SOCCER playing pupils at King David Junior School, Prestwich have re-written the record books as part of a triple celebration.

At the end of a memorable season they won the Manchester Schools Football Association Ted Wetton Memorial Trophy for the first time and became the first Jewish school to achieve the feat.

And those achievements followed hot on the heels of success in the annual five-a-side tournament organised by Prestwich and Whitefield Schools.

But it was their Manchester Schools FA triumph which almost sent pupils and staff into orbit for King David School has been entering teams in this particular competition for the past 25 years.

Their silver celebrations at reaching the final turned into gold at the Abbey Hey School in Gorton, but not before they had suffered at the hands of opponents Christ the King RC School from Newton Heath.

King David went in at half time trailing 1-0 but then came out after the break with all guns blazing, skipper Jay McGarvey blasting a hat-trick and Nicky Blackman also finding the back of the net in a convincing 4-1 performance.

McGarvey is the son of former Manchester United player Scott McGarvey and although the hat-trick hero he was quick to acknowledge this was a splendid squad performance throughout the competition.

In addition to the two goalscorers, King David were represented by Mark Bell, Jordan Gold, Joshua Lee, Daniel SSelwyn, Rafi Bloom, Jonny Davies, Marc Woolfe, Sammy Dennison, Joshua Lewis, Oliver Grant, James Cooper and Max Gruber.

The successful five-a-side squad comprised Gold, Bell, Blackman, Lee, Davies and McGarvey and they battled through to the final at St Margaret's CE Primary School in Prestwich.

Sedgley Park Primary School provided the opposition and it couldn't have been tighter, the result determined by Joshua Lee's goal.