Match Reports

After a 1-1 game at Sam Smith’s Park, another equally as tough game was anticipated in this F.A. cup replay.  Only 1 minute had passed when Benfield had a strong appeal for a penalty after it looked like Ryan McGorrigan had been pulled back, but the referee Sam Ross denied the appeal. It only took 7 minutes of the match to pass by before the first goal of the game arrived, and it went the […]

The first step on their journey to Wembley arrived with Ex Northern league team Shildon as the opposition. As early as the ninth minute Benfield were indebted to goalkeeper Andrew Grainger who brought off a fine save from a shot by Shildon’s Michael Sweet.   Shildon were looking lively from the start and almost were given a goal start after a poor back pass from Benfield’s Kyle Errington was pounced on by Michael Sweet only for

West Auckland were the visitors to Sam Smith’s Park for an expected difficult league game, as it usually is when the two teams meet.  West Auckland should have been two up in the first 2 minutes – in the first minute from a corner on the Benfield right flank, it was floated over to be met by West Auckland player James Ellis, this caused concern to the Benfield team as he has proven to be

Luncarty F.C. were the visitors to Sam Smith’s Park having made the long journey from Perth in Scotland.  The first fifteen minutes went swiftly by with neither team looking as if they would score, but that changed in the seventeenth minute when Newcastle Benfield got the opening goal of the game. It came when a cross from Sam Reid took out all of the visitors’ defence, allowing Ryan McGorrigan the opportunity to side foot a left

A visit to Teesside for the second time in four days was on the menu for Newcastle Benfield, with Thornaby F.C. being the hosts. Benfield’s goalkeeper Andrew Grainger was soon called into action in the 4th minute making a save from Steven Roberts who got on the end of a cross from Luke Hogan.   Two minutes later, following a scrappy move, Benfield’s Ryan McGorrigan saw his shot force a good save from Thornaby ‘keeper Quinaceo Hunt