16/05/2026
Durkar 2-1 Stanningley Old Boys FC FT
Ethan Newbatt ⚽️
Zach Martin ⚽️ (sponsored by Dynamic Mechanical Services and Greens Electrical and Plumbing Ltd) - Video attached
Ethan opened the scoring after 11 minutes, from their keeper scuffing his goal kick into their midfielder, where Elliot Hammond (sponsored by Monarch Artstone) pounced on a loose touch, which fell to Ethan, who took a touch and from the outside of the box curled one into the side netting.
We went in deservedly 1-0 up at half time. After that, Stanningley came into the game more and had their own chances, but we held out until the 92nd minute, where they equalised after a corner was whipped in, there was a bit of a mess in the box, with headers cleared but they kept coming back in, and it fell to their player who volleyed it home into the roof of the net. The lads could have felt sorry for themselves, but we kept going until the end and nice bit of passing play from the lads paid off. The ball was spread out wide by Dean Lingwood (sponsored by Hudson Plastering services) to Morgan Hammond, then Deano carried on with his run between the centre back and left back, where Morgan fed the ball through and their defender clipped Dean’s ankle and he falls over in the box. Pen given, Zach took and slotted it into the bottom left corner, in the 97th minute! Shortly after, the ref blew for full time and we ran out 2-1 winners!
A great performance and win to cap off our debut season in the Yorkshire Amateur League! A win against an already promoted side is a good feat and a good one to end on. That sees us finish the season in 4th and we’d have snapped your hand off for that at the start of the season. On the other hand, we missed out on promotion by just 1 point in the end. 2 points out of 9 against 3 of the bottom 4 at home has seen us fall just short. We’ve beat the top 3 at home, so it’s a hard one to take looking back.
That being said, I’m proud of the lads and that season. Let’s hope next season we can go one better!
Finally, thanks to all of our sponsors and everyone that has come to support us this year, it’s massively appreciated. As always, thanks to the management team in Neil and Matthew for always backing us. Now for a long rest and back to it in September!