18/07/2023
Shelley vets win the Premier League !
Proving that you don’t need to be a brilliant team of ringers and Ex Pros - you just need to be reliable fit organised and consistently boring !
We’d like to think we give hope and inspiration to all others, just as the world famous Shelleys by stayuk123.co.uk led by the mighty Carl Nash did so in 2011 and again in 2013 a bunch of ordinary lads finally bettering top UK side Bone Idle to go forward and dominate Goals Bradford and then Goals Leeds Wednesday Premier leagues until the end of 2019
So after coming out of lockdown in May 2021, if anyone had dared to even suggest the collection of unfit bloated one legged crocks and Dinosaurs of the famous Shelleys by stayuk123.co.uk team could even dare to dream of reaching the upper heights of Goals Leeds Tuesday League, they would have been given odds greater than those given to Leicester City in 2015 !
So quite fitting the mighty Carl Nash turned out for the blue and reds 7-6 cup victory tonight (due to the absence of Chambers FC) bringing the Tuesday Premier league season to a close.
The table doesn’t lie, but without doubt this season has most certainly been a non runner, yes we’ve fielded a team for every game however difficult the challenge, not our fault others couldn’t or wouldn’t.
The key season making game being the earlier date with Chambers FC where the blue and reds could only field a team of 3 regulars Oliver Javadi, the EGTP, Martin Evans, Robby Dagless and two goals ringers, and the Blue and Reds led by the 55 years EGTP won the game 4-1 against the odds with the crazy OAP netting twice
But it was all about the journey, we started out in league 5 and having lost nearly every game and getting immediately relegated to league 6 and decision was made to at least stop losing games and become hard to beat.
Once that decision had been made, and all the team had bought in, the merry band of blue and reds set out to park the bus, focus on game management, and bore every team to death !
Promotion back to league 5 followed, and then champions of league 5, 4, 3, 2 followed in 5 season’s, just one seasons breather in League 1. And yes history will recall we did play every game in that run, at one time going 17 games unbeaten
Credits to Connor King, Adam Priestley, Shane Adams, Adrian Payne, Andrew Lagan, Oliver Javadi, Ry Fry, Jay Hoult and last but not least Tim Pickles (The EGTP) for making the dream possible