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Welcome to LanghoFC.com the web site of Langho Football, Sports & Country Club. Here you can find the latest news and results for all of Langho’s teams plus details of forthcoming events in our Social Club. The Social Club is also available to hire for private functions.
Cap’n Jasper steers Langho to victory!
Jasper Griffin put in a great captain’s performance as he inspired Langho to a six – three victory over a much improved Blue Star team.
The start of the game almost knocked the wind out of the home side’s sails as Blue Star’s MOM, James Joseph, saw his speculative twenty yard plus effort fly into the back of the net after just thirty seconds. To make matters worse the away team were two to the good just moments later. Thankfully the team coped with the pressure much better then their manager and while I was a gibbering wreck on the sidelines, Jasper collected the ball and neatly wove an intricate path around the Blue Star defence before halving the deficit with a great shot. Cal seemed unimpressed by Jasper’s antics and almost as if to prove a point, won the ball straight from the kick off and performed his own mazey run to coolly finish and draw Langho level. Continue reading Under 7s: Langho 6 – 3 Blue Star
JASPER JARRETT MAKES HIS DEBUT!!
Another super performance from the boys this week. Goals from Dominic (4) Paul (3) and James (3) helped us to a convincing win. Full credit to Pleasington, who never gave up and were much improved from the first encounter at the start of the season. After a delayed kick off due to the frost, the Maroons were raring to go and strong midfield displays from Oliver, Joseph and James meant we were six up at half time.
After the break, we witnessed our first ever pitch invasion. Jasper Jarrett, the 8 week old springer spaniel, ran onto pitch looking to add his name to the scoresheet. He was quickly removed to a chorus of “Boo’s” and spent the rest of the match in police custody! It didn’t affect the boys too much who scored 4 more once play had resumed. ( Note to Joseph – If your going to throw the ball back to the referee, make sure you don’t hit him on the back of the head with it!!)
Special mention to William Dolton this week. He was taken ill a few minutes before kick off and had to miss the game. Get well soon.
Once again – Brilliant boys – well done.
M.o.m. – Dominic Brown
Team: George, Sam, Liam,Joseph, Oliver,James,Paul,Dominic,Santino,William.
G-Force!
Playing the league leaders was always going to be a big ‘ask’, this was made harder as we played on the unfamiliar surface of a 3G (hence G-force!) artificial grass pitch. This pitch proved to be an excellent playing surface and I can see the benefits of this given the poor winter weather, and as a mum who washes lots of kits it is nice not to have to contend with a washing machine full of mud and grass! The 3G surface caused our lads some problems in anticipating the speed and run of the ball. Fulledge, who use this surface regularly, were clearly better able to cope. Having said that, Fulledge are undoubtedly one of the best teams in the league, playing skilful positive football right from the start. We felt we had a pretty decent first half, managing to contain them to a 3 nil lead. The second half was a different story – we might have to consider breaking out the Jaffa cakes (a la under 8’s) for the half time team talk! We conceded 6 goals, including one own goal and one penalty, which had to be taken twice. Daniel kept his nerve and was a fingertip from saving the first shot and a toe tip from saving the second.
It’s getting really boring but all I can say is – a typical Langho under 9 performance. We play Fulledge twice in the next three weeks so lets hope that Langho can gain some advantage by playing on the grass pitch at the Rydings (although Fulledge have offered to book the 3G!)
MoM: Daniel Kellington
It looked like we were going to carry on from where left off last week when George put the ball in the back of the net to make it 1-0 with 60 secs on the clock . Half the parents missed the first goal as they were still slurping coffee on the Rydings car park. Captain Jacob made it 2-0 as he met a great Mash corner on the edge of the box and slotted it home.
Half time and changes were made, The Mill Hill manager must have stirred his boys up as they went on the attack. The Langho boys failed to clear their lines resulting in the visitors first. The scoreline stayed at 2-1 until the very last moments of the game. Mash brought down one of the MH boys on what was the very edge of the penalty area, others with a better view than myself suggested it may have been in the area, however this was immaterial as the MH player curled his effort into the top corner giving Blandy no chance of making a save. No complaints about the result, we took our foot of the gas and MH were a very good team who came and played attractive football. MoM – Matt S.
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I was quite worried going into this fixture. After a tough encounter with Mill Hill earlier in the season, coupled with 4 of my starting 7 away on a sleep-over on Saturday night, i feared the worst.
The adventurers arrived at the Rydings in good time for kick off, thanks to coach driver for the day, Lucy Isherwood. It was a case of, give us your best for 30 minutes and then go and sleep for the afternoon.
The game started with both teams pushing forward and chances falling to both sides. Sam and Liam had to work hard all morning to contain a very good Mill Hill forward line. A job they carried out to perfection (almost).
Our attack line of Paul and Dominic worked hard and created a host of chances in the first half, but couldn’t find the back of the net. It was commented (by his mum),that Paul has now hit the post nearly as many times as he’s scored this season. The breakthrough came half way through the first half, a shot from Paul was saved by the keeper, but the ball fell to Joseph who forced the ball home from close range. Minutes later it was the same combination and Joseph added his second of the day.
Half time 2-0.
Changes at the break saw Santino come on for Dominic and Oliver make way for James. The second half belonged to James, who put in a fine performance and capped it with a super first goal for the Maroons. A liam free kick was sent into the Mill Hill box and a sweet half volley left the keeper no chance. 3-0.
I have to give Mill Hill every credit, as they kept coming at us right to the very end. They have 1 or 2 very good individuals, who gave us headaches all morning. It was a sign of our character that the Maroons dug deep and everyone did a defensive job when called upon. Mill Hill got their rewards late on, as a stumble by Liam, led to the referee awarding a penalty for handball. Step forward Mr Stretch. A man of the match performance last time out was followed up with a super penalty save. 2 out of 2 now for George, which earned him the m.o.m. again.
3-0 final score. Well done boys.
Team: George, Sam, Liam, Joseph, Oliver, Paul, Dominic, James,Santino.
FIRST IT WAS A BLUE MOON, THEN THE WOLVES CAME OUT.
On Friday the boys were invited to play Manchester City Academy at their Platt lane ground. We took 11 boys along and played 4 small games on the 3G surface. The boys did themselves proud against some top class players. They came away with a certificate each and also learned some valuable lessons in how the game should be played, could we take all we learned into our next fixture against Clitheroe? Not half!!
The boys seemed up for this game right from the off, you can usually tell if they fancy it or not within the first couple of minutes and we all got the impression they wanted to play and play with style and desire. From start to finish the Clitheroe keeper was bombarded with shot after shot. Goals came from George x3, Matt x 2, GCLE, Mash, Birthday boy Jacob, Debut boy Matthew Anderton. All the goals were well taken, some with moments of individual skill others as a result of excellent build up play and teamwork.
Anybody who watched our last game must have wondered how Oscar didn’t, A score and B smash the goal post to bits, well this week he succeeded were he failed last week. Playing as a defender he pushed up field were the ball was played back to him, he then hit what can only be described as a rocket, low and hard it flew in like an arrow. Had the post anchors not been in place i’m convinced the goals would have gone through the clubhouse window.
Great team performance with the MoM award going to George Ellison.
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