco on Tour again. This time, to Cyprus, which was our first choice destination back in 2007, when we only managed to get 10 people paying, before abandoning...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 20th March 2019
Opening game of Futsal. Thanks to Periklis Perikleous from the Alana Sports Center, we have arranged a game on the day we land. It's an outdoor futsall encounter, similar to the one we had...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 8th March 2019
Saturday tournament at A.M. Fair Game. Thanks to Andreas Menelaou from A.M. Fair Game for arranging a mini tournament on Saturday afternoon. We'll be playing St. Georges (again), Analósima FC and Legend FC. Two of...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 8th March 2019
Friday night game at A.M. Fair Game. Thanks to Nick Cairns from St. Georges FC. We have the Friday night game confirmed at the A.M. Fair Game Sports Center v St...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 1st March 2019
Fair Game Sports Center We're caged in Paphos, with the venue: Fair Game, agreeing to arrange some games for us (opponents TBC). I've requested the fences to be increased in height...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 11th December 2018
Woven Inc narrowly take the January Title. Season 21 kicked off with the January Tournament. Four teams took part: Clearly Drinks FC, CD Reds, Sassco.co.uk and Woven Inc. Redhouse Fusion were unable...Read More
Saturday Season 20 - 8th December 2018
Three expected wins in the final day seal it. The season finally ended - seven months after starting. The way forward will be one-off tournaments as the commitment is easier. Redhouse Fusion...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 6th November 2018
Sassco's first trophy since 2011. Despite being disadvantaged with a tight squad, tight as in only 5 players, Sassco worked their way past two games to take the tournament. This included...Read More
Saturday Season 20 - 3rd November 2018
Brian "What's the Sunderland score?" Watson returns. Even more dinosaurs were dug up, with Brian Watson, the esteemed Sassco.co.uk 11-a-side Secretary, putting together the Clearly Drinks team to be added to...Read More
Sassco 5/6-a-side - 25th October 2018
Four straight wins for the posh version of Sassco. Tiger Tim is a bit of an enigma when it comes to Sassco. He made his debut on the 21st January 2006...Read More
11-a-side - 8th October 2018
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...Read More
Cyprus Tour 2019 - 6th September 2018
Preparations for Cyprus in 2019. The squad isn't getting any younger, but the enthusiasm is still there. Five souls have signed on and confirmed with flights to Cyprus in March. Chris Dixon...Read More
11-a-side - 29th July 2018
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 this...Read More
Saturday Season 20 - 30th June 2018
Sassco balls, Gary Jackson and Fatboy make a comeback. The league's first set of games were last played in April, so it was good to be back in the sun at...Read More
11-a-side - 24th June 2018
Unfortunately, at the wrong end. A truly mercenary team was decimated beforehand, against strong opponents, Hylton Castle FC. Unfortunately, we lost our goalkeeper, soon followed by another player. We managed to get...Read More
11-a-side - 31st May 2018
Gateshead 3G squads set Unfortunately, the Gateshead Stadium pitch was unavailable, but we were offered the Premier League Standard Training Pitch as an alternative, so we happily accepted. The squads of both...Read More
11-a-side - 22nd May 2018
Iceland still unbeaten against England. It was all square at Sassco's third encounter at the Stadium of Light. A loss in 2016, a win in 2017 and now a draw in...Read More
Israel Tour 2018 - 20th May 2018
The English lose on penalties (as expected). We were greeted by heavy security at Ben Gurion airport. There were missile silos all around the airport and in the distance, we heard...Read More
11-a-side - 19th May 2018
Great photography from Kev Wilson during our game at the Stadium of Light.
Saturday Season 20 - 21st April 2018
Large wins during the 40 minute games It was searing heat, as six teams kicked off Season 20 (wonder how many will be left at the end). The marathon league takes...Read More
11-a-side - 12th April 2018
Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur "Throttur" line up. If you thought Sassco's line up look rough..... Here we have our esteemed opponents, with their huge squad. in the "Panini" format. The game against Reykjavik's Knattspyrnufélagið...Read More
Israel Tour 2018 - 6th April 2018
Land of milk and honey, and retro Sassco balls. It's the usual style with our retro balls for the Israel Tour. It contains the Woven Inc logo as well as the tour...Read More
11-a-side - 26th March 2018
Got, Got, NEED! We've launched the official Panini Stickers for the Play on the Pitch 2018 game. Apparently, Jake Dyke's worth at least two swaps. The game against Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur, our semi-professional...Read More
Israel Tour 2018 - 22nd March 2018
Venues and opponents in The Holy Land. On Friday afternoon, we will be travelling to the picturesque Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael, just north of Tel-Aviv to take on Tel-Aviv Soccer Stars and...Read More
Saturday Season 20 - 13th March 2018
Season 20 to span a number of months After the resounding success from the recent Season 19 Tournament, the particpants requested more regular events. Therefore the plan is to have a league containing four/five...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 11th March 2018
Slightly older, but worthy winners. The regular league at Downhill ended back in 2011 on a cold, wet and miserable February evening, concluding 17 seasons of weekly football. Since then, a small...Read More
Israel Tour 2018 - 1st March 2018
Flights, football and where Jesus was born. Our five day odyssey in the Holy Land is part of a busy month of May, so we have tentatively planned our schedule. Football...Read More
11-a-side - 1st March 2018
A full set of players! Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur have announced their large squad for the game v Sassco.co.uk at the Stadium of Light on the 17th May. They will be bringing a total...Read More
Sassco 5/6-a-side - 25th February 2018
Sassco cruised through the group, but eliminated in the knock-out stage. A far better performance this year, with the team comprising of Kevin Cooper, Curtis Newbold, Davinder Sangha, Aden Bannister and Jake Dyke. Game 1Sassco.co.uk...Read More
11-a-side - 24th February 2018
The rules and regulations for Play on the Pitch 2018 have been passed on from Sunderland AFC. Those who took part last year, will know what to expect. Rules of Play Squads...Read More
11-a-side - 23rd February 2018
Game confirmed! The game has now been officially confirmed and booked in to the Stadium of Light for the 17th May 2018. The kick off is 7:00pm. Our illustrious guests, Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur, have...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 16th February 2018
Season 19 in March 2018 The League, albeit in a tournament format and 5-a-side, is back in action after a long hiatus, since the summer of 2016. It's now played over...Read More
11-a-side - 7th February 2018
3 Absent, but 3 in. Delighted to have confirmed 11 Sassco players for the Play on the Pitch event at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, in May 2018. The team is scheduled to...Read More
11-a-side - 26th January 2018
Our first overseas guests? Not 100% confirmed, but Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur, a semi-professional side which defeated Sassco in the Iceland Tour 2017 in one game (Sassco won the other) are looking to travel...Read More
11-a-side - 10th September 2017
Avoiding the wire above the pitch and Bear avoiding the goal. There were a couple of challenges in our repeat game v Sunderland Deaf: Avoiding hitting the two pieces of wire...Read More
11-a-side - 13th August 2017
The Harpers return and both last a full game (nearly). Our O35's 11-a-side adventure ended in a whimper, so it was good to be invited to a full 90 minute session...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 22nd July 2017
Martin Smith: over 300 pro appearances. David Duke over 200 pro appearances. Stubba: Priceless! We were struggling again. This time, we'd lost half the side from last week, due to holidays...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 15th July 2017
McDermont concussed - wakes up thinking he's Danny Dichio. It was when he was off getting no treatment that we scored the winner. The game was up and down up to...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 1st July 2017
Finally, we managed to get a win, However, the circumstances were all too familiar, with new faces coming in, but this time slotting in perfectly. Team talk was just about who was...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 24th June 2017
McDermont foaming at the mouth. Another disappointing game topped off with McDermont foaming at the mouth, requesting to be subbed, then fannying around in the box to concede the fourth goal. The...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 17th June 2017
Searing heat, another injury and McDermont roars like a kangaroo to hit the crossbar. It was quite disappointing. We were missing a few from last week: Barker, Dan Smith and Dave...Read More
Uncategorized - 14th June 2017
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11-a-side League 2017 - 10th June 2017
Disputed penalty, and it wasn't McDermont this time. A solid performance, again, from Sassco against, arguably, the strongest team in the competition. We were up against it and had three enforced changes...Read More
Various Articles - 4th June 2017
The questions about these violent acts are constant: Why? What can we do? And so on. I think the solution could be more simpler than anyone thinks, or dares to suggest...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 3rd June 2017
Last competitive game was 6 years, 9 months, and 19 days ago. Yes, a total of, approximately, 2484 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes had lapsed since Sassco played it's last...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 28th May 2017
Tired legs took effect the following day, as we faced an identical schedule, which was increasingly gruelling. Also, the majority of the team were out on the lash until around...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 28th May 2017
Sassco.co.uk had a gruelling four match schedule, and despite Dixon being rudely awoken with a frying pan, and using a player provided by the opponents, they triumphed with a clean...Read More
11-a-side - 21st May 2017
Great photography from Dean Matthews at the Stadium of Light.
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11-a-side - 21st May 2017
Sassco's most glorious moment in their 18 year history. Sassco 11-a-side, finally won their first game in over a year, and what a place to do it in. It was their first...Read More
11-a-side - 12th May 2017
Delighted to announce that the shirts supplied by Woven Inc. have arrived and are ready for our second game at the Stadium of Light on 18th May.
11-a-side League 2017 - 10th May 2017
Sassco return to action on the 3rd June at 10am against South Tyne Building Supplies. Squad has been confirmed with the following players: 1. Davinder Sangha 2. Chris Dixon 3. Marc McDermont...Read More
11-a-side - 4th May 2017
The rules and regulations for Play on the Pitch 2017 have been passed on from Sunderland AFC. Those who took part last year, will know what to expect. Rules of Play Squads...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 30th April 2017
The main venues are shown below for the Iceland Tour. The apartment is shown, plus the football venue, main bus terminal, as well as hotel and airport. Below this map is...Read More
11-a-side - 20th April 2017
Please to announce that Woven Inc, one of the UK leaders in custom workwear and fashion clothing based in Washington, are supplying the AWDis kit for our game at the...Read More
11-a-side League 2017 - 31st March 2017
We're looking to revive the 11-a-side team in, albeit, an over 35 format. Durham FA are organising a 50 minute game league, which is played on a Saturday morning at Durham...Read More
11-a-side - 25th March 2017
Sassco travelled to the beyond (i.e. Walker Dome) to take on the Northumbria University Officer Training Corp team. A team which we somehow defeated 6-1 last year, albeit with what...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 20th March 2017
The dates and times have been just about confirmed with a five team tournament set over two days. The teams involved, alongside Sassco.co.uk are Þrottur, Breidablik, FC Sækó and Öspin. The dates...Read More
11-a-side - 8th March 2017
We have a number of choices for our game at Sunderland's Stadium of Light in May. Last year, we chose orange as the sponsor colour, but our opponents are looking at...Read More
11-a-side - 28th February 2017
Delighted to have confirmed 11 Sassco players for the Play on the Pitch event at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, in May 2017. The team is scheduled to play against a similar...Read More
Sassco 5/6-a-side - 24th February 2017
Sassco took part in their first FA People's Cup, a 5-a-side competition played at Goals Sunderland on Sunday 26th February, but failed to get a Quarter Final spot. The team comprised...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 15th December 2016
Ready to grace the glaciers. It's back to basics with the 70's retro look for our Iceland Tour 2017 match ball. The ball contains the Iceland Tour logo, as well as...Read More
Sassco 5/6-a-side - 4th November 2016
A game requested by Sunderland Deaf FC, who are taking part in a the Rudolph 5-a-side tournament in Derby, was arranged at the outdoor pitches at Everyone Active Washington. The Sassco team...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 26th August 2016
A little while away, but the initial design for the Iceland Tour 2017 football team kit is ready. The jerseys will be provided by the Just Cool by AWDis brand, supplied...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 13th August 2016
The flights were changed slightly. Originally, we were due back on the 30th May 2017, but as the flight was cancelled, a few panicked communications later saw it changed to...Read More
11-a-side - 7th August 2016
New shirt for the nomadic 11-a-side team. Sassco have had branded team kits and custom made team shirts since the foundation back in 1999. So we are now proud to announce...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 27th July 2016
The six players for the Iceland Tour 2017 are detailed below: Kevin Cooper Joins again after taking part in four recent tours. Superb between the sticks. Davinder Sangha Organiser (as expected) and defender in...Read More
11-a-side - 24th July 2016
Our regular tri or bi-annual game took place again, but this time off the 3G (or is it 4G) and on to grass at Castle View, where we suffered a...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 23rd July 2016
Really delighted to announce two games in Iceland for the 2017 tour. Games will take place in and around Reykjavik. The first one arranged was against Breiðablik UBK arranged by Andrés Pétursson...Read More
Iceland Tour 2017 - 7th July 2016
We've provisionally booked a two bedroom apartment in Reykjavik, which will hold 6 people (Booked tickets yet, Tim?). The apartment is close to shopping, bakery, ATM, etc. Bus stop is also...Read More
11-a-side - 3rd July 2016
Plenty of dinosaurs were dug out for Sassco's difficult game against O'Briens, a team organised by Steve Farrer (himself a rare dinosaur), and containing a lot of ex-Redhouse FC players. For...Read More
Uncategorized - 2nd July 2016
Sorry, but like Fatty Wardle is telling you, it seems that the page you were searching for can't be found. However, the site does get updated and, from time-to-time, pages...Read More
Various Articles - 29th June 2016
With the recent Britain exiting Europe, or Brexit Referendum, result leading in an increase in racism. I think it would be responsible to part with some advice for ethnic minorities...Read More
Israel Tour 2018 - 27th June 2016
Finally, we'll be setting foot on hallowed ground in the Summer of 2018, with Tel Aviv being the venue. Israel was actually an early choice back in 2009/2010, but other...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 25th June 2016
With a revival of the Sassco League, albeit in 5-a-side format, five teams entered and the tournament was reasonably successful, despite no referees, a flare up, slight confusion over the...Read More
Sassco Tournaments - 17th June 2016
Downhill Complex is a distant memory now, but Sassco 6-a-side keeps failing to die off. Now it's a 5-a-side tournament played over a few hours in the new Everyone Active venue...Read More
Switzerland Tour 2016 - 11th June 2016
During the Switzerland Tour, the Microsoft Band was in action and with GPS tracking during the Geneva Tournament, here are the results from my ultra-cautious approach during three 20 minute...Read More
11-a-side - 11th June 2016
Trepidation meant I wanted everyone to be at the stadium early. All arrived promptly, probably because their subs were £163 each. But it was a bit of a hiccup from...Read More
Switzerland Tour 2016 - 11th June 2016
After a bad night's sleep, the next morning, we headed into the city centre again for a bite to eat and then headed to a market. A local said it...Read More
11-a-side - 7th June 2016
Learn about our opponents! Here's a very detailed player biography provided by David Duke from GB Outfitters. Jonny Prested (Goalkeeper)The many faced man; Ronnie O'Sullivan, Peter Whittingham, the count from Sesame...Read More
Watch all the best bits from day 13 of the Women's World Cup, including dramatic scenes as Argentina stage a late comeback against Scotland.
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Manager Shelley Kerr says Scotland "feel hard done by" after they were knocked out of the Women's World Cup by a twice taken added-time penalty.
19-06-2019
An Ellen White double helps England through to the knockout stages as group winners as they defeat Japan 2-0 in Nice.
19-06-2019
Argentina come from 3-0 down to draw with Scotland in Paris thanks to a retaken VAR penalty, in a result which knocks Scotland out of the competition.
19-06-2019
Chelsea close in on Lampard, Neymar eyes Barcelona move, West Ham hold firm over Rice, plus more.
19-06-2019
Watch as Scotland are knocked out of the Women's World Cup after a twice taken added-time penalty gave Argentina a dramatic draw.
19-06-2019
You rated England's Ellen White as your player of the match in the 2-0 win over Japan at the Women's World Cup.
19-06-2019
Ellen White scores twice as England beat Japan 2-0 to finish top of Group D with a 100% record at the Women's World Cup.
19-06-2019
New Real Madrid signing Ferland Mendy says he was told he may never play football again after hip surgery as a 15-year-old left him in a wheelchair.
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