Football

Northwood St Johns were fortunate to beat Cowes Sports Reserves at the Community Club on Saturday (20th August) after referee Ali Taylor apparently failed to spot the Yachtsmen scoring. The game began badly for Northwood when keeper Rio Barratt was...

Newport co-manager Stewart Shepherd has resigned from his role at the football club. In a statement put out on Facebook on Saturday evening (20th August), Stewart said: “Last week, I decided to step down from my role at Newport IW...

Cowes Sports held Southern League Larkhall to a draw at Westwood Park on Saturday (20th August) in the FA Cup preliminary round despite Harri Catania and goalkeeper Ed Hatt being red carded. The Yachtsmen took an early 10th minute lead...

The Isle of Wight’s 2 leading clubs – Newport and Cowes Sports – are both competing in the Preliminary Round of the FA Cup this Saturday (20th August). The victorious clubs will earn £1,444 in prize money and will be...

A match winning performance by Binstead goalkeeper – Isle of Wight manager Tom McInnes – saw Binstead take all 3 points against Pan at the Molehill on Wednesday evening (17th August). Pan began the game on the front foot with...

16-year-old Newport player Finn Smith has been officially confirmed by the English Football Association as the youngest ever player to have scored in the world's most prestigious domestic cup competition: the FA Cup. As first reported in Island Echo, Finn...

Rock hard pitches, parched grass and temperatures of up to 30C were some of the problems encountered by Isle of Wight footballers as the 2022/23 Division 1 football campaign kicked off on Saturday 13th August. East Cowes Sports 1-2 Pan...

The Port suffered their 1st defeat of the 2022/23 season at Beatrice Avenue while Cowes Sports and East Cowes Vics both gained maximum points on Saturday (13th August). With the addition of former Portsmouth Academy goalkeeper Leon Pitman and the...

14 Isle of Wight teams Division 1 teams will be kicking off in scorching conditions at 14:00 this Saturday. 2 teams – Pan Community and East Cowes Sports (ECS) – have been promoted from Division 2 and 1 team –...

All 3 of the Island's Wessex League teams had positive results with wins in FA Cup qualifying for Newport IW and Cowes Sports as well as an opening day point against recently relegated Amesbury for East Cowes Vics. Newport IW,...