League News

The weather cut a Big Hole In the Fixtures In the Swinburn Maddison Durham Sunday Football League only 5 Fixtures beating the freeze.

In The Fourth Divison New Durham Wmc Entertained  Chester Leonards ,New Durham W.M.C   Boosted There Goal Diiffrence Scoring 7 Against  Chester  Leonards.A Hatrick From Scot Jenkins,2 For Graeme Brenkley,And 1 Each From Nic Marley And Stephen Holmes,I Must Say Both Sides Played Well On A Rock Hard Pitch,And Also A Good Performance By The Ref ,Robson,

In the Second Divison Durham Bede Lodge were 3-2 winners at Pelton Fc..In the First Divison Fatfield Biddick Inn were 2-1 Home winners Over Esh Winning Cricket Club.In the Deerness Driveways Trophy 2nd Round Chester Easystreet were 8-2 winners at Lambton Village Inn.

In the D & P Trophies Knockout Cup 3rd round Pelaw Grange from the 3rd Division entertained Houghton Glendale from the Premier Division. Pelaw were without their two central defenders Stephen Venus and Andrew Smiles and also their top goalscorer Mark Stevenson. After a delayed start on the Northern Area allocated Pitch due to the snow and frozen ground play got underway. Play was back and forth then around 15 minutes Houghton Centre forward chipped Pelaw Dogs keeper to take the lead. From the kick off Pelaw came back at them with David Donnelly passing to full back David Elders who had made a forward run up the right wing and from his first time cross Eddie Shanks headed them level to make it 1-1. It was nearer half time though when Houghton took the lead again when wit another good chip saw the ball in the back of Pelaws net.After the break they went 3-1 up but then Pelaw were awarded a penalty and although it was saved Gary Ryan raced in to chip it passed the keeper to make it 3-2 then around 65 minutes Chris Hawkins made it 3-3. With 10 minutes to go a hard tackle saw Scott Pattison go down in agony  and after a delay of around 5 minutes saw him limp off with torn ligaments in his foot. Anthony Nicholson came on as replacement and Paul Curry had to drop back to central defence. Another hard tackle which was dangerous on this pitch saw David Elders go down injured and resulted in the only booking of the match on the Houghton player. It was still 3-3 in extra time just before the first of the 15 minutes of it when Houghton took the lead again and it was near the end they got a fifth. Pelaw had missed Scott badly in the extra time but referee Peter Fletcher praised them for a well played game and they could hold their heads up high.