Sassco team suffers a narrow defeat in the heat. Despite a flurry of morning injuries and last-minute drop-outs, Sassco fielded a…
Defeat in the humidity. 
Defeat in the humidity.
Sassco squeezed ten players onto the Beacon of Light pitch for a charity fixture against Men Together Chester‑le‑Street. For Sassco the…
Hungary Tour 2027. 
Hungary Tour 2027.
Heading along the Danube. After stumbling through Vienna, eventually gaining a good, competitive win. Retirement was contemplated before Budapest came calling…
Victory in Vienna. 
Victory in Vienna.
It means everything to me. The tour began with five heading from Leeds to Bratislava — David Grundy, Garry Buck, Aman…
Obituary: Daryll Surtees 
Obituary: Daryll Surtees
We’ve lost a popular comrade in Daryll Surtees. Our dear friend, Daryll Surtees first joined our five‑a‑side tournament a few years…
SAFC news from The Sunderland Echo
SAFC news from The Sunderland Echo
SAFC news from The Sunderland Echo
SAFC news from The Sunderland Echo
SAFC news from The Sunderland Echo
Read more: Sassco.co.uk 1 Houghton Bethany 0.Sassco.co.uk 1 Houghton Bethany 0.
Ramsay’s second half goal gives Sassco their first win. Quite a few chances from last week’s game against Northern Alliance Chemfica. In came Nicky Smith, Nick Danks, Dan Young, Andy Turner…
Read more: Major changes to the tour.Major changes to the tour.
Having had six so-called “guaranteed” entrants, we were narrowed down to four, due to two last minute (and expected) drop outs. This means major changes. We can’t really afford to pay…
- Read more: Roker Roar spring a surprise!
Roker Roar spring a surprise!
Rockets are shocked by a Roker winner. Redhouse Fusion 7 Sassco.co.uk 2.Sassco were brimming with confidence, having added Stevie Weavie Borat and Thomas and Teeb to the team from the ashes…
- Read more: Chemfica 5 Sassco.co.uk 0 / Chemfica 1 Sassco.co.uk 0.
Chemfica 5 Sassco.co.uk 0 / Chemfica 1 Sassco.co.uk 0.
Greenwell’s return marred by an expected defeat. Two games were actually played. The first was a standard 45 minute each way game, ending in a 5-0 defeat, while the second one…
- Read more: Fusion in a league of their own.
Fusion in a league of their own.
Debut defeat for Roker Roar. Downhill Impact 3 Redhouse Rockets 2.An impressive and singular performance from David “Jimmy” Raeper saw Downhill Impact reverse a one-goal deficit to eventually win 3-2 against…
- Read more: Sassco.co.uk 3 Sassco Impact 6.
Sassco.co.uk 3 Sassco Impact 6.
More humiliation. We were already struggling with players. Dan Young and David Oxley both dropped the team in it, but we managed to scrape together ten players and persuaded Dan Carson…
- Read more: Fusion unstoppable!
Fusion unstoppable!
New team, Seaburn Soca, suffer against Sassco. Redhouse Fusion 7 Bunker UK 0.Fusion took their time to open the scoring against the Bunker, but once they did, they looked unstoppable. When…
- Read more: Sassco.co.uk 1 New Derby 3.
Sassco.co.uk 1 New Derby 3.
Second defeat in pre-season. Bit of a disaster again. Blanks up front, with shots wayward and not a Jabulani in sight. Any other shots were soft and usually direct at the…
- Read more: Fusion on heat.
Fusion on heat.
Rockets comeback to defeat The Bunker. Redhouse Fusion 6 Downhill Impact 1.A more than useful Downhill side were walloped in the searing heat. The domination was so complete in that the…
- Read more: Top scorer and Player of the Season.
Top scorer and Player of the Season.
David Smith and Mark Muers. Dave Smith almost unanimously won the Player of the Season award, with around 99.99% of the vote. Muers won the Leading Goalscorer award. Both were presented…
- Read more: Sassco.co.uk 1 Sassco XI 2.
Sassco.co.uk 1 Sassco XI 2.
Another defeat for the “A” team. Firstly, thanks to Dave Smith and Scott Smith for arranging the extra players: Simon Graney, Liam Murray, Nick Danks and Dan Young. Also, thanks to…
- Read more: Fusion’s early scare.
Fusion’s early scare.
Strong opening from Redhouse Rockets. Redhouse Fusion 5 Redhouse Rockets 3.For a first game, it was more than impressive from the newly formed Redhouse Rockets, with their manager, Kurt Richardson, in…
- Read more: Next game: The Play-Off.
Next game: The Play-Off.
Campbell’s heroics for Impact. Downhill Impact 6 Sassco.co.uk 1.Another disaster from Sassco as Downhill easily out ran them and took a commanding lead. WWC 1 Redhouse Fusion 0.A preview of the…
- Read more: Sassco Knightflyers 49 Sassco.co.uk 29.
Sassco Knightflyers 49 Sassco.co.uk 29.
Sangha puts Sassco 3 points ahead. That’s all that matters. Well would you believe it? Expecting a hammering, the brave Sassco bunch: Dave Smith, Dave Simpson, Mark Muers, Marc McDermont, myself…
- Read more: Brazier and Lay hit hat-tricks.
Brazier and Lay hit hat-tricks.
Even Sangha scores! WWC FC 5 Downhill Impact* 2.Downhill Impact were temporarily “replaced” by Conor Staples’ new team. Their opponents were WWC, who while smarting from a surprise defeat last week,…
- Read more: The Lay brothers: still miserable.
The Lay brothers: still miserable.
Teeb and Teeb Senior = WWC defeat. After a good few months in hibernation, the Tuesday 6-a-side League returned to action in glorious sunshine. Sassco.co.uk 4 WWC FC 1. It was…
- Read more: Season review.
Season review.
Possibly the poorest Sassco season for a number of years, easily the most disappointing since we dropped out of the top division in 2005, without a single win to our name.…
- Read more: Redhouse FC 1 Sassco.co.uk 0
Redhouse FC 1 Sassco.co.uk 0
Redhouse stumble to the finishing line with a win. Scott Dixon strode up confidently and stroked the penalty to score for Redhouse FC, early in the second half to settle the…
- Read more: East Durham 6 Sassco.co.uk 3.
East Durham 6 Sassco.co.uk 3.
Muers misses chance after chance while Campbell went to watch Michael Bublé. While Campbell was listening to the droning voice of Michael Buble, I was left on the sidelines in the…
- Read more: Arms City 1 Sassco.co.uk 3.
Arms City 1 Sassco.co.uk 3.
Muers is substituted for Sangha. Another depleted squad, but this time, a superb win. Sassco eventually ground Arms Citys down and scored two second half goals to make the 1-1 half-time…
