Summer football with the Cowgirls

Posted by Cowgirls on May 1, 2011 in Club News, Team News | 0 comments

Running from Weds 4th May to Wed 15th June 2011, 7 – 8pm. Meet middle path in Eastville park near the benches. Weekly friendly games – ALL WELCOME! £2 per week. Just turn up with trainers / football boots, comfy clothing and shin pads.

If you have any questions before coming along for your first session, feel free to call Zoe on 07980 309433 (mobile).

The Fear

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 29, 2011 in Tours/Tournaments | 0 comments

Cup der Angst (Cup of the fear) – Altona 93 antiracist tournament [against “the fortress Europe “]

We, some active fans of the Hamburgian Football club “Altona 93”, want to invite you to our fan- tournament dated june 16, 2011 at our stadium called “Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn”. The time schedule will be the following:

Friday, June 17, in the evening: Cosy arriving at our club house (peoples kitchen incl. vegetarian as well as vegan titbits, DJ and Kick-Fascism-Tipp-Kick-tournament , a table football game)

Saturday, June 18, during the day: Fan tournament in the stadium. One plays over the half field, 7-m-goals. Six people (all gender) form a team. The fun of playing has to be in the spotlight.

Saturday, June 18, in the evening: ending with a big party at the “Lobusch” (www.lobusch.org).

Read the small print: Also on Saturday we make sure that there is food and drink at a favourable price. It’s a nonprofit thing, if there are any profits we will support the local refugee work.

Therefore we ask you to bring along instead of a starting money devotional objects and stuff of your groups and associations (patches, badges, fanzines or stuff like this) to be sold or auctioneered at a collective stall. These do not have to be football based, but can also have anti-racist, anti-fascist, antisexist or other progressive topics. In addition there is to be a tournament booklet with conceptions of all teams. Send us a few sentences to your emergence and your self understanding as well as a few pictures (or emblem), please. If you need places to crash, please contact us in time – we need some time to organize!

We are looking forward meeting you!

The completely small print: We are looking forward to all who reject male federated, racist, fascist and sexist attitudes, just like us. Should you be interested in taking part in the tournament, please contact me or antira@livegigs.de until may 15, 2011.

This Damn Thing Keeps Spreading

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 28, 2011 in Community News | 0 comments

Next Friday (6th) author Gabriel Kuhn will be speaking at Easton Community Centre about his book Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. The details of this talk can be found in a previous post. The book contains quite a lot about the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls and our network of friends. Gabriel has in fact started a new team in Stockholm of which he says:

We’ve finally got a kind of alternative football team in Stockholm off the ground. We founded a sports club, 17 SK, as a part of a new network of local initiatives and community groups along the southern end of the subway line no. 17 – hence called Nätverket linje 17. It’s all very new and we’ve only played twice so far (we plan to play every tuesday), but I’m hopeful. We’ve already drawn more than a dozen people to the network who would have never ever got in touch otherwise. There is also a children’s and youth group in the network, and we’ve been talking about starting a gender-mixed U10 team. We’ll see. In any case, the Easton Cowboys/Cowgirls are, along with the fine folks of FC Vova, named as role models on our web page!

If you look a the afore mentioned webpage you will find an article in Swedish which could well be a recipe for pickled herring. However, Google Translate, which is far wiser than I, reckons it says:

17 SK Network’s Line 17’s sports club. We want to create an opportunity to play sports in a compassionate and non-race-oriented environment. We also want to use the potential of sport to bring people together, to get to know each other and to share joy, laughter and exercise. Our role models are compounds Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls in England or FC Vova in Lithuania has managed to combine sports and social engagement.

We begin by Lira football once a week on Kärrtorps IP. As of April 19 we will meet every Tuesday, at 18, on the grass behind the gravel. Everyone is welcome!

If you want to start up other activities within 17 SK leave a comment, send an email, please stop by Kärrtorps IP on a Tuesday night or take it up in a big meeting!

just for your information: i've finally got a kind of alternative football team in stockholm off the ground. i founded a sports club, 17 SK, as a part of a new network of local initiatives and community groups along the southern end of the subway line no. 17 - hence called nätverket linje 17. it's all very new and we've only played twice so far (we plan to play every tuesday), but i'm hopeful. we've already drawn more than a dozen people to the network who would have never ever got in touch otherwise. there is also a children's and youth group in the network, and we've been talking about starting a gender-mixed U10 team. we'll see. in any case, the easton cowboys/cowgirls are, along with the fine folks of FC vova, named as role models on our web page!

http://forsjutton.se/?page_id=252

Can You Help?

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 28, 2011 in Community News | 0 comments

There are 3 people coming down from the Midlands for the Gabriel Kuhn talk on 6th May – they have been in contact for a while about starting an alternative football team and very keen to meet the Cowfolk and hear about the football network. Is anyone able to offer them a place to stay for the Friday night after the talk and drinks a the Plough? Me and Zo are a bit pushed for space at the moment and will already have had someone staying for the Kiptik night. They are leaving again on the Saturday.

Any More For Bacon?

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 26, 2011 in Results/Reports | 1 comment

No, it seems we have all had our fill.

23/04/2011

The Saturday B Team lost to Sneyd Park A 5-2

The Saturday A Team lost to Clifton St. Vincents 1-2

24/04/2011

There was a Cricket Friendly at Hazlebury Bryan however no news has reached this parish as to how it went.

Bridges Brings Home The Bacon

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 21, 2011 in Results/Reports | 0 comments

The Easton Cowboys Sunday Team won the GFA Premier (South) Cup tonight beating CK 2-0. This is just about the biggest thing that the Cowboys can win without going semi-pro.

Congratulations to the Easton Cowboy’s very own Special One Eddy Bridges who watched scruffily from the touch line as his boys put in a confident performance on a difficult pitch. The losing manager can at least take comfort from the fact that he was better turned out than his opposite number.

The Webgimp does not really know much about football but this match report will have to do until somebody else sends something better in. (more…)

Vigesimal Results

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 20, 2011 in Results/Reports | 0 comments

The result from the Suburbans’ fixture last night is recorder as an H-H draw. There are two possibilities here. Either the Cowboys, the home team, were awarded the game as a walk over. Or the score has been recorded in vigesimal numbers (base 20) and both teams in fact scored 17 goals.

Don’t You Know Who I Am?

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 19, 2011 in Results/Reports | 0 comments

You wait 20 years for a comedy “don’t you know who I am” and then 2 come along within 6 months.

11/04/2011

There was Netball on Monday against our old arch nemesis Southside. It was a closely fought battle from the outset, nerves set in with a lot riding on these last few games. As the light faded on the court we just lost 31-32. Meg got player from them and Mandie, Caroline and Tickle from us.

16/04/2011

The Saturday A Team played Stoke Bishop and lost 1-2.

The Saturday B Team drew with Sneyd Park A 2-2.

The Suburbans beat Ridings High 8-0, not riding that high then. If you fancy going and watching them tonight at Bristol West Indies they will be playing Tytherington Rocks Res, you could also have a go at cricket nets while you are there as the Cricket Team will be raining at the same time.

There was no netball.

17/04/2011

The Ultra Casuals lost to Longwell Green 0-10.

The first cricket friendly of the season took place on Sunday. One was against Frenchay where we were roundly thrashed.  TT reports thus:

The ground at Frenchay was bathed in warm spring sunshine and beneath the winter cobwebs the pitch appeared to be bone dry. The toss was dispensed with; presumably in these cash-strapped times nobody had a spare coin, besides, skipper Ev had amicably negotiated the terms of engagement with the opposition and everyone seemed happy for the Cowboys to take to the field.

Earlier, there had been murmurs that the Cowboys only had ten men and yet the field looked well populated and the ball always seemed to find a fielder. Remarkably shrewd captaincy, perhaps? Winter net sessions appeared to have paid off as the bowlers all settled in to a tidy line and length, restricting Frenchay to less than three an over, even if the batsmen initially proved difficult to dislodge. A brilliant spell of bowling by Wayne should have been rewarded earlier when the batsman was duped into offering a tame lob over the bowler’s head, only for mid-on to trot around and spill a dolly like a greased piglet. His blushes were spared when Rob dislodged the batsman a few balls later, on his way to a three wicket haul that earned him a joint man of the match award.

Otherwise, the fielding was sharp; Ev clutching a smart caught and bowled, Wayne holding a screamer in the slips and Joe hurdling the boundary fence with more aplomb than most Aintree nags, even if the ball had already beaten him to it. New blood Alex acquitted himself well, picking up a wicket in his first match and Angelo tumbled nimbly behind the stumps after a speedy recovery from his broken ankle.

For most of the innings it didn’t look like Frenchay would muster more than 150, but unbeknown to most, the skip had decided to donate a few runs to the opposition in the final few overs ‘to give the Cowboys some batting practice’ and consequently Frenchay ended up on 163 for 9.

After tea, which comprised surely some of the whitest bread to ever leave an oven, the skip sat down to define the batting order, only to discover that there wasn’t enough room on the scorecard. Somehow, the Cowboys had gone from thinking that they were one player short to having one extra and the once shrewd captain now appeared to be lacking some key skills. James valiantly extricated himself from the batting line up as Ev furtively rebooted his abacus, wondering if the opposition had noticed.

The Frenchay opening attack was lively and direct. Much too soon Angelo and Ben were removing their pads with few runs on the board and once Grant had departed too, the Cowboys were in dire need of the steadying presence of Steve. The score trickled along until Ev missed a straight yorker, your correspondent only narrowly avoiding the same fate before the pace was replaced by spin and he eventually heaved when he shouldn’t oughta. Joe joined Steve for a while, whose batting earned him the other man of the match joint, but a respectable total was still a long way off.

Rich wagged the tail a little with a six over mid-off, but his failed attempt at a repeat two balls later saw the onset of mange. Rob, Wayne and Alex did all they could before the innings was humanely put to sleep, a little less than a hundred runs short of the target. At the end of the match, when Ev sheepishly informed the opposition captain that we’d accidentally fielded with twelve and the reply was, “Oh yeah, we knew,” the winner of the Cider Moment was hardly in doubt.

This report originally appeared on Green Lung. The score card can be seen here.

There may well have been another friendly against Windford but no news has yet reached this parish.

More Mid-Week

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 14, 2011 in Results/Reports | 0 comments

12/04/2011

The Suburbans beat Lockleaze 4-1

14/04/2011

The Saturday A Team lost to Ashley Res. 4-3

Can We Look Yet?

Posted by Webgimp on Apr 11, 2011 in Results/Reports | 0 comments

09/04/2011

The Suburbans continued a good run of results beating Gelnside 5 Old Boys 2-0.

The Saturday A Team lost to St Andrews 3-1.

The Saturday B Team beat Torpedo A 5-2.

Netball reports thus:

The A’s see off Crossbow 38-21 with meg getting player from them and Mare from us. The Too’s lose out to a strong Ashton team 6-47 with Kerry getting player from them and Donna and ? someone else getting it jointly from us.

10/04/2011

The Sundays had their League Cup Final against Hanham Sunday on Sunday. There was a little tension in the air after their meeting in the League a few weeks ago ended in drama. No news has reached this quarter about the spirit in which the game was played but Eddy’s cup double dreams were shattered when Hanham beat our boys 4-3. Oddly Lebeq got a by in the other semi against Shire, so perhaps it was their turn for the drama this week.

Fantasy By Cowboys

No, not a perfume but a league of non-existent football.

Semi Finals of the KipTik Cup

Games were played this weekend – just waiting on the FF updates from Managers (plus Thursdays game from William)