BURROUGHSPARK Great Wakering Rovers FC Vs. Brantham Athletic FC Isthmian Senior North Division Official Matchday Programme
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Trusties Great Wakering Rovers are a members club run Roger Burroughs, Elaine Pitts by a members committee and Trusties Welcome To Burroughs Park Good afternoon and welcome to Burroughs Park for this FA Cup match between Great Wakering Rovers and Brantham Athletic FC.
We would like to wish our visiting players, Management, Committee Members and Supporters a very warm welcome and hope they enjoy the facilities on offer.
We would also like to extend a warm welcome to our Match Officials visiting us today. In the middle we are pleased to have Neil West and his Assistants Kirk Edwards & Daniel Ripton, we hope you enjoy your short stay with us.
Brantham Athletic come into todays game off the back of a penalty win at home to Benfleet FC.
For Rovers thisis the first cmpettive game of the season, Rovers will be coming in to the gme off the back of a 2-0 loss to Isthmian Prem side Potters Bar Town. There is a couple of new faces for Rovers this season and and some of theold faces still about, but for me i am glad to see Josh Wiggins back at Burroughs Park after that nasty injury he suffered last year. Josh is now part of the management team so you will be seeing him about for a while.
The last time the 2 sides meet was back in 2015 in The FA Cup and we all know how that went (GWR 0-2 Brantham)
Let’s hope today’s game is as entertaining as always and you all enjoy the game.
Dan Ellis Club Secretary THEY say age is just a number but in football it’s one that can increasingly count against you – especially as it increases! So let’s show our appreciation for some Golden Oldies, who are doing their bit to show if you’re good enough, you’re young enough also rings true. After all, it was only a few years ago that Chris Swailes became the oldest scorer at Wembley when he notched for Morpeth Town in their 4-1 FA Vase final win over Hereford. Swailes was 45 years old when he turned the ball into the net to silence the mass of Hereford fans who had made the trip. Not bad for a defender who has had a long, career that took in plenty of stops in the Football League. Non-League is always good for an evergreen footballer, particularly the strikers. Paul Brayson has been a regular scorer for Newcastle Benfield in recent years and he is still knocking them in aged 42. Perhaps it’s something about those genuine goalscorers that, while the legs might not be as quick as they used to be, the minds is just as sharp. That gets them into the right goalscoring positions and then, when the ball is at their feet or the cross is in the right place, they just know how to stick the ball into the back of the net. Jamie Cureton has scored at every level from the Premier League down. At 44 he isn’t just on the back nine of his career, he’s strolling up the 18th. But he’s still one of the leading scorers in the Isthmian Premier Division and despite a surprise departure from Bishop’s Stortford last week – the club couldn’t guarantee his continuing role as player-manager next season – he has already found the net for new club Hornchurch. I caught up with his new manager, Mark Stimson, last week and he spoke to Cureton’s desire to get in behind the back four burning as bright as ever. Stimson describes Cureton as a “clever” player and he’s sure the youngsters in their squad will take plenty on board from the former Norwich City man. Cureton himself says it is all about diet and re-fuelling the right way after matches. When I spoke to Cureton last year as he reached his 1,000th game, he said he genuinely felt like he could do a job in the League still. And while you’re feeling good, why not keep playing? Back in the FA Vase, there was a familiar name on the scoresheet in Wroxham’s win over Stowmarket Town.
Grant Holt, another former Norwich striker, turns out regularly for the Thurlow Nunn Premier Division Yachtsmen. He hit a penalty in the 2-0 win that has put them in the last eight of the competition. A final hurrah at Wembley Stadium for Holt?
Although aged 38, he could have far more opportunities yet. Just ask Swailes! This week’s NLP Programme Column was penned by Matt Badcock. Today’s Visitors
The Club was founded in 1887 and the original team were known as “Brantham Works” and played their home games at the ‘Recreation Ground’ where the club remains to this day. Branthams’ first match was on Saturday 28th January 1888 vs St Clements Institute, Ipswich as recorded in the Daily Journal dated two days later. They lost 3-0. Brantham played the return game on the 10th March 1888, the 3-2 win is found in the ‘The Star of the East’ newspaper dated two days later on the 12th March 1888. The founder members of the team were from the local British Xylonite factory built a few years earlier adjacent to the ground. The company were fundamental in the setting up of “Brantham Athletic Association” as they were later known. The Football Club were original members of the affiliated Ipswich & District League, winning DivisionTwo of the league in 1898. The club adopted the name Brantham Crown for some time and returned to Division One of the Ipswich & District League in 1905. In 1906 they reverted to their original name, and the following year left the Ipswich & District League again to join Division Two of the South East Anglian League. They returned to Division One of the Ipswich & District League for the 1908–09 season, but left again in 1910 to join the Harwich & District League. After playing in it for a single season they joined the Essex & Suffolk Border League, before switching back to Division Two of the Ipswich & District League in 1912, also playing in Division Two of the (now renamed) East Anglian League, winning both in 1913–14.
After World War I the club played in the Ipswich & District League from 1919 until 1925, the year in which they reached the final of the Suffolk Senior Cup, losing 1–0 to Kirkley. That year they also switched back to the Essex & Suffolk Border League. The club won the Senior Cup in 1927 with a 3–0 win over Lowestoft Town. After finishing bottom of the Essex & Suffolk Border League in 1931–32 they returned to the Ipswich & District League. After World War II they rejoined the Essex & Suffolk Border League, although they also played in the Ipswich & District League between 1947 and 1950. They won the Essex & Suffolk Border League League Cup in 1948–49, beating Colchester United 4–0 in the final. The club won the Senior Cup for a second time in 1959–60, defeating Christchurch Athletic 3–2. In 1972–73 they won the Essex & Suffolk Border League and retained the title the following season. In 1975–76 they won the league again, also winning the League Cup (with a 1–0 win against Wivenhoe Town after extra time) and the Senior Cup. A league and League Cup double was repeated the following season, with Brantham beating Wivenhoe 2–0 in the cup final.
The club applied to join the Eastern Counties League in 1977, but were rejected as the ECL secre- tary claimed that they wouldn’t “attract people to watch them in other parts of the region”. How- ever, the following year they were successful and were admitted to the league. They achieved their highest-ever finish of fourth in 1982–83, the same season in which they reached the fifth round of the FA Vase, losing 1–0 at home to VS Rugby in front of a then-record crowd of 594. The following season they won the Suffolk Premier Cup, beating Lowestoft Town 2–0. When the league gained a second tier in 1988, the club was placed in the Premier Division. However, they were relegated to Division One in 1992–93 after finishing second from bottom. Two years later they were Brantham’s Honours List relegated to the Suffolk & Ipswich League after finishing ● Suffolk & Ipswich League - Metaltec League Champions 2007–08 eighteenth out of 19 clubs. - Mick McNeil League Cup winners 1996–97 Suffering from financial problems, the club merged with ● Ipswich & District League SIL club Stutton to become - Division 2 League Winners 1913-14 Brantham & Stutton United. After winning the League Cup - Junior Cup winners 1898-99, 1927-28 in 1997, the club reverted to its - Division 3 League winners (Reserves) 1919-20 old name in 1998. They were relegated to Division One in ● Essex & Suffolk Border League 1999–2000, and despite making an immediate return to the Senior - Champions 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77 Division, they were relegated - League Cup winners 1948–49, 1975–76, 1976–77, again the following season. They ● Suffolk Premier Cup were promoted to the Senior Winners 1983–84 Division after finishing second in 2004–05. They won the title ● Suffolk Senior Cup in 2007–08, and were promoted Winners 1926–27, 1959–60, 1975–76 back to the Eastern Counties League. After finishing third in ● Eastern Counties Leage 2009–10, the club were promoted - League Challenge Cup Winners 2017-18 to the Premier Division. ● Coggeshall Brotherhood Winners The club’s former Sunday league 1977-78, 1979-80 team, the successful Brantham Colts played in the Ipswich ● Hadleigh Charity Cup Winners Sunday League and reached the FA Sunday Cup semi-final in 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84 2008. ● Harwich Charity Cup Winners Brantham Athletic under the management of Michael Brothers 1982-83 and Matt Carmichael most recently ● Best FA Cup performance reached the final of the League - Second qualifying round, 2018-2019 Challenge Cup in May 2018 winning the match 4-2 vs ● Best FA Vase performance Thetford Town to become cup - Fifth round, 1982–83, 2012–13 winners. ● Largest Attendance - 1,700 vs VS Rugby, FA Vase fifth round, 1982–83 Meet some of the boys
Andrew Plummer Patrick Brothers Andrew is an experienced Goal Keeper who Having started his senior career at the Imps it comes in to the squad for the 2020/21 season was never going to be long until a bigger club having impressed during an came knocking. Patch then spent 9 extended period of one to one training by our successful years at Leiston achieving over 350 GK Coach John Watkins. appearances at steps 3-5. Patch will brings these experiences and qualities to the side both on and Alfie Owen Jones off the pitch. He will be looking to add goals to Alfie came through our youth teams and as an his extremely impressive attributes, and will also U18 he made the seamless transition to the 1st be looking to improve his skills off the pitch as team. OJ has excellent defensive attributes and he assists his brother. at the young age of 18 and he has a great future ahead of him. Adam Dunnage Adam joins during pre season from Whitton Utd. Steff Mallardo Hes a product of the Sudbury Acadamy and joins Stef joined during the 2019/20 season. He is a with high hopes from the management team. big strong centre half and confident in Adam will be looking to hit the ground running. possession. Stef learnt his trade at AFC Adam is a young talented defender who has Sudbury. Stef quickly established himself in previouslyimpressed Brothers when he played the Brantham team and helped to push the club him in the past. forward last season Kieran Lawler Will Crisell Keg - Kieran is an Imp legend who has returned A product of the Needham academy who to the club, this time in a coaching role. Kieran has first team appearances and experience at brings his ever improving coaching qualities to both Needham and Sudbury FC. The clubs the training pitch and looks to improve the side vice-captain is a natural defender and has and bring success.....his boots will always be by ability to dictate play from the back or from his side..... more advanced roles. A willing runner who leads by example in any position Michael Shaikly he plays. He is a key figure in the squad. Michael “Shakes” is an intelligent ball playing central midfielder who arrived at Brantham at Jack Sibbons the begining of the 2020/2021 season. Sibbo is an experienced old-fashioned centre half, who’s no nonsense style of play has been Regan Pellin ever present in Brantham’s defensive line. Reggie has been at the club since last year and A loyal member of the squad who is playing having been tracked last season by the previous in his 11th season with the club. Jack is also manager, Bruvs managed to get his signature a member of the management team as a first in pre season. Rapid and lively winger with team coach whilst being a popular face around undoubted quality in the final third, surprisingly the ground. relaxed for such a tiny little man, his intellect keeps the changing room a happy place. Prostate cancer kills one man every 45 minutes in the UK 45
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5879 Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887. DATE OPPOSITION COMP 12.9.20 Brantham Athletic FA Cup H 19.9.20 Felixstowe & Walton Utd IFL H 26.9.20 Felixstowe & Walton Utd FA Trophy A 3.10.20 Romford IFL H 6.10.20 Basildon Utd IFL H 10.10.20 Witham Town IFL A 13.10.20 Tilbury IFL A 24.10.20 Histon IFL H 28.10.20 Grays Athletic IFL A 31.10.20 Brentwood Town IFL H 7.11.20 Bury Town IFL A 14.11.20 Soham Town Rangers IFL H 21.11.20 Canvey Island IFL A 28.11.20 AFC Sudbury IFL A 5.12.20 Heybridge Swifts IFL H 12.12.20 Aveley IFL A 19.12.20 Cambridge City IFL H 26.12.20 Hullbridge Sports IFL H 28.12.20 Coggeshall Town IFL A 2.1.21 Dereham Town IFL H 9.1.21 Maldon & Tiptree IFL A 16.1.21 Grays Athletic IFL H 23.1.21 Histon IFL A 30.1.21 Witham Town IFL H 6.2.21 Basildon Utd IFL A 13.2.21 Aveley IFL H 20.2.21 Cambridge City IFL A 27.2.21 Bury Town IFL H 6.3.21 Brentwood Town IFL A 13.3.21 Canvey Island IFL H 20.3.21 Soham Town Rangers IFL A 27.3.21 AFC Sudbury IFL H 3.4.21 Heybridge Swifts IFL A 5.4.21 Hullbridge Sports IFL A 10.4.21 Maldon & Tiptree IFL H 17.4.21 Felixstowe & Walton Utd IFL A 24.4.21 Tilbury IFL H 1.5.21 Romford IFL A 3.5.21 Coggeshall Town IFL H 8.5.21 Dereham Town IFL A WHEN YOU SEE RED, ARE YOU SURE IT’S NOT GREEN, OR BLACK?
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There are three types of colour blindness – and myriad colour combinations which cause problems. The common perception that colour-blind people only confuse reds and greens is a myth. The FA has been working closely with UEFA and specialist organisation Colour Blind Awareness to highlight the issue. The intention is to positively influence COLOUR-BLIND SIMULATION (PROTANOPIA) decision-makers at every level of the game and improve the experience of colour-blind people – whatever their involvement in football. This work has seen the production of a comprehensive guidance booklet. You can read and download it at www.TheFA.com/colourblindness And please visit the Colour Blind Awareness website: colourblindawareness.org for ways you can help maximise awareness. Together, let’s make sure football’s future is FOR ALL. AFC Sudbury CO10 7HN Grays RM15 4UA Aveley RM15 4PX Great Wakering SS3 0HH Basildon SS14 3AW Heybridge Swifts CM9 8JA Brentwood Town CM15 9NN Histon CB24 9PH Bury Town IP33 1XP Hullbridge Sports SS5 6BJ Cambridge City CB24 9PH Maldon & Tiptree CM9 5JQ Canvey Island SS8 7PX Romford RM19 1YN Coggeshall Town CO6 1NT Soham Town CB7 5EQ Dereham NR20 3PX Tilbury RM18 8NL Felixstowe & Walton IP11 9HT Witham Town CM8 1UN STELLISONS & AEG SUPPORTING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TOGETHER
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Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord is the result of a football match between Arbroath and Bon Accord which took place on 12 September 1885.
It held the largest margin of victory in professional football until the 31 October 2002 match between AS Adema and SO l’Emyrne, but this was a thrown game; this match therefore remains, as of 2020, the largest victory margin in a legitimate game. Bon Accord are said to have arrived for the match without any form of standard football kit, a portent of what was to follow. With the teams being so mismatched, it was likely that Arbroath would win easily, but even in those days when high scoring games were common the result was unprecedented.
Arbroath were 15–0 up by half time, and scored another 21 goals in the second half. The Scottish Athletic Journal at the time wrote The leather was landed between the posts 41 times, but five of the times were disallowed. Here and there, enthusiasts would be seen scoring sheet and pencil in hand, taking note of the goals as one would score runs at a cricket match.” Referee Dave Stormont later claimed that had he taken a harder line with the Aberdeen team, Arbroath could have won 43–0. Stormont said: My only regret was that I chalked off seven goals, for while they may have looked doubtful from an offside point of view, so quickly did the Maroons carry the ball from midfield, and so close and rapid was their passing, that it was very doubtful whether they could be offside. It was claimed that Arbroath goalkeeper Jim Milne Sr did not touch the ball in the entire game and spent some of the match sheltering from the rain under a spectator’s umbrella.
The 18-year-old John Petrie scored 13 goals, still the record for most goals scored in a senior tournament, although it was equalled by Archie Thompson when Australia beat American Samoa 31–0 on 11 April 2001 in a qualifier for the 2002 World Cup.
The unfortunate Bon Accord goal keeper on the day was Andrew Lornie. Nuno Jorge Pereira da Silva Valente, (born 12 September 1974) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a left back, and a manager.
He played professionally in Portugal and England for Sporting, Portimonense, Marítimo, União de Leiria, Porto and Everton.
Valente represented Portugal at international level, participating at Euro 2004 (where he was a runner-up) and the 2006 World Cup.
Early years / Porto Born in Lisbon, Valente began his career at second division club Portimonense SC, loaned by hometown’s Sporting CP. However, he found first-team chances limited at the former side and, despite success in helping win the Portuguese Cup in 1995, he was loaned for the 1996–97 season to C.S. Marítimo also in the Primeira Liga.
A young José Mourinho recognized Valente’s talent and brought him to U.D. Leiria in the summer of 1999, and he spent three years there always as an undisputed start- er. In 2002, when the manager left to join FC Porto, he and teammate Derlei were the first signings, and the former repaid the coach’s faith with some good displays as the northerners romped to victory in the national championship and won the UEFA Cup against Celtic (3–2)
Coaching Valente kickstarted his coaching career on 11 October 2017, replacing Fernando Mira at the helm of C.D. Trofense in the Portuguese third division. Less than two months later, after six official matches and five losses, he was fired.
International career
A full Portugal international since after the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Valente was first-choice for the national side during the runner-up campaign at UEFA Euro 2004, played in home soil. During 2005 he suffered a thigh strain, but recovered in time to play in the 2006 World Cup, again playing a key part in their eventual fourth-place finish; in the quarter-final match against England he appeared to handball a David Beckham cross, but Horacio Elizondo did not to award a penalty and his team eventually advanced after a shootout.
After playing only once during the Euro 2008 qualifiers, Valente retired from international football in September 2008.
From The Gaffa
Afternoon everyone,
Welcome to Burroughs Park for our opening fixture of the 20/21 season. Firstly a warm welcome to Brantham and especially manager Michael Brothers. A old team mate of mine. It’s been a strange few months and I’m just glad we can get some normality back in our lives with the game we love most. We have lost a few boys over the summer to a few of the big boys in our league but I’m more than happy with the squad we have at the minute and look forward to building on what would of been a fantastic season for us last year. Let’s get behind the boys today and fingers crossed we will still be the hat for the next round come 5pm Saturday.
Steve Butterworth More FA Cup Games
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That’s it! Now you can check in safely and securely at any participating location. When We Last Meet GREAT Wakering Rovers are out of the FA Cup after they were upended by lower league side Brantham Athletic. A goal midway through the second-half from Sean Gunn and a late strike from Oliver Mann handed Brantham a deserved victory, as Rovers toiled in their worst performance of the season so far. Rovers were the favourites ahead of the tie, against the side from the Thurlow Nunn Premier Division, but they started the match slowly. Twenty minutes into the game, neither side were able to get control of the ball, with Rovers striker Jay Nash’s swing-and-a-miss the closest either had come. James Pugsley had sent a corner crashing back off the top of the crossbar, while Mann was looking the brightest spark for Brantham. The lone striker forced Adam Seal into a flying save with 30 minutes on the clock, having robbed stand-in centre-half Dan Trenkel of the ball. Seal denied Mann once again with his legs, although Rovers were stopped following a swift counter-attack. Tom Strickland blasted at goal but James Bradbrook was equal to it in the Athletic goal. This came either side of two Tom Ranger efforts. The first saw him volley wide when well placed and, 10 minutes before the break, his long range effort was spectacularly tipped aside by Bradbrook. Into the second-half, Rovers needed a spark and it was almost provided by Jay Nash, but he was denied by the goalkeeper, who then spread himself well to keep out Ranger. But Brantham were looking more lively with each passing attack. Sean Gunn led a quick counter-attack and was only denied by Seal, who was going the wrong way before getting down to make the block. But when the opening goal did come it was for the underdogs. A neat ball through found the run of Gunn and he finished coolly past Seal, despite loud calls for offside. Rovers were still struggling for rhythm, and should have fallen further behind when Mann raced in down the left, only for his bobbling effort to wrong-foot Seal before drifting narrowly wide of the post. The same man shot wide soon after, with Jamie Cole shooting side seconds after coming on. But Mann had the final laugh as he got the goal his play deserved with a comfortable finish past Seal in injury time. But Rovers were unable to find a way past Bradbrook and it will be Brantham who go on to play Biggleswade Town.
Report By Luke Lambert (Echo)
Great Wakering Brantham Athletic FC Rovers FC Manager Manager Stephen Butterworth Michael Brothers
Tim Brown Andrew Plummer Harry Aldridge Alfie Owen Jones Kojo Apenteng Steff Mallardo Daniel Brock Will Crisell Sam Carter Jack Sibbons George Cox Jack Marshall Oliver Gnandi Joss Neale Jake Gordon Jack Madley Billy Harris Jonny Lee Louie Hay Josh Lee Alex Hernandez Tom Watkins Mitch Hunter Tom Lawson Danny Hurford Patrick Brothers Lewis Jaggs Adam Dunnage Billy Johnson Kieran Lawler Connor Martin Michael Shaikly Ayo Odukoya Craig Clarke Jake Pitty Regan Pelling Tom Ranger Adebola Sotoyinbo Alex Stevenson Martin Tuohy Jacob Wiggins Referee: Neil West Assistants: Kirk Edwards & Daniel Ripton First home fixture for Rovers Vs Felixstowe & Walton Utd Sat 19th Sept 3pm