Published: 8 March, 2012
by STEVE BARNETT

SCORES of talented young footballers will be bidding for glory in the grand finals of a major primary schools competition next Thursday at the Talacre Community Sports Centre in Kentish Town, writes Steve Barnett.

The boys’ team from Christ Church Primary in Redhill Street (pictured right) will be among the sides going for goal after they won the Southern Division of the Camden Schools Sports Association (CSSA) Football League.

They will be joined by the unbeaten girls’ team from St Aloysius School in Phoenix Road, Somers Town, (in the red kits) who won their Southern League title without conceding a single goal.

We reported last week that the boys’ team from Gospel Oak Primary and the girls’ team from St Patrick’s School in Kentish Town will join Christ Church and St Aloysius in the finals after winning their respective Northern League titles.

The CSSA event was as much about fair play as it was reaching the grand finals with boys and girls being awarded points during their matches for their general conduct and shaking hands after games.

Hampstead Parochial School lifted the Fair Play Trophy in the Northern League, while pupils from St Mary and St Pancras School in Somers Town won the accolade in the Southern league.