Squad chosen to play for Ernie Fairclough Trophy (From York Press)

Squad chosen to play for Ernie Fairclough Trophy

11:08am Saturday 16th March 2013 in Sport

A 16-STRONG squad has been chosen to represent the York Minster Engineering Football League to play for the Ernie Fairclough Trophy.

The York ranks will take on Yorkshire Old Boys at the University of Leeds’ Weetwood playing-fields on Monday, kick-off 7.30pm.

The game will be played on a 3G pitch and is in memory of Fairclough, who was a long-standing secrerary of the York League.

Of the 16-man party, there are three representatives apiece from Old Malton St Mary’s, Huntington Rovers and Wigginton Grasshoppers.

The York squad: Ben Gill (Terrington Glory), Jack Riley (Old Malton St Mary’s), Matt Pallister (Copmanthorpe), Dave Hartas (Huntington Rovers), Gary Mitchinson (Huntington Rovers), Gary Smith (Hamilton Panthers), Dave Heron (Riccall), Neale Holmes (Huntington Rovers), Wayne Brook (Riccall), Darren Dunning (Old Malton St Mary’s), Dean Nuttall (Old Malton St Mary’s), Lee Stewart (Wigginton Grasshoppers), Dan Zambelli (Wigginton Grasshoppers), Lee Powell (York Railway Institute), Lee McQuade (Wigginton Grasshoppers), Carl Stewart (Rowntrees).

Manager: Matthew Ward; assistant manager: Iain Dunn.