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Preston City Council and South Ribble Borough Council have declared their pitches unfit for play this weekend, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October 2019. This means that no matches will take place this weekend on the following parks;

Preston City Parks

Frenchwood Park

Moor Park

Ribbleton Park

London Rd Athletic Track

Mill Lane

South Ribble Parks

Gregson Lane Recreation Ground

Higher Walton Recreation Ground

Hutton

Kingsfold (Penwortham)

Much Hoole Recreation Ground

Tardy Gate Recreation Ground

Walmer Bridge

Worden Park (Leyland)

Eamonn McNamara.

Club officials, you have an opportunity to participate in the Chorley FC Xmas Draw and make money for your club at the same time. Tickets for the draw cost £1.00 each and 60% of all money collected goes to the participating club with 40% going to Chorley FC. If 15 people from your club each sold 10 tickets each, your club would get £90.00 which is not to be sniffed at.

In previous seasons, many of our clubs have taken the opportunity to earn money for their club whilst supporting one of our local non-league clubs at the same time.

Derek Heighway will be at our meeting at Acregate Lane Labour Club on Monday 14 October to distribute ticket books to interested clubs. Derek is well known and highly respected in local football circles, he was the league secretary of the former Chorley Sunday League, many of whose clubs now play in our league.

This is an excellent way to raise money for your club without any outlay. If you want to take part, please call Derek Heighway on 07748 992081 and he will arrange delivery of the tickets and he will collect all the sold tickets at our Christmas League Meeting at Acregate Lane LC on Monday 16 December 2019.

Don’t forget to attend the Special General Meeting at Acregate Lane LC on Monday 14 October at 8.00pm.

Eamonn McNamara.

Twelve games played today of which seven were cup ties and that was a massive improvement on last Sunday’s return.

Sir Tom Finney had an LFA Sunday Trophy date with Cleveleys Town from division 1 of the Blackpool Sunday Alliance, they won 11-3 and their reward is a home tie against the holders Crown Paints from the Blackburn Sunday League.

Walton Athletics season gets better and better as they beat fellow division 1 side Fulwood Park Rangers 7-1 in the Syndicate Trust Challenge Cup, Penwortham Town had a 5-0 home win against Waverley Park and Walton-le-Dale United beat Wilbraham North End 5-1. Meanwhile in the LFA U18s Youth Cup, AFC Darwen beat Lostock St Gerards 5-3 and AFC Darwen Reds drew 3-3 with Read United but won the penalty shootout 5-4. Poulton travelled to Trawden Celtic and won 3-0.

Southport & Ainsdale Amateurs beat Theatre Boys 3-2 in the only premier division game to survive. Moor Park United beat Midgery Court 4-3 in division 3 and South Ribble DC beat Leyland 4-0. Two games in the youth section 3 saw Penwortham St Teresas win 6-1 at Fishwick Rangers and AC Preston drew 3-3 with Chipping at Preston’s College in a game which ebbed and flowed for 90 minutes.

After a quiet opening period AC Preston took the lead on 17 minutes with an excellent header from Harley Nelson. James Nichols levelled the scores on 36 minutes and Nichols was on hand a minute later to score again and put Chipping 2-1 ahead at the interval. Chipping’s Harry Bennett put his side 3-1 ahead when he scored after 52 minutes but the arrears were reduced less than a minute later when Connor Leadbetter scored for AC Preston to make it 2-3 and Adam Valli Carter netted the equaliser on 62 minutes to leave both clubs sharing the spoils.

This was a most enjoyable game to watch between two well-matched and well-disciplined sides who clearly enjoyed their football and full credit to the referee Russell Hayes who handled the game well.

Round up and photos by Eamonn McNamara.

South Ribble Borough Council have declared their pitches unfit for play this weekend, Saturday 5th October 2019. This means that no matches will take place this weekend on the following South Ribble Council pitches;

Gregson Lane Recreation Ground

Higher Walton Recreation Ground

Hutton

Kingsfold (Penwortham)

Much Hoole Recreation Ground

Tardy Gate Recreation Ground

Walmer Bridge

Worden Park (Leyland)

Preston City Council pitches are ON subject to the decision of the match referee. However, the Council and the Local Leagues request that club officials and referees act responsibly and do not play on any pitch which is clearly unfit. If a pitch has been declared unfit it must not be used for a friendly game.

Eamonn McNamara.

The weather had the last word today with just five games surviving after a week of rain and the forecast for the next fortnight looks just as bad. Many of the games postponed today were LFA Cup matches and they take priority so there will be wholesale changes to the fixtures for Sunday 6 October. Fixtures manager Dan Sanderson will update FA Full Time ASAP.

The only game played in the premier division saw Acregate Lane LC travel to Southport & Ainsdale Amateurs and pick up three points with a 3-2 win. AFC Preston collected their first win of the season beating Whittle Wanderers 3-2 at Brownedge St Marys. Hamza Dedat, Aamir Toorawa and Hasan Yusuf scored for AFC with Robert Pilkington on target for Whittle.

Division 3 leaders South Ribble DC beat Rufford Park Rangers 3-0 at the County Ground thanks to goals from Mykie Painter and a brace from Joseph Wareing. Two games survived in the Youth Section, North Lancs DC travelled to Garstang for a 2-1 win with goals from William Sharkey and Sam Poullet with Lewis Heap scoring for Garstang and finally Clitheroe won 4-2 away at Ladybridge.

Round up and photos by Eamonn McNamara.

Physical Training: The Society provides physical training for its members at UCLan Sports Arena Training every Monday evening between 6.30-7.30pm except on Society Monthly Meeting nights when it will be brought forward to 6.00-7.00pm.

For further details about the physical training sessions please contact Paul Marsden here.

Lancashire Sunday Football League is always happy to accept new referees to its list of officials. If you have any enquiries about refereeing on the League or would like to be added to the list of officials, please contact the League's Referee Manager Mark Moore here.

Mid Lancashire Football League operates on Saturday afternoons for Open Age clubs and they are also happy to accept new referees to its list of officials. If you have any enquiries about refereeing on the League or would like to be added to the list of officials, please contact the League's Referee Secretary Tony Hawkes here.