Today's Games 2018/19 Season

One of the women has taken a couple of whacks, too. Haven't they been taught how to fall over properly?

 

Surprise surprise they engineer a penalty shoot out.....again.

 

It was a pretty good engineered equaliser.

 

It was.

 

Bastards - still waiting for our bus parade after winning the Championship.....

Duckpond FC celebrates league win with open top bus tour

• 16 June 2019

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Image captionDuckpond FC take to the streets of Harwich to celebrate
A Sunday League football team has celebrated winning the league with an open-top bus parade.

Duckpond FC, formed in Harwich, Essex, in 2011, has won the Colchester and District Sunday League.

The club has marked each promotion since it was formed with a bus parade and party in the town. It's the third time the team has marked success in this way.

Player-manager Michael Hammond said: "We want the world to know we won."

Mr Hammond, 29, who founded the club, spent £4,000 hiring a double decker bus, plane banner and advertising for the day before the tour made its way around Harwich on Saturday.

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Image captionDuckpond FC topped the Premier Division of the Colchester and District Sunday League
Duckpond FC won the league and then secured the Fowler Memorial Cup Final last month, beating Harts FC 3-0 to secure a double.

The team won 15 out of 16 matches this season.

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Image captionDuckpond FC celebrate promotion to the Premier Division in 2014
Mr Hammond said the celebrations on Saturday left many of the players "feeling delicate" on Father's Day.

"We've won all the divisions now - we're officially the best Sunday League team in Essex," he said.

"Grassroots football is dying, so many teams are folding or have quit.

"But it's on days like this you realise it's not the level of football but the passion and commitment."

The team can go no higher in the Sunday League in the county, and are now calling themselves "champions of Essex".

Mr Hammond said he was unaware of any other team at this level who celebrates in this way.

The club formed in 2011 and is named after Cox's Pond in Harwich.

 

Brilliant goal by Phil Foden for the U21s.

 

Yep the boy is a class act

 

What the fk was choudrey doing with that challenge & now red card for it

 

Crazy challenge.

 

What a clown the palace man is, got to kick it with your left or leave for the GK

 

A joke own-goal.

 

£50 millions worth

 

England u21 2 Romania U21 4.

Looks like our short lived dominance of the age related international scene is over with. I think we had to win this one to get out of the group.

 

Yep.
A bit strange as we look a good side on paper.
Maybe the coach?

 

This game looked manic, all the goals in the last ten minutes. Tammy Abraham came on as a late sub, I would have thought that, with the first team experience he has, he should have started. Boothroyd is the coach isn’t he? Hmmm.

 

That's what I was hinting at.
Mind you, they were by far the better side against France before the crazy sending off, which cost them the game.
Didn't see tonight's game.

 

Aidy Boothroyd should be nowhere near English youth football. Don’t care how many courses the **** has passed he’s terrible.

 

Left Foden on the bench .

Says it all.

 

All kicked off in England Women’s win against Cameroon. And all VARs fault, two incredibly fine line decisions, I thought the Cameroonians were very unlucky to have their goal disallowed, if their attacker was offside it was by an ankle and she was facing the wrong way, zero advantage.

I’m coming over to Stroller’s view, this is ruining the game.

Well done England, and well done Neville for being very frank post match on Cameroon’s behaviour, which was poor.

 

I wasn't going to post on this for fear of boring people, but to have VAR taking over a game as it did here can't be a positive thing. If VAR is going to be a part of the game, let it be on a request basis rather than having every incident automatically reviewed. As to the line decisions, in cricket there's an 'umpires call' outcome whereby very close calls are not overturned. Let's have that and avoid goals being ruled out for a heel or a toe.

The behaviour of the Cameroonian players was outrageous and should have been better dealt with by the referee. They seemed not to understand the rules.