10.30am 18 July 2026
Saturday Morning Summer Cup at Scott Hall Playing Fields, Leeds
Bridge Community 2 Leeds Huaren (att 4)
A pair of Leeds venues have been used for this year's Saturday Morning Summer Cup, and having visited one for my final game of 2025/26 I ticked off the other early my 2026/27 season.
Scott Hall Playing Fields, just north of the city centre, has five pitches. Two were staging Summer Cup games, and I opted for this fixture as the other was a dead rubber.
The top four of the eight competing sides progress to the semi-finals, and while Bridge went into the final round of matches assured of their place, Leeds Huaren knew their outcome was in the balance.
Bridge Community - a side made up of refugees getting to grips with life in the UK - took a fifth minute lead. They would have doubled it soon after had the referee not spotted what he thought, incorrectly, was a handball when they scored again.
Leeds Huaren, who spent last season in the Wakefield and District League, equalised before half time. A draw would have suited both teams but neither were prepared to sit back.
There wasn't much between them, and a hard and dry pitch didn't help the players, but late on Bridge got what turned out to be a winner.
Results elsewhere meant that, despite their defeat, Leeds Huaren will join their opponents in the last four. They might be meeting again for a place in the final.
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