Category: England

From The Grass Roots To The World Cup

The Winners Are In

Well, what a night that was! The Leisure Leagues Stay At Home Special of the Prize Draw proved a huge success – and we hope that the thousands of you that watched it enjoyed it too. First, to deal with the all-important prizes: The winners award of a £250 payment towards your Mortgage or rent…
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Stay At Home Special – Leisure Leagues Prize Draw

Covid-19 has paused most things at the moment, but not everything, and the Leisure Leagues  prize draw Stay At Home Special is happening tonight – and it gives YOU a chance to bag something for yourself whether you are in one of the winning teams or not. A number of special Stay At Home prizes…
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England Hero Talks

Last week, Henry Muggeridge, one of the stars of the Socca world cup last Autumn, made the national media, for a goal he scored earlier in the season for Whitehawk FC. The amazing team move that led up to it was a thing of real beauty, so we thought it would be a good time…
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Everyone Can Win In The Leisure Leagues Prize Draw

With the lockdown continuing for at least another three weeks following the announcement made on Thursday by Dominic Raab, we all need something to look forward to right now. Help is at hand form Leisure Leagues,, though, and we are delighted to announce the Leisure Leagues Prize Draw is happening this month, despite everyone being…
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Henry’s Day In The Sun

“The pass > the flick > the header > the finish”. Eight words, which described a sublime goal this morning on the Sun Football Twitter feed. That worldie, which you can see below, was scored by England 6 a side Footballer Henry Muggeridge, when he was playing for Whitehawk FC earlier in the season, before…
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TO THOSE ON THE FRONTLINE – THANK YOU ALL!

Everyone at UK Socca would today like to pay tribute to the thousands of our players who are frontline workers, in many cases doing dangerous jobs right now. We are living in unprecedented times, and sport has ground to a halt throughout the world, meaning that all our competitions are in cold storage at the moment.…
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Ref’s Special – Part 2: Jorg’s Story

Last week, we carried the story of Florian Potter, who as the Senior Match Official, for the ISF, had a unique perspective. Well now it’s the turn of Jorg Oppers, and for the Dutch Official, it was more than a chance to officiate at the World Cup – it was a chance to spend time…
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PLEASE, DO YOUR BIT AND STAY AT HOME THIS EASTER

All footballers – small sided or 11 a side – love Easter, it is historically when things used to get sorted and there is something special about a Bank Holiday game – and there will be again, just not this year. We never thought we’d live through a time like this, where there is no…
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DIARY OF A WORD CUP REFEREE

Yesterday, we wrote something about the incredible world cup, the tournament in Rethmyno that captured the imagination of the planet back in the Autumn of 2019. The tournament did more than just attract massive crowds to the purpose built stadium on the beach, with the Med lapping right up to the stands. Rather in many…
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THROWBACK TO WHEN UK SOCCA SCORED THE GOALS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

We all need something to cheer us up, right? Now more than ever, it’s good to look back on better times. So today, to help you get over the Monday Blues, we thought you might appreciate some nostalgia. Because, whilst none of the UK teams won the world cup in Crete last autumn, there was…
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