WALTHAMSTOW FOOTBALL CLUB GREAT WAKERING ROVERS WAKERING GREAT vs 2019 // 3PM August Saturday 24th Round Preliminary Cup // FA Lodge Wadham
1 WALTHAMSTOW FOOTBALL CLUB Match Day Centres, Wadham Lodge, Kitchener Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 4JP
CLUB MANAGEMENT President: June Brazier Chairman & Secretary: Andy Perkins Vice Chairman: Steve Howe Company Secretary: Vacant Treasurer: Vacant Communications Manager & Assistant Secretary: Andrzej Perkins Club Historian: David Chapman Charter Standard & Veterans Secretary: Tony Brazier
Life Members: A. Brazier M.B.E., J. Brazier, D. Chapman, D. Crabb, C.E. Gross, K.J. Harris, S. Howe, G. Larkbey, A. P. Perkins, D. Salmon, K. Thomas, C. Ward, D.E. Ward
FIRST TEAM MANAGEMENT Player/Manager: Ryan Maxwell Assistant Manager: Nick Symons Physio: Lucelta Eugene
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2019-20 Editor: Andrzej Perkins Contributors: Tony Brazier, David Chapman, Graham Larkbey, Steve Howe, Aaron Moore, Charlie Ward Photography: Vacant
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ood afternoon everyone, welcome one game, you could see excellent partnerships being to Wadham Lodge for this FA Cup built with Dwade James and Emiel Aiken up front. Preliminary Round tie against Great Wakering Rovers. For all our good form in those first three games, this afternoon will be a whole different game. Against We continued our good form last Saturday with a 1-0 familiar step four opposition we’ll have to be at our win over Stansted. Although they’d only won one out very best again to be even in with a shout of getting of their first three games, it was always going to be something this afternoon. tough going against last season’s runners-up. Wakering started their season on Saturday, beating It was an especially niggly game, but we got the three Felixstowe & Walton (who we beat at this stage in points we deserved in the end. What impressed me the last season’s competition) 4-1. On Tuesday they beat most was our workrate and sheer levels of fitness. By Tilbury 2-0, and at the time of writing were top of the hour mark, Stansted really started to flag, and we whatever they’re calling the Isthmian League these were picking up almost every loose ball in midfield. We days. This will no doubt be our toughtest test of the were unfortunate not to score more than one. season so far.
It was good to see how quickly new signing Callum Ibe Enjoy the game, settled into the team. He showed the same level of commitment and his team mates, and even after just Andrzej
3 CHARLIE WARD THE TREE SURGEON
e are back on the FA Cup trail today Wakering started off their season in fine form as welcome our former Essex Senior (quite why the Isthmian North started a week League colleagues, Great Wakering later than the Isthmian Premier I don’t know), with Rovers, who only needed one season a 4-1 away victory, so they will provide us with to get themselves back into the Isthmian League possibly our toughest test of the season so far. at the first attempt in a three-way contest with Basildon United and Redbridge, with them Our own game last Saturday was a very tight emerging as champions with a couple of games to go. affair with a narrow 1-0 win against Stansted.
The glory of the FA Cup is all very well but, the When I typed the programme notes the previous cynic in me says that we are much more interested Sunday, I mentioned that although they no longer had in the extra cash that comes with progressing. our former player, James Peagram, we still had to be wary of their other prolific marksman, Callum Ibe, little In the Wakering squad today could be our former captain did I realise that on Saturday he would be wearing the and player of the year from last season, Reece Conway. blue of Stow, rather than the white shirt of Stansted.
I say could, as he missed last their League Although he obviously will take time to get game last weekend as he was on honeymoon to know everyone at our club, he must have (some players have no sense of priorities). been helped by the fact we already have four other ex-Stansted players at our club.
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But, he seemed to slot on pretty well, replacing the third of last season and with two different players departed Samrai, with a performance that saw him in the back four, this season, he has done exactly have several shots on goal and he provided a very nice the same this time and I think is the over ridding pass for Dee Jay to go on and slot home the winner. reason we have managed so many clean sheets.
Perhaps his transfer left Stansted with no His authority in talking his fellow defenders real proven strikers to put out because they through a game must have helped Gus slot in seem content to sit behind the ball for long on Saturday, just as it obviously helped Jack spells allow us to try and break them down. settling into a new team at the start of the season.
Certainly, they were not afraid to use the more physical He originally went with Reece Conway approach as their six yellow cards would testify but, to train at today’s visitors but, decided to we kept our patience and in the end, got our reward. come back to us and how glad we are he did.
Mention also, for Hopefully, he will full debutant Danny show today just what McCullock who, after Wakering are missing. scoring when he came on against Sporting On another point, I Bengal, had a very notice in the closed good game from the season that we off and having one have been talking shot really well saved to Waltham Forest by the Stansted Council about keeper and several becoming part of other efforts on target, their “Sport In certainly he seems The Community” more than able to play programme and indeed at this level in our side. one of their Councilors came to our match One disappointment against Tower Hamlets. before the game was the sight of Jack Grosvenor on crutches with an injury that, it is That link can only help us achieve our aim of truly estimated will keep him out for about six weeks. being a community club and let us hope our relations with Waltham Forest Council continue to flourish. But, in came Gus Douglas and he once again showed what a dependable member of our Another step in encouraging interaction with the squad he is as we one more kept a clean sheet. local community is Ryan FC, who played a match before our match against Stansted I know that Ryan rated Kyan Gulliver as man of the match and who am I to argue with the “Gaffer” but, I see that someone tweeted on our site after I want to take a look at the influence that Vinny the Stansted game he has recently come to our Murphy has had to our defence, since coming games and is now hooked on watching the Stow. back to the club in the second half of last season. Let us hope he is the first of many and a win today would More used to playing in midfield or full back he go a long way to attracting even more new supporters. has taken up the role of centre half, in his stride and marshalled the defence superbly in the final
5 THE BIG PICTURE 6 Stansted used all their experience to try and get something from last Saturday’s game, but to no avail 7 today’s vistors great wakering rovers
fter winning the 2018-19 Essex as the fans would have liked. Pressure started Senior League, Wakering were to mount on Kimble, as the possibility of a dealt a blow when manager Iain return to the Essex Senior became more O’Connell announced he was realistic. Three defeats out of four in January stepping down from the role for personnel saw Kimble step down. reasons. Fans’ favourite Stephen Butterworth was Gary Kimble was announced as manager, quickly appointed as Kimble’s successor, with and despite defeat on the opening day to the sole mission of keeping Wakering up. He Romford, two wins against Felixstowe and took four points from his first two games, but Walton and Leyton Athletic (in the FA Cup) followed that up with two defeats. didn’t make August too disappointing. Gradually though, Wakering picked up Wakering eventually went out to Wealdstone enough points to steer away from the drop two rounds later the in the FA Cup, and zone - spearheaded by Shomari Barnwell, September continued with some good who had provided similar relegation-avoiding performances. heroics for Waltham Forest just 12 months before. Butterworth’s heroics earned him the Inconsistency was the hallmark of Wakering’s manager’s job on a full-time basis, in what was first half of the season, and despite picking up Wakering’s centenary year. some important wins, they weren’t as regular 8 we’ve met before his will be the third time we have come close to derailing their title charge at met Great Wakering in the FA the end of the 2017-18 season, when a goal Cup. The other two came in the from Tony Da Silva made things pretty nervy 2009-10 season, at the same for the eventual champions. stage in the competition as today’s game. Both sides found themselves in the Southern A 0-0 draw by the seaside meant we would League for two seasons between 2005 and face off again in a replay at Cricklefields, 2006, and that’s probably when we secured where Sham Darr scored the only goal of the our last ‘big’ victory over Wakering; Gavin game. King playing an absolute blinder in his last ever game, a 3-2 win for us. Unfortunately for us, that was the last time we’ve beaten Wakering. Since then, we’ve (Pictured left, Danny Gabriel in action against lost five and drawn four games, though we did Rovers in the FA Cup in 2009)
Date Competition Venue Score Result 26/03/2002 Isthmian League Division Two Home 2-1 Won 01/10/2002 Isthmian League Division One North Away 0-2 Lost 01/03/2003 Isthmian League Division One North Home 1-2 Lost 11/10/2003 Isthmian League Division One North Away 0-0 Drew 17/01/2004 Isthmian League Division One North Home 3-0 Won 19/10/2004 Southern League Eastern Division Away 0-0 Drew 26/02/2005 Southern League Eastern Division Home 3-0 Won 11/10/2005 Southern League Eastern Division Away 3-2 Won 14/01/2006 Southern League Eastern Division Home 1-1 Drew 23/09/2006 Isthmian League Division One North Away 0-2 Lost 03/03/2007 Isthmian League Division One North Home 3-1 Won 18/08/2007 Isthmian League Division One North Away 3-2 Won 22/12/2007 Isthmian League Division One North Home 0-1 Lost 08/11/2008 Isthmian League Division One North Away 1-2 Lost 14/03/2009 Isthmian League Division One North Home 2-2 Drew 29/08/2009 FA Cup Away 0-0 Drew 02/09/2009 FA Cup Home 1-0 Won 22/09/2009 Isthmian League Division One North Away 1-4 Lost 28/11/2009 Isthmian League Division One North Home 2-2 Drew 02/11/2010 Essex Senior Cup Away 1-3 Lost 18/01/2011 Isthmian League Division One North Away 2-2 Drew 05/03/2011 Isthmian League Division One North Home 0-0 Drew 10/12/2011 Isthmian League Division One North Away 2-2 Drew 21/04/2012 Isthmian League Division One North Home 1-2 Lost 07/10/2017 Essex Senior League Home 0-2 Lost 10/03/2018 Essex Senior League Away 1-3 Lost
WON: 7 DREW: 9 LOST: 10 FOR: 33 AGAINST: 38 9 visitors’ history reat Wakering Rovers were formed in At the very first attempt Rovers were promoted to 1919 by soldiers demobbed after World Division Two finishing behind East Thurrock Utd by War I and finding employment in the three points. local brickfields. In 2002 the Isthmian League then reorganised and They first played in the Southend & District League, Rovers found themselves in a new look Division One where the Rovers stayed until 1982. Rovers were the North, finishing mid-table but more than holding their leagues most dominant clubs, especially in the 1960s own in what was a very competitive league. A further and 1970s and to this day remain so on record. The league reorganisation in 2004 saw the club switch to switch in 1982 saw the club move to the newly formed the Southern Football League Eastern Division for Southend & District Alliance Football League, but two seasons. The 2004-2005 season saw Rovers miss sadly this league folded in 1989 leaving Rovers with relegation by one point due to Erith & Belvedere FC a decision to move back to the Southend & District being deducted three points, but in the 2005-2006 League or take a step up in standard. With what most season Rovers bounced back to finish safely in mid- Rovers feel to be the best squad amassed by a manager, table. in this case Eddie Nash, Rovers took the decision to step up to intermediate level and joined the Essex Safe mid-table finishes followed for the next few years, Intermediate League. but the appointment of ex-Captain and stalwart Dan Trenkel as manager in November 2011 stablised the Rovers remained in the Essex Intermediate League for club after a rocky start to 2010-11. three seasons, winning the championships of Divisions Three and Two in successive seasons. After the latter, Trenkel would bring back a number of players Rovers successfully applied to join the Essex Senior previously released by Danny Greaves, and opened League and found themselves in Step 5 of the Non- his management career with a 2-2 draw at home to League pyramid. Waltham Forest. However, although the side were performing better, results would continue to go against In the 1994-1995 season Rovers narrowly beat him and after just three wins in the remaining 21 games, Sawbridgeworth Town FC for the Essex Senior League including 6 draws, Rovers would find themselves title. Rovers had collected 71 points for the season and bottom of the table and staring relegation into the lost just three times although the title win was only won Essex Senior League. on goal difference (18). In 2014, they won the ESL by one point on the final Rovers defence of the Essex Senior crown would falter day of the season, and were promoted back to the the following season, finishing 2nd behind Romford. In Isthmian League. the 1996-1997 season Rovers would also finish second again, behind Ford United by just three points. The Two managers and two Chairmen left in 2016-17, 1997-1998 season would be Rovers worst season in the ending in relegation back to the ESL. Wakering would Essex Senior League, finishing mid-table, 7th, and 36 bounce straight back though, winning the league title points behind winners Concord Rangers. in 2017-18.
In the 1999-200 season Wakering finished 2nd behind Bowers United. However, due to Bowers failing to meet ground grading requirements for promotion, Rovers were promoted to the Isthmian League division 3 in their place.
10 on this day nsurprisingly for this stage in the season, these sandwiched a narrow defeat to Grays Athletic three of the 20 games we’ve played on (pictured below). this day have been in the FA Cup. Redbridge were winners in 2013 though, the start of We’ve won one, drawn one, lost one - the most recent a run of ten games without a win for us; the season being a 4-1 victory over Romford on a Friday night at eventually ending in relegation to the Essex Senior Thurrock’s Ship Lane. League. Most recently, we beat Sawbridgeworth Town 1-0 in 2016. And in recent years, the 24th of August has been kind to us, winning five of our last seven.
In 2004, we managed to beat Barton Rovers 2-1 thanks to goals from Dewayne Clarke, despite Carlos Brown being sent off. We beat them 1-0 just a couple of years before too. This time it was at Wadham Lodge, where Danny Honeyball picked up one of his few victories during his first stint in charge. Wins against the Leyton team founded in 1995 followed, as well as the previously mentioned Romford win, though
Season Opposition Competition Venue Score Result 1955-56 Sutton United Athenian League Away 0-1 Lost 1957-58 Finchley Athenian League Home 2-1 Won 1961-62 Barnet Athenian League Home 1-5 Lost 1963-64 Carshalton Athletic Athenian League Away 2-2 Drew 1968-69 Carshalton Athletic Athenian League Home 3-2 Won 1971-72 Ware Athenian League Home 2-3 Lost 1974-75 Ware Athenian League Home 3-1 Won 1976-77 Erith & Belvedere Athenian League Away 2-0 Won 1982-83 Egham Town Isthmian League Division Two Home 4-2 Won 1985-86 Kingsbury Town FA Cup Away 1-1 Drew 1991-92 Boreham Wood Isthmian League Division One Home 0-3 Lost 1993-94 Billericay Town Isthmian League Division One Home 0-2 Lost 1996-97 Hampton Isthmian League Division One Home 0-0 Drew 1999-00 Braintree Town FA Cup Home 1-2 Lost 2002-3 Barton Rovers Isthmian League Division One North Home 1-0 Won 2004-5 Barton Rovers Southern League Eastern Division Away 2-1 Won 2010-11 Leyton FC (1995) Isthmian League Division One North Away 2-1 Won 2011-12 Grays Athletic Isthmian League Division One North Home 1-2 Lost 2012-13 Romford FA Cup Away 4-1 Won 2013-14 Redbridge Isthmian League Division One North Home 0-1 Lost 2016-17 Sawbridgeworth Town Essex Senior League Home 1-0 Won
WON: 10 DREW: 3 LOST: 8 FOR: 32 AGAINST: 31 11 STATS STOW
TOTAL MEETINGS | 21 W 10 D3 L 8
STAT ATTACK
TOP SCORER MOST APPS Dwade James (5) 8 players (3) CLEAN YELLOW RED SHEETS CARDS CARDS 3 3 1 SOCIAL MEDIA
5,178 630
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ON THE RECORD
TEN YEAR LEAGUE RECORD LAST 5 GAMES | 15 PTS
St Margaretsbury (H) 4-0 W
Southend Manor (A) 5-2 W Isthmian League Division 1 North League Division Isthmian
Tower Hamlets (H) 7-0 W 4th 4th 5th
9th
11th 12th Sporting Bengal Utd (H) 5-0 W Essex Senior League Senior Essex 16th 17th 17th
20th Stansted (H) 1-0 W
2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2016-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 (Includes 2 games at end of 2018-19 season)
12 LIFE GREAT WAKERING ROVERS BIGGEST STOW WIN BIGGEST ROVERS WIN v Rovers v Stow
3-0 (2004, 2005) 4-1 (2019) STAT ATTACK
TOP SCORER MOST APPS Jack Stevenson (3) 7 players (2) CLEAN YELLOW RED SHEETS CARDS CARDS 1 3 0 SOCIAL MEDIA
4,291 216
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ON THE RECORD
TEN YEAR LEAGUE RECORD LAST 5 GAMES | 6 PTS
Maldon & Tiptree 1-3 L
9th
15th 15th 15th Bowers & Pitsea (H) 1-0 W Isthmian League Division 1 North League Division Isthmian
18th
22nd 24th 1st 1st Dereham Town (A) 1-6 L 4th
Felixstowe & Walton U (A) 4-1 W Essex Senior League Senior Essex
Tilbury (H) 1-0 W 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2016-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
(Includes 3 games at end of 2018-19 season)
13 The Beer Hunter A warm welcome to one and all today for (hopefully) our next step forward on the road to Wembley! A particular pleasure to welcome back our old friends from Great Wakering - always a good day out when we were in the same league together.
If today’s game ends in a draw and goes to a replay down there, the village has several pubs strung along its main street, of which the nearest to the ground is the White Hart. This lovely- looking, welcoming old pub is all low ceilings, comfy chairs and horse brasses, and offers three real ales - Greene King IPA, Wells & Young’s Bombardier and a guest beer, often from the local Leigh-On-Sea Brewery. It also offers an extensive menu of home-cooked food.
The menu is also a main attraction further down the road at the Exhibition Inn, though beerwise the choice here is limited to Greene King IPA and a guest.
Back up near the ground, the Castle seems to have expanded its beer range since our last visit (according to CAMRA’s Whatpub website at whatpub.com), and now has Fullers London Pride, Sharp’s Doom Bar, Timothy Taylor’s Landlord and a guest, often from the local George’s/Hopmonster brewery. And guess what - they too are noted for their home-cooked food. They sure do like to eat well in Wakering!
Back here in E17, there are not one but two beer festivals on this weekend. After the match today you can get on up (to quote James Brown) to the Orford House Beer Festival in Orford Road - free admission, 12 real ales plus lagers, ciders, music and street food. And tomorrow it’s the turn of the Contemporary Cask Festival (£5 admission) at the Pump House Museum in South Access Road, with a number of real ales served on gravity in an old Vic Line carriage, plus keg beers, cocktails, wine in a can (!), locally-made soft drinks and bar snacks - and maybe a bit of music too.
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If today’s match ends as a draw the replay will be at Lane and the ground is on the left past the allotments. Great Wakering on Tuesday, kick-off 7.45pm. There is ample car parking at the Ground.
Great Wakering Rovers play at Burroughs Park, Little By Public Transport Wakering Hall Lane, Great Wakering, SS3 0HH. By train to Thorpe Bay or Shoeburyness (on the C2C Telephone 01702-217812. line from Fenchurch Street). Then bus 8 (from Thorpe Bay) or 14 (from Shoeburyness) to Great Wakering, By Road The Exhibition public house. Please note that there is Head east by the A127 or A13 towards Southend on no return bus to the railway stations. Trains return at 27 Sea. At junction with B1017 turn left and follow the and 57 minutes past the hour. road into Great Wakering. Little Wakering Hall Lane is on the left about ¼ a mile past The Exhibition Inn For more details see Tony Brazier today. (which is on the right). Turn into Little Wakering Hall vets update Walthamstow Veterans embark on their 3rd season We begin our defence of the Essex Sunday Veterans in the Garston Veterans League with a home match Cup on 6th October with a First Round visit to M&B against Jamrock on Sunday 8th September. This will be Club who play in the Southend Borough Combination on the stadium at Wadham Lodge, kick-off 10.30. We Veterans League Premier Division. This will be a stern then have 2 more home matches on 15th September challenge as we bid to win this cup for the third season against FC Sporting and on the 22nd against Garston. in a row. The winners are then away to Earls Hall These games will also be on the stadium with a 10.30 United or Rayleigh Town in the Second Round on 17th kick-off. November.
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Walthamstow FC are delighted to have entered into relationship has already borne fruit for both sides, with partnership with local youth club Ryan FC. This will several U18s taking part in Stow’s pre-season matches, benefit both parties, not only providing a pathway for and Stow first team players playing for Ryan’s senior Ryan’s extremely talented youth players into mens side. If you would like more information about Ryan, football, but allowing Walthamstow first team players please visit ryanfc.net. to play for Ryan’s Senior XI in the Essex Olympian League. Once their season starts, we’ll be bringing you weekly updates on the progress, but in the mean time, feast Ryan’s Under 18s side will also be representing your eyes on just some of the players who have Walthamstow in the FA Youth Cup, and playing as progressed through the Ryan youth system. Walthamstow U18s in the Eastern Junior Alliance. This
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19 FIXTURES & RESULTS F-A Cmp 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sub 1 Sub 2 Sub 3 Unused Aug Sat 3 H Tower Hamlets 7-0 ESL Bransgrove Bennett Gulliver Folan Murphy Grosvenor 1 Jones 2 Crilley 1 * James 2 Aiken * Gebrai * Fortune (10) Douglas (8) Reed (11) 1 Yexley / McCullock Sat 10 H Sporting Bengal United 5-0 FAC Bransgrove Bennett 1 Gulliver * Folan * Murphy Grosvenor Jones Crilley James 2 Aiken * Gebrai Fortune (10) McCullock (4) Yexley (3) Reed / Douglas / Madu / Symons Sat 17 H Stansted 1-0 ESL Bransgrove Bennett Gulliver Folan Murphy Douglas McCullock Crilley James 1 Aiken * Ibe * Fortune (11) Yexley (10) Reed (7) Madu / Symons Sat 24 H Great Wakering Rovers FAC Tue 27 H Hadely ESL Sep Tue 3 H West Essex ESC Sat 7 H Hoddesdon Town ESC Sat 14 A Enfield ESL Wed 18 H Ilford ESL Sat 21 H Takeley ESL Tue 24 H Hashtag United GBT Sat 28 H Cockfosters ESL Oct Tue 8 A St Margaretsbury ESL Tue 15 A Clapton ESL Sat 19 A Redbridge ESL Tue 22 H Tower Hamlets ECC Sat 26 A Southend Manor ESL Nov Sat 2 A Ilford ESL Sat 9 H Saffron Walden Town ESL Tue 12 H Woodford Town ESL Sat 16 A Tower Hamlets ESL Sat 23 H Southend Manor ESL Sat 30 H Hashtag United ESL Dec Sat 7 A West Essex ESL Sat 14 A Sporting Bengal United ESL Sat 21 A Hashtag United ESL Jan Sat 4 H Clapton ESL Sat 11 A Hoddesdon Town ESL Sat 18 A Stansted ESL Feb Sat 8 H Sawbridgeworth Town ESL Sat 15 A Hadley ESL Sat 22 A Takeley ESL Sat 29 H Enfield ESL Mar Sat 7 A Saffron Walden Town ESL Sat 14 A Sawbridgeworth Town ESL Wed 18 H West Essex ESL Sat 28 H St Margaretsbury ESL Apr Fri 3 A Woodford Town ESL Sat 11 H Redbridge ESL Sat 18 A Cockfosters ESL Sat 25 H Sporting Bengal United ESL TBC Buckhurst Hill ETT 2nd Round FAV
ESL = Essex Senior League | ESC = Essex Senior Cup | FAC = FA Cup | FAV = FA Vase | ETT = Essex Thameside Trophy | GBT = Gordon Brasted Trophy | ERC = Errington Cup
20 F-A Cmp 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sub 1 Sub 2 Sub 3 Unused Aug Sat 3 H Tower Hamlets 7-0 ESL Bransgrove Bennett Gulliver Folan Murphy Grosvenor 1 Jones 2 Crilley 1 * James 2 Aiken * Gebrai * Fortune (10) Douglas (8) Reed (11) 1 Yexley / McCullock Sat 10 H Sporting Bengal United 5-0 FAC Bransgrove Bennett 1 Gulliver * Folan * Murphy Grosvenor Jones Crilley James 2 Aiken * Gebrai Fortune (10) McCullock (4) Yexley (3) Reed / Douglas / Madu / Symons Sat 17 H Stansted 1-0 ESL Bransgrove Bennett Gulliver Folan Murphy Douglas McCullock Crilley James 1 Aiken * Ibe * Fortune (11) Yexley (10) Reed (7) Madu / Symons Sat 24 H Great Wakering Rovers FAC Tue 27 H Hadely ESL Sep Tue 3 H West Essex ESC Sat 7 H Hoddesdon Town ESC Sat 14 A Enfield ESL Wed 18 H Ilford ESL Sat 21 H Takeley ESL Tue 24 H Hashtag United GBT Sat 28 H Cockfosters ESL Oct Tue 8 A St Margaretsbury ESL Tue 15 A Clapton ESL Sat 19 A Redbridge ESL Tue 22 H Tower Hamlets ECC Sat 26 A Southend Manor ESL Nov Sat 2 A Ilford ESL Sat 9 H Saffron Walden Town ESL Tue 12 H Woodford Town ESL Sat 16 A Tower Hamlets ESL Sat 23 H Southend Manor ESL Sat 30 H Hashtag United ESL Dec Sat 7 A West Essex ESL Sat 14 A Sporting Bengal United ESL Sat 21 A Hashtag United ESL Jan Sat 4 H Clapton ESL Sat 11 A Hoddesdon Town ESL Sat 18 A Stansted ESL Feb Sat 8 H Sawbridgeworth Town ESL Sat 15 A Hadley ESL Sat 22 A Takeley ESL Sat 29 H Enfield ESL Mar Sat 7 A Saffron Walden Town ESL Sat 14 A Sawbridgeworth Town ESL Wed 18 H West Essex ESL Sat 28 H St Margaretsbury ESL Apr Fri 3 A Woodford Town ESL Sat 11 H Redbridge ESL Sat 18 A Cockfosters ESL Sat 25 H Sporting Bengal United ESL TBC Buckhurst Hill ETT 2nd Round FAV
21 classic programme david chapman ood afternoon and welcome this expected to start were: J Adcock; E Smith, & N Swain; afternoon to our old friends from Great another E Smith, J Smith & T Beadle; J Cornwell, P Wakering Rovers for this exciting Bridges, G Manning, L Key & J Bridges. Looks like a FA Cup tie. GWR were founded by couple of sets of brothers. GWR were togged out in returning soldiers way back in 1919, and who had taken their traditional Green & white stripes. up work as brickies, that according to Wikipedia. The big news as far as Leyton were concerned was that They began life in the local Southend league Len Casey had just returned from Hong Kong, having transferring to the Essex Intermediate League, where completed his National Service. they remained until they joined the Essex Senior League in 1992. I said GWR were old friends, but I had He was expected to sign, and did, as a professional for not realised just how old. Chelsea. He finished his career at Plymouth Argyle.
I am pleased to be able to reprint a programme from our first ever meeting with GWR, some sixty-five years ago. It was a fourth-round tie in the Essex Intermediate Cup played at the Hare & Hounds on 6th February 1954.
Its not the best reproduction in the world. Unfortunately, I do not have the result, but we may have lost, so we won’t go into that. Incidentally Briggs Sports beat Ilford in the final.
In the Leyton Reserve side we had Eddie Whetton, Les Downes, Ted Hasley, with Ray Gramlick out on the wing. Also playing was Dennis Hall, who scored the winner against us in the 1952 Amateur Cup Final. Our centre forward was Johnny Dankaro, a Nigerian mining engineer.
Johnny had toured England with the Nigerian National team a few years earlier. At centre-half was Johnnie Bays (pictured right). John was fixture secretary of the Essex County FA for many years. I only learnt from David Ward last week that John had sadly died.
John had played for Leyton Orient, Chingford Town and Walthamstow Avenue. He had joined the Essex FA in 1974, becoming a life member in 1995. He passed away in February 2016, aged ninety-two. I used to bump into him in the Lea Bridge Road.
For the benefit of GWR supporters their team as
22 23 james bransgrove James Bransgrove
It’s impossible to underestimate the influence James has had since joining Stow. He’s played 23 games so far, but won 17 of them, and the clean sheet list keeps growing.
WHAT YOUTH CLUB(S) DID YOU PLAY FOR? I started off at LOASS before playing for Buckhurst Hill and Waltham Abbey. I was also a scholar at Brentford and Colchester United.
WHO WAS YOUR FOOTBALLING IDOL GROWING UP? It was David Seaman minus the ponytail. He made me want to be a goalkeeper.
WHAT TEAM DID/DO YOU SUPPORT AND WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THAT TEAM? It was Arsenal because of David Seaman. I’m also half Scottish to tied to supporting Rangers because of my IF YOU COULD SIGN FOR ANY CLUB, WHAT family. WOULD BE YOUR DREAM CLUB TO PLAY FOR? WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT IN I would love to play for Barcelona because I’d probably FOOTBALL? get paid a lot without having to do much. Has to be making my professional debut in League 1 for Colchester United against Rochdale. WHO IS THE WORST DRESSED? It has to be Emiel [Aiken]. He has worn some very WHAT ARE YOU AMBITIONS? questionable clobber so far. Truthfully, I just want to enjoy my football. When I quit, I didn’t play for 18 months so I’m just happy to WHO HAS THE WORST TASTE IN MUSIC? be playing. It has to be Nicky Symons. He listens to club anthems which can get on your nerves and I prefer to listen to WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT PLAYING lyrics. He also plays it off YouTube so you have to listen FOR WALTHAMSTOW? to the adverts. Chico [Ramos] is the best thing as he is the clean sheet guru but also Ryan [Maxwell] and the changing room. WHO HAS THE WORST BANTER? We have a good group of lads here. Both Benji Crilley and Jack Folan have the worst banter. It is just terrible. WHAT IS THE BEST GAME YOU’VE BEEN INVOLVED IN? WHO LIKES TO THINK THEY ARE THE CLUBS My debut has to be my favourite game. Although we HARD-MAN? lost 2-1 on the day, I only found out 40 minutes before It’s Ryan [Maxwell]. That’s it, full stop. the start that I was playing and right before I turned 21.
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Cockfosters v Coggeshall Town Hadley v Hoddesdon Town Saffron Walden Town v Maldon & Tiptree Football Club Takeley v White Ensign Tower Hamlets v Horsham PROUD SPONSORS OF Walthamstow v Great Wakering Rovers WALTHAMSTOW FC GORDON BRASTED TROPHY Clapton v Sporting Bengal Utd Ilford v Tower Hamlets
222 CHINGFORD RD, E17 5AL | DOGANDDUCK-E17.CO.UK [email protected] | 020 8523 3111 29 It was Stow who started the quickest with the earliest chance coming from the new- boy Callum Ibe, playing against his former team. Danny McCullock drove a low cross into the box but the ball was directed wide by Ibe. Stansted had a penalty shout 10 1 minutes into the game for a hand ball when the ball bounced up and struck Jamie Bennett’s arm, but all shouts were waved away by the referee.
Walthamstow began to dominate as the first half went on with Ibe at the forefront of 0 the chances. He dragged a shot just wide before a good one-two with Dwade James gave the latter space but it was a comfortable save for Pellin the Stansted goal. 17.08.19
Essex Senior League Despite Stansted going close just before half time, Stow continued to press after the break and it didn’t take long for Dwade James to get his 3rd league goal of the season when Ibe slipped the ball into his feet after a fantastic ball from Kyan Gulliver. James just managed to the get the ball out of his feet and lift it over the keeper.
The goal certainly gave Stow the confidence going forward and forced Stansted into a tactic change as they needed to get something out of the game. Callum Ibe was unlucky not to score on his debut when he curled an effort towards the top corner but it was headed over by a Stansted defender.
McCullock had a number of chances but couldn’t find the back of the net. He tried his luck from distance but the ball was tipped over by the keeper before he cut in and had another effort but it was a comfortable save by the Stansted keeper. In the end, Stansted struggled to create much going forward, and Stow saw out the win comfortably.
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33 Brian James, the man who built a road to Wembley
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t went laregly unnoticed last July, but James opened up a whole new world for some people, Brian James, a respected journalist with visiting clubs that most people had never heard of – the Mail and Sunday Times, passed away certainly Tividale had never been on anyone’s radar. at the age of 87. For some readers, it started their interest in non- league football. Countless people have, year-in, A lot of people will not be familiar with James, but year-out, replicated his trip through the FA Cup – I anyone who has been captivated by the road to did something similar in 1990, and like James, I saw Wembley stadium, or has followed competitions like Manchester United win the competition at Wembley. the FA Cup and FA Vase from beginning to end, owes a little to Mr James. Some excerpts from Tividale to Wembley.
Back in 1976, he wrote Journey to Wembley, a football Tividale: “The ground is half way up a hill. On three odyssey from Tividale to Wembley. James started on sides it is bounded by new homes, on the fourth it his FA Cup journey at Tividale and worked his way to opens out into a panoramic view of the Midlands the old twin towers to Manchester United v Liverpool, industrial sprawl.” and as a postscript, went to Rome to see Liverpool win their first European Cup. He followed the winners of Telford United’s player-manager, Geoff Hurst: “It was each round of the FA Cup to the next round. a smashing meal, though Hurst made another mental note – something about the serving of the dessert
34 pancakes. ‘I take my pubs seriously, they are my insurance against turning out to be the world’s worst football manager. I love the game still, want to make some sort of mark in it, but with a good business behind me I don’t need to be scared.”
Matlock Town: “A small club needs to make use of whatever resources it has – and cast-off sofas are not be rejected when the dug-out needs furnishing.”
Carlisle United: “The snow had gone from the ground, but the fields were grey-green with frost and a cold mist had retreated only a few hundred yards behind the iron fences of Brunton Park; a frontier-post of football indeed, guarded only by sheep. Nothing moves out there.”
Kevin Keegan: “The main reason people keep on about Keegan’s impending transfer is that Keegan himself never stops taking about it; even in a TV broadcast when the title was won, he couldn’t resist speculation about how the team would manage ‘next season…after I have left…’cos it’s time for me to go’. This is the tune he’s been playing for well over a year.”
James appeared to be an old- fashioned Fleet Street peddler who earned his spurs after being hired as an office boy. He belonged to a different age, but he was widely acknowledged as a great “all rounder”. He was 87.
35 in focus BERWICK CHARITIES CUP
36 When assorted monarchs looked at fortifying Berwick Today’s tournament is smaller scale, but still attracts a and securing the Anglo-Scottish border, it’s fair to couple of hundred to watch the Free Trade Ultras take assume football wasn’t at the forefront of their minds. on ‘Ammies ion the 2019 final: ‘Ammies take a 2-0 Yet the Stanks, which takes its name from the local lead but lose 4-3 to an extra time penalty; the Ultras word for ‘ditch’, lives on as an unlikely football ground pick up the trophy and £1,000-worth of vouchers for in the former moat outside the town walls. the upcoming Lindisfarne Festival. In many respects, this is pub football at its best – an honest contest, It’s a unique venue: one goal is dominated by the old supported by a crowd that lives, works and drinks with Brass Bastion, one side is flanked by a sheer wall. The the lads on the field. The details are homespun, with grassy ramparts offer a vertiginous view of the action, raffle prizes resting on the grass bank, but the the old Bastion combines sporting action with sea sense of community is real. But whatever views. the action on the field, the setting is the star of the show. Today it’s little used. Facilities aren’t so much limited as non-existent, even the North Northumberland League might ask a little more of its member clubs. But during the summer it’s the focal point of the venerable Berwick Charities Cup, contested by an assortment of pub teams, works teams and local enthusiasts.
It’s a tournament with history: photos from the 50s hint at crowds of thousands perched on the ramparts as civic dignitaries are presented to the teams before kick-off. L.S. Lowry sketched a match-day scene, not so much jumpers for goalposts as smudges for strikers.
WORDS AND PHOTO: ANDY POTTS 37 OUR HISTORY The history of our great club is not what you’d call the second round three times. straightforward. Having reformed on at least three occasions, we’ve played under seven different names, After a successful 1950s and 60s, things dried up for but can lay claim to being the second-oldest club in Leyton, and by the 1970s they could not carry on, London, and one of the oldest in the country. so a merger was completed with Wingate from north London. The initial Leyton FC was formed in 1868 when The Reverent Morgan Lloyd obtained a pitch behind The The pinnacle of this club was winning the Athenian Lion & Key public house. The first Leyton played League in 1982, but by the early 90s with most of mainly friendlies, but did take part in the FA Cup, the former ‘Wingate’ committee now either deceased before folding in 1880 when they lost their ground. or having had left, the newly-merged Wingate & Finchley requested Leyton drop the ‘Wingate’ title Seven years later, the members of Matlock Cricket from their name. Club, based on Hoe Street established a football club named after the Matlock Villas, which overlooked the By 1995, the Hare & Hounds was really beginning to club’s pitch. In 1894, Swifts moved out of Leyton, to show its age, and with Leyton not having the funds a new ground in Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow. This to bring it up to standard, a merger was completed lasted just a season though, as the club moved back to with Walthamstow Pennant, with the new club being Leyton and changed their name to Leyton FC in the Leyton Pennant and playing at Wadham Lodge. process. This club spent most of its life in Divisions One and The club won the Essex Senior Cup on no fewer than Two of the Isthmian League, with no notable success, five occasions, and the London Senior Cup, as well as save for two London Challenge Cup final appearances. the South Essex League four times. It’s first season in 1995 saw the club finish 4th in Division One, but it was mostly mid-table obscurity Leyton turned professional in 1904, joining the after that. London League. The following year, Leyton moved to Osborne Road, which would later become Leyton In 2003 the club changed names to Waltham Forest, Orient’s Brisbane Road. and were bankrolled heavily with aspirations of playing in the Football League. Sadly, these never came In April 1912 a loan by a donor was called-in, and to fruition and an Essex Senior Cup was the only without any hope of paying it, the club disbanded for silverware to show for it. a second time. Disputes with the then-management at Wadham Only a year later a third Leyton was formed, but this Lodge in 2008 saw the club exiled for five seasons, incarnation was extremely short-lived. The outbreak playing in Ilford. The first season back at Wadham of war meant there was essentially no one to watch or Lodge, in 2013 ended in relegation to the Essex play for the club, and it was suspended. Senior League for the first time in the club’s history.
The fourth Leyton was established in 1919, and it In 2018, the club changed names once more to would be arguably the most successful period for the Walthamstow FC. We hope this new change kick- club, now back at the Hare and Hounds. Leyton won starts success both on and off the field, and enables the FA Amateur Cup (now FA Trophy) twice, and the club to form part of the local community which were runners-up on four more occasions. They also deserves a thriving non-league club. reached the first round of the FA Cup four times and 38 HONOURS As Leyton FC (1868-1894) As Leyton-Wingate FC FA Cup Second Round: 1875/6 (1976-1992) FA Cup First Round: 1874/5, 1876/7, 1878/9 FA Cup First Round: 1985/6 Athenian League Champions: 1981/2 As Matlock Swifts (1887-1895) Athenian League Division One Champions: 1976/7 Essex Junior Cup Winners: 1893/4 Essex Senior Trophy Winners: 1984/5 London Junior Cup Winners: 1894/5 Isthmian League Division Two (N) Champions: 1984/5 Leyton & District Alliance Champions: 1892/3, 1893/4 Herald Cup Winners: 1891/2 As Pennant FC and Walthamstow Pennant FC (1965 – 1995) As Leyton FC (1876-1904) London Senior Cup Runners-Up: 1990/1 Essex Senior Cup: 1896/7, 1897/8, 1899/0, 1900/1, 1901/2, 1902/3 London Junior Cup Winners: 1974/5 London Senior Cup Winners: 1903/4 SW League Junior Cup Winners: 1968/9 South Essex League Champions: 1895/6, 1876/7, 1899/0, 1899/0 SW League Intermediate Cup Winners: 1969/70 Walthamstow Charity Cup Winners: 1896/7 SW League Senior Cup Winners: 1970/71 Walthamstow Charity Cup Runners-Up: 1897/8, 1901/2 SW League Premier League Winners: 1972/3 West Ham Charity Cup Runners-Up: 1900/1 London Metropolitan League Winners: 1974/5 London Metropolitan League Runners-Up: 1978/9, 1979/80, 1981/2 As Leyton FC (Professional) (1904-1912) London Metropolitan League Intermediate Cup Runners-Up: FA Cup Third Round: 1909/10 1977/8, 1978/9 FA Cup First Round: 1910/1, 1911/2 Spartan Reserve League Winners: 1980/1, 1990/1 London Challenge Cup Runners-Up: 1908/9 Spartan Reserve League Runners-Up: 1987/8 Southern League Division 2 Runners-Up: 1905/6 Spartan Reserve League Cup Winners: 1980/1, 1988/9, 1990/1
As Leyton FC (1919-1976) As Waltham Forest FC and Leyton Pennant FC FA Amateur Cup Winners: 1926/7, 1927/8 (1995-2018) FA Amateur Cup Runners-Up: 1928/9, 1933/4, 1936/7, 1951/2 Essex Senior Cup Winners: 2005/6 FA Cup Second Round: 1925/6, 1929/30, 1951/2 London Challenge Cup Runners-Up: 1995/6, 1996/7 FA Cup First Round: 1927/8, 1928/9, 1952/3, 1955/6 Essex Senior Trophy Winners: 1995/6 Athenian League Champions: 1928/9, 1965/6, 1966/7 Eastern Floodlit Cup Winners: 1997/8, 1998/9 Essex Senior Cup Winners: 1929/30, 1930/1, 1934/5 Essex & Herts Champion’s Cup Winners: 1996/7 Essex Senior Cup Runners-Up: 1932/3, 1949/50 Essex & Herts Border Comb Cup Winners: 1996/7 London Senior Cup Runners-Up: 1933/4, 1937/8, 1945/6 London Intermediate Cup Runners-Up: 1996/7 London Challenge Cup Runners-Up: 1927/8 Suburban League Division Winners: 2005/6 London League Champions: 1923/4, 1925/5, 1925/6 Essex Veterans Cup Winners: 2017/8, 2018/9 Essex Thameside Trophy Winners: 1951/2, 1963/4, 1966/7, 1992/3 Essex Thameside Trophy Runners-Up: 1964/5, 1972/3 Youth Teams East Anglian Cup Winners: 1972/3 EJA Under 18s Trophy Winners: 2003/4 Grays & Tilbury Cup Winners: 1939/40, 1941/2 (shared) EJA Under 15s Trophy Runners-Up: 2014/5 Grays & Tilbury Cup Runners-Up: 1942/3 Conference Youth League: Winners: 2005/6 London Charity Winners: 1934/5, 1936/7 Pelly Cup Runners-Up: 2005/6 London Charity Runners-Up: 1932/3, 1946/7, 1966/7, 1970/1 West Ham Charity Cup Winners: 1929/30 Awards West Ham Charity Cup Runners-Up: 1924/5, 1925/6 Essex County FA Website of the Year: 2012 Leyton & Walthamstow Hospital Cup Winners: 1925/6 Essex Senior League Programme of the Year: 2017/8 39 WALTHAMSTOW GREAT WAKERING R.
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