Sunday 22nd November - Results

Apologies for the lack of updates. I've got some first round reports to put together shortly but thought it best to confirm today's outstanding second round results first:

The Molly 4 Kirkdale 0
Allerton 1 West Bowling 3
St John Fisher Old Boys 3 Witton Park Rose & Crown 5 - I was at this game and it was a cracker
Fantail 0 Home & Bargain 3
Newton Aycliffe WMC 1 Garston 4 AET
Halton Moor 1 Burradon & New Fordley 6
Attenborough Cavaliers v Punchbowl - Postponed
Nuthall 0 OJM 6
Lebeqs Tavern Courage 3 AFC Kumazi Strikers 1
AC Sportsman 0 Green Man 4

First Round Draw

First round draw

Games to be played on 18 October at 2.00pm kick off.
 
Hardwick Social v Northallerton Police

Hartlepool Lion Hillcarter v Burradon & New Fordley

Newton Aycliffe WMC v Seaton Carew

Dawdon Colliery Welfare v South Bank

Windmill Kestrels v Seymour

Chapeltown Fforde Grene v AFC Blackburn Leisure

West Bowling v Poulton Royale

Bolton Woods v Fantail

Allerton v Pineapple

Thornton United v Alder

Oyster Martyrs v BRNESC

Queens Park v HT Sports

Lobster v Garston

Home & Bargain v LIV Supplies

Millhouse v Kirkdale

Dengo United v Canada

Frolesworth United v Oaks

Albion v Attenborough Cavaliers

Creation Builders v Mowmacre & Hoskins

RHP Sports & Social v Trentside

Quorn Royals 2008 v Halfway

Birstall Stamford v Punchbowl

Riverside Rovers v Priory Sports

Falcons v Gym United

FC Bengals v Victoria Millers

Club Lewsey v Two Touch

Queens Heads v FC Houghton

North Wembley v Bushey Sports

Belstone v Berkhamsted Athletic

Hammer v AC Sportsman

British Airways HEW v Brache Nation

St Josephs (South Oxhey) v Comets Sports Club

St Josephs v Aylesbury New Zealand

FC Morden v Lambeth All Stars

Barnes Albion v Market Hotel

Polonia Reading v Lebeqs Tavern Courage

Victoria Cross v Emmer Green

Round dates

The round dates are as follows:

First Round - 18th October

Second Round - 15th November

Third Round - 13th December

Fourth Round - 17th January

Fifth Round - 14th February

Semi-Final - 13th March

Final - 17th April (provisional)

Campfield 2 OJM 0

Congratulations to Campfield who beat OJM 2-0 in today's final at Ewood Park. It's the fourteenth time the Sunday Cup has been won by a team from Merseyside (this includes Avenue from the Wirral) but Campfield are only the second winner to hail from the Business Houses league, after two time Champions Nicosia.

Both of their goals were scored by Steven Jones, which is quite appropriate, as Campfield were once called Lee Jones! They've also competed in the Sunday Cup as Thirly.

Final details confirmed...

This season's final between Campfield and OJM will be played on Sunday 26th April at Blackburn Rovers FC. 2.00pm kick off.

Semi-final results

OJM 4 v New Salamis 2 AET (2-2 after 90 mins)

Campfield 2 v Chapeltown Fforde Grene 1

Congratulations to all four teams on reaching this stage. Well done to OJM and Campfield for making it through to the final. Commiserations to New Salamis and to Fforde Grene, both of whom acquitted themselves well today.

Final to be played on 26th April. As the finalists are from Liverpool and Warley (West Midlands) the FA may look to somewhere like Stoke City's Britannia Stadium as an appropriate venue.

Semi final venues confirmed

Campfield v Chapeltown Fforde Grene - at Marine

OJM v New Salamis - at Hednesford Town

Both games to be played on Sunday 15th March, 2.00pm kick off

£4 admission or £1 for U16s and over 65s

Semi Final Draw

Games to be played in 15th March - 2.00pm kick off

Campfield v Chapeltown Fforde Grene
OJM v New Salamis

Venues to be announced. The Campfield game is almost certainly to be played at Marine.

Quarter final results

Home & Bargain 1 v Campfield 2      
Allerton 1 v Chapeltown Fforde Grene 2 
Crawley Green 0 v O.J.M. 1   
N.L.O. 4 v New Salamis 4 AET - New Salamis won 4-3 on penalties

Sunday 15th February

Quarter-final day has arrived and I'm looking forward to watching Allerton v Chapeltown Fforde Grene at the Liverpool County FA ground.

I hope to avoid extra time, as I have to make it back home asap, for tea at my in laws! I won't be updating the blog until after 7.00pm tonight.

Those of you looking for today's results can always try the excellent FA Sunday Cup twitter feed https://twitter.com/FASunday_Cup for live score updates and results.

I can also be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FASCBlogger

Good luck to all teams playing today, in what must be the most open Sunday Cup in years.

Fourth Round Review

Hetton Lyons 4 Chapletown Fforde Grene 7 AET
Four time champions Hetton Lyons suffered the heaviest defeat in their 12 seasons in the Sunday Cup, as they surrendered a 3-0 lead to their Leeds based opponents, Chapeltown Fforde Grene.

Hetton were coasting with a little over 30 minutes remaining and on course to reach their seventh quarter-final. From somewhere, Fforde Grene managed to turn the tie completely on its head and amazingly, they scored seven unanswered goals (three to force extra time) in what must rank as one of the greatest come backs in Sunday Cup history, to secure their third appearance in the last eight.

I saw Fforde Grene in the previous round at Alder and they were missing key players, Dempsey Smith (ex Bradford Park Avenue and Garforth Town) and Joel Hughes, who has scored 19 times for Northern Counties East side Yorkshire Amateur this season. Both strikers bagged a brace in this game. Fforde Grene’s other goals were scored by Daniel Freeman, Dan Sheriffe and Chris Hitchings.

Connor Winter, Ellison and Price were on target for Hetton.

Crawley Green 4 The Windmill 1

The Windmill were hoping for a repeat of their third round heroics, when their long trip to the Home Counties was rewarded with a convincing win at former champs, St Josephs (Luton). The Devon side got off to a great start, as they pressurised Crawley Green’s defence straight from the kick off and Levi Landricombe latched onto Jimmy Alexander's through ball to give them a deserved lead.

This was clearly the wake-up call that Crawley Green needed and from the resultant kick off the Bedfordshire side immediately responded with a goal from James Potter.

The score remained at 1-1until midway through the second half, when Crawley Green’s manager, Craig Freeman, introduced Liam Toomey into the game. Within a few minutes Toomey had created two chances for his team. Crawley’s midfield then came into its own on a very heavy pitch.

Mark Bunker came close with a header from a Toomey pass. In the 75^th minute Danny Watson sprung The Windmill’s off-side trap and from a pin point chip over the defence from Mark Bunker, Watson beat two chasing defenders to slot the ball between the keepers’ legs.

Bunker then succeeded in chipping a ball over the defence with James Potter level with the last defender, about 40 yards from goal. Potter then only had the keeper to beat which he did, to extend Crawley’s lead.

With The Windmill pressing to reduce the arrears, a magical run from Liam Toomey down the left wing saw his cross from the goal line tapped in by Danny Watson to secure the victory.

Black Bull 1 Allerton 4

Connor McCarthy was the main difference between the two sides in this all Liverpool & District league encounter. Black Bull could not contain a rampant McCarthy, who scored all four Allerton goals.

The teenage striker plays for Skelmersdale on a Saturday and Allerton, the 2003 runners up, will be hoping that his sparkling form continues in the quarter-final, where they play host to Chapeltown Fforde Grene, who have never lost a Sunday Cup tie on Merseyside.

New Salamis 2 Barnes Albion 1 AET

Another former finalist bit the dust, as 2013 runners up, Barnes Albion of the West Middlesex league lost to KOPA league team New Salamis. Nick Muir was the Salamis hero, as his goal in extra time booked their first appearance in the quarter-final. Their other goal came from Richard Georgiou.

Sunday 25th January

Outstanding 4th round results:

Hetton Lyons 4 Chapletown Fforde Grene 7 AET (3-3 at 90 mins)
Queens Park 0 Home and Bargain 4
Black Bull 1 Allerton 4

Three away wins. Fforde Grene were 3-0 down! Perhaps they were inspired by their West Yorkshire neighbours come back at Stamford Bridge on Saturday😃

5th Round Draw

Games to be played on 15th February - 2.00pm kick off

Queens Park or Home & Bargain v Campfield
Black Bull or Allerton v Hetton Lyons or Chapeltown Fforde Grene
Crawley Green v OJM
NLO v New Salamis

Sunday 18th January

Postponements
Hetton Lyons v Chapeltown Fforde Green
Black Bull v Allerton
Queens Park v Home & Bargain

Results
Campfield 4 v Pineapple 2
Priory Sports 0 NLO 3
AC Sportsman 2 v OJM 5
Crawley Green 4 v The Windmill 1
New Salamis 2 v Barnes Albion 1

Third Round Review

Humbledon Plains Farm 1 v Home & Bargain 3
After their impressive win at Oyster Martyrs in round two, I was tipping champions Humbledon Plains Farm as favorites to go all the way to this season’s final. However, retaining the Sunday Cup is an incredibly difficult feat – it’s only been done twice in fifty years – and the wait for it to be done again continues, following Home & Bargain’s fantastic victory in the North East.

Playing the cup holders away is about as bad a draw as it’s possible to receive, especially when you consider that a number of the Humbledon team play their Saturday football for Washington in the Northern league and this game was played on Washington’s ground.

Home & Bargain, who ply their trade in the Liverpool Business Houses league, took the lead through prolific scorer Chris McGann in the first half. Champions Humbledon levelled early in the second half. McGann was on hand to restore the scousers lead and Phil Bowman clinched a famous win, when he added a third with just ten minutes remaining.

Barnes Albion 1 v Haunchwood Sports 0

2013 finalists Barnes Albion of the West Middlesex league made it through to the last 16 but were pushed all the way by debutants Haunchwood Sports from Nuneaton, who narrowly lost in extra time.

Haunchwood started brightly as they took the game to Barnes Albion. They had a goal disallowed for offside and a penalty appeal waved away. Barnes best chance came just before half time, but their failure to convert a clear opportunity, meant the first half ended goal less.

Barnes put Haunchwood under a lot of pressure in the second half but could still not break the deadlock. Haunchwood nearly won it with just three minutes remaining, when Matt Brown went through on goal. Barnes were indebted to their keeper, who pulled off a fantastic save, to keep them in the game and to send the tie in to extra time.

The only goal of the game came in the 115^th minute. Barnes took a short corner and an Adam Willis shot deflected off the boot of Kyle Baxter and past the despairing Carl O'Neil in the Haunchwood goal.

Alder 1 v Chapeltown Fforde Grene 3

I made the 140 mile round trip to watch this match, in what was my 15^th Sunday Cup game in the Liverpool area. I’d not been to the Alder Sports & Social ground before and I was surprised to see what a good condition the pitch was in, given the atrocious weather of the previous week. It was a bit heavy in one goal mouth but the rest was perfectly playable.

Alder, of the Liverpool Business Houses league, enjoyed the majority of possession in the first half, without really creating too many chances. It was still goalless by the half hour mark but just six minutes later, the home side found themselves 2-0 down!

Eder Ruiz slid the ball under the advancing Alder keeper, with what was Fforde Grene’s first shot on goal on 30 minutes! A back header from Daniel Sheriffe saw the Leeds side double their lead on 36 minutes.

Alder pulled a deserved goal back just five minutes after the restart but despite being the best team in the second half, they could not draw level and a quick Fforde Grene counter attack in the 91st minute put the result beyond doubt, when Shaquille Clarke-Adams completed the scoring and earned his side a trip to Hetton Lyons in round 4.   

Lambeth All Stars 1 v OJM 2

Lambeth of the Morden & District league opened the scoring in the 28th minute when teenager Kadeem Ajeon split the OJM back line with a through ball to captain Daniel Jones, who buried the ball in the corner of Daniel Roberts’ goal. Roberts was part of the Norton United team, who made it through to the first round proper of this season’s FA Cup.

OJM, from the West Midlands based Warley & District league, fought back and equalised in the 65th minute through Rico Taylor. OJM sealed the win in the last minute of stoppage time, after a tactical change saw the introduction of Stourbridge’s strike pairing of Luke Benbow and Kayleden Brown and it was the latter who fired home the winner from a corner.

St Josephs (Luton) 1 v The Windmill 5

The five hour journey from Devon to Bedfordshire clearly did not affect The Windmill, as they recorded a comprehensive victory over four time finalists, St Josephs.

They raced into a 3-0 lead by the interval and all though St Joseph’s pulled one back in the second half, it proved to be nothing more than a mere consolation. Adam Carter struck a hat-trick for the Plymouth side and he also set up Ryan Richards to score. Jordan Walton completed the scoring.

Windmill joint manager Mike Walton said it was the best display he had seen from a Plymouth side at this level, as his players were firing on all cylinders from the first whistle.

The Windmill will be hoping to repeat this success in the fourth round, as they face a similar journey to meet Crawley Green, who like St Josephs, are members of the North Home Counties league.

Kennelwood 2 v Queens Park 3

Queens Park of the Birkenhead league have a good Sunday Cup pedigree and have competed in the competition for over 20 years. They reached the last 16 for the fifth time, as they managed to squeeze past their debutant hosts from the Liverpool Business Houses league. Dale Wright and Ste Groves were on target for Kennelwood.

New Salamis 5 v Thurmaston PWMC 1

New Salamis of the London based Kopa league marched in to the fourth round, with a comfortable win over Thurmaston, their visitors from the Leicester Alliance.

A goal from Chris Xiouris in the third minute gave them a dream start. Xiouris was the right man in the right place, when he converted a cross from the right hand side. It was 2-0 nine minutes later, when Stuart Zannori tapped home, following a scramble in the Thurmaston defence.

The prolific Deniz Mehmet extended the lead, when he took on three players before slotting the ball home and giving the Salamis a commanding 3-0 half time lead.

Steve Velandia added a fourth goal straight from a corner and Deniz Mehmet scored the goal of the game, when he surpassed his earlier effort, by dribbling past five players and smashing the ball into the roof of the net.

Crawley Green 2 v Black Horse 1

Brendan Hicks gave debutants Black Horse of the Redditch & South Warwickshire league the lead in the 12^th minute, in their tie at Crawley Green.

The Bedfordshire side were back on terms, when they equalized in first half stoppage time. The second half was equally close, with plenty of end to end play, but it was the home side who took the lead on 80 minutes and they managed to hold on, despite some late pressure from the visitors.