The final day of the season. For the Social experiment in League One, another two games, and another new combination of players. They started off by doubling their points total for the season in a 3-3 draw with Hampton Utd. A returning Phil Hall galvanised the guys and proved influential in both games. An hour later there was a narrow 1-0 loss to Harborough Hornets Green who finished runners-up. Jason Fullman returned to competitive action (in goal) just 10 weeks after a knee

Going into the last matchday of the league, our Strollers 60+ squad needed three wins to pip Boston to the Lincolnshire Premiership title. Sadly, with two wins and one loss we fell a point short, and Boston lifted the trophy. A great effort from our lads to grab the runners up spot and we look forward to building on this next season. Match report to follow later.

Over 65s Derbyshire Walking Football League Challenge Cup Final V Ashbourne @ St George’s Park Thursday May 14 The 7 man squad for the Cup Final was: Kevin Chadwick Jimmy Watson Paul Humphries Steve Bones Jez Norris Taff Lovesey Tim Marsden Cap (John Hutchins & Tony Laughton played in the quarter final and semi final victories respectively). Ashbourne came into the final as newly crowned League Winners 25/26 and also as League and Cup holders 24/25. The final, as in previous

Our friends over at the Redz Arena in Bourne, where we play our Strollers Monday lunchtime sessions, are trialling their own open session for all players aged 50 and above - all genders. Please note that this session is completely independent from the Strollers and is managed and run by Redz themselves. If any member wants to play, or if you know someone who would be interested, the current arrangement is just to turn up on the day. The first session is booked for 11am-12pm

PDFL Matchday 8 League One The Socials continued their competitive football odyssey with another two games full of endeavour, and team spirit. This month saw Martin Kernan playing in goal after several good showings at recent social sessions. Martin was my man of the match against Harborough after a string of top saves kept the score to 0-1 at half time. Top of the division Harborough were rattled: arguing among themselves and the referee. The second half began with an early

Over 65s Derbyshire WF League Challenge Cup Semi Final @ ‘We are Derby Padel’ Thursday 23/4/26 With 6 of the 65s squad either injured or on holiday Tony Laughton and Jimmy Watson were drafted into the squad to play Heanor in the Cup Semi. The squad in full was: Kevin Chadwick Tony Laughton Tim Marsden Cap Jimmy Watson Steve Bones Jez Norris The DWFL Cup format involves 3 X 15 min games. Game 1 d0-0 Tony Laughton, in defence, and Jimmy Watson, in midfield, slotted seamlessly i

The squad for MD4 @ Clee Fields Grimsby was: Dave Moore Iain Ross Paul Humphries Alan Cook Jez Norris Tim Marsden Cap Unfortunately, Taff Lovesey and Steve Bones had to withdraw from the squad with injury. Game 1 Strollers 2 Lincoln Invictus 0 Strollers dominated possession in this one and created a number of goal scoring opportunities with the Lincoln keeper making a string of good saves. However, the Lincoln goalie could do nothing when Alan Cook latched onto a pass from

Round Robin Friendlies for the Youngsters! On Thursday Strollers 70s squad (Whites and Reds) hosted Boston and Moulton WF at Borderville. 3 games of 20mins for each team and some very close games were played out. Moulton came out on Top on GD just ahead of Strollers Red. Both remained unbeaten. Boston and Strollers White were unlucky not to pick up more points. Refreshments were provided after the game. Thanks to Jason and Paul for Reffing.

Over 65s Thursday April 9 MD7 @ ‘We are Derby Padel’ Strollers Over 65s squad for the final match day of the Derbyshire Walking Football League 2025/26 season was: Kevin Chadwick GK John Hutchins Tim Marsden Cap Paul Humphries Steve Bones Jez Norris Going into the final match day of the season Strollers found themselves in third place in the league, 2 points behind Boston in second and 9 behind Ashbourne top. So our fist match of the day was a crunch one against Ashbourne. St

Spring National Championships On Saturday a mixed 40s and 50s Strollers side took on a strong field in the 40s category, facing five high-quality teams over a demanding schedule at the impressive David Ross Sports Village at Nottingham University. The tournament began with a statement win against Wotton WFC. Despite conceding inside two minutes, the Strollers responded superbly—dominating possession and tempo. Antonio struck twice with clinical finishes to seal a 2–1 victory

On Tuesday evening 16 players from Strollers attended a training course at Borderville. The course was run by LeisureSK free of charge and was extremely thorough with lots of practical to help with understanding. Many thanks to Julian and Drew for giving up their time to educate our players.

The Women's Team visited Corby playing 3 games of 15 mins each over the weekend. Game 1. Score 4-2 to Corby. Strollers were a bit slow to get going and before we knew it we were 4-0 down. We got into the game and scored 2 goals. Judith Jagger and Cath Thirsk the goal scorers. Game 2 and 3 ended 0-0. Strollers played some good passing football and Caroline Allen in goal made some good saves. Squad Caroline Allen Judith Jagger Katy Fowkes Cath Thirsk Dee Spicer-Ireland Julie Ma

The tournament squad that travelled to Albufeira, Portugal was: Peter Oppenheimer GK Dave Guest Paul Blakemore Jimmy Watson Paul Humphries John Phythian Jez Norris Carl Richards Brian Dunkerley Tim Marsden Cap Day 1 6 league matches 10.00 V Sheffield WFD L 0-3 11.15 V Casa Benfica D 1-1 (Paul Humphries) 12.30 V Scarborough Barons Won 5-0 (Humphries 2, Jez Norris, Dave Guest, John Phythian) 13.45 V Drumchapel (Scotland) D 1-1 (Humphries) 15.00 V Bolton LVH L 1-0 15.50 V Culche

Our Strollers 65+ squad are currently in Portugal at the Europa Cup tournament, the trip was organised by John Phythian and the sqaud managed by Tim Marsden. Squad: Tim Marsden Paul Humphries Carl Richards Brian Dunkerley John Phythian Peter Oppenheimer Dave Guest Jimmy Watson Paul Blakemore Jez Norris

In League One, Strollers Social had the unenviable task of competing in their first game with a player less thanks to me stealing Jon Steers to play in the Championship. The result was an 8-0 defeat. They also started their second game short but their opponents, Huntingdon, very sportingly withdrew a player until they could go to full strength. Some crucial saves from stand-in ‘keeper Chris Sweeney meant there was only a goal in it at half time but Huntingdon eventually overp

The squad for match day 3 of the Lincs League was: Dave Moore Iain Ross Taff Lovesey Paul Humphries Steve Bones Alan Cook Jez Norris Tim Marsden Cap Our first fixture of the day was against table toppers Boston United . In a tight and very competitive match chances were few and far between. The deadlock was broken, early second half, when Boston were awarded a penalty, as a result of 4 team running offences. The Boston player confidently dispatched the penalty and Strollers f

The squad for match day 6 of the Derbyshire Walking Football League was: Kevin Chadwick Paul Beard John Hutchins Paul Humphries Steve Bones Taff Lovesey Jez Norris Tim Marsden Cap Our first match of the day was against Matlock. In a tight match, chances were few and far between. Despite having the lions share of possession Strollers couldn’t find a way past the Matlock goalie. 0-0 Next up was Etwall , although Strollers had more possession than their opponents they again cou

What a Night! Stamford Stollers took Walking Football to Stamford Unity last night at Borderville! We had 30 players attending (8 from Strollers, 22 from Unity) and what a fantastic evening we had. To kick things off we explained the key rules, then 8 Strollers plus 4 Unity players played a quick exhibition game to help everyone understand Walking Football. On to the main event, we split the Stroller players across the 4 Unity teams and played a Round Robin of Walking Footbal

Over 65s @ We are Derby Padel Thursday Feb 12 DWFL Challenge Cup The squad for the Cup Quarter Final V Derby County was: Kevin Chadwick John Hutchins Paul Humphries Taff Lovesey Jez Norris Steve Bones Tim Marsden Cap The quarter final format involved 3 games V Derby, 3 points for a win, 2 points for a score draw and 1 point for a scoreless draw, the team with the most points over the 3 games would qualify for the semi finals. Following on from last month’s relatively below pa

PDFL Matchday 5 In the Championship, Strollers faced Oundle Town ans Boston Utd on a cold damp morning. Thank you to Oundle for joining in our moment of remembrance. However, we went on to trounce them 4-0 with Nigel Reeve netting all four goals. It took Oundle quite some time to enter our half, such was our dominance. It was a different story in the next game with a very strong Boston side. We were the ones struggling to get a foothold in the game. A harsh blue card for Nige