I have organised a football trip next week for my sons team. We are styaing in the Filey area and have two teams - Mansfield Athletic u9 and u10 from Nottinghamshire. We have some football lined up but could do with a bit more to keep us occupied on the cold days ahead.

We are looking for friendly matches 7 a side against any team in th Hull/Brid area on Tuesday 22nd , Wednesday 23rd or Thursday 24 March of next week. we have a pitch booked in the Filey area but we are also prepared to travel and happy to play during the day or early evening.

Kev Cooper
07958 757029

We are an Under 11 team in the Huddersfield Junior League looking for a friendly fixture on Good Friday before the England/Germany Under 21 game at KC Stadium. Could you put us in touch with any teams in the area? Thanks, Mick Hallam, Netherton JFC. Contact mick.hallam@ntlworld.com

i run an under 16s team from grimsby,and will be taking the team up to scarboro for weekend sept 5th/6th, and i am looking for a friendly match on the saturday. If anyone is interested, please contact me at paulread2@hotmail.com. Many thanks - Paul read, Manager : Humbertherm jfc.

I coach Sheffield Rangers U16's of the Sheffield &District Junior Sunday League and I'm wanting to arrange pre-season friendly games ( we are prepared to travel). Interested please contact Mick Fletcher on 0114 2864477 or 07790 616318.

Due to a change of playing venue, Goole Town Tigers has for sale 1 set of full size (24' x 8') freestanding goalposts which can be uplifted and moved. Complete with four iron pegs to hold them down. Also included as extra wheels for safe transportation. Only one season old Cost £700 new but willing to sell for £350 plase contact Mark Robertson on 01405 780850 if interested.

I just received the reply from Keith Pinder to my request for the league to send results to the website. Here it is in full:-

As you can see, still no reasons given for their decision not to support us.

As another successful season comes to a close, I have emailed Steve Page to ask once again if the League Committee members would consider sending results & goalscorer information to our site starting next season 2004-05. I emailed Steve because he always has the decency to reply to me. Indeed, he has already replied and whilst he points out that there will still be an official website of their own again next season, he did say that he would pass on my comments and my request to the Committee.

Clearly our site would greatly benefit from the accurate and comprehensive information that only the League could realistically supply. In doing so, I do not believe that it would in any way compromise the League's position. As well as running their own site, they would be having a major input into a local and comprehensive site which exists to compliment their work and which has the sole intention of promoting boys football in and around Hull.

I will let you know when I hear the result of their decision.

Matthew Humberstone Home School Association 7 a-side Football Tournament - Sunday 11th July 2004 - 9.00am/6.00pm. Please click here for details in Microsoft Word format. Further details from malcolmwalton@hotmail.com

Blackburn & Darwen Schools Town Teams are holding their Annual 7 a side football tournament over the weekend of 27th / 28th of June 2004 on Green Lane Playing Fields, Blackburn, Lancs. Each age group will be played over half a day – morning or afternoon sessions. Only clubs or school teams will be taking part.

Entry fee is £20 per team, your entry would be appreciated A.S.A.P. as we are circulating the event to a wide area. The age groups are as played in for the season 20003/2004. Please circulate this entry form to other teams in your club. Click here for details in Microsoft Word format and if you reply to this email, please use the following email address info@bdsfa.co.uk

From Paul Boardman on behalf of Blackburn & Darwen Schools Town Teams

Akzo Juniors are holding their Annual Seven-A-Side Football Competition over the weekend of 29th / 30th of May 2004. Last years event was a great success with over 500 children taking part. The event will take place at Darwen Football Club, Anchor Road, Darwen.

The entry fee is £20 per team. Players must be under the appropriate age limit on the 1st August for under 13 upwards and 1st September 2003 for the younger age groups. As played in for the season 20003/2004.

Click here for details in Microsoft Word format. Please send any emails to info@akzojuniors.co.uk

From Paul Boardman

The HBSFL committee, for whatever reason(s), still refuse to accept, acknowledge or supply information to our website, despite the imminent closure of www.fa-icn.org. However, the grassroots footballing community around the country clearly support what we do because we have just been voted

* * * * * STAR SITE OF THE MONTH * * * * *
in the Yorkshire area for March 2004 by www.youth-football.co.uk. Many thanks to them, and thanks as always to everyone who contributes regular information, without whom ... etc. etc. ..........

Bridlington Town AFC Juniors under 13’s are to hold their third annual junior football tournament on Saturday 29th 2004. Please click here for further details in Microsoft Word Format.

I've just received the following email from a guy in Australia. Any of you involved with any of the Bricknell teams may or may not be interested.

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I am Bill Bricknell of N.S.W. Australia and was wondering where the name Bricknell Rangers came from. Was it from someone famous (us Bricknells need to have someone distinguished in our tree). Speaking of trees I have my ancestors traced back to John Bricknell (1791-1875). Do you have any family tree of the Bricknells?

Regards
Bill
Email: bricknell@optusnet.com.au

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I've just received the following email, supposedly from Steve Hobson, the director of Unibond Division 1 team Rossendale United FC. I dont have time to check it out as such, but if it is genuine then it may be of interest. For the record, Ive also forwarded the email to Keith Pinder (bet that goes down well!). Again, if it's genuine I apologise to Steve Hobson but I'm sure he'll understand us all being cautious when an email like this just arrives out of the blue. Anyway, here's the email:

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Dear Website Editor,

You may find the following interesting and worthy of posting on your website. A company local to us is making a big impact at grass roots level offering free kits, and in some cases free equipment. They manage to do this by matching large corporate sponsors to teams at every level. We at Rossendale United are affiliated to a junior setup – Rossendale United Junior Football Club - and have 26 teams registered. There is nothing to lose with registering for free, and everything to gain!

Regards

Steve Hobson
Director
Rossendale United FC (Unibond League Div. 1)

Full Team Kits For Free!
Are you interested in the prospect of having a free team kit for the 2004-05 season for each and every team in your club? Sponsorbank is seeking to register teams on their database, following which they will endeavour to match your team with a corporate sponsor. All you need do is register your interest for free. For registered clubs there will also be other opportunities to obtain sponsored kit & equipment. For further information telephone 01706 821215, or e-mail greengfl@aol.com.

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Well I just got back from my concert and I have only a handful of results and scorers sent to me. However, after investigation, I think that there has been a problem with my email while I have been away. Hopefully, it's all sorted now and so if your result/scorers do not appear, please assume I didn't receive them, and send them again. Sorry for the inconvenience - and YES the concert was FANTASTIC thanks for asking !

There are not many things in this life that are important enough to keep me away from my Sunday football but this weekend coming, November 1st/2nd, is one such weekend and I'm going away for a few days. Send all the results etc. as usual, and I will process it all during Monday 3rd November when I get back.

For the inquisitive among you who are thinking what can be more important than football, well I'm a huge David Bowie geek for my sins, and I'm off to Germany for the weekend to see him in concert. "David Who ?", I hear you youngsters asking - ask your parents !

Visitors to this website has recently gone through the 100,000 mark. As we begin our 4th season of operation, thanks are sent to everyone involved in simply viewing or providing the info that makes the website the success that it is. Clearly the league committee have their own agenda but regardless of what they say or think or do, and regardless of their reluctance to help us, we all know how important the site is to us and that's why we'll continue to support and promote local boys' football in this area, hopefully for many seasons to come. Thanks again - next stop 200,000 !

Hi I am the manager of the EAST RIDING RANGERS U-9's football team. Due to an error on someone's part my team was not registered in time to enter its league. Therefore I have team but no games to play on a Sunday. Would you be able to place an advertisement on your website asking for teams to contact me with a view to playing a friendly against us so I can keep the interest of my players going. Please email me at Rich@dynamo.karoo.co.uk. Thanks - Rich Watson.

Many thanks to all of you who have been reporting missing files, out of date info and bad links over the past week or so. I eventually managed to get hold of the hosting company and they told me that due to a hard disk failure they have had to resort to old backups - and clearly they didnt bother letting me know. They have suggested that I transfer my entire website to their new, faster and better server but before I can do this, I have to register and apply to be transferred - what a farce !

So please bear with me for the next few days while I try to get it all sorted. In the meantime, please feel free to continue reporting any problems.

Pete

For Sale

Green/Navy Pro-Star Napoli Shirts as New Cost £20 each all numbered 1-17 no writing on the front Mixed Sizes 30/32 34/36 - £50 the Lot. Also for Sale 15 Mitre Multi Match Size 3 footballs + bag £50 the lot. Contact Gary Coates on 07793707829

Bridlington Town AFC Juniors have been invited to play Sheffield Wednesday's youth academy in Sheffield on 1st November 2003. The game (under 13's) will be played at Sheffield Wednesday's training ground 35 minutes each way. Following the game the juniors will be Sheffield Wednesdays guests (20 complimentary tickets) for their home game against Blackpool. The game was arranged following Sheffield's late postponement of the game that was scheduled to take place in July. The Sheffield Wednesday game follows previous fixtures in the last 18 months against Leeds Utd, Scarborough FC and Hull City and should give the players further experience in playing some of the best junior footballers around. For further information on Bridlington Town AFC Junior's visit our website at www.intheteam.com/bridtownblues

hi

pinefleet wolfreton u18s are looking for two or three friendlies before the season starts, anyone interested please call barry on 01482 829163/829346 or mobile 07986566981

regards .. barry

I run an u/10 team in grimsby and i am looking for some friendlies berore the start of the season 03/04 and was wondering if any similar aged team would be interested. Please contact me at kevin.darwood@ntlworld.com - we would willingly travel to Hull or other areas

Just spotted your site while looking for friendly fixtures and wondered if you could help?

We are down in the Scarborough area 20th & 21st may with under 8s/under 9s/under 11s/under13s(two teams) and wondered if you could put us in touch with any clubs that may want a friendly fixture over that weekend

Thanks for your time reading this

P.Gregory
Management Committee
Hilda Park Football Club
Chester-le-Street
Co.Durham
(Teams play in Russell Foster Youth Leagues)
www.rfyouthleagues.co.uk
also see yellow jersey

I will be away on a course all next week (Monday 7th April to Friday 11th April) and therefor I dont know how quickly and how often I will be able to update the site. For all those of you who get the info to me on a Sunday evening, I will try to update the site late on Sunday. Please continue to send the emails as normal throughout the week - I will eventually get round to processing them and updating the site accordingly.

Cheers

Pete

Bridlington Town Juniors Under 12's One Day Junior Football Tournament Sunday 15th June 2003
Bridlington Town Juniors are to hold an Under 12's 6 a-side football tournament at Queensgate the home ground of Bridlington Town AFC.

Rides,
Bouncy Castle,
Face Painting,
Raffle,
Tombola,
Café,
Bar

• The tournament is to be held on Sunday 15th June 2003.
• Teams will be made up from 9 players,6 plus 3 reserves.
• Players must be registered with the team they are to play for and must have been under 12 years of age on 1st September 2002.
• The tournament will comprise of 16 teams playing in 4 leagues of 4 teams.
• Each team will play the other 3 in their league with the league winner progressing to the semi-finals.
• Win = 3 points, Draw = 2 points, Loss = 0 points
• Games will be played on junior pitches (70yds x 40yds) using mini soccer goals.
• All games will be 10 minutes each way.
• Entry fee is £20-00 per team.
• Overnight accommodation can be arranged at one of the many guest houses in Bridlington.

For further details and/or entry forms contact,

Mr Chris Webb
52 Midway Ave
Bridlington
East Yorkshire
YO16 4NR
Tel 01262 403129
Mob 07967 722779

Or e-mail bridtownblues@aol.com or visit www.intheteam.com/bridtownblues for an entry form

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It's approaching that time of the season when teams play other teams for ' double points' either by choice or otherwise. Indeed, I have already received details of such a match taking place. The purpose of this news item is simply to explain MY way of dealing with such games. Imagine a double pointer taking place and one team wins 6-0. I only record a scoreline of 6-0 in the one game where it actually occurred and in the other scheduled game between the same two teams, I simply record Home win or Away win. That way, the winning team still gets the 6 points but their goals scored and goalscorer statistics are not falsely increased.

Bridlington Town Juniors Under 12's One Day Junior Football Tournament Sunday 15th June 2003
Bridlington Town Juniors are to hold an Under 12's 6 a-side football tournament at Queensgate the home ground of Bridlington Town AFC.

• The tournament is to be held on Sunday 15th June 2003.
• Teams will be made up from 9 players,6 plus 3 reserves.
• Players must be registered with the team they are to play for and must have been under 12 years of age on 1st September 2002.
• The tournament will comprise of 16 teams playing in 4 leagues of 4 teams.
• Each team will play the other 3 in their league with the league winner progressing to the semi-finals.
• Games will be played on junior pitches (70yds x 40yds) using mini soccer goals.
• All games will be 10 minutes each way.
• Entry fee is £20-00 per team.

For further details and/or entry forms contact:-

Mr Chris Webb
52 Midway Ave
Bridlington
East Yorkshire
YO16 4NR
Tel 01262 403129
Mob 07967 722779

Or e-mail Bridtownblues@aol.com

What a day (or three) !

Apologies for the website being unavailable for the past day or so. I was happily updating the site on Wednesday 11th (morning) and by the afternoon I was receiving emails from you suggesting the site was unavailable. I investigated .......

My two year contract with the hosting company had come to an end and I'd just not realised. Furthermore, the company had apparantly been sending me renewal emails for the past 6 weeks but they had been emailing my 'work' email address and guess what - I was made redundant last July ! I thought they might have emailed me at the usual website address but instead they closed my account down, which I guess is fair enough.

Anyway, following numerous emails, telephone calls, faxes, and the frantic search for various and many backup disks, I think we're rocking and rolling again - and it's Friday the 13th as well !

Any problems, please let me know.

After two years of linking to the Hull Mens Sunday Football League website on my 'Links' page, I have sudddenly received an email instructing me to remove it immediately.

Mmmmm ......... Sad isn't it ......... Nuff said !

Under 12's Floodlit Tournament

Bridlington Town Juniors are to hold an under 12's Floodlit Tournament (Tony Berry Floodlit Cup). To be played at Queensgate Bridlington the home ground of Bridlington Town AFC we are looking for 16 teams to compete for the Tony Berry Floodlit Cup.

The tournament will be played as a straight knock out competition with the first 8 games taking place between the end of January and March 2003.

• The winners of the 8 games will progress to the quarterfinals.
• All games will be 35 minutes each way kicking off at 7-00pm and will be officiated over by qualified referees.
• Games where the scores are level after 70 minutes will be decided by playing 10 minutes extra time GOLDEN GOAL (one way) with penalties being taken should the score remain level following extra time.

The full facilities offered at Bridlington Town AFC will be available to the competing teams, - Club house, Changing Rooms and Showers Etc.

• Teams will be made up of 14 players (11 plus 3 substitutes)
• Players must be under 12 years on 1st September 2002.
• Rules will be as for normal FA 11 a-side games.
• Entry fee for the tournament is £30-00 per team.

For further details and or entry form contact;

Chris Webb
52 Midway Ave
Bridlington
East Yorkshire
YO16 4NR
Tel 01262 403129

e-mail Bridtownblues@aol.com
www.intheteam.com/bridtownblues

In the league's latest newsletter, reference is made to the offensive comments that are beginning to appear within the guestbook on a more and more frequent basis. The newsletter calls it a 'chat board' and whilst the guestbook was never intended to be used as a chat board, I take the point that a mindless and thoughtless few are using it as such. The newsletter talks about possible disciplinary action being taken against clubs found guilty of involvement in this abuse, and so to protect all clubs I am reluctantly removing the Guestbook as from today.

Also in the newsletter, the league point out that the second round of the cup draw and the preliminary round of the plate draw were on the official website as soon as both draws were made. This is indeed the case, I really dont have a problem with it and its right and proper that the league posts such information on its website as soon as it's possible to do so. What I dont understand is why the league feels the need to justify itself to us ("its on my site before its on your site") - I AM NOT in competition with the league. I am simply promoting the same Hull Boys football as they are, the same Hull boys football that I have loved and been involved with for the past 10 years. I am simply presenting the information sent to me by the many parents and players as well as team managers, in a different format to that of the leagues website - whats wrong with that? I have always maintained that I have never tried to undermine the league - I have never criticised the official website - and I have on numerous occasions tried to work with the league. Only they know why they have always refused - to this day, they have never given me a reason.

I work hard on this site, working long hours, but the feedback I get makes it all worthwhile. In any case, I must be doing something right because I understand that the official website is soon to cater for player names and goalscorers - I wonder where that idea came from. Whatever next, goalscorer tables, player profiles or perhaps even team histories & honours!

The right hand side of the front 'home' page of the website has been missing all day. This is because I screwed up when uploading the files yesterday and I didn't realise until I checked the website earlier today - Sorry ! Hopefully you all realised that you could still get to the important details via most of the button links down the left hand side.

Thank-you for all the comments about this 'our' website and the official website. All I can say is that at least the league are getting information on to their site, which is a positive move forward from their point of view. It's still early days of course, these things take time, and in any case some of the design problems and missing links etc. will probably be down to 'interclubnet.com' rather than the league itself - even more reason to wonder why they wouldn't support our local, tried, tested and popular site (with it's own domain name) instead.

One last comment responding to some emails about league tables. Over the years, the league have always published league tables in the Sports Mail and where two or more teams share an equal number of points, they have positioned teams in 'Goal Difference' order. However, at the end of the season, goal difference counts for nothing and teams are made to contest play-offs. Since goal difference ultimately counts for nothing, it seems strange to me to use it as ordering criteria when league tables are published throughout a season. Therefor, I have always purposely positioned teams in alphabetical order when sharing the same number of points. Perhaps someone would let me know if the rules regarding goal difference has also changed for this season.

Many thanks to the many emailers who have informed me of the '3 points for a win' rule introduced for this season. I am not involved in the running of any team this season and consequently I was unaware of this rule change.

On the one hand the league complain that our unofficial website has inaccuracies that cause confusion to team managers, players and parents. On the other hand, the league refuse to acknowledge or accept the website for what it is and they refuse to send me the information which would clearly remove the inaccuracies they complain about - it doesn't make sense. I am also somewhat bemused, as most of you seem to be, that the league has chosen to subscribe to a national website catering for different leagues around the country rather than have it's own.

The fact that so many of you have emailed me is evidence enough that there is still a demand for this website as well as the official website. As we enter our third season of operation, I maintain the opinion that there is no other website as large and as comprehensive as ours in the country. It's success is down to everyone involved and it would become even bigger and better with the league's support.

Give me a day or so to get my lad off to Uni and I'll get the 3 points situation sorted !

A FOR SALE item from Kelvin Mawer (East Ella Colts)

We are trying to sell on our last years under 11's strip it cost us about £400 it is in excellent condition. The colours are Red shirt with blue and white stripe down the sides, blue collar and cuffs. The shorts are blue. Obviously we are not including socks and the keepers kit. We are selling this for £150. and that price is fixed its an excellent bargain. The strip looks great. The money will be used for East ella Colts to purchase next seasons kit. Contact details are Kelvin Mawer 01482-655393 or 07951-717888 (mobile) its on a first come first served basis.

Kelvin Mawer
East Ella Colts Coach

As another eventful season comes to a close, I'd like to thank team managers, players and parents for your regular contributions and for your public support for this 'Unofficial' website - I know that the site gets talked about at many a Sunday football match - its success is down to you all. Received during the season 2001-2002, here are some stats for you:-

• Over 2600 emails
• 80% of teams contributed in some way
• 80% of league, cup and plate results
• Around 32000 visitors (10000 last season makes 42000 since launch)
• Over 300 match reports
• 1228 Individual goalscorers
• 35 'Players Wanted' ads
• Player names/profiles for 144 teams
• 165 entries in guestbook

I equate that to being a successful season. We live in hope that the League Committee will see the website for what it is and compliment all our community efforts by being involved next season. Whilst they have given a clear indication that they will not endorse the website, I fail to see why they cant send me comprehensive weekly results which would benefit everyone. They did so last season to the owngoals.net website and this season Keith Pinder has been emailing results to managers - without doubt a welcome step forward. Surely he just needs to add me to his mailing list !

I represent Matthew Humberstone School HSA in Cleethorpes We are holding our first tournament on 14th July 2002 and would like to invite all U9, U10, U11, U12 and U12 Girls HBSFL teams to enter and test yourselves against the teams from this area. The tournament is run in conjunction with the Gradely League and is affliated to the FA. It is 7 a-side 15 minute games and will be very well organised with all fully qualified refs. The tournament is to be held on a secondary school site with all decent facilities ie toilets, dining room with choice of meals throughout the day, at very reasonable prices as the school run their own catering. easy parking on site. Have a day out in Cleethorpes or even stay over from saturday.

If any team would like an application form email malcolmwalton@hotmail.com or write to
Admin Manager
Matthew Humberstone School
Chatsworth Place
Cleethorpes DN35 9NF
Tel 01472 328888

Closing date is 14th June 2002 - Take up the challenge?

KITS FOR KOSOVO

A big thank you to all the clubs who responded to our request for unwanted football kits. We have now collected 7 full strips which we will be sending to Kosovo for their Junior players. The United Nations Mine Clearing team led by Steve Saunders will be giving the kits out at the football stadium in Pristina and will hopefully be able to send us some photos. Steve and his team work with Kosovar children on raising their awareness of mines and minefields which have sometimes resulted in the deaths of children during football matches. As you can imagine the kids over there have very little in the way of good standard equipment and any help we can give will be useful to them. Our collection was the idea of Callum Donohoe and Joe Gaitshill of Cherry Burton u-11's as part of their Operation Lifestyle project 2001. If anyone has a kit that they think will be of use you can still let us have them by contacting Callum and Joe via Paddy Donohoe, Cherry Burton Juniors u-14 on 07814 584 894 or by e-mail patrick@finglas.karoo.co.uk

Thanks again.

Paddy

The Nationwide Game Corporation is bringing football to your community, by holding the most comprehensive five-a-side competition of 2002. We have organised a competition for amateur players of all status in 9 categories, held in 10 regions in up to 50 centres. The England All-Stars of the Future national five-a-side competition is open to teams from U11's to U16's and costs £45 per team (11 players) The NGC Trophy national five-a-side competition is open to U19's, University/ College and adult teams and costs £55 per team (11 players) Book before 27th April for our 5% discount or call 09050 200 011 for a chance to win free entry (25p per min) Each centre will have a management team in place for the competition days, ensuring professional management on the day.

All area winners will go on to a Regional final with successful finalists being invited to a National Final, and the chance to be managed by a professional player or manager. Prizes will be awarded to the winners and runner-up in each category as well as to individuals and teams who display Skill, technique and fair play. Visit our website today for further details on the available locations, price offers, rules, formats and prizes www.ngc-football.co.uk. Email us at info@ngc-football.co.uk for further information Contact sales@ngc-football.co.uk for an entry form, complete online or print off and post.

Under 11's 1-Day Tournament

Bridlington Town Juniors are holding a 1-day under 11's tournament on Saturday 25th May 2002. To-date we have 13 teams entered and we are looking for a further 3 teams to make up the 16. The tournament will be 4 leagues of 4 teams with each team playing each other in their league (10 mins each way) with the winner of each league progressing to the semi-finals. All players must be over 10 years of age but under 12 on 1st September 2002. Entry fee for the Tournament is £20 a team.

The presentation of the Bridlington Town Under 11's Challenge Cup will take place at 7-30pm in the clubhouse. There will be a free buffet and disco for the players,parents etc in the clubhouse following the presentation. The winning team will receive the Bridlington Town Challenge Cup. Runners up will receive a runners up trophy.

All players from the winning and runners up team will receive individual medals. All players taking part in the tournament will receive an individual certificate. There will also be a fair play trophy awarded to the team who the referee's decide have the best attitude both on and off the pitch.

Teams entered so far.

1. Hunmanby: Hunmanby Juniors
2. Batley: Gildersome Spurs
3. Bridlington: Brid Town White's
4. Bridlington: Brid Town Blue's
5. Bridlington: Rangers Vikings
6. Scarborough: Scalby Juniors
7. Bradford: EcclesHill 'A'
8. Bradford: EcclesHill 'B'
9. Bridlington: Spartan Tigers
10. Elloughton: Elloughton Juniors
11. Brough: IOSC Brough
12. Scarborough: Phoenix Boys Colts
13. Scarborough: Phoenix Boys
14.
15.
16.

Further details of the tournament can be found on our web site www.intheteam.com/bridtownblues or you can contact me any evening after 6-00pm on 01262 403129.

Many Thanks

Chris Webb

Trearddur Bay U17`s youth team, who play on the island of Anglesey in the Anglesey and District U17 league, are looking to arrange an end of season day away in your area for the team, and would like to arrange a game with a local team, ideally on one of the well appointed grounds in the area.

As such, I write to see if there would be interest on the part of one of the local teams in your league in staging a match against Trearddur Bay U17`s at the end of the season, on a weekend date convenient to you. If not, perhaps you may be able to advise of any teams in the area who may be interested in taking part in a game. We would, of course, be happy to return the favour should any team wish to visit Anglesey and play against us at any stage in the future.

Hoping to hear from you.

Regards,

John Murphy (johnronanmurphy@thefreeinternet.co.uk)

For Trearddur Bay U17`s Youth Team.

Thanks to David Milburn of Filey Boys for the following info/report regarding the HBSFL U14 5-a-side competition at the Hull Sports Arena on 15-3-02.

Filey Boys A were the surprising, but thoroughly deserved, winners of the 2002 tournament. Filey reached the final by winning their group and then beating Hedon Rangers Barca in the semi-final 3-2. In the other semi-final Kingburn Tigers beat Thorpe Park Celtic 3-0. The final was end-to-end but both sides defended well and neither team had any clear cut chances. It was the same in extra time and so the final score was 0-0. Jamie Haxby saves 3 out 4 of the Kingburn penalties, whilst Filey scored all 3 of theirs to win 3-1. It was disappointing that anyone had to lose, as both teams had given skilful and committed displays of football. Our thanks to the organisers for an exciting and successful evening

The Under 11 Bridlington tournament, first advertised here on 21st January 2002, has been changed from a 2 day tournament to a 1 day tournament (25th May 2002). Further details and entry forms can be obtained by visiting the website or click here for more details in Microsoft Word format.

George Quinn, FA Coach, Recruitment Officer, Hull City School of Excellence is seeking nominations of OUTSTANDING young footballers, particularly at U9 and U10 age groups. If you know of a really talented young player then let George know by contacting him at home on 01482-641374 or on email at george.quinn@virgin.net , or by leaving a message at Hull City School of Excellence on 01482-586550.

George is also seeking volunteers to actively watch for young talent in Hull and East Yorkshire. If you feel like helping your local club then now is the time to do something about it! There are some terrific youngsters already at the club in all age groups but there are probably many more 'unknowns' out there! The U19 squad has already won the Alliance league and parents can be assured that the youth players are also among the top academic educational band in the country. We preach good play, good academic education and good behaviour.

Most of you will recall that I set up the facility to record goalscorers and generate leading goalscorer tables in a somewhat rushed manner at the beginning of the season. I forgot, however, to take account of players that scored for one team before being transferred and then scoring for a second team. I've now sorted the problem so if you have a player who has been transferred and would like all his goals to be included in the appropriate goalscorer tables, just let me know.

Bridlington Town Juniors are holding a 2 day under 11's football tournament on 25th and 26th May 2002. The tournament will be played at our home ground Bridlington Town AFC Queensgate in Bridlington. We have a team from Skegness and 1 from Barnsley already confirmed. Further details and entry forms can be obtained by visiting our website or click here for more details in Microsoft Word format.

Over the last few weeks, I have been monitoring and deleting abusive and offensive entries from the guestbook. More recently, I have been receiving blatantly incorrect scorelines and today I received a complaint from someone regarding a match report which again was totally inaccurate - that particular complainant concluded his email with "if you expect us to support your website don't write reports that aren't true".

Clearly its difficult (if not impossible) for me to gauge whether or not a particular match report is accurate, and I publish them on the website in good faith. So please boys, give us all a break and use the website for the purpose it was intended - ie the provision of accurate and comprehensive information for anyone interested in Hull Boys Sunday Football.

I just received this email for anyone that might be interested:-

Only 9 weeks into the season and the Leading Goalscorer table for ALL ages in ALL divisions already has more than 700 individual scorers listed. This sometimes takes a while to download, so I have added 2 more new tables:- one for those players who have scored 20 goals or more and the other for those who have scored 10 goals or more. Basically, it just allows you to view the Leading Goalscorers without having to download the entire list of 700 (which of course will increase further as the season progresses).

Just thought I'd mention that someone from the 'Glen Lusset Football Club' in Scotland has signed the guestbook to invite teams to a tournament, for all age groups, to take place in September 2002. So if any teams fancy teaching the jocks a thing or two about how to play football, view the guestbook to get further details.

Apolgies for the website being unavailable over the past few days. The company that hosts the website has been having some problems and as such, the matter was totally out of my control. Although the website was available again, for viewing, on Tuesday, I was still unable to update the site because of these problems. Hopefully, normal service has now been restored.

For those of you who email me with questions such as 'Why wont the League endorse the website?' and 'Why dont the League see the website for what it is?' - well here's another little gem for you all. As you all know, I had arranged during the summer, with the Hull Daily Mail, that I would send them results for publication within the Tuesday edition of the newspaper. I therefor wondered why they hadn't been publishing the results I've been sending to them over the past 5 weeks. I contacted the Hull Daily Mail today to be told that Our League have told them not to print them. Clearly, the League have their own agenda which includes making us all wait for a whole week to elapse before we can all see each others results in the local 'rag'. The Hull Daily Mail themselves are quite happy to print results on a Tuesday evening and indeed voiced their surprise at not having been asked to do so in the past, before I suggested it to them in the summer.

I have tried involving the League from the very start but they are not interested. One or two of you may have emailed Keith Pinder about the website (I'm not sure), and when the topic was brought up at the last AGM, the League simply discarded all positive comments from the floor and moved swiftly on to the next agenda item - why, I dont know. I have never to this day been given a reason for their reluctance to be involved. Our website is the ideal platform for emailing the results to the Hull Daily Mail on a Monday or Tuesday, for early publication, but the League would rather send results to the out-of-town website www.owngoals.net rather than send them to a local website aimed at promoting the whole issue of Boys' Sunday Football in and around Hull. It's sad that so much animosity exists - surely we are all doing what we do for the same major reason - the enjoyment of those boys playing football on a Sunday - whether it be managing/coaching a team, developing a website or actually running the League.

Keith suggested at the AGM that the ball was in my court so to speak - he said he hadn't heard from me. In fact, the truth is that I only ever received ONE letter from Keith, and it clearly stated that 'The League do not wish to contribute to the website'. My position hasn't changed - I would still like the League to be an integral part of what, I believe, has become a popular local community-participation website.

Some of you have asked if I can cater for the names of your goalscorers. Whilst this facility was always a long term intention, the immediate answer has always been 'Not as yet!'. Being the supportive bunch that you are, you sent me the names anyway - so what the hell - I've put a lot of work into modifying the site to accomodate, in time for this season 2001-2002. 'View Leading Goalscorers' item can be found on the main 'options' page. Leading Goalscorers for individual teams can also be found within each team's 'The Players' section. Obviously, this info is only as accurate and as complete as the details that get sent to me, which is even more reason to keep spreading the word.

The accuracy and completeness of all this information would clearly be greater with the backing, support and contributions of the League. I'm still hopeful that, at some future date, the League will have a re-think and adopt 'our' website as the official HBSFL website. I get many complimentary emails from footballing people around the whole country (some from abroad as well) about the quality of both the site and the information - the latter is down to you lot! Catering for goalscorers is simply another improvement which I hope might ultimately change the minds of the League Officials.

I just received this email, if any U16 teams might be interested:-

I have been asked by Paddy Donohoe of Cherry Burton Juniors to post the following letter:-

League fixtures and both Preliminary and First Rounds of Cups are now in place ready for the start of season 2001-2002. Since the league still don't wish to contribute to this website, I have had to enter all the details myself, so please report any errors or inaccuracies or broken links etc.

As reported in July, the Hull Daily Mail would like to publish results in the Tuesday evening edition of their newspaper. I need a little time to convert any results into a pre-determined format suitable and acceptable to the Hull Daily Mail. Therefor, any results sent by you to this website
BY 13:00 ON THE MONDAY AFTER EACH MATCH
will be sent to the sports editor for publication. In order to achieve a comprehensive set of results, regular contributors to this website are encouraged to keep spreading the word among other team managers, parents and players.

Please note that this service exists to inform us all of each other's results sooner than would normally be possible. It is in no way intended to undermine the league who I believe will still be taking out two full pages of the Green Sports Mail each Saturday to publish comprehensive results, league tables and match reports.

A major complaint over the years from team managers, players and parents, has been the fact that we have to wait a full week to see all our results published in the Sports Mail on a Saturday. The nature of this website, and the enthusiasm with which you people contribute, makes it an ideal platform for sending results to the Hull Daily Mail for publication on either a Monday or Tuesday of each week. I have therfor spent some time over recent weeks in talks with the Sports Editor of the Hull Daily Mail, offering him this service. He was more than willing to accept the offer - watch this space (as they say) for further details.

Like every other aspect of this website, I do it for free - the Hull Daily Mail will NOT be paying me for the service. However, I was recently contacted by 'R&T footballing Tours' asking if they could advertise on some of the webpages. It would seem an obvious extension to allow advertising on all other pages in an attempt to raise funds for permanantly ongoing maintenance as well as future development. Prices are low so as to encourage even the smallest of businesses. If you think your company may be interested in advertising for a full calendar year on this website, perhaps on your team's pages, please ask them to contact me. Further details can be found within the Advertising section of the website.

My web site got a mention at the recent League AGM and whilst positive comments came from the floor, the League Committee members made it clear that they would not endorse the web site because it was not official. When asked if he thought the website was better than the owngoals.net website, the committee member in the middle (dont know who he was) replied NO. Keith Pinder also indicated that plans were afoot to develop their own official website, but they dont think it will be ready for next season.

I have decided, therefor, to go it alone with the help of all you contributors, as per last season. I received more than 1200 emails during last season from team managers, parents and players alike. Without exception, these emails suggested that you actually enjoyed being a part of what has become a footballing community website. Around 70% of teams contributed last season, but we need more, so please keep spreading the word and encourage others to send a simple email after each game. This will enable me to publish results and league tables that we can all come to rely on - I try to update the site as soon as possible after receiving the results from you. With the exception of the League Committee, we are all in it together. Clearly, I cannot do it without you !

I have spent a lot of time re-designing the website, simply to cater for future seasons (please report any problems). Hope you like the new look and I look forward to hearing from you all again as the new season gets under way.

This web site will shortly be undergoing some minor modifications. I want to cater for next season (2001-2002) but I also want to leave existing seasons (2000-2001) in tact just for reference and completeness. I also intend to make it easier to go directly to teams and results pages rather than being forced to scroll down through both the Introduction and Requirements Pages. In the meantime, thank you to all last season's contributors (you know who you are) but since the League still refuse to accept or acknowledge the website, I still need more results to bring it all up to date. Please spread the word about the existence of this site and maybe more visitors will contribute next year. During the Season 2000-2001, around 170 of the 250 teams contributed in some way or another.

Well Done to all those who won something this season. To all the others - well it's only a game of football ..... isn't it ? ? ?

Until next season !

Pete