What an amazing finish to the season!

This season there have been 4 tie-breakers, all of which have been decide by the number of points the subs-bench had scored.  However this week is different! With both John Holland’s team DCK Saracens and Mike P’s Jollybella FC scoring 75 points and both subs-benches scoring 4 points, this week’s winner had to be decided by the number of goals scored.  A first for the Top Corner Fantasy Football League!

Winning a free Top Corner match for his team Mike P’s Jollybella FC beat John Holland’s team DCK Saracens by 5 goals to 4! Mike, please get in touch with Chris on 020 7036 9920 to claim your prize!

CONGRATULATIONS Chris who tops the Top Corner table after 38 gameweeks and has won a brand new kit for his team Park Strife who play in the Vauxhall 7 a-side Championship!  Chris also finished 44^th out of over 2 million in the entire competition, an incredible achievement!

The Top Corner Top 10*

* Eligibility: players joining before Gameweek 1

A reminder that late entries are not eligible for the annual prize.

The sessions will start at 7.40 pm on Monday evenings and will run on the following dates:                  

May – 14^th, 21^st and 28^th

June – 11^th, 18^th and 25th

There’s no need to book in advance – just turn up and play. And the best part is, it’s completely free of charge!

So if you maybe haven’t played for a while and are looking to get back in to netball, these coaching sessions could be just what you need to brush up on your skills before you start looking for a league to join. Or if you’re already in a league but can’t quite get enough netball at the moment, then you’d also be more than welcome to join us on Monday evenings!

For more information call John on 020 7036 9921 or email john.atkinson@topcorner.co.uk

Football - Tufnell Park 7s, Waterloo, Vauxhall 5s (BRAND NEW), Finsbury Park Sunday, Camden 7s (BRAND NEW) and Holloway

Netball - Vauxhall, Barbican (BRAND NEW) , Stockwell Park (BRAND NEW), Old Street (BRAND NEW) Canary Wharf, Paddington (BRAND NEW), Hoxton (BRAND NEW) and Brixton (BRAND NEW)

Basketball -  Mile End (2nd season)

Full details of all our spaces

A full set of fixtures in the penultimate week was a great chance to pick up points leading into the last week.

This week’s winner was Paulo Gomes’s team Dodgy Carrots with an impressive 77 points, winning him a free Top Corner match for his team AMA Bafana who used to play in the Brixton league. Paulo’s Dodgy Carrots moves up to 93th in the league with 1967 points!

Next week the same fantastic prize is there to be won – enlist your team-mates to the cause! The more of your team’s players that are taking part the greater your chances of being awarded a free league game!!

Full details of how to join are here.

Chris is looking good to win the overall prize but can he be caught in the final week:

The Top Corner Top 10**

* Eligibility: players joining before Gameweek 1

A reminder that late entries are not eligible for the annual prize, and you must be in the competition for at least a week before you can win a weekly prize.

After a winter 11/12 season the Deloitte in-house league reached its finale last night.  The annual Deloitte Finals Night was held at Bacon’s College, Canada Water, where 13 teams fought it out for 3 titles, Ultimate Champions, Nearly Winners and Best of the Rest. On the night there was some fantastic football played, the goals were racked up and some very impressive keeping skills kept teams in with a chance to take one of the 3 trophies back to the office! 

After the group stages, PLEB Soccer who came third in their group overcame E & R Wigs in the semi-final of the Best of the Rest competition and went on to beat RS Raiders 2-0 in the final. 

The Nearly Winners competition (comprised of the 4 bottom placed teams from Group A) saw TMT Titans impressively beat Real Sociedad Estate by 4 goals to nil.  However, they were narrowly beaten in the dying minutes of the final by an AFC Indirect third goal leaving AFC with a 3-2 win and holding the Nearly Winners plaque.

The winners of the Ultimate Champions Cup competition would return to the office with the pride of knowing that they were the overall winners of the event and the ultimate winners within Deloitte.  8 points clear at the top of the table after the group stages, it seemed as though CI Champions had the title in their kit bag.  But this is football, and it’s never over until the final whistle blows! FS Tictacs fought hard in the semi-final to knock out the CI Champs, booking their place in the Ultimate final.  FS Tictacs were joined in the final by ERS Estrella who had played an evening of good consistent football and managed to knock out the Deloitte Group B League winners, CB Pandas, in the semi-final.  Another tight final and a last minute goal saw ERS Estrella lift the Ultimate Champions cup as they defeated FS Tictacs 3-2.

The individual awards for this in-house competitions were based on the statistics accumulated over the league season. In Group A, Leigh Duckwith (The Renegades) won both the Top Scorer (11 goals) and Player of the Season.  Unfortunately for The Renegades, Leigh couldn’t make the Finals Night. In League Group B, ERS Estrella team mates Gavin Cartwright and Jason Boatwright were last night awarded with the Player of the Season and Top Scorer (20 goals) awards, respectively.

A fantastic night of football brings to a close the Deloitte 2011/12 annual league and cup competition.  Later this year the fun will start all over again.  Will ERS Estrella (pictured) be able to defend their ULTIMATE CHAMPIONS title?!?! Time will tell!

Although our Old Street football leagues have been a runaway success it has been a sore point for the TC that there hasn’t been any netball played in the area. The netball team has spent the last few months scouring the locale for courts and has finally come up trumps. Our Old Street leagues will be set within the recently redeveloped Bethnal Green Academy where we will have exclusive use of 3 purpose built netball courts as well as excellent shower and changing facilities.

We are opening the leagues up to social teams so this opportunity would really suit start-up teams looking for a netball home. We aim to deliver the most well organised, fun and competitively priced-leagues in East London.

Our Monday league is due to commence April 23rd with the Tuesday starting a day later on the 24th. There is a great introductory price so check out all the league details here.

For more information on the league and how to apply please contact Carly by email or call 020 7036 9917.

The Acland Burghley School with it’s recently refurbished astro-turf pitch plays hosts to the Top Corner 7-a-side men’s league. 

The league is set to start on the 17th May.  Check out the league details here. 

Get your application in before the 16th April to avail of the special Early Bird offer!

For more information on this league contact Leona at leona.carroll@topcorner.co.uk or on 0207 036 9926

There were a couple of netball teams being represented there that night, but many of the participants were individual players who have recently moved to the area or have not played for a number of years and are looking to get back in to the sport. There were easily enough players there to form a team, maybe even two, and this is something I’d be willing to help set up.

We’re holding a meeting on Monday 2^nd April at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on Ferndale Road, Brixton,  at 7pm for all individual players (not restricted to those who took part in the sessions) who are interested in getting involved in one of the new women’s leagues starting soon at the Ferndale Community Sports Centre. We’ll be discussing matters such as player positions, which league you’d like to join (Monday or Wednesday), team name and potential team organisers.

So if you’re looking for a team to join we’d be delighted if you could make it but if you can’t, don’t worry, you haven’t missed your chance. If you could get in touch with me to let me know that you’re interested and also if there’s anything you’d like to add or bring up in the discussion, I’ll make sure your voice is heard.

I hope to see lots of you there, and judging by the quality that was on display at the coaching sessions, hopefully this will be the starting point for a couple of very successful netball teams.

John

Tel: 020 7036 9921

Email: john.atkinson@topcorner.co.uk

The ground was re-opened in December with an exhibition training session by the Chelsea FC youth team, who were welcomed on to the pitch by Wandsworth Council’s cabinet member for environment and culture, Councillor Jonathan Cook. Chelsea has a long-established relationship with Wandsworth, basing their academy at Battersea Park before moving to facilities in Cobham, Surrey.

League applications have already started to come in, and with prices frozen at just £46 per game making this one of the best-value leagues around, we’re expecting the remaining places to go soon. So make sure you don’t miss out on the chance to play at this “Premier League quality” venue this summer and book your team’s place today.

For more information on the league and how to apply, visit our info and entry page or call John on 020 7036 9921 or email john.atkinson@topcorner.co.uk.

Old Street Open (Monday and Tuesday)

Although our Old Street football leagues have been a runaway success it has been a sore point for the TC that there hasn’t been any netball played in the area. The netball team has spent the last few months scouring the locale for courts and has finally come up trumps. Our Old Street leagues will be set within the recently redeveloped Bethnal Green Academy where we will have exclusive use of 3 purpose built netball courts as well as excellent shower and changing facilities.

We are opening the leagues up to social teams so this opportunity would really suit start-up teams looking for a netball home. We aim to deliver the most well organised, fun and competitively priced-leagues in East London so please watch this space for further details.

Our Monday league is due to commence April 23rd with the Tuesday starting a day later on the 24th.

Vauxhall Wednesday Social League

Last 18 months have seen Vauxhall rapidly develop into one of London’s premier netball hubs with TC now operating across 5 courts throughout the week. As the leagues have grown the standard has also improved season on season. In response to demand we’ve decided to create an entirely new league aimed specifically at social grade teams. The league will take place at the revamped LBOS, where our courts have been recently refurbished. Work is now underway on new changing rooms and a cafe that will make the venue one of the most impressive in London. Please see here for more details, the league will commence May 9th.

If you’d like to know more about these exciting opportunities please contact Bayo Obasaju (0207 036 9915) or Carly Bacon (0207 036 9917)