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BURROUGHSPARK Great Wakering Rovers FC Vs. Brantham Athletic FC Isthmian Senior North Division Official Matchday Programme Club Directory 2018/19 President Roger Burroughs Chairman: David Patient Vice Chairman: The League’s Respect Treasurer: Elaine Pitts statement: “The Isthmian Secretary: Dan Ellis Football League strongly Other Positions supports the FA statement that Social Secretary: Elaine Pitts there should be a zero tolerance Fixtures Secretary: Dan Ellis approach against racism and all Bar Manager: Elaine Pitts Press Officer: Jim Laird forms of discrimination. Programme Editor: Dan Ellis Accordingly any form of Website: Dan Ellis discriminatory abuse whether Welfare Officer: Martin Spencer it be based on race or ethnicity, Committee Members sexual orientation, gender, faith, Andrew Knight, Roy Kettridge, Maisie Hare, Jim Johnson age, ability or any other form Management Team of abuse will be reported to The Manager: Stephen Butterworth Football Association for action Coach: Craig Shipman by that Association.” Player/Coach: Martin Tuohy Physio: (The FA 0800 085 0508 / Kit Person: Josh Wiggins Kick it Out 020 7253 0162) 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.