Sponsorship news: Sports News Blitz-sponsored duo shine in Ventus FC’s four-star display

Sports News Blitz are delighted to announce they have agreed to sponsor two football players from Ventus Football Club in Yeadon.

Midfield dynamo Joshua Sheffield and forward Jamie Lyons will be sponsored by Sip Media Solutions’ fast-growing sports news brand for the 2025/26 season.

Sports News Blitz have previously sponsored Greyton Roses FC in Cape Town - but are bringing things closer to home with this deal, supporting a Yorkshire-based team.

The Horsforth Hawks Reds rounders team have won promotion in their first season with Sports News Blitz as sponsors - and we are hoping to tell a similar story of success with Ventus FC, based at Dam Lane and founded in 1961.

No place like home

Ventus FC lost their first match of the new campaign, but found there’s no place like home on Saturday, September 13, recovering from 1-0 down to beat PE United 4-1 in emphatic fashion.

Striker Luke Thompson bagged a brace and Sports News Blitz-sponsored star Lyons netted with a clinical low strike in the second half, with defender Caleb Keighley also finding the net following an excellent free-kick assist from the lively Sheffield.

We have invited the lads at Ventus FC to document their season with match summaries, the first of which you can read below…

Dam Lane Diaries: The match that had it all - Goals, gout and girlfriends

Let’s start with Aidan. He was stuck to his goal line like chewing gum under a school desk. 

The ball came rolling in, and instead of charging out like a hero, he looked like he was waiting for a taxi. 

To be fair, he did try to meet it - but uphill? That’s not goalkeeping, that’s mountaineering. 

Result? One-nil down him and Adam’s fault and a new entry in the "how not to defend your box manual".

Stepping up

Then Thomo stepped up. His first goal was a lob over the keeper - probably off his shin pad, because why use your foot when your leg’s got other ideas? 

His second, our fourth, was the final nail in the coffin. Game out of sight, and Thomo officially crowned King of Accidental Brilliance.

Keets was lurking at the back post like a lad waiting for last orders. Tapped it in and celebrated like he’d just won the Champions League. 

Arm up, chest puffed - full Alan Shearer mode. All that for a tap-in. But hey, if you don’t celebrate your own goals, who will?

Jamie, our resident glass ankle now sponsored by Sports News Blitz, held out just long enough to bag our third. 

Dramatic exit

Then came the dramatic exit - floods of tears, emotional farewell, probably tired more than injured. Honestly, I’ve seen fewer tears at a funeral.

Dogga picked up a yellow card in the second half for what can only be described as strategic laziness. 

Was he birdwatching? Wouldn’t be the first time - his missus has been spotted hanging around Dam Lane more than the corner flag. 

Who brings a date to training? Was she at the match too? If so, she saw more action than Dogga did.

Mr Dependable

Cammy, Mr Dependable, was everywhere. 9,000 tackles, first in midfield, then shifted to right-back after Macca got elbowed by Bubba and needed a cuddle from mummy. 

Macca went down claiming he couldn’t see - turns out his eyes were shut. 

After a bit of TLC and some colourful encouragement, he was back on his feet, eyes open, ready to roll, replacing Taylor who made one last-ditch heroic tackle before half-time, then limped off with knee gout. Yes, gout. In the knee. 

That’s not an injury, that’s a Victorian illness. 

Macca back on once he realised he wasn’t blind, just blinking.

And then there’s Elliott. Shooting from 50 yards like he’s trying to hit the moon. 

He troubled the Swans in the tarn more than the opposition keeper. 

If long-range efforts were a crime, he’d be doing life.

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