ALL-CONQUERING Sporting Knavesmire are fast gaining a reputation as park football’s ‘Invincibles’ having not lost a York Minster Engineering League fixture since December 2013.

After last tasting league defeat to Crayke in the third division, Knavesmire have embarked on a 38-game streak without losing to secure back-to-back promotions.

That run includes 3-2 division one successes against Tockwith and Pocklington at the beginning of the new season, while top-flight Tadcaster Magnets have also been dumped out of the Senior Cup 5-2.

And, with an average age of 21, the team are only likely to get better.

Despite his team’s dominance over the last 22 months, though, manager Ian Wilson joked: “I never think that we will win.

“I want them to just enjoy playing and take each game at a time. Hopefully, then, the result will come.”

Nor does Wilson believe in individual accolades for the team with end-of-season award ceremonies off the agenda.

“We don’t do them and no one has ever mentioned about doing one,” he explained. “We have known everyone since they were little and they all get involved in the social events, so there is no need to do one as they know who has played well.

“They all get the praise they need every game as well as all the negatives.”

Knavesmire have only been playing senior Saturday football for five seasons but Wilson now has ambitions for his side to reach the premier division and hopefully flourish like he did as a player.

Wilson was a member of the successful Osbaldwick team that won ten consecutive premier division titles in the 1980s and 1990s and hopes his current squad can benefit from that experience with some players having been under his management since the age of six.

The club’s success is not just limited to the pitch either with more than £1,000 recently raised at a charity event hosted by the Ainsty pub.