Celtic dogs get ready for a Happy Halloween!!!Our next game is this Sunday away to HK and it could be a tricky one.......or maybe a treat. They currently sit 4th in the league on 26 points after 14 games. They have won 8 tied 2 and lost 4. Two of those losses were against Woodbridge,the most recent being last week when they were beaten 4-2 at home. They have also lost to Trumbull and the Falcons. They are a tough team to beat but we have a good record against them going back several years. It would be great to get out of our tied game rut and collect 3 points to close the gap in the league. We are currently on 21 points after 15 games, 5 wins, 4 losses and 6 draws! By the way Tom, the Trumbull score has still to be entered into the league results and standings....
It will be good if Ahmad gets to play for us at the weekend. He was a very strong and skillful player for us over several years until he made the mistake of joining Cheshire.
Ron and i are bringing the beer this time....... and some Haggis....
Have a scary Halloween!
Don't forget.... the clocks go back an hour over the weekend!
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting piece of history about shorlien adult soccer. Looks like we were not the firts Madison Celts!!!
ReplyDelete"In 1992 the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York started an annual Men's Over-40 tournament. In 1993 an Over-40 team made up from Madison AFC and Glastonbury Celtic FC of the SASL First Division entered the second annual tournament, thereby being the first Over-40 team from Connecticut to enter this prestigious tournament. They entered as Madison Celtic FC, one of 16 teams in the tournament. It was clear from these tournaments in Oneonta that Over-40 soccer could be very competitive and still offer so much to those who wanted more than just a "kick around" on a Sunday morning when they were too old to play in the Over-30s. The 1993 tournament in Oneonta, more than anything, furthered the ambition of the SASL to get a competitive Over-40 soccer league going in Connecticut.
Unfortunately, it proved very difficult to convince teams and players to transition. CARSL continued to grow, however, but there were many rumblings that two or three of the teams were playing to a much higher standard than all of the others. The spirit of being a purely "recreational" league was very debatable.
In 1997, Madison AFC were struggling at the foot of the SASL First Division. They were arguably the oldest team at that level and they were struggling to field a team every week. A vote was taken and it was finally decided; Madison AFC would convert over to be the SASL's first ever Over-40 club. They dropped out of the Over-30 league. During the winter of 1997-1998, Glastonbury Celtic FC said that they could provide an Over-40 team too, in addition to their Over-30 team which was still very much a force in the SASL First Division. A new team of relative beginners was formed, called the Milford Hurricanes and the SASL Executive Board convinced them to start out in the new Over-40 Division, despite some of the players being under aged"