PUBLISHED: 20:00 22 May 2018 Dale Stewart led Litty Commity to the Ultimate Football WGC Premiership title. Picture: Peter Sterling Photography ©Peter Sterling Photography The spring season of the Ultimate Football WGC Monday night 6 a-side League has almost reached its conclusion. In the Premiership, Dale Stewart’s Litty Commity CF have been crowned champions after an impressive season finishing ahead of SD & Carlton Cole, the newly-promoted side more than holding their own. Blackpool took the title in the Championship and finished the season with a 3-3 draw with Crude Crocs after late strikes from Ben Hayller and Chris Mandall denied them the win. Smakosze St Albans finished runners up after a 2-0 win over Volvo Selekt, the goals coming from Dawid Sarzynski and Marcin Sternak. It is still all to play for in League One as a 0-0 draw between FC Flumpy and Neverbee Athletic means the title will be decided on the last game. In the other League One match, Hedgehog won … [Read more...] about Ultimate Football: Titles confirmed in Premiership and championship of WGC Monday Night League
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‘The Monday after this game I’ll go into work and, win or lose, there’s always somebody in a worse position than me’: Ryan Wylie on why there’s life away from football
“I was looking up at the sky and saying ‘is there any more I can do with my life?’ The minute I hit the ground I heard a big crack and I knew there was something seriously wrong” YOU could have heard a pin drop during Ian O’Connell’s appearance on the Late, Late Show last Friday night. Back home in Killarney, he had probably dreamed of appearing on the programme one day in the future as a famous sports star in one field or other. Instead the teenager was sat opposite Ryan Tubridy less than a year after being left paralysed from the shoulders down following a fall from his bike last summer. He told the audience how he had hit a log hidden by grass and flipped over the handlebars, landing on his neck before rolling onto his back. In the blink of an eye, his life was changed forever. And that was Ian O’Connell’s message - appreciate everything you have because one day it might not be there. “Life is a roller coaster, you don’t … [Read more...] about ‘The Monday after this game I’ll go into work and, win or lose, there’s always somebody in a worse position than me’: Ryan Wylie on why there’s life away from football
Monday night games won’t last in Germany if fans stay away
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Monday night football in Germany won’t continue beyond the current round of television rights which end in 2021 if fans continue to stay away from stadiums, Borussia Dortmund Chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said on Wednesday. Attendance at Dortmund’s televised 1-1 draw against Augsburg on Monday was down more than 25,000 on the club’s Bundesliga average as supporters protested against what organisers have called an abandonment of Germany’s football culture. Speaking at the London School of Economics German Symposium Watzke said the future of Monday games would depend on whether initial resistance from fans thaws and if it works commercially for clubs and TV firms that pay for broadcast rights. “If 80 percent of the Germans reject that, and if we only get 54,000 instead of 81,000 coming to the stadium, then I am pretty sure that once the TV rights will be auctioned again in 2021, Monday just won’t happen … [Read more...] about Monday night games won’t last in Germany if fans stay away
Ultimate Football: Game of the season contender between Welwyn Impressive and NBA FC
PUBLISHED: 18:00 30 January 2018 | UPDATED: 20:39 01 February 2018 NBA FC in action against Welwyn Impressive in the WGC Ultimate Football. Picture: MATTHEW BURLING Archant There was possibly the game of the season in the latest round of fixtures in the Ultimate Football Welwyn Garden City Monday Night six-a-side League. It came in the Premiership with Welwyn Impressive beating NBA FC 5-4. Joe Brunt put Welwyn ahead but Mark Heffernen equalised for NBA. Welwyn then scored twice through James Bailey and Sean Mboto but Michael Owolabi and Niall Quinn got NBA level again. Sean Brettell then put Welwyn ahead again but again NBA equalised, this time through Daryl Haughton, but Brunt’s late winner finally gave the points to Impressive. BTEC Ballers also won, beating Litty Committy 4-3 thanks to a brace from Mitchell Popham. Blackpool and SD & Carlton Cole won in the Championship while Hedgehog FC and Neverbee Athletic won in League one with FC Clearwater drawing with Flumpy FC. … [Read more...] about Ultimate Football: Game of the season contender between Welwyn Impressive and NBA FC
Borussia Dortmund fans announce Monday boycott as Bundesliga protests continue
The first half of the 2017-18 Bundesliga season was marked by significant protests in the stands as supporters voiced their displeasure at the increasing commercialization of the game. Now, as the second half of the season gets underway, the protests are set to continue as another unpopular novelty arrives in Germany's top flight: Monday night football. In June 2016, the German Football league (DFL) announced that five Bundesliga matches in the 2017-18 season would take place on Monday nights and the first three have now been scheduled: Eintracht Frankfurt vs. RB Leipzig (19.02), Borussia Dortmund vs. Augsburg (26.02) and Werder Bremen vs. Cologne (12.03). According to the DFL, the new Monday night slot is to give Europa League teams an extra day of rest, but many supporters believe it is purely for the benefit of television broadcasters and viewers and shows no regard for fans who actually attend matches to support their team. — Read more: Cloud of supporter unrest hangs … [Read more...] about Borussia Dortmund fans announce Monday boycott as Bundesliga protests continue