Sydenhams Football League News 2020/21 Edition Number 17
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SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of your Newsletter, if you have anything to contribute, please do get in touch by email- [email protected] You can keep up to date with all the news from around the League by following us on Twitter at - @Sydwessex You are more than welcome to use any material (excluding attributed photographs) but it would be appreciated if any material used is acknowledged. It is hoped you enjoy reading this each week. With readership quite widespread, not only within our own competition, but across the three counties and beyond- if ANY club has anything they’d like to have published in here, whether that be a request for helpers, promotion of forthcoming events, items required or available for sale please contact the Newsletter Editor. As a general reminder- Match Reports, player news and photos are always welcome- it is your Newsletter! Sunday, 25 October 2020 Page 1 of 30 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 ARE YOU LISTENING ? The Sydenhams Wessex Football League Show is the official podcast of the Sydenhams Wessex League. We’re on air live from the 103.9 Voice FM studios in Southampton from 3pm to 5pm every Sunday and you can also listen live on www.voicefmradio.co.uk from anywhere in the world. You can listen again afterwards, normally just one hour after the show has finished via the same website and there is also a Voice FM App you can download to your Phone I-Pad or Computer device. Our aim is to promote all local football but specifically the 38 teams of the Sydenhams Wessex League. So far, we have had managers, chairmen, players, press officers and secretaries joining us as studio guests and phone guests; from many Sydenhams Wessex League clubs, as well as guests from local teams both higher up and lower down the pyramid. This is your show and is a platform for your club to promote its events and raise its profile. If your club produces post-match interviews please either email us a copy of the audio or give permission for us to play them on air straight from your website or social media sites, as we will aim to play them on the show. Please come and join us one Sunday, at the moment, no guests will be allowed in the Studio, but please email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information. Sunday, 25 October 2020 Page 2 of 30 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 Sunday, 25 October 2020 Page 3 of 30 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 STAT ATTACK LEAGUE GOALS COUNT THIS WEEK PREMIER DIVISION 51 DIVISION ONE 28 LEADING GOALSCORERS – LEAGUE GAMES ONLY Details are based on clubs being up to date with records on Full Time at time of going to press and or may not include League goals from this weekend. PREMIER DIVISION Dan Cann Hamworthy United 9 Connor Duffin Horndean 7 [six players on] 6 [eight players on] 5 DIVISION ONE Russell Jones Laverstock & Ford 12 Clayd Roach Folland Sports 8 James Franklyn United Services Portsmouth 7 [four players on] 6 WATCHING BRIEF – TOP THREE LEAGUE ATTENDANCES PREMIER DIVISION AFC Portchester V Fleet Town 271 5 September Fareham Town V Baffins Milton Rovers 263 20 October Bashley V Lymington Town 262 13 October DIVISION ONE Andover Town V Andover New Street 289 29 September East Cowes Victoria V Newport IOW 288 29 September Laverstock & Ford V Bemerton Heath Harlequins 287 13 October SHARPEST AND MEANEST Leading goalscoring teams in the League and the meanest defences PREMIER DIVISION SHARPEST MEANEST Hamworthy United 30 Lymington Town 1 Fareham Town 29 Blackfield & Langley 7 AFC Stoneham 24 Hamworthy United 7 Horndean 22 Christchurch 8 Fleet Town 18 Fareham Town 8 Lymington Town 18 AFC Portchester 9 DIVISION ONE SHARPEST MEANEST Laverstock & Ford 38 Bemerton Heath Harlequins 8 Folland Sports 27 Romsey Town 9 Andover Town 22 Alton 11 United Services Portsmouth 22 Folland Sports 12 Newport IOW 19 United Services Portsmouth 12 Alton 18 Verwood Town 12 Sunday, 25 October 2020 Page 4 of 30 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 COVID-19 BEST PRACTICE It is recognised that clubs have worked extremely hard to adapt their facilities in line with Government and FA guidelines. The board would like to thank the hard working volunteers who at times have a thankless task for their valued contribution during these unprecedented circumstances and acknowledges that we are all experiencing a learning process. The information below is intended to help clubs follow the guidelines. If you need advice; please contact Bob Purkiss, Covid Coordinator or Nick Spencer, Chairman. Volunteers have a vital role to play in helping to ensure the safe return to playing football. This is particularly true of football clubs competing at Step 5 and Step 6 within the National League System, who are often entirely dependent on volunteers giving their time to enable the club to deliver football and operate safely. Whilst there are many consistencies between the paid workforce and volunteers in relation to safety and welfare, the principal difference is choice. Unlike paid workers, volunteers have no obligation to return, whereas staff are likely to have an employment contract and other employment legislation to protect both them and their employers. Ensuring volunteers are willing and feel able to give their time in a safe environment is critical to the continuance of football. It is important that appropriate consideration is given to identify the practical steps that can be taken to ensure they feel supported, welcomed and most importantly ensure they can volunteer safely. Clubs are diverse and so one size will not fit all when it comes to supporting volunteers. Before and after the match, and in any breaks, all participants should practise social distancing, in line with government guidelines on two metres or ‘one metre plus’. Substitutes and coaches must socially distance in the dugout, extended dugout and technical area. During warm ups and cool downs, participants should practise social distancing. Provide regular reminders and signage to maintain hygiene standards. Using signs to increase awareness of good handwashing technique, the need to increase handwashing frequency, avoid touching your face and to cough or sneeze into your arm. Changing rooms provide a greater risk of transmission and therefore It is important that social distancing is maintained in changing rooms and showers and that they are only used if essential and done so as quickly as possible. Clubs should factor staggering the use to minimise numbers. On a matchday, the home team must make provisions of priority access for the away team. Where able, clubs should seek alternative spaces for team meetings and observe social distancing, again, minimising numbers. For example, only the manager and starting 11. Indoor spaces need to have maximum ventilation as possible (such as opening windows and doors). Players should not be in a group huddle prior to kick-off and should not group celebrate a goal being scored. The sharing of equipment (balls, bibs, cones, goalposts etc) must be avoided where possible and must be regularly wiped down with appropriate cleaning equipment and cleaned thoroughly cleaned after every match and training session. Water bottles should not be shared. Club volunteers or players may consider the use of face masks and gloves during this process. Where equipment is shared, equipment must be cleaned before use by another person. When the match ball goes out of play it should be returned to the technical area for sanitising and replaced by a sanitised one from the technical area. During the half-time break, goal frames and corner flags should be cleaned. The Physio should be reminded to wear a face covering and gloves when treating an injured player. Participants should take their kit home to wash it themselves, rather than have one person handling a large quantity of soiled materials. Where kit absolutely has to be shared or kept together (e.g. last-minute stand- in players, shortage of kit, or an essential club function), each person handling it must wash or sanitise their hands immediately after and appropriate cleaning arrangements for the kit must be made. Spectators should remain socially distanced whilst attending matches. Spectator groups must be restricted to discrete six-person gathering limits and spread out, in line with wider government guidance, ensuring space for officials, coaches and substitutes. Sunday, 25 October 2020 Page 5 of 30 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 17 A spectator aware of breaches of social distancing by other spectators should report this to the head steward. When the ball goes out of play the head steward should request for play to stop and arrange for an appropriate statement to made by the PA announcer. As previously stated, volunteer stewards should be comfortable in their role and not fear confrontation. Stewards should be clearly identifiable and briefed by the Covid Officer as to their role and responsibilities. Hospitality is at the discretion of each club who must inform the visiting club in advance of the arrangements. Clubs with a club licence must adhere to the conditions of their licence. The Club Chairman / Chairwoman and Secretary are accountable for their club and are expected to report issues; please remember that by ignoring them you are accepting them. Protect your club, protect the league so that we are in a position to complete what is and will be a challenging season. Individual club’s risk assessment should focus on: 1.