margin, with a 27–0 massacre over Hull Futsal at the Velodrome. Samuel Richardson finished as both the club's and the league's top scorer with 30 goals. In the first game of the National finals, the team were defeated 9-4 by Oxford Lions who managed to punish Manchester's use of playing with a flying goal keeper for the majority of the game. After Genesis beat Oxford Lions in the second group game, Manchester still had an outside chance to qualify, but they were only able to beat Genesis 7–3. Oxford Lions qualified from the group on goal difference and subsequently lost to Helvecia in the Grand Final. Samuel Richardson finished as the first English golden boot winner at the Grand Finals, with 5 goals. This campaign was to be Daniel Berdejo-del-Fresno last with the club, as he moved on to be head coach of Sheffield and a part of the newly adjusted England national coaching set up. At the beginning of the year Stuart Cook returned to the England national squad after a long absence out due to a knee injury and gained his return call up in a friendly match vs. France. At the end of the year he scored his first goal for his country, in a 3–2 victory away against Denmark. In the same year Ross Bond made the progression from the England development squad to the full team and later on in the year made his full international debut vs. Turkey. In 2013, the team again remained toe to toe all the way to the final game of the season and despite scoring over 100 goals and remaining unbeaten until the final game of the season, a Sheffield victory resigned the club to second position in the North. In the Super League playoffs, they comfortably dispatched Team Birmingham twice, but lost to Helveica who took the one and only finals spot, with Stuart Cook finishing the season as the club's top goal scorer with 22 goals. Subsequently, at the end of this season, Frank Chiarella took over the reins of first team manager. 2014 – 2017 In the 2014 season the team fully focused its attention on returning the title to Manchester. Stuart Cook led the team to romp through to a historical unbeaten North campaign league win, in which the team scored 96 goals and conceded only 27 goals in 14 games on its way to