For the second time this season, Reds inflicted a heavy defeat on Burscough in a JPL fixture played at the St. Benedict’s campus.

It was another early start for the young Reds but, undeterred, they put in a tremendous performance in the mid-morning kick-off and toppled the league leaders in Cheshire……for the second successive season.

There was an unusual JPL fixture for the young Reds when they took on an Australian side based in Shropshire. And because of the distance between the clubs, the match was played half-way at a venue in Bolton. Reds got off to a cracking start and were ahead after thirty seconds thanks to Ted Thomson’s first goal for the club. It stayed that way until midway through the second half when the Aussies equalised. But Reds secured their first away win and the points when the in-for

The young Reds were faced with two doughty opponents at Borough Park – a slick Hartlepool United side and the atrocious weather.

The Young Reds made further progress in the FA Youth Cup after a penalty shoot-out victory over Spennymoor.

The young Reds opened their JPL account with six of the best, just a week after they had conceded half a dozen themselves.

Seventeen years old Alfie McDonough joined a select band of teenagers to score a hat-trick for Workington in the FA Youth Cup.

The Young Reds continued their preparation for the new season and, in particular, the FA Youth Cup which commences in just over a month.

The Development Squad did something that the first team couldn’t manage to do – record a victory at Palmerston Park!