IN Monday's Division A Mardi Gra Experience kicked off the new league with a good 8-1 win over Harveys Taxis. with the winning goals coming from Rick Gunby (2), Chris Grady (2), Phil Hartley (2) and John Jordan (2), while Athletico Redvales claimed three points after claiming a walkover win when Newey/Eyre failed to turn up.

Moorside Rangers won a close game against Three Lions, which finished 7-5, J Tuke (3), G Holden (2), D Preston (1) and M Morall (1) scored for Moorside, and Lee Reynolds (2), Paul Dover (2) and Andrew Garrett (1) scored the Three Lions goals, while Subeautiful beat Bostic Stanley 2-1, with their goals coming from Phil Rainey and Andy O'Sullivan.

In Division B The Nats start the season with a very comfortable 11-2 win against Clubber Lang, Chris Oates (5), Chris Carr (1), Mike Corcoran (1), Steve Thiel (1), Steve Marsh (2) and John Oates (1) scored The Nats goals, and Paul Jones and Tom Long scored for Clubber Lang, while Inter United start well after beating Raiders 7-0, with their winning goals coming from Kristen Duffin (2), John Price (1), Jackie Coyle (1) and Owen Coyle (3).

Mark Ryan (3) and Paul Langley (1) scored for Oddfellows Arms, to see them beat TDG 4-2, the TDG goal scorers were Tasker and Winkley.

Storm lead the way in the Tuesday League, they continue to claim the full nine points after beating Blue Bell (1-0), Sunnybank (2-0) and Magnum (3-0), while Top Scorers In Pants sit in s ond place, they had two wins over PSV Beedmeister (3-0) and Raiders (1-0) but lost a game to DHL.

To add to their win against Top Scorers, DHL drew their other two matches with Blue Bell and Sunnybank, while Magnum beat Raiders and PSV Beedmeister, but lost their other match to leaders Storm.

Whitefield Athletic had just two games on the night, they beat Dark/Dangerous 2-0 then drew with 1-1 with Irwell Lads, and Blue Bell drew their first game with DHL then went on to lose their next game to Storm, but ended the night with a very comfortable 5-0 win over Sunnybank.

Raiders didn't start too well, they lost their first two matches, but finally won a close game against PSV Beedmeister which ended 4-3, while Five Star beat Crumpsall 2-1, drew 3-3 with The Mac Lads, but lost a close game to Dynamo.

In their first game Irwell Lads drew 1-1 with The Mac Lads, then went on to beat Crumpsall before another draw with Whitefield Athletic and Dark/Dangerous (who only played two games), beat Dynamo but lost to Whitefield Athletic.

Dynamo also had just the two matches to play in which they beat Five Star 3-2 and lost to Dark/Dangerous, while Crumpsall lost two of their games but managed to gain three points after their comfortable 6-2 win over The Mac Lads.

Sunnybank picked up a point from their 1-1 draw with DHL, but lost their other matches, newcomers The Mac Lads drew with both Five Star and Irwell Lads but lost a game, and PSV Beedmeister sit at the bottom of the table after losing all three matches.

P W D L F A Pt

Storm... 9 9 0 0 31 4 27

Top Scorers/Pants... 9 6 1 2 14 6 19

DHL... 8 5 3 0 14 3 18

Magnum... 8 5 0 3 9 8 15

Whitefield Ath... 8 4 2 2 11 8 14

Blue Bell... 8 4 1 3 12 5 13

Raiders... 8 4 0 4 9 9 12

Five Star... 9 3 2 4 25 18 11

Irwell Lads... 8 3 2 3 13 8 11

Dark/Dangerous... 8 3 2 3 10 20 11

Dynamo... 8 3 1 4 8 16 10

Crumpsall... 9 2 2 5 13 19 8

Sunnybank... 9 2 1 6 5 18 7

The Mac Lads... 8 0 2 6 6 20 2

PSV Beedmeister... 9 0 1 8 9 27 1

Mardi Gra Experience... 1 1 0 0 8 1 3

Athletico Redvales... 1 1 0 0 5 0 3

Moorside Rangers... 1 1 0 0 7 5 3

Subeautiful... 1 1 0 0 2 1 3

Bostic Stanley... 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Three Lions... 1 0 0 1 5 7 0

Newey/Evre... 1 0 0 1 0 5 0

Harveys Taxis... 1 0 0 1 1 8 0

The Nats... 1 1 0 0 11 2 3

Inter United... 1 1 0 0 7 0 3

Odd Fellows Arms... 1 1 0 0 4 2 3

TDG... 1 0 0 1 2 4 0

Raiders... 1 0 0 1 0 7 0

Clubber Lang... 1 0 0 1 2 11 0 Results -- PSV Beedmeister 0 Top Scorers In Pants 3; Blue Bell 0 Storm 1; Irwell Lads 2 Crumpsall 0; DHL 2 Top Scorers In Pants 0; Irwell Lads 1 The Mac Lads 1; Magnum 0 Storm 3; Dynamo 3 Five Star 2; Magnum 2 Raiders 0; Raiders 0 Top Scorers In Pants 1; Blue Bell 5 Sunnybank 0; The Mac Lads 2 Crumpsall 6; Whitefield Athletic 2 Dark/Dangerous 0; Magnum 1 PSV Beedmeister 0; The Mac Lads 3 Five Star 3; Storm 2 Sunnybank 0; DHL 1 Sunnybank 1; Raiders 4 PSV Beedmeister 3; Blue Bell 2 DHL 2; Crumpsall 1 Five Star 2; Dynamo 1 Dark/Dangerous 2; Irwell Lads 1 Whitefield Athletic 1.