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Sport & Leisure Swifts are sponsored by: The DEVeNISH COMPLEX & GINO'S About the Club Achievements Players Weekly News & Reviews Seasons Statistics |
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The first competitive goal on Sport& Leisure Swifts new £250,000 pitch (and facilities) was scored by Joe O'Halloran on Saturday October 14 2001 vrs Derriaghy CC. Lottery draw: There was no winner this week again so the jackpot will be up to £200 next week. The bonus draw winner was John Kennedy for the second week in a row.
Weekly Match Reports: Sport & Leisure Swifts vrs Mossley YM Leisure ease to home win Score: 3 - 0. League A double of wonder strikes from Mark Clifford and an inevitable Tony Norney goal was enough to give Leisure 1st's the points at home on Saturday afternoon. In a match that could have gone the either way before the kick off, going by Leisure's indifferent performances so far this season, for Leisure to come out with such a big score line was a relief to the home team and everyone involved with the club. And the team were slightly disappointed in the end that they did not win by more to send out a message to the rest of the League that they can still beat anyone at this level, easily, when they put the work in. Mossley looked dangerous at times during the match with chances for Thompson and Farrelly forcing saves from Saunders. But Leisure had the match under control from Clifford's first strike on 25 mins and with Norney making it two before the end of the half the early jitters had been well forgot about. Leisure came out in the second half and carried the game to Mossley and with JJ back in midfield and O'Halloran determined to make the defeat of last week a distant memory the points were never going anywhere but to the home teams ever improving tally. Clifford made it 3-0 with his second wonder strike of the match for a final result of 3-0 which in the end flattered the away team but still cheered up the Leisure management of Rainey & Bradley. Result: SLS 1st's 3-0 Mossley (home - League) Iveagh II vrs Sport & Leisure Swifts II Leisure win easy in top of table clash Score: 0 - 4. League Leisure II's traveled away for the second week in a row, to Iveagh, and continued their magnificent unbeaten run against a team said to be one of the two teams who can beat them to the title this season. And the score was just about fair as football goes; a 0-4 away win, clean sheet and against the early league leaders but Leisure went home content that they could have won by four more. Leisure started the match with four or five regulars away either injured or on first team duty but had Mark O'Hare, Jim Smith (who were solid at the back), Gerry Kelly and Dee Kearney taking their places. And it was a Dee Kearney brace (a lovely lob and a well taken one on one) in the last 5 mins of the first half that gave Leisure a 2-0 first half lead. Leisure had took over the match after a scrappy first 20 mins and the goals were only a matter of time coming with the best balls being pumped forward by O'Hare and Sean Smith with O'Halloran, Kearney and Doc always running and putting pressure on the Iveagh defense. Iveagh's best chances were from Rusty's set pieces but Leisure were coping too well for to allow themselves to be pressured. The second half scoring belonged to the inform Stevie O'Halloran who, after scoring a hat-trick last week, found himself chasing a hat-trick again. Himself and Kearney defended well from the front for 15 mins in the second half before piling pressure on the Iveagh defense once again with Danny Fox their main target. The ex-Leisure man was having a bad game and Leisure forwards were taking full advantage. Stevies first was a tap in at the back post but the second was a cracker as he took Fox inside out before striking the ball with his left in of the far post for 4-0 and a deserved result. Final result: Sport & Leisure Swifts II 4-0 Iveagh II (away - League). John Morgan's Man of the Match: Jim Smith. Took 2nd team duty very serious. Third team League football Sport and Leisure all headed back to the The Devenish for hot food and sandwiches provided by the complex for the teams.
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