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THE OFFICIAL 2021/2022 MATCHDAY PROGRAMME v Basildon United SATURDAY 14TH AUGUST 2021, 3PM PITCHING IN ISTHMIAN NORTH LEAGUE Pentalver Container Logistics Contact us today: Specialists 0333 150 2673 [email protected] • Road Haulage • Container Storage • Container Sales Our depots: • Container Conversions Cannock • Reefer Services and Sales Felixstowe Southampton • Cargo Handling London Gateway • Container Maintenance and Repair Tilbury JOINT CHAIRMAN CHRIS DAYNES Good afternoon and welcome back to the Goldstar Ground for our opening league fixture of the season. With restrictions easing, you’ll find a more ‘normal’ experience around the place today, although we’d still urge everyone to show a degree of caution and help us attempt to achieve a full season of football at last! It’s also a new era for our U23’s, U18’s I’d like to start by thanking all our sponsors and Academy sides as we make changes to for their support in trying times, and to all provide a conveyor belt of young, local talent our fans who’ve shown tremendous loyalty feeding into the senior set up. It won’t happen once again and especially those who have overnight, but we’re building strong foundations purchased season tickets in record numbers. to give the pathways the best possible opportunity to develop our players. Another thank you to all those who have helped us get the ground in tip-top condition with more improvements happening all the time, it’s testament to the hard work put in. We’re always looking for more people to help the matchday operations or working parties through the week. If you can spare an hour or two every now and again, or regularly each week, please do get in touch. Enjoy today’s match, give the side your Our management team have built on full support and we hope to see you back the squad that showed such promise in the here next Saturday as we start on the long early stages of last season with some quality road to Wembley! additions and there is a real buzz around the place that we can make a challenge for the Best wishes play offs this year. Chris PUBLICATION OF OWNERSHIP Felixstowe & Walton United Football Club is owned and managed by Felixstowe & Walton United Football Club Ltd (by guarantee) registration number 10076800. The Chairman of the Company is Christopher Daynes, Andrew Clarke & Matthew Hope. The Directors of the Company are Christopher Daynes, Andrew Clarke, Matthew Hope, Tamlyn Ward & James Simmonds. FROM THE DUGOUT STUART BOARDLEY A warm welcome, first and So, a summer of ambitious improvement on the playing front really does excite both foremost to the Basildon myself and the coaching staff for what may players and their staff for be possible this season. It’ll take a bit of time what we hope is a competitive to gel as we’ve still not been able to field a full strength side as yet with isolations, injuries and and entertaining game. holidays, but we hope we can hit the ground Secondly, a huge welcome back to you all running and start as we mean to go on. reading this. It seems an eternity since we The support I have had from the had competitive football at the Goldstar and Chairmen to establish the squad we have boy are we happy to be back! today has been unwavering so a big thanks The squad - for those of you who haven’t to them for the faith in myself and Andy in kept up to date with comings and going’s, we’ve what we are trying to build. said goodbye to Dan Davis, Jamal Wiggins, Lastly, I think we should all just take a Josh Kerridge and Tyger Smalls but welcome moment to recognise all the volunteers to the Club, Curtley Williams, Joe Whight, Billy who have given their valuable time and Holland, Josh Hitter and Zak Brown whilst also effort over the last year or so in very testing bringing back Danny Crump as GK/Coach. circumstances and have helped the club appear on the other side of Covid in a strong position. Help with the pitch, ground maintenance, grants, media, too many jobs to mention but from the players and staff at the club these things do not go unnoticed and we thank you all. Boards CLUB CAPTAIN CALLUM BENNETT lub captain for this season is Callum Bennett, one of the most talented defenders in the Division. Callum Cjoined the club in February 2015, making his debut as a substitute at home against Hadleigh United on 20th February and his full debut a week later at Whitton United. Callum has made 159 appearances for the club up to today scoring 18 goals, a few of them pretty spectacular! Callum spoke to the media team following his appointment. “This football club, the community, the squad and most importantly the bond we have with the fans are so special. I am extremely proud to have been named Captain and I am looking forward to seeing a packed Goldstar, full of Seasiders soon. It’s been far too long!” Seasiders Manager Stuart Boardley said: “With the departure of Josh Kerridge in the summer, we were looking for a new skipper for the side, Callum came to the fore very early on in pre-season with his attitude and the respect that he has from the other members of the squad, so it was an easy decision to appoint him, he has been a regular in the side for a long time, he knows the club, he knows the people, and he knows what Andy and I are trying to get across to the players ,both in terms of how we want them to act away from the football club, as well as how we want them to play on the pitch. We felt he was the perfect person for the job and we are really pleased that he accepted the role and he will now lead the group for the coming season”. SEASIDER PHIL GRIFFITHS Not many people know this …… The first historical Our paths first crossed in 1984 at the 1st reference to Basildon Qualifying Round stage of the FA Cup, a game is in records from played at Gardiners Close, Basildon, which 1086, that’s before the home side won 4-0 - they went on to even I was born! It draw against Harlow Town at Harlow before was mentioned in losing the replay 3-2. Harlow went on to beat the Domesday Book Chelmsford City, making it through to the 4th as Belesduna. The qualifying round, before Met Police ended name Basildon may their dreams. be a derivative from At the time our visitors were in the Essex the Anglo-Saxon personal name ‘Boerthal’ Senior League, while we were members of and ‘Dun’ meaning hill. Down the centuries it the Eastern Counties League. evolved through Berdlesdon, Batlesdon and There was a thirty-year gap before we Belesduna to Basildon … Absolutely no idea crossed paths again, when we were drawn where the United bit came from! together in 1st Round of the 2016/17 FA Vase - again the Bees were victorious at Gardiners We’ve met before Close, winning 3-2. Basildon United – The Bees We finally played a League game against Our visitors are quite a young club in football them on 17th November 2018, a third game years, being formed in the early sixties as at Gardiners Close, but this time we took the Armada Sports, and joining senior football points 1-0, the reverse fixture produced the in 1971 as a founder member of the Essex same scoreline with the same winner in front Senior League. of 334 spectators at the Goldstar ground… And then, there was COVID! Two disrupted seasons, and possibly a third, as we start our 4th Isthmian League North campaign. a group of individual venues in Felixstowe Supporting The Seasiders CAFÉ BENCOTTO THE ALEX VIEW POINT CAFE Pizza, Pasta, Café Bar & Fish and Mediterranean Brasserie Ships ————— ————— ———–— Town Centre Seafront Landguard Peninsular IP11 7AB IP11 2AF IP11 3TW CONTAINER LOGISTICS | DISTRIBUTION & WAREHOUSING SPECIALIST HAULAGE | SURFACE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS SUPPORTING THE SEASIDERS! www.mazesolutions.co.uk 01473 653010 “Our focus on quality and support makes DPS the ideal partner for ALL your Computing, Telephony & Internet needs.” www.dpstech.co.uk 01473 283283 WELCOME HOME ZAK BROWN Felixstowe & Walton Utd have signed striker Zak Brown from Ipswich Town on a permanent deal. Zak was a former junior player for the Seasiders before signing professionally for Ipswich and is the brother of Charlie Brown, another Felixstowe boy who was been a prolific goal scorer at Chelsea, before joining MK Dons last year. Speaking to the media team after the friendly win over Ipswich Town U18’s, Zak explained why he’d signed. “It’s been a long time since I was here and I’m delighted I’m now back at the club and I’m really excited to be here. I’m looking forward to getting to he calls home and I think he’ll be a know the boys and scoring some goals for huge asset to the club moving forward. the club. I’ve chosen Felixstowe because it’s For myself and Andy’s (Crump) point of view, my home town club, myself, my parents and it’s the last piece in the jigsaw to allow us to family know a lot of people here so it felt like really challenge this year”. the right move for me and the right place to Joint Chairman Matt Hope said “As a club, come.