Paul Pettinger’s Football Journey

Paul Pettinger is possibly the only goalkeeper in the country who can say he made his Football League debut for one club as a right winger. That is just one story of many from Pettinger’s ten-year League career – a tale of hard luck as he had to play second fiddle to first choice stoppers  read more→

Chris Gowen hails Frickley’s 2008 great escape side

Billy Heath pulling off the great escape with Frickley Athletic in 2008 is an often forgotten achievement. When you study the table and Frickley’s results from the 2007/08 campaign, Harry Houdini would have been proud as it was an epic escapology act as Frickley were completely doomed at Christmas. The season began in disastrous circumstances  read more→

Carney to stay as Hilton’s men march on

On-loan Manchester United goalkeeper Jacob Carney is stay with promotion-chasing Stocksbridge Park Steels for the rest of the season. With Edd Hall out injured, the Steels have agreed with United that Carney can remain to further his development. The good news continues for Stocksbridge as the BetVictor South East play-offs charge received a massive boost  read more→

Hilton’s Steels young guns march into play-offs

Chris Hilton’s Stocksbridge Park Steels young guns propelled themselves into BetVictor South East play-offs zone after extending their unbeaten run to five games with a 2-0 victory at Chasetown. Instead of the usual heroes Danny Frost and Scott Ruthven, Ross Goodwin and Kurtis Turner were the goal-scorers for Stocksbridge. Goodwin scored early and Turner sealed  read more→