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It was Sassco on Tour again. This time, six travelled down to Manchester (including the wife, Pauline), and the venue was Copenhagen. The travelling squad list included Davinder Sangha (myself), Chris…
Read more: Denmark Itinerary.Denmark Itinerary.
25th July – Friday 05:30 Leave Sunderland/Durham 08:00 Airport Parking (TBC) 10:45 Manchester to Copenhagen – Easyjet 1985 13:40 Arrive in Copenhagen 14:40 Check in hotel Park Inn Radisson 16:00 Travel…
Read more: Tim Gillespie pays his hotel costs!Tim Gillespie pays his hotel costs!
Amazingly, Tim Gillespie transferred £153, which means that (unless it’s an expensive fob off) he’ll be making a first appearance since his spectacular goal drove Sassco on to victory in their…
Read more: First definite game in Copenhagen arranged.First definite game in Copenhagen arranged.
Fixture against CBS Sport. Delighted to announce that the first game in Copenhagen, Denmark for our football tour in 2014 has been arranged. Thomas Staalager from Copenhagen Business School Sport has…
- Read more: Sassco.co.uk 9 Sunderland DFC 1.
Sassco.co.uk 9 Sunderland DFC 1.
Sassco storm back in action, but McDermont still rubbish. It always surprising to me that a team which hasn’t kicked a ball in anger since 2010, can still manage to be…
- Read more: France Tour 2013 report.
France Tour 2013 report.
Sassco on tour. Dave Gourlay puts a downer on everything. Six players signed up on the dotted line for France, which was our sixth destination since 2008. The arrangements were a…
- Read more: Germany Tour 2012 – Day 1
Germany Tour 2012 – Day 1
Geordie Shore cast member to replace Tiger Tim. FC Vollkontakt 20 Sassco.co.uk 14 | Full match footage shown below. Please feel free to share this on Facebook and Twitter. We also…
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Sassco Lightning 36 Blyth Renegades 47.
Just pass to Jason. It was quite simple; just pass to Jason Stuart, who netted the majority of our points. It was a bit like Messi playing for Sassco 11-a-side. However,…
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From time to time, Sassco played at Gateshead, which at that time was one of the only full size pitches in the region with 11-a-side goals accessible during pre-season. As you…
Read more: Italy Tour 2011 – Day 1.Italy Tour 2011 – Day 1.
Me and Dave hurtled down to Leeds Bradford Airport in the dark, along Ridge Racer type roads. Dave soon got the nerves and felt like crap (as well as wanting to…
- Read more: End of an era for the 11-a-side.
End of an era for the 11-a-side.
Sassco 11-a-side have ended their eight year run as a competing team in local leagues. Unfortunately, Anthony Pearson, who was reluctantly thrust into running the team wasn’t given much help in…
- Read more: 51-50 win against Sunderland University.
51-50 win against Sunderland University.
An update on the Sassco Basketball team. Report by Alan Hoyle: The team is doing fantastic. We lost our season opener, but have won our last 3 games, so we are…
- Read more: Spain Tour 2010 – Day 2
Spain Tour 2010 – Day 2
Tiring day, but unbeaten! Second day was the difficult day. Two games against lesser opponents; one at around 1pm and the second at 7pm. The opening game saw us play on…
- Read more: Roar hold out against Soul.
Roar hold out against Soul.
Seaburn trounce Sassco. Seaburn Soca 3 Sassco.co.uk 0.The second headline says it all. Seaburn easily beat an almost completely different looking Sassco side in the opening game. Sassco had the veteran…
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Sassco.co.uk 7 Sunderland African FC. Match report from 9th July 2005 originally posted here Travel problems weren’t too bad. I had to pick up Stapes, Muers, Hembrough and Minnie, but when…
- Read more: Fusion fail to score!
Fusion fail to score!
Downhill cancel out Fusion. After two missing weeks, I’ve come back to missing kits and teams suffering shortages forcing players from other teams to play for them. Sassco.co.uk 4 Roker Roar…
- Read more: Sassco.co.uk 8 Toddys 1.
Sassco.co.uk 8 Toddys 1.
Old timers run out of steam after Callum’s hat-trick. It was expanding bellies and unfit legs, and we weren’t talking about Muers, who managed to cover his cast-iron cast with padding…
- 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: 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: 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…
