Suffolk Primary Cup Final Monday, May 13th 2019 v at Portman Road Ipswich Town FC Kick-Off 7:30pm Official Souvenir Programme £1.00 Sponsored by May 13th 2019 | Primary Cup Final P1 Respect Code of Conduct Spectators We all have a responsibility to promote high I understand that if I do not follow the Code, any/ standards of behaviour in the game all of the following actions may be taken by my club, County FA or The FA: This club is supporting The FA’s Respect programme to ensure football can be enjoyed in I may be: a safe, positive environment. • Issued with a verbal warning from a club or Play your part and observe The FA’s Respect league official Code of Conduct for spectators • Required to meet with the club committee • Obliged to undertake an FA education course I will: • Obliged to leave the match venue by the club • Applaud effort and good play as well • Requested by the club not to attend as success future games • Always Respect the match officials’ decisions • Suspended or have my club • Remain outside the field of play and within membership removed the Designated Spectators’ Area • Required to leave the club along with (where provided) any dependents • Let the coach do their job and not confuse the players by telling them what to do In addition: • Encourage the players to Respect the • The FA/County FA could impose a fine and/or opposition, referee and match officials suspension on the club • Avoid criticising a player for making a mistake – mistakes are part of learning • Never engage in, or tolerate, offensive, insulting, or abusive language or behaviour TheFA.com/Respect P2 Primary Cup Final | May 13th 2019 Welcome of the Touchline SIL this season. The KBB Centre and NEFF are very My congratulations go out to both proud to sponsor the local county teams for reaching this final, and cup finals. best wishes for the game. Both companies fully support Please remember there is a third Youth football and sporting team involved in tonight’s match. initiatives and are absolutely Our team of officials have been delighted to be involved. appointed as a result of their The Suffolk FA were looking for performances throughout the cup sponsors and the chance to season and deserve to be involved have a top brand manufacturer in in this stage of the competition as NEFF willing to help support The much as the two playing teams. KBB Centre’s links with Suffolk The game is sure to be tense and FA was an opportunity not to be competitive and could be decided missed. The KBB Centre are a 5 by the smallest of margins. Whilst Star MasterPartner for NEFF and we’re unlikely to all agree with every we have a lot of innovative things Good evening ladies and gentlemen, decision the officials make, please happening with them this year, and a warm welcome to the final of rest assured that decisions will be both with showroom changes and the KBB NEFF Suffolk Primary Cup made with the best of intentions. new NEFF products. Therefore I trust you as spectators, here at Portman Road. We are particularly excited about players and team officials will join NEFF’s main event of their 2019 I’m delighted we’re able to host six the match officials in adhering calendar, which is the launch of Suffolk County Cup Finals at Ipswich to RESPECT Codes of Conduct at NEFF’s ‘Home Connect’ which Town FC this season, the most ever all times; a Spectators’ Code of will be available on display in our in a single season. Whilst we may Conduct is included within this showroom in June. not be able to host so many finals programme and Codes of Conduct at Portman Road every season, applying to all match participants We’d like to wish all the teams who hopefully those who do get to are displayed in the respective have made it this far the very best perform in this stadium will be changing rooms. of luck! inspired to give us spectators their best performance. If the scores are level at the end Roger Peck (left) and Patrick of normal time, we go straight to Peck (right), Directors of the KBB Thank you to all our colleagues at a penalty shoot-out. So please do Centre Ipswich Town for their hard work, save any fingernails just in case! time and commitment to ensuring these finals are the showpiece Football should be the best culmination to another Suffolk experience For All. Please cheer, football season. congratulate and encourage as much as possible in a respectful This competition has been played manner for all involved. Let the since 1933-34 and the road to this game begin… year’s final has been as exciting as ever. Reaching this final crowns #AThrivingLocalGame successful seasons for the two Richard Neal teams. AFC Sudbury A finished Chief Executive Officer second in Division Two of the Suffolk Football Association Essex & Suffolk Border League, while Old Newton United Reserves have finished sixth in League A May 13th 2019 | Primary Cup Final P3 INSURANCE MADE FOR FOOTBALL CLUBS - TEAMS - COACHES 0345 872 5060 [email protected] bluefinsport.co.uk Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England No: 931954. 70x100.indd 1 15/03/2016 14:50:48 Q 2 UALITY & RELIABILITY SINCE 199 P4 Primary Cup Final | May 13th 2019 Q UALITY & RELIABILITY SINCE 1982 Cup Competitions Manager Then there are the County Representatives attending each semi final and final making sure the County standards are met and a special thanks to all host clubs who have so readily agreed to host County matches. I would also like to make a special mention of David Mayes of the Thurlow Nunn League whose help is always valued throughout the rounds in identifying available venues causing the least amount of disruption for our partner leagues. Radio Suffolk has seen the coverage of our live semi-final draws on the Non-League hour of their Thursday Night Sports Social programme reach bigger audiences thanks to the enthusiasm of Graeme Mac and David Mann and, of course, our own Nick Garnham whose passion for the County Cup competitions is truly admirable. My own football career never reached great heights. I played in a Primary Cup Semi-Final but didn’t make the final squad but one of my I once worked with a northern lad who supported team-mates looked back at his time in local Everton. I used to ask him the Everton result every football when our club celebrated an anniversary time they lost and then on one occasion I tried and wrote the most sincere and heart warming to wind him up by saying ‘Never mind, it’s only sentiments about this wonderful game that we a game’. His reply was instant. ‘Aye, but it’s a play in our most beautiful County. He wrote: passionate game’. How right he was. “Without the enthusiasm of the people that Tonight’s final sees the culmination of hard work, run our club, it is unlikely that we would be here skill, determination, some luck and plenty of tonight. From a personal point of view I would passion, but that’s just the two teams playing on have missed out on some of the happiest and the pitch. For me, I cannot organise the Suffolk FA proudest moments of my life, moments that I County Cups without a team with no less passion, have shared with people that have become my but no-one sees them and without them occasions closest friends. Who said football was only a like tonight would not take place. game? It’s far more important than that.” My squad consists of the referee co-ordinators Ian Smillie, Graham Apperley, Ian Atkins, Mel Stickland Adrian Moye Stage Event Security (above) and Alan Dale. Darryn Marsh, Bruce Badcock and County Cup Competitions Manager Suffolk FA celebrate winning the Suffolk Richard Neal are alongside myself when the tough, FA Primary Cup Final after and not always popular, decisions have to be made, beating Tacket Street BBOB at and Ruth Ward makes sure the administration for Woodbridge Town FC in 2016. the finals is fully in control. May 13th 2019 | Primary Cup Final P5 Competition History The Suffolk Primary Cup began in the 1933-34 season, playing for six seasons before the outbreak The last final to go to extra time is also the most of WW2. No team dominated during this time recent final to go to penalties. That was in 2014 when although both Newton Green and Eastern Counties Adhara beat Witnesham Wasps 5-4 on penalties after III reached the final twice and won once. Notably a 4-4 extra time draw. the last winners before the war were Whitton United Route to the Final who have since won the Senior Cup and played in a Premier Cup Final. First round: Walsham-le-Willows B 1 AFC Sudbury 8, Old Newton United Reserves – bye. It has been a cup where few clubs can claim to have dominated it. Only Bildeston Rangers have won the Second round: Old Newton United Reserves 4 cup more than twice, having won it four times but Mendlesham Reserves 1, AFC Sudbury A 8 Elmswell still took 17 seasons to achieve this. 1. Two wins in a row is also rare. The current holders Third round: Ransomes Sports Reserves 1 AFC Bures United have achieved this, beating AFC Sudbury A 6, Tattingstone United 1 Old Newton Yourshirts in both their finals.