Archive for the ‘Football’ Category

Friendly matches tough challenge for weakened women’s squad

Shetland Women’s FC took advantage of the break in the weather to travel south for two friendlies in Glasgow on 13th-14th February as previous arrangements for games against Kemnay and Inverness had fallen foul of the weather.

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Stateside chance for teenage player Watt

A Shetland-born footballer has been given the opportunity of a lifetime with the offer of a football scholarship in the United States.

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Tommy’s wartime football recalled

Actor Simon Weir, well known for his roles in Scottish soaps High Road and River City, is looking for information on his grandfather’s wartime career in Shetland.

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Football association members in discussion

A number of items were on the agenda when Shetland Football Association held its annual general meeting last Thursday in Islesburgh Community Centre.

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Women footballers at crossroads and needing help to go forward

Shetland Women’s Football Club has come on leaps and bounds since being formed five years ago, but those who take part are looking for a new injection of interest in order to take the sport forward still more.

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Indoor works triumph by Malakoff side

The Shetland Works League Foot­ball Association held the Hanson Aggregate indoor tourna­ment at the weekend.

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Whalsay stalwart is player of the year

The Shetland Football Association held their annual awards night at the Shetland Hotel on 19th of September.

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Whalsay take football league title, ending Delting’s seven-year stranglehold

Whalsay were the winners of this year’s G&S Flooring Premier League after a resounding 11-0 victory over Unst at Harbison Park on Saturday.

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Whalsay a game away

Whalsay will take to the field at Harbison Park tomorrow lunchtime knowing that a victory over fellow island side Unst will be enough for them to end Delting’s seven-year stranglehold on senior football’s top prize.

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Whitedale secure second silverware of season with County Shield win

Whitedale claimed their second piece of silverware of the season with a narrow win against Whalsay in the County Shield on Friday. The success marks a big turnaround in fortunes for the side which, until their Manson Cup victory earlier in the season, had been without a trophy for 14 years.

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Man who assaulted daughter and attacked her friend with hockey stick evades jail

A fish farm worker who assaulted his daughter and threatened to kill a man as he battered him with a hockey stick managed to avoid jail at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week.

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Wills accuses complainers of acting without council’s authority

Jonathan Wills has accused the five people who referred him to the Standards Commission for an alleged breach of the councillors’ Code of Conduct of spending more than £3,000 of public money on preparing the complaint without the authority of the council.

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Drug addict preyed on elderly woman to steal money for heroin

An elderly woman in Lerwick thought that the stranger who appeared in her house on Monday was her new home help.

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