SLINGERZ FC and Pele were on Sunday night joined by Western Tigers and Fruta Conquerors in the semi-final round of this year’s Mayor’s Cup Football Tournament. Fruta Conquerors defeated home side Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 2-0 in extra time, following their 0-0 score line at the end of regulation, while Western Tigers ousted the perceived ‘giant killers’ Ann’s Grove United 3-0.

Tomorrow at the GFC ground, Western Tigers will face Fruta Conquerors and Pele come up against the finalists of the previous Mayor’s Cup and ‘West Side’ champions Slingerz FC.
Winners of the event will receive $1M and the championship trophy while the runners-up will pocket $300 000 and the respective title. The third- and fourth-positioned teams will walk away with $200 000 and $100 000 respectively and the corresponding accolades.
Western Tigers had to wait until the 103rd minute for a goal which came from Randolph Wagner and ten minutes later from Michael Pedro who netted the other two goals.
Meanwhile, national player Daniel Wilson, on loan from Alpha United, scored the first goal of the game for the Continental Group of Companies-sponsored team in the 95th minute against a sturdy GFC unit.
After playing a classical defensive game, the home team were reduced to ten men in the 106th minute when Steve Wilson was sent off for a foul on Conquerors’ Travis Thornhill.
Sheldon Holder, another import from Alpha United, used by ‘Juice Men’, utilising the guest player ruling, then put the icing on the cake when he teamed up with Wilson in the 119th minute.
Faizal Khan, the person who is credited for reviving GFC team, told Chronicle Sport, “If we are all honest with ourselves, GFC were beaten by Alpha United, not Fruta. It was the Alpha contracted men that won Fruta the game. GFC versus Fruta had in the past 12 months become quite a rivalry. I welcome Fruta to come back and play GFC again on our ground any time without the four Alpha players in their line-up. I think that is a game all the fans want to see happen.”