JD-LIONS 2-1 BACK-INTER-BRYAN

Real JDFC 2-1 Blair City Rollers FC:

I got my first win under my belt as a 'JDFC franchise' player on sunday night as we came from behind to win an excellent contest. It was an evenly contested battle early on and Blair City could, and should, have gone infront alot earlier than they did: Barber took a pass from Wallace and he saw his shot parried by Davis who, somehow, recovered to save from Taylor. The Rollers did eventually go infront, more by fortune thn design thanks to a JD defensive error-Slater played a 'hospital-pass' to Summerfild on his weaker foot, Wallace pounced and slid the ball past the advancing Davis. Following the opening goal JD looked better and played the ball around with far more fluidity than their opponents without causing too much trouble for the Blair City keeper, however on the stroke of halftime JD equalised through good one-touch passing and finished with a neat drive from the right foot of Alex Dandy. 1-1 at halftime.

In the second half Real JD upped the tempo and played some really nice football, Walker was linking up well with the front pair of Carlos and Dandy but it was the captain, James Walker, leading by example who scored the goal that proved to be the winner. Walker took a touch, turned and drilled a shot into the bottom left-hand corner to win the game. Real JD now sit in sixth place in the league.

1.Phil Davis 2.Richie Summerfield 24.Paul Slater(sub:23.Steven Harris) 7.James Walker 11.Carlos(sub:10.Alex Dandy)

JD Lions 2-1 Back Inter Bryan:JD Lions got their promotion campaign back on track with their first win of the season in a gripping encounter at the Selly-Oak astroturf, captain-marvel James Walker took his tally to three goals as he scored two goals either side of halftime to give JD Lions all the points against their local bitter rivals;Back Inter Bryan. Back Inter took the lead after just five minutes as Wallace was played in by the beared Simmons and slotted the ball past Davis and it looked like the same old story again. However the JD Lions showed their resiliance and got stuck in, somtimes it was not pretty football but they ground out the result. Walkers equaliser on the stroke of half-time was detremental to Back Inter's confidence and served as a springboard for JD Lions success as they seemed to have belief and pushed for the winner, and what a goal it was too-Davis rolled it to Walker who turned his man, took a touch and scored with a rasping drive, along the deck, that went in off the far-post to make it 2-1. The result pushes JD Lions up to fourth place, just behind rivals Back Inter Bryan.

"We've not beaten them in about five attempts now, I think it is; so to come up with a win against them like that is fantastic...Paul Harris has done a great job at the back, blocking everything, so has Summerfield and Phil Davis in goal has made some top-saves to keep them out near the end but I think we've deserved to win on the whole as we've played some quality football...big improvement on last week I think and you know, we need more performances like that, who knows we could be up there come the end of the season." said man of the match James Walker.

The JD franchise are rueing their bad luck with Birmingham University's decision to relay the astro-turf at Selly-Oak: "We've just won and were hoping to build on this success, unfortunately the uni are imposing a fortnight break on all of the teams in all six divisions, but it's just one of those things." Next fixture's: JD Lions v AAA (5:30pm) and Real JD v PL Quake (6:00pm) both on sunday 20th July, 2008.

1.Phil Davis(GK) 2.Richie Summerfield(sub:3.Dave Swannick) 4.Dave Sorensen(sub:24.Paul Slater) 10.Alex Dandy 7.James Walker 23:Steven Harris

Other news: Phil Davis enjoyed being secretary of NCP Manchester FC so much that he is going to build a new team to compete on thursday nights at the selly-oak astroturf in Birmingham: "It will not interfere with JDFC Franchise commitments and it should be good if we can actually get our team into division two." SQUAD: 1.Phil Davis 2.Billy Bishop 3.Dave Connor 4.Richie Summerfield 5.Simon Hartland 6.Paul Hartland 7.Matt from Leeds

Stockport Premiership: Swollen Goolies 3(THREE)-0 NCP Manchester; the bee's remain in seventh place for the seventh week running, they are not in seventh heaven, however following a catastrophic defeat to basement boys Swollen Goolies who notched their first win of the season in some style.

JD-LIONS 1-2 BACK-INTER-BRYAN

I arrived back in Birmingham, moved into Dawn's flat with no hassle and then made my debut for the JDFC franchise on sunday night. On my way into the massive multi-pitch astro-turf, playing area I was nearly brained by two 'hooray-henry's' practising their lacrosse drills and one of them missed the goal and the 9oz rubber-ball just whizzed past my head, that would've been an inauspicious start. I was fairly pleased with my debut night, despite losing three games! First off; in division four That-Team FC 3-2 Real-JDFC: I conceded a goal after approximately four minutes. Long-range, right-footed, in off the base of my right post-my first touch back in Birmingham was to pick the ball out of the net! We went 2-0 down and pulled a goal back in the second half, a left-foot thunderbolt flew past me to make it 3-1 to That-Team FC and we pulled another goal back but eventually lost 2-3. We are 9th in the league out of 12. I played quite well though making several decent saves; despite very windy conditions and the heavily watered pitch (Birmingham university like it drenched, aparently)

JD-Lions 1-2 Back-Inter-Bryan FC: In our next match;a second division local derby against former team-mates, we started better and went into halftime level at 0-0, I'd made a few good saves and felt that we could go onto win it. During the second half a long-range drive flew by me in off the post and we were behind, until Alex popped up with a rifle that deflected in, 1-1. Unfortunately with only three minutes left I conceded a low drive past my right hand and we never recovered. A 1-2 defeat, leaving us 8th out of 12 in the league.

Other News: JD-Lions were beaten 5-3 in a friendly against an unknown division one team, I made a load of good saves in this one despite conceding five goals. I conceded 10 in three games so my record is not great at the moment. NCP Manchester 0-0 Jolly Sailors: This result means that The Bee's remain 7th for the second month in a row and the Sailors hopes of a league title are diminishing. I have re-registered with Katie Bard recruitment and start a temp job "lifting and shifting" at a law-firm warehouse in the city centre on friday, for three days. Need money and maybe I'll get a little bit of excercise out of it. Applied for British Transport Police job (as a civilian) aswel.

PHIL DAVIS NEWS

PHIL DAVIS :"The Bee's Knee's"

"He leaves a gap...simply as that, he will be hard to replace." Gary Kerrigan NCP player/manager

"He's done very well for this lot, he's been great." Jeff the ref

Phil Davis leaves NCP with an impressive record of having played 81 games and conceded 78 goals, considering the leaky defence that played infront of him during his first two seasons in which they let through 46 goals in just 19 matches-the latter part of his tenure seems more impressive. Thats 32 goals against in his last 62 appearances.

The biggest regret for the brummie shot-stopper is that he gained the team that he built no silverware: "I felt that we could and should have gone on to win the NCP services National Challenge Trophy (The Barry Hibbs Memorial Cup) in august 2007 in London, we were knocked out on penalties by Fulham when we were at our peak...that was bitterly disappointing. We ran out of gas in april this year with three games to go in the premiership and could only draw 0-0 with Jolly Sailors which meant that we couldn't win the league, I was absolutely gutted but we got to europe and played in Amsterdam where we were awful."

For the most part he seems to have enjoyed it though: "There have been some great times, like our first ever win-it was january, it was freezing and snowing, we were losing one-nil to Gala who were top of the league, I made a really decent save and then we went up the other end and scored twice in the last two minutes, that was amazing and gave us confidence. My favourite game was the season where we ended up finishing third, we were unbeaten so far that season after eight games and hadn't conceded a goal up until that point. We went a goal down scored by an old rival, Lee Chapman of Jolly Sailors, we thought our luck had run out but Dean Polhill scored two great goals and I made a few good saves then Chapman got sent off...it was a brilliant night. Those are just a couple of the good memories that I will take with me."

Davis will need to take more than just memories back to Birmingham, if 'JD Lions' and 'Real JD' are going to have better campaign's this term he is going to have to be a solid performer between the sticks. Davis will play twice every sunday, once for division two outfit; 'Real JD' and once for division four side 'JD-Lions', respectively: "They are the same team, just in two different leagues, it's much better that way. Between the two teams we conceded 111 goals in 44 games last season, that's why Phil (Davis) is here." Richie Summerfield of the JDFC-franchise told furious-pigeon. The opening fixture's have pitted Real-JD against newly promoted 'That Team FC' champions of division three last season and in division four it's 'la-super-el-grand-classico' as JD-Lions face local, bitter rivals 'Back Inter Bryan FC'.

"I'm really excited, a new team, back in my home town, it really is a dream move for me. As you know I'm sad to have left Manchester but somtimes you just need a new challenge and come-what-november, we'll see if we've achieved."

NCP MANCHESTER FC NEWS

NCP Manchester 0-0 PSV Hangover

NCP goalkeeper Phil Davis ended his two year tenure with NCP Manchester with a clean-sheet as the Bee's drew with near rivals PSV Hangover at Hazel Grove Rec. last night, a fair result as both teams had chances but couldn't convert. The game was marred near the end as Polhill and Niyongabo argued pathetically while the game was still going: "Well, it was four vs six for the final five minutes wasn't it because of them two bitchin'....its a shame coz it was Phil's last game and we didn't want that. Overall I'll settle for a point though."

Paul Brown was arguably the best player on the field as he made most of the work through the midfield carving out chances and setting up Paul Kappa, on-loan from the Fiveways but Davis was clearly up for the contest on his last outing in the Bee's colours. He turned one shot around the post from Brown early on, when Brown did beat him with a shot-the hapless 'keeper saw it ricochet off the post and along the goal-line and away to safety. Nil-nil at halftime.

In the second half Polhill had a couple of chances as he was ably assisted by Luke Moriarty who played his first game for several weeks, but the pair could not combine to create any real clear-cut opportunities infront of the PSV goal.

Davis saw his crossbar shake from a Paul Kappa piledriver and he made a good stop late on from a deflected toepoke from Brown and diverted it for a corner, the game ended nil-nil. NCP Manchester still cannot move off seventh spot in the league, it's a position that they have held now for five weeks, next week they take on old rivals Jolly Sailors with Kerrigan planning to start with NCP's all-time leading goalscorer Dean Polhill in goal.

"I've said my goodbyes to some of the lads here, said goodbye to Jeff the ref who has been great in all weathers here at Hazel Grove so we can play every week, I've loved, almost, every minute here and it's a shame to leave but I'll take alot of great memories with me, so thankyou very much."

1:Davis 2:Kerrigan 15:Noble (sub:3:Simpson) 4:Niyongabo 5:Polhill 6:Moriarty

Gala 1-1 Jolly Sailors: a controversial penalty converted by Wheeler set Gala on their way but a mistake by Gala goalie Alan ensured that both teams earned a point in the battle at the top. The result means that Sailors are now three points behind leaders Fiveways and Gala are third.

Fiveways 6(SIX)-0 Swollen-Goolies: The Fiveways ended a fantastic weekend with a record victory over the bottom team, Fiveways won the UK Leisure-leagues champions league in Birmingham, beating the premiership winners of the UK's teams contested between the best 96, incredible. They inevitably top the table.

Reform Club 1-0 Real Reform: Luke Warburton's Real Reform were beaten for the first time in nine games last night as Chris Haggam ended their resiliance with a great strike with only two minutes left on the clock. Reform Club are fourth and Real are now in sixth place.

Six Amigo's 0-0 Mavericks: A dour contest ended 0-0 with neither team having any joy infront of goal. That is why they remain tenth and eleventh, respectively.

NCP MANCHESTER FC NEWS

STOCKPORT LEISURE-LEAGUES PREMIER

Mavericks Athletic 0-2 NCP Manchester

The Bee's bounced back from last week's 0-3 thumping to beat Mavericks with goals from Niyongabo and Pugh.

NCP were in charge from kick-off, Niyongabo had his best game of the season as he was involved in almost every NCP attack. Indeed it was a nice one-two with Pugh from Niyongabo that put Polhill through on goal but when defender Chris Dingle was spotted encroaching by referee Jeff Jefferson NCP had a penalty. It was emphatically despatched by Niyongabo, high in the top-left corner and in off the post, the 'keeper had no chance.

Moments later Kerrigan played a ball to Niyongabo, whose first time ball found Polhill he squared it to Pugh and he saw his first time effort tipped over the bar. Pugh didn't have to wait much longer to open his account for the Bee's as a carbon-copy move two minutes later resulted in Pugh, this occasion, finding the back of the net. 2-0 at halftime.

The second half was controlled by the Bee's as they held onto the ball, using Polhill and Pugh breaking forward and Kerrigan and Niyongabo's inteligence holding onto the ball meant that NCP saw out time comfortbaly and are back on track. However they have not moved in the league again as they remain seventh. Next week: Nivea Challenge Cup @stockport powerleague 1pm and PSV Hangover @Hazel Grove Rec. kick off 7:30pm This will be goalkeeper Phil Davis' last game for the club, he hopes that the Cup at the powerleague will be his swansong and he has been made captain for the event: "Well, it's going to be very emotional for me, this lot have been my friends, team-mates and work colleagues for two years now and I aim to go out on a high, it would be an amazing fairwell to get the team's first silverware on my final day with them."

Gala 3-0 No-Score-Draw:Gala's title-chase may have seen the blue-touch paper lit here as they move up to third and look like entering the championship race again with this emphatic win and next week they could go 2nd if they beat 2nd-placed Jolly Sailors. No Score Draw really struggled at times with the heat and Gala's front pair of Dean Wheeler and Kyle Brown who shared the goals.

Jolly Sailors 1-0 Unreal Madrid:The Sailors excellent run continues with Lee Chapman scoring a wonder goal to keep the Under-Seadogs just behind Fiveways but they will have a test next week as they face an upsurging Gala team, hell-bent on winning a league that they have finished runners-up four times. Unreal Madrid may have slightly lost their way with a few poor recent results, they are still fifth.

Reform Club 1-2 Fiveways:This was the match-of-the-day, newboys Reform Club took the lead with a great sweeping move and looked like adding to it, Paul Ellis scored the goal. However in the second half the defending champions moved up a gear and the young Reform 'keeper Alvick was kept busy he made save and save, as his tired defenders were pulled from pillar to post and inevitably Fiveways got their equalizer through Ray Brookes, with little time left Brookes turned and crossed to the far post where Paul Whalley volleyed home to keep the champions top.

Six Amigo's 1-0 Swollen Goolies:Neither team had won a game all season before this encounter, so you had a feeling that somthing had to give and it did, Swollen Goolies never looked comfortable with the ball and spent most of the game watching or chasing it in the searing heat at Hazel Grove so it was no real surprise when Bob Charles stabbed home after eight minutes to push the Six Amigo's up to tenth.

Real Reform 0-0 PSV Hangover:Real Reform failed to capitalize on several good chances to go

clear of NCP Manchester, they remain in sixth place and PSV drop a place to, a disappointing, ninth in the league. "Well after winning thre-nil last week we expected to go on a bit of a run here tonight, it just wasn't to be unfortunately...they're a hard team to break down, they're big and strong but we should've won the game." Mused Luke Warburton.

NCP MANCHESTER FC NEWS

NCP Manchester 0-3 Real Reform
Luke Warburton and Danny Mather took NCP apart last night with some lovely football and clinical finishing. Player/Manager Gary Kerrigan was left tearing out what little hair he has left as his side were inept, tired and beaten by a side who were better in every department.
It was a humid environment in Hazel Grove and NCP were sluggish from the start and were under the kosh from the get-go, Warburton was dictating the pace, running the midfield and feeding the pacey Danny Mathers who scored the first after five minutes. Warburton tied Kerrigan and Pugh up in knots and teed up Mathers whose toe-poke found the bottom right-hand corner of the NCP net. It was two-nil on the stroke of half-time, Mathers raced onto a defence splitting throughball from Warburton and steered the ball under the onrushing 'keeper to double Unreal's advantage.

Things did not get better in the second half for the Bee's; their passing was poor, there was no energy or cohesion, Polhill had, arguably, his worst game for the club and Warburton and co. took the game to them and spread the ball around well, Davis had to make several good saves and Kerrigan, Simpson and Pugh had to be quick intercepting throughballs and making last-ditch blocks. It was all for nothing as the second half resistance was broken down when Warburton played Hughes in one-on-one against Davis and he duely chipped the 'keeper and saw it bounce in off the far post, it was a wonder goal with the last touch of the game. 3-0. Real have now only lost once in their last eight games however are still sixth and NCP have not moved in over a month as they are still seventh.

1:Davis 2:Kerrigan 24:Pugh 4:Niyongabo 3:Simpson 6:Polhill

NCP Manchester 0-0 Uneal Madrid (Friendly)NCP looked good in this friendly, Copplestone was strong and inteligent on the ball and Hayes never stopped running. Kerrigan saw this as an excercise to find a decent partner to Polhill, as Moriarty looks to be out of contract at the end of the season, 26 year-old Lee Copplestone looks to be favourite as he saw the 'keeper stop several good efforts from him however he spurned the best effort of the game as he blazed over near the end. Noble had one valiant effort as he took a touch and set himself up with a fierce drive only to see the 'keeper smother it.

1:Davis 3:Simpson(sub:2:Kerrigan) 27:Hayes 15:Noble 23:Copplestone(sub:3:Simpson)

NEXT FIXTURE: vs Mavericks FC at Hazel Grove Rec. 7:30PM sunday 8th june.

Fiveways 2-0 PSV Hangover: Defending champions Fiveways put a bit of distance between themselves and the rest at the top following a comfortable 2-0 win over PSV, Darren Dicken and Ray Brookes scored one in each half respectively to take both points. The defeat see's PSV drop to ninth place.

Reform Club 2-2 Jolly Sailors:A thrilling encounter between second and third ended in a draw as the teams shared four goals, Sailors and Reform are, both, now two points behind Fiveways but remain in the same position in the league.

Gala FC 0-0 Six Amigo's:A drabfest at the rec. saw Gala's fading title hopes diminish further as they just could not finnish off a well organized Amigo's side, Dan Wheeler was the main culprit as he failed time and time again to hit the target for Gala who are a disappointing fourth place, three points behind Fiveways. Six Amigo's solid defensive display means that they remain eleventh.

Swollen Goolies 0-2 Mavericks:Mavericks helped themselves to push well clear of the danger zone and they have a five-point cushion from relegation thanks to a Tom Wallace two-goal brace in the second half. Sadly for Swollen they prop-up th table as they are bottom.