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WEALDSTONE v ROYSTON TOWN 23RD NOVEMBER 2019
Take the rough with the smooth
ooking back over the last three We are looking to bounce back, let’s see weeks at our football club, for how we perform after last weeks defeat. reasons beyond our control we have Lonly manage to play two games within this time. There is no doubt it has been a Together we are Wealdstone slightly frustrating period for us all, but we must take the rough with the smooth. Dean
Last week away at Hampton was a difficult defeat to take, I felt that there were key moments that just did not go our way within the game. In the first half we had four clean cut chances to take the lead which was incredibly important as we felt the first goal within this type of game was going to be key. It was disappointing to concede with Hamptons first attack in the second half and I personally felt that gave Hampton some more belief. I’m a big believer in clean sheets bring you success and our clean sheet record of late has been simply not good enough. We will be striving to improve that record.
That said however I was happy with www.wealdstone-fc.com our clean sheets at half time in both the Dorking and Hampton matches. We must make sure our second half performances improve going forward Today we host Royston in The FA Trophy, and as we have seen in the last few games teams are raising the performance levels against us so it’s something we have to get used to and make sure we raise our levels that little more. Royston have some very good experienced players, and they have very strong resources for their division.
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Talking of shockers, our match against not working, but I can’t recall one actually Eastbourne was postponed due to rather not starting. There was one infamous game bizarre circumstances. I was relatively late to which nearly didn’t see the light of day until the game as I drove up to the Vale and saw a one Wealdstone defender shinned by the mass of people walking the other way as the pylon to get them working. Said defender match was called off due to problems outside was a better sparky than a defender, the ground which meant the floodlights were according to a glowing testimonial from unable to come on. There have been games supporters afterwards. in the dim and distance past that have come closeThe toglory being of calledThe Vale off withfor the working floodlights lights Sud Predict-A-Place Update
The Predict-A-Place competition is hotting up and with prizes up tp £175 for the overall winner it’s Paul (55) Harvey who is leading the way as of Sunday 17th November. www.wfcmegastore.co.uk
Pos. Pts Pos Pts The last two games have been 1 Paul Harvey 2408 29 Jeremy Albert 2188 2 Peter Jeffries 2402 30 Quentin Fox 2184 3 Mick Fishman 2314 31 Clive Leaper 2176 shocking for different reasons.... 4 Adam Edwards 2310 32 Ray Corner 2174 5 Ronnie Raffle 2308 33 Neil Tobin 2174 6 Chris Andrews 2286 34 Lew Shepherd 2172 7 Graham Jones 2284 35 Nick Dugard 2166 very now and then you get an in the first half, we weren’t at the races. absolute shocker. No particular Wealdstone played way too many long balls, 8 Tony Paulley 2280 36 Jim Sorrell 2158 reason why, just that the wheels gobbled up by Hampton’s centre backs who 9 James Klarfeld 2278 37 Deadly Doug 2158 Enever get going and last Saturday was a could quite easily be playing a level above, 10 Don Cross 2270 38 Lee Cross 2156 shocker no doubt, no bones about it. But and our passing was way off the mark. It 11 Alan Couch (1) 2250 39 Pauline Worby 2154 was it a surprise? Not really if you know was sloppy all round.These things happen 12 Shay Tobin 2250 40 Simon Jeffreson 2154 about our record at the Beveree. Only and obviously you can’t win every game, 13 Andrew Lane 2244 41 Toby Jackson 2142 once since 1965 have we beaten Hampton so how you recover from a disappointing away from home in the league and that result says much about you as a team. There 14 Alan Barnes 2236 42 Renu Barnes 2138 was the year that we won the Ryman were reports that Hampton celebrated rather 15 Dan Booth 2232 43 Michael Vincent 2136
MAGAZINES AT THE WFC MEGASTORE: THE MEGASTORE: WFC AT MAGAZINES League, midweek and early in the season. enthusiastically afterwards (there was even 16 Phil Jeffreson 2230 44 Rob Saville 2110 Not sure our cup record is much better a photo with a flag on the pitch) which had 17 Victor Klarfeld 2226 45 John Young 2102 there either, county or national. me thinking how the double team would have 18 Peter Worby 2226 46 Adam Hills 2092 I suppose we should take it as a reacted to that. Smashed down the door and 19 Nicky Clark 2222 47 Peter Carter 2092 gone for it probably! compliment that the opposition were so 20 Peter Drew 2222 48 Miriam Goodman 2092 geed up for the game. Being top of the table December looks particularly tough with brings additional challenges. The old adage a trip down the M4 to Bath and two matches 21 Roger Slater 2220 49 Jacky Dugard 2056 that getting to the top is hard but staying verses Slough being particularly spicy and 22 Martin Allen 2218 50 Alan Couch (2) 2054 there is harder still is quite true. Add the Havant await in January assuming their 23 Gordon Thomson 2210 51 Nick Woolford 2034
ELMSLIE ENDER ENDER ELMSLIE local derby spice, though we wouldn’t see pitch is fit for purpose. The matches will get 24 Guy Edwards 2210 52 Ryan Cross 2000 it as such, and a manager who had applied tougher and the stakes higher as the finale of 25 Nick Symmons 2210 53 John Harvey 1996 for our vacant role in the summer and you the season comes into view. All in all we are 26 Daniel Gloor (1) 2194 54 Daniel Gloor (2) 1988 have all the ingredients for a surprise result. I suspect ahead of where we anticipated to 27 Alyson Angelides 2194 55 Steve Charlton 1982 The pitch is never great by the river, but to be and a blip here and there are only to be 28 Sateesh Khanna 2188
FIND OLD be fair, apart from a ten minute spell early expected. THE STONES INTERVIEW BY TIM PARKS WEALDSTONE v ROYSTON TOWN (FA TROPHY) 23.11.2019
involved in that game? “No, that was my last year at Billy (left) Chelsea and I had already in action for gone out on a six-month Chelsea’s loan to Yeovil - but funnily Youth-Cup enough I saw the feature winning in the programme a few team of weeks ago, harking back 2010 Billy‘Chelsea’s Clifford to that game and it was interesting to see how policy of buying good that young team was. All but one of them established stars were youth internation-
www.wfcmegastore.co.uk www.wfcmegastore.co.uk als!” denied some really Billy was one of a raft of talented youngsters good players the loaned out to EFL clubs Wriggle to toughen them up. “I technical ability, 3 stars application - just chance of making it’ room... Billy played at Ajax in a friendly my guess) would be joining the duo’s and was in the Chelsea escapes the then-club, Hemel Hempstead. This was illy clifford has squad for a few Champions at the start of last season. challenge of League games but never - unsurprisingly Tonbridge Then when Billericay owner Glenn Tam- - mixed feelings got on the pitch. Same in the defenders at League Cup. plin wanted Brennan and Maynard as the about his football the Vale new management team at New Lodge, education at Chelsea. But then I went to Walsall Billy was soon in Riccay’s blue shirt. B and played 18 games, then On the one hand it was Connor wins to Yeovil in the champion- “I know their style and I love playing “the making of me - I was a for Dean and Stu, but Billericay was the Chelsea player for 14 years, the ball in our ship and even had a spell ning team nine years ago - “about the only wrong environment. When they left it from the age of eight” - yet on the fine 3-0 win with Royal Antwerp. time in my life I’ve not played in midfield“ was a difficult couple of months for me... other hand he is deeply disappointed by at Hemel in “They were described as the ‘Leeds United’ of - and it’s all the more poignant that the man and when Slough, my home town club, the club’s policy of overlooking its talented August Belgian football as they were in the second tier, who took Billy under his wing, right from the wanted to take me on loan for the rest of youngsters and buying established, inter- but a big club with 15,000 crowds and a lot of under-16s, was Chelsea’s head of academy the season to fill in for Scott Davies it was national talent. tradition. coaching Dermot Drummy. a no-brainer. It’s only since the transfer ban was “I had done some work on the training ground “I owe him a lot. Not just because he “I never in a million years thought that imposed last year that the club (prompted with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at Chelsea and believed in me as a youngster, but because I’d ever play for Slough. I was brought up by new boss Frank Lampard) has finally put he was the manager at Antwerp and got me he helped me back into the pro game there and live there now with my partner its faith in an academy crop that has cost across. It is an unbelievable city and they have three years ago when he was manager at Amanda and our daughters Rylie, who’s over £200m to fund. since got their way back up with the elite clubs, Crawley- I enjoyed my first year until he was nine, and four year old Mia. The ground but it didn’t really work out for me and I came “It’s amazing really” said Billy when I sacked and replaced by Harry Kewell”. is just round the corner from me and the spoke to him between training sessions for back to England to play for Boreham Wood in the f course, then followed the football club is now progressing really his own football coaching business. “When Conference National”. devastation. Drummy, depressed well - in fact they nearly made the play I played in Chelsea’s FA Youth Cup-winning e’d only played half a season with Wood by his dismissal after working so offs last year, just losing out to Weald- team in 2010 it was the first time the club when Crawley came calling. hard for a break in senior football, stone - funnily enough! - on the last day had lifted the trophy in 49 years. Then we took his own life in November 2017. It hit “I played over 50 games for them when we could only draw at Truro after had a stream of great, great young Oeveryone hard, especially the young players in League Two but after Dermot was being 3-1 up. After I joined we went 12 players for the next seven or eight years he had nurtured over six years as coach, Hsacked it just wasn’t the same. I didn’t see eye to games unbeaten, from close to relegation who should have been processed through reserve team manager and then as interna- eye with Harry Kewell and I also picked up a foot to just missing out. to the 1st XI. The club reached the final for tional head coach at Stamford Bridge. injury in pre season which limited my game time - “But when I saw the sort of team they something like seven successive years! so I was on my way back to Boreham Wood after “I had a strong connection with Dermot. were putting together here at the Stones “Yet only a handful, people like Nathan less than two seasons”. He coached us to that Youth Cup win in it was an easy decision to join Dean and Ake and Reuben Loftus-Cheek, made it only his second season in charge. And then By this point, Billy was a certainty for inclusion Maynard again in the summer - there is to the Chelsea first team. The club was he was manager when Chelsea won the in Dean Brennan’s little book of good players quality all over and we just really enjoy focused on spending on established Premier Reserve League in 2013-14”. who were underachieving! playing. big-name players”. That was the season the Stones faced He and assistant Stuart Maynard are famous “I am given the role I love, to dictate FIND A WHOLE OF WORLD THE MEMORABILIA WEALDSTONE MEGASTORE: AT Billy was just one who missed out. He Chelsea’s under-21s at the Vale in pre for their meticulous scouting notes and it was play and - touch wood - it’s working really played at right-back in that youth cup-win- season to open the Bulla Stand. Was Billy only a matter of time before B.Clifford (5 stars well.” BILLY CLIFFORD WEALDSTONE v ROYSTON TOWN MARK RANDALL
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wanted against you could do and WfcMegastore Hampton but Dean put something back and the boys have into the club then been working please contact me tirelessly all at m_c_randall@ season and to be where we are in the table hotmail.com or pop into the megastore. with points and matches in hand is a great Don’t forget to see Mim just inside the achievement. No one is under any illusion turnstiles for you Golden Goal Ticket for the that we are here based on anything but hard chance to win either £50 or £10 if you get the work and that the job is not even half way time of the first or last goal. done. Dean has been making tweaks to the Up the Stones squad and looking to add some more depth. Mark Not playing for a couple of weeks did not do OUR TWITTER FEED: @
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Having finished runners up for two years in leading marksman with 31 goals. A good run succession Steve Castle was determined to in the FA Trophy with wins against Enfield make it third time lucky in 2016/17 and began Town and Leatherhead came to an end to recruit some experienced new blood in the against Eastbourne Borough when having o when did it all begin? After some in the country W33, D4, L3, GF138, GA30, shape of John Frendo and Adam Murray managed to draw at their place we lost the intensive research the evidence is GD+108, PTS 103. whilst at the same time giving youngsters Gus replay on penalties. We managed to get to the that the club came into existence in The 2011/2012 season will be seen as a Scott Morris and Josh C extended runs in the final of the Herts Senior Cup were we played S1875 making Royston the third oldest Club watershed in our history with the winning of the first team. Boreham Wood from Step 2 and in spite of a www.wfcmegastore.co.uk in Hertfordshire after Hitchin and Bishop South Midlands Premier Division title and However the season didn’t start well and brave performance we never really had the Stortford. promotion to Step 4 in the shape of the Evo- after four games we’d only mustered five power to compete and lost 2 – 1. The Club’s very first honour came in 1911/12 Stik Southern League Division One Central. points whilst promotion rivals Farnborough Season 2018/19 saw us finishing in a when they won the Creake Charity Shield In our first season back at Step 4 after an just couldn’t stop winning. Although results did respectable 9th position in what proved to be a beating Wisbech 1-0 in extra time. absence of 19 years it was hard to know what improve, defeat in the FA Cup to Heybridge very strong Premier Division Central. During The Club’s first major honour in more recent to expect and how we would perform. Most of Swifts 4 – 1 and a thrashing by Barton Rovers February/March we recorded six wins out of times came in the guise of promotion to the our supporters felt a mid-table position would at home 6 – 3 at the end of September didn’t seven league games to give us a faint hope of Herts County Premier League in 1969/70 and be an acceptable target for the season, but we do a great of good for our confidence. a play-off spot, but three straight defeats in they went on to be champions in 1972/73 and quickly found ourselves exceeding all Things took a dramatic turn thereafter with April put paid to our chances. We suffered 1976/77. In 1978 we rejoined the South expectations as our performances propelled 12 successive league wins which ended with another early at AFC Sudbury in the FA Cup Midlands League and won the Division One us towards the top of the table. Four straight defeat 2-1 at Kidlington in early January 2017, and in the FA Trophy we progressed through title at the first time of asking. Success wins in the first four games set the tone and a interspersed by a magnificent run in the FA two rounds before being beaten in a replay at continued with a final appearance in the Herts run of nine wins with just one defeat between Trophy including victory against Step 2 outfit Needham Market. Charity Shield for the first time in 1979 and October and December saw us maintain a Hampton and Richmond Borough before in runners up spot in the South Midlands League play-off position. In the very last game of the the replay against Dulwich Hamlet we Premier Division in 1980. The Herts Charity season a play-off was still a possibility and eventually went down 1 -0. Shield was won in 1981/82 and two years later having gone 2-1 up away at AFC Hayes with With cup football out of the way the team the Club joined the Isthmian League Division just a few minutes of the game left it looked a put together an incredible run of 16 league Two North where we remained for 10 seasons near certainty. But it was not to be as Hayes games undefeated , including a 5 – 0 thrashing before returning to the South Midlands League scored an 87 minute equaliser and our play-off of closest rivals Farnborough which saw us in 1994. place was lost. maintain the top spot until the end of the After a period in the doldrums which In our second season at this level our season by a margin of 12 points and the culminated in relegation from the South steady progress to claim a place in the play off highest number of goals scored, 120, across Midlands League Premier Division at the end zone was given a severe jolt when, at the all three Evostik Leagues. of 2006/07, Paul Attfield was appointed beginning of November, Paul Attfield Promotion to the Southern League Premier manager with ex Spurs favourite Tony Galvin announced his resignation as first team Division Central at the end of season 2016/17 returning to Garden Walk as 1st Team Coach manager due to ill health. The search for his meant that the Club was playing at its highest in November 2007. replacement began almost immediately and level in its 142 year history! Paul immediately set about building a new we were inundated with applications from Season 2017/18 saw The Crows exceeded 1st Team squad and a run of 17 games some very well know and successful all expectations in our first season at Step 3. undefeated saw the Club move from bottom of managers. After an exhaustive selection Throughout the season we managed to the table to finish in 5th place in the League. process the Board appointed Steve Castle at maintain our hopes of a play-off place until The foundations had been laid for the the end of November and on Boxing Day they were finally put to bed with two 2008/09 season and the first team took the Steve officially took over securing a 0 – 0 draw successive defeats against the eventually South Midlands Division One League title with against the League’s form team and eventual play-off winners Slough Town and we had to CROWS FACTS one of the best set of stats for any Step 6 Club champions Dunstable Town. be satisfied with a seventh place finish. The signing of Adam Marriott, a proven goal scorer GROUND - Garden Walk CAPACITY - 5,000 (150 seated) WEALDSTONE’S RECORD v ROYSTON TOWN who had played for Lincoln City, Stevenage and Cambridge United was without a doubt a MANAGER - Steve Castle real coup and he was to play a key role in the 2018/19 - Southern Lg Prem Central. 10th
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Chesham United and Dartford recently. Saints’ captain. Luke’s other previous clubs JOSH CASTIGLIONE - MIDFIELD include Barton Rovers & St Ives Town. Talented young midfielder, Josh was a member of our successful Under 18 team in DANNY GREEN - MIDFIELD season 2014/15 and made the step up to the Joined us in December 2018 from Chesham First Team the following season. United, Danny’s other previous clubs include St Albans City and Dunstable Town. SCOTT BRIDGES - MIDFIELD Scott rejoined the Crows this season after CLAUDIO OFOSU - FORWARD www.wfcmegastore.co.uk spending last season at Hayes & Yeading, Joined the Crows at the beginning of this having previously been a Crow for four season and made an immediate impact with years, scoring 71 goals in 194 appearances. some exciting displays on the wing, Claudio’s Originally he was with Aston Villa until previous clubs include St Neots Town and 2007, Scott then played most of his football Stevenage. at Banbury United. Scott was made Club Captain in 2016. JOE WELCH - GOALKEEPER DANIEL BRATHWAITE - DEFENDER RYAN INGREY - FORWARD Joined us from Chelmsford City in 2016/17, Joined the Crows from Chesham United for SPYROS MENTIS - MIDFIELD Joined The Crows at the beginning of season 2012/13 from Cambridge United. Ryan came Joe started his career at Southend United the start of 2015/16, Daniel is an experienced Versatile hard-working midfielder or defender, through the successful Histon FC academy before joining Histon where he played defender whose former clubs include Spyros rejoined The Crows last season before joining United. over 50 games and earned a loan deal Boreham Wood and Dover Athletic. after a season away at Hayes & Yeading, he at Stevenage. Joe’s other clubs include previously played just under 100 games for Ebbsfleet, Bromley and St Albans City. BEN MARTIN- DEFENDER us from 2013 in his first spell at Garden Walk. CALLUM TAYLOR - MIDFIELD Signed for The Crows this season, Callum’s Former WEALDSTONE defender Ben previous clubs include Basildon United, Ware GUS SCOTT-MORRISS - DEFENDER Joined us at the start of last season, TOM NEWMAN - MIDFIELD & Bishop’s Stortford. Young pacey full-back who made his Crows Centre-Back Ben has spent most of his Joined The Crows at the start of last season, first-team debut in season 2014/15, Gus was career at St Albans City and Welling. He is Tom impressed when called upon and a member of our successful Under 18s team a commanding defender who is a leader on MATT BATEMAN - FORWARD chipped in with some useful goals from that season. and off the pitch. midfield. Young striker who signed for The Crows at the start of this season, Matt played a big ED ASAFU-ADJAYE - DEFENDER part in Berkhamsted’s push for promotion Rejoined the Crows this season after HAROLD JOSEPH - DEFENDER ADAM WATKINS - MIDFIELD last season where he netted 43 times in 54 Joined The Crows in November 2018, spending a season at Hayes & Yeading, Ed Re-joined us this season after a couple appearances for The Comrades. Harold is a defender who started his career started his playing career at Luton Town and of seasons away at Chesham United & at Barnet and had spells at Stevenage and broke into the 1st team during the 2008/9 Cambridge City. Adam started his career as a Enfield Town before moving to St Albans City BRANDON ADAMS - FORWARD season. In total he made 64 appearances for 17 year old at Luton Town and in his 5 years The Hatters before moving to Forest Green in 2017. Brandon spent four years at Queens Park there played 42 games for the Hatters before Rangers which included loan deals at Rovers and then to Hemel Hempstead Town, . moving to Eastleigh and then Dunstable Ed is a versatile defender who can anywhere Malaysian club Perlis and Linfield in Northern TAYLOR PARR - DEFENDER Town, where he scored 19 goals in 127 Ireland. After leaving the R’s in 2018 Brandon across the back four. appearances. Young central defender with a bright future dropped into non-league hoping to catch the ahead of him, Adam represented England eye of pro clubs and has certainty impressed. ADAM MURRAY - DEFENDER Schoolboys team last season. LUKE KNIGHT - MIDFIELD After a short stint at Enfield Town he Adam joined us at the beginning of 2017/18, moved to Ware last season and bagged an having spent the previous two seasons Midfielder who joined the Crows in February impressive 23 league goals in 25 games. at Cambridge City where he made 60 LUKE WARNER-ELEY - DEFENDER 2019 from St Neots Town, where he was the appearances. He quickly settled into the Re-signed for the Crows in October from squad and has proved to be a formidable Harrow Borough, Luke had a brief spell with addition for the Crows. us in season 2016-17 before departing for Barton Rovers, he has also represented THE CROWS LAST 5 FIND A WHOLE OF THE WORLD WEALDSTONE MEMORABILIA MEGASTORE: AT STEVE MOSZORO WEALDSTONE v ROYSTON TOWN (FA TROPHY) 23.11.2019
locals like you? Maybe offering free tickets to get the parents along. Maybe stones loyalty cards for the kids. With so many Stones youth teams playing at Sidmouth Drive they should be encouraged to attend Wealdstone games on differ- oday’s featured fan is a recent convert ent weeks (this is actually happening Fanto the Stones, having in been a season the ‘I was Stand an Arsenal fan at the moment-Ed). As for the older ticket holder at Arsenal for 35 years- youths that come to games, I do feel Tbut after coming to our game with Poole the club MUST encourage them as Town on non- League day 2016 Steve is but they seem so they create an atmosphere and are enjoying bringing his whole family to Weald- not going down to watch QPR, Chel- stone games home and away... disconnected with sea, Watford etc. Where do you live Steve? Been living in What about the pricing of matches? Ruislip Gardens for the past 12 years, with It’s perfect- especially with the reduction my partner Julie and our daughters Chloe their supporters.. for ST holders and free under 14s. Per- and Freya. haps In pre-season, entry for the friendlies What were your first impressions of the should be free for Stones ST holders to get club? Well, I’m proof that non-League day I’ve brought some of larger crowds attending. works! I’ve got a workmate who lives in Do you use the Megastore? It’s got an Ickenham and was a Fulham season ticket unbelievable range of items. My kids use their holder - he’d been along to the Stones and my Gunners mates loyalty cards there and our house is filling up said how good this level of football is, which with more and more memorabilia! Non-League day 2016 and the Bulla I took with a pinch of salt. But that first game Stand gasps as this shot flies nar- against Poole in September 2016, a 2-2 down to the Vale and What about the bars and catering? During or come and see me (Tim in the ground. The more the merrier! Parks) rowly over the Poole Town crossbar draw wasn’t what I was expecting... a crowd match days my children are constantly using locals like you? I do think the club should Lynn’s Burger bar, and Julie and I and our of over 1,000, a good atmosphere and I played two seasons for Ipswich Town they’vego into the local enjoyedschools, scout groups it’ and friends are always in the bar pre and enjoyed it. and then two seasons for Cardiff City. clubs, post match - and using the This was a bit surreal, playing against Where do you work? excellent half time pop-up the likes of Manchester United, Liver- I’m currently working facility. We also come pool and Plymouth Argyle, often with as a technician for down to hear the occa-
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be playing Sundays on live TV. Colindale which is Friday or Saturday. ideal for football What do you think of the Stones What’s your favourite - I finish at 4.30 programme? It’s spot on. I think it’s a current kit? Out of the on weekdays good mix of official programme and a three current ones I have and 1pm on a fanzine and so I always buy one before to say that I dislike all of Saturdays when every home game - which is saying them! The orange trim I have to work. something as I got fed up buying the doesn’t work on any of Arsenal programme due to the lack of Do your family the kits and I couldn’t fans content in it. follow Arsenal? understand why the club My nephew wanted to change the What do your friends think of you follows the usual blue strip. following a ‘small’ team? Everyone Gunners, like that I know now attends Stones games. Have you ever played his dad and my Our friend Martyn (soon to be a fan in the game yourself? partner Julie the stand) is also a ST holder, another Only in my 20s for a Sun- also goes to workmate comes to games and on day League team, over games but now several other occasions I’ve persuaded at Wormwood Scrubs, in she’s a com- other friends to attend. a league for London-based mitted Stones All my other mates at Arsenal are fan. supporters of pro teams from around the country. So I surprised that after 30 odd years I’ve in the Stand’? Send an email to be a ‘Fan to like you Would How can the CONTINUED OVERPAGE club engage more with STEVE MOSZORO CONTINUED
stopped going to the Gunners but they they were. So, at this moment in time I feel do understand the reasons why - the club I prefer going to Stones games rather than seems so far removed from its dragging myself halfway across London supporters and fans need that connection, to watch Arsenal play. It’s great to see and the obscene amounts of money in the the players and management in the bar pro game disgusts me. I’ve brought some after games and being able to talk to them of my Arsenal pals to Stones games and personally - unlike the madness of premier they’ve enjoyed it. league football which looks like it will never What’s your most memorable Stones change. game? Well obviously Billericay away in the Do you have an all-time best Stones line Trophy quarter final (won 5-2) and Bath City up? I’ve only been attending for four years away in the play-off eliminator (won 3-1) and so I can’t really give an opinion - except to the semi final at Woking (lost 3-2)... it was say that Stuart Pearce and Abo Eisa would great to see so many fans make it to Bath definitely be in it. with just a few days notice after it seemed What are the Stones chances of reach- we had blown our chances of reaching the ing the Football League? Sadly I don’t play offs. It did seem like the planets aligned think the club can get there anytime soon. for the last game of the season against
or come and see me (Tim in the ground. The more the merrier! Parks) If we get promoted this season I’m sure Hemel to get us there. 2020-21 and it’s challenges will be hard And what’s the best EVER game you’ve enough, especially with such a short lease seen? In 1989 my brother and I were at at the Vale. Anfield to see the title-deciding last match of What’s your Stones claim to fame? the season (which Arsenal won with the last As my brother and I go to a lot of punk kick of the game) and we also saw them lift concerts we’ve seen Stuart Pearce on the European Cup Winners Cup in Copen-
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Who’s your favourite player? I’m not the time was at the 100 Club in Oxford Street type of supporter who has a fave player, when we went to see Ferocious Dog. I but I do vote for player of the season. At the went up to Stuart and said it was great to moment I think Aston Oxborough has been see a Wealdstone legend here, and he did outstanding in goal. (Oops, bad timing -Ed) a double take as I’m sure that’s not what What attracts you to non League football? most people say to him! The main attraction is that you don’t have to What’s your favourite football stadium? walk 20mins after a game to have a beer in a The best stadiums, for me, aren’t the large pub. And it takes me back to the 1980s when ones but rather places like Bolton and you could watch football cheaply, standing Huddersfield that are individual and a bit on the terrace with your mates, paying cash different. I hate the identikit grounds that at a turnstile excepting the facilities for what have popped up like Middlesbrough, Derby, Leicester and Southampton. Ayresome Park, the Baseball Ground, Filbert Street and the Dell were so individual and quirky that it’s just a shame they’re all gone. (Not to mention Lower Mead and Highbury Would you like to be a ‘Fan in the Stand’? Send an email to be a ‘Fan to like you Would -Ed) My favourite non League ground, though, is the atmospheric Twerton Park, Bath. Farnbor- ough’s ground was also impres- sive this season, though a bit on the empty side!
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Lafayette, Green, Azeez Subs: Paterson, Cotter, Jacob Mendy Mendy, Noel-Williams, Michee Efete, Dennon Lewis, Afolabi Coker, Yaw Ofosu, Alfie Young, Matt Saunders, FEBRUARY Hassan Jalloh 1 Tonbridge Angels NLS — — — 8 BILLERICAY TOWN NLS — — — 15 Eastbourne Borough NLS — — — July 9, away vs. Hayes & Yeading United — D 2-2 (Green, Lafayette (pen)) 22 DORKING WANDERERS NLS — — — (Squad Friendly) 29 Dartford NLS — — — MARCH July 12, away vs. Reading U23 s — L 0-2 7 DULWICH HAMLET NLS — — — Paterson, Michee Efete, Sellars, Matt Saunders, Ed Cook, Yaw Ofuso, Dylan Switters, Sheppard, Noel-Williams, Jacob Mendy Mendy, Dennon Lewis Subs: Eric Lopes, Billy Clifford, Femi Azeez 14 Chippenham Town NLS — — — 21 BRAINTREE TOWN NLS — — — 28 Concord Rangers NLS — — — July 13, away vs. Hitchin Town — W 3-2 (Lafayette 2, Lopez) APRIL Theo Richardson, Nick Arnold, Sellars, Billy Clifford, Yaw Ofuso, Okimo, Beckles-Richards, Connor Smith, Lafayette, Green, Dennon Lewis Subs: Jacob Cook, Dylan Switters, Sanchez Watt, Eric Lopes 4 HAMPTON & RICHMOND NLS — — — 10 Hungerford Town NLS — — — July 16, home vs, Colchester United — L 0-3 13 WEYMOUTH NLS — — — Theo Richardson, Michee Efete, Nick Arnold, Billy Clifford, Stevens, Okimo, Jacob Mendy Mendy, Connor Smith, Lafayette, Green, Dennon Lewis Subs: Sheppard, Matt Saunders, Afolabi Coker, Yaw Ofosu, Reece Beckles-Richards, Jacob Cook, Dejon Noel- 18 Maidstone United NLS — — — 25 HEMEL HEMPSTEAD TOWN NLS — — — Williams, Sanchez Watt, Eric Lopes, Sellars TO BE ARRANGED July 18, away vs. Chesham United — L 2-3 (Watt, Clifford) Paterson, Michee Efete, Sellers, Matt Saunders, Afolabi Coker Yaw Ofosu, Reece Beckles-Richards, Jacob Cook, Sanchez Watt, Sheppard, Dennon Lewis Subs: Nick Arnold, Joe Ringer Stevens, Okimo, Connor Smith, Billy Clifford, Green, Jacob Mendy
July 20, home vs. Watford Under 23s — W 4-0 (Green, Noel-Williams, Mendy, Lewis) Richardson, Arnold (Efete, 78), Sellers, Clifford (sheppard 61), Stevens, Okimo 9Coker 78), Trialist (Lewis 61), Smith (Cook 78),Noel-Williams (Beckles-Richards 45), Green (Saunders 89), Mendy (Watt 61), Subs not used: Paterson, Ringer
July 27, home vs. Brentford 'B' — W 2-0 (Lafayette 2) Ringer, Arnold, Efete, Clifford (Lewis, 74), Stevens, Okimo, Phillips, Smith, Lafayette (Richards, 87), Green (Trialist, 78), Watt (Mendy, 67)