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Leeds SFA V Blackburn SFA, 4 - 0.

Saturday 12th November 2005 at Blackburn

In the end it was a  comfortable victory here for Leeds, although initially you would not have predicted such a comprehensive win. Blackburn initially pressed very strongly, competing for every ball and dominating the midfield for the first ten minutes. Fortunately for Leeds the pace set by Blackburn was unsustainable and their formation was too narrow, everything coming through the middle. The Leeds back four looking very solid and never appearing to be in any real danger, despite Blackburns temerity. As Blackburn steadied to a more realistic pace Leeds started to get on top. With a bit of luck it could have been three up to Leeds in the first half. A Tom Coldwell header cleared off the line, the ball in the back of the net by Kingsley Wetherald but disallowed, the ref giving a foul on the keeper even though he had lost the ball before contact was made. Determined to get on the score sheet kingsley then achieved it with some style, seeing the keeper marginally off his line he placed the ball from 25 yards out, straight into the top left hand corner, keeper no chance, 1-0 to Leeds. This definitely bouyed the Leeds players who grew steadily in confidence and stature from then on.

A brief flutter at the start of the second half when the ball was given away too cheaply at times but normal transmission was quickly resumed and Blackburn never looked like getting back into the game.

Leeds second came when Scott Driscoll buried the ball into the roof of the net after Danny Kenworthy hit the post, Richard Beese got to the loose ball but the keeper could only parry it into Driscolls path.

Klevis Banushi got Leeds third with his first goal for the team, easily slotting the ball into the net after a superb run down the left by Joe Kendall who beat three players before delivering the cross. Klevis Banushi then got an easy second and Leeds fourth goal with a simple tap in after the keeper fluffed a Richard Beese cross and failed to cope with the advancing Kingsley Wetherald.

South Nottinghamshire U14 SFA V Leeds U14 SFA;  0 - 1

Saturday 22nd October 2005

First outing for the recently revamped Leeds squad, some new faces, two boys from the original U11 squad returning after two years out of favour added to the existing team which now only includes six boys still playing from the original U11 squad.

The only goal of the match came from new signing Kingsley Wetherald in the first half, receiving the ball on the edge of the box, a turn and two steps later he calmly passed the ball into the back of the net for his debut goal, top finishing.

Over the course of the game possession was something like 60/40 in favour of Leeds, shots on goal again saw Leeds well in front at something like 12/3.

S. Notts looked at their best just before the end of the first half but really never troubled Leeds even when they tried to up the tempo in the last quarter.

Defensively Leeds looked solid for 95% of the time. Overall, a good performance from a new team, Leeds midfield needed to join up and support both forwards and defence a little more. A bit more solid holding possession in the middle of the park will probably come as the team gel. Manager Mr Fawsley tested players at different positions throughout the game and will probably be pleased with what he saw, even at the first outing some of the new signings had already more than shown their worth.

Referee, Mr Harland of Nottingham had an excellent game which was played on a decent playing surface with excellent facilities at hand.

Leeds SFA V York SFA, 0 - 1

Sat 15th October 2005

A very close hard fought battle this. The difference between the two teams being a second minute goal by York, a speculative but well struck shot from 25yds out which left the keeper no chance.

The striking feature of this fixture was the pitch. Well cut grass around the perimeter, neatly mown strip for the touchline and enough grass on the pitch to keep a big herd of cows going for a month! No word of a lie, the grass was longer than the stubby (nicked from IKEA) pencil that I use in my notebook and thick with it, in fact stood on end the pencil disappeared into the lush vegetation. It was definitely not designed for playing passing football on and even most rugby fields are not as verdant, which was a shame because despite their obvious physical strength York looked a good side. The York numbers 6, 10 and 15 looking the better of their players, the pitch and style of the game dictating that the outstanding Leeds players were the stronger and more aggressive ones.

On reflection perhaps Leeds should have taken a leaf out of the York tactical book and played the long ball more rather than continuing to try and play passing football where it was never going to work?

Richard Coldwell

Didn't do one for  V Rotherham it was a farce! Rotherham were 4 players short, none of the 5 subs they had at U15 level were 'big enough' to stand in so we lent them 4 players. At half time the missing 4 players turned up (they had all set off together!) and the second half Leeds eventually played against a full Rotherham boys only team. Upshot was 5 - 1 to Leeds, Rotherham looking far better in the first half when they managed to keep it to 1 - 0!!!  Hey Ho.