{"id":34969,"date":"2013-11-13T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/?p=34969"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:01:39","slug":"winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/2013\/11\/winners\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winners are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Directions Education was delighted to support Tranmere Rovers Football Club for the second year running in their Community scheme by sponsoring their local primary schools boys\u2019 football tournament.\u00a0 This years tournament was just as exciting as last year and the boys were so enthusiastic to participate.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying\u00a0matches were played at Pensby High School over four nights where the 34 teams were\u00a0whittled down to nine. The finalists were\u00a0St Joseph\u2019s Catholic Primary in Birkenhead, Christ the King Primary, Somerville Primary, Gayton Primary, Poulton Lancelyn Primary, Woodlands Primary in Ellesmere Port, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Woodchurch Road Primary and Higher Bebington Junior School.<\/p>\n<p>The schools fought it out at the same venue on November 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0for the honour of representing Wirral Borough with the chance to play at Wembley Stadium.\u00a0After some extremely competitive football Poulton Lancelyn\u00a0emerged as winners, seeing off local rivals Christ the King in a close fought final.<\/p>\n<p>On final day the weather was abysmal with rain forecast all evening, however the teams pulled together and showed a united front and seemed resilient to the weather conditions!\u00a0 There was also a fantastic turn out of parents on the side line cheering the children on. The team from New Directions Education in Liverpool was also present to cheer on the teams! New Directions\u00a0sponsorship meant the finalists all received medals and trophies, with certificates presented for all who took part.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Williams, Tranmere\u2019s Community Manager said &#8220;Tranmere Rovers\u00a0Football League Kids Cup Supported by New Directions\u00a0produced an exciting finale.\u00a0Nine teams took part in the final stages with some excellent football on display from the youngsters. This culminated in a tense final with\u00a0Poulton Lancelyn\u00a0edging out\u00a0Christ the King by 1-0 scoreline. Congratulations must go to Poulton Lancelyn who will\u00a0represent Tranmere Rovers in the area finals at\u00a0Crewe. A big thank you to New Directions Education for supporting the competition.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs B Gratehead, Head Teacher at Poulton Lancelyn commented \u201cThanks to New Directions and Tranmere Rovers for a fabulous event. Our pupils thoroughly enjoyed the competition and as winners, were obviously delighted with the end result!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Doogan, Head Teacher at Christ the King added \u201cThe pupils thoroughly enjoyed competing against other schools over two nights at Pensby High School. All matches were keenly contested and we were delighted to make the eventual final. Congratulations to Poulton Lancelyn Primary School who narrowly beat us in the final. Best wishes to them when they represent Tranmere Rovers in the next stages of the competition. Thanks to organizers and sponsors for a marvellous event\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sandra White, who is the Account Manager at New Directions Education commented \u201cI really enjoyed watching all the schools who participated in the Tranmere Football Tournament, Football is a big part of my life and I am always happy to stand on the side-line cheering the teams on.\u00a0 It was also a great opportunity to meet with the head teachers, teachers and parents and generally be involved with the great buzz this game brings to the children\u2019s lives\u2019\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34957\" alt=\"photo 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-540x405.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.new-directions.co.uk\/education\/files\/photo-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Directions Education was delighted to support Tranmere Rovers Football Club for the second year running in their Community scheme by sponsoring [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":34958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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