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Official Matchday Programme 2019-20 vs BEACONSFIELD TOWN FC Saturday 26 October 2019 FA Trophy First Qualifying Round vs SPELTHORNE SPORTS FC Tuesday 29 October 2019 PRICE £1 Surrey Senior Cup Preliminary Round 2019-20 club sponsor Are you at risk of type 2 diabetes? Find out by taking our 1-minute quiz www.FruitStreetHealth.co.uk Westfield Football Club established 1953 Woking Park, Kingfield Road, Woking, GU22 9BA 01483 771106 (matchdays) or 07407 480032 Around the Club Welcome to Woking Park Steve Perkins - Chairman Everyone here at Westfield FC, Dave Robson - Vice Chairman players, officials, supporters and Richard Hill - President generous sponsors are delighted to Michael Lawrence - Secretary welcome you all to Saturday’s game in Darren Pasley - Fixtures Secretary the FA Trophy, and Tuesday night’s Peter Beale - Treasurer tie in the Surrey Senior Cup. Mick Powell - Facilities Manager A particularly warm welcome is Neil Harding - Bar Manager extended to our Match Officials and Kevin Putney - Facilities Supervisor all those who have travelled from both Beaconsfield and Spelthorne for Neil Collins - Website & Programme Editor our eighth and ninth home games of Jim Ahmed - Commercial Manager the season. We hope you enjoy your Rich Talbot - Marketing Manager day, our facilities and hospitality, and Pete Rumble - Youth Liaison Officer have a safe journey home. Management & Backroom Our visitors from Buckinghamshire are Tony Reid - Club Manager having a difficult season at the foot of the Southern Premier South, but Martyn Lee - Assistant Manager should still be respected for their David Powell & Alex Lumley - Coaches Step 3 status, and our desire to reach Stuart Baverstock - Goalkeeping Coach the same level will, I’m sure, come Tiffany Weedon - Physio through this afternoon. Jim Lee - Kitman Our next home League game has Roger Steer - Director of Football been a while coming, and looks to be Dean Thomas - Head of Recruitment a great advert for the non-league Nick Ayling - Reserve Team Manager game as we entertain Tooting & Mark Long - Reserve Team Coach Mitcham in two weeks’ time (Nov Robbie Porter - Under 18s Team Manager 9th). Last year’s encounter saw Westfield come back from an early Vice Presidents Tooting goal, to win 2-1 in the last 15 John Ellesley Michael Lawrence minutes, so please join us at Woking Philip Arthur-Wosop Alan Morton Park for another exciting contest. Peter Gales Graham Pope Enjoy the games, Nobby Reynolds Colin Rearden Neil Collins Programme Editor Alan Evans Neil Harding Brian Weston Pat Kelly John McIlhargy David Robson To our volunteers, fans, John Ludlow Michael Robson sponsors and everyone Mick Joseph Martin Powell who helps to support the Doreen Cable Mark Pullen Club at each game - WE THANK YOU ALL Special thanks to our CLUB SPONSORS BetVictor Isthmian League South Central Roundup by Ian Townsend Saturday 5 October - the last time Westfield played a League game! We’ve new leaders at the top of the South other goal whilst George Taban and Dinu Central Division, Hanwell Town Barcari found the net for the Wolves. taking over at the summit after they Uxbridge climbed to seventh, early goals comfortable beat Chalfont St Peter whilst from Mark Bitmead and Mahlondo Martin Westfield fell to defeat at Barking. enough to beat Chipstead, whilst Dwayne Duncan, Gareth Chendlik and Waltham Abbey scored SIX at Jeremiah Miah scored for the Geordies in Northwood. The Abbotts took a second a three-nil win, whilst a goal in each half minute lead through Aron Gordon only from Junior Dadson gave Barking the for Harry Lodovica to equalise a quarter points at Mayesbrook Park. of an hour later. After the break, however, Harlow Town fell behind in two minutes it was one way traffic- Darrelle Russell, at Ashford Town, Dan brown with the Gordon again, Nathan Koranteng, Louis goal, but equalised five minutes later Bowen and Leonne McKenzie finding the through Oliver Gnadi and then completed net for the visitors, who climb to eighth. a smash and grab in the last minute when Our other two matches were drawn. Andy Matthew Rush scored the winner. The Ali gave Bedfont Sports the lead at Hawks go fourth, and Bracknell Town are Marlow only for Kelvin Bossman to fifth, a Nathan Minhas hat trick helping equalise, whilst Hertford Town and South the Robins to a four-two win over FC Park couldn’t manage a goal between Romania. Seb Bowerman got Bracknell’s them. A series of articles by the author of the book ‘A History and Guide to Football Programmes’ describing how programmes have changed over a century-and-a-half of Association Football Everybody’s Doing It in the 1920s Programme issuing by clubs and associations became the norm in the 1920’s, resulting from the example shown by those clubs whose pre-Great War programmes had proved to be good sellers, and significant profit makers. Another reason for the explosion of issues was the widespread provision of “Half Time Scoreboards” around football grounds. In the days before radio coverage and teletext, football crowds had to rely on the “half times” from other grounds being displayed on enormous fixed boards (either at the back of the terracing or at the trackside), to ascertain how rivals were faring. The only means of deciphering the mixture of letters and numbers was to refer to the coded list of fixtures printed in the match programme. In this way, the programme had evolved from being a means of identification of players to being a vehicle for even more spectator information. Part of the sudden upsurge in programme production was the virtual doubling of the size of the Football League in the early 1920’s, by the formation of Division 3 North and the transfer of clubs from the Southern League to form Division 3 South. Thus we have the first regular issue of programmes from Rochdale in 1922/23, Halifax Town in 1921/22 and such long forgotten ex-League clubs as Wigan Borough and Stalybridge Celtic (both 1921/22) and Nelson (1924/25). Of clubs to join the League in subsequent years, York City issued an 8-page programme in 1924/25 in the Midland League, and Torquay United first issued (starting with FA Cup ties) in 1923/24. Chelsea, host club of the 1920, 1921, and 1922 FA Cup Finals, set a fine example by publishing the first truly official, and substantial, FA Cup Final programmes. Featuring classical sketches by Bernhard Hugh on the cover, these were 24, 20 and 8-page programmes respectively, the last bearing a very close resemblance to the standard Chelsea programme of the inter-war years. The 1920’s was the decade in which football programme production became the norm throughout the Football League, and for all major non-league clubs, and it was also the era in which programmes adopted the format we associate with them today. Henceforth, match programmes would be multi-page, stapled, liberally filled with advertisements and including as a minimum; team selections, fixtures/results, league tables, half-time scoreboard and editorial. For more information and advice on programmes and programme collecting, please visit www.pmfc.co.uk. NLP column by Matt Badcock Last Sunday’s front page of The Non-League Paper was going to be about the first round proper of the FA Cup. About the excitement of the upcoming draw at Maldon & Tiptree as Non-League clubs eagerly awaited those life-changing ties to come out of the hat – and what a draw it turned out to be. It was going to be about those clubs daring to dream. Isthmian Premier club Carshalton Athletic after they upset National League side Dagenham & Redbridge. Or Nantwich Town, who beat National League North high-fliers King’s Lynn Town. Then there was the story of Kingstonian beating higher league opposition in Dartford. There was also the drama at Potters Bar Town, who scored an equaliser against neighbours Barnet in the 11th minute of stoppage time to set up a replay. And there was the excitement of goalkeeper Alan Julian heading an injury-time equaliser at Sutton United to keep Billericay Town’s FA Cup dream alive. The front page was supposed to carry pictures capturing all the emotion of this great competition on another action-packed day in Non-League football. Instead, for the second time in a month, it carried a story about allegations of racism. Once again, the ugly side of society has reared its head in Non-League, and English, football. On the back of the shameful scenes in Bulgaria when England players were racially abused and the game was twice suspended, Haringey Borough walked off the pitch following alleged racism towards goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat. Two men, aged 23 and 26, have since been arrested on suspicion of racially-aggravated common assault. The incident came in the 65th minute following a Yeovil penalty where he claims he was spat at and verbally abused by fans. The match didn’t restart and was abandoned. Boss Tom Loizou also said defender Coby Rowe was targeted. English football was appalled when the men’s senior team was on the end of horrific abuse and there have been calls for strong action against Bulgaria and their authorities. We are equally appalled at these allegations. FA chairman Greg Clarke spoke in the immediate aftermath of the Bulgaria game. He rightly pointed out that we must also look at the game in this country because there are issues that clearly need addressing. There is no hiding from that fact. The conversation must include what we are doing about our game. It’s four weeks since allegations were made during the National League game between Hartlepool United and Dover Athletic.