Another great win for the Under 9s!
Saturday’s return under 9’s away game at Dean Sports was nearly a repeat of last week’s home win. Deans Sports was where Man United got Ryan Giggs from but the penetrating runs on Saturday all came from Oswald Road.
6 goals this week rather than last weeks 7, again with only 1 against, was the result of great teamwork, excellent passing and shooting at every opportunity. Again only the Dean’s keeper stopped it being a much larger margin of victory.
Before Saturday’s game 13 of the15 under 9’s squad had scored at least one goal this season. Of the two none-scorers Lyndon Mayhew-Dodd scored in the second third of the game. That left only Edward McNally to break his duck. He was sent back on with seven minutes to go and scored with only five minutes left (although at first the ref wasn’t going to give it!).
The whole squad having scored both shows the level of participation from the players and vindicates the policy of rotating the players in different positions.
The win will keep the under 9’s in second place in their league. The games next week and just after New Year are against teams that we lost to at the start of the season, so the team will have to be in top from over the holiday period to maintain second place.

Team: Dominic Cairney-Hill; Callum Lee; Arsalan Mahmood; Lyndon Mayhew-Dodd; Thurston Monk; Edward McNally; Danny Newell; Oliver Schofield-McCarthy; Ilya Szkwarok; Tommy Whittell

Scorers: Arsalan Mahmood (2); Lyndon Mayhew-Dodd (1); Edward McNally (1); Oliver Schofield-McCarthy (1); Ilya Szkwarok (1).