Birkdale United AFC

Formby FC v Birkdale Utd S

On a cold winter’s morning and with players missing with illness it was top against bottom in the league playing against each other at Formby’s ground. After kick off within a couple of minutes of the kick off we were 1-0 down with a smart finish into the bottom left(goalie’s right) corner leaving the goalie(Sperrin) no chance. We had a chance to hit straight back within a couple of minutes with   a nice move down the right hand side but Formby’s goalie covered Laings shot well. It was pretty even then for the next 10-12 minutes with our goalie pulling off a few fine saves to keep the score down to 1-0 but when the second goal went in our heads dropped and a third quickly followed. We lost another player with illness just before half time.

Half- time Formby 3-0 Birkdale Utd S

The second half was one way traffic with Formby swarming all over our hard working defenders and only the effort of them,  and some fine saves from our goalkeeper(who was on his sickbed yesterday) restricted  Formby to just 3 goals in the 2nd half.  Even a late consolation wasn’t going to be as the final chance went just the wrong side of the post.

Final score:  Formby 6-0 Birkdale Utd S

Well done to Formby who thoroughly deserved their win

M.O.M – Sperrin (goalkeeper) if it wasn’t for his performance it would have been double figures

Team D.Sperrin – L.Woods – G.Heathcliff-Core – O.Insley – J.Martin – B.Boocock – L.Laing(c)

Birkdale United v T.M.S –  U11   12/02/12

Excellent conditions for football today and what an excellent game of football it was with a cup final at stake.

Both teams pushed hard from the start but without many clear chances being created with both defences working hard  a chance was made when Ava played the ball wide to Macy on the left to drill in a cross which Lily got on the end of to finish into the bottom corner …1-0….

The game continued to be very tight with Emily and Megan keeping the TMS attack at bay and the midfield of Ava, Molly and Lily running all over the pitch there wasn’t much space for either team to get any clear chances on goal and the first half finished …1-0….

2^nd half  was much as the first with both teams pressing but chances were few and far between both teams hit the post but great team work from both TMS and Birkdale stopped either team from scoring again. So the match finished with both teams happy from a hard fort match but with Birkdale just nicking it with their first half goal… well done to all the girls on the pitch.

Team sheet: Faye,Molly,Megan,Emily,Ava,Lily(1),Macy and Robyn

G.O.M: Lily