Football

Saturday was one of those when as a football fan it makes all the long journeys and defeats throughout a season worth it.

Scole United Under-15s ended the season in style by recording their biggest victory with an emphatic 7-1 win over North Walsham.

Norwich City will face Middlesbrough at Wembley for a Premier League shootout after winning the battle of Carrow Road with a 3-1 success and against 10-man Ipswich Town.

A host of Diss Town players were honoured as the club held their annual end-of-season awards evening at Brewers Green Lane.

If last weekend was the biggest East Anglian Derby in a generation, then this weekend’s second leg already eclipses it.

Diss Cricket Club’s poor start to the new Norfolk Alliance Premier Division season continued on Saturday as they slipped to a second successive, going down to Brooke.

Champions Eye Saints Eagles Under-13s capped off a memorable season with a comprehensive 6-1 win away at Ipswich Athletic Whites.

Jimmy Last has urged Scole United to build on their promotion to the Anglian Combination Premier Division and fulfil their full potential.

Norwich against Ipswich in the play-off semi-final with the winners of the biggest East Anglian Derby in a generation heading to Wembley; could the stakes get much higher?

Needham Market manager Mark Morsley has been rewarded for guiding the club to the Ryman League Division One North title this season by being handed a new five-year deal.

Diss Town ended their torrid season in disappointment with a 1-0 defeat at home to Felixstowe and Walton United.

Eye Saints Eagles under-13s secured the South Suffolk Youth League Division Three title in style with an emphatic 12-0 win over Coplestonians Colts.

Diss Town manager Mark Reeve believes his side owe their long-suffering fans a worthy performance in their season finale tomorrow (3pm).

Diss Rugby Club missed out on promotion by the narrowest of margins after late drama at Mackenders saw Chiswick win the London Two North play-off 16-13.

Scole United Under-11s secured the Norfolk Youth Football Combination, Division One league title in style with an emphatic win over Old Catton, in our match of the week.

Diss Town manager Mark Reeve conceded he is using the end of season to ‘experiment’ with one eye already on next season.

Last Friday’s 1-0 defeat at the hands of Middlesbrough was one of the toughest to take in recent years and not one I want to dwell on.

Diss Town were held to a second successive 1-1 draw as they claimed a share of the spoils against rivals Ely City in a battle between the Thurlow Nunn League Premier Division’s two bottom sides.

SUFFOLK SENIOR CUP SEMI-FINAL

Debenham LC manager Stuart Reavell felt his side got what they deserved after the Hornets were beaten by lower-level opposition in the Suffolk Senior Cup semi-final, writes Michael Steward.