Sydenhams Football League News 2020/21 Edition Number 07
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SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 07 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of your Newsletter, if you have anything to contribute, please do get in touch by email- [email protected] You can keep up to date with all the news from around the League by following us on Twitter at - @Sydwessex You are more than welcome to use any material (excluding attributed photographs) but it would be appreciated if any material used is acknowledged. It is hoped you enjoy reading this each week. With readership quite widespread, not only within our own competition, but across the three counties and beyond- if ANY club has anything they’d like to have published in here, whether that be a request for helpers, promotion of forthcoming events, items required or available for sale please contact the Newsletter Editor. As a general reminder- Match Reports, player news and photos are always welcome- it is your Newsletter! Saturday, 15 August 2020 Page 1 of 20 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 07 ARE YOU LISTENING? The Sydenhams Wessex Football League Show is the official podcast of the Sydenhams Wessex League. We’re on air live from the 103.9 Voice FM studios in Southampton from 3pm to 5pm every Sunday and you can also listen live on www.voicefmradio.co.uk from anywhere in the world. You can listen again afterwards, normally just one hour after the show has finished via the same website and there is also a Voice FM App you can download to your Phone I-Pad or Computer device. Our aim is to promote all local football but specifically the 38 teams of the Sydenhams Wessex League. So far, we have had managers, chairmen, players, press officers and secretaries joining us as studio guests and phone guests; from many Sydenhams Wessex League clubs, as well as guests from local teams both higher up and lower down the pyramid. This is your show and is a platform for your club to promote its events and raise its profile. If your club produces post-match interviews please either email us a copy of the audio or give permission for us to play them on air straight from your website or social media sites, as we will aim to play them on the show. Please come and join us one Sunday, at the moment, no guests will be allowed in the Studio, but please email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information. Saturday, 15 August 2020 Page 2 of 20 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 07 2011/12 UNDER THE MICROSCOPE RANK PREMIER DIVISION PL W D L GF GA GD PTS 1 Winchester City 42 33 5 4 138 39 99 104 2 Bemerton Heath Harlequins 42 28 6 8 104 39 65 90 3 Christchurch 42 26 7 9 78 45 33 85 4 Moneyfields 42 26 6 10 105 62 43 84 5 GE Hamble 42 27 3 12 90 53 37 84 6 Downton 42 24 4 14 80 65 15 76 7 Hamworthy United 42 21 8 13 69 62 7 71 8 Romsey Town 42 21 4 17 77 66 11 67 9 Bournemouth 42 18 10 14 61 54 7 64 10 Alton Town 42 19 4 19 74 83 -9 61 11 Totton & Eling 42 17 8 17 80 77 3 59 12 Fareham Town 42 14 14 14 77 68 9 56 13 Newport IOW 42 17 5 20 59 80 -21 56 14 Lymington Town 42 16 5 21 63 78 -15 53 15 Alresford Town 42 14 8 20 62 80 -18 50 16 Blackfield & Langley 42 12 7 23 63 79 -16 43 17 Horndean 42 10 8 24 47 68 -21 38 18 Hayling United 42 10 8 24 59 104 -45 38 19 Fawley 42 10 7 25 56 81 -25 37 20 New Milton Town 42 10 6 26 64 108 -44 36 21 Brading Town 42 10 6 26 54 102 -48 36 22 Laverstock & Ford 42 7 5 30 59 126 -67 26 Saturday, 15 August 2020 Page 3 of 20 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 07 SYDENHAMS LEAGUE CUP 2011/12- THE STORY First Round - Brading Town 4-1 Hayling United Brockenhurst 2-2 aet Team Solent (Brockenhurst won 4-1 on penalties) Downton 1-0 Hythe & Dibden Fleet Spurs 1-2 Petersfield Town Ringwood Town 1-4 Bemerton Heath Harlequins Romsey Town 1-0 AFC Portchester Whitchurch United 2-6 Winchester City Warminster Town 3-2 Fawley AFC Second Round - Alresford Town 2-6 Moneyfields Alton Town 6-0 US Portsmouth Amesbury Town 0-5 Romsey Town Bemerton Heath Harlequins 3-0 Hamworthy United Bournemouth 7-0 Stockbridge Brockenhurst 5-1 Andover New Street Christchurch 1-0 Warminster Town Downton 2-1 Blackfield & Langley East Cowes Vics 2-0 Fareham Town Laverstock & Ford 2-1 Pewsey Vale Lymington Town 2-1 Brading Town Newport (IOW) 2-0 Horndean Petersfield Town 1-2 Tadley Calleva Totton & Eling 2-3 Cowes Sports Verwood Town 1-2 New Milton Town Winchester City 0-0 aet GE Hamble (GE Hamble won 4-3 on penalties) Third Round - Alton Town 2-4 Moneyfields [Moneyfields removed for playing ineligible player] Bournemouth 5-0 Lymington Town Brockenhurst 4-1 Laverstock & Ford Cowes Sports 2-2 aet Bemerton Heath Harlequins (Bemerton Heath Harlequins won 5-4 on penalties) GE Hamble 1-2 Downton Newport (IOW) 1-0 East Cowes Victoria Romsey Town 1-0 New Milton Town Tadley Calleva 0-3 Christchurch Quarter Finals - Bournemouth 4-0 Bemerton Heath Harlequins Brockenhurst 2-2 aet Alton Town (Brockenhurst won 4-2 on penalties) Christchurch 3-1 Romsey Town Newport IOW 2-4 Downton Semi Finals Bournemouth 0-1 Brockenhurst [at New Milton Town] Christchurch 2-1 Downton [at Hamworthy United] Final Christchurch 3 (Griffin, Osborne 2) Brockenhurst 1 (Kenna) [at Bemerton Heath Harlequins] Saturday, 15 August 2020 Page 4 of 20 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2020/21 EDITION NUMBER 07 Graham Kemp’s Christchurch ended their best ever campaign by lifting the League Cup, dominating the closing stages to run out worthy winners. In brief a goal from Sam Griffin gave Christchurch a 23rd minute lead and that was how the game stood at the interval. Warren Kenna levelled the tie with an outrageous 30 yard lob shortly after the resumption. Against the overall run of play Christchurch regained the lead when Ben Osborne rounded Badgers’ Scott O’Rourke following a pinpoint long ball from Mark Smith. Russell Cook was denied at least twice more before Osborne converted a late penalty to make the tie safe. Elsewhere, London was the host for the 30th Summer Olympics, whilst Greece, who hosted the first Olympic games of the modern era was financially “saved” as a result of a Eurozone bailout. It was the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and who can forget the James Bond parachute jump shown on TV as part of the opening ceremony for the aforementioned sporting festivities, and keeping things MI6, Bond’s Skyfall pressed for top film but missed out to The Avengers. Whitney Houston who appeared in a recent edition of our Newsletter died in February 2011. On the grass, Manchester City won the Premiership and Chelsea again won the FA Cup, this time by the best of three against Liverpool, and also at Wembley the (first) all-Northern League FA Vase final between Dunston UTS and West Auckland Town ended in a 2-0 win for the Tyneside outfit. In local county FA competitions the four cups were decided as below- Dorset Dorchester Town 2-0 Wimborne Town Hampshire Eastleigh 2-0 AFC Totton Wiltshire Calne Town 2-1 Bemerton Heath Harlequins Russell-Cotes Bemerton Heath Harlequins 2-0 Christchurch Former members went down in the battle of the Magpies and two other member clubs battled it out in front of just over 2,300 spectators at St Marys in the Hampshire equivalent, Eastleigh triumphing with goals from Chris Flood and Mitchell Nelson to give the Spitfires’ their first ever Senior Cup Final victory. For only the second time in around 50 years the Russell-Cotes Cup left the county of Hampshire bound for Wiltshire with Bemerton’s 2-0 win over Christchurch in an all-Wessex affair. However on the opposite side of the coin so to speak, in the Wiltshire Senior Cup, the Harlequins conceded two early goals at Chippenham thanks to a Tyler Sibbick penalty in the first minute and a Levi Cox strike on 20, before Danny Young netted six minutes before the break. Unfortunately, ugly scenes after the final whistle took the gloss off the event- the least said the better. Season 2011/12 and the Wessex League’s twenty fifth anniversary -1986-87 seems a long time ago - and much to the good had happened in the period in between. The Premier Division consisted of twenty-two Clubs – no change in number from the previous season – but had lost two and gained two. Poole Town had been promoted to the Southern League while Brockenhurst, founder members of the League, were relegated for the first time. In their place, promoted from Division One, came Downton and Horndean whilst Hamble ASSC had one of their periodic name changes and were now known as GE Hamble. Just five of the Clubs shown in the final Table are no longer with the League - Winchester, Moneyfields and Blackfield & Langley have moved to higher spheres, Hayling United are one of the kingpins of the Hampshire Premier League while Brading withdrew in the close season and returned to the Island League.