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Taylor&Emmet Celebrates with Football's Fairest

Sheffield’s Taylor&Emmet LLP has joined forces with the local football association to reward grassroots teams who have embraced the true spirit of fair play.

The solicitors, sponsors of the 2013/14 Sunday Senior and Junior Challenge Cups, honoured the two teams who scored the fewest disciplinary points during the season.

As part of Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA’s annual awards evening, Taylor&Emmet’s chief executive, Anthony Long, presented fair play prizes to city-based Crookes FC and Barnsley’s Ardsley Oaks, who played in the senior and junior cups respectively.

To win the awards, the Sunday league teams had to progress at least to the quarter finals of the Challenge Cups. The county FA then totalled the disciplinary points teams accrued throughout the season in league and cup matches and declared those with the lowest scores the victors.

Both winners of Taylor&Emmet’s fair play awards progressed to the semi finals. Senior team, Crookes FC, amassed a respectable 18 points, although Ardsley Oaks had just four points to its name at the end of the 2013/14 season.

Anthony Long said: “The Sunday Challenge Cups represent all that is great about local grassroots football and whilst the fair play award winners may not have won the competitions, they demonstrated sportsmanship is alive and well in South Yorkshire.”

Sheffield & Hallamshire CFA allots a minimum two disciplinary points for every sending off and one for a booking. They can also be handed out to those who commit on and off the field misconduct.

Richard Finney, marketing, communications and charity officer at Sheffield & Hallamshire CFA, added: “I would like to congratulate both fair play winners on their fantastic achievements and thank Taylor&Emmet for its support of the awards. It is the help of local businesses that enables us to recognise and reward the teams who played fairly as well as competitively throughout the season.”

For further information about Taylor&Emmet’s work with charitable and community organisations, telephone (0114) 218 4000, visit www.tayloremmet.co.uk or follow the firm on Twitter @tayloremmet.

Issued: 29.09.2014

For further information please contact Nina Sorby at CORNER PR

Tel: 01246 433 451 Email: nina@corner-pr.co.uk Web: www.corner-pr.co.uk

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