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HIGHGATE UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB | OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2015/16 | £1.50 #OH WHEN THE GATE #20 v HEREFORD Polymac Packaging League Cup | 4th Round Tuesday 8th March 2016 | 7.45pm THE GATE HIGHGATE UNITED FC ...when image matters Highgate United v Hereford Highgate United Football Club Midland Football League Cup | Qtr Final we can make you the talk of the terraces, The Coppice, Tythe Barn Lane, Tuesday 8th March 2016 | 7.45pm Shirley, Solihull, offering a premiership level of service to West Midlands B90 1PH Inside this issue grass roots sports. E: [email protected] W: www.pitchero.com/clubs/ • Match Programmes highgateunitedfc President: Jim Merry Ashley Pulisciano 4 • Souvenir Programmes Chairman: Director: Chris Hughes Gate Gossip 5 • Brochures/Leaflets Manager: Ashley Pulisciano Assistant: Lee Adams Our history 6 • Season Ticket Renewals Coach: Lee Knight Physio: Paul Hunter The Highgate attic 7 • Match Posters u14s Manager: Andy Simons In action v Khalsa 8 u12s Manager: Robbie Hall • Season Reviews u9s Manager: Ian Ingram more action snaps 10 • Club Crests Redrawn Match Secretary: Paul Davies Welfare Officer: Emma Ingram The Gate Stats & Facts 12 • Web Banners Groundsman: Tony Vargem Club Website/Pitchero etc. Barstaff: Emma Ingram Player Stats 14 Lee Brown Catering: Lesley Brown WHY NOT SPONSOR THE GATE PROGRAMME FROM JUST £25 Charity feature 15 AND PEOPLE COULD BE LOOKING AT YOUR ADVERT HERE! 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[email protected] Follow us @HighgateUnited 3 THE GATE THE GATE FROM THE DUGOUT Ashley Pulisciano Proud sponsors of the Midland Football League Cup Good evening everybody and welcome to The Coppice. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome the visiting officials, players and fans from Hereford for tonight’s Polymac Packaging League Cup Quarter Final. Lay Flat Tubing and Sheeting #Allden50 Tonight, we once again get to lock To stand any chance of that level and our squad has been Polythene bags 25th February 2017 horns with the league leaders though we have got to be on our stretched to the limit these last will mark the 50th and many people's favourite for game right from the start. few games, where if I'm honest the title, in what could be a very we've managed to claw a draw General purpose refuse sacks, anniversary of the Saturday's heavy defeat at Khalsa tragic game v Enfield important week for Peter Beadle was a wake-up call, it was very here and there. Bubble wrap, and his Hereford side. disappointing to say the least, Hopefully tonight we can find our where our centre I'm pretty sure the majority of Bulls although not surprising. The mad form again and progress through back Tony Allden was fans will be having one eye on weather we had has resulted in a to the Semi-Final of the Polymac Grip seal bags, Saturday's FA Vase Semi-Final First bit of a fixture pile-up for quite a Packaging League Cup. struck by lightning and Leg v Salisbury City. few clubs. Speaking of semi-finals, I'd like to Gift bags, sadly passed away the It's a mouth watering tie, a game The home draw v Coventry Sphinx take this opportunity to wish Peter following day. that I'm sure would have been an could have easily gone either way and all associated with Hereford Garment covers, ideal final for the 2 big giants who in a tight game that was ruined the very best of luck in the FA Vase To mark the occasion Highgate find themselves at this level. by some odd decisions for both semi this Saturday. Boxes, United are hoping to get all former teammates of Tony’s back together. In saying that though, I know sides. The following game away at Whatever the score tonight, I hope Hereford are going to be wanting Rocester we managed to scrape a you'll join us in the clubhouse after Pallet covers, Plans and discussions with 3rd parties to win tonight just as much and we side together who did a great job the match for a pint and a chat. are already taking place as The Gate fully expect a real tough battle. in hindsight as they managed to Stretch films, plan to have a number of events to grab us another draw. Enjoy the game, wishing you all a They will be desparate to get one safe onward journey. commemorate the life of Tony Allden. over on us, just as much as we I'm not making excuses, it's the Temporary protective sheeting, same for all of us in the MFL. All the best As soon as we receive confirmation want to make our own little bit of of any of the plans we'll make them history and record what would be Injuries together with work commitments are always Ash Tapes, public on our website and twitter a famous 'treble' over The Bulls. @HighgateUnited going to play a part at this Dispensers, Workwear and Heat sealing machines. polymacservices.co.uk Timmis Rd, Stambermill Industrial Estate, Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY9 7BQ 01384 892441 25.FEBRUARY.1967 – 25.FEBRUARY.2017 4 Highgate United v Hereford Follow us @HighgateUnited 5 THE GATE THE GATE ROLL OF HONOUR Midland Comb. D1 Champions: 1972/73; 1973/74; 1974/75; 2014/15 Midland Comb. D2 Champions: Kings of Coventry 1968/69; 1971/72 Midland Comb. Challenge 2007 See ...Craig Hall was young once! Highgate United FC were formed in 1948 by a group of orphans from Cup Winners: 1973; 1974; A triumphant Gate celebrate victory 1976; 1977; 1985 over CTK to win the Coventry Evening the Father Hudsons’ St Vincents Home for Working Boys on Moseley Telegraph Cup – the first team outside Midland Comb. Presidents of Coventry to do so. Road, Birmingham who met up again following wartime service. Cup Winners: 1971; 1986 After progressing from junior and game drew an incredible More success finally came Midland Comb. Invitation Cup football played at Billesley attendance of over 31,000 as the Gates’ way in 2007, when they Winners: 1973; 1986 Common in the South Birmingham football public of Birmingham and became the first team from the Tony Allden Memorial Cup league, Highgate joined the Solihull stood together in tribute Birmingham and Solihull area Winners: 1974; 1975 Worcestershire Combination in to Tony and to show support for to win the Coventry Evening 1964. his wife of six months and now Telegraph Cup. Birmingham Senior Cup heartbroken widow Susan. Winners: 1974 Promoted to Division One at the The following season the club Coventry Evening Telegraph first attempt, the club went on to One of the most successful were promoted to the Midland Cup Winners: 2007 remain in the league’s top division periods in Highgate’s history Football Alliance after finishing for over 40 seasons. was the mid- 70s. as Runners-Up in the Midland Smedley Crooke Memorial Combination Premier League. Cup Winners: 2015 In 1967 Highgate hit national W. Midland Alliance Premier headlines, unfortunately though Despite a promising first season Champions: 1963/64 due to a tragic, tragic in the MFA, the Gate were then incident here at The Coppice. involved in annual relegation Youth Commitee Cup battles in the pursuing seasons. Winners: 1962/63 Sth Birmingham League That was until 2013/14 when Champions: 1951/52; 1959/60 Highgate finished a commendable 3rd in the MFA, their highest ever Sth Birmingham Butler Cup position - but they soon received a Winners: 1954/55 massive knockout blow when they Sth Birmingham Comb. The club won the league were somewhat controversially Champions: 1948/49 championship (by now known relegated by the FA due to new Sth Birmingham Presidents as the Midland Combination ground regulations and found Cup Winners: 1948/49 for three consecutive seasons themselves in the newly formed Sth Birmingham League Cup between 1972 and 1975 and also Midland Football League Division Winners: 1948/49 experienced its best runs in the One. FA Cup, FA Amateur Cup and FA Worcs Combination D2 Trophy within this period. Champions: 1966/67 Best run in FA Cup: 1973/74 - 4th Qualifying Round In front of over 3500 fans here Best run in FA Amateur Cup: at The Coppice, The Gate were 1972/73 - Semi-Final playing Enfield in the quarter Best run in FA Trophy: finals of the FA Amateur Cup, 1974/75 - Round 3 when midway through the first Best run in FA Vase: half, a lightning strike saw several 2004/05 - Round 2 players collapse. Sadly one player, 2015/16 - Round 2 Highgates’ centre half Tony Allden, Success was hard to come The 2014/15 season proved to did not recover and tragically by in the following years, until be The Gates most successful died the following day in Solihull eventually following a 25 year for over 40 years as they went on COLLECTOR’S CORNER hospital.