✔875 The Sycamores

Headingley 4-1 Gomersal & Cleckheaton 

West Yorkshire Amateur FL - Premier Division

Wednesday 10th May 2021

Headingley is a Leeds suburb approximately two miles north-west of the city centre. Headingley was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Hedingelei or Hedingeleia and the name is thought to derive from Old English - Head(d)inga meaning "the clearing of Hedda's people". A stone coffin found near Beckett Park in 1995 suggests there may have been an earlier settlement in late Roman times.

The location is well known as home to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds Rhinos rugby league team and Yorkshire Carnegie rugby union clubs.

Old Headingley AFC formed in 2001, originally named Skyrark FC, playing in the Yorkshire Old Boys League, before joining the West Yorkshire Association Football League in 2005. They dropped the “Old” bit from their name before the 2014-15 season and won promotion to the Premier Division the following year. 

The club nearly folded after losing its home ground in 2008 after an arson attack on their clubhouse, before being offered help by the University of Bradford. The club finally settled at their new home at Weetwood Playing Fields in 2014, which is owned by the University of Leeds.

West Park Leeds RUFC

The Sycamores, 

Bramhope, 

Leeds LS16 9JR

 

The club are now finally playing in Headingley, having previously played in Wetherby, Collingham and Stanningley. However, tonight's match was switched to The Sycamore's in Bramhope because of a double booking at Weetwood. 

The ground is home to West Park Rugby Club, where there's the main stadium and several Rugby pitches. The match was played in the 4G cage at the far end of the complex, which is also used for Rugby but has football pitch markings and is currently used by Harrogate & District League side Bramhope AFC. 

Headingley 4(Bywater 28,66 Shaw 34,Booth 39) 

Gomersal & Cleckheaton 1(Carney 61)

West Yorkshire Association Football League Premier Division Matchday 29v30

12th v 4th

7pm ko

Att.14hc 

Following a pretty even start, Headingley raced into a three goal lead before half time. A cross shot from Jamie Bywater was turned into his own net by the centre-half, then Adam Shaw hit a superb free kick from outside the box which caught out the defence. Richard Booth got on the end of a left wing cross to tap home the third in the 39th minute. 

The visitors pulled a goal back with a nice turn and shot from Josh Carney, but man of the match Bywater played a quick one-two before placing his shot into the corner of the net to make it 4-1. 

#Heedhopper 

92 mile drive door-to-door 

I picked up Lee, Katie and her mam Pauline at 2.30. We had a quick look around the town before dining at The Golden Beam.

We found out via Facebook about the match venue being switched, but we had plenty of time to get there before kick off. 

Just before the match started the linesman told us we had to move from the sidelines and go outside of the cage to watch the game. We objected, and decided to watch the match from behind the goal instead. This really pissed us off, because he never said a word to the other attendees who watched the whole match in the same spot.