A superb Louis Cook Double helped All Saints cruise to victory in Thursday’s opening 8-a-side fixture.
 

All Saints had trained hard for the previous two weeks and travelled to The Whartons with a good team spirit.

It was All Saints who started brightest on the day, putting lots of pressure on a well-organised Whartons back three.  Whartons too enjoyed some good early possession and were unlucky not to go ahead within the first five minutes, but for some resolute defending from Farnaby and brave goalkeeping from Leeds.
The breakthrough came after some good pressure from the All Saints midfield of Atkins, Gardner and Cook.  It was Gardener who found the net, driving the ball home after 8 minutes.
Whartons responded with some good football, but the hard-working trio of Featherstone, Farrimond and Farnaby proved very difficult to break down in defence.  Any high balls were cut out by the good heading skills of Farnaby.
The lead was doubled on 14 minutes when hard-working striker Walton ran through on goal but was blocked by a brave save from the Whartons keeper.  The rebound was smashed home by Cook, however to put All Saints comfortably in 2-0 up at half time.
During the second half Whartons played some good football, but went 3-0 down when Cook drove home his second of the day after some great battling in midfield.
Whartons did pull back a well-taken goal on 37 minutes to make it 3-1, but it was to be just a consolation.

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