Ben Harris

Benfield were the hosts for visitors Longridge Town, who had travelled up from Lancashire. Two minutes silence was observed impeccably by both teams and supporters before the match kicked off. It didn’t take long to see that Longridge were up for the game, as in the second minute the first yellow card of the game went to Paul Turner for a foul on Nick Green. Six minutes had passed with a decent move involving Benfield’s Sam […]

Another trip down the A19 to Sunderland saw Newcastle Benfield face Sunderland R.C.A. with the hosts getting off to the perfect start by taking the lead in the 3rd minute. It came with a flowing passing move involving Daniel Hawkins who played a pass into team mate JORDAN LAVERY who after controlling the ball advanced forward to place the ball confidently into the back of the Benfield net making the score 1-0 to R.C.A. Benfield came close to an equaliser

Newcastle Benfield made the second journey over to Cumbria in a week with a trip to Penrith, the home team were quick out of the traps and Benfield keeper Andrew Grainger had to be alert to clear in the 3rd minute, when a long ball found Penrith’s Luke Hunter beating the offside flag. It was the home team again in the 8th minute when good work by Luke Hunter provided gave a shooting opportunity to Joshua

This was the start of the long and winding road to the Northumberland Senior Cup Final and a possible game at St. James Park. Bedlington were the hosts and although they were in a division below. Newcastle Benfield were doing well and scoring a lot of goals so a tough game was envisaged.    It didn’t take long for the first goal and it went to the visitors Newcastle Benfield in the eighth minute, a long