Preliminary Round Review

FC Labour 0 Sportmans 6

Sportmans of the Hambleton Combination enjoyed their Sunday Cup debut, which involved a 220 mile round trip to Whitehaven, where they notched an impressive 6-0 win at Egremont & District side, FC Labour.

Sportsmans were gifted an early lead, thanks to an own goal, before Col Anderson doubled their advantage at the break. Second half goals from the  Ramsbottom’s Aaron and Andy together with a brace from Scott McNichol, clinched another away tie, against RCA Grangetown Florists.

JOB 4 v Queens Park 3

JOB from the Liverpool Business Houses league came through a thriller against Birkenhead league Sunday Cup veterans Queens Park, courtesy of goals from Mark Styles, Paul Thorpe, Ross McDowell and Jimmy Weincke.

JOB’s reward is a visit to West Yorkshire, where they will face Chapeltown Fforde Grene at Garforth Town’s ground.

Enfield Rangers 2 v London Macabbi Lions 1

Last season, a patched up Lions side were well and truly put to the sword by Falcons, where their 12-1 loss was the heaviest defeat in the first round.

This season they have ended up with the dubious honour of being the first team to exit the competition, as their defeat by Enfield was the only morning kick off in the preliminary round.

Blog Update

Regular followers of the blog will have noticed that recent updates have not been as frequent as in previous seasons. This is due to a combination of factors, the main one being that the hard-drive on my PC died in July.

A replacement was installed but a few weeks later, the computer was then infected with a virus (despite being protected with anti virus software!). Thankfully, years of research were not lost, as most of it was backed up to a disc in July 2011. Unfortunately, all work since then will have to be recreated.

Hopefully things can now return to normal and I will be updating the blog with a match report from the first round game I’ll be watching tomorrow along with the scores from the other games (please email any results you know to me at fasundaycupblog@hotmail.co.uk)