Southside 4, Dynamo Kebab 0.

Against all the odds we actually started quite well. Alex Howard slotted in seamlessly at centre back and Mark B, on his debut, fitted in nicely at left back.  Lee, also making his debut, covered in goal  before moving to centre back after  Geoff arrived fashionably late. Kebab didn't  put us under too much pressure in the first half. We didn't create too much either though, inexplicably resorting to long hopefully balls time and time again.
At half time the team talk was simple - stop  chipping at the ref and stop playing long balls. Well, we managed one out of two. Suffice to say that i want only our captain to talk to the ref about decisions in future.
The football in the second half was fantastic - it always is. Loads of effort all round  and plenty of quality too. Martin, on his Southside FC debut, was a constant threat up front and deserved a goal - the Kebab keeper read Martin's pen all the way but it was so well placed he couldn't do anything about it. Two  well struck goals for Scott and a third goal in three games for Reece took the game out of sight. The contest ended up as 10 a side - the less said about that the better for now, but we will be having a chat about that soon. It was great to see Sam making his return after several months out injured. Big thanks also to Shane who played for both teams.
That's  six wins out of eight  in the last 3 months and a first clean sheet in 19 attempts. Great stuff.
We're well on the way to being a half decent side - For me though , the most important thing is that we conduct ourselves correctly at all times when we represent our club - we've got a bit still to learn on that count - but  i can't fault the effort and the quality of football on show. Well done lads.

Team; Geoff,  Mark B, James, Lee, Cetin, Alex H, Daniel K, Rees, Martin, Bilal, Sam D,  Shane W,Yusuf, Scott, Danny W.
Goals; Scott 2, Martin 1 pen, Reece1.

Dome 17th May

23 people attended last night - loads of enthusiasm,  but pretty chaotic.
We'll need to keep our shape, and concentrate on playing simple pass and move football if we want to get anything out of the game next Tuesday. I know we can do it. See you  all next week.

Goals Goals Goals!

Scott says he's scored 16 goals for us. He's probably right. I've included all of the goalscorers that i can remember in the results list on the side of the page. Have a look and see if i've made any mistakes.

Southside FC 6, Metropolitan Housing 3.

I'll write a full match report later but if you want to know what happened last night, you might as well just read last Thursday's match report. Terrible start - people arriving late as per.
2-0 down after 10 minutes, Geoff kept us in the game until finally, midway through the first half we started to play football - we draw level , dominate the rest of the game, scoring for fun. Everyone goes home happy.

Team: Geoff, James, Mark D, Cet, Dan K, Perre, Yusuf, Billy, Big Paul, Dane, Ade, Fabio, Scott, Dan, Phil.

Goalscorers: James 1, Fabio 1, Scott 2, Reece 1. (The dubious goals panel's going to have to meet to decide on the sixth goal - a cross shot that deflected in off an MHP defender)

Watch this

Here's  a bit of footage from this week's match. It's filmed from behind our goal so you'll need to put your specs on to see our attacks. Great clips of the Mighty Geoff in action. Most of the footage is from the first half hour as we were struggling to get a foothold in the match. It's well filmed though and gives a good flavour of the match. Big thanks to our camerawoman for  making the film.
On Monday we've got Metropolitan Housing in an 8pm kick off. It's going to be a really tough game and competition for squad places will be tight. Let's try to get as many people as possible down to the stadium to cheer the team on.

James scores

There's quite a bit of good footage from the match. here's a quick clip of James's goal. I'll try too put upload some more footage if i get time.

Southside 3, Effra 2.

What a great game!  Fantastic team spirit, bundles of effort and plenty of good football. Every single player put in a really good shift for their team last night. Well done lads.
As usual, it didn't start well. Five key players dropped out at the last minute and a couple of people arrived late. A patched up Southside team took 10 minutes to settle in, by which time Effra had raced to a 2-0 lead. Effra looked poised to run away with the match, but as so often happens, we steadied the ship, dug in and then started to play. James ghosted in at the back post to score an excellent goal. Effra were rattled. Effra tried to bully their way back into the game, with numerous bad tackles going unpunished. Southside continued to work hard and to play good football
At half time we believed we could win. We dominated the second half. Reece brought us level and then Scott's emphatic finish made it 3-2. Despite a couple of late scares, we continued to dominate until the end.
Congratualtions to Cetin's friend Paul, who made an accomplished debut.Also big thanks to Yusuf who slotted in at Centre mid, forming a really effective partnership with Billy. This is was my favourite Southside performance.

Team: Geoff,James,Mark D,Cetin, Alex H, Paul, DanK, Reece,Yusuf,Billy,Dane,Scott, Fabio.