LEEDS CITY (Adel War Memorial Ground)

YORKSHIRE AMATEUR LEAGUE SUPREME DIVISION, LEEDS CITY 1-8 TOLLER FC, ATTENDANCE: 12 (h/c)

I should have been on a flight to St Petersburg today but instead found myself heading to the outskirts of Leeds. There were few games to choose from this evening but it was the name Leeds City that proved the big draw.

The name of Leeds City is a famous name from the past, the club being the forerunner to the current Leeds United. Founded in 1904, Leeds City were the first professional club in the city and were elected to the Football League in 1905. They remained in Division Two until they were expelled from the League in 1919 due to financial irregularities. The club were paying players during the war, which was prohibited, as the club won wartime honours under the great Herbert Chapman. The club refused to co-operate in the investigation by not handing over any financial records so the Football League expelled them and replaced them with Port Vale (who took over their remaining fixtures as well as their results up to that point).

This Leeds City FC was formed in 2006 as a result of a merger between Abbey Grange Old Boys FC, Adel FC and Leeds City Vixens. These clubs were joined at the same time by two teams from Horsforth St Margaret's FC. Their home ground is the Adel War Memorial Ground and the football pitch is part of a larger complex which hosts cricket, tennis and hockey (all of which were being utilised this evening). The pitch is railed on three sides and there is no furniture to speak of, but as it was a pleasant evening that didn't really matter.

The match was an end of season dead rubber but based on the respective league positions the result turned out to be a bit of a surprise. It was a dominate performance from the visitors as they rattled in eight goals and, it if wasn't for some wayward finishing, it probably could have been more. It never helped the homesters that Toller's first goal came after just 20 seconds. The star of the night was Hassan Khan who bagged himself a hat-trick. The other Toller goals were scored by Mohammed Hassan, Samuel Jordan, Andrew McHugh, Matthew Schofield and Kyle Trenerry. Ethan Arya scored Leeds' consolation goal.

There were a couple of familiar groundhopping faces in the crowd, one who is renowned for making very bad puns. As you can imagine he was in his element with Toller-eight!

Kyle Trenerry fires home Toller's eighth, and final, goal of the evening