Sunday 29th November 2015 Kick-off 2.00pm

V CORINTHIAN-CASUALSFA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Round

At Mill Field, Aveley RM15 4SR

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NEXT HOME MATCH

Saturday 5th December 2015 Kick-off 3.00pm

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Ryman League Premier Division

INSIDE COVER

Today’s

Line-Ups

Sun. 29th

November 2015

Referee:

TIM DONNELLAN

Assistant Referees:

ADAM STEELE

JEFFREY ALDOUS

NEXT HOME MATCHSaturday 5th December 2015 Kick-off 3.00pm

V VCD ATHLETICRyman League Premier Division

FROM:Lamar Johnson (GK)Jay LeaderJey SivaJake HutchingsTommy CummingsKenny Beaney (c)James StevensBradley TomlinsonDumebi GB-DumakaJoao CarlosAlex AddaiRoman Michael-PercilGus DouglasLuke IfilGlen LittleMark BentleyHarry AgombarPerry TamburriniJermaine OseiCallum MalteseGeorge Kamurasi (GK)Mason BloomfieldMontel AgyemangDanny Burnett-Williams

GRAYS ATHLETICBlue

FROM:Ben CottonBen KingBrandon JohnsonCherno MendyDanny Bracken (c)Danny DudleyDave HodgesEmmanuel AkokhiaJosh UzunJuevan SpencerKevant SerbonyMike SalakoSekou KabaStef JosephTerry MurrayWarren Morgan

CORINTHIAN-CASUALSWhite

First of all may I extend a very warm wel-come to Mill Field to the Directors, staff,players and supporters of our visitorsCorinthian-Casuals for today’s FA Trophy3rd Qualifying Round match.

Tuesday night saw us travel to Wingate &Finchley where we exited the League Cupin somewhat bizarre fashion, coming backfrom 1-3 down to lead 4-3, and finally lose4-5. The highlights were the performanc-es from Callum Maltese who scored twice,Max Nicholson, and a goal from Glen Little(which at least means we won’t have tokeep hearing the story of his goal againstHarlow Town last season quite so often).

It is the second time in recent weeks thatwe have battled around the North Circular,dominated Wingate, and have come awaywith nothing – but that’s football I guess.As for today’s match, the F.A. Trophy willalways have a special place in the hearts ofour supporters after our wins at Villa Parkin 2005 and Upton Park in 2006. The prizetoday is a place in the First Round Proper,which will put the winners of today’s gamejust five more wins from Wembley – with agood draw there is still a long way to go in

this year’s Trophy. The expectation eachyear is that the eventual winners will comefrom the “Conference National”, but thatwasn’t the case when we won it in 2005whilst playing in the Conference South. Ialso recall that in 2006 we playedConference National teams in every round,whilst Woking reached the final that yearwithout having played any! In the competi-tion so far Corinthian-Casuals have beatenThree Bridges, Redbridge and Leiston,whilst we have accounted for BiggleswadeTown and Waltham Abbey.

Our next matches are on Tuesday atHarrow Borough, unless there is a replay inwhich case we will be off to Tolworth onWednesday evening. Our next match hereis on Saturday when we entertain VCDAthletic. Corinthian-Casuals are also dueto be playing on Tuesday at Hastings, thenface trips to Three Bridges on Saturday,followed by a Robert Dyas League Cupmatch against Tooting & Mitcham, theirnext home match is on December 12thagainst Walton Casuals. Get behind yourteams, enjoy the match and have a safejourney home. Keith Burns

Thoughts From

The Board

With Chairman

Keith Burns

Who’s Who at

Grays Athletic

Officials &

Committee

Grays Athletic

Football Club

Club

Honours

Conference South

Founder Member Club: 2004-05Champions: 2004-05Corinthian League

Founder Member Club: 1945-46Champions: 1945-46Runners Up: 1956-57, 1954-55, 1951-52London League Premier

Champions: 1929-30, 1926-27, 1921-22Runners Up: 1930-31, 1928-29, 1927-28, 1920-21, 1914-15Isthmian League Division One

Runners Up: 1999-00, 1987-88Isthmian League North Division

Champions: 2012-13Isthmian League Division Two South

Champions: 1984-85Athenian League

Founder Member Club: 1912-13Runners Up: 1982-83FA Trophy

Winners: 2005-06, 2004-05FA Cup

2nd Round: 2005-061st Round: 2008-09, 2003-04, 2001-02, 2000-01, 1988-89, 1952-53Isthmian League Cup

Winners: 1991-92Runners Up: 2014-15Athenian League Cup

Runners Up: 1979-80, 1977-78London League Challenge Cup

Winners: 1936-1937Corinthian Memorial Shield

Winners: 1979-80, 1977-78, 1946-47, 1945-46East Anglian Cup

Winners: 1944-45Runners Up: 1954-55, 1943-44Essex Senior Cup

Winners: 1994-95, 1993-94, 1987-88, 1956-57, 1944-45, 1922-23, 1920-21, 1914-15

Runners Up: 2012-13, 1988-89, 1965-66, 1957-58, 1954-55, 1953-54, 1952-53, 1925-26, 1923-24, 1919-20

Essex Thameside Trophy

Winners: 2001-02, 1990-91, 1988-89, 1987-88, 1980-81, 1978-79, 1947-48

Runners Up: 1993-94, 1985-86, 1984-85, 1968-69, 1961-62, 1958-59, 1945-46

Essex Elizabethan Trophy

Winners: 1976-77Runners Up: 1965-66

GRAYS ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB (1982) LTD

First Team Manager: Mark BentleyReserves Manager: Rainer Hein

Coach/Scout: David RavenPhysiotherapist: Jack Hughes

Kitman: Sim MadgewickYouth Development: Rainer HeinGoalkeeping Coach: Robert Lewis

CLUB OFFICIALS AND VOLUNTEERS

Chairman: Keith BurnsVice Chairman: Danny Swallow

Chief Executive Officer: Joel NathanSecretary: Janet Packer

Programme Editor: Glyn BalmerAssistant Programme Editor: Glyn Jarvis

Programme Production: Mark Kettlety (MK Publications)Website Manager: Rob Seaman

Fundraising: GAFC 1890 Supporters TrustStadium Safety Officer: Steve Boughen

LIFE PRESIDENTS

Alan Barnard, Glyn Jarvis, Jamie Lee, Tony PackerFred Saxton, Jeff Saxton, John Turner

GRAYS ATHLETIC 1890 SUPPORTERS TRUST

Chairman: Fred WakelingVice Chairman: Steve Skinner

Secretary: David BarnesTreasurer: Anthony Auger

Registered Office : 21 St Johns Road, Chadwell St Mary,Essex RM16 4JU Registered Number: 01651326

Prediction

League

Who Will Win

This Season?

League Table 2015-2016 as at 5pm, Saturday 21st November 2015

1st Glynbo 16172nd Flintstone 15353rd Stewieg 15064th Magic 14915th Ashingdonblue 14756th Miller 14547th Graham 14268th Graysgooner 14229th Brian 139010th JDockerill2025 137211th TerryTibbs 1890 137012th Pasha 136813th Graysblue 133614th Robbo 133515th Tony Packer 132116th Jack C 131717th PDoc1967 1299*18th Teamtalksrus 129319th Kris 128320th Stiffordblue 127621st Muttley 127422nd Don 1249

23rd John M 124324th Kim Ross 122925th Gwatts 122726th Wolfie 120327th= Blueblood 120027th= Gazza56 119529th Elizabeth 1183*30th Grayscan 1172*31st Mickyrod 116132nd Coursie 1152*33rd Shepherd 114834th Rhino1890 108335th David 106636th Stephen 103237th Mr Bridger 908***38th Welchandmahoney 664

* indicates missed prediction

TOP 5 MONTHLY

Glynbo 350Brian 330Grayscan/StewieG 325Pasha/Flintstone 300Don 297

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING.The following are arrestable offences under the Football (Offences & Disorder)

Act 1999.

1. Throwing of an object within the ground without lawful authority or excuse.

2. The chanting of anything indecent, racial or homophobic comments

3. Entry onto the playing area or any adjacent area to which spectators are not generallyadmitted without lawful authority or excuse. Conviction could result in a Football BanningOrder being made for ALL grounds in the country, together with the surrender of passportwhenever England are playing abroad.

4. Alcohol may not be consumed with sight of the playing surface (The club may at its dis-cretion relax this rule, by using plastic glasses for friendly fixtures).

Any breach of these regulations will lead in the first instance to ejection from the ground,but could also lead to the suspension of season tickets, and Grays Athletic and the Policeissuing a football banning order.

Grays Athletic wish to encourage families and genuine supporters to visit home matchesand hope they enjoy the match-day experience in a safe and friendly atmosphere.

Ryman League

Premier Division

Directory

Of Clubs

Billericay Town FC “The Blues” New Lodge, Blunts Wall Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9SAhttp://www.billericaytownfc.co.uk/

Bognor Regis Town FC “The Rocks”Nyewood Lane, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 2TYhttp://www.therocks.co.uk/

Brentwood Town FC “The Blues” The Arena, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 9NN http://brentwoodtownfc.co.uk/

Burgess Hill FC “The Hillians” Leylands Park, Maple Drive, Burgess Hill,West Sussex RH15 8DL http://www.bhtfc.co.uk/

Canvey Island FC “The Gulls”The Prospect Stadium, Park Lane, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 7PX http://canveyislandfc.com/home

Dulwich Hamlet FC “The Hamlet” Champion Hill Stadium, Edgar Kail Way, Dog Kennel Hill, East Dulwich, London, SE22 8DB http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/

East Thurrock United FC “The Rocks” Rookery Hill, Corringham, Essex, SS17 9LBhttp://www.pitchero.com/clubs/eastthurrockunited/

Enfield Town FC “Towners” Queen Elizabeth II Stadium, Donkey Lane, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 3PL http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/enfieldtown/

Farnborough FC “Boro” Cherrywood Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8UDhttp://www.farnboroughfc.co.uk/

Grays Athletic FC “The Blues” Mill Field, Aveley, Essex, RM15 4SJ (Groundsharing with Aveley FC) http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/graysathletic/

Hampton & R.B. FC “The Beavers” The Beveree Stadium, Beaver Close, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 2BX http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/hamptonrichmondboroughfc/

Harrow Borough FC “The Boro” Earlsmead, Corylean Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex, HA2 8SShttp://www.pitchero.com/clubs/harrowborough/

Hendon FC “The Greens” Earlsmead, Corylean Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex, HA2 8SS (Groundsharing with Harrow Borough FC) http://www.hendonfc.net/

Kingstonian FC “The K’s” Kingsmeadow Stadium, 422a Kingston Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, KT1 3PB (Groundsharing with AFC Wimbledon)http://www.kingstonian.com/

Leatherhead FC “The Tanners” Fetcham Grove, Guildford Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 9AS http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/leatherhead/

Leiston FC “The Blues” Victory Road, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4DQhttp://www.pitchero.com/clubs/leistonfc/

Lewes FC “The Rooks” The Dripping Pan, Mountfield Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 3XD http://www.lewesfc.com/

Merstham FC “The Moatsiders ” Weldon Way, Merstham, Surrey, RH1 3QBhttp://www.mersthamfc.co.uk/

Metropolitan Police FC “The Blues”Imber Court, Sports Ground, Ember Lane, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 0BT http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/metropolitanpolicefc/

Needham Market FC “The Marketmen” ‘Bloomfields’ Quinton Road, Needham Market, Ipswich,Suffolk IP6 8DA http://www.needhammarketfc.co.uk

Staines Town FC “The Swans” Wheatsheaf Park, Wheatsheaf Ln, Staines, Middlesex TW18 2PD http://stainestownfootballclub.co.uk/

Tonbridge Angels FC “The Angels” Longmead Stadium, Darenth Avenue, Tonbridge, Kent, TN10 3JF http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/tonbridgeangelsfc/

VCD Athletic FC “The Vickers”Oakwood, Old Road, Crayford, Kent, DA1 4DNhttp://www.pitchero.com/clubs/vcdathleticfc/

Wingate & Finchley FC “The Blues” The Harry Abrahams Stadium, Sumners Lane, Finchley, London, N12 0PD http://www.wingatefinchley.com/

Benno & His

Blue Notes

With

Mark Bentley

Today we welcome Ryman Southside Corinthian-Casuals to Mill Fieldfor this FA Trophy encounter. Becausewe are playing lower league opposi-tion certainly doesn't make it a fore-gone conclusion that we will win thegame. We need to approach this gameno differently to all the other sides wehave faced from lower down this sea-son and that is as professionally as wecan and have the mindset that wemust be prepared to work hard. Likethe previous round against WalthamAbbey sides will raise their gameagainst the higher ranked team so weneed to be ready.

The last few performances have cer-tainly seen a different character with-in the team and have answered a fewquestions I had about them andwhether they can roll their sleeves upand deal with conditions that perhapsare not suited to their style of play.Enfield last Saturday was a primeexample of this with a proper "work-man" like performance. We were putunder a lot of pressure second halfbut on reflection I can't rememberLamar being ever troubled which is acredit to the 10 players in front ofhim. Looking at the next month aheadwith no fewer than six away games -which on paper all look very difficult -we are going to need performanceslike last Saturday if we are to comethrough.

Like I keep saying every one of thesquad will play their part over thesecoming weeks and fingers crossed wecan string a good few results together

and stay in the challenging pack.Firstly though we have a very toughtrophy game to take care of today andhopefully we can set ourselves upwith a nice draw in the next round.

Enjoy the gameBenno

“The last few

performances

have certainly

seen a different

character within

the team and

have answered a

few questions I

had about them“

Grays Athletic

On Film

With thanks to

Peter Jackson

Grays Athleticv

Enfield Town

FA Trophy

2015-16

3rd Qualifying

Round

1 FC United of Manchester v AFC Telford United2 Solihull Moors v Boston United3 Leamington v Hednesford Town4 Stourbridge v Spennymoor Town5 Harrogate Town v Curzon Ashton6 Marine or Kidsgrove Athletic v Burscough7 Corby Town v Tamworth8 Gainsborough Trinity v Ashton United9 Brackley Town v Worcester Town10 Chorley v Skelmersdale United11 Warrington Town v AFC Fylde12 Buxton v Bradford (Park Avenue)13 Matlock Town v Blyth Spartans14 Nuneaton Town v Alfreton Town15 Sutton Coldfield Town v Stalybridge Celtic16 North Ferriby United v Stocksbridge Park Steels17 Stockport County v Nantwich Town18 Merthyr Town v East Thurrock United19 Hampton & Richmond Borough v Maidstone United20 Ebbsfleet United v Molesey21 Maidenhead United v Bideford22 Cirencester Town v Gosport Borough23 Hungerford Town v Thamesmead Town24 Tilbury v Bishop’s Stortford25 Weston Super Mare v Hitchin Town26 Oxford City v Marlow27 Chelmsford City v Gloucester City28 Lowestoft Town v St Albans City29 Metropolitan Police v Wealdstone30 Hemel Hempstead Town v Weymouth31 Dartford v Whitehawk32 Concord Rangers v Sutton United33 Frome Town v Chesham United34 Bury Town v Thurrock35 Dulwich Hamlet v Margate36 Grays Athletic v Corinthian Casuals37 Bognor Regis Town v Bath City38 Havant & Waterlooville v Basingstoke Town39 Hayes & Yeading United v Eastbourne Borough40 Kingstonian v Truro City

The Club currently requires additional help on match days in

a variety of different roles including the following:

* Assistance in the Board Room

* Programme / Raffle Sales

* Operate on various gates throughout the ground

* Ballboys

If you would like to be part of the team, and are able to commit to

a number of set dates throughout the season, please see any Club

Official in person, or contact via email

(graysathleticfc@hotmail.co.uk)

If you can help, you wouldn't be expected to keep with the same

position all season, and we are looking at putting

together a rota once we know who we have available.

1. Derby County2. Ross County3. Scunthorpe United4. Watford5. Jimmy Greaves6. Peter Beardsley7. Bury8. Roberto Baggio9. Ron Atkinson10. Dennis Law

Quiz Answers

1970 Macclesfield Town 2–0 Telford United1971 Telford United 3–2 Hillingdon Borough1972 Stafford Rangers 3–0 Barnet1973 Scarborough 2–1 Wigan Athletic1974 Morecambe 2–1 Dartford1975 Matlock Town 4–0 Scarborough1976 Scarborough 3–2 Stafford Rangers1977 Scarborough 2–1 Dagenham1978 Altrincham 3–1 Leatherhead1979 Stafford Rangers 2–0 Kettering Town1980 Dagenham 2–1 Mossley1981 Bishop's Stortford 1–0 Sutton United1982 Enfield 1–0 Altrincham1983 Telford United 2–0 Northwich Victoria1984 Northwich Victoria 1–1 Bangor CityRep Northwich Victoria 2–1 Bangor City1985 Wealdstone 2–1 Boston United1986 Altrincham 1–0 Runcorn1987 Kidderminster Harriers 0–0 Burton AlbionRep Kidderminster Harriers 2–1 Burton Albion1988 Enfield 0–0 Telford UnitedRep Enfield 3–2 Telford United1989 Telford United 1–0 Macclesfield Town1990 Barrow 3–0 Leek Town1991 Wycombe Wanderers 2–1 Kidderminster Harriers1992 Colchester United 3–1 Witton Albion1993 Wycombe Wanderers 4–1 Runcorn1994 Woking 2–1 Runcorn1995 Woking 2–1 Kidderminster Harriers1996 Macclesfield Town 3–1 Northwich Victoria1997 Woking 1–0 Dagenham & Redbridge1998 Cheltenham Town 1–0 Southport1999 Kingstonian 1–0 Forest Green Rovers2000 Kingstonian 3–2 Kettering Town2001 Canvey Island 1–0 Forest Green Rovers2002 Yeovil Town 2–0 Stevenage Borough2003 Burscough 2–1 Tamworth2004 Hednesford Town 3–2 Canvey Island2005 Grays Athletic *** 1–1 Hucknall Town2006 Grays Athletic 2–0 Woking2007 Stevenage Borough 3–2 Kidderminster Harriers2008 Ebbsfleet United 1–0 Torquay United2009 Stevenage Borough 2–0 York City2010 Barrow 2–1 Stevenage Borough2011 Darlington 1–0 Mansfield Town2012 York City 2–0 Newport County2013 Wrexham *** 1–1 Grimsby Town2014 Cambridge United 4–0 Gosport Borough2015 North Ferriby United *** 3-3 Wrexham

*** Won on penalties

FA

Trophy

Past

Finals

Half-Time

Quiz

Courtesy of

Glyn Balmer

1. Which football club did English

internationals Peter Shilton (pic-

tured), John Gregory and Seth

Johnson all once play for?

2. Name the most Northerly Scottish

Premiership Club?

3. Which English League club did Ian

Botham play for?

4. Which English football team are

nicknamed the 'Hornets'?

5. Which player turned TV pundit

holds the record for the most career

top-flight goals, with 357?

6. Name the only footballer to have

played for Everton, Liverpool,

Manchester City and Manchester

United?

7. Of all teams in the English

leagues, which one has the shortest

name?

8. In football, who was nicknamed

'The Divine Ponytail'?

9. Which former football manager

and player is known as 'Mr

Bojangles'?

10. Who is the only Scottish player to

have been named European

Footballer of the Year?

SIVA PLEASED WITH BIG CLUBSSCOUTING NON-LEAGUE TALENT

SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2015Courtesy of Michael McCann,

http://www.morningstaronline.co.ukGrays Athletic full-back Jey Siva told the

Star on Thursday that he was pleased thatmore and more Football League clubs werescouting non-league clubs for talent.The success of Charlie Austin, Dwight Gayleand Jamie Vardy — who is on the brink ofequalling Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record ofscoring in 10 consecutive Premier Leaguegames [Assistant Editor - as reported in theWanderer's article and the NLP feature,Vardy has now equalled van Nistelrooy'sgoalscoring feat] has seen an increase ofclubs signing players from the lower divi-sions in attempt to find a rare gem.

And though Grays have suffered from thebigger clubs cherry-picking their best play-ers, Siva thinks it is encouraging that theseplayers are getting the chance to showcasetheir talent on the biggest stage.

Speaking to the Star at the third AsianFootball Awards, he said: “It’s definitelygood to see so many players being picked upfrom Non-League. All the time our managersays: ‘You don’t know who is watching thesegames.’ “Especially when you do well as ateam, that will attract more scouts too, likewith ourselves, particularly given our strongstart to this season.

“Our centre-back has been scouted by

Leyton Orient when they had come to watchour striker, so there is a story in itself — thatpeople are always looking for new talent.“You have to relish scouts being therebecause it gives a great chance to showwhat you are capable of doing.” Siva wasdelighted to be involved in the awardsevening and though he didn’t win any prizes,he feels that evenings like this are crucial inpromoting the role Asian people have infootball, both on and off the field of play.

“I was delighted to be nominated for theaward on a great evening to showcase Asiancoaches, footballers and those behind thescenes working in the football community.“I am really pleased to be involved and itwas a really worthwhile event to showcasesome very worthwhile people.”

Special

Feature

By

Michael McCann

MATCH REPORT COURTESY OFWWW.THURROCKGAZETTE.CO.UK

WINGATE & FINCHLEY 5 GRAYS ATHLETIC 4

TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2015 RYMAN LEAGUE CUP

FROM SUMMERS LANE GRAYS Athletic are out of the Ryman

League Cup after they came out on thewrong side of a nine-goal extravaganzaagainst Wingate & Finchley. Finalists lastyear, Blues will not compete for the show-piece again, despite coming from 3-1 downto steal a 4-3 lead. But back came Wingateimmediately to level, scoring the winnernine minutes from time. Grays got off to theworst possible start when Mark Goodmanhit two goals in seven minutes to put

Wingate in charge after just 17 minutes.Daniel Burnett-Williams got off the markfor Grays with a goal two minutes later butthe two-goal advantage was restored inside60 seconds.

Veteran Glen Little made it 3-2 before theequaliser came two minutes before thebreak – Callum Maltese getting the goal.And it was the same man who put Bluesback in front. Maltese finished with ease tothe delight of the away fans but for the sec-ond time in the match they conceded againwithin 60 seconds.

Billy Healey got the winner on 81 minutes.

Grays Athletic

FC

Match

Report

Grays

Athletic FC

Club

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This page details supporters and businesses who have purchased a season ticket for

2015-2016, our 125th Anniversary season. The club and Trust wish to send our thanks to

all, and hope they enjoy their season ticket.

Glyn Jarvis Ben Wayment

Fred Wakeling Oscar Wayment

Steve Skinner George Watts

Charlie Skinner David Barnes

Glyn Balmer David Barnes - Community Chest (1)

Alan Roberts David Barnes - Community Chest (2)

Mick Green Phyllis Hollands

Stewart Goshawk Carol Tillett

Alan Webb Colin Tillett

Rebecca Webb Graham Deats

Anne Paveley Jennie Deats

John Paveley Wayne Durrell

Brian Page Phillip Parker

Phil Boston Martin Howes

Peter Symons Jack Howes

Peter Symons (2) David Seaman

Steve Allen Kim Ross

R J Bloomfield Peter Jackson

Mike Love Peter Sheppard (Prediction League Winner 2014-15)

Alan England Traitors Gate

Essex Tarpaulin The Trop Shop

ET Marine Grayers Graphics

Smiths Orchard Garden Centre Paragon Independent Ltd

Tag Construction Affordable Carpets

KB Coaches Anthony Auger

Essex Industrial Clarendon

Tilbury Tiles The Ship

The White Hart

The list will be updated throughout the season as more season tickets are sold. For full

details of the season ticket packages available please visit

http://www.graysathletic.co.uk/news/201516-season-ticket-packages-1432320.html

Regular

Feature

50 Shades

Of Grays

Hello everybody and welcome to this FATrophy game against Corinthian-Casuals. As I'm sitting here typing this article, it is

cold outside, a fire is burning away insideand we are looking forward to a large fam-ily gathering and a huge turkey dinner. No Ihaven't fast forwarded a month toChristmas, I'm in New England awaitingThanksgiving Day. The best way to describe it would be Christmas Day without the pres-ents I suppose. Anyway it's huge over hereand a massive part of American life thateven ex-pats and visitors from “OldEngland” get involved in!

I'm visiting my friend Danny who moved tothe US back in 2007. He and his family aremembers of the GAFC Trust [Quite right! –Ed] keeping a little piece of home with himfrom the days he used to watch The Blues.Of course a few Blues fans who have emi-grated is nothing compare to today's opponents. They have a large following inBrazil and if you are wondering where theSão Paulo team Corinthians got its namefrom then I'm sure there will be a bit aboutit in the visitors history page in this pro-gramme. `

Anyway back to America, I have been afew times down the years now and despitethe similarities in language, music etc thereare some things that just make it so differ-ent! The first night I arrived we headeddown to Big Y, which is basically like Tesco,to buy a crate of beer for the fridge. Now Iknow that you have to be 21 in most USstates to drink but look at me, Ihave a beer belly, grey hair and an oldwrinkly face that only a mother could love![Nonsense Michael. We all love you – atleast while you’re in The States! – Ed]. Weget to the check out and the girl on the tillsays “I'm going to need ID for both of you”.As I say, I have been before and know thatyou get asked for ID even if you are oldenough, even our shops at home have a“challenge 25” policy just to make sure youare over 18 but seriously, most of you know

what I look like!! Another differencebetween the countries is the humour, mycomment of “I have tattoos, therefore Imust be over 18” was met with “sorry sir,it is 21 in America and anyway tattoos arenot accepted as ID”, oh well I tried! LuckilyDanny had his Connecticut driving licenceon him as I had yet to unpack, beer is pri-ority after all, and I had to wait outside likea little kid while the transaction took place.

While we are over here Danny's twinshave just celebrated their first birthday andI'm sure out of all the gifts their favouritesmust have been the personalised GAFCbibs, if only we could get ones that say “Idribble better than Carlos”! I'm not sure ifAmerica has social services but I'm sure Isaw some West Ham bibs and romper suitsin the house as well and surely that's not fair and the relevant authorities should benotified, although the England ones shouldbe allowed to stay and balance it up I sup-pose!

As I said at the start of this piece it isvery cold here. It's one of those places thathas proper seasons. I have been here insummer with temperatures above 30C andthe last time we visited at Thanksgiving itwas 10C and only gets colder afterChristmas! Luckily this time it has only dropped to 6C so far with the high justabove freezing during the day, that meantwe have managed to fit in a round of golf.The cold weather and the fact we played atthe home of the Connecticut Amateur Openmeant that a high score was on the cardsand so it proved with Danny winning with around of 92 to my 109, to be fair he hasmoved on from the days of Belhus Park andCranham golf courses! Right due to print-ing deadlines that is all for now and I'm looking forward to some turkey, beerand American football, to go with wall towall English football on the TV, I could getused to this! Enjoy the game and see you soon!

Parker

Raven's

Ramblings

By

David Raven

I recently deplored the media piranha'sincessant tearing at everything Salford Cityand begging for a chance for the world torecognise there is more to non-leaguefootball than a club owned by a few has-beens and a foreign billionaire investor.Step up non-league which in recent dayshas provided enough ammunition to fire asalvo of non-league goodness that morethan meets your non-league five-a-day. Tosave having an article that looks like thestart of The Matrix or a plate of alphabettispaghetti my chef 's selection is a starter ofSteven Mackay of Brora Rangers launchinga penalty at the international space stationin a Highland League game. My maincourse recommendation is the crackinggoal scored by Josh Chamberlain ofBerkhamstead in the FA Vase with a sidedish of Thurrock's Kamarl Duncan scoring awind-assisted own-goal. These twodelights have been picked up by the popu-lar press for some much needed attentionon the non-league game at large. Fordessert I highly recommend the goalscored by BFT against Enfield Town lastweek and a slice of Barking departing theFA Vase having a goal disallowed becausethe officials failed to do their job properlyand the ball went through the net justinside the post. More drama than a tunnelfull of the special one. We just need theBeeb to take note now!

On the subject of officials they reallyhave been naughty lately. Take Barking'splight at Hertford. Turns out there was ahole in the net and nobody recalls theassistant referees checking the nets beforethe game or after half-time. If true, this isalmost as shocking as watching an assis-tant referee have the flag in the hand thatis not next to the pitch or seeing the refer-ee look into the sky to monitor the entiretrajectory of the ball. It shouldn't happenand you wouldn't get this happening on aSunday. Allegedly. Going back to ourrecent county cup game at Mill Field you

have a visiting player run after and punchan opponent in the head...the assistant,along with everyone in the ground, saw itbut the man in the middle disagreed andcalled it handbags which is bottle-speak fornot wanting to make a big decision. Itdoesn't end there and down in the darkestcorners of Sunday football I have seen ref-erees award offside directly from a goal-kick, award a goal against a team thatplayed their own goal-kick to an opponentwho was inside the penalty area and fail tosend off a right-back who made a greatsave from a free kick, diving full length tohis right and pushing the ball around thepost. It was a good save, mind. The keep-er? Stranded on the other post. Referee?He said the player headed it clear. Theplayer? Probably still laughing. It's not allone way traffic though...you would be sur-prised at how many players and club offi-cials don't understand that the white linearound the penalty area is part of thepenalty area and a foul committed on itmakes it a penalty. It certainly got allMcEnroe on one of those recently. Also, thereferee doesn't need to agree with anassistant referee and he really is allowedto use his noggin and make his own deci-sions.

On the subject of noggins I have in recenttimes listened to some splendid garbagebeing delivered by those former profes-sional football players that like to stay inthe public conscience by offering theirutterly pointless opinions with constantlycontradictory phrases that start with "like Isaid" in between football commentatorsdescribing local weather conditions ormaking it sound like they really know aboutfootball. My main bone of contention withthe tweedles is that they talk about playersthat don't play for the teams currentlyengaged in confrontation and sometimesplayers that play for teams in countriesother than the one for which the game weare listening to us being played. I don't

On This

Day In History

29th

November

1975: Graham Hill

killed in air crash

One of Britain's greatest motor racingdrivers has been killed in a plane crash insouth-east England. Graham Hill, 46, whoretired from the sport in July 1975, waskilled instantly along with the four otheroccupants in his Piper Aztec - all mem-bers of the Embassy Hill team.

Hill was piloting the plane when heclipped a row of trees on Arkley golfcourse in Hertfordshire, just before 2200GMT. The two-times world champion wasflying Embassy Hill manager Ray Brimble,fellow driver Tony Brise, and two mechan-ics from France to attend a party inLondon. Arley Golf Club steward TedDickins said visibility had been very poorat the time of the accident."It was terri-ble - the ambulances couldn't even seethe bunkers as they were driving down,"he said.

Friend and Elstree Aero Club chairmanSpencer Flack said the champion driverwas taking a risk by trying to land in badconditions but told reporters he was anexperienced flier. "He was a skilful pilotwho tried to get in and failed. In thoseconditions it's just a matter of feet andseconds between life and death," he said.Government accident investigation offi-cials are sifting through the wreckage totry to establish the cause of the crash.

Hill is the only driver to have won theTriple Crown of the Indianapolis 500, the24 hours of Le Mans and the Formula One

World Championship. He won the worldtitle with BRM in 1962 and again in 1968,with Lotus. Hill retired from Formula 1mid-season so he could concentrate oncoaching Brise, a promising new driver inhis own fledgling team Embassy Hill.

In ContextThree thousand people attended Graham

Hill's funeral in St Alban's, Hertfordshire,on 5 December. An inquest found he wasflying only 60 ft (18.3m) above the groundwhen the plane hit the tree - but did notrealise because of the poor visibility.Verdicts of accidental death were returnedfor all six occupants of the plane. Hill'sson, Damon, followed his father intoFormula One racing and won the worldchampionship in 1996.

Selection of matches on this day1919-20 South Essex League Division One Away Gnome Athletic D 2 - 21924-45 Kent League Division One Away Grays Thurrock United L 2 - 31930-31 London League Premier Division Away Erith and Belvedere L 2 - 51941-42 Friendly Home London Fire Service L 1 - 171947-48 Corinthian League Away Walton and Hersham D 2 - 21952-53 Corinthian League Away Carshalton Athletic L 0 - 21958-59 Friendly Home London Universities L 2 - 31969-70 FA Amateur Cup - 4th Qualifying Rd Away Wembley L 0 - 31980-81 Athenian League Home Harefield United D 2 - 21983-84 Eastern Floodlight League - S.T. A Away Woodford Town L 0 - 41986-87 Isthmian League - Division One Away Kingsbury Town L 1 - 31994-95 FA Trophy - 3rd Qualifying Rd Replay Away Chertsey Town D 1 - 12003-04 FA Trophy - 2nd Round Away Aylesbury United D 2 - 22008-09 FA Cup - 1st Round Replay Home Carlisle United L 0 - 22011-12 Essex Senior Cup - 4th Rd (pens) Away Southend United W 0 - 02014-15 Isthmian League - Premier Division Away Margate L 0 - 3

mind if the allegedly artful tax dodger fromMessilona is actually playing but to hearhim being talked about non-stop whileBayern are serving up something special toan Arsenal side that had mugged them inthe previous game was a bit much. It was,it must be said, balanced out by one themost ridiculous things I ever heard a pun-dit say. Now, depending on which paediayou rely on pundit can mean differentthings but the general gist is that it is a'learned man.' I once actually met a pukkapundit and asked him what a pundit wasand he told me it is someone who doesn'tcall himself a pundit. So there you go.Anyhoo, this being Blighty and Blightybeing great because of its naval exploitsand the modern interpretation of punditbeing 'talking head' and 'head' in navalparlance meaning 'toilet' then a footballpundit in Blighty really is talking toilet.This particular bout of pundarroeah cameduring the recent Bavarian demolition ofthat team from North Woolwich. Munichhad just scored their third goal when, dis-

appointing to hear from a Scouser, thetalking toilet to the left of the commenta-tor said that "Bayern aren't all that good."It makes you wonder...

On the subject of wonder today we hosta side with a unique history, influencingwhich colour shirt the English national sidewore and inspiring the formation of a sidein Brazil that would go onto become some-thing of a powerhouse in world football;they also inflicted an 11-3 mauling againstnone other than Manchester United, arecord defeat on the Mancunian giants thatstands to this day. The club has done wellto hold onto its traditional values and occa-sionally heads off on tour to Brazil and justa few years ago played their SouthAmerican namesakes in front of 30,000spectators. History aside, they are devel-oping a reputation of their own as a goodfootballing side that tries to get the balldown and play and has no problem withthe physical side of the game. I am expect-ing a real test today!

Time to ramble on...

FA Trophy

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1 Blyth Spartans 1-0 Whitby Town 6432 Ashton United 2-1 Stratford Town 1123 Evesham United 1-2 Spennymoor Town 2944 Buxton 5-1 Radcliffe Borough 1835 Skelmersdale United 4-2 Lincoln United 1856 Sutton Coldfield Town 1-0 Darlington 1883 3607 Nantwich Town 5-1 King's Lynn Town 3598 Shaw Lane Aquaforce 1-2 Matlock Town 2329 Leamington 0-0 Rushall Olympic 29010 Warrington Town 3-0 Basford United 20211 Marine 2-2 Kidsgrove Athletic 27412 Ilkeston 1-1 Stocksbridge Park Steels 40613 Kettering Town 0-3 Burscough 43514 Stourbridge 2-0 Carlton Town 42815 Bideford AFC 3-2 Brentwood Town 18916 St Neots Town 1-2 Hungerford Town 20717 Haringey Borough 1-1 Hitchin Town 11918 Thurrock 3-1 Cheshunt 7719 Tonbridge Angels 1-2 Cirencester Town 37220 Enfield Town 0-2 Thamesmead Town 27021 Tilbury 4-1 Royston Town 10622 Leiston 1-2 Corinthian Casuals 18523 Bedford Town 1-4 Weymouth 22924 Swindon Supermarine 2-3 Chesham United 21125 Taunton Town 1-4 Bognor Regis Town 35126 Molesey 4-3 Harlow Town 9427 East Thurrock United 5-0 Tiverton Town 14128 Waltham Abbey 0-2 Grays Athletic 14629 Dulwich Hamlet 2-0 VCD Athletic 79530 Frome Town 2-1 Slough Town 15131 Hampton & Richmond B. 3-1 AFC Sudbury 21232 Dorchester Town 2-2 Kingstonian 31233 Marlow 1-0 Mangotsfield United 11834 Canvey Island 0-2 Metropolitan Police 18735 Hastings United 1-2 Merthyr Town 15036 Bury Town 1-1 Herne Bay 316

Replays9 Rushall Olympic 2-3 Leamington 18111 Kidsgrove Athletic vs Marine (Playing Today)12 Stockbridge Park Steels 3-2 Ilkeston 10817 Hitchin Town 3-0 Haringey Borough 10932 Kingstonian 2-1 Dorchester Town 22136 Herne Bay 2-2 Bury Town (BT on Pens) 131

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does training a couple of evenings a weekis a dedicated person to do that. It's toughand it makes you tough. Look at someoneworking on a building site who gets theopportunity to be a professional footballer.They will think 'well I don't want to goback to that' and they will do everythingthey can to make it. Take the lad broughtup since the age 12 who's been surround-ed by it at a big club. I'm not so sure allof them will have that same hunger."

Aldershot's Smith says as well as nonleague experience equipping players withmore hunger, it can help their develop-ment: "The academies are great for gettingtechnical players but are they ready formen's football? There has got to be acompetitive edge. It matters if you areconceding goals as a defender." Stil lagrees: "Academy football is very, verygood technically, but the harsh reality isthat you have got to be able to compete -to run, to challenge, tackle, have physical-ity about you. And with the greatestrespect, under-21 football doesn't achievethat. You have to teach them how to winas well. If they leave it too late to teachthem to win, they can't adapt to the phys-icality and pace of first-team football."

So, how do you spot a talent? Still signedDwight Gayle for Dagenham in 2011 - twoyears later he joined Crystal Palace, viaPeterborough and ex-Scotland internation-al Craig Mackail-Smith - now reunited withthe manager at Luton. But mining a gemfrom non-league takes hard work, he says."Too many people are looking at DVDs, orusing databases such as Wyscout ratherthan doing the hard miles. There are play-ers out there - but you have to get outthere and watch them. DVDs don't tell youthe strengths and weaknesses the same asif you are there watching, in terms ofmovement, desire and so on."

But the next Vardy may not leap instant-ly leap out at scouts who do go along."It's easy to look at a Ronaldo or a Messior a Neymar or a Rooney and say 'they area good player'," Still says. "You don't haveto be a great judge to look at them and

recognise that. It's looking a bit deeperthan that, looking for people that have theingredients you can work on and developand saying to yourself, 'they have gotsomething'."

I found the article a fascinating insightinto how top lower league managers, espe-cially John Still who is very well known tous at Grays Athletic, as a player, coach andmanager, recognise the talent we have atour level of the game. Our former manag-er, Mark Stimson, really showed the wayforward over ten years ago, when heripped up the old ‘non league manual’ ofsigning journeyman ex-pros to get you upthe football Pyramid. Under MikeWoodward’s direction, he took the club intoa full-time environment and took youngplayers from some top clubs where theyhad been released too soon and encour-aged them to start their careers again.

I was privileged to see the likes of FreddyEastwood, Gary Hooper, Aaron McLean,Michael Kightly, Stuart Thurgood and thelate Mitchell Cole in a Blues shirt after theyhad been rejected in the professional gameat an early age. They all made good sub-sequent career moves and it was clear thatthey all had the requisite skills to move upthe Pyramid again after they put their earlydisappointments behind them. They wereindeed ‘non league gems’.

A number of our latest group of playershave also been showing signs of progressunder the watchful eyes of Mark Bentleyand Glen Little and attracting attentionfrom clubs much higher up the football lad-der. I hope for their sakes they listen tothe advice offered to them and when thetime is right make an informed judgmentthat is in their best interests. Football is ashort career and although as John Stillsays, a few, like Jamie Vardy, can findfinancial security from a lucrative PremierLeague deal, many more will have to fallback on a career outside football in laterlife.

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After a hiatus of a few programmes I findmyself back in the hot seat again. I needto start my article by offering thanks toGlyn Jarvis who stood in as editor for theprogrammes in my absence and has donesuch a sterling job that I almost findmyself wondering whether he’s vying forthe position on a permanent basis.Answers on a postcard please. I also wouldlike to offer thanks to David Barnes forwriting the Trust article on my behalf. Ithoroughly enjoyed reading his articles andshall in all likelihood be pressuring him tosupply them on a more regular basis asthey complement my meagre offerings per-fectly.

Our thoughts this week go out to AlanRoberts whose mother passed away lastweek only a few weeks after he lost hisfather. Everyone at the Trust wishes Alanand his family well and we look forward toseeing him back at a game soon. It wasgreat to see Steve Allen (Muttley) back atMill Field for the Enfield match lastSaturday after his recent stroke. I ampleased to report that you cannot indeedkeep a good man down – welcome backSteve. The latest messages regarding CarolTillett and Alan Mills are also positive, sohopefully the supporters will also be backto full strength soon. Proving that the drawof Grays Athletic FC stretches far and wide,I recently received a letter from a fanbased in Italy, which I hope to be able toinclude in the VCD programme. It falls tome to remind our supporters that as partof our 125th year celebrations the Club,supported by the Supporters Trust, is hold-ing a Grand Presentation Night at the endof the season to celebrate such a greatachievement. This will be held at theLangdon Hills Golf Club with 120 seatsavailable at £25 each. Full details will fol-low soon. We will be looking for sponsorsfor the cost of tickets for our players andany donations would be gratefully rec-eived.

I was gratified at the Enfield game to beinformed of three further home gamesponsorships, which are much appreciated

by Club and Trust alike. A quick glance attoday’s centre pages of the programmeshows that we now have only 3 homegames left to be sponsored – VCD Athletic,Farnborough and Wingate & Finchley. Ifyou are interested in reducing this number,please contact either Steve Skinner orDavid Barnes. Today sees us attempt toprogress further in the FA Trophy againstCorinthian-Casuals from the Ryman LeagueDivision 1 South. The Trust would like tothank Graham Deats for his sponsorshiptoday on behalf of the Thurrock Food Bank.Finally, my wife asked me last weekwhether I’ve missed not doing the pro-gramme of late, or whether it’s been arelief. I’ll let you guess my answer …

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Every month the GAFC 1890 SupportersTrust holds an update meeting. High on theagenda each month is how best to commu-nicate the items discussed at the meetingto the Trust membership and supporters ingeneral. As members will be aware, werequest an email address on the member-ship form and it is our hope that we canuse email as the principal method of com-munication with Trust members. This isespecially important when we are dis-cussing any financial matters in andaround the Trust since – naturally – onlyTrust members are entitled to see Trustfinancial information. The purpose of thisshort article is to request all Trust mem-bers to send a confirmation email to YoursTruly at the email address below, so I mayupdate the membership records according-ly. The Trust fully appreciates that not allmembers possess an email address, so ifyou are in that category please let meknow at any match and I shall update myrecords accordingly, and arrange an alter-native method of communication. Thanksin advance.

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Maidstone when at Fulham. So is there more talent in non-league

football? With 84 divisions across 58leagues, the National League System ishome to thousands of players. Some ofthem are potentially special, too, says IanConcannon, joint boss of Didcot Town. Theside from Southern League Division OneSouth West - the eighth tier of English foot-ball - were the lowest-ranked side in the FACup first round. Despite a 3-0 exit at thehands of League Two, Exeter, Concannonsays there are players at his club and divi-sion with the talent to go further in thegame.

"There are some good players. Ourleague is a tough league to get out of, bet-ter than people think. There are gems outthere. And if league clubs or decent non-league clubs want to get hold of young tal-ent and nurture them, then they only needto look down the leagues and see whatthere is." Players can help themselves toget noticed too. Brackley Town managerKevin Wilkin saw his side draw 2-2 withNewport in the FA Cup to earn a replay andtold the BBC: "This is the biggest windowof opportunity for these lads. It gives thema chance to show what they are all about."

"The whole attitude of players and clubsnow has completely changed," addsConcannon. "It was very old school when Iwas playing. We'd turn up, we'd warm up,we'd have a game of football then have abeer in the bar. Now it's totally different.Players nowadays are really looking afterthemselves."

"The rewards are certainly driving some ofthis," says Still. "If you become a PremierLeague player, the rewards now are stag-gering. It's mind-blowing what you canachieve if you make it. If you play in thePremier League for five, six, seven yearsyou don't have to worry about workingagain.” Are clubs tapping into non-leaguefootball? "You just don't know who's watch-ing games of football, so it's important thatthe lads give everything they've got," saysConcannon.

Aldershot boss Barry Smith, who saw hisNational League side earn a replay againstLeague One Bradford City in the F A Cup

1st Round, says scouts are a regular fixtureat non league games: "I don't know if thePremier League send scouts to our games,but there are definitely scouts from LeagueOne and League Two. There's a definiteinterest in a few players we have got."

John Still, however, believes clubs higherup the pyramid are more focused on play-ers from abroad, or developing their ownyouths - Manchester City last year openeda new academy that cost £200 million todevelop. He also cited Tottenham spendingthe money they got from the sale of GarethBale on foreign talent "and their best play-er is Harry Kane, who was on theirdoorstep!”

"The top-level Premier League clubs areprobably more inclined to let a non-leagueplayer go to a League Two, League One oreven Championship club first and then buythem," he adds. "But scouting networkshave reduced in recent years. At the toplevel they have probably got a largerecruitment staff, but I'm not so sure if youcome down the Football League. "TheFootball League clubs need to be braver.Getting someone from abroad for a lot ofmoney is taking a chance. Spending£60,000, £70,000 or £100,000 on someoneisn't a chance, certainly for the big clubs. Ithink scouts have to be brave enough torecommend them to the chief executiveand the manager and they have to bebrave enough to give these people achance."

Vardy is being praised for his high work-rate, which many have put down to hisnon-league grounding. Still says the expe-riences of non-league players make themmore determined to make it in the profes-sional ranks - if they have the talent to getthere. He agrees with Concannon thatamateurs are more driven than before:"There's no question that players arebehaving more professionally now as yougo down the leagues. Look at trainingregimes - they might not do it as often ifthey are part-time, but the work they putin is no different.

"The guy that goes to work all week and

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The Corinthian-Casuals Football Club wasformed in 1939 following the merger of thetwo great amateur sides bearing thosenames.

The CorinthiansThe Corinthians were founded in 1882 by

N.L."Pa" Jackson, Asst. Hon. Sec. of theFootball Association. His aim was to devel-op a club side capable of challengingScotland at international level.

Within four years, calling on the bestamateurs from the public schools and uni-versities, there were nine Corinthians inthe England team. Twice, the nationalsquad consisted of all Corinthian players.The Corinthians went on to challenge someof the top professional teams in the landincluding, in 1904, beating ManchesterUnited 11 - 3, still their worst defeat. They also took football round the world,touring in South Africa, Canada, the UnitedStates, South America and across Europe,including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain,Denmark and Germany.

In 1910, after a visit to Sao Paulo inBrazil, the locals were so impressed theyfounded a Corinthians of their own, nowCorinthians Paulista, one of the most suc-cessful clubs in South America; in 2012they beat Chelsea to become the currentWorld Club Champions. Real Madrid, LeedsUnited and some say the English NationalTeam, play in white shirts partly in tributeto the Corinthians.

The CasualsThe Casuals were founded in 1883 with a

membership restricted to the Old Boys ofthree public schools, Charterhouse, Etonand Westminster, although that was soonchanged to include all ex-public school anduniversity players. Casuals were a strongforce in the early amateur game, runnersup in the first FA Amateur Cup Final in1894, founder members of the IsthmianLeague in 1905, first holders of the A.F.ASenior Cup in 1907, winners of theAmateur Cup in 1936.

"Casuals' victory in the Amateur CupFinal came after beating Ilford 2 - 0 in areplay before 28,000 at West Ham after a1 - 1 draw at Crystal Palace. It wascrowned by a civic reception in Kingston.

Corinthian-CasualsThe Corinthian-Casuals Football Club had

played only one game when World War IIbroke out, though it really wasn’t our fault.Come the recommencement of football in1945, the club proudly retook its place inthe Isthmian League, were it would remain

for another 39 years. In 1954, the clubbeat Epsom 2-0 to win the Surrey SeniorCup. Two years later in 1956, they reachedthe FA Amateur Cup Final, drawing 1-1with Bishop Auckland at a packed WembleyStadium. The neo-legendary north-easternclub won the replay at Middlesbrough 4-1.A year later, another good run in the FAAmateur Cup saw the club reach the semi-final. After this high point, the club slippedinto a long decline, a rare moment of suc-cess seeing them reach the FA Cup 1stRound in 1965/66, where Watford won 5-1.

The 1973/74 season was an historic mile-stone; heralding the end of the amateur.As if in empathy, Corinthian-Casuals wererelegated, for the first time in their history,into Isthmian League Division 2. Therethey would stay there until 1978, when fur-ther relegation to the basement followed athird bottom finish in four years. A numberof steady seasons were played out beforenew ground-sharing rules created by theIsthmian League saw the club unceremoni-ously thrown out in 1983/84. This comingafter 65 years of continuous membership,and in spite of a 5th place finish, simplybecause the club’s long nomadic historymeant it shared a ground, thus did nothave one of its own. Ironically, the yearthis occurred was the best in quite a while.The club reached the 1st Round of the FACup, holding Bristol City to a goalless drawat Champion Hill, before losing 4-0 in thereplay. The club also made it to the 5thRound of the FA Vase, the replacementcompetition for the FA Amateur Cup.The first season in the Spartan PremierLeague was a disaster and a second con-secutive relegation occurred.

Next year, the Corinthian-Casuals for-tunes took an upturn when they bouncedback as Champions, remaining in thePremier Division for a further 12 seasons.1988 was a truly historic year, with theclub securing its first ever home ground,merging with the crippled Tolworth FC,thus taking over the running of their facili-ties. This season also saw the Corinthian-Casuals Tour of Brazil, when legendaryBrazilian international, Socrates, donnedthe famous chocolate and pink colours fora special game. A runners-up berth in 1993and winning the League Cup in 1995 werethe highlights of the Spartan League era,before the club switched to the CombinedCounties League in 1996. This was a great-ly improved experience. In the first sea-son, a runners-up spot was achieved to atlast win back our place in the IsthmianLeague.

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NON-LEAGUE ‘GEMS’ -

TAKING A CHANCE - OR JUST

SPOTTING TALENT?

BBC Sport Online news editor, MichaelShort, recently wrote about the emergenceof Jamie Vardy who has become a topstriker in the Premier League and anEngland International.

Vardy started his non-league footballcareer in the youth system at NorthernLeague Stocksbridge Park Steels, havingbeen rejected by Sheffield Wednesday as a16 year old. He broke into the first teamin 2007 and spent three seasons there,before joining Halifax Town in 2010.Scoring 27 goals in his debut season, hewon the club's "Player's Player of the Year"award. He started the 2011–12 seasonwith Halifax but moved to then ConferencePremier side, Fleetwood Town in August2011 for an undisclosed fee, believed to be£175,000, then scored 31 league goals inhis first season, winning the team's "Playerof the Year" award as they sealed theConference Premier title.

In May 2012, he signed for Leicester Cityin the Championship for a non-leaguerecord transfer fee of £1 million and wasinstrumental in helping them gain promo-tion to the Premier League in 2015. Vardyalso made his international debut forEngland in 2015. He is currently thePremier League’s top scorer, with 13 goals,ten of them in consecutive games,equalling Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s 12 year oldrecord, for the current table-topping Foxes(as at 28 November before they playedsecond placed Manchester United yester-day evening).

In his article, Michael Short suggestedthat League clubs ‘must take a chance’ onnon-league ‘gems.’ He went on to say thatnon-league football is full of players whocould make the grade at the top level - butnot enough clubs are brave enough to takea chance on them. Other coaches downthe football pyramid also say there aremore who could follow. "Jamie Vardy's nota one-off. But the talent is being missed,"said Luton Town boss John Still. Still, 65,

earned a reputation for spotting talent ashe led three different clubs to promotion tothe Football League.

He was speaking before ‘Straight OuttaConference’ - a BBC Radio 5 live specialprogramme looking at the journey fromnon-league to Premier League. He saidwhile plenty of players are being picked upfrom non-league by professional clubs, alot of talent is being ignored. "There'smore out there that deserve a chance. It'speople willing to take that chance," headded.

Steve Walsh, head of player recruitmentat Leicester, said of Vardy, "He's such aconfident lad he actually put in his contractwhen he joined Leicester for a bonus if hebecame an England player. Micky Mellonwas his manager [at Fleetwood Town] atthe time and he said Vardy could be any-thing he wants to be."Is Vardy a ‘one-off ’?Still doesn’t think so. "There's too manyone-offs for him to be a one-off. He's madea great impact and he's headlining theshow, but it's because he's a goal-scorerthat Vardy's a bit more highlighted.

"Look at people like Harry Arter atBournemouth. He has worked his way upto the Premier League and he was atWoking. Another Bournemouth lad, LeeTomlin, also came through from Rushden &Diamonds. "Chris Smalling at ManchesterUnited came through the same sort of path- because he's a defender he's not seen asquite as special, although he's playing forManchester United and has a good fewEngland caps." England boss Roy Hodgsonsigned Chris Smalling from non-league

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for many years, 5th in 2000/01, saw themmiss promotion by a meagre 3 points,whilst the Reserves won the SuburbanLeague South and London IntermediateCup. In May, the club toured Brazil again,winning the Sao Paulo Athletic InvitationCup. Victories were achieved overPaulistano and Sao Paulo AC, though SCCorinthians Paulista’s U21’s inflicted a 2-0defeat. The next season saw the reorgani-zation of the Isthmian League, with a top 6finish guaranteeing a place in the newDivision 1 South. Although being in therunning for much of the season, a lateslump saw the Corinthian-Casuals slip tofinish in 10th place. However, thanks tosome astute thinking, the ground had beenimproved anyway, gaining a “Grade B”award. Thus, due to circumstances else-where, the promotion places sank to as lowas 11th and the club got to play its highestlevel of football since 1978.

Season 2006/07 saw the club enjoy themomentous honour of celebrating 125years of football with a commemorativematch at Wembley Stadium. The 2010/11season was memorable as the club liftedthe Surrey Senior Cup for the first time in57 years when Leatherhead were defeated2-0 in the final at Gander Green Lane. Thistriumph was a fitting tribute to BrianAdamson who stood down as manager atthe end of the season.

In January 2015, Corinthian-Casualsembarked on an historic tour to Brazil toplay the two-time FIFA World ClubChampions SC Corinthians Paulista. Thematch played out in front of 30,000 fans inattendance and screened live on twonational TV stations. Although the finalscore was 3-0 to the hosts, Casuals heldthe professionals to 0-0 for 78 minutes.Corinth won the hearts of many millions offans in the week spent in Sao Paulo.With James Bracken now in charge, welook forward with quiet optimism to anoth-er year as the eternal underdogs, punchingabove their weight. The Corinthian-CasualsFootball Club continues to take great pridein its rich and glorious history, and still sovery much more in its present day standingas the highest ranked amateur club inEngland.

Some Amazing Facts AboutCorinthian-Casuals:

• Corinthians were founded in 1882 by theFootball Association to develop a clubcapable of defeating Scotland. In essence,

Corinthians were the first England team.

• Between 1883 and 1890, 52 of the 88caps awarded against Scotland went toCorinthian players. In fact, in 1894 and1895, Corinthians fielded the full Englandside twice… the only club to ever managethis feat.

• It’s acknowledged that England wearwhite in homage to the Corinthian strip.It’s also a fact that Real Madrid, inspiredby Corinthians, adopted their white strip.

• However, Corinthian’s greatest contribu-tion to the game was their missionarywork; touring overseas across Europe,South Africa, USA, Canada and SouthAmerica.

• It was on a tour to Brazil in 1910 whichinspired locals to found their own team inCorinthian’s honour… that club has sincegone on to be the largest in SouthAmerica and the only team to win theFIFA World Club Championship twice(defeating Chelsea in 2011).

• Corinthians were the English club tofield the first ever Black Internationalplayer.

• The Corinthians were so good, they reg-ularly defeated league and FA Cup win-ning opponents. In fact, in 1904, theydefeated Manchester United 11-3 – theirheaviest defeat to this day. The centenaryof that match was played in 2004 withUnited claiming a 3-1 victory.

• In 1939, Corinthians merged with anoth-er famous club, Casuals to become theclub that, to this day, resides in Tolworth.

• Corinthian-Casuals are the only club tobe honoured with a Royal Coat of Arms.

• Corinthian-Casuals has called the bor-ough of Kingston upon Thames home forover 25 years.

• Corinthian-Casuals are the highestranked fully amateur team in Senior foot-ball. We maintain our original ethos of fairplay and good sportsmanship across alllevels of football.

• Corinthian-Casuals has over 145,000enthusiastic and avid Facebook followers.

In March 2010 he moved to AldershotTown on loan and stayed until the end ofthe season when his contract atStadium:MK was finished and he wasreleased. In August 2010, after rejecting acontract offer from Aldershot Town, hesigned for League Two Chesterfield andfinished the season with a Winner's medalas they the Division and promotion toLeague Two. The next season, however,was a lot different. Chesterfield's form wasnot good and Morgan was sent on anotherloan, this time to Oxford United in March2012. At the end of the season he left theclub and after Tweeting to Grimsby Townon 11 September that he was not turningup at a trial game, signed for WycombeWanderers the following day.

He had two good seasons with TheChairboys but, come the middle of May2014, his contract had finished and he wasreleased. However, at the end of themonth, he flew out to the Caribbean hav-ing been selected for the Montserratnational team for their upcoming Gold Cupmatches. He made his debut against theUnited States Virgin Islands on 30 May asthe Emerald Boys won 1-0 at Blakes Estate

Stadium, St. Johns. He is now captain ofthe side.

In August 2014, he signed for Conferenceside Crawley Town before returning to theFootball League in January 2015 when hesigned for Crawley Town. They were rele-gated from League One and he was, onceagain, released. Part-time modelling wasalso now taking up some of his time but, atthe beginning of August 2015, he move toU.S. Ancona 1905 of Lega Pro/B, Italy'sthird level. Currently, they are top of theDivision but Morgan hasn't played a gameyet !

Apps GoalsColchester United 71 6 Reading 31 3Luton Town 88 11Southend United (Loan) 8 0Crewe Alexandra (Loan) 9 1Leyton Orient (Loan) 32 5Milton Keynes Dons 9 1Aldershot Town (Loan) 9 4Chesterfield 38 4Oxford United (Loan) 10 1Wycombe Wanderers 62 15Crawley Town 13 0

Dean Morgan (left)

in action as a trialist

for Crystal Palace.

That puts the club in the social mediasite’s top twenty most supported footballteams in England, beating manyPremiership clubs in the process.

Management TeamJames Bracken

Although barely in his thirties, Jamesalready has a fantastic managerial recordwhich includes steering Sutton Unitedreserves to three consecutive SuburbanLeague Premier title wins including lastseason in which his side remained unbeat-en for the whole campaign. Bracken pickedup no less than seven trophies in 2015.Joe Davies

Joe’s playing days saw him rise throughthe ranks of the youth system atCorinthian-Casuals, into the reserves andonto the first team. Has since developedinto a fantastic coach and surely still picksup wise words of wisdom from his father,Tony, who also once held the AssistantManager position at Casuals.Dan Pringle

Dan started his football career at CrystalPalace, regularly turning out for theiryouth sides and playing in the FA YouthCup. At only 22, he’s by far the youngest ofthe coaching set-up but with a seriousknee injury preventing him competing, Danhas taken to a coaching role.Carly Doyle

Physio who works hard getting the play-ers back to full fitness, Carly graduated inSports Rehab at St Mary’s in 2006 and wasat Met Police before joining us here atCasuals. In her spare time Carly enjoyslong distance running and has completedthe London Marathon in just over 3 hours.Alan Winnett

Goalkeeping Coach; Alan is a long servingmember of the club having had involve-ment managing the reserves and then pro-gressing to the first XI. Danny Bracken

#OneDannyBracken started his career atWest Ham before moving to Sutton &Tooting, progressing to the 1st team squadbefore being signed at the start of the2010/2011 season. Danny is now estab-lished as 1st team goalkeeper, with wellover 100 consecutive first team appear-ances to his name.Niall Wright

Attacking full back/midfielder who getsforward whenever possible. Niall signedfrom Woking FC in 2014 and immediatelycemented a place in his first team.However, injury hampered his promisingstart. Niall has also represented the FAduring their 150th anniversary celebra-tions.

Danny Dudley Danny has been a commanding figure at

Centre Back for a couple of seasons now,and is a previous winner of the ‘mostimproved player’ award. Can play acrossthe whole defensive line. Played a hugepart in keeping a clean sheet vsCorinthians for 78 minutes in Brazil in 2015in front of 30,000 fans. Previous clubsinclude Chipstead and Whyteleafe.Dave Hodges

Dave came to pre-season trials in July2010 and after some reserve matches pro-gressed to 1st team duty. What he failed tomention to anyone was that he played forGlossop North End in the 2009 FA Vasefinal at Wembley and was also their leadingscorer! Dave has now made over 100appearances for the club. His versatilitymakes him comfortable anywhere down theleft side.Ross Defoe

Left back who broke into the first teamafter working his way through thereserves. Previously at Molesey and Epsom& Ewell. When on form he is arguably themost skilful player at the club. Loves hisphoto being taken and is a menace with aselfie stick!Juevan Spencer

Skilful winger now in his fourth season atthe club. Has serious pedigree and pace toburn. Was voted last year’s ‘Most ImprovedPlayer of the Season’. Juevan was formerlyon the books at AFC Wimbledon, SalisburyCity and Whyteleafe. Sekou Kaba

This attacking midfielder joinedCorinthian-Casuals in the summer of 2015.Sekou has real Ryman Premier pedigreehaving played regular first-team footballfor Harrow Borough. Other previous clubsinclude Sutton United.Shaun Okojie

A powerful and imposing striker whojoined Corinth ahead of the 2015/16 sea-son. The 20 year old Okojie previouslymade appearances for Southern Leagueside Hitchin Town where he impressed byhitting a phenomenal 24 goals in ninegames for their under-19s. Stefan Joseph

An experienced Ryman league strikerwho’s played for the likes of East Grinsteadand Chipstead joined Casuals in 2015. 25year old Stef has also spent time withSutton United, Guildford City, Croydon andIcelandic side BÍ/Bolungarvík!Diego Maradona

No… not that one! However, just like hisfamous namesake, this exciting youngBrazilian (not Argentinian) winger causes

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DEAN MORGAN.

Born: 3 October 1983, Enfield, North-East London, England.

Club: Colchester United, Reading, LutonTown, Southend United (Loan), CreweAlexandra (Loan), Leyton Orient (Loan),Grays Athletic, Milton Keynes Dons,Aldershot Town (Loan), Chesterfield,Oxford United (Loan), WycombeWanderers, Woking, Crawley Town, U.S.Ancona 1905.

A forward who gradually became more ofan attacking midfielder, Morgan was origi-nally with Colchester United, progressingthrough their Youth system before signingFull Professional terms in August 2001. Hehad made his League debut for The U's on4 November 2000 when he came on as asubstitute for Aaron Skelton in a 0-2 lossto Northampton Town in a Division Twogame at Layer Road and went on to makefour appearances for the Essex side thatseason, all from the bench.

From the time he signed full terms he wasa regular in the squad until the beginningof the 2003-2004 season when injury andpersonal circumstances led to him and TheU's parting company by 'mutual consent' inSeptember 2003 and, two months later, hesigned for Reading. At the end of the 2004-2005 season he was released by TheBiscuitmen and signed for Luton Town inJuly 2005. After a successful first seasonwhen he scored Reading's 'Goal Of TheSeason' on his first appearance atKenilworth Road, Reading were relegatedfrom the Championship in 2006-2007 and,in November 2007, he moved on loan toSouthend United amid rumours of trainingbust-ups and abuse from the Luton Townsupporters due to a perceived bad attitude.

He was with Southend United for twomonths and, on his return to Hertfordshire,was on the verge of signing for LeedsUnited until they saw his wage demandsand the move was kicked into touch. Hethen went on loan to Crewe Alexandra forthe rest of the season in March 2008.Effectively, he never played for Luton Townagain moving to Leyton Orient on loan in

August 2008, a move that was extended tothe end of the season in January 2009. Inthe two seasons he had hardly played forthe club, Luton Town had been relegatedtwice and, at the end of the 2008-2009season, he was given a free transfer.

In August 2009, he was signed by themighty Grays Athletic of the NationalConference. He made his debut for theclub against Histon at Bridge Road, Histonon 11 August in a 0-0 draw. Four days laterhe scored in a 1-2 defeat at The LambGround, Tamworth and that was it. Onegoal in two appearances and he'd decided,enough was enough and left, never to playfor an Essex side again and signing forMilton Keynes Dons on trial in Septemberbefore signing a contract to the end of theseason.

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defences multiple problems. Made head-lines when he scored on his debut forCorinthian-Casuals versus Met Police inJuly 2015. If only it was with his hand…Terry Murray

A young defender who joins the club inJuly 2015 after winning the SuburbanLeague with Sutton United. Has immedi-ately gelled well with Danny Dudley at theback and cemented a place in the first XI.Warren Morgan

Warren is a talented right-back who joinsus in the summer of 2015. Has previouslyplayed for James Bracken at Sutton Unitedand spent time with Carshalton Athleticlast season.Ben Cotton

Technically gifted in midfield, Ben is oneto watch. Previously with Sutton United,Ben joined the Casuals in 2015.Ben King

Playing either left back or centre midfield,Ben has real pedigree. Progressing fromSutton reserves to the first XI has givenhim invaluable experience at a higherlevel. Ben has also turned out forTonbridge Angels.Brandon Johnson

This no-nonsense defensive midfielder isa real ball winner who won honours withSutton United’s Youth and Reserve sidesbefore joining Corinthian-Casuals in 2015.Kevant Serbony

This talented player has spent time withAFC Wimbledon, Sutton United andHampton & Richmond before coming toCasuals in July 2015.Josh Uzun

The former Leyton Orient youngsterimmediately impressed on his debut in July

2015 and continues to do so. Josh is a ver-satile midfielder who can play anywhereacross the park. Josh has a keen eye forgoal and will cause trouble for any defend-er.Cherno Mendy

Cherno is a versatile attacking player thatcan operate up front or on either wing andhas formed part of the Gambian nationalside at u17 and u20 level. As a youth play-er Mendy was at AFC Wimbledon beforeleaving for a spell at West BromwichAlbion. Has also conducted trials at QPR aswell as playing for the likes of DulwichHamlet and Grays Athletic.Emmanuel Akokhia

This exciting and dangerous forwardbegan his career with Bolton Wanderersand Crystal Palace before joining AFCWimbledon, where he first came to theattention of Staines` boss Marcus Gayle.Has also played for Harrow Borough beforejoining Casuals in 2015.Emil Salama

Won player of the year in 3 consecutiveseasons for Sutton United's youth teamhaving scored 55 goals in 71 appearancespredominantly from the wing. Also scoredan impressive 20 goals in 25 games for thetitle-winning Reserves last year, beforejoining Casuals in August 2015.Matt Reece

A striker that looks dangerous every timehe enters the field. Matt was with JamesBracken at Sutton United where heexcelled up top helping to win theSuburban League Premier title in theirunbeaten season.

OUR OPPONENTS LATEST RESULTS

24-Oct-2015 Isthmian South Division Away Chatham Town W 2 - 127-Oct-2015 Isthmian South Division Home Tooting & Mitcham United L 0 - 231-Oct-2015 FA Trophy 1st Qualifying Rd Home Redbridge W 4 - 103-Nov-2015 Isthmian South Division Away Worthing L 0 - 307-Nov-2015 Isthmian South Division Home Hythe Town W 1 - 014-Nov-2015 FA Trophy 2nd Qualifying Rd Away Leiston W 2 - 118-Nov-2015 Isthmian South Division Away Ramsgate L 2 - 321-Nov-2015 Isthmian South Division Away East Grinstead Town D 1 - 1

RECENT MATCHES WITH OUR OPPONENTS

23/04/1927 Friendly (Casuals FC) Home W 2 - 018/09/1976 FA Cup - 1st Qualifying Round Away W 1 - 001/10/1983 Friendly Home D 3 - 320/12/1983 Isthmian League - Division Two Home W 3 - 124/03/1984 Isthmian League - Division Two Away W 4 - 011/09/1984 Friendly Home L 2 - 305/08/1989 Friendly Away W 3 - 215/09/1990 FA Cup - 1st Qualifying Round Away W 5 - 1

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Fixtures

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Ryman League

Premier Division

Saturday 21st November 2015PREMIER DIVISIONBognor Regis Town 2-3 Dulwich HamletBrentwood Town P-P Hampton & RBBurgess Hill Town 1-1 Billericay TownEast Thurrock United 1-1 Wingate & FinchleyFarnborough 1-1 Needham MarketGrays Athletic 1-0 Enfield TownHarrow Borough 1-2 VCD AthleticLeiston P-P Staines TownLewes 1-2 Kingstonian Merstham 1-0 Canvey IslandMetropolitan Police 1-0 LeatherheadTonbridge Angels 3-1 Hendon

Tuesday 24th November 2015PREMIER DIVISIONEast Thurrock United 4-1 FarnboroughHampton & RB P-P VCD AthleticHarrow Borough 1-0 Dulwich HamletMerstham 3-2 Bognor Regis TownMetropolitan Police 0-3 Tonbridge AngelsTHE ALAN TURVEY TROPHY SPONSORED BYROBERT DYAS - 3RD ROUNDBrightlingsea Regent P-P Enfield TownWingate & Finchley 5-4 Grays AthleticLONDON SENIOR CUP - 1ST ROUNDHendon 4-1 Cray Valley PM

Wednesday 25th November 2015SUFFOLK SENIOR CUP - QUARTER FINALLeiston P-P Ipswich WanderersWalsham-Le-Willows 0-2 Needham MarketSURREY SENIOR CUP - 2ND ROUNDWalton Casuals 1-1 Kingstonian (pens)

Saturday 28th November 2015PREMIER DIVISIONBillericay Town vs Tonbridge AngelsEnfield Town vs MersthamHendon vs Burgess Hill TownStaines Town vs LewesWingate & Finchley vs Harrow BoroughTHE FA TROPHY -3RD ROUND QUALIFYINGBognor Regis Town vs Bath CityDulwich Hamlet vs MargateHampton & RB vs Maidstone UnitedMerthyr Town vs East Thurrock UnitedMetropolitan Police vs Wealdstone

Sunday 29th November 2015THE FA TROPHY -3RD ROUND QUALIFYINGGrays Athletic vs Corinthian Casuals

Monday 30th November 2015PREMIER DIVISIONFarnborough vs Hendon

Tuesday 1st December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONHampton & RB vs Bognor Regis TownHarrow Borough vs Grays AthleticNeedham Market vs Brentwood TownStaines Town vs Tonbridge AngelsESSEX SENIOR CUP - 4TH ROUNDColchester United vs Canvey IslandTHE ALAN TURVEY TROPHY SPONSORED BYROBERT DYAS - 3RD ROUNDDulwich Hamlet vs Faversham TownSURREY SENIOR CUP - ROUND TWOMetropolitan Police vs Dorking WanderersKENT SENIOR CUP - 2ND ROUNDPhoenix Sports vs VCD Athletic

Wednesday 2nd December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONBurgess Hill Town vs Enfield TownSURREY SENIOR CUP - 2ND ROUNDLeatherhead vs Carshalton AthleticTHE ALAN TURVEY TROPHY SPONSORED BYROBERT DYAS - 3RD ROUNDLeiston vs Great Wakering Rovers

Saturday 5th December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONBrentwood Town vs FarnboroughCanvey Island vs Staines TownDulwich Hamlet vs Needham MarketEast Thurrock Utd vs LewesEnfield Town vs Hampton & RBGrays Athletic vs VCD AthleticHendon vs Bognor Regis TownKingstonian vs MersthamLeatherhead vs Harrow BoroughLeiston vs Metropolitan PoliceTonbridge Angels vs Burgess Hill TownWingate & Finchley vs Billericay Town

Monday 7th December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONFarnborough vs Harrow BoroughHendon vs Grays AthleticKingstonian vs Bognor Regis Town

Tuesday 8th December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONEast Thurrock United vs Burgess Hill TownHampton & RB vs VCD AthleticStaines Town vs Needham MarketTonbridge Angels vs Enfield TownESSEX SENIOR CUP - ROUND FOURBrentwood Town vs Bowers & Pitsea

Saturday 12th December 2015PREMIER DIVISIONBillericay Town vs HendonBognor Regis Town vs LeistonBurgess Hill Town vs Canvey IslandFarnborough vs LeatherheadHampton & RB vs Grays AthleticHarrow Borough vs East Thurrock UnitedLewes vs Dulwich HamletMerstham vs Tonbridge AngelsMetropolitan Police vs Brentwood TownNeedham Market vs Enfield TownStaines Town vs KingstonianVCD Athletic vs Wingate & Finchley

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Sheridan Robins

As we edge ever closer to the busyChristmas footballing calendar, the head-lines just keep on coming for former Non-League starlet Jamie Vardy.

The ex-Stocksbridge Park Steels, FCHalifax and Fleetwood striker Vardy hasmade a remarkable impact on the PremierLeague having equalled former ManchesterUnited forward Ruud van Nistelrooy'srecord of goals in ten consecutive games.

His tenth of the season signified that hewas not just a one season wonder havingplayed Non-League football just four yearsago. Talent is often buried in the mostunlikely of places. But in recent weeksNon-League football has been dealt atough card – perhaps taking away from theinfluence Vardy has had on the search foremerging talent.

Unsurprisingly, Football League clubshave voted in favour of increased para-chute payments for clubs relegated fromLeague Two in to the Conference. The cashthat clubs receive is set to ascend at analarming rate. An unbelievable £750,000will be on offer, meaning that relegationwill result in around £474,000 being hand-ed out followed by a “mere” £237,000 dur-ing a club’s second year in the NationalLeague. Not only does this sort of moneydraw parallels with clubs relegated fromthe Premier League (a sore subject formany football fans) but it allows clubs toreadily spend in the notoriously “toughest”league to get out of.

Cheltenham Town are sitting pretty at thetop of the National League and, havingbeen an established Football League clubfor sixteen seasons, have the credentialsto get back in to League Two. But just ask Luton Town fans and they willtell you that nothing is certain. Surely thatis all part of the fun? Maybe ‘fun’ is not theright word for fans but the point of a pro-motion battle is to be competitive, prove

you are better and have the best side winthe league.

Forest Green are certainly on GaryJohnson’s heels to book their first-everplace in the Football League and there willno doubt be more twists and turns as theseason progresses. However, it begs thequestion of how long that will last withincreased payments easing the blow of oneof the biggest fears in football – relega-tion.

Will we really have to rely on the FA Cupto provide us with excitement – althoughbased on recent years that shouldn’t betoo much of a problem. Rising star storiesincluding that of Stevenage Borough,Crawley Town, Yeovil Town and Dagenhamand Redbridge – clubs who have pro-gressed up the ladder – are at risk ofbecoming a distant memory.

These clubs now all currently face theprospect of the drop from League Two andsurely giving them a head start defeats theobject of their past achievements?

We should be nurturing talent like Vardyand enjoying the competitive football in allleagues, not letting money cause conflictand resentment. So whichever match youmay be watching, look out for the next bigname as talent can overrule money.

League

Table

Ryman League

Premier Division

INC. MIDWEEK P W D L F A PTDulwich Hamlet 22 13 3 6 49 25 42Tonbridge Angels 18 12 3 3 39 12 39Bognor Regis Town 20 11 4 5 37 24 37Kingstonian 21 10 6 5 35 22 36Wingate & Finchley 20 11 3 6 34 23 36Leiston 19 11 3 5 31 21 36Hampton & Richmond Borough 20 9 7 4 37 27 34Billericay Town 23 9 7 7 39 30 34Canvey Island 21 10 4 7 32 32 34Grays Athletic 18 10 3 5 31 20 33East Thurrock United 20 8 7 5 45 32 31Harrow Borough 20 9 4 7 30 22 31Merstham 23 9 3 11 31 41 30Metropolitan Police 21 9 3 9 21 36 30Burgess Hill Town 21 8 5 8 31 34 29Leatherhead 20 7 4 9 30 35 25Enfield Town 18 7 3 8 21 20 24Staines Town 15 6 4 5 19 25 22Hendon 21 5 4 12 27 38 19Needham Market 21 4 7 10 24 41 19Brentwood Town 18 6 0 12 24 31 18Farnborough 18 4 1 13 29 48 13VCD Athletic 21 2 6 13 17 47 12Lewes 21 1 4 16 19 46 7

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been released by Wolves after starting as ayouth at Arsenal. He made in debut atTonbridge Angels in August 2015 and hasimpressed with his defensive and attackingplay. George Kamurasi – Goalkeeper.

Popular keeper who returned to the Bluesin August 2015 after helping us win theRyman Division One North Championship in2012/13. Also had spells at Brentwood andPotters Bar. Made his return debut in theCanvey League Cup win in August 2015and starred in the match with two crucialsaves in the penalty shoot-out. Callum Maltese – Midfielder.

Callum was a member of last season’ssuccessful Under 18 side which won theEssex Pelly Cup. He has been given thechance to step up to the reserve and firstteam squad. He made his first team debutin the penalty shoot-out win over Canveyin the League Cup in August 2015. Son offormer Grays Athletic star, Bradley Maltese,who helped the Blues to promotion to theRyman Premier Division in 1988. Jermaine Osei – Striker.

Jermaine is a young striker who joinedthe Blues in August 2015 after havingspells at Enfield 1893, Enfield Town andBishop’s Stortford. Made his senior debutin the penalty shoot-out win at Canvey inAugust 2015.Roman Michael-Percil - Winger.

The Club signed 20 year-old Roman inAugust 2015 after impressing in pre-sea-son. He was originally a youth at Spursand has also played for Concord Rangers,Billericay and Farnbor-ough. Scored hisdebut goal in the 4-0 home win overBrentwood Town on 31 August 2015.Lamar Reynolds – Winger.

Lamar joined the Blues in August 2015having previously played for other Essexsides Barkingside, Thurrock and Aveley.James Stevens – Midfielder.

James came through Southend United’syouth system, making his debut in March2011. He was released by Southend inMay 2012 and moved to Witham Town,before joing the Blues in December 2014.He has great passing ability and a powerfulstriker of the ball.Perry Tamburrini – Midfielder.

Another returnee in August 2015. Perry

previously made two first team appear-ances when we were in Ryman DivisionOne North. He opted to move to our land-lords, Aveley, to get first team experience,before a spell at Basildon in the EssexSenior League. He suffered an injury play-ing for our Under 21s as an 18 year-old,but he is now looking to get back into ourfirst team squad.Mason Bloomfield - Striker.

Joined from Chelmsford City in October2015. Mason is a product of the Dagenham& Redbridge Academy. He had loan spellsat Chatham Town, Erith & Belvedere,Maldon & Tiptree before signing forChelmsford City in September 2015 wherehe had dual registration with local rivalsBillericay Town.Montel Agyemang – Midfield

Made his first team debut for LeytonOrient at the end of 2014 as he came on inthe dying minutes at Yeovil Town as Orientran out 3-0 victors. Predominantly a cen-tral midfielder, Agyemang was rewardedwith a new one-year contract following asuccessful two-years as a scholar.Agyemang featured heavily for the O’sreserve team last season and made a totalof 30 appearances for the youth team dur-ing the 2014-15 campaign. Joined GraysAthletic in October 2015.Jake Hutchings - Defender. Highly rated 19 year old who had a brief

spell at Grays in 2013, before Martin Linggave him his first professional contract atTorquay. He moved to Hearts in Scotlandon a short-term contract in January 2015,but was released in July and returned toGrays in October.Danny Burnett-Williams – Striker.

25 year old Danny joined on dual regis-tration from Dover Athletic in October2015. He had a brief spell in our reservespreviously before joining Dover. He alsohad a loan spell at Leatherhead this sea-son, coming on as a substitute in their 3-0win against the Blues in September.

Appearance

& Scorers

Season

2015-16

Grays Ath.

Career

Start Sub. Tot Goals Yell. Reds Apps Goals

Apps

Alex Addai 5 5 10 2 1 0 10 2

Harry Agombar 10 6 16 2 0 0 99 17

Montel Agyemang 6 2 8 0 0 0 8 0

Kenny Beaney 14 3 17 2 1 0 217 18

Mark Bentley 7 6 13 0 2 0 49 2

Mason Bloomfield 2 6 8 1 0 0 8 1

Daniel Burnett-Williams 2 1 3 1 0 0 3 1

Joao Carlos 24 1 25 4 3 0 242 71

Alex Cathline 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Sean Cronin 25 0 25 2 4 0 34 4

Tommy Cummings 9 0 9 0 0 0 9 0

Laste Dombaxe 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0

Gus Douglas 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Dumebi Dumaka 18 0 18 16 4 1 59 30

Calvin Ekpiteta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Nathan Ferguson 16 0 16 0 1 0 33 1

Bradley Fortnam-Tomlinson 22 1 23 9 1 0 36 12

Jamie Fuller 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 0

Kofi Halliday 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Jake Hutchings 7 0 7 1 0 0 11 1

Luke Ifil 25 0 25 1 1 0 25 1

Lamar Johnson 27 0 27 0 2 0 87 0

George Kamurasi 2 0 2 0 0 0 60 0

Jay Leader 24 0 24 2 2 1 80 6

Glen Little 2 12 14 1 0 0 42 2

Callum Maltese 2 2 4 2 0 0 4 2

Roman Michael-Percil 15 9 24 3 0 0 24 3

Brian Moses 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 2

Max Nicholson 3 0 3 0 1 0 3 0

Germaine Ofori 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

Jermaine Osei 1 4 5 0 0 0 5 0

Lamar Reynolds 3 14 17 0 0 0 17 0

Jey Siva 22 0 22 0 0 0 71 0

James Stevens 20 3 23 4 1 0 45 8

Perry Tamburrini 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

Ruddock Yala 1 2 3 0 0 0 33 3

UP TO AND INCLUDING TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2015

Kenny Beaney – Midfield.This season’sClub captain. He made two appearancesfor Grays Athletic in October 2008 beforebeing released. He started his career atDulwich Hamlet and had a loan spell atWealdstone before joining Fisher Athleticin 2007. He also had a short spell withBeckenham Town and then moved on toThurrock in December 2008. RejoiningGrays Athletic in 2011, he has made one ofthe midfield spots his own.Dumebi GB-Dumaka – Striker. Signed inAugust 2014. Affectionately known as ‘DD’,the young striker was impressive in trainingand pre-season friendlies. He was previ-ously with Heybridge Swifts and Barking,for whom he performed well against us inan Essex Senior Cup tie in 2013.Joel Nouble – Striker. The club arepleased to announce that Joel Nouble hasjoined the club on a short term loan withthe intention of extending until the end ofthe season. Joel last played for the club in2013/14 season. He made his debut for theclub in the victory over Tilbury in theRyman League Cup, coming on as a substi-tute for Jeff Hammond and scoring withonly his second touch. His first goal in theleague came in a 3–2 defeat to DulwichHamlet. He scored in the 3–3 draw withChatham Town as the Blues progressedthrough to the semi-finals of the RymanLeague Cup on penalties. Joel scored hisfirst ever brace in the 4–2 home league winover Lewes. He returned to Dagenham &Redbridge having made thirty-two appear-ances, and scoring nine goals for theBlues.Brian Moses – Striker.

The club are very pleased to announcethat Striker Brian Moses has rejoined theclub. In August 2015 Brian went on loan toBarkingside.

Nathan Ferguson – Midfield. Nathanstarted his career at Norwich City in theiryouth academy and has played for sidesincluding; Chelmsford City, St Albans City,Folkestone Invicta, Dagenham & Redbridgeand Billericay Town.Glen Little – Midfield.

A vastly experienced player. He joined inAugust 2014 from last season’s RymanLeague Champions, Wealdstone. He wasborn in Wimbledon. He also previouslyplayed for Burnley, Derry City, Glentoran,Crystal Palace, Sheffield United, Wrexhamand Aldershot Town. He has also appeared

in the Premier League for BoltonWanderers, Reading and Portsmouth. Heis the scorer of some classic goals, witheither foot and the maker of many more,as ‘You Tube’ will testify! Glen rejoined theclub in March 2015 after his recent spell atWelling United.Bradley Tomlinson – Striker. Narborough-born Tomlinson was snappedup at the age of 11 by Leicester City beforemoving to Sheffield Wednesday at the ageof 16. Before his release in 2013 he fea-tured twice for Northern Ireland's U19 sideand signed his first professional contractfor St. Johnston in Scotland in September2013. Tomlinson returned to England insummer 2014, joining Hereford United on asix-month deal and becomes AndySwallow's first signing since taking overthe reins from Jody Brown in December2014. Bradley rejoined the club in March2015.Sean Cronin – Centre Back. On 24 March 2015, Sean joined the Blues

on loan from Wealdstone. He signed forWealdstone in August 2010 having previ-ously played for Neath FC in the WelshPremier League. Sean has also played forCardiff City and represented Wales atUnder 18, Under 19 and semi-pro Under 23level, and has made over 170 starts for theStones. Harry Agombar – Midfielder.

Harry originally joined in 2010 and playedin our last season in the Conference. Aftermaking 75 appearances he moved toMacclesfield Town in 2012. After a briefloan spell back with the Blues, he moved toMaltese side, Floriana in January 2013. InJuly 2013, Swindon Town signed him on atwo year deal. He returned on loan to theBlues again in March 2015. He leftSwindon by mutual consent at the end ofthe 2014/15 and re-joined the Blues inAugust 2015.Gus Douglas – Defender.

Gus has joined up with the first teamsquad after being a key member of theUnder 21 side that won the Ryman DivisionNorth title in 2014/15.Luke Ifil – Defender.

He joined in August 2015 after managerMark Bentley had been searching for aright back during pre-season. Luke hadbeen on trial at Wealdstone but was unableto obtain a place in their squad. He had

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Other Ryman

League Tables

2015-16

Season

NORTH DIVISION (25/11/15) P W D L F A PT

Cray Wanderers 22 14 6 2 50 22 48AFC Sudbury 21 14 3 4 41 29 45Thurrock 19 14 2 3 47 20 44AFC Hornchurch 20 13 4 3 46 15 43Bury Town 20 11 7 2 41 21 40Tilbury 19 11 4 4 38 22 37Aveley 22 11 3 8 51 36 36Cheshunt 21 10 5 6 43 24 35Phoenix Sports 23 10 4 9 37 37 34Maldon & Tiptree 21 9 5 7 40 35 32Dereham Town 22 8 6 8 32 28 30Thamesmead Town 18 9 3 6 25 22 30Harlow Town 17 8 5 4 28 18 29Brightlingsea Regent 17 8 4 5 24 18 28Great Wakering Rovers 23 7 7 9 41 46 28Romford 21 5 7 9 24 38 22Witham Town 19 5 5 9 32 40 20Soham Town Rangers 22 5 4 13 26 44 19Wroxham 19 5 3 11 24 40 18Barkingside 22 4 4 14 28 53 16Haringey Borough 19 3 4 12 14 30 13Redbridge 22 4 1 17 22 77 13Waltham Abbey 21 2 6 13 19 35 12Heybridge Swifts 20 3 2 15 23 46 11

SOUTH DIVISION (25/11/15) P W D L F A PT

Folkestone Invicta 20 15 2 3 43 17 47Worthing 21 14 1 6 49 31 43Dorking Wanderers 21 12 5 4 44 23 41Ramsgate 23 12 5 6 43 33 41Faversham Town 23 12 4 7 33 20 40Carshalton Athletic 23 13 1 9 39 35 40Molesey 21 12 2 7 45 34 38Guernsey 23 11 3 9 46 42 36Three Bridges 21 11 2 8 32 26 35South Park 20 11 2 7 31 26 35Corinthian-Casuals 22 11 2 9 31 28 35Whyteleafe 23 11 1 11 31 34 34Hastings United 17 11 0 6 35 20 33Herne Bay 19 9 6 4 32 21 33Walton & Hersham 22 8 3 11 30 40 27Hythe Town 20 7 5 8 22 23 26Walton Casuals 22 8 2 12 39 44 26Tooting & Mitcham United 21 8 1 12 24 34 25Chatham Town 21 6 4 11 32 30 22Peacehaven & Telscombe 23 5 5 13 26 49 20Sittingbourne 18 6 0 12 24 34 18East Grinstead Town 19 4 5 10 23 35 17Chipstead 22 3 2 17 22 55 11Whitstable Town 23 2 1 20 23 65 7

Grays Athletic

FC

Meet The Staff

& Players

Mark Bentley – Midfield/Manager. JoinedGrays Athletic in August 2014. He startedhis career at Enfield in 1998, later movingto Aldershot Town, Gravesend &Northfleet, where he won Player of theYear for 2002/03 and Dagenham &Redbridge. He stepped up to the FootballLeague with Southend United in 2004where he made 93 appearances and wasinvolved in two consecutive promotions.He moved to Gillingham in 2006 and hewas runner up for their 2006/07 and2009/10 Player of the Year award. He alsorepresented Cambridge United, Hayes &Yeading, Boreham Wood and was a mem-ber of Wealdstone’s Ryman LeagueChampionship winning squad last season.In January 2015 Mark took over as care-taker manager from Andy Swallow. InFebruary 2015 it was announced that Markwould retain the manager’s role for theremainder of the 2014-2015 season.Discussions are ongoing for his tenure tocontinue for next season.David Raven – Coach / Scout. Retiredfrom playing in 1999 after a career thatincluded spells at Wigan Athletic, SloughTown and Didcot Town. Joined the staff in2011. A former Kilmarnock coach and Graysreserve team manager. Previously a youthcoach and assistant manager for the CapitalLeague side at Redbridge before joiningGrays Athletic in 2011 as assistant managerfor the reserves. His role was expanded toinclude scouting opponents and potentialsignings. He will continue in his dual coach-ing/ scouting role working on fitness &rehabilitation and working closer with theU21 and U18 coaching staff to identify play-ers to develop through into the first team. Lamar Johnson – Goalkeeper. He joinedGrays in 2011 after spells at Romford andAveley. In his early career, he was part ofthe Charlton Athletic youth setup and alsoplayed for Thurrock’s under 18’s and theirreserve side, before switching to Canvey-based Concord Rangers in 2010. He willavailable to play after 15 October 2014.Jay Leader – Centre Half. A product ofthe Dagenham & Redbridge youth setup hehas progressed through the non-leagueranks playing for Bethnal Green in theEssex Senior League before moving toAveley where he was made captain in his

first season. He joined in August 2014 fromThe Millers where he was voted Fans’ andPlayers’ Player of the Year last season.Alex Addai - Alex started his career withTottenham Hotspur as a youngster butmoved north to join Blackpool as a trainee.He was released at the end of the 2012/13season without managing to break into thesenior squad at Bloomfield Road. After anunsuccessful trial with Leyton Orient in thesummer of 2013, he joined then RymanPremier Division side Carshalton Athleticand made eleven appearances for theRobins, scoring once. He joinedConference South side Whitehawk inDecember 2013 and then moved ontoCrawley Down Gatwick in March 2014. Hesigned for Ryman Premier side Kingstonianin the summer of 2014 and played forty-one times, scoring just once.Tommy Cummings – Mark Bentley hasalso announced the signing of defenderTommy Cummings. With Arsenal andCharlton Athletic as a youngster, hebecame disillusioned with the game andgave up for a while, but has been playinglocally in the past year or so and hasimpressed sufficiently to be offered termsby Bentley.Jey Siva – Left Back.Joined from Weald-stone in August 2014 where he was part oftheir Championship winning squad in2013/14. He was at Enfield from 2010until 2013 and previously played forHillingdon Borough, Indian Gymkhana andNewbury Forest. He has coaching experi-ence at a number of English Clubs and inthe USA. He achieved a sports sciencedegree at Brunel University where he madethe England University side.Joao Carlos – Midfield. He joined in thepre-season of 2011. The Portuguesewinger started his career at Clapton beforemoving on to Brentwood Town and thenAveley. He went on to sign for FootballLeague side Dagenham & Redbridge inNovember 2009, where he made oneappearance as a substitute. He rejoinedBrentwood Town in August 2010, before amove to Thurrock. He was voted thePlayer of the Year in 2011/12 and theSupporters’ Player of the Year 2013/14.He was also the top scorer in both sea-sons.

Reserve

Team

Essex Senior

Football League

15/08/2015 Thurrock A Lge 0-722/08/2015 Heybridge Swifts H Lge 3-3 Osei (2), Tamburrini05/09/2015 Redbridge H Lge 3-1 Tamburrini, Maltese, Fuller12/09/2015 Sawbridgeworth T. H Lge 1-1 Fuller26/09/2015 Thurrock H Cup 2-1 TBA03/10/2015 Hullbridge A Lge 4-0 Cummings, Bangora, Osei (2) 17/10/15 Takeley A Lge 5-3 Fuller (2), Burnett-Williams,

Gordon, Osei14/11/2015 Southend Manor H Lge 2-1 Maltese, Moses18/11/2015 Waltham Abbey A Lge 2-3 Burnett-Williams, Ofori 02/12/2015 Clapton A Lge05/12/2015 Waltham Abbey H Lge12/12/2015 Waltham Forest A Lge19/12/2015 Barking H Lge23/01/2016 Redbridge A Lge30/01/2016 Sawbridgeworth T. A Lge03/02/2016 Clapton H Lge13/02/2016 Waltham Forest H Lge27/02/2016 Takeley H Lge05/03/2016 Thurrock H Lge12/03/2016 Hullbridge Sports H Lge19/03/2016 Heybridge Swifts A LgeTBA Barking A LgeTBA Southend Manor A Lge

Essex Senior League Official Website www.essexseniorleague.co.uk Facebook Essex Senior League Community Twitter @essexsenior

RESERVE DIVSION P W D L F A PT

Heybridge Swifts 10 9 8 1 41 13 25Waltham Abbey 9 6 8 0 28 13 24Redbridge 10 10 7 0 24 24 21Thurrock 8 5 6 1 32 6 19Hullbridge Sports 9 10 5 1 25 19 16Grays Athletic 8 13 4 2 20 19 14

Sawbridgeworth Town 8 16 3 1 17 24 10Clapton 13 14 2 3 19 29 9Walham Forest 6 6 2 0 9 15 6Barking 9 9 1 2 10 24 5Southend Manor 9 14 1 1 14 34 4Takeley 7 4 0 0 10 29 0

Statistics

2015-16

Grays Athletic

Football Club

Statistics

2015-16

Grays Athletic

Football Club

DATE OPPOSITION C R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Substitutes Used ATT OGSat 8th Aug Hendon Lge 1-1 Johnson Cummings Siva Cronin Leader Stevens Michael-Percil Beaney Tomlinson Ferguson Carlos Little +, Bentley *, Reynolds @ 201 1

Tues 11th Aug Tonbridge Angels Lge 3-2 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens + Tomlinson Beaney GB-Dumaka 2 Ferguson Carlos 1 * Michael-Percil +, Bentley * 439

Sat 15th Aug Burgess Hill Town Lge 2-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens Tomlinson 1 * Beaney GB-Dumaka 1 Ferguson Carlos+ Michael-Percil +, Reynolds * 458

Tues 18th Aug Canvey Island ***** ATT1 2-2 Kamurasi Ifil Cummings Douglas Bentley Stevens 1 Michael-Percil Maltese @ Osei * Ferguson + Reynolds Beaney +, Little *, Addai @ 153 1

Sat 22nd Aug Billericay Town Lge 2-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens 1 * Tomlinson 1 + Beaney GB-Dumaka Ferguson + Carlos @ Reynolds +, Bentley *, Michael-Percil @ 263

Weds 26th Aug Canvey Island Lge 2-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens * Tomlinson Beaney GB-Dumaka 1 Ferguson + Carlos + Reynolds +, Agombar * 289 1

Sat 29th Aug Dulwich Hamlet Lge 1-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens+ Tomlinson Beaney 1 GB-Dumaka Ferguson @ Carlos * Michael-Percil +, Reynolds *, Little @ 999

Mon 31st Aug Brentwood Town Lge 4-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader 1 Michael-Percil + Tomlinson * Beaney GB-Dumaka 2 Ferguson @ Carlos Agombar +, Reynolds *, Stevens @ 205

Sat 5th Sep Leiston Lge 2-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens Tomlinson + Beaney GB-Dumaka 2 Ferguson @ Carlos * Michael-Perci l +, Reynolds * 232

Tues 8th Sep Canvey Island Lge 3-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens 1 @ Tomlinson + Beaney GB-Dumaka 1 Ferguson @ Carlos * 1 Michael-Percil +, Reynolds *, Agombar @ 330

Sat 12th Sep Biggleswade Utd FAC1Q 5-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin 1 Leader Agombar + Tomlinson @ Beaney Michael-Percil 1 Ferguson @ Reynolds * Carlos + 2, Little *, Osei @ 182 1

Sat 19th Sep Bognor Regis Town Lge 0-2 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Stevens+ Tomlinson @ Beaney GB-Dumaka Ferguson Carlos * Michael-Percil +, Reynolds *, Little @ 207

Weds 23rd Sep Staines Town Lge 1-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin 1 Leader Stevens + Michael-Percil Beaney * Tomlinson Ferguson Carlos Agombar *, Reynolds +, 173

Sat 26th Sep Hullbridge Sports FAC2Q 6-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin + Leader Stevens Michael-Percil Tomlinson @ 3 GB-Dumaka 3 Ferguson Carlos * Yala +, Reynolds *, Osei @ 206

Weds 30th Sep Leatherhead Lge 0-3 Johnson Ifil @ Siva Cronin Leader Stevens + Michael-Percil Agombar * Tomlinson Ferguson Carlos Reynolds *, Little +, Yala @ 272

Fri 2nd Oct Kingstonian Lge 1-3 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin + Leader Stevens + Michael-Percil 1 Agyemang Tomlinson Ferguson * Carlos @ Bloomfield +, Little *, Reynolds @ 191

Wed 7th Oct East Thurrock *** ATT2 2-2 Kamurasi Ruddock Cummings Nicholson Bentley Halliday Addai Fuller Bloomfield 1 Agombar 1 Reynolds Osei +, Little *, Reynolds @ 159

Sat 10th Oct Hanwell Town FAC3Q 2-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader 1 Stevens Michael-Percil + Agyemang GB-Dumaka 1 Tomlinson @ Carlos* Bentley +, Little ,* Reynolds @ 311

Weds 14th Oct Leatherhead Lge 0-2 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin + Hutchings Stevens Michael-Percil Agyemang @ GB-Dumaka Tomlinson * Carlos Bentley +, Bloomfield * Little @ 172

Sat 17th Oct Lewes Lge 4-0 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Hutchings 1 Stevens 1 Michael-Percil @ Bentley* GB-Dumaka 2 + Agombar Carlos Bloomfield +, Little *, Addai @ 194

Sun 25th Oct Welling United FAC4Q 1-1 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Bentley Michael-Percil + Beaney * GB-Dumaka Agombar Carlos Addai + 1, Stevens * 512

Tues 27th Oct Welling United FAC4Qr 0-4 Johnson Ifil Siva Cronin Leader Bentley + Michael-Percil * Agyemang GB-Dumaka Agombar @ Carlos Stevens +, Tomlinson *, Addai @ 733

Sat 31st Oct Biggleswade Town FAT1Q 2-1 Johnson Ifil Cummings Cronin Hutchings Stevens * Addai 1 Leader B.-Williams + Tomlinson 1 Carlos @ Bloomfield +, Bentley *, Agombar @ 151

Tues 3rd Nov Wingate & Finchley Lge 2-3 Johnson Ifil 1 Cummings Cronin Hutchings Leader Michael-Percil Agyemang Tomlinson * 1 Agombar @ Carlos + Addai +, Bloomfield *, Little @ 111

Sat 7th Nov Burgess Hill Town Lge 2-0 Johnson Ifil Cummings Cronin Leader Stevens + Addai * Bentley GB-Dumaka 1 Tomlinson 1 Carlos @ Agyemang +, Michael-Percil *, Agombar @ 148

Weds 11th Nov Witham Town^^^ ESC3 0-0 Johnson Cummings Siva Nicholson Hutchings Little Ofori * Agombar Cathline + Bloomfield Addai @ B.-Williams +, Osei *, Maltese @ 86

Sat 14th Nov Waltham Abbey FAT2Q 2-0 Johnson Ifil Cummings Cronin Leader Hutchings + Tomlinson Agyemang GB-Dumaka * Agombar 1 @ Carlos Beaney +1, Bloomfield *, Michael-Percil @ 146

Sat 21st Nov Enfield Town Lge 1-0 Johnson Ifil Cummings Cronin Leader Bentley Beaney GB-Dumaka Agombar + Carlos Tomlinson 1 Agyemang + 212

Tues 24th Nov Wingate & Finchley ATT3 4-5 Johnson Hutchings Siva Nicholson Leader Stevens Michael-Percil Maltese@ 2 B. -Williams + 1 Little * 1 Addai Beaney +, Fuller *, Dombaxe @ 75

Sun 29th Nov Corinthian-Casuals FAT3Q H SPONSOR: THURROCK FOOD BANK

Tues 1st Dec Harrow Borough Lge A

Sat 5th Dec VCD Athletic Lge H

Mon 7th Dec Hendon Lge A

Sat 12th Dec Hampton & RB Lge A

Tues 15th Dec Staines Town Lge A

Sat 19th Dec Dulwich Hamlet Lge H SPONSOR: PAUL COX

Tues 22nd Dec Billericay Town Lge A

Sat 26th Dec Brentwood Town Lge A

Sat 2nd Jan East Thurrock U. Lge H SPONSORS: CAROL TILLETT AND

PHYLLIS HOLLANDS

Weds 6th Jan Tonbridge Angels Lge H SPONSOR: CAROL TILLETT

Sat 9th Jan Merstham Lge A

Tues 12th Jan Needham Market Lge A

Sat 16th Jan Farnborough Lge H

Sat 23rd Jan Metropolitan Police Lge A

Sat 30th Jan Wingate & Finchley Lge H

Sat 6th Feb Kingstonian Lge A

Sat 13th Feb Harrow Borough Lge H SPONSOR: PHIL BOSTON

Sat 20th Feb Lewes Lge A

Sat 27th Feb Met. Police Lge H SPONSOR: GLYN BALMER (GLYNBO)

Sat 5th Mar Farnborough Lge A

Sat 12th Mar Leiston Lge H SPONSOR: PHYLLIS HOLLANDS

Sat 19th Mar Bognor Regis Town Lge A

Sat 26th Mar Merstham Lge H SPONSOR: STEWART GOSHAWK

Mon 28th Mar East Thurrock U. Lge A

Sat 2nd Apr Enfield Town Lge A

Sat 9th Apr Needham Market Lge H SPONSOR: PARAGON INDEPENDENT LTD

Sat 16th Apr Hampton & RB Lge H SPONSOR: GLYN BALMER (GLYNBO)

Sat 23rd Apr VCD Athletic Lge A

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A GOAL IN PICTURES

CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER PETER JACKSON ExPERTLY CAPTURES BRADLEY TOMLINSON’S

WINNING GOAL AGAINST ENFIELD TOWN LAST SATURDAY

3.

McDonald turns in

despair as the ball

nestles in the far

corner……

1-0 to the Blues!

1.

Bradley strikes

the ball………

4.

Dumebi GB-

Dumaka, who set

up Bradley’s

chance, runs away

to celebrate the

goal with Bradley.

2.

sending Towner’s

keeper, Nathan

McDonald the

wrong way…