Non-League Football News from the Sunday Sun
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For Love Not Money - End of Season Round Up 05/05/2008 STRIKER Davie Southern led the celebrations as Gateshead secured promotion to the Blue Square North with a 2-0 UniBond Premier play-off final victory over Buxton. Southern was punching the air in front of a bumber crowd of almost 1,500 at the International Stadium as second half goals from Kris Gate and Paul Brayson saw the Tynesiders promoted - and sparked scenes of jubilation as the players mobbed boss Ian Bogie. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - April 26th to April 27th 27/04/2008 FIVE-STAR Gateshead fired a warning shot to their UniBond Premier Division play-off rivals with a comprehensive demolition of fellow promotion contenders Buxton. The Tynesiders had David Southern and Paul Brayson net twice each with Jamie Harwood grabbing the other in an impressive win and boss Ian Bogie wants the crowds to turn out in force to cheer 'Heed into the Blue Square North. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - April 19th to April 20th 20/04/2008 STEVE Bowey hit the only goal of the game as Gateshead won 1-0 at Ashton United in the UniBond Premier League and kept the Tynesiders on course for the Blue Square North. Ian Bogie's side are guaranteed third spot and home advantage in the play-off semi finals as they look to move back up the pyramid. |
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Team of the Week - Whitley Lodge Baptist Church FC 14/04/2008 ORIGINATING from the seaside resort of Whitley Bay, Whitley Lodge Baptist Church FC may have changed its name this season but “the Bears” spirit is still strong for all to see. Formerly Whitley Bay Baptist Church FC, the club is competing for the first time this year under its new name, after the church they are based at gained its own status last Easter. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun April 13th 13/04/2008 Burradon & New Fordley turned on the style as they lifted the Synergy Blyth & Wansbeck Sunday League's Alan Davison Cup with a storming 7-1 win over FC Blyth Town Sunday. It was a closer affair in the Eric Anderson Cup final with North Shields Gunner holding their nerve to take the trophy on penalties after they'd drawn 1-1 with Blyth South Beach CC. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat April 12th 12/04/2008 Sharp-shooting Robbie Dale smashed in a nine minute hat-trick as Blyth Spartans turned on the style and hit Worcester for six. The emphatic Croft Park victory just about ensured that Spartans will be playing Blue Square North football again next season and gave the fans something to cheer in what has been, at times, a tough season for the green and whites. |
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Rutherford AFC 130th Anniversary Dinner 09/04/2008 On Thursday 1st May 2008 the 130th Anniversary Dinner of Rutherford afc, The North Easts oldest amateur football club will take place at the Lancastrian Suite, Dunston. Guest speaker at the event is Matt le Tissier, a legend of a player who is widely regarded as one of Britains most skilful ever to grace the game. |
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Team of the Week - Easington Colliery AFC 07/04/2008 BACKED by a rich mining heritage, the folk of Easington Colliery are no strangers to dropping down a level before returning with reward. And so goes the plan of the town’s football club. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun April 6th 06/04/2008 Walker Jubilee were over the moon as they lifted the NFA Just Sport Sunday Minor Cup with a 3-1 win over FC Blyth Town. But they look like they are going to fall just short in their challenge for a superb double as Blakelaw Social just have to win their final fixture to lift the North East Sunday League Premier Division Championship after they thrashed Slatyford Tennants 6-0. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat April 5th 05/04/2008 Jonny Wightman's wonder strike blew the Arngrove Northern League Division Two title race wide open at the World Group Stadium. The South Shields hit-man receieved the ball 25 yards from goal in the 74th minute and didn't hesitate as he smashed a superb drive into the top corner of the net to win it. |
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Team of the Week - Darlington Railway Athletic Over 40s 31/03/2008 Scroll through the list of those players to have turned out for Darlington Railway, and it reads like a Who’s Who of footballing stardom.. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun Mar 30th 30/03/2008 Dog & Parrot caused an upset and put a new piece of silverware in the trophy cabinet as they lifted the Gaskell Irons Cup with a thrilling 5-3 win over Lemington Labour. The North East Sunday League F Division side did the league proud with the victory over Lemington, who are well placed to gain promotion from E Division. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat Mar 29th 29/03/2008 Whitley Bay’s heroic players were left shattered when they slumped to the turf and began tearing the tape off their socks as they fell agonisingly short in the FA Vase semi-finals second leg. Bay - trailing 4-0 after the first match - stormed into a three goal lead after just 21 minutes. |
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FLNM Non-league round-up - Sun Mar 23 23/03/2008 Wallsend Coronation lifted the silverware in the North East Sunday League's Harry Oxley Cup Final with a narrow 3-2 victory over C Division title rivals Turk's Head. It's getting down to the business end of the league season and Spy Bar - who looked on course for the Premier League title a fortnight ago - are seeing the wheels come off as they went down to their second successive defeat. |
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FLNM Non-League round-up - Sat Mar 22 22/03/2008 Whitley Bay's Wembley dreams are hanging by a thread after a first half horror show at Lowestoft left them with a four-goal deficit to claw back in the second leg at Hillheads a fortnight on Saturday. The Northern League's defending Champions made a nightmare start in the FA Vase semi-final when they conceeded in just the fourth minute, Richard Woodrow slipping the ball past Terry Burke, and ten minutes later Bay were reduced to ten men when Brian Rowe was sent for an early bath for retaliation. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun Mar 16th 16/03/2008 RED ROW BRICK will face Ashington RAOB in the Northumberland FA Sunday Cup Final. Red Row, from Division One of the Morpeth Sunday League, beat Hexham Ex-Servicemen's 1-0 and RAOB, from the Synergy Blyth & Wansbeck Sunday League, were 2-1 victors over North Shields Robin Hood in Sunday's semis. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat Mar 15th 15/03/2008 UNLUCKY York City beat Torquay 1-0 in the second leg of the FA Trophy semi final at Kit Kat Cresent - but went out 2-1 on aggregate. City were celebrating when Chris Todd put through his own goal in the 64th minute, but for all their intense pressure the Minstermen just couldn't find the net again. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun Mar 9th 09/03/2008 SEATON SLUICE were celebrating long into the night as they lifted the silverware in the Cook & Turnbull Cramlington Sunday League's Derek Raffle Cup Final with a convincing 4-0 win over Hartford Village. In the Premier Division, Billy Mill beat Seatonburn Moorhouse 3-0, Shankhouse United thrashed Ridley Park Hotel 5-0 and the top-of-the-table clash between Burradon and Formica was abandoned. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat Mar 8th 08/03/2008 Gateshead suffered penalty shoot-out heartache in the UniBond League Cup semi-final at Skelmersdale. They were left with their heads in their hands as the unlucky Phil Cave and skipper Steve Bowey both failed to convert from the spot after the sides couldn't be seperated over an action-packed 120 minutes. |
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Howay the Bay! 07/03/2008 The famous chant of ‘Howay the Bay’ will hopefully be heard in the capital very shortly. Whitley Bay Football Club have been drawn against Lowestoft Town in the FA Vase semi-final. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun Mar 2nd 02/03/2008 Mid-table Synergy Byth & Wansbeck side FC Blyth Town Sunday romped into the final of the Northumberland FA Sunday Minor Cup as they beat Cramlington & District Premier outfit Burradon FC 5-3. North East Sunday league Premier Division side Walker Jubilee will compete with them for the silverware after they saw off Top House Blyth 3-0. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat Mar 1st 01/03/2008 Paul Robinson's solitary strike sent Whitley Bay into raptures - and into the FA Carlsberg Vase semi final. He latched onto a long ball two minutes after the break and beat two defenders before firing into the corner of the net to spark scenes of celebration from the Northern League side at Hungerford Town. |
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Team of the Week - Balloon 28/02/2008 A recent run of seven games without defeat had inflated the North East Sunday League Division ‘D’ side’s hopes of promotion . . |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sun Feb 24th 24/02/2008 Pegswood Ex will face Waterford Lodge in the Morpeth Sunday League's Morpeth Trophies George Cave Memorial Cup final. Ex saw off Red Row Brick 3-0 and the Waterford celebrated a 3-1 win over Castington in the semis. |
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FLNM Non League Round-Up - Sat Feb 23rd 23/02/2008 York City are just 90 minutes from Wembley after a Danny Parslow diving header sent them into the semi-finals of the FA Trophy. The Minstermen's defender flung himself full length to send a Nicky Roe corner rippling into the roof of the net in the 16th minute for the only goal of the game at Rushden & Diamonds. |
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