Walking Football
The first day of the monthly mini tournament between The Relics, Maccabi and Salcom took place today (6th October 2020) with each club fielding two teams. The games took place in a good spirit but in atrocious weather with heavy rain throughout the day.
Three teams were unbeaten on the day, but Relics Blues top the table on goal difference.
With regards to the league there will be NO further competition until at least March next year (2021) due to CoronaVirus.
With this in mind we have agreed with Maccabi and Salcom teams that we will play our own friendly competition (between the three of us ) once a month all games played at Goshen starting next Tuesday 6th October kick off at our normal time 12:30pm.
We will run it as a sort of league with all the results ongoing being accumulated and produce a league table at the end.
Also we are looking to book in a small number of other friendly games starting with Manchester Corinthians on Tuesday October 20th played at Goshen again at our normal time 12:30pm.
On 25th September 2020 the GMWFL finally cancelled the 2020 Autumn League fixtures. The decision came after a couple of months of will we – won’t we speculation and means that there has been no competitive league games in 2020.
The GMWFL stated … “With the latest lockdown news from the government we have to be realistic and reluctantly accept that there will be no league fixtures this year. Hopefully the situation will change and we can go ahead with the 2021 Spring league in all age categories. We have all lost a years participation in a sport we have come to love and for some of us that’s a disaster.”
The Relics entered two teams into the Maccabi mini tournament which also included two teams from Maccabi and two teams from Salcom. The Relics finished first and second in the league, both teams were unbeaten, and both teams didn’t concede a goal.
Well done to all the Relics players who took part.
Relics Blues – Won 4, Drew 1 – Gaz, Tony G, Tex, Keiran, Dave M, John W, Graham, Jerry.
Relics Whites – Won 3, Drew 2 – Eddy, Bob, Pete S, Keith S, JoMo, Andy Rich, Keith B, Keith H.
And a special mention to the Relics that helped out Maccabi – Andy D, Pete A, Pat, And refs Keiran & Ken.
Photos Copyright Keith Hayes
The GMWFL has issued the following information.
Following discussions with the public health team at Rochdale Borough Council and the continued addition local measures in place in the Rochdale Borough a decision has been made to cancel all October fixtures in the GMWFL. The safety and wellbeing of all players being key at this time. We will review the position in October for a shortened season in November and December but it now looks highly unlikely that this will happen. Let’s hope that things improve in time for the Spring season in 2021. We will update you further in October.
The Relics enjoyed a long awaited return to training at Radcliffe Boro’s Neuven Stadium training pitches. It was traditional Friday training weather … rain! but that didn’t dampen the spirits of the Relics players who really enjoyed the return and the banter in the tea room afterwards even without Jaffa cakes.
The first games at our new home at Goshen have been arranged, The Relics will play hosts to Maccabi Old Codgers on two dates later this month. The first games will be played on Tuesday 11th August 2020 with the re-match on Tuesday 25th August. Kick Off is 11am on both dates.
The Greater Manchester Walking Football League (GMWFL) has sent an email to all clubs regarding the restart of the league for the 2020 Autumn season which is due to start in September. The text of the email is below.
The Heywood Sports Village are running a phased return programme of all activities and at the moment the 3G facility still isn’t open for competitive walking football. We feel that any form of a league restart in September is now highly unlikely and hopefully we will have more news in the next few weeks. The current restrictions in the Greater Manchester and East Lancashire areas haven’t helped matters either.
There is a meeting of League Officers on 9th September and we are still hopeful of running some sort of league competitions for all age categories starting in October.
A great turnout by the Relics players (including a welcome return from Charlie Nangle) greeted the return of training (temperature checked and socially distanced of course) at our new home at Goshen after a four month lock down due to COVID-19. Everyone was impressed with the 3G pitch and facilities and it was great to get together again and have a kick around.
Bury FC The Trust will manage the new 3G all weather pitch at Goshen sports field, and as they have now been handed the keys they invited us down to view the facilities.
As you can see from the video below, it looks great, and boss Keiran, and coach Ken look very pleased with it, the lads gave it a thumps up too.
The FA will be attending on 1st July to oversee a trial day and check for health and safety issues and processes and procedures for coming out of the COVID 19 lock down, we are then hoping to get approval to start using the facility in mid July.
We have booked our training slot for Tuesdays 11am to 12 noon (replacing the sessions at Castle Leisure Centre), and we will also be using it for friendlies and competitions.
Bury Relics