FCL lose unbeaten home record

Dublin Shamrocks claimed an unlikely victory at FC London with a goal from Austrian Wolfgang Babatz.

This now means that FCL have lost at home for the first time this season.

Goals
FC London: none.
Dublin Shamrocks:Babatz 55'.

Saturday's Action from Round 1

FC Nottingham cruised to a 3-0 win at Glasgow, while South Coast Rangers managed a 1-0 win at Dublin.

Manchester Rockers defeated Edinburgh 2-0, Newcastle Geordies easily defeated Sheffield Strikers 3-0, while Dragons and East Anglia were held to a 1-1 draw.

Shamrocks 0-3 Lightning

Saturday 3rd April

RDS Arena, Dublin. Att: 8,594.

Leeds Lightning won in Dublin with a goal from Diego van den Struijk and two from Daniele Riviera.

Goals

Shamrocks: none.

Lightning: Riviera 34', 67', van den Struijk 78'.

Geordies 0-1 Shamrocks

Saturday 27th March

Geordies Park, Newcastle. Att: 20,596.

A last-gasp Richard Hately header gave unfancied Irish team Dublin Shamrocks an away win at Newcastle Geordies.

Goals

Geordies: none.

Shamrocks: Hately 90'.

Shamrocks 0-2 Monsters

Sunday 14th March

RDS Arena, Dublin. Att: 7,065.

Monsters won in Dublin with goals from Gheorghe Pancu and rookie Adam Morgan.

Goals

Shamrocks: none.

Monsters: Pancu 57', Morgan 88'.

Knights 3-1 Shamrocks

Saturday 6th March

Knights Arena, Suffolk. Att: 29,569.

The East Anglia Knights stormed to victory with a 3-1 win over the Dublin Shamrocks in the first game ever played at the Knights' new ground in Suffolk.

Adam Gaffney headed in the 1-0 from a Danny Basingstoke corner.

But fellow centre-half Richard Hately equalised for the Irish side with a header of his own after a Steve Berry corner.

However, it was a Hately error that gifted the lead back to the Knights when the Irishman miscontrolled a pass and England star Adam Carter ran past him with the ball and rounded bemused goalie Shane Murphy.

And Welsh striker Karlo Krzystofski marked his first league appearance since September 2009 after recovering from a serious knee injury with a wonderful chip from 30 yards after he saw Murphy completely off his line.

Goals

Knights: Gaffney 23', Carter 58', Krzystofski 88'.

Shamrocks: Hately 35'.

MLF to become BritLeague for '09, plus more changes

Major League Football has announced that they will change its name to the BritLeague with immediate effect following that they don't want any confusion with the similarly named North American football (soccer) league called Major League Soccer.

"We want to be our own identity," said the BritLeague commisioner.

MLF2 is now to be known as BritLeague D (the Development League), MLF Europe will now be known as EuroLeague Football and MLF International will be called InterLeague.

Also many teams have changed their names. Manchester Magic will become Manchester Rockers because of Manchester's long history of indie music, Edinburgh Eagles will now be FC Edinburgh 2007, Dublin Druids (who were criticised for their name, they had no idea what druid meant at the time) will now be the Dublin Shamrocks, and Ajax London (who have ended their partnership with the Dutch team Ajax Amsterdam this year) will now become London Town.

Also the Middlesbrough Monsters have dropped the town name in favour of the Monsters Football Club, as they will move into their own stadium next year outside Middlesbrough after using Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium for the past three years.

And finally, Reading Ruckus will move to Hampshire next year, after poor attendances at the Madejski Stadium. They will now be known as the South Coast Ruckus, however it is unknown whether they will use Southampton's St. Mary's or Portsmouth's Fratton Park as their main arena.