Round-up of season 07/08

This season has been a brilliant one for Southside. All players, managers, helpers, officials and sponsors took the opportunity to join together and celebrate at our prestigious Annual Presentation Evening held at the Town Hall on 25 May 2008. We were honoured to have Leroy Rosenior and Jerry Gill as guest presenters.

Our 8th Annual tournament was held on 10/11 May at Bournside School. We changed our format this year and ran it over two days to give more teams the opportunity to play. Once again we were extremely lucky with the weather. Our thanks go to all the helpers, officials and sponsors who made the tournament such a success and gave all the players the opportunity to do what they most enjoy doing which is playing football. The sportsmanship shown by all players was a credit to their clubs.

See DE Photos website for photos from the tournament and presentation night.

We are delighted that two of our teams won Sportsmanship awards from the Cheltenham Youth League; Southside Wildcats U12 (for the 3rd year running) and Southside Athletics U14. Praise goes to Southside U12 who brought home the U12 League Cup following an exciting final that was decided on penalties at Cheltenham Town’s Whaddon Road ground. Congratulations also go to Southside U14 girls who were U14 Division 2 winners of the Gloucester County Girls Football League. The Mens team have also had a successful season gaining promotion to Division 4 of the Cheltenham League as runners up of Division 5.

Another major achievement of the season was the creation of Southside Girls’ community football. This provides football coaching sessions for girls on a Saturday morning at Bournside School.

None of this would have been possible without the tremendous support we received from parents, managers and officials, who have given up their time to promote football for all, ensuring that the players get the maximum possible enjoyment out of their game. We also give huge big thank you to our wide range of sponsors who have contributed greatly to help finance various kit purchases and equipment.