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Silhill 1sts prior to kick-off at home to Birmingham Tigers, on Saturday 10th August 2024 in Midland Football League Division 3. With over 60 people watching, Silhill won the game 6-2 with a flurry of goals from Ben Davis 2, Alfie Merriman, Jon Myrie, Kyle Porter & their Man-of-the-Match Josh Sarmento:
Back row, left to right: Jon MYRIE, Dan ATKINS, Ben DAVIS, Jack MARSON, David STRATFORD (goalkeeper), Alfie MERRIMAN, Jamie O’NEIL (team captain for Season 2023-24), Lewis WILLIAMS (team captain for Season 2024-25), Kasim HUSSAIN.
Front row, left to right: Leon BLAKE (team manager), Gilad GRANT, Adam PATERSON, Shay ROBINSON, Owen FACKRELL, Kamal RICHARDSON, Kyle PORTER, Josh SARMENTO.
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Jack Shephard’s 2nd team line-up for 2023-24. In that Season they took over the Silhill 1sts’ place in the Birmingham & District Football League Premier Division, after the 1sts had moved on to the Midland Football League. So, having had to step up from Division 1, Silhill 2nds battled with huge positivity & determination to finish a highly creditable 8th in the Premier, on 23 points from 22 games, with 6 victories & 5 draws. The team’s top marksman for Season 2023-24 was Dan Atkins on 10 goals.
Back row, left to right: Keshveer LAKHANPAUL, Joel FERRARIN, Martin HANDS, Matthew PICKFORD (goalkeeper), Jack SHEPHARD (player-manager), Richard BROWN, Greg SEDGWICK.
Front row, left to right: James CALCUTT, Luke ALLEN, Ryan WALTERS, Mark STANION, Mohammed ALI, Gabriel PEDRO, Dan ATKINS, Jake CLAPPERTON.
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Ross Owen’s Silhill 3rd team before they kicked off on 23rd March 2024 in the 2024 Birmingham & District Football League Junior Cup Final under floodlights on the Coleshill Road Nurseries astroturf in Sutton Coldfield.
In the Final Silhill won this famous old Cup, first awarded in the 1912-13 Season, for the 11th time, defeating old rivals Village 2nds in a nailbiting penalty shoot-out 4-3. That followed a 5-5 deadlock after normal time & 6-6 after extra time.
The goalscorers on the evening were: Adam Hemming 2, Inderpal Mandair 1, Ben Stratford 2, Sammy Webster 1. Then Silhill's penalties were scored by, in order: Dean Campbell, Adam Hemming, Matt Burns & Drew Hill.
Back row, left to right: Ross OWEN (team manager), Andy MACKEY, Josh HOUGHTON, Ben STRATFORD, Dean CAMPBELL, David STRATFORD (goalkeeper), Harry FITZWATER (team captain), Finley TAYLOR, Kyle PORTER, Drew HILL.
Front row, left to right: Oliver JAMES, Inderpal MANDAIR, Aaron PRICE, Matthew BURNS, Adam HEMMING (Man-of-the-Final), George TAYLOR, Sammy WEBSTER.
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Here Silhill 4th team are pictured before kick-off at home to their old rivals from Great Barr, Village FC, on Saturday 5th October 2024 in the Norman Jeffs Cup Round 1:
Back row, left to right: Justin BARNES (team manager), Neil KITCHING, Ross OWEN, Keith CONWAY, Matt SCRIVENS (Silhill Man-of-the-Match), Matthew JONES, Phil PRICE, Graham CARTER.
Front row, left to right: Chris CHAMBERLAIN, Tom YOUNGMAN, Howard YATES (goalkeeper), Jacob MOSS (team captain), Oliver SCRIVENS, Ali YARE-GAWOW.
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