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 well, with strong tackles, winning headers and all-round good play. It was only when Tyson broke away and easily slotted to put Cambridge 1-0 ahead when we collapsed. Muers and Callum, both who had disastrous debuts in the Premier Division, we ineffective, Muers in particular. He missed around three or four one-on-ones and failed to command in a team without any regular commanding figures.

Major changes for the midweek game. Welcome to the Premier League.

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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 the changing rooms. Simma’s Sat-Nav sent him to Chester-le-Street, but the actual venue was an excellent complex in Maiden Castle, on 3G surface.

Sassco, again, were missing key players. Dixon, McDermont and Greenwell were missing, while Nick Danks and Lee Ramsay were also missing. There were 13 players there in total, with Nicky Smith making a return as well as Dave Smith, Dave Oxley and Dan Young. Anth Langan didn’t even reply to any texts.

Wildcats were dominant to start with, but actually didn’t really create any clear cut chances. Sassco’s backline were massing in numbers and easily blotting out any dangers. Ironically, Sassco probably had the best chance when the crossbar was hit. We had Thomas Oladunjoye as referee and he had his own idiosyncratic way of officiating and infuriating at the same time. The strangest decision was forcing players to play the ball forward for an in-direct free-kick!

Second half, Muers (under heavy “advice” from his employer) moved to 4-5-1 with Tim dropping from left back to holding player. It worked because Sassco were obviously lacking in out and out attackers and concentrated on frustrating the opponents. Instantly, the team looked more comfortable, but still conceded a goal. Just as it was looking like a 1-0 defeat, Callum Howe, remained on his feet and dashed from the left hand side to the right before shooting across the ‘keeper to give Sassco a well-deserved equaliser.

After the game, Tim took us on a wild-goose chase to find a local pub where we had a deserved drink, and Muers demanded that Wayne Greenwell should be sacked again.

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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 major play off next week, as WWC scored the only goal of the game to take a win, despite finishing the league on a good few points behind Fusion.

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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 players have Sunday commitments, which is the reason for cancelling the previous Sunday game against Wylam Celtic.

Yet, for this one against Rutherford DFC, we managed to get a good turnout, despite McConville, Richardson, Dixon and Stoker all missing. I roped in Jon Wardle and Mickey Pearson early in the week and late on, Gav Greener requested a call up and had a very impressive game at centre midfield. Rutherford DFC are the same team we’ve played in the past few Summers under the guise of Newcastle United DFC, Whitley Bay DFC, Newcastle DFC and now under the Rutherford banner. We were playing against Andy Farrer and Gavin Brown, both ex-players for us a few years ago.

The game was played in a very laid back atmosphere. The sun was blaring down and the venue was the 3G at Gateshead. We were due to play at Rutherford, but their ground was waterlogged. Luckily Gateshead was free and we had a 1:30pm kick off.

We opened the scoring with Dave Graham notching one as he was in attack. Langan was out wide to try and get similar Nelly type service to him, but nothing much seemed to happen on the right side. He eventually went up front later in the game. Rutherford DFC equalised when one of their players was injured in the box. We all called for the ball to be kicked into touch, but everyone froze and Rutherford easily scored. No matter, the second goal for Sassco came not too long after when Dave Graham fired in from close range. A third was eventually bundled in by hat-trick hero Graham and a fourth was scored from a goalmouth scramble with Titch getting in on the end of it. Titch really didn’t have the best of games. The midfield was easily controlled by Macca and Greener. Macca was having a good game – but not a patch on McConville’s heroics last week.

Second half started with Wardle coming on and scoring within thirty seconds. This occured when he bulldozed past their players at the back. Complacency saw Rutherford reduce the arrears to 4-2, but after that, we broke away with several goals. Muers scored when his crossbar effort was adjudged to have gone behind the line. Gourlay (who came on at half time) scored a penalty and then Wardle scored a thirty yard rocket. For a fat lad he can’t half kick the ball.

The best goal came from Dave Gourlay as he took the ball inside their area and beat around five players before rounding the ‘keeper. Gourlay was also sporting his new look hairstyle, which the watching Rikki Kennedy and Liam Wooton (making notes for Redhouse) admired and compared to Demi Moore’s hairstyle from Ghost. Rikki even went so far as to say, “she played well.” It was getting easy now and Rutherford exploited the gaps at our back by scoring two further goals. However, these were interrupted by Gourlay and Macca scoring. Dave Graham grabbed another one late on when he scored from a tight angle. He later claimed that “only professionals like me could score from angles like that.”

12-4 was the final scoreline. Andy Farrer had me concerned by telling me their team was stronger than last Summer (when we beat them 10-2), but amazingly, Andy Reay was officiating. He pointed out he had a slight groin strain, but that immediately meant our defenders didn’t have a threat to deal with.

All the players did very well. Simma didn’t have much to do. At the back, Si and Emu weren’t troubled much. Mickey Pearson had a great game at centre half. Anth Pearson also did well, but bottled it and came off injured. Gav Greener was outstanding at centre midfield. Tim was also very good at left wing, but is still missing that elusive goal. The last time he scored, we used to wear red shirts.

A good run out. Next week’s going to be a bit more difficult.

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