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0 0 . 1 £ 2 E U S S I k 3 1 0 2 / 2 l 1 0 2 E M M A R G O R a P Y A D H C T A t M L A I C I F F O S S E R v Thrapston Town Saturday 15th September 2012 3.00pm FA Carslberg Vase 2nd Round Qualifying P 20 YEARS BOOKSHOP 1992–2012 Wishing you all the best for a fantastic season 1 TrinityTrinityr Street Cambridge CB2C 1SZ Phone 01223 333333 www.cambridge.org/bookshopwww.cambridge.org/boookshop FollowFollow us on FacebookFacebook and TwitterTwittter WELCOME Cambridge University Press Football Club The Cass Centre, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8BS Tel: 07728 344088 Email: [email protected] www.cupfc.net Club Officials President Stephen Bourne WELCOME Chairman Nigel Atkinson Vice Chairman Chris Hughes Treasurer & Fixture Secretary Ian Crofts General Secretary Gary Crick Reserve Fixture Secretary Andrew Burton Nigel Atkinson Registrations Secretary Graham Edwards Child Welfare Officer Lorraine Cullum Chairman General Committee t is with great pleasure that we welcome the Daniels joins us and will be well-known to others Kenny Paterson, Trevor George, Officials, Players and Supporters of Thrapston in the region as a successful professional Jack Watson, Michael Lambert ITown Football Club for the FA Vase match at footballer and manager. He has encouraged a Groundsman (Cass) Mark Critoph the Glassworld Stadium, the home of Histon FC. number of others to join him in various capacities Groundsman (Histon) Trevor Ball We hope that you will enjoy the facilities on offer and we welcome them to the club as well. The Programme Editor Gary Crick as well as the game. team itself has some new players, but the first This is the first time CUPFC has played in the FA team will include many players from last season, Management Vase, which is very exciting. It is the club’s third who are looking forward to a long, enjoyable and First Team Manager season in what is now the Thurlow Nunn League successful campaign. Division One and we are pleased to have enjoyed Cambridge University Press’s Charity of the Year Graham Daniels some success in the first two. The results in the is Romsey Mill in Cambridge, which will be First Team Coaches first few games of this season have been receiving some proceeds from the programmes Matt Joseph, Neil O’Donohue, particularly pleasing. Playing at a ground played we sell on the day, as well as other activities Gary Crick & Andy Cranch at by a professional club has been a new experi - during the season. Physiotherapist ence and we hope the success continues for the We do try to provide a top-level service to all Neil O’Donohue players and spectators alike. It is also a pleasure concerned, but please do let us know if you think Reserve Team Manager to welcome a number of former CUPFC players we could or should do anything differently or Darren Burton to this game, including Keith Wilson who not only better this season. it would be good to see you A Team Manager played, but had several roles in the club, and who before, during or after the game. Andi Thwaites is sponsoring the game today through his Veterans Manager business Hometyre. Nigel Atkinson Andy Cranch CUPFC has a new manager this season. Graham Chairman, CUPFC. Club Scouts Dick Crampton, Andy Ross, Steve O’Donohue 0 0 . 1 £ 2 Honorary Vice Presidents E U inside S S I k 3 1 0 2 Keith Wilson, Jerry Papworth, / 03 Chairman 2 l 1 0 2 E M M A Gareth Chapman R 05 Manager G O R a P Y A D H C 08 Visitors T A t M L A I C I F MATCHDAY PROGRAMME F O 10 League news Printing GRT Print Solutions, S 11 Fixtures & results tel 01223 440490 mob 07810 501220 S 12 CUP Stats 12/13 Finishing Falcon Printing Services Ltd, 14 CUP news E Scan on your smart phone for Unit 14, Ronald Rolph Court, Wadloes Road, 17 Reserves & A team latest club news on Cambridge CB5 8PX R v Thrapston Town 18 Non League Paper www.cupfc.net Saturday 15th September 2012 3.00pm FA Carslberg Vase 2nd Round Qualifying tel 01223 212523 P 24 Team line ups 03 NEEDSAVE TIME AND MONEY TYRES? 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I look forward to chatting with Ian before the stage of the season I'd like, in game gets going as fellow members of the 'Managers' particular, to thank Neil O' Donohue, Matt Joseph and Andy Union', made up of those who share the marvelous highs of Cranch for their excellent input on the training ground since victory alongside the horrible lows of defeat on a weekly we started pre-season. basis! Thank you for joining us on today's historic occasion for I'd also like to offer a very warm welcome to Keith Wilson of Cambridge University Press. I hope it's a great game played Hometyre as our match sponsor and to thank him for inviting and spectated in the best possible spirit. a number of former Cambridge University Press players to join him at today's game. It's great to have you with us for Danno the club's first ever appearance in the FA Vase and we hope you enjoy catching up with each other as you watch the game and share a few jars together. Graham Daniels is sponsored by As we reach a natural break to our league season this afternoon, its a natural time to reflect on our start to the season. It's been a strange experience to have played six games and to have had to travel away for five of them. Nevertheless, it's gone very well and the players and staff have acquitted themselves very well. Every single member of CAMB LIGHT REMOVALS FULL HOUSE MOVES: SINGLE ITEMS: LOCAL: LONG DISTANCE: STORAGE: HOUSE/ GARDEN COLLECTIONS STUDENT MOVES PROFESSIONAL AND FRIENDLY FAMILY BUSINESS FOR OVER 10 YEARS FOR FREE MOVING ADVICE AND QUOTES CALL 01480 352220 or 07894526863 email: [email protected] www.cambslightremovals.com 05 THE VISITORS welcome to THRAPSTON TOWN oday we welcome Thrapston Town Football Club to Season 2010-11: The Glassworld Stadium for our first ever FA Vase This turned out to be collectively the most successful Tgame. Thrapston defeated our fellow Thurlow Nunn season Thrapston Town FC has experienced since joining Division Once neighbours, March Town United 2-1 in the the UCL. The season started with the appointment of a previous round. new 1st Team Manager in Joe Smyth. The club was founded as Thrapston Venturas in 1960, and A complete new playing staff was also recruited and the first played in the Kettering Amateur League. The club new structure saw the 1st Team finish Runners Up in Div1 quickly moved up the ladder with a series of promotions and win promotion to the UCL Prem for the first time in and in 1967 contested the Northants Lower Junior Cup their history. Along the way was a memorable FA Vase final losing to Kings Sutton. run culminating in defeat by eventual Semi Finalists, Kings Lynn in front of a home crowd of almost 500. By the seventies Venturas were among the leading lights Another record for the club. in local football. They dominated the KAL with champi - onships in 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1978. They also The Res Team also saw benefits to having an improved won the Munton Cup four times, completing a double in squad. They not only came Runners Up to a funded Kings 1971 and 1977. Lynn Res side and gained promotion in their own right to Res Div1; but they also went on to win the Res KO Cup A new challenge was sought in 1978 as Thrapston joined beating higher graded Blackstone 3-2 in the final. the UCL. The club finished third in Division Two in their second campaign and were placed in Division One as a 2010/11 season saw the club have its most successful result of league organisation. season with the 1st team under the management of Joe Smyth gaining promotion to the UCL Premier Division, The club's first success on the county front saw the the first time in the clubs history. The Reserves managed reserves win the Lower Junior Cup in 1981, the first team by Dom Berardi also gained promotion to Reserve followed suit in 1989 when a 5-1 replay drubbing of Division 1 and against all expectations beat higher Perkins Sports brought the Junior Cup to Chancery Lane. opposition Blackstones Res 3 – 2 to win the UCL Reserve Further Cup successes followed in 1999 when Bugbrooke Division KO Cup. were beaten in a penalty shootout, 2001 when UCL Division 1 Champions Daventry Town were beaten 3-1 2011/12 saw us struggle to compete in the Premier and 2004, the 3-0 defeat of Cottingham at Nene Park Division and with two managers departing during the bringing down the curtain on the lengthy managerial season our membership of the top UCL division was to be reign of Gary Petts.