EZY Achieve "Perfect Season"

Thursday Div 1  

 EZY FC made Footy history with the first ever Perfect Season, a tremendous achievement in winning 14 games out of 14. However their final hurdle was not an easy one, as they relied on a last minute John Daly goal to beat an excellent Oxford internationals side and coming from behind to win 3-2. EZY were a little lucky as their equaliser to make it 2-2 was an own goal. But EZY pushed forward in search of the much sought after winner and were rewarded when Daly pounced on a loose ball to send his teammates wild with delight. Oxford did very well in their maiden Footy season and had had some excellent talent in their side especially in Conor Hawes and Joe Kinsella. Brian Lyons was excellent again for EZY and deservedly picked up the MVP award. Polish man Sebsatian Oziomek also made Footy history as he won the Golden Boot award with an incredible 39 goals in 14 matches. An incredible record in the top division. The previous record was held by another foreign player Chen Changyou from China whose 34 goals record has stood for 4 years, but was in a lower division.

Thursday Div 2  “The Alan Jordan Memorial Cup” 

 Champions Net Busters marked their last game with another convincing win over Mount Oval and picked up the Alan Jordan Memorial Cup.  Mount Oval had a lot of possession but were caught on the counter by Dave McCarthy, Stephen Stromsoe and Paul Sexton several times, who had the quick break tactic down to a tee. Goalkepper Conor McDowell who had a fabulous season, won the MVP award and Paul Sexton won the Golden Boot with 29 goals, making it a clean sweep for the Net Busters.
Apple Exiles marked their last game with a narrow 3-2 win over O'Higgins, with Mark Kirwin being the Exiles best player for the 2nd week in succession.
The Jager Bombers finished their season on a high as they won last 4 games on the trot, their latest victims being the Chancers, beating them 4-3. The Bombers needed a while to settle into Footy but seem to have come to grips with the pace of the game and have become more organised in defence which should stand to them for future seasons.
The Dragons who finished in 2nd place, also came from behind to see off Cork Celtic, with poacher Fiachra O'Driscoll  scoring 5 times in a 6-2 win.

Thursday Division 3

 This division goes down to the wire with the top two teams with a chance of honours going into the final week. The JT Specials and the Flying Column both had convincing wins over Men Utd and Balaga Tongo respectively and must play each other in a winner take all clash this coming Thursday. The Specials go into the final week a point ahead and as a result of this are slight favourites over the Column. Both teams have huge respect for each other having being playing in the Footy leagues for several years and with neither team ever having won honours. May the best team win !
3rd  placed Sons of Pitches were back to their best as they convincingly beat the Whitfords.
All Games in this league are at 7pm this Thursday.

Wednesday Div 2

 The Lemmons were crowned champions of division 2 as Sub Standard Liege faltered at the final hurdle against the FC Coping Badly. Donal Lennon's Lemmons took advantage of this by beating bottom placed AFC Tesco comfortably and in doing so won their first Footy league honours. Alan Greaney scored 6 times for the Lemmons and scooped the Golden Boot award.
Sub Standard came up short against a resolute Coping Badly side and lost 4-3 when they needed a win. Bernard Parkes and Martin Hallahan were best for Coping Badly who fully deserved victory on the night. Patrick Coleman and James Mealy tried hardest for Liege but could not break down the Coping defence who had keeper Robbie Doyle in tremendous form.
Rosies came from behind to beat rivals the Duffers 4-3 in a closely fought encounter.
Fritzl Palace also won by the odd goal, beating AC Standard 3-2 in another tight game.

Wednesday Div 1

 The Kids picked up another league title, in a league that was won a few weeks ago when they beat their close rivals the Bailey. Colin Hammond who was their top scorer picked up the Most Valuable player award who also had Michael Doody nominated for MVP.
Racing Club overcame the  3rd placed Thirty Somethings  4-2. The Somethings fought back from 4-0 to make a game of it in the 2nd half but Racing looked like they took their foot off the gas and let their opponents back into the game. Another high energy performance from Racing's Edward Noonan and Jason Lake along with 4 goals from 42 year old Jurgen Bukowski was enough to see off the Somethings in the first half. Darragh O Regan who enjoyed another excellent season, scored 3 times for Crystal Phallus and finished just a few goals shy of Bukowski who picked up the Golden Boot award. Racing's Padriag McGovern also had another high scoring season, another impressive tally as he missed several games through injury.
The Bailey had Ben Ryan and Ronan Sherman in good form as they cruised to victory over bottom place Sliabh na mBan in a very casual and open game .