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…
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…
The only unbeaten team in 8 games.An unusual tournament in which six of the seven teams taking part hadn’t entered…
What do you get?Blanket coverage on the website which has been established since 1999, with the website first registered in…
Two comprehensive wins, and then a tight victory over the returning Newcastle City.Harper’s team dusted off their previous second place…
Ignominious start, but glory in the second cup competition.It has to be said that after three games in a strong…
LAVA CUP 2024 TOURNAMENT FORMAT & FIXTURESOver 40’s/ 7-a-side tournament format: All teams will play 3 X 15 minute matches…
Zadar or Dubrovnik.We’re making plans for Croatia in May 2025, with flights direct from Newcastle. Contact has already been made…
Glorious win in the five-team tournament.We were worn out at the start of the second day, but still had an…
Draw and a defeat, and no happy endings.Heading to Sweden was, logistically, a bit of a pain, and that included…
Itinerary updated with tournament and Swedish League game attendance.Our little jaunt to Stockholm is getting close, so we’ve come up…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…