Walthamstow Fc

FOOTBALL CLUB FOOTBALL WALTHAMSTOW 1 vs CLAPTON Saturday 4 January 2020 // 3PM Wadham Lodge // Essex Senior Legue 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 Player/Assistant Manager: Nick Symons Management Team: Danny Cohen, Krasimir Korsachki, Che Stadhart 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 SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: facebook.com/walthamstowfc Instagram: @walthamstowfc Twitter: @walthamstowfc YouTube: youtube.com/walthamstowfc Website: walthamstowfc.com ANDRZEJ PERKINS THE EDITOR ood afternoon everyone, and a happy There’s been a bit of player movement since our last new year. Welcome to Wadham Lodge for home game. Billy Jones has moved to Harlow Town this Essex Senior League game against for his fourth spell there, while Steve Carvell has also Clapton. departed. Ollie Fortune has moved to Saffron Walden, where he scored on his debut. Left back Joel Brown has I trust you all had an enjoyable festive period, and joined from Cockfosters, after numerous attempts to didn’t miss the football too much. The turnout for the sign him since Cockfosters visted us back in September. Peter Butcher Trophy tie against Barkingside Reserves suggests you all had far better things to be getting on 2019 was a great year for us, with a league record with. reading P36, W28, D3, L5, GF92, GA18. But with this season’s Essex Senior League being the tightest in The 5-0 victory over Redbridge’s reserve side was years, we’ll have to build on this and go even better in almost a training match. After we’d gone a few goals 2020 if we want to get anything come the end of April. up with only a quarter of an hour played, it was clear the game wouldn’t be a competitve one. But it provided Here’s hoping 2020 is our year. a useful run-out for the team, and a certain Ryan Maxwell even got on the score-sheet, firing a corner Enjoy the game, directly in. Andrzej 3 CHARLIE WARD THE TREE SURGEON Hello everyone and welcome to our they have been towards the bottom of the Essex Senior first home game of 2020. Hopefully, League, which is where they sit currently. everyone will have recovered from too much turkey/Christmas pud/cigars & So Clapton have been forced to enter a ground share brandy at Christmas and late-night excesses on New agreement with Southend Manor to play home games Years Eve and be bright-eyed today. there. Hopefully, the supporters will be as well. The clubs owner has been suspended indefinitely until he attends an FA hearing and you have to feel sorry for Today we play host to a club whose history is almost as the hardy few, who still love and support Clapton FC. long as our own. Certainly given our rather chequered past few decades Clapton FC are founders members of the Isthmian in terms of club stability and with Andy’s Twitter League but, in recent decades their fortunes have statement a few weeks ago, that in November 2017 the tumbled. club were days away from going bust, you have to say “there, but for the grace of God go I” From being the members of a single Isthmian League in the 60s and 70s they slid down the Divisions, once I think that former Waltham Forest manager Qayum the Isthmian League expanded and for some while now, Shakoor is now in charge at Clapton, although with the 4 CHARLIE WARD lack of updates on the main site or on Twitter, it is hard goal led from yet another goal from super sub, Lewis to tell. Francis, before a late, late strike from the home side saw us win 4-2. Having just looked at the players registered for Clapton and seen names like William Hunt/GeIsaac Charles/ Normal defensive service was resumed at Sporting Germaine Dua/Salim Nassor (the last two recently Bengal, as two early goals by Dwade (although the being part of the Glen Tamplin revolution at Romford, first one is still up for debate between him and Benji, for about five minutes)/Paulius Divketicius & Harrison who’s original effort may have been over the line before Tweedle (and those are the ones I remember, there Dwade made sure), were enough to see us home. may be more), all of whom played for us under “Q” it would seem he does at least have an involvement in Just a word about Dwade, who managed to score fifty first-team matters. goals for us in just forty-eight games, in the year he has been with us. He has improved no end, even though Certainly then, there will be plenty of people with a before he joined us last season he had bulged the net desire to put one over on their former club today. over a dozen times for Leyton Athletic. Since our 1-0 defeat in the dying minutes against He is one of the few players who genuinely always Hashtag, we have managed three wins on the trot in plays with a smile of his face, despite sometimes being the League. a marked man (literally) as his reputation grows month on month. We showed a very determined side to our game in the 2-1 win against a Hoddesdon side who showed their I understand his rate of all-round improvement is due toughness in defence. in no small measure from the coaching he is currently receiving from former Leyton Pennant striker, Che Having dominated the first half without making the Stadhart who formed one half of a deadly partnership breakthrough, we fell behind to an excellent free-kick with a certain Mr Billy Cove. goal and could have conceded a second when they hit the bar, as they caught cold in the opening minutes of Mind you the fact that Che no longer plays makes me the second half. feel really old, as I remember him coming through the reserves to play in the first team. But, we rolled up our sleeves and got ourselves back into the game when Dwade James set up substitute, Speaking of strikers, we have recently lost two of ours Lewis Francis to score his third goal in four games and to other clubs - Ollie Fortune who has moved to Saffron then Benji Crilley, thrashed home the winner from Walden in search of more regular starts and scored the inside the box in added time. winner on his debut against Sty Margaretsbury and Billy Jones who has stepped up to the Isthmian League Good teams win when perhaps not at their best and so Division One, with Harlow Town. it proved then. The big re-run against Hashtag was of course rained off, We then had another “floodlight failure” interrupted like all the other ESL fixtures and I have typed these game at Barking’s Mayesbrook Park, where, after notes before our first ever game in the Peter Butcher a dominant first half we went in at half time, three Trophy where we were due to be away to Redbridge goals to the good, with two for Dwade and another reserves (providing the game was played given the from Callum Ibe putting us in a seemingly unassailable atrocious weather conditions recently), so today gives position. us a chance to get a good winning start to 2020 and with it, hopefully a continuation of a winning League But, the two delays certainly helped the home team run that will go some way to helping us to the title. who pulled a goal back, but, we restored our three 5 THE BIG PICTURE 6 A time for reflection, as Stow lead Redbridge reserves 5-0 at half time last Saturday. 7 today’s vistors clapton Image: Bill Badger It was another transitional season for before Christmas. Clapton, finishing 11th and still searching for the form which saw them come 2nd in 2016- One positive was reaching the semi-final of 17. the Errington Cup, though on the big day, they lost 4-2 to West Essex. Former Stow defender Dom Shephard lead the way for appearances, starting 29 of There wasn’t much to shout about in the FA’s Clapton’s game last term. cup competitions either, falling at the first hurdle in the FA Cup, and losing to step 6 It was at the other end that Clapton struggled Newbury Forest in the 2nd Qualifying Round though, Eusebio da Silva’s eight goals in eight of the FA Vase. games was impressive, but he was the Tons’ top scorer, with Ryan Reed second on just six However, the season did finish on a high with goals. Tons beating Takeley 2-1 and then smashing Sporting Bengal 7-1 on the final day - halting Their league season started brightly, losing a run of seven games without a win. This was just twice in their opening ten games. But soon met by the news that manager Jonny their form after that was patchy, suffering Fowell would be leaving to take up the reigns heavy defeats to Stansted (5-2), Saffron at St Margaretsbury.

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