Barnet Fc 1 Official Matchday Programme 2018/19
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BARNET FC 1 OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2018/19 BRAINTREE TOWN 07 • 08 •2018 | K.O. 7:45PM VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE Medical Systems Barnet FC Kit Private Healthcare Ticketing & Beer & Cider Telecoms Partner Official Male Timber & Flooring Trophy Partner Partner Partner Partner Management Partner Grooming Partner Partner System Partner Canon Medical Systems are proud to support The Imaging Centre at the The Hive that is providing elite footballers, athletes and the wider community with world class faster treatment options and radiology equipment including CT, MRI, Ultrasound and X-Ray Equipment. CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD Official https://uk.medical.canon Medical Partner BARNET FC FOUNDED 1888 BARNET FOOTBALL CLUB LTD CLUB HONOURS PROGRAMME TEAM The Hive London, Camrose Avenue, FOOTBALL LEAGUE Contributing Editor: Aarron Pullen Edgware, HA8 6AG Division 4 promotion (3rd): 1993 Tel: 020 8381 3800 Designed By: Rickesh Patel Division 3 play off semi-finalists: Shop – Option 1 (from 3pm Mon-Fri, 1998, 2000 from 8am Sat-Sun) Regular Contributors: Leigh Edwards, Division 4 play off semi-finalists: Sales & Sponsorship – Option 3 Tony Hammond, Alex Jones, Tor 1992 Ticket & Memberships – Option 5 Mollatt Eriksen, Josh Palmer, John Email: [email protected] Meir, Adam Hern, Carla Devine. Trial Requests: CONFERENCE [email protected] Champions: 1991, 2005, 2015 Image Contributors: Danielle Machin, Website: www.barnetfc.com Runners-up: 1987, 1988, 1990 Len Kerswill, Rex Features. Play off semi-finalists: 2004 BARNET FC GROUP International Supporter Liaison: John Chairman: Anthony A Kleanthous FA TROPHY Adkins Runners-up: 1972 BARNET FC Legal Advisor: Mel Stein FA AMATEUR CUP Property Advisor: Graham Slyper Winners: 1946 Runners-up: 1948, 1959 FIRST TEAM Manager: John Still ATHENIAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS Assistant Manager: Darren Currie 1931, 1932, 1947, 1948, 1959, 1964, Coach: Junior Lewis 1965 Head Physio: Luigi Cerullo Head of Sports Science: Kostas Lofitis SOUTHERN LEAGUE Analysis & Recruitment: First Division Champions: 1966 Dan Hutchings First Division – Southern Section Club Doctor: Dr Naheem S Ali Champions: 1977 SAFETY NOTICE LEGENGS W1-W6 LEGENDS JUBILEE LEGENGS W1-W6 ENTRANCE ENTRANCE Spectators must not stand in seated BAR BAR areas. This is for your own safety BT STAND 66 ENTRANCE LEGENDS STAND ENTRANCE and that of others. You may also be obscuring their view. Failure to comply with this Safety Notice renders you liable to being ejected from the stadium AWAY TICKET OFFICE TERRACE In the event of an emergency please AND 66 (AWAY) leave the ground in an orderly MAIN CAR PARK T BEES S fashion by the exit gates indicated BAR 66 on the diagram. You will be directed to the gates by both the tannoy and B.F.Z EAST STAND ENTRANCE BUMBLE’S FAMILY ZONE EAST STAND A & B ENTRANCE the club stewards. Please do not THE run, but leave as quickly as possible. HOME HIVE TICKET SHOP & HOSPITALITY OFFICE FIRST AID BAR Thank you. CAMROSE AVENUE HA8 6AG QUEENSBURY WHITCHURCH LANE HA8 6LN CANONS PARK 3 BARNETFC.COM STILL WRITES JOHN STILL WRITES 5 BARNETFC.COM STILL WRITES Good Evening and welcome to The Hive London for our first home game of the season. I would like to extend that welcome to Brad Quinton, his players, officials and the supporters of Braintree Town. You always look at your fixtures when they teams will come here, see us as a side that’s come out but no matter who you play, just dropped out of the league and they’ll every game at the start of the season is a raise their game, and that’s fine - they will. tough one because it’s unknown. What has But there are lots of former EFL clubs in gone on last year can sometimes have no this league now and if we’re mentally and relevance, so whoever we were playing we physically prepared for it, then I don’t see it were prepared for a tough game. becoming an issue. The fact it was Aldershot, who have been in In the first six or eight games, it will take the playoffs for the last couple of seasons, everyone a while to get into their stride. I’ve adds to that difficulty. It was two teams seen both sides - started seasons on fire and that have made a lot of changes from last started seasons not how I would’ve liked. season. For us, I thought we played well first I’ve been slow away and gone on to win the half and I thought we were exceptional in league by as many points as you like. I know the second half. The longer the game went the ingredients I look for, I know what’s on, the stronger we got and the more we required. At the moment, I feel like we have grew into it. We hit the woodwork three the ingredients. Will that carry us through a times, we had three or four off the line. The whole season, we’ll have to wait and see. performance was very good. They had their share of the ball, but we defended very well Today, I expect a tough game against and the longer the game went, the more I Braintree. Teams that get promotion, thought that we looked like scoring. regardless of if they change players, those players come into I don’t believe in a club that’s on a luck, I’m not that I don’t believe in luck, I’m not that little bit of a high. I sort of person, don’t really expect I think that can sort of person the early games become an excuse to be anything but I do believe that if you work hard and other than having to work your socks off, continue doing the right things, you do get establishing yourselves in a position in the results and that’s how I see this. league that you can grow on. You have to make sure you’re focused on your jobs, We want to turn this place into a difficult focused on your discipline and you hope stadium to come to. People say to me that that your best players turn up. John 6 BARNETFC.COM CAPTAIN’S NOTES 8 BARNETFC.COM CAPTAIN’S NOTES SKIPPER’S NOTES Hello everybody, welcome back to The Hive for this evening’s game against Braintree Town! It’s been a very frustrating past few weeks We want to make this place a fortress and for myself, after getting through all the hard make it hard for teams that come here. We work in pre-season and playing a few games, don’t want them to enjoy coming, we want I picked up a little back injury against to make it a place where we pick up a lot of Ipswich. points this season. Last Saturday was just A good home record one of those games. I just obviously helps towards don’t know how we didn’t It’s a good result if we getting win! When you look at can build on that against where we all want to be the chances, we’ve hit Braintree tonight. at the end of the season. the bar twice, the post Wins at home gives you and a few cleared off the the confidence to get line. They had a few last-ditch blocks and points away from here, puts you in a strong the goalkeeper was man of the match. On position and can take the pressure off you in another day, it could’ve been five or six. But, certain situations. opening day of the season, you’d settle for a clean sheet and a point away from home. I’m looking forward to seeing the fans It’s a good result if we can build on that tonight! against Braintree tonight. Come on you Bees! Callum 9 BARNETFC.COM 10 BARNETFC.COM OPPOSITION INTRODUCING BRAINTREE TOWN BRAINTREE TOWN RETURN TO NON– Following on from wining the Ryman LEAGUE FOOTBALL’S TOP TIER, THEIR League in 2006 and the Conference South in 2011, progress in the top flight was steady SEVENTH AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OUTSIDE with final placings of twelfth (2011/12), OF THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE, AFTER JUST ninth (2012/13) and sixth (2013/14) over ONE SEASON IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE’S the first three campaigns. Indeed, Braintree only missed out on an end of season SOUTH DIVISION. promotion play–off place in 2014 by one win! After a successful 2015/16 season saw the Essex club finish third in the Vanarama After a quieter 2014/15, season 2015/16 Premier and secure a place in the play–off saw a fine campaign end with a top–three for promotion to the Football League, spot and a first tilt at the end of season despite remaining as a part–time side, their play–offs for a place in the Football League. successful squad broke up over the summer Having taken the lead 1–0 in the away leg of 2016 and the Essex Club struggled to at Grimsby, an extra time 2–0 defeat in the rebuild the following year. return leg at Cressing Road saw Braintree eliminated by the eventual Promotion Final A change of manager failed to turn winners and miss out a Promotion Final fortunes around and the club finished 21st place at Wembley. of 24 to be relegated – just one win adrift Reaching non–League football’s top flight of safety. A period of consolidation and saw the pinnacle of a long journey from re–building at Cressing Road was expected local football in East Anglia. Since the 1991 under new manager Brad Quinton.