Knights 0-1 Ruckus

Saturday 1st May

Knights Arena, Suffolk. Att: 30,485.

SCR got over their disappointment of being knocked out in CSA Club Championship semi-finals by FC London by beating East Anglia 1-0.

Martin King scored with eight minutes left.

Goals

Knights: none.

Ruckus: King 82'.

London Town 0-2 Ruckus

Sunday 25th April 2010

HMV Park, London. Att: 39,948

SCR claimed an amazing win at London Town.

Garry Stratford's 25-yard free-kick had no chance for Marco Schuipers, while Michael Heany scored the second from the penalty spot after Juanpa hauled down Danny Defranco.

To put insult to injury for the champions, striker John Carey was sent off for stamping on SCR's Norwegian centre-half Bjorn Terke.

The England striker misses Town's next three BritLeague matches against Real Birmingham, Merseyside Mighty Rats and Bristol Pirates, but he can return for the Blues' CSA England Cup Final against Barnsworth on 15th May.

Goals

London Town: none.

Ruckus: Stratford 32', Heany 86' p.

Bookings

London Town: Carey 72'.

Ruckus: Peters 61'.

Edinburgh FC 1-2 Ruckus

Monday 5th April

Tynecastle, Edinburgh. Att: 8,584.

South Coast grabbed a crucial win against Edinburgh at Tynecastle on Easter Monday.

Ryan Wise made it 1-0 before Mario Dokic doubled their advantage.

But Edinburgh made sure to deny the Ruckus a clean sheet with a header from defender Paul Gray.

Goals

Edinburgh FC: Gray 86'.

Ruckus: Wise 37', Dokic 79'.

Ruckus 3-0 Glasgow FC

Sunday 28th March

A Mario Dokic double and a Antonio Federali freak goal were enough to secure victory for South Coast over Glasgow.

Croatian Dokic scored two classy goals, the first after two minutes, the second with two minutes left.

Federali managed to score a goal when a poor Glasgow clearance hit the Italian on the leg, managing to sail into the back of the net.

Goals

Ruckus: Dokic 2', 88', Federali 55'.

Glasgow FC: none.

Ruckus 2-0 Mighty Rats

Wednesday 24th March

Ruckus Park, Hampshire. Att: 18,584.

South Coast Ruckus stormed to a 2-0 victory over the struggling Merseyside Mighty Rats with goals from Garry Stretford and Diego Kapelski.

Goals

Ruckus: Stretford 44', Kapelski 87'.

Mighty Rats: none.

Real Birmingham 2-1 Ruckus

Saturday 13th March

Muller Park, Birmingham. Att: 24,067.

Real Birmingham won 2-1 over South Coast Ruckus.

Goals

Real Birmingham: Costa 16', Barry 76'.

Ruckus: Defranco 40'.

Ruckus 5-2 Fire

Saturday 6th March

Ruckus Park, Hampshire. Att: 28,763.

Garry Stretford's first professional hat-trick helped the South Coast Ruckus tear through the Nottingham Fire as the home club celebrated their first ever game at purposely-built Ruckus Park.

The team in yellow, green and grey thrashed the Fire 5-2 with Martin King and Michael Heany also joining in Stretford's party with goals of their own.

The young 21-year-old midfielder Stretford also had a solid performance for England in the second half of the 5-0 friendly thrashing of South Africa on Wednesday, setting up the final two goals, and winning the Vodafone Man of the Match award.

He has been linked with a move away from Southern England, with clubs like Monsters, London Town and London United reportedly interested in the London-born midfielder.

But that did not stop him from scoring a perfect hat-trick against Nottingham - the first goal came from a sweet left-footed volley, the second from a right-footed curling free-kick and the third from a header from King's cross (no pun intended).

With the Ruckus leading 5-0 with ten minutes remaining, the Fire did their best to start a mini comeback with goals from Ben Judd and Erik Lyngstad.

Goals

Ruckus: Stretford 4', 31', 66', Heany 46', King 76'.

Fire: Judd 81', Lyngstad 85'.

Hands off Stretford - Ruckus

South Coast Ruckus hope to cling onto talented England Under-21 midfielder Garry Stretford until the summer.

Clubs like the Monsters and FC London are interested in the 21-year-old, with the current transfer window not closed until the end of March.

But the Ruckus are still in contention in the CSA Club Championship and CSA England Cup.

And Ruckus manager Harry Davies says Stretford is such a key player for his side, and hints that the 21-year-old could be picked for England World Cup side in the summer.

"We want to hang on to him as long as we can because he's such a key man for us," said Davies. "I hope Marco Garibaldi is listening - Stretty's is good enough to be in that World Cup side."

Stretford, Heany bring the Ruckus to St. Louis

Garry Stretford and Mick Heany were the starmen for South Coast Ruckus as they both netted braces in a 5-0 demolition of the St. Louis Shockwave at the Edward Jones Dome.

Martin King scored the other goal, with a speedy solo effort which left defenders tackling nothing but air.

The US Premiership side Shockwave were disappointing in the fact they only created one shot, in a largely one sided game with Ruckus incredibly having 75% of the possession.

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.