The Football Sanctuary CIC

Wow what a day!!

Reflecting on today, we thought the tournament was a huge success;
competitive and fun games, bringing the community together and raising money for a great cause. 💰

We will learn from it from what we saw and suggestions made. A fantastic effort all round, thank you everyone involved. ❤️

Hopefully we will see you all next time with Nifty Fifties the team to beat. 🏆

Finally, a massive thank you to everyone who helped in any capacity. We're very proud of what we have built. Rest up fellas, you deserve it. 😴

Up the TFS! ⚽

The time has come. Weeks of planning, organising, fund-raising, and hard work has brought a community of teams together for our first ever tournament. We are raising money in aid of Love Musgrove and the fantastic staff in the children's ward at Musgrove hospital.

https://gofund.me/194ee92c2

We have a number of local teams playing, as well as teams of friends, work colleagues and a few from TFS too! The teams are finally out and the fixture list will follow soon! Thank you to everyone who has helped make this happen. Hopefully the weather holds up and we have a great weekend of football!

Also, a huge thank you to our sponsors, who have helped pay for pitch hire, food, drink, trophies and medals! We couldn't have done it without you!

Annette Miller
Mark Stephens
Gordon Speechly
Organic Herb Trading
Yarcombe Woodland Products
Stokrotka Taunton - Polish Shop

See you all Sunday!

Staplegrove Football Club
Sands United FC Taunton
North Curry Football Club
Northwalls United
Pete PT Bruce
Papavero Pizza Company

In what might be the most bizarre gameweek I've seen at TFS, it is the Blacks that take victory in gameweek 6, with an unbeaten record. Oranges couldn't quite dethrone them in the final fixture, despite a last minute winner that was controversially ruled out 👀.

Further down the table we find Blue and White in 3rd and 4th in the table, although the latter were well-beaten by 5th placed Greens who finished with the joint-highest goals and goal difference of the week. The Reds round off the table, after a brilliant 4-4 thriller in the final fixture.

51 (FIFTY ONE) goals across the 9 games this morning - almost certainly a new record. Goals galore!

A quick reminder that there is no TFS next weekend as our tournament will be going ahead, starting at 10am! More information regarding arrival times, fixtures, and other arrangements are soon to come! TFS will resume as normal on the 30th August ⚽

⚽ We've got our first ever tournament on 23rd August and incredibly there are 1️⃣5️⃣ teams taking part. Joining a few teams from TFS itself are Staplegrove Football Club, Northwalls United, North Curry Football Club, Pete PT Bruce, Papavero Pizza Company, and a few other locals, all in aid of raising money for Love Musgrove. 🏥

We're still looking for donations to our cause and are aiming for £1,000, including the fees being paid by players to pay and we're nearly! 💰

https://gofund.me/194ee92c2

A huge thank you goes out to a few businesses and people who have sponsored us to pay for the pitch hire, trophies, medals, food and drink too. 👏🏻🥳

Yarcombe Woodland Products
Organic Herb Trading
Stokrotka Taunton - Polish Shop
Annette Miller
Gordon Speechly
Mark Stephens

P.S - Still space for one more team if you can get one together 👀

THANK YOU!!

TFS! 💙⚽

GW5 teams!!

We sold out in 45 minutes this week, another remarkable turnout!!

Gav continues to lead the way on the overall standings after GW4, with Kris hot on his heels. 8 players are already into double figures as far as points are concerned. 👀

The top scorer table is looking very tasty - Abe, Mark Stevens and CJ are all tied on 11 goals. ⚽

Owen continues his remarkable weight loss journey, already another 3.45% down. Jake S and Josh M round off the top 3. We've got a lot of guys putting in a shift so props to all of you for the efforts, keep it up (or down in this case)!! 📉📉

Finally a shoutout to all our best players and defenders of the week!!