The rebrand in the summer was controversial. The Geckoes turned into SUNS FC. Geckoes had a rich history in the FJ Cup & Plate. A decade ago they won the Cup and 5 years ago they won the Plate. The Plate final will always be remembered for the 16/15 penalty shootout scoreline.
SUNS FC have carried on the tradition and have reached the Plate FInal. Goals...
A TML first, joint FJ TOTW winners. Division 2 has been under represented so far this season when it comes to this award so this will go someway to even it up.
Dutch FC reached their first FJ Plate Final by recording a 5-1 victory over Lions FC. Amazingly it was their first victory in normal time in the competition. 2 goals from Shoya Miyashita and goals from Numao, Sato & Komishi was enough to fire them to next months final.
When non-footy people ask how we keep going after soul-crushing, debilitating 7–0 defeats on bitter-cold January nights, the answer is days like these.
After 4 straight loses, not many gave Kanto Celts a chance of taking anything from Saturday nights match verses table toppers Tokyo Hibernian. The match between the two earlier in the season produced a dull 0-0 and once again Kanto Celts held firm and did not concede. The difference in this match was that Celts took their chances. 3 in total. The pacey forward line of Satsohi Mitsuda and Jiro Yamashita scored a goal each and also a debut goal from Neil Shonard was enough...
FC International put themselves into title contention with a convincing 5-2 victory over Pumas FC. Pumas FC who were unbeaten this calendar year, started off the brighter team by scoring first on Saturday evening. By the time they had finished celebrating it was 1-1 with FC International scoring straight after kick off. By half time it was 2-2 with FC International once again coming from a goal behind....
Canada is celebrating it's greatest ever result. A 0-0 v Eurpean heavyweights Scotland in an International friendly. We want to join the party so it's time to introduce yet another TML player to you all. The latest Candian heartthrob to grace the TML is Andre Herath. Please read on for his thoughts on our wonderful league:
It's a shame we don't have a player of the week award as it would go to one man. Division 1 top scorer Koji Oguro netted 7 of the 9 Panthers goals on Saturday evening against Imperio FA. His tally now stands at 20 for the season.
Nikolai and Ma also scored to help them win this weeks FJ TOTW. ...