rrane our first game until we have tried and tested all aspects of facility from playing on the pitches to pouring a pint in the bar and Life President: Frank King ensuring there is hot water in the showers. This in itself will take time but get ready to move home games from Lancing by around mid Directors: season. I can't wait !! Kevin Borrett (Chairman), John Lines (CEO), Mark Butler (Finance)
David Hillier, Paul Osborn (Commercial) James Clewlow (Legal Advisor and Company Secretary), Jeff Barrett Club Committee: The above plus: Sean Bravery (chairman), Annie Raby, Mark Wells, Sam Borrett, Jeanie Charman Roger Charman, Joe Clarke, Ray Farrell, Howard Frogley, Paul Ockenden Nigel Smithers, Matt Dale, Mark Barrett, Paul Osborn HORSHAM FOOTBALL Club Secretary CLUB Jeff Barrett 07712 888980 Email: [email protected] FOUNDED 1881 Youth Secretary & Child Welfare Officer: Annie Raby 07800 922442 Email: [email protected] Health & Safety Officer: Roger Charman Major honours Programme: Mark Wells West Sussex Football Website: Mark Wells League Commercial: 1899-90, 1900-1, 1925-6 Programme advertising: Sue Bravery Email: [email protected] Sussex County League Matchday advertising: Paul Osborn 07748802424 Email: [email protected] 1931-2, 1932-3, 1933-4,
Vice Presidents: 1935-6, 1936-7, 1937-8,
S.Bravery, Mrs J Brittain, G Brittain, J.Dale, T.Dickinson, D.Duffield 1946-7 Mrs J.Mallard, W.Michel, D.Rick, J.Smyth, E.Stephens, Southern Combination Howie the Hornet Football League
Life Members: 2015-16 Jeff Barrett, Roger Charman, Clive Edwards, Howard Frogley, Adam Hammond Sussex RUR Cup Frank King, Maureen Smith, Nigel Smithers, Ted Streeter, Eric Wright, Miss Joan Young 1900,Annie 1931, 1932, 1934 Raby, Ivan Raby, Mark Wells, John Lines (Jt), 1935, 1936,1937, Trustees: A.Baker, D.Burstow, C.Edwards, F.King 1938 (Jt), 1946, 1949
FOOTBALL (Jt), 1951,1952, 1957 1st Team Manager: Dominic di Paola Sussex Floodlight Cup 1st Assistant Manager: Adam Westwood 1977-8, 2001-2 1st Team Coach: Jon Meeney Sussex Senior Cup Goalkeeping coach: Andy McCarthy 1934-5, 1938-9, 1949-50, InjuryTherapist: Stephanie Apps 1953-4, 1971-2, 1973-4, Kit Man: Darren Etheridge 1975-6 Youth Development Officer: Ivan Raby FA Cup 1st Round U16 Manager: Adam Hartley Coach: U13 Green Manager: Ian Scott Coach: Ellis McKay, Andrew Stowell 1947-8, 1966-7 U13 Amber Manager: Tony Massimo Coach: Steve Bridle, Aaron Coniff-Broom FA Cup 2nd Round U12 Manager: Paul Brown Coach Alex Bethell, Ross Butterfill 2007-8 U11 Manager: Sam Jones, Matt Robinson Metropolitan League 1951-2 website: www.horsham-fc.co.uk Athenian League Division Two 1969-70 Athenian League Division One 1972-3 Isthmian League Division Three 1995-6
Life President: Frank King Directors: Kevin Borrett (Chairman), John Lines (CEO), Mark Butler (Finance) David Hillier, Paul Osborn (Commercial), Jeff Barrett James Clewlow (Legal Advisor and Company Secretary)
Club Committee: The above plus: Sean Bravery (chairman), Annie Raby, Mark Wells, Sam Borrett, Jeanie Charman, Roger Charman, Joe Clarke, Ray Farrell, Howard Frogley, Nigel Smithers, Matt Dale, Mark Barrett, HORSHAM FOOTBALL Club Secretary CLUB Jeff Barrett 07712 888980 Email: [email protected] FOUNDED 1881 Youth Secretary & Child Welfare Officer:
Annie Raby 07800 922442 Email: [email protected] Health & Safety Officer: Roger Charman MAJOR HONOURS Programme: Mark Wells West Sussex Football Website: Mark Wells & Matt Dale League Commercial: 1899-90, 1900-1, 1925-6 Matchday advertising: Paul Osborn 07748802424 Email: [email protected] Sussex County League Vice Presidents: 1931-2, 1932-3, 1933-4, S.Bravery, Mrs J Brittain, G Brittain, J.Dale, T.Dickinson, D.Duffield 1935-6, 1936-7, 1937-8, Mrs J.Mallard, W.Michel, D.Rick, J.Smyth, E.Stephens, 1946-7 Howie the Hornet Metropolitan League 1951-2 Life Members: Athenian League Jeff Barrett, Roger Charman, Clive Edwards, Howard Frogley, Adam Hammond, Frank King, Division Two Maureen Smith, Nigel Smithers, Ted Streeter, Eric Wright, Miss Joan Young, Annie Raby, Ivan 1969-70 Raby, Mark Wells, John Lines Trustees: A.Baker, D.Burstow, C.Edwards, F.King Athenian League Division One FOOTBALL 1972-3 1st team manager: Dominic Di Paola Isthmian League 1st team assistant manager: Adam Westwood Division Three st 1 team coach: Jon Meeney 1995-6 Goalkeeping coach: Andy McCarthy Injury therapist: Stephanie Apps Southern Combination Kit man: Darren Etheridge Football League U23 Development manager: Bryan O'Toole Coaches: Lee Hayes, Will Searle 2015-16 U14 Amber manager: Tony Massimo Coach: Steve Bridle Sussex RUR Cup U14 Green manager: Ian Scott Coach: Andy Stowell, Rob Carter 1900, 1931, 1932, 1934 U13 manager: Paul Brown Coach: Alex Bethell, Ross Butterfill U12 manager: Ben Pugh (Jt), 1935, 1936,1937, U11 manager: Sam Jones Coach Matt Robinson 1938 (Jt), 1946, 1949 (Jt), 1951,1952, 1957 website: www.horsham-fc.co.uk Sussex Floodlight Cup 1977-8, 2001-2
Sussex Senior Cup 1934-5, 1938-9, 1949-50, 1953-4, 1971-2, 1973-4, 1975-6 The Isthmian Football League and Horsham FC strongly support the FA FA Cup 1st Round statement that there should be a zero tolerance approach against 1947-8, 1966-7 racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly any forms of nd discriminatory abuse, whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual FA Cup 2 Round orientation, gender, faith, age, ability or other form of abuse will be 2007-8 reported to the Football Association for action by that association.
RESULTS Bostik League South East Division Table Bostik South East Division Saturday 11 August P W D L F A Pts Ashford Utd 3 Hythe Town 1 1 Hastings United 2 2 0 0 8 3 6 East Grinstead Town 1 Phoenix Sports 3 Faversham Town 1 Herne Bay 1 2 Phoenix Sports 2 2 0 0 8 3 6 Greenwich Borough 0 Cray Wanderers 3 3 Ashford United 2 2 0 0 6 1 6 Hastings United 5 Thamesmead Town 1 Horsham 1 Sittingbourne 2 4 Cray Wanderers 2 2 0 0 5 0 6 VCD Athletic 2 Ramsgate 1 5 Sittingbourne 2 2 0 0 6 3 6 Whyteleafe 3 Guernsey 1 6 Whyteleafe 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Emirates FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round 7 VCD Athletic 2 2 0 0 3 1 6 Crawley Down Gatwick 0 Three Bridges 1 Deal Town 2 Whitstable Town 2 8 Faversham Town 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Haywards Heath 0 Lancing 2 9 Hythe Town 2 1 0 1 4 3 3 Sevenoaks Town 6 Lordswood 1 10 Horsham 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round replay 11 Herne Bay 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 Wednesday 15 August Whitstable Town 4 Deal Town 3 12 Sevenoaks Town 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 13 Haywards Heath Town 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Bostik South East Division Saturday 18 August 14 Ramsgate 2 0 0 2 3 5 0 Guernsey 0 Ashford United 3 15 Whitstable Town 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Haywards Heath Town 0 VCD Athletic 1 16 Three Bridges 1 0 0 1 2 5 0 Herne Bay 0 Whyteleafe 1 Hythe Town 3 East Grinstead Town 0 17 Greenwich Borough 2 0 0 2 2 7 0 Phoenix Sports 5 Three Bridges 2 18 Thamesmead Town 2 0 0 2 2 7 0 Ramsgate 2 Hastings United 3 Sevenoaks Town 1 Horsham 2 19 East Grinstead Town 2 0 0 2 1 6 0 Sittingbourne 4 Greenwich Borough 2 20 Guernsey 2 0 0 2 1 6 0
Sunday 19 August Updated 19th August 2018 Cray Wanderers 2 Whitstable Town 0 Thamesmead Town 1 Faversham Town 2
Velocity Trophy Preliminary Round Tuesday 21 August Haywards Heath 2 Horsham 5 CULVER ROAD GROUND REGULATIONS Whitehawk 2 Three Bridges 1 Spectators may not bring the following into the ground: musical Whyteleafe 2 Bedfont Sports 0 instruments, drums, klaxons, air horns, whistles, fireworks, smoke bombs, flares, glass bottles/containers, tin cans or any object that may be deemed to be dangerous. Spectators may not bring alcohol or food and drink into the ground. Spectators must, if required, submit themselves to be searched in order that the club can prevent any prohibited items from being brought into the ground. The club reserves IMPORTANT the right to eject from the ground and prosecute any person who has: Horsham FC does not accept any liability for a) Failed to comply with an instruction given by a County FA or club any injury to or claims of any kind from, official, steward or police officer spectators arising from incidents either within b) Thrown missiles of any description the ground or its precincts. All spectators must c) Encroached onto the playing area remain behind the pitch barrier at all times. All d) Made obscene, racist or insulting gestures or used obscene, racist or vehicles are parked in the car park at the insulting language owner’s risk and the Horsham Football Club e) Used violence of any nature accepts no liability for any losses or damage to f) Climbed on any building, wall, fence or floodlight equipment vehicles of any kind. Parking is not allowed on g) Defaced or committed any act of vandalism against Horsham Football Culver Road. Club or Sussex County Football Association property h) Taken glasses or glass bottles outside the clubhouse building
Greetings
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for giving up your Bank Holiday Monday to join us here at Culver Road for this afternoon's first-ever Bostik League encounter between Horsham and Haywards Heath. Special thanks to John Lines for his sponsorship of today's match and to Howard Frogley for providing the matchball. To the travelling supporters, we congratulate you on your successes of the past three seasons and hope that you enjoy your debut season in the Isthmian League, albeit a season late! The two clubs have met on many occasions in the past of course, most recently last Tuesday when Horsham enjoyed a 5-2 win in the Velocity Trophy, and we take a look back at our meetings in the Metropolitan League days of the 1950s further in the programme.
One of the problems about Bank Holiday fixtures is that it is almost impossible to make reference to the previous Saturday's fixtures which, when that fixture is an FA Cup tie, makes it all the more frustrating. No doubt you will all know the outcome of our very tough-looking match at Carshalton Athletic by now so all I can hope for is that the best team won (and that they were wearing amber and green!). Of what there can have been little doubt is that Dom's players will have been given strong backing by the Lardy Army, who always enjoy their visits to the War Memorial Sports Ground. If the match was drawn, the replay will take place here on Wednesday 5th September where a 7.15pm kick-off will be in place due to local issues regarding the use of floodlights.
It was nice to exorcise some of those FA Cup demons on our visit to Sevenoaks last Saturday, where the lads showed tremendous character to come back from a goal down to take all three points. Although our cup exit there two years ago still casts a shadow in the minds of some, it was good to get the opportunity to exact some sort of revenge. Unfortunately we made the sort of slow start that became our trademark last season when we hosted Sittingbourne here on the opening day and went down 2-1, despite a debut goal from Chris Smith. You can read Dom's thoughts on all our matches so far on the next page.
On the injury front, it was good to see Adam Hunt and Jack Hartley continuing their recovery process and getting minutes under their belts in the U23s' match at Lewes recently, with Jack also playing the final twenty minutes of our match at Haywards Heath the following night. Both players have suffered lengthy injuries with Adam, in particular, suffering a succession of problems that even had him contemplating retiring from the game last season so it's good to see him back and kicking a ball again. At the time of writing, Lewis Hyde is still not quite ready to return to match action, while Lee Harding took a whack at Sevenoaks and Joey Taylor received a knock to the calf in the same match, with Will Hoare complaining of a sore groin following the Haywards Heath match. With two matches in forty-hours this weekend, we are thankful that Dom has put together a strong squad this season!
Next Saturday we're back on our travels with a trip to Whyteleafe and we follow that up with a Velocity Trophy tie at Bracknell Town on Tuesday 4th September (ko 7.45pm). Then, depending on the outcome of the Carshalton tie, we will either have a free weekend or the 1st Qualifying Round of the FA Cup on Saturday 8th September. Please keep an eye on our website for fixture updates. Our next scheduled match here is on Saturday 15th September when we host Herne Bay, a side that won twice here last season – a 5-2 thrashing in the FA Cup and a 2-1 success in the league.
I'm delighted to report that the club 'shop' did a brisk trade at the Sittingbourne game so don't forget to pop along and see what takes your fancy, from replica shirts, baseball caps and badges to clocks and mugs. While you're at it, why not purchase a 50:50 ticket to stand a chance of winning a cash prize? And don't forget that we're only one 'home' match into the current campaign so season tickets can still be purchased from club president Frank King, or ask a club official.
Finally, thank you to everyone for their kind comments regarding the new-look programme. Although a lot of it effectively writes itself (match reports, stats etc) it does become harder to think of new content to include each time so if you have any interesting stories or articles you think your fellow supporter might like to read, please let me know by emailing me at [email protected]. You could start by sending me your first memories of watching Horsham FC for inclusion in the new feature inside the back cover.
Mark Cover image: Steve Metcalf in action at Sevenoaks last weekend, watched by manager Dom Di Paola (photo by John Lines)
From the boss
A warm welcome to Shaun Saunders and his Haywards Heath side this afternoon and, of course, to all our supporters. These notes have had to be prepared before Saturday's FA Cup tie at Carshalton so all I can say is that I hope we have another tie to look forward to on September 8th although we were under no illusions of just how tough our task was going to be.
Anyone who went to Hanbury Park last week to watch our Velocity Trophy tie might be expecting a similar result this afternoon but let me assure you that if our players think the same then they will be in for a shock. Like us, Haywards Heath made a number of changes to their line-up and you don't know how much they wanted to remain in the competition, especially as our 'reward' for winning the match is a midweek trip to Bracknell! I think you'll see a different contest this afternoon and they are perfectly capable of pulling off a result if we're not totally on it and that's the message we will be trying to install into the players. I know they've not made the bestxxxx of starts but that was the same as us when we came out of the County League. There is a huge step up between County and Isthmian football but Shaun is a good experienced manager who knows how to win matches and will get things sorted very quickly, you can be sure of that.
Our opening match here against Sittingbourne was disappointing because we made a poor start and got punished so we didn't really deserve to take anything from the game, although we created enough chances to have got a result. We missed Lewis Hyde more in that one than either of the other two matches because Sittingbourne were very direct and it would have helped us to have him at the back there. Hopefully he will have made a full recovery from injury before too long as he is a key player for us. I will give Sittingbourne credit for the way they went about things, though, as they made things very difficult for us. At Sevenoaks I thought we showed tremendous character to hit back so quickly after going behind to a great strike and then we dominated the rest of the half, and probably twenty-five minutes of the second, before holding firm in the closing stages when Sevenoaks literally threw the kitchen sink at us.
I thought we were okay at Haywards Heath last Tuesday but we have so much to work on still. When we play our football we look really good but we have got to do it for longer periods. Ultimately we're looking to have something like seventy per cent of games, rather than the twenty/twenty-five per cent that we do now. I thought we were rubbish after Daryl's own goal and took a while to get going again so we're not where we want to be just yet. We played some really nice football in the second half and made lots of chances to win by a bigger margin, which is encouraging, but we are still a work in progress. What it did give me a chance to do was mix the side around a bit, not to 'give some of the boys a run out' but because none of them deserved to be on the bench in the first place. We had a decent pre-season and every player deserves to start but that's obviously not possible so it's a case of trying to keep everyone happy, which isn't always easy!
What is particularly pleasing is that we have strength in depth this season, as was seen on Tuesday when we could take Rob O'Toole off and put Chris Smith on. We haven't had those sort of players since I've been here but I feel we're going in the right direction now. It's just a question of how long it will take us to get there.
Enjoy the game.
Dom
MATCH REPORT Horsham 1 Sittingbourne 2 Bostik League South East Division Saturday 11th August 2018 Att 195 The Hornets failed to win their opening league match for a fifth successive season after a slow start saw Sittingbourne score twice inside the opening seventeen minutes of their Culver Road clash. The long throws of Lewis Chambers constantly troubled the home defence and the Brickies' new striker, Bola Dawodu, headed narrowly wide of Josh Pelling’s post before Ira Jackson’s measured eighth minute cross was headed home by Tom Loynes with Steve Metcalf just unable to keep it out.
With Horsham taking a long time to settle, Dan Parkinson had a great chance to extend the lead but shot wide after being put through by the impressive Dawodu whose next contribution was to evade Joe Shelley’s tackle and slip a pass into the path of Jackson who finished well to put the visitors two goals ahead. When the Hornets finally started to string a few passes together they found themselves subjected to several niggly fouls but the resulting free-kicks were well defended and goalkeeper Patrick Lee looked safe under pressure. But the deficit was halved, nine minutes from the interval, when George Hayward collected a clearance and threaded a defence-splitting pass through for Chris Smith who struck the ball perfectly past the advancing 'keeper to open his Horsham account.
A half chance then fell to Will Hoare but his shot was high and wide. Then, with half-time approaching, Brickies right-back Rob Lofting ran from deep inside his own half only to badly miscue his attempted pass to Loynes. There was just time for the visitors to threaten a third goal when Shelley was adjudged to have fouled Dawodu on the left side of the box but the free-kick found its way into Josh Pelling’s gloves and before he could clear his lines the whistle had been blown to end the first half.
Horsham started the second period on the attack but, once again, their attempts to apply more pressure was again being hampered by petty fouls, with the visitors quite confident they had the tools in place to clear free-kicks with ease. Shelley came off worse in a clash of heads with Dawodu but the veteran defender was back in place to deflect Parkinson’s free-kick away from danger. Brickies skipper Chris Webber shot wide from a rare second half corner before Darren Boswell replaced Hayward and was immediately into the action, exchanging passes with Smith only to shoot tamely at Lee. Next it was Boswell teeing up Rob O’Toole but the returning striker planted his effort wide of the post.
With the clock ticking away, Sittingbourne's time-wasting tactics becoming obvious as every effort was made to protect the lead. Several home corners were wasted or cleared although a Harding header was straight at the keeper and his follow-up was blocked for a corner from which Charlie Harris found Shelley at the back post but his powerful header was blocked and cleared. Pelling was called into action in the closing ten minutes, diving full length to hold a Jackson effort, and another dangerous Chambers long throw had to be claimed at the second attempt by Pelling. At the other end, Lee made two vital interceptions from crosses by Harding and Taylor as the Hornets were desperately trying to find a goal from somewhere.
With referee Mr Wells signalling four extra minutes there was little time for Horsham to change the result, despite the introduction of Tyrell Richardson-Brown and George Landais, and the Brickies played the ball into the corners, making sure the three points would go back to Kent with Shelley’s frustration seeing him booked right at the end. Landais had the final kick of the match but his shot was too high.
Horsham: Josh Pelling, Steve Metcalf (Richardson-Brown, 83), Joey Taylor, Charlie Harris, Joe Shelley, Daryl Coleman, Will Hoare (Landais, 83), George Hayward (Boswell, 59), Rob O'Toole, Chris Smith, Lee Harding
Sittingbourne: Patrick Lee, Rob Lofting, Josh Dorling, Dan Parkinson, Lex Allan, Chris Webber, Ira Jackson, Lewis Chambers, Bola Dawodu (Caney-Bryan, 77), Tommy Flagg (McFarlane, 83), Tom Loynes (Adebayo, 89)
Referee: Jamie Wells
Bostik South East Division round-up – part one
Eight games, twenty-nine goals, twenty-two yellows, two reds, four penalties and a hat-trick. There was no shortage of talking points as the Bostik League South East Division got up and running a fortnight ago with three highly-fancied sides putting down an early marker.
The biggest winners were Hastings United, who got off to a victorious start for the sixth season running when they hosted Thamesmead Town. It was the visitors who opened the scoring when the evergreen Richard Pacquette, now with the thirtieth club of his eighteen year career, volleyed in ten minutes before half-time but replies from Sam Adams and Sam Cruttwell put Hastings in the ascendancy by the break. An own goal by Joe Denny later made it 3-1, against the run of play, before Daniel Ajakaiye added two more – the first from the penalty spot – in the closing three minutes.
A best of the day crowd of 429 were at the Homelands to watch the local derby between Ashford United and Hythe Town to see if the home side could live up to their pre-season billing as 'one to watch' against one of the form teams of 2018. Again it was the away team that drew first blood when Charlie Webster slotted home from close range but that's as good as it got for the Cannons as Ashford levelled things through Lanre Azeez – one of ten new names in the Ashford starting line-up. Harry Ottaway, who had set up Azeez's goal, repeated the feat after the break to enable Ambrose Gnahore to put the Nuts 'n' Bolts in front and Sam Corne made sure of the points for Gary Alexander's men, seven minutes from time.
Alexander's old club, Greenwich Borough, suffered an early blow to their confidence when they went down 3-0 to last season's losing play-off semi-finalists Cray Wanderers at the DGS Marine Stadium. In contrast to Hastings, this was Cray's first opening day win for a decade but it needed a spot-kick to get them on their way when Michael Power converted from twelve yards following a foul on Jerome Federico. With Greenwich threatening an equaliser, they were hit with a double-whammy of two goals in as many minutes, midway through the second half, when Power netted his second of the game with Federico adding the third.
Both teams ended with ten men in the match at College Lane, where East Grinstead Town went down 3-1 to Phoenix Sports. The visitors went ahead on thirteen minutes when Jeff Duah-Kessie took advantage of a defensive mistake to score into an empty net but it took the agility and bravery of Sports' 'keeper Steve Phillips, and the woodwork, to keep the Wasps at bay until the hosts' Leo Mazzone picked up a second booking and was sent off just before the hour. Five minutes later Kweku Ansah doubled Sports' lead and, although Ashley Proberts' dismissal restored numerical parity, Duah-Kessie put the result beyond doubt from the penalty spot before Sid Sollis grabbed a consolation for East Grinstead just before the close.
Whyteleafe enjoyed a similar result at home to Guernsey, who continued the trend of away sides scoring first when Will Fitzgerald gave the Green Lions a twentieth minute lead. After that it became the Eddie Dsane show when the number nine equalised on thirty-two minutes and added a second with twenty minutes to go, completing his treble from the spot after he had been fouled inside the area. The only blot on 'Leafe's day was the late dismissal of former Hornet Helge Orome for a second bookable offence.
Sittingbourne's victory here aside, VCD Athletic were the only other side to start with a victory when they took on fellow Kent side Ramsgate at Oakwood. It took the prolific Charlie MacDonald just three minutes to find the net for his new side, having made the summer switch to VCD from Cray Wanderers, and the thirty- seven year old former Brentford man doubled the advantage midway through the first half. The Rams pulled one back, fifteen minutes from time, but it was too little too late for the coastal club.
Only one match finished all square and that came at the Shepherd Neame Stadium where Faversham Town and Herne Bay drew. After a goalless first half, a penalty awarded against Bradley Schafer was slotted home by Ashley Miller only for Bay to level through Connor Cox little more than ten minutes later.
MATCH REPORT
Sevenoaks Town 1 Horsham 2 Bostik League South East Division Saturday 18th August 2018
Horsham played the role of party-poopers, coming from behind to defeat Sevenoaks in their debut Isthmian League fixture and avenging their disappointing FA Cup exit at the same ground two years ago. Sevenoaks, 6-1 winners over Lordswood last week and the reigning Southern Counties East Premier League champions, would have been in buoyant mood ahead of the kick-off but their pre-match plans were disrupted by an injury to long-term Horsham nemesis Kenny Pogue in the warm up. But his replacement, Ryan Fowler, soon showed he could be a threat up front when, just two minutes in, he barged his way into the box and fired a shot straight at Josh Pelling. A couple of minutes later, Chris Smith curled a half-hearted effort wide in response as Horsham began to assert their authority. A string of good crosses from the impressive Lee Harding were beginning to cause The Oaks problems as they tried to deal with the aerial threat from Rob O’Toole and Smith, with the latter glancing an effort just wide.
Yet it was the hosts who went ahead, with Frankie Sawyer having the honour of scoring their first ever Bostik League goal when he pounced on Pelling's palmed clearance to fire a spectacular shot into the top corner from twenty yards. The home side's joy was short-lived, however, when a long throw from Daryl Coleman caused confusion inside the penalty area, Smith headed it towards goal and Joe Shelley scored with a diving header. The Hornets went in search of another goal and went close, just after the half-hour mark, when Harding’s beautifully floated free-kick was headed against the woodwork by Shelley, while the follow up was sent narrowly wide by Smith.
Sevenoaks very nearly took advantage of an implosion at the back, a minute later, when Pelling’s long throw out to Steve Metcalf was seized upon and with the ball decisively fed back through the middle to Fowler, there was relief as he managed to scuff his shot when it mattered. Despite the let-off, Horsham continued to enjoy the better chances as another cross, this time from the left, was sent over the bar by Harding but the final five minutes saw further chances from both sides as the game became more open. Dan Cumber's trickery left Harding on the floor before his low cross was flicked just wide by the outside of Sawyer’s boot while both goalkeepers were needed at each end of the pitch within seconds of each other, first as Ben Bridle-Card pulled off a fine point blank save to deny Charlie at the near post, while Sevenoaks’ counter required Pelling to block on the line from Fowler’s driven shot from inside the penalty area. Then, a minute from the break, Horsham again hit the woodwork when Will Hoare’s dropping cross-cum-shot smacked against the cross-bar before a frantic half drew to a close.
Sevenoaks went close to reclaiming their lead within four minutes of the restart when advanced out of his box to head clear, only to see his clearance intercepted by Sawyer whose dangerous cross was headed down and over the bar by Mikey Dalton. Finally though, having plugged away for so long during the first half, Horsham were rewarded with a goal that put them in front. A cushioned header by Harris towards O’Toole drew Sevenoaks’ defence out of position and the former Shoreham and Burgess Hill hitman spotted the run of Harding, on-side and in plenty of space, and his dinked ball through was controlled and slotted beyond Bridle-Card for a composed finished. Still with work to do, Pelling was then required to save at the feet of Sawyer to prevent him pulling the trigger but, with attack the best form of defence, Horsham saw a counter-attack break down as Bridle-Card raced off his line to steer the ball away from Harding as he attempted to latch onto a fine through ball that would have surely sealed it for the visitors. With fifteen minutes remaining, Smith fired wide with the goal at his mercy after O’Toole’s cute pass left him with just Bridle -Card to beat which meant for a nervy final few minutes as Sevenoaks tried hard to salvage a point, pinning Horsham back in their own half. But, despite an additional four minutes of stoppage time, Dom Di Paola’s side held on to ensure their first league win of the season.
Horsham : Josh Pelling, Steve Metcalf, Joey Taylor, Charlie Harris (Landais,79), Joe Shelley, Daryl Coleman (Hayward,73), Will Hoare, Dean Lovegrove, Rob O'Toole, Chris Smith, Lee Harding (Richardson- Brown,82)
Sevenoaks : Ben Bridle-Card, Jack Miles, Greg Benbow (Fiddes,84), Dan Cumber (Toban,65), Jake McIntyre, Rob Saunders, Mikey Dalton, Billy Bennett, Ryan Fowler (Coleman,64), Frankie Sawyer, Sam Crabb Bostik South East Division round-up – part two
Seven teams hold a 100% record after the opening two matches, with Hastings United topping the early Bostik South East table after following up their opening day thrashing of Thamesmead Town by twice coming from behind to win 3-2 at Ramsgate. The Arrows took the lead against the run of play when Daniel Ajakaiye hit the first of a personal brace but the hosts turned things round to lead at the break when former Hastings man Harry Stannard set up Rory Smith to equalise before Tom Chapman made it 2-1. Hastings were level again on fifty-six minutes when Ajakaiye sent Dayshonne Golding away to score and the same pair reversed roles for the winner, a quarter of an hour from the end. Three Bridges suffered an afternoon to forget on their return to the Isthmian League, going down 5-2 at Phoenix Sports. After an even opening, it took a fluke goal to open the floodgates when a cross by Kweku Ansah sailed over Kieran Thorp's head. That was after seventeen minutes and three more goals were to follow in a stunning twenty minute spell from the hosts. Alfie Aldridge netted after Jack Barry's chip had come back off the bar, Jeff Duah-Kessie added a third and, three minutes later, Ansah made it 4-0. Duah- Kessie doubled his tally, six minutes into the second half, and the Bridges players would surely have been asking the referee to blow early. But they rallied and a late double from substitute Connor French at least gave the few travelling supporters something to cheer. Ashford United were also in free-scoring form but were made to work hard by a Guernsey side that slipped to the bottom of the table after shipping three goals in ten second half minutes at Footes Lane. The home side were made to pay for failing to convert one of several chances when Harry Ottaway netted on fifty-eight minutes, with Lea Dawson and Ambrose Gnahore compounding the islanders' misery. Cray Wanderers are the only side yet to concede a goal after seeing off Whitstable Town on Sunday to move into fourth place. Again, both goals were scored after the interval with Junior Dadson netting midway through the half and Aaron Ruhle adding a second, just before the finish. Greenwich Borough's rebuilt side continues to struggle and were beaten for the second weekend running, this time by Sittingbourne. The Brickies enjoyed the greater possession in the first half and led by Dan Parkinson's twenty-first minute effort until a crazy two minute spell, either side of half-time, took the score to 2-2. First Connor Peters levelled, a minute from the break, only for Ira Jackson to immediately restore the hosts' lead. But a penalty converted by Solomon Taiwo, straight after the restart, kept things on an even keel until Tom Loynes gave Cray the advantage once more with Jackson's second, eleven minutes from time, finally putting daylight between the sides. A spot-kick by Whyteleafe's Eddie Dsane was enough to secure the points away to Herne Bay and there was a similar outcome at Haywards Heath where VCD Athletic were victorious, courtesy of Leon Lalor- Dell's first-half goal. Zak Ansah was the toast of Hythe Town, who bounced back from their opening day loss at Ashford by beating East Grinstead Town 3-0 with the striker netting a first-half hat-trick. The former Plymouth Argyle forward took just seven minutes to find the net, adding his second and third on seventeen and thirty-four minutes, with Sid Sollis hitting the crossbar against his old side with Grinstead's best effort, late in the second half. Faversham Town got off to the worst possible start in Sunday's trip to Princes Park, where hosts Thamesmead Town went ahead in the very first minute through Bode Anidugbe. But two goals in five minutes turned the game on its head by the half hour mark with first Harry Goodger and then Danny Walder netting for the Lilywhites who enjoyed their first success of the season. There were three matches played in the Preliminary Round of the Velocity Trophy on Tuesday night involving Bostik South East clubs, with Whyteleafe joining Horsham in the next round after a routine 2-0 success over newly-promoted South Central Bedfont Sports thanks to goals from Bradley Wilson and Gus Lukuni. There was an all-Sussex affair at The Enclosed Ground where Lucas Rodrigues gave hosts Whitehawk an eighth minute lead against Three Bridges that Ky Marsha-Brown doubled, early in the second half. Daniel da Costa e Silva netted Bridges' consolation goal in stoppage time. The other match of interest to Horsham supporters came at Bracknell Town's Larges Lane where the home side saw off visiting Kingstonian 5-4 on penalties after the two sides had shared six goals. Adam Cornell hit a hat-trick for the hosts who will now entertain the Hornets in the next round.
MATCH REPORT Haywards Heath Town 2 Horsham 5 Velocity Trophy Preliminary Round Tuesday 21st August 2018 Having ruined Sevenoaks' debut in the Bostik League on Saturday, Horsham did the same to Haywards Heath's first ever appearance in the Velocity Trophy when they capitalised on some suspect defending to record an excellent 5-2 victory. Dom made five changes to the weekend line-up, with Charlie Farmer, James McElligott, Tyrell Richardson-Brown, George Landais and George Hayward coming into the starting XI at the expense of Lee Harding, Joey Taylor, Charlie Harris, Chris Smith and Joe Shelley.
There was a sign of things to come after just twenty-eight seconds when home goalkeeper Josh Heyburn's attempt to sidestep Will Hoare almost presented a goal to Richardson-Brown. But it was another error that began the scoring when Luc Doherty's wayward pass enabled Rob O'Toole to score against his former side after just eight minutes. A quarter of an hour had passed before Heath had their first effort on goal, when Karl Akehurst’s shot went just a few yards wide of Josh Pelling’s right-hand post, but disaster befell Heyburn when, after a decent spell of home pressure, his attempt to pass to a team-mate went only as far as Richardson-Brown who scored at the second attempt. Moments later it was 3-0 when, this time, captain 'Naz' Rouane lost possession to Hayward who quickly spread the ball out wide to Hoare and his low cross was turned in by Landais at the far post. But the sloppy play didn't end there as, within a minute, Daryl Coleman put through his own goal from a wayward backpass to make it 3-1. The goal gave the hosts renewed confidence and Akehurst twice had chances to score while Doherty marred a buccaneering run into the area by planting the ball firmly into the side-netting and Dan Perry dragged a shot wide.
The Hornets sent on Smith and Harris for O’Toole and Hoare at the start of the second half and Harris was immediately in the thick of the action, forcing a diving save from Heyburn with a glancing header. But it needed a hasty clearance by Farmer to prevent Heath from reducing the arrears further after Max Miller's cross was backheeled dangerously into the six yard box by Akehurst. The Horsham defence was opened up again when Akehurst and Miller combined to set up Lewis Finney but Pelling was equal to the shot and when the action returned to the other end, Landais sliced a shot wide after a good run and pass from Hayward. Landais then turned provider by setting up Smith for a low, crisp, strike into the bottom corner to restore the three goal advantage.
Smith was unusually profligate when, in space inside the area, he dragged his effort harmlessly wide with two or three well-placed team-mates calling for a pass. But Horsham were now in full control, relentlessly harrying and chasing the ball down before breaking at pace and Harris sent a dipping shot just wide from distance. Heath replied with a free-kick by substitute Scott Chamberlain, that was well covered by Pelling, before pulling another goal back with five minutes remaining when a lucky ricochet fell kindly into the path of Miller, whose lay-off was thumped over Pelling and under the crossbar by Akehurst for a fine goal. From the restart, Heath immediately regained possession and went on the counter-attack with Miller putting a presentable chance wide from twenty yards. With Wezzo screaming to his players to slow things down, they recovered their three goal advantage when Richardson-Brown gambled on chasing down yet another soft backpass and got his long legs to the ball ahead of Heyburn before putting it on a plate for Smith who applied the composed finish. Horsham were unlucky not to score a sixth in stoppage time when a fantastic ball was played inside for Hayward and when his shot produced a tremendous last-ditch block by a defender, the ball dropped to Smith whose chip beat the goalkeeper only to come back into play off the crossbar.
Horsham: Josh Pelling, Steve Metcalf, James McElligott, George Hayward, Charlie Farmer, Daryl Coleman, Will Hoare (Harris,45), Dean Lovegrove, Rob O'Toole (Smith,45), George Landais (Hartley,70), Tyrell Richardson-Brown
Haywards Heath: Josh Heyburn, Luc Doherty, George Fenton, Byron Napper, Nathan Cooper, Josh Spinks, Max Miller, Main Rouane (Scott Chamberlain,60), Dan Perry (Patrick Akwasi-Bronyan,52), Karl Akehurst, Lewis Finney (Nick Collyer,69)
Referee: Andrew Bennett
Proud to be English once again
The national side's progress through to the semi-finals of this year's World Cup provided some rare and long overdue celebration for England's long suffering football fans. And, although 'it' didn't come home, Matt Dale explains why the performances under Gareth Southgate produced much more than a golden trophy.
Being as actively involved in football as I am, the summer break is often a welcome bit of time for me to recharge and figure out what else I can do with my free weekends. Usually the inclusion of international football tournaments every other summer rarely managed to stir up enough emotion in me to get too excited and distracted from other important summer jobs such as mowing the lawn or putting up a shelf, but this year was noticeably different.
I am proud to call myself English, but not since Euro 96 have I particularly been proud of supporting England and have always felt it something of a chore to get behind the national side, particularly after disappointments over the years supporting club football. However, something clicked this year in me. During Euro 2016 I took a sense of machoistic delight in being proven right that England, then led under Roy Hodgson, would continue the sense of futility and haplessness that was beginning to become associated with English tournament performances. Despite clearly possessing a talented squad of players, the issue – at least in my opinion – was that England were leaderless and rudderless and still yet to emerge from an era in which the England squad had historically been selected on the size of your ego, rather than your form.
Under Gareth Southgate, it’s clear to see he has transformed this squad. As someone who has been there, and got the t-shirt, Southgate understands only too well what it means to play for England. A versatile and strong defender in his day, his penalty miss during Euro 96 was one of the enduring moments in football I will always remember from my childhood. At twelve years old, I shared his pain along with every other England fan because it was clear to him that it meant something. It is possibly because of that moment that I felt more and more apathetic about England’s performances since then. The likes of Southgate, Shearer and Sheringham were something of a last generation of footballers who, unlike today’s footballers, were not multimillionaires by age twenty-one and were not pampered and told they can do no wrong. There is something far more human about a few footballers going out for drinks in a ‘dentist chair’ after a match than Wayne Rooney moaning about England fans on TV who booed the team off after a dire draw against Algeria.
For me, it’s never really been about the fact that England have failed to deliver, but the lack of how the players failed to endear themselves to the fans. In 1996 I don’t recall any fans between Spurs and Arsenal slate the likes of Darren Anderton or David Seaman – rivalry was instantly suspended for the sake of the common objective but largely the players picked for England duty were likeable off the pitch. It would, however, be naïve to simply just blame the players. England have made a catalogue of errors over the years that have led to their abject failings, from appointing laid-back Swedes more interested in sexy Italian lawyers to bringing in headstrong Italian disciplinarians.
Poor appointments in the past have led to England players being largely restricted, confused and frustrated and without an identity. It was interesting to hear Rio Ferdinand on TV explain how Fabio Cappello insist that he should not carry the ball out from defence and thus place a limitation on such a talented defender.
Fast forward to Southgate’s appointment, and it’s obvious what has got him off to the best start is the lack of fanfare over his arrival. Southgate has become an ‘accidental manager’, who found himself in the role due to the Sam Allardyce exposé and subsequent sacking. You could argue it was a blessing in disguise for Southgate as he was left to manage the team while the dust settled and quickly establish his own mark. What Southgate has done is quietly turn around a team that had little direction and little belief. He has shrewdly brought in players based on their form and not been afraid to drop big name ‘stars’ such as Rooney (who incidentally only ever scored one single goal in three World Cups). More importantly though, he has given those players the backing to play a more free-flowing, more expressive style of football and installed a sense of grit and determination in an England squad I’ve not seen in a long time. This squad has become less about big time Charlies who soak up the admiration, and more about proper footballers who you’d like to have a beer with down the pub.
With expectations low before the competition began, Southgate’s work had largely gone unnoticed up until we began to exceed expectations. Yes, you could argue that it was only Panama we beat 6-1 but let’s not forget we lost 2-1 to Iceland in 2016 and couldn’t even beat Costa Rica in 2014. What this World Cup showed was that Southgate had turned this side from one that could barely perform the basics, to one that could confidently win a penalty shoot-out and easily out-perform teams you would expect them to.
The loss after the Croatia game, although disappointing, was probably one of the better defeats to take as an Englishman. Unlike previous tournaments, there was no anger, no-one to single out for letting the side down, and no-one laughing at our ineptitude.
It didn’t have to come home, all it needed to do was make us proud to be English football fans once again. He played for both
Tom Graves is the son of former Horsham striker Terry Graves and joined Horsham from Worthing in November 2003. He went on to make nearly three hundred competitive appearances for the club in five spells, including both matches against Swansea City in the second round of the FA Cup in 2007. After a career that also saw him play Conference National football with Lewes, as well as having spells with the likes of Tooting & Mitcham, Burgess Hill and Whitehawk, Tom joined Haywards Heath in 2015 with whom he won two league titles and helped them to promotion to the Isthmian League for the first time in their history. You can read more about Tom's long career later in this programme.
Photo by John Lines Today's opponents HAYWARDS HEATH TOWN The club was formed in 1888 as Haywards Heath Juniors, subsequently renamed Haywards Heath Excelsior in 1894, before becoming simply Haywards Heath in 1895 and adding the 'Town' suffix in 1989. Founder members of the Mid-Sussex League in 1900, they finished runners-up four times at the start of the twentieth century only to drop out of the Senior Division in 1908, returning four years later as Division Two champions. In 1919/20 Haywards Heath won the title again, without losing a game, and went on to win it twice more before, in 1926, transferring to Division One of the Brighton, Hove & District League and winning the championship at the first attempt. After just one season the club moved up to the Sussex County League Year formed: 1888 where, after top four finishes in four of their first five seasons, they Nickname: The Blues finished bottom of the league in 1932/3. They won their first Sussex Senior Cup in 1941/2 (then known as the Sussex Wartime Cup), the first Current ground: in which the competition was run on a league basis, and were placed in Hanbury Park the Eastern Division of the league for the 1945/6 season, going on to Previous leagues: win the division. The following season saw the league revert to a single Mid-Sussex League, Brighton, division, with the club winning back-to-back titles in 1950 and 1951. Hove & District League, A move to Hanbury Park in 1952 allowed Haywards Heath to join the Sussex County League, Metropolitan League but, after several seasons of struggling, they Metropolitan & District finished bottom and rejoined the Sussex County League in 1961. The League, Southern club won the Division One title in 1969/70, the League Cup in 1972/3, Combination Football League and were runners-up in 1974/75, but were relegated to Division Two at Sussex County League the end of the 1979/80 season. They won the Division Two Cup in champions: 1983/4 and were Division Two runners-up in 1985/6, earning promotion 1949/50, 1950/51, 1969/70 back to Division One. 2017/18 The 1990s began poorly, with successive relegations in 1992 and 1993, Best FA Cup run: and they remained in Division Three for eleven years only to make an 4th Qualifying Round 1945/46 immediate return to the bottom rung after just one season. It was another decade before they would climb their way out of Division Three Best FA Vase run: but found themselves in Division One by default, two seasons later, Third Round 1990/91 when the Sussex County League was rebranded as the Southern Last season: Combination in 2015. Then began a path of consistent success, winning 1st Sussex County League the Division One title in 2015/16 and the Premier Division the following Manager: Shaun Saunders season only to miss out on promotion to the Isthmian League following a nine-point deduction for fielding an ineligible player. Undeterred, the Last match: club were crowned champions last season, earning promotion to the v Horsham 21.08.18 South East Division of the Isthmian League for the first time in their Lost 2-5 history. th This will be the 47 league meeting between Horsham and Haywards Heath, with Horsham winning twenty-three times to Heath's thirteen. The biggest margin of victory in this fixture is Horsham's 10-1 success in December 1928, with Heath's best result a 4-0 success in September 1955. Did you know? Haywards Heath's first match at their current Hanbury Park ground took place on 23rd August, 1952 and was their first in the Metropolitan & District League. The ground was officially opened by FA Secretary, and former FA Cup Final referee, Stanley Rous with the match, against reigning champions Horsham, ending in a goalless draw.
Metropolitan struggles: Horsham v Haywards Heath The first known meeting between Horsham and Haywards Heath took place at Queen Street, Horsham, on 14th February 1920 and resulted in a 1-0 'friendly' success for the hosts, courtesy of a 'Joey' Richardson penalty. It was another seven years before the sides would first meet competitively with, this time, Heath reversing the scoreline in a Sussex County League match thanks to a late goal from Hook after Horsham 'keeper Bert Brooker had saved a Yeates spot-kick. Over the course of the next three decades the clubs would meet regularly in both league and cup competition, with Horsham enjoying the upper hand by virtue of their twenty-nine wins to Heath's fourteen, but by the early 1950s the gap was closing. Yes, Horsham won successive Royal Ulster Rifles Cup finals but those were the only victories over Heath in eight attempts. It was, then, with some anticipation that Haywards Heath played host to Horsham in the opening match of the 1952/3 Metropolitan & District League campaign. The match not only marked the opening of their new – and still current – ground at Hanbury Park but also brought the league champions to town. Heath were newly promoted from the Sussex County League but were well-worthy of the goalless draw in what proved to be a match of few chances at either end. The reverse fixture, played on Boxing Day, again ended in stalemate although this time the sides shared four goals, to the delight of a big holiday crowd. Three of them were scored in a nine minute spell, either side of half-time, with Wood and Clarkson cancelling out Bert Pope's fortunate opener only for John Browning to later restore parity. Heath ended that first season in a not unsatisfactory fifth spot, some five places above the previous year's champions. There was nothing to separate the teams the following season either when, as had been the case the previous year, the Queen Street pitch suffered from the weather with teeming raining making life difficult for both sets of players. Former Horsham striker Den Daubney twice gave Heath the lead in this match, only for makeshift inside-left Les Glue to equalise on each occasion, the second time in near darkness with the installation of floodlights at Queen Street still a decade or so away. Despite enjoying a 5-1 thumping of Heath in a replayed Senior Cup tie, Horsham were still unable to overcome their near rivals in the league and needed a late penalty to secure a point from their visit to Hanbury Park in February 1954 having trailed 3-1. Horsham certainly deserved their good fortune, though, having seen a perfectly good Robin Stepney goal disallowed before going 1-0 up through David Green. Bates responded for Heath against the run of play, Barkley made it 2-1 and then Ken Wood scored from a controversial penalty before Bert Pope converted the first of two spot-kicks of his own to earn a share of the spoils. A crowd of 2,000 saw Horsham finally come good in this fixture the following season as the home side completely dominated, restricting Heath's former Fulham and Arsenal forward Ronnie Rooke to just two shots and a header all game. It was a spectacular Johnny Elphick goal that got Horsham underway and the visitors had no response once Glue made it 2-0 before half-time. The run of draws continued back at Hanbury, though, where Revell was outstanding in the home goal. This time Rooke got his goal, cancelling out Norman Cobb's opener in a 1-1 draw. The league title this year went to the 'A' team of Chelsea FC. The Queen Street meeting in September 1955 provided Horsham with their first league point of the season, with Peter Lambert's second half goal cancelled out by Clarkson, but the reverse fixture produced Horsham's heaviest ever loss at Hanbury Park where Rooke – free at last from the shackles of the absent John Browning - plundered three of the hosts' four goals. It was a real fall from grace for the side that had won the league at the first attempt, just five seasons before, and although they atoned in some small way with a 5-1 away win in the following season's Royal Ulster Rifles Cup, they were unable to get the upper hand on their rivals in what would prove to be Horsham's final season in the Metropolitan League. Less than a month after that emphatic cup success, the teams met at Horsham where Groves and Lewis gave the visitors an unlikely 2-0 half-time lead before two goals in as many minutes from Elphick and John Browning secured the now obligatory draw. Firmly ensconced in the relegation places by the time of the March rematch, Horsham shocked Heath by taking a first minute lead through Roy Mobsby yet found themselves 3-1 down before the half hour mark, courtesy of Standing, Coomber and K Elphick. Roy Francis had the final word for Horsham, making it 3-2, but the club was left rooted to the bottom of the table and subsequently left to join the Corinthian League that summer. Heath played four more seasons in the Metropolitan League before returning to the County League where they remained until this season.
In conversation with: Tom Graves This afternoon we welcome a Haywards Heath side currently riding on the crest of a wave. Playing County League Division Two football just three years ago, The Blues have known nothing but success since and one man who has been there throughout is former Horsham favourite Tom Graves. Mark Wells caught up with the former defensive midfielder to talk about his time at Hanbury Park and to look back on a career that has taken him to the heights of the Football Conference and that trip to Swansea City’s Liberty Stadium.
MW: Tom, you’ve had a fantastic spell of success at Haywards Heath but it didn’t exactly start well for you, did it? TG: No it didn’t! I got sent off on my debut. We were tipped by everyone to win the league but this particular game, a cup tie against Little Common Albion, wasn’t going to plan and things got a bit pent up. I got dragged to the floor and kicked while I was down so I retaliated by pushing my head on to his, not a headbutt, but the ref decided it was worth a red card. To be fair I think it’s the only time, or maybe the second, that I’ve ever been sent off. We lost the game 2-0 but we bounced back well and had won the league by March, the first side to win their league that year. The last two years we put two fantastic runs together, winning something like nineteen or twenty in a row and didn’t concede a goal for around nine or ten games. Last season we looked out of the race when we went to Newhaven in March and lost. That left us in sixth place but we had a lock-in in the dressing room for an hour after that and everyone got a few things off their chest. It obviously did the trick because we won every game after that and won the league by a point.
MW: How determined was the club to win it again last year, having been stripped of the title the year before? TG: It was a massive kick in the teeth for everyone and really frustrating to have to go out there and do it all again the following season. Maybe that was playing on our minds a bit during the season but thankfully we pulled together and got our rewards in the end. It wasn’t easy; we had to play some of the top sides like Chichester and Pagham in the run-in so there was a real relief when we pulled it off.
MW: You captained the side last season but decided to move on during the summer. Why was that? TG: I was captain for about three-quarters of the season while Naz was injured and then I suppose we shared the responsibility for the last few months. I’m thirty-six years old know so I’m towards the end of my career and the prospect of travelling to places like Whitstable on a winter’s night in November really doesn’t hold much appeal and, to be honest, that’s the main reason I went into the County League in the first place. I’m at a bit of a crossroads, really, and need to decide what I want to do. If I were to play in the Bostik League then I need to be fully committed to it, I know that, but I’d also want reassurances that I would get regular playing time and I accept that nobody is going to give me that. But I’m not sure I’d want to drop back into the County League. I’m missing football already though, and I’ve been going to the gym and training with Horsham recently to stay fit, but I really need to decide what my next move is within the next few weeks.
MW: Would you consider turning your hand to management? TG: I don’t know. It’s not something on my radar right now but I’m not sure management is for me. The game has changed a huge amount over the years and I’m not sure I like some of the aspects involved nowadays. A few years back there seemed to be a lot of money in non-league football and players were moving around all the time, holding clubs to ransom. I even saw it at Horsham under John Maggs and I think there’s still an element of that today and I’d find that frustrating. I think you have to be a certain breed of person to want to manage a club and I think I might be better suited to the coaching side of things or maybe man-management. But we’ll have to se.
MW: Your dad, Terry, had a very successful playing career before going in to management. How much of an influence has he had on your career. TG: He’s been a massive influence. He was very quick, a good header of a ball, and I think he scored most of his goals for Horsham which isn’t bad for someone who couldn’t trap a bag of sand! I was never a natural footballer, not like these young kids you see down the park who can do all these amazing tricks. Dad would take me down the park and fire footballs at me, getting me to control them and to use both feet, and he helped me get into the Brighton Centre of Excellence but I was never good enough to be a pro – I realised that at sixteen when I got released by Albion. We do both have something in common, though, as we both played under John Maggs – dad while he was at Crawley and me for Horsham and Crawley Down.
MW: You had five spells at Horsham, of varying lengths. What made you keep coming back? TG: I love the club. It’s always been good to me, there’s a lot of good people involved, and it’s always nice to go back when you’ve achieved things with them. I’d made my senior debut for Whitehawk at sixteen and then went on to Worthing, where I scored on my debut, then I remember getting a call from John asking me to come down to to Queen Street. Horsham had just gone out of the FA Cup and a few players had left so he was starting to rebuild the team a bit. I sat on the bench at Met Police, where I think we won 2-1, and then I got my chance against Epsom & Ewell and we won 5-0. I stayed for five years, during which we had a fantastic side. We just missed out on winning the title when we came second to Ramsgate on goal difference, we'd also got to the Senior Cup Final, and then we had that incredible FA Cup run in 2007 that took us all the way to Swansea. That was the best side I ever played in. Teams couldn't live with us at times and you would turn up sometimes wondering not if we'd win but by how many. That may sound arrogant but that was how good that side was. You look at how many are still playing today, people like Rooky, Lewis Taylor, Lee Carney, Gary Charman and you think they would still be a match for most clubs. John gave me the manager’s Player of the Season that year but the opportunity came up to join Lewes that summer and as they had just been promoted to the Conference I wanted to challenge myself so I left.
MW: Would you consider playing in the Conference the pinnacle of your career? TG: No, nothing has topped that FA Cup run! I played about half a dozen matches for Lewes that season but it was a bit political because there were other players who played in my position who were picked over me because they were friendlier with the manager – and that was when my dad was number two there! Did I make the right decision in leaving Horsham? I don’t know. I wanted that opportunity to play at a higher level but as a player you have to make these sort of choices at any club you go to. After that I decided to try my luck in America and had a trial at Portland Timbers, who were in the USL so hadn’t yet become the MLS side they are today. I did okay but they only had so many green cards they could give out to English players to enable them to play and I missed out. I went to Austin Aztex and tried out with them as I felt I’d stand more of a chance and would have been on something like £1500 a month but in the end it came down to me and one other person who was four or five years younger than me, and better to be fair, so he got in and I didn’t.
MW: I understand you stayed with our former player, Colin Newstead, while you were trialling with Austin Aztecs? TG: Yes that’s right. In fact I played Sunday League football with him while I was over there. I remember one weekend, me and a mate went out on the Sunday night and had far too much to drink. Nine o’clock the next morning, Colin woke me up and said “come on, you’re playing today”. I didn’t know he was dragging me along and it was an hour’s journey, during which I was sick, and when I got there they put me on the bench. I was literally hanging but they put me on, I scored a header within about two minutes then promptly threw up behind the goal so they took me straight off!
MW: You were known more as someone who stopped people scoring, unlike your dad who had a reputation as a fine striker, but you scored a couple of important goals during your Horsham career. TG: I remember scoring the goal against Tonbridge that won us the points the season we came second. That was an important goal as Tonbridge were another team pushing for promotion that year. I also got one against Crawley in the semi-final of the Senior Cup, which I was pleased with. John always got us pumped up for matches against Crawley and he wasn’t often on the losing side. We were disappointed not to win the cup that year. We went 1-0 up against Lewes in the final and were much the better side but I remember giving away a penalty when the ball went over my head and I didn’t see Siggy (Jean-Michel Sigere) behind me and brought him down. I did reach the final again with Crawley Down Gatwick and played at the Amex with them when we lost 2-1 to Whitehawk.
MW: Maggsy put a decent side together down at Crawley Down, didn’t he? TG: He did. We had lads like Ross Morley, Luke Blewden, Byron Napper, Miles Mitchell, Gabby Odunaike, Fraser Logan, Siggy, Jamie Cade and were top of the table after about twelve games. The trouble is that we had a few ‘summer players’ too; excellent until the bad weather sets in but then you find that they’re not grafters and they go missing. We fell away and ended up just outside the play-offs I think.
MW: You’ve had your fair share of clubs through your career, like Burgess Hill, Tooting, YM and East Grinstead. Where would you rank Horsham and Haywards Heath among them? TG: I enjoyed my time at Tooting and made one of my best mates there in Dave King, who I’ve been on holiday with about a dozen times, but I think Haywards Heath was the best time I’ve had in football since being at Horsham
MW: Finally, how do you think Haywards Heath will fare in their first season at this level? TG: I actually think they’ll do okay. When they got into County One they put in a five year plan to reach the Isthmian League and did it in three so they’re two years ahead of schedule. They’re a strong, confident, team with some decent players but I believe they’ll be happy to stabilise for a season or two, build the club up and increase their gates and they could be challenging for promotion after that, rather like Horsham did when they got into Ryman Div One. Horsham Football Club fixtures 2018/19 Date Opposition Comp F-A Att Scorers Pos 11 Aug SITTINGBOURNE LGE 1-2 195 Smith 14 18 Aug Sevenoaks LGE 2-1 166 Shelley, Harding 10 21 Aug Haywards Heath VT 5-2 112 O'Toole,Richardson-Brown,Landais,Smith 2 - 25 Aug Carshalton Athletic FAC 27 Aug HAYWARDS HEATH LGE 01 Sep Whyteleafe LGE 04 Sep Bracknell Town VT 15 Sep HERNE BAY LGE 22 Sep Thamesmead Town LGE 25 Sep Hastings United LGE 29 Sep Bury Town FAT 02 Oct PHOENIX SPORTS LGE 06 Oct Ramsgate LGE 20 Oct EAST GRINSTEAD LGE 03 Nov Ashford United LGE 10 Nov GREENWICH BORO' LGE 17 Nov VCD ATHLETIC LGE 24 Nov Three Bridges LGE 01 Dec WHITSTABLE TOWN LGE 08 Dec Hythe Town LGE 15 Dec CRAY WANDERERS LGE 22 Dec Haywards Heath LGE 01 Jan GUERNSEY LGE 05 Jan Faversham Town LGE 12 Jan WHYTELEAFE LGE 19 Jan Phoenix Sports LGE 26 Jan RAMSGATE LGE 02 Feb East Grinstead Town LGE 05 Feb HASTINGS UNITED LGE 09 Feb VCD Athletic LGE 16 Feb THREE BRIDGES LGE 23 Feb Whitstable Town LGE 02 Mar HYTHE TOWN LGE 09 Mar Cray Wanderers LGE 16 Mar Greenwich Borough LGE 23 Mar ASHFORD UNITED LGE 30 Mar SEVENOAKS LGE 06 Apr Sittingbourne LGE 13 Apr Herne Bay LGE 20 Apr FAVERSHAM TOWN LGE 22 Apr Guernsey LGE 27 Apr THAMESMEAD TOWN LGE Home matches in CAPITALS KEY: LGE – Bostik South East Division, VT – Velocity Trophy, FAC – FA Cup, FAT – FA Trophy
2018/19 Career totals First team stats Apps Subs Goals Apps Goals Daryl Coleman 3 0 0 3 0 Darren Boswell 0 1 0 125 37 Brannon Daly 0 0 0 16 0 Alex Duncan 0 0 0 102 2
Charlie Farmer 1 0 0 183 21
Lee Harding 2 0 1 2 1
Charlie Harris 2 1 0 7 1 Jack Hartley 0 1 0 39 3 George Hayward 2 1 0 3 0 Will Hoare 3 0 0 3 0 Toby House 0 0 0 46 15
Adam Hunt 0 0 0 58 1
Lewis Hyde 0 0 0 72 8
Scott Kirkwood 0 0 0 84 9 George Landais 1 2 1 37 14 Dean Lovegrove 2 0 0 6 0 James McElligott 1 0 0 1 0 Steve Metcalf 3 0 0 78 7
Rob O'Toole 3 0 1 16 6
Josh Pelling 3 0 0 88 0
Tyrell Richardson-Brown 1 2 1 3 1 Joe Shelley 2 0 1 92 25 Chris Smith 2 1 3 3 3 Joey Taylor 2 0 0 2 0
Horsham FC – on this day, 1994: Dogged Horsham were denied an FA Cup replay with Division One Worthing by a stoppage time goal from Sandy Brown. As a spectacle, the match was well short of being a classic but there was enough incident to hold the interest until the very end. The Hornets had chances, with Darren Freeman and Dave Clark seeing efforts cleared off the line, while Worthing's Derek Traylen had a second half 'goal' ruled out for offside. Brown's last-gasp winner was a poacher's effort from close range after neither attackers or defenders took charge of a high ball into the box
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A couple of weeks ago I saw a video that reminded me of why Non-League football increasingly appeals to so many people. The first half of the footage sees Liverpool’s squad, and manager Jurgen Klopp, boarding their team coach in 2017 doing their best to ignore supporters standing only yards away with their arms outstretched clutching replica shirts for the players to sign.
Now, before this becomes an attack on Liverpool, it is worth nothing that this is largely the same squad and manager who travelled to relegated Chester in pre-season, and respected their opponents by fielding an XI in each in half that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Premier League fixture. The match attracted a crowd of over 4000, securing vital funds for the National League side. Klopp has done the same in recent seasons with visits to Tranmere.
The video also conveniently cuts short before Daniel Sturridge and James Milner stop for fans – most of the 1.1 million people who saw this video won’t have known these facts, although that is no excuse for the other Reds player and their manager. In the second half of the video, there is a striking contrast.
At Preston station, on the way back from their opening day defeat at AFC Fylde, Bromley players secured the National League club a supporter for life. James, who looks no older than five or six, decked out in Bromley shirt, is stood on the pavement being introduced to every Ravens player with a handshake by captain Jack Holland as they step off the team coach. James’ face as each of his heroes greets him is a picture. The video lasts for just 28 seconds but that is all takes to create a lifelong memory. It was a timely reminder as the season started of the inclusivity of Non-League football – the reason myself and many others watch this level.
It’s being able to chat to your team’s star striker before, and even during, the warm-up or afterwards in the club bar. It’s being able to ask the manager over a pint why the two wingers swap sides. It’s doing ‘your bit’ for your club to help the cogs turning.
So well done to Bromley and Non-League for keeping things real. Football is just a game but let’s keep the experience fun, inclusive and enjoyable. Adam Ellis Half -time quiz – Sussex football
1.Which club has won the most Sussex County League titles? 2.Who are the current sponsors of the Sussex Senior Cup? 3.Who are the holders of the Sussex Floodlight Cup? 4.Which SCFL side is managed by former Horsham boss Anthony Storey? 5.Which SCFL club play their home matches at the Haven Centre? 6.Which two Sussex clubs reached the 4th qualifying round of last season's FA Cup? 7.Who was manager of Crawley Town when they reached the fifth round of the FA Cup in 2011? 8.Prior to the 2015/16 season, when was the last time Horsham played County League football? 9.Which current SCFL club began life as Wigmore Athletic? 10.What nationality is Brighton & Hove Albion's record signing, Alireza Jahanbakhsh? answers on next page
10.Iranian Athletic 9.Worthing 8.1951 Evans 7.Steve Town Hill Burgess & Town Regis Bognor 6.
Gatwick Down 5.Crawley Uckfield 4.AFC 3.Horsham 2.Parafix 1.Shoreham answers: Quiz U23 Development League Monday 21st August 2018 Bluefin Development League South Lewes 4 - Karl (8,43), Medlock (85,86) Horsham 1 – Craddock (3) Att: 70
Having held Eastbourne Borough to a very creditable 2-2 draw in the Friday night friendly, Horsham travelled to the Dripping Pan three days later for their opening fixture in the Bluefin Development League South where they came up against a Lewes side that fielded several first teamers, including former Hornet Billy Medlock. Yet it was the Hornets who drew first blood when Jamie Craddock met Jack Hartley's corner to head home after just three minutes. Sam Karl equalised for the Rooks before injuries to key players disrupted Horsham's play and resulted in Karl scoring again before the break, with a late Medlock double resulting in a 4-1 scoreline which was rather harsh on Horsham’s Development League debutants. First teamer Jack Hartley played the full match and Adam Hunt an hour in their quest for match fitness following long-term injuries.
Team: Tom Baxter, Scott Packer, Matt Blogg, Harry Law, Lewis Reeves (Maynard,38), Jack Reeves, Jack Hartley, Henry Daramada-Martin, Ben Whiteley, Jamie Craddock (Hunt,31), Kieran Britland, Subs: Jacob Malski, Harry Maynard, Adam Hunt
Despite the result, manager Bryan O'Toole was encouraged by what he saw. "I was delighted with the players’ application" he said. "All that’s letting us down right now is our fitness but you can’t put a brand new team together and expect them to get it all together straight away.
We decided to let Lewes have most of the possession because we knew they would be fitter than us but, to be honest, they didn’t really trouble us at all. I know that might sound a strange thing to say when you’ve lost 4-1 but the last two goals came in the final five minutes when our legs were gone. Until that point we hadn’t allowed Billy Medlock a sniff, which I think says a lot about our performance. Lewes moved the ball around well and although the tempo was quick on both sides, I thought we controlled things pretty well.
We went in front early on when Jamie Craddock put in a good header from Jack Hartley’s cross but we were chasing the ball a bit when they equalised late in the first half and the last two goals looked offside but that doesn’t matter. The goals were given and we have to accept that. I’m just disappointed for the lads because I didn’t think it was a 4-1 game. We had a couple of older lads in to help us out, people like Jamie, Jack Hartley, Scott Packer, and Adam Hunt when he came on and they’re a great help while we bed in. I certainly can’t criticise the attitude of the younger players whose spirit was typified by Kieran Britland, who played the whole ninety minutes with a dead leg because we were short. But he didn’t complain all night and that shows the strength in character of the squad. We had others having to play out of position, due to injuries, and although it’s not ideal they just got on with it. On the whole, I was delighted with the performance. The fitness will come, the more games we play, and then I think we’ll see the results pick up because I do believe this is a very good squad of players."
Bluefin U23 Development League fixtures 2018/19
Date Opposition Comp F-A Scorers Att 20 Aug Lewes mpLGE 1-4 Craddock 70 04 Sep Ramsgate LGE 13 Sep HASTINGS UNITED LGE 17 Sep Tooting & Mitcham LGE 27 Sep CRAY WANDERERS LGE 02 Oct Molesey LGE 11 Oct BURGESS HILL TOWN LGE 18Sep Oct THAMESMEAD TOWN LGE 25 Oct Sittingbourne LGE 01 Nov MARGATE LGE 07 Nov Herne Bay LGE 15 Nov CARSHALTON ATHLETIC LGE 21NovOct Nov Three Bridges LGE 29 Nov LEWES LGE 06 Dec RAMSGATE LGE 10Decv Dec Hastings United LGE 17Nov Jan TOOTING & MITCHAM LGE 23 Jan Cray Wanderers LGE 31 Jan MOLESEY LGE 07 Feb Burgess Hill Town LGE 11 Feb Thamesmead Town LGE 21 Feb SITTINGBOURNE LGE 26 Feb Margate LGE 07 Mar HERNE BAY LGE 11 Mar Carshalton Athletic LGE 21 Mar THREE BRIDGES LGE
Home matches in CAPITALS All home matches will be played at: Oakwood FC, Tinsley Lane, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 8AT (ko 7.45pm) Admission: £3 adults, £2 U16s
Down with the kids – a round up from Horsham Youth
Horsham U14 Amber warmed up for the new Arun & Chichester League campaign by overturning a 2-0 half-time deficit to win 4-2 against a strong Hollingsbury Hawks side last Sunday. Tony Massimo's side will kick-off their league season at home to Bognor Regis Town on Sunday September 9th with the Greens, under Ian Scott, also scheduled to begin at home when they hosts Chichester City. In the county cups, the U12s must travel to Worthing United, the U13s go to Hove Park Colts, and U14 Green have been drawn away to Worthing Town Red. We still await the fixtures for the U11s, U12s and U13s so please check our website www.horsham-fc.co.uk/Youth for updates. Introducing…. 2018/19 Arun & Chichester League Ian Scott (Manager, U14s Green) Division A fixtures U14 Amber 09 Sep H Bognor Regis Town Green 16 Sep H Worthing Town Red 23 Sep A Rustington Otters 30 Sep A Felpham Colts 07 Oct H HORSHAM GREEN 14 Oct A Chichester City 21 Oct A Littlehampton Town 28 Oct A Bognor Regis Town Green 04 Nov A Worthing Town Red 11 Nov H Rustington Otters 18 Nov H Felpham Colts 25 Nov A HORSHAM GREEN 02 Dec H Chichester City 09 Dec H Littlehampton Town
Ian has been involved with the youth section of the club for the U14 Green last three seasons, starting as a coach and then moving into the management of Horsham U14 Green. Over the last two 09 Sep H Chichester City seasons, Ian has introduced new players and put his own 16 Sep A Littlehampton Town stamp on the side with his coaching staff of Andy Stowell and 23 Sep H Bognor Regis Town Green Rob Carter. 30 Sep H Worthing Town Red 07 Oct A HORSHAM GREEN Profile 14 Oct H Felpham Colts Job: Works for Covers, Horsham 21 Oct A Rustington Otters 28 Oct A Chichester City Favourite food: Can't beat a Curry! 04 Nov H Littlehampton Town Favourite music: 1970s/80s and Motown 11 Nov A Bognor Regis Town Green Favourite film: Top Gun 18 Nov A Worthing Town Red 25 Nov H HORSHAM GREEN Favourite Premier League club: Brighton & Hove Albion 02 Dec A Felpham Colts Favourite TV show: Mrs Brown's Boys 09 Dec H Rustington Otters Ian's aspirations for the season ahead: Having been promoted to Division A, the aim is to stay there while playing attractive, All matches subject to change competitive football. Also, Ian is really looking forward to Check website for latest information playing at our new home! or visit http://full-time-league.thefa.com
On this day….
1883 The eruption of Krakatoa in what is now Indonesia peaked in the late morning of Monday, 27 August when over 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed. Additional seismic activity was reported to have continued until February 1884. The 1883 eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history. At least 36,417 deaths are attributed to the eruption and the tsunamis it created. Significant additional effects were also felt around the
world in the days and weeks after the volcano's eruption. 1896 The shortest war in history took place today in 1896 between the UK and Zanzibar, lasting less than 45 minutes! The British authorities, angered at the unsanctioned succession of Khalid bin Barghash as Sultan, ordered him to step down but when he refused, a British bombardment destroyed the wooden palace and defending artillery, resulting in some 500 casualties. Sultan Khalid, aided by the sympathetic German consulate, subsequently fled the island and settled in Tanzania only to be captured by the Allies during WWI and exiled to the Seychelles. 1925 Born this day in 1925, Nathaniel 'Nat' Lofthouse was an English professional footballer who played 452 times for Bolton Wanderers. He was capped 33 times for England, scoring 30 goals and giving himself one of the greatest goals-per-game ratios of any player to represent England at the highest level. Joining the club just before the outbreak of WWII, Lofthouse scored twice on both his league and international debuts and would later be dubbed the 'Lion of Vienna' for his goalscoring exploits in a victory over Austria. He was named Footballer of The Year in 1953, scored in the famous 'Matthews Final' that same year and in the 1954 World Cup Finals, and bagged both goals in the 1958 FA Cup Final win over Manchester United. Knighted in 1994, he passed away in 2011 aged 85.
1979 A Provisional IRA bomb killed Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others while they were boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Mountbatten, an uncle of the current Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth, was holidaying at his summer home near an area known to be frequented by IRA members and it was they who admitted to planting a bomb on board his boat that exploded, killing him and three others including two teenage boys. Shortly after, eighteen British Army soldiers were killed in an IRA ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. This latter atrocity was the deadliest attack on the British Army during three decades of unrest in Northern Ireland.
My first time
In the second of our feature in which we ask supporters to share their earliest memories of following the Hornets we hear from Tim Harrison, who swapped the green of Hendon for the amber and Lincoln green of Horsham when he moved down from London at the turn of the Millenium.
"I first saw Horsham when they played against Eastbourne Town at the Saffrons in the Corinthian League on 28th December, 1957. They lost 5-1 but, thankfully, I have no memories of this at all! After moving to London shortly after that, I followed Hendon FC for many years but my football interest waned in the '80s as I found other interests. Moving to Horsham in 2000 it was an impulsive decision to venture down to Queen Street on 8th November when the Hornets met Yeovil Town in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying round replay. Yeovil were then a non-league team although they were top of the Conference and considered one of the FA Cup's greatest giant killers over many years. Frankly, I can't recall too much about the game itself either except there were nearly 2,000 packed into the old ground and I ended up on the terraces opposite the main stand. Strangely, some fans near me talked of 'lard' and 'Lardies'. What the heck was that all about? Although I didn't know any of the Horsham team, of course, one slender lad on the wing caught my eye - Gary Charman. Although he didn't score I felt he showed promise and I was subsequently proved right. Horsham lost 2-0 but I didn't think we were outplayed by a club which must have been 100 places higher in the football pyramid. Straight after that match, I started following the Hornets home and away probably over 500 times, including the amazing Swansea games and the fly-away trips to Guernsey."
MATCH REPORT: Having impressively held Yeovil to a 1-1 draw at Huish Park a week before, the Hornets and most of a 2,000 crowd hoped to finish the job at a soggy Queen Street. Just like the first game it was the Conference side who dominated without being able to find the breakthrough and, if anything, it was the home forwards who enjoyed the greater possession. Matt Smart and Gavin Geddes both drilled half chances wide but Ian Chatfield had to be at his best to deny Tom White at close range. It was a similar story in the second half before Yeovil at last got the better of their more lowly opponents, just before the hour mark, when Dave Piper skilfully beat Chatfield at his near post. Smart was denied a near instant reply by the fingertips of Tony Pennock, who turned his 25 yard piledriver round a post, and Gary Charman was just wide from another good opening. Then, in the closing minutes, a foul by John Kirby was controversially adjudged to have taken place inside the box and Piper wrapped up the win from the spot for the men from Somerset. Horsham Yeovil Town Ian Chatfield Tony Pennock Roger Barnes Dave Piper Dave Bastian Anthony Tonkin Geoff Ward Terry Skiverton John Kirby Tom White Joe Clark Darren Way Matt Smart Barrington Belgrave Ryan Andrews Ben Smith Gavin Geddes Warren Patmore Steve Flain Nick Crittenden Gary Charman Roy O'Brien Steve Payne Andy Lindegaard
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HORSHAM HAYWARDS HEATH
Amber & Lincoln Green Blue & White Stripes
Josh Pelling Joshua Heyburn James McElligott Luc Doherty Joey Taylor George Fenton Steve Metcalf Karl Akehurst Lewis Hyde Nathan Cooper Joe Shelley Joshua Spinks
Dean Lovegrove Max Miller Lee Harding Naim Rouane
Jack Hartley Daniel Perry Charlie Harris Vincent Foella George Hayward Kane Louis Chris Smith Lewis Finney Rob O'Toole Byron Napper Tyrell Richardson-Brown Patrick Akwasi-Bronyan Daryl Coleman Nicholas Collyer George Landais Kieran Rowe Will Hoare Scott Chamberlain
Referee: John Pike Assistant Referees: Thomas Price & Stephen Matthews
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