The Surrey Youth League’s November newsletter is now available here.

Do you want to make a career out of the beautiful game? The Surrey County FA Careers in Football Conference will offer you a snapshot into what it’s like to work in various roles in football, from refereeing to coaching to physiotherapy.

The conference, aimed at 16-21 year olds will be held on 1st November 2012 at Westfield FC, the day will consist of a series of morning and afternoon workshops in the following football-related roles:

• AM – Coaching, Physiotherapy or Refereeing
• PM – Coaching, Strength & Conditioning and Media

For further details see the Surrey FA website.

Thanks to all of you that took the time to sort out and deliver your boots to Maia. She has collected 130 pairs of boots and these are on their way to a second life where they will be much appreciated.

They have already been sent out to Lesotho and are about to be put to very good use!

Make sure to keep hold of any more boots you may have for our 2013 boot collection!

Back in June 2011 Sheen Lions donated 150 shirts to support  GrassRoot Soccer, a charity dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV. They uses the popularity of Soccer to get serious and important messages about HIV to hard to reach young people in Africa. Jon Darlison arranged for DHL to ship these free of charge to Cape Town.

This Summer Sheen Lions was able to donate more shirts and again Jon was able to ask DHL to ship these out for free, this time directly to Zambia.

Peter Glidden of GrassRoot Soccer has just returned from working with the kids in Africa and has sent us some photos.

Peter says

I did want to share with a few photos of the kits in action. I think Tori informed you that some of the photos were used in a VCT Tournament last month and most recently that have been utilized with our GRS Coaches team these past couple weeks. Needless to say, they are getting lots of good use and our coaches and kids love having a nice kit to show off their skills.

On behalf of all of us at GRS, we very much appreciate your generosity, patience and support in helping GRS Zambia make strides in the fight against HIV. Supporters like you inspire our coaches/staff to continue the incredible efforts that are educating and mobilizing youth and communities throughout Africa. share with a few photos of the kits in action.  Needless to say, they are getting lots of good use and our coaches and kids love having a nice kit to show off their skills. We really appreciate it!

For 2012-13 The FA are introducing Match Based Discipline to Youth football. This means that if you receive for example a red card during a game you will receive a one, two, three or more match ban depending on the offence. It is the same punishments that you are familiar with from the Premier League.

Normally the ban will automatically apply 21 days after the offence though serious incidents can result in an immediate ban.

It is the responsibility of the offending player’s club to comply with the ban whether they receive paperwork or not. This is significantly different from the old regime where a ban was only applied if and when paperwork was received. A Club is deemed to have player an illegible player whether they have received paperwork or not.

Please note that this disciplinary process applies across Youth football and this includes school matches. Surrey FA have now stated that disciplinary  process for school and club football is not connected. A Suspension in one does not affect the other.

More information is available from Surrey FA.

Since its launch in 2008 SheenLions.com has be hosted on by 1&1 and is built using 1&1 proprietary WebsiteBuilder tool. We have had four good years but it was time to move. We have re-built SheenLions.com with WordPress and it is now hosted by TSO Hosts.

We are still SheenLions.com and you still have access to the same information but the page appearance is slightly different. In particular you will see a new menu structure and we hope this will make it easier to locate information that you need. There is a dedicated menu for fast access to the team pages.

Google is by far the main search engine that people use to route to SheenLions.com. It may take Google a little while to learn about the new site and rank it well, however its links to the old site will continue to land on the appropriate new pages.

As always, if you have any problems with or comments about SheenLions.com contact the webmasters, webmaster@sheenlions.org

Voting is now closed.

Here is how it has finished.

Congratulations to U12 Pride who have easily topped the pole but also to U9 Lions who were the “neutrals” choice.

Here are the SheenLions.com candidates for Team of The Season.

• U9 Lions – beat Meadow Sports in their last game of the season to win Division 1
• U10 Lions – a third place finish in the Premier division
• U11 Pride – a third place finish in Division 1
• U12 Lions – a third place finish in the Championship division and topping the Sheen Lions Club table with 44 points
• U12 Pride – a third place finish in Division 3, Invitation Cup quarters.
• U14 Lions –  a third place finish in Division 2,  Invitation Cup semi finalist.  Second in the Sheen Lions Club table with 42 points. A goal difference in the League of 63 and adding in cup games an overall GD of 90.
• U15 Lions – County Cup finalists
• U16 Lions – Runners up Division 2
• U16 Pride – League Cup finalists
• U18 Lions –  Runners up Division 1