FOOTBALL IN SOUTH DEVON


THE PITCH MAY BE FAKE... BUT THE FOOTBALL CERTAINLY ISN’T!


Football Analyst Neil Hocking


All good things have to come to an end sometime, and it was on a blustery, bad-tempered afternoon at the King George V playing fi elds that Division Six newcomers Roselands AFC fi nally lost their one hundred per cent record, losing 3-1 to Watcombe’s reserve side.


to be little doubt that the Paignton-based team would be spending just the one season in the South Devon League’s basement before heading onwards and upwards to better things. Not content to ruffl e a few league feathers, Roselands were also out to create mayhem in the Devon County Intermediate Cup, taking out several


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experienced sides en route to a narrow area semi-fi nal defeat. So where did they come


from and how have they started so well?


t was against Watcombe that Roselands made their league debut in September. A 3-2 home win was the fi rst of a string of nine straight victories, and there seemed


Roselands AFC lose their hundred per cent record at Watcombe reserves


Roselands AFC are well-known to those


involved with the Pioneer Youth League, running teams in the Under 7 to Under 11 Divisions, and they also have teams in the Devon Girls’ League and a Ladies’ team destined for the Women’s League. “The idea of a men’s team came through


wanting to provide an adult team for our youth players to be able to fi lter through to,” Head Coach Simon Walker revealed. “With the fi rst of our youth teams going into 11-a-side football next season, now was the time to start the process. The players have been signed from some of my previous teams, football contacts and players currently playing


Blood, sweat and tears: things getting a little bit too rosy for this Roselands player


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