If the Toolstation NCEL Premier Division title race involved cars and a motorway then winless Penistone Church are stuck in road-works. The fast start Ian Richards wanted has failed to materialise. For a team which is aiming to win promotion, their form has been miles off. Church have lost two (against Sherwood Colliery and Silsden) read more→
Season Preview Toolstation NCEL Premier Division Penistone Church The disappointment of missing out on promotion twice lingers in the back of Penistone Church minds. But with the elevation of the so-called big guns, the league is wide open and Penistone will feel confident of achieving their aim. Manager Ian Richards The former Stocksbridge Park Steels read more→
Brett Lovell is determined to help bring unprecedented Northern Premier League football to Penistone Church before bringing the curtain down on a great playing career. Although you have to watch what you say about him as his dad will have you, Lovell is an elder statesman in the Toolstation NCEL Premier Division and has defied read more→
Ian Richards has contingency plans in place if the Penistone Church is decimated by absences related to rising covid-19 cases. Fears are rising that the start of the Toolstation NCEL Premier Division season will be disrupted as the government are predicting figures reaching 100,000 daily cases in the next four weeks. Given the number of read more→
Penistone Church manager Ian Richards sees plenty of benefits in taking part in the Yorkshire Trophy. The long-awaited Yorkshire Trophy kicks off tonight with Church visiting organisers Brighouse Town for the Group A battle – one of three group stage matches. Spectators will be allowed to attend and Richards feels it the Yorkshire Trophy is read more→
Jamie Vardy’s “fairytale” football journey reaches its latest landmark tomorrow when Leicester City take on Chelsea in the FA Cup Final at Wembley. Win or lose, the greatest Non League export of the 21st century will continue to act as a beacon of hope for thousands of young Non League footballers who want to progress read more→
Danny Howes is “priceless as a captain” according to his Penistone Church manager Ian Richards. Lad local Howes has been turning in man of the match performances for Church so far this season – his 12th campaign having being with Penistone throughout all their unprecedented success under the Richards brothers. Howes has developed from a read more→
Penistone Church manager Ian Richards believes the new Toolstation NCEL Premier Division season could be a sprint rather than a marathon. With the prospect of further lockdowns and tougher restrictions on free movement, there is real danger the 2020/21 campaign will be halted or cancelled entirely. As a consequence, Richards wants Penistone to go hell read more→
Luke McGinnell, a young centre-half, has signed for Penistone Church after impressing Ian Richards during a trial period. McGinnell is a Barnsley scholarship product and he has been on the books at Walsall. Richards said: “Luke is a great signing for the club. Since been invited to pre season his attitude, commitment and work ethic read more→
Year on year under local boy done good Ian Richards, Penistone Church have consistently raised the bar. The extremely ambitious former Stocksbridge Park Steels and Bradford (Park Avenue) midfielder has ripped up the history books by taking his hometown club, who were treading water in the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior League Premier Division ten years read more→
