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First-year Bocher boys send 40 Year Wanderers crashing out

Bocher Juniors moved to within 180 minutes of crowning their debut season in the Maccabi GB Southern Football League (MGBSFL) with silverware, though manager Joel Ucko is refusing to get carried away.

February 12, 2025 10:39
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Bocher Juniors are just 180 minutes away from claiming their first piece of silverware. Picture Credit: Georgia Rosenberg.

ByMaccabi GB, Andrew Sherwood

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The side, which was formed just weeks before the start of the season, booked their place in the semi-finals of the David Wolff Division Two Cup on Sunday morning thanks to a 5-3 win over 40 Year Wanderers, but Ucko insists it’s just a case of taking things one game at a time. “We would of course love to win a trophy, but our priority is always the next game”, he says. “I’m not looking beyond that and am not allowing my players to get distracted by anything other than the current assignment.”

Bocher Juniors' Dave Amor (yellow) sweeps home the first of his two goals against 40 Year Wanderers on Sunday morning. Picture Credit: Georgia Rosenberg.[Missing Credit]

Having to earn their victory, they found themselves 3-1 down at one stage, though two goals from Dave Armon, along with Avishai Marcus netting on his debut, plus strikes from Solly Levy and Ben Woolich completed an impressive turnaround.

Reflecting on the performance, he said: “Overall I’m delighted with it. I thought we controlled the play for the first 35 minutes and apart from a sloppy 10 minutes leading up to the break and at the beginning of the second half in which we found ourselves 3-1 down, I thought the lads were outstanding.

“The resilience, determination, hunger and desire to win in this team is remarkably good, and that courage and bravery today allowed us to go on and turn the game around. On balance I think 5-3 was about right. Credit to them, who with a paper-thin squad made a real game of it, but ultimately I felt our performance in the first and final half an hour of the game was so dominant that we deserved the win, although they can be rightly proud of their contribution to a wonderful game.”