Famous Fives Football Leagues

That's why VAR is important 🤣

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🎙️ Marcelo Bielsa's criticism of modern football: 💭

“I am certain that football is in a process of decline. More and more people are watching this sport, but it is becoming less and less attractive. We do not favour what made it the best sport in the world.

We promote business, because business means that a lot of people watch the matches. But over time, there are fewer and fewer footballers worth watching, the game is less and less enjoyable, and this artificial increase in spectator numbers will be reduced.

Football is not five minutes of action, it is much more than that, it is a cultural expression, a form of identification.”

Winter Walking Footy in Wakefield

Famous Fives are pleased to announce that the 5th season of The Northern Counties WFL will commence in September/October 2024. Once again, with 2 recently relaid pitches, we will be playing indoor at Wakefield Football Centre, bringing you 3 games of 25 minutes per visit.

Can Leggy Mambos make it 5 in a row? Can one of the Wakefield sides make a claim? Will current NPL champions Denton make a bid? Fellow Mancunian’s Kingsmaid are in great form in the NPL and will fancy themselves. The Lincolnshire sides Grimsby and Gainsborough will have something to say about that, as will Leeds teams Morley and Rothwell and fellow Tykes Doncaster. Our favourite North Easterners Hartlepool might fancy their chances or step up to the newly created 60’s league.

Yes, there will be a 60’s league on the same day.

We are currently working on dates for the season. Last season, each 50’s team had 22 fixtures each, with a 12 team league. We can’t finalise dates until we know the number of teams.

Our venue is just off the M1 in Wakefield, so suitable for entrants from as far south as Nottingham, as far north as Durham, as far west as Liverpool and as far east as Hull.

It would be fantastic to see a Hull team back or some Red Rose challengers. I believe the Nottingham boys enjoyed the Barnsley tournament and we are not much further away. Cone and join us.

For existing teams, please spread the word and let’s make this bigger and better.

For new entrants, message Mick Lowley or myself and we’ll help you.

Remember, it’s 50’s AND 60’s leagues from now on. One Sunday a month over winter in Wakey, 11am to 1pm. What’s not to like?

Winter Walking Footy in Wakefield

Famous Fives are pleased to announce that the 5th season of The Northern Counties WFL will commence in September/October 2024. Once again, with 2 recently relaid pitches, we will be playing indoor at Wakefield Football Centre, bringing you 3 games of 25 minutes per visit.

Can Leggy Mambos make it 5 in a row? Can one of the Wakefield sides make a claim? Will current NPL champions Denton make a bid? Fellow Mancunian’s Kingsmaid are in great form in the NPL and will fancy themselves. The Lincolnshire sides Grimsby and Gainsborough will have something to say about that, as will Leeds teams Morley and Rothwell and fellow Tykes Doncaster. Our favourite North Easterners Hartlepool might fancy their chances or step up to the newly created 60’s league.

Yes, there will be a 60’s league on the same day.

We are currently working on dates for the season. Last season, each 50’s team had 22 fixtures each, with a 12 team league. We can’t finalise dates until we know the number of teams.

Our venue is just off the M1 in Wakefield, so suitable for entrants from as far south as Nottingham, as far north as Durham, as far west as Liverpool and as far east as Hull.

It would be fantastic to see a Hull team back or some Red Rose challengers. I believe the Nottingham boys enjoyed the Barnsley tournament and we are not much further away. Cone and join us.

For existing teams, please spread the word and let’s make this bigger and better.

For new entrants, message Mick Lowley or myself and we’ll help you.

Remember, it’s 50’s and 60’s leagues from now on. One Sunday a month over winter in Wakey, 11am to 1pm. What’s not to like?

Replica Products for Wakefield Walking Football Club

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Dover Athletic stand with clubs across the football community following the recent FA Cup replay changes. This decision is contributing further to the degradation of the football pyramid caused by multiple poor decisions by the league authorities

We urge the FA to reconsider these major changes to this famous competition and to consult widely with clubs below the Premier League before making any further changes.

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This message on this sign outside a butchers in Coventry... 😂😂

"Sorry, no Man Utd tops allowed in... so much as a toe in and you'll be VAR'ed... I mean barred!"

BOYCOTT THE FA CUP
✍️BEN HARDIE

Recently the FA announced a rather major change to the format of the FA Cup by completely scrapping replays from the First Round onwards and, whilst this certainly won’t affect Sunderland in any major capacity, it definitely will have a profound negative effect on many of the teams below us in League One and Two and non-league clubs. Because of this, I believe a boycott from clubs in the EFL (non-league clubs still need the revenue) is needed for next year’s competition.

We need to send a message to the Premier League and Football Association that both denying lower league clubs a major source of revenue in the form of replays and making changes to one of the best things about English football without consulting the 700+ teams who play in the competition on a yearly basis who aren’t in the top flight is completely unacceptable.

By deciding how a competition which is primarily made up of teams outside of the top flight without also receiving input from those clubs is yet another example of football moving away from its traditional roots and more evidence that the FA is now merely a puppet to the Premier League and broadcasters. FA Cup games being broadcast on non free to air channels from 2025-26 was the first warning sign that the people running football in this country simply do not care about the sport itself but rather how they can benefit themselves through lucrative deals. The arguments for scrapping replays are ridiculously lazy to the point where you have to think they are almost trying to mock teams who aren’t in the Premier League.

Fixture congestion doesn’t make any sense as an argument because EFL clubs will often play far more games than their Premier League counterparts. They could play in three different cup competitions and also feature in the playoffs. Compare this to a Premier League side who isn't in a European competition, and they’ve got only two cup competitions and a lesser amount of league fixtures to worry about. Besides, even if Premier League clubs tended to play more games than their lower league counterparts, they have access to far far more resources than them and should be able to deal with a greater amount of fixture congestion. Look at Truro City or Gateshead’s fixture schedule in the last few game weeks and I’ve not heard a single complaint from either of their managers - unlike Jurgen Klopp who thinks he’s entitled to moan about an entirely normal schedule for a season.

I didn’t see any of these Premier League clubs complaining about FIFA expanding the Club World Cup, or Champions/Europa League (and the reason for that is no doubt monetary) so why is potentially having to play a couple of extra games in the FA Cup such a big inconvenience? When the likes of Shrewsbury managed to take Liverpool to a replay it was a huge moment for them and a fantastic achievement; go back further and would Sunderland, a Second Division side, have been able to win the FA Cup in 1973 without replays? The big actors want to strip football of what makes it great, stories of teams defying the odds to challenge bigger clubs, to benefit coddled Premier League stars and whiny managers who don’t actually understand why regular people love the game.

A boycott of EFL clubs would be a huge statement and actually show the Premier League that they aren’t the only power in English football who gets to have a say. The EFL existed long before the Premier League and the FA Cup longer before the EFL so how is right that only the 20 clubs who happen to make up the top flight in this exact moment in time get to have a say?

For some clubs like Sunderland scrapping replays is probably actually a benefit. But that is why it is vital the bigger clubs in the Championship - Leeds, Ipswich, Leicester, West Brom etc - need to show solidarity with their fellow lower league clubs and get behind a boycott to demonstrate that football shouldn’t be about selfishness and doing what only benefits your club.

Without replays we wouldn’t have seen Crawley Town get to the Fifth Round in 2010/11 as a non-league side nor Sutton doing the same in 2016/17. Those were major achievements and remember how talked about that Marine vs Tottenham game was?

The FA doing this is a major dereliction of duty to run the game for the benefit of all clubs no matter how small and if the clubs outside of the Premier League don’t do everything in their power to make them rethink their decision it’s only going to get worse. Eventually I fear the FA Cup and certainly the League Cup may cease to exist as the tournaments we are all familiar with (if that hasn’t already happened). I’m not sure if a boycott would work but we have to try something otherwise the rich will simply continue to mutilate our game that existed long before they got involved. Perhaps hyperbolic, but I think this genuinely could lead to the death of non-league football clubs and deny non-league clubs the ability financially to gain promotion to the Football League. That should be reason enough to no longer allow those running the game to run it into the ground like a series of ungenerous oligarchs.

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A big thank you for all my birthday wishes to each and every one of you.
Had a great day and all your messages were the icing on the cake!!

Outfield Players Wanted on a Sunday Evening! Get in touch if you’re interested! ⚽️

Get in touch if you’re interested! ⚽️

One Size Fitz Hall
Cup winners 2019

Some blasts from the past…can you name anyone or any team?

Fake Madrid
Thursday League
Championship Cup Winners

Week 2 Fixtures for the new Thursday League season.
Some cracking games last week,visit our website for all last weeks results and player statistics.

A great end to the Thursday season,with the traditional Cup Finals and Presentation.
Congratulations to 1F Premier League and Cup Winners.

Sunday League Results - 02/07 ⚽️

This Weeks Sunday League Fixture List (02/07) ⚽️

Presentation Evening - Sunday 12th March ⚽️🏆

Presentation Evening - Thursday 19th Jan ⚽️🏆