Our Over 65’s Walking Footballers played their last session in the Greater Manchester Walking Football League Division 3 on Thursday 9th January 2020 at Heywood Sports Village Leisure Centre.

Going into the final session they were on level points with league leaders Fleetwood Town Flyers.

Moston started with a 2 – 1 victory over Rochdale Wanderers with goals from Mike Melia & Dave Kinder. In their second game disaster struck with a 0 – 3 defeat against Maccabi Old Codgers. So then came Fleetwood who having won one & drawn one came into this game gambling a draw would be good enough, so they shut up shop to earn a 0 – 0 draw. Before their final game Moston knew Fleetwood had won their final match and were therefore champions of their group so the result of the last match against Wakefield Wanderers a 0 – 0 draw only confirmed Moston as Runners Up.

The Autumn Session in the GMWFL has (4) sessions & having played Fleetwood Town Flyers (4) times Moston had the satisfaction of not losing to them winning (2) & drawing (2).

On the day Fleetwood added another (8) points to Moston’s (5) & both teams will start the Spring Session in March 2020 in Division 2.

Please see attached the photo of the team with their Runners Up trophy.

From (L to R) Back Row:

Eric Henshaw, Dave Wilde, Stewart Stroud, Dave Pearson (Player Manager).

Front Row:

Mike Melia, Dave Kinder (Captain), Jan Gedzielewski.

Finally, a thank you to Stewart Stroud who stood in for Charlie whilst he was flying out to Lanzarote for his winter break!