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NATIONAL FA FA MIDDX MIDDX TOTALS WEALDSTONE LEAGUE CUP TROPHY SENIOR CHARITY CAREER SOUTH CUP CUP A S G A S G A S G A S G A S G A S G A S G Ahmidi, Wadah 10 2 12 12 Brown, Stefan 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 Bubb, Bradley 4 4 4 2 1 6 4 5 18 6 10 Clark, James 1 1 1 Grant, Freddie 10 2 12 12 Green, Danny 8 2 1 1 9 2 1 105 10 26 Hudson-Odoi, Bradley 8 1 3 1 9 1 3 47 9 18 Lench, Matt 3 5 1 1 1 4 6 1 4 6 1 Mambo, Yado 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mitchell, Reece 5 5 5 Monakana, Jeffrey 5 4 1 2 5 6 1 11 7 2 North, Jonathan 11 2 13 356 1 Okimo, Jerome 11 2 13 110 5 1 Poku, Godrey 11 2 13 13 Pratt, David 10 3 10 3 31 1 9 Sheppard, Jake 2 2 1 1 3 3 15 3 1 Shomotun, Fumnaya 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 Slew, Jorome 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 Stevens, Connor 10 2 1 12 1 12 1 Tyler, Rhys 10 1 11 11 White, Joe * 5 1 1 5 1 1 22 5 9 Wilson, Glenn 20 1 1 Scoreline scrutinised 1-0 300 This page is all about Wealdstone’s …we recently recorded our 300th 1-0 1-0 wins. The reason? Because… win of all time at East Thurrock United FA Cup 17 FA Trophy 14 21 FA Vase Other 2 Leagues 37 7 FA Amateur National Cup League 168 Number of clubs we’ve 1-0 wins by 58 recorded a 1-0 win 39 type of Other Cup against. Southern competion competitions League Athenian League Isthmian 31 League 74

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result never looked in doubt for the Beavers. I recall the game because it was the largest and noisiest Hampton away support I have seen in some years (see picture left), I suppose thanks to the relatively short travelling distance and it being a bank holiday. TheToday sees the arrivalBeavers’ of the Hampton Massive.. and View Have you ever followed another team, or have a favourite second team? Hampton to mark the occasion we’ve asked three Beavers fans is really the only team I actively support, I lost all interest in the English by (THEY PLAY AT THE BEVEREE) why they love their club. about the age of 15 and have never particularly enjoyed watching the England national team First up, their programme editor Chris Hurst.... either. My mother’s side of the family are from How long have you been watching the possible but there are Tonbridge so I’ve watched lots of Tonbridge Beavers? When was your first game clear advantages of Angels matches over the years and always and memories of it? I watched my first being in the National It’s true: Beavers fans turned keep an eye out for their results. My ‘big team’ Hampton game during the 2000/01 season League South. Just out in good number at The Vale is Glasgow Rangers, although I’ve never been as an enthusiastic 12-year-old who had just the other week on New Year’s Day and were to Ibrox, am not Scottish and primarily watch discovered non-league football earlier that Hampton travelled rewarded with a surprise 3-0 win the matches at the Rangers supporter’s year after the family bought our first home to Torquay to play club in Croydon! computer and I started to search the internet against Truro City and the travelling Hampton the Football League! I do think we have Who are the Hampton players to watch for all things football. I didn’t really know that fans were subjected to the most pointless a claim to having the most picturesque today? Our striker Chris Dickson has been non-league existed before then! segregation I’ve ever known - the total atten- ground though. on fire. At the time of writing, he has equalled Being from Whitton, H & RB was the obvi- dance was 138! So there’s less of that kind a club record by scoring in eight consecutive of culture at this level and I think everybody Was the club’s best games, making him second only to Billericay’s ous team to go and support. My father used ever manager? Alan Devonshire is to watch Brentford in his younger days and is just enjoying watching the team play well prolific Jake Robinson in the goals scored and hopefully we’ll have another go at the certainly a club legend and was manager category. Your defence will need to be on their I believe he was eager to get me hooked on from 2003-2011, a significant period of a less expensive team(!), so I attended my play-offs next year. toes today. In general, we have looked danger- time in modern football. We took a while ous going forward, but I would say our talented first game at Beveree with my parents. I am Which season was the best Hampton to find the right management team fol- pretty sure it was a 3-1 win against Sutton team in your opinion? I would say it was winger Rhys Murrell-Williamson is particularly lowing Dev’s departure, but in 2014 Alan worthy of a mention. Defenders have struggled United in the old Ryman Premier Division. the team assembled by Alan Devonshire Dowson became manager and although I Hampton were having a great season under that won the Ryman Premier (2006/07) and against him this season and he can provide can’t be too flattering since his decision to that quality ball into the danger zone. manager Steve Cordery and we eventually finished 3rd in the then Conference South go down the road to Woking, I will say that finished 7th in the table. We were a pleasure (2007/08), eventually losing to Eastbourne he had a great community ethic and really How are Ricky Wellard, Matt Whichelow, Na- to watch on the attack, with pacy wingers Borough in the play-off final. The team con- threw himself into every aspect of the club. than Mavila and the other ex-Stones settling Dean Green and Warren Williams; striker tained the likes of Alan Inns (who went on to He had the advantage, of course, of being into the side? Matty Whichelow appeared Leroy Griffiths (who would be sold to QPR in play in the Conference for AFC Wimbledon), on a full-time contract during his final sea- during pre-season for us but was a more recent the summer of 2001 for a club record fee); a young Elliott Godfrey (who Wealdstone son at Beveree. I can’t fault the current addition to the squad so I think there’s much and former Southampton man Craig Maskell fans will be familiar with), and Lawrence management team and hopefully we can more to come from him. He came from the making up a formidable front line. Yaku was our star striker. go forward to achieve great things. bench and scored a well-placed goal against Are the fans despairing of ever making Can the Beveree ever host League foot- Burgess Hill Town in the FA Cup the other Have you seen Hampton take on week, opening his account for the season. Na- the National League after the play-off dis- ball? That would be a huge ask. Beveree Wealdstone before? I’ve attended many appointments? We don’t do very well in the is a small village ground and has very limited than Mavila has settled into a defence that has Beavers vs Stones games over the years. conceded just two goals in the last six games play-offs. In fact I’m sure the club has never space for major development. Along two Grosvenor Vale is actually fairly similar won a play-off competition! We reached sides of the pitch we are surrounded by and Ricky Wellard has been solid in the middle in size to Beveree, but the work that as club captain. the final last season and lost to Braintree a school and businesses and everything Wealdstone have carried out, particularly Town on penalties, which was difficult is very compact. Our hardworking recently, is most impressive. I like that it How do you think each team will fare this to take, but just take a look at volunteers have recently been has covered terracing behind each goal season? If you had asked me that question Braintree’s league position making sure the ground which really amplifies the noise generated about Hampton back in August I would have now (24th at time of writing). retains its ‘B’ rating for this by supporters and I know that Wealdstone told you that I’d happily take 15th in the table It’s a massive step up and Chris, right, division; over the summer vs Hampton matches can have a cracking and perhaps a good run in the teams who just scrape into hasn’t found we increased the seated atmosphere. Senior Cup! We had so much upheaval over the play-offs in 6th or 7th his support capacity and carried out pre-season with our management team go- flagging other remedial works. My favourite game here was probably on ing to Woking and taking most of the players position may well struggle 1st January this year (a game Wealdstone the following season. (sorry) We would need to imple- with them that nobody was really expecting ment changes to get the fans may not remember so fondly!) Our too much this season. But all credit to Gary Of course, you want to debutant forward Elliott Charles scored a play at the highest level ‘A’ rating required for the CONTINUED OVERPAGE league above, nevermind 25-minute hattrick in the first half and the WEALDSTONE v HAMPTON & BEAVERS’ VIEW.. CONTINUED RICHMOND BORO 13.10.18

And finally, how much time do you devote to the HRB programme each week? How long have you been editing ...while 16-year-old Josh Mann from it and do you enjoy thinking up new features etc? I’m now in my third season Hounslow sings the praises of the ex-Stones We’ll welcome back of editing our programme and very much When was your first Hampton ity improved at Maidenhead, Ex-Stone Ricky enjoying it. We have a great team of game, and any memories of it? which earned him a football Wellard today... he contributors to the programme who make I remember being taken to The league move to Barnet. is now the Hampton the job of editing easier than it could have Bev at a very young age by my Can the Beveree ever host skipper which will been. We have regular columnists for grandmother, uncle and dad. I must League football? At the seem strange! things like local history and away travel have been about 3 or 4 and have moment, no. A lot of upgrade guides; our club chaplain writes a regular little recognition of the first game. work would be required, but I piece and we have excellent match My uncle worked in the club shop, think it could, yes. McCann and the new management team, photographs provided each week by our and my grandmother helped to sell who have put together a squad that has re- Are the club ready for Na- club photographer.This season we’ve started programmes, and then worked in the tional League football ? ally gelled well. From what I’ve seen, our side approaching away supporters to offer us club shop with my uncle (her son) We’ve come so close three is capable of finishing in a play-off position their thoughts on the game and added some until her death in 2017. and competing with the best in this division. times, but this current time other features such as a quiz and trivia. I’m Which season was the best Hamp- As for Wealdstone, surely it is your turn to also working with our women’s team to bring I don’t think so, despite the ton team in your opinion, and fact we are 3rd in the league, make the play-offs this season? You’ve had enhanced coverage of their matches. As any why? For me, the 2008-09 season a few near misses the past couple of sea- programme editor will tell you, the biggest we are performing way team. We finished 2nd, 3 points be- above any of our fans expec- sons. We should have a better idea by the challenge is producing original content that hind AFC Wimbledon, and in ended time you visit Beveree in April next year. has not already been shared online! tations. Lots of us would of in heartbreak, losing the play off final taken staying up as a good to Hayes and Yeading. The season. However l, with us who support Poole Town and team was full of unbelievably in 3rd at the moment, who Over to 49-year-old Richard Pentney who travels up from Bristol Bath City. talented players. knows what might happen? Who are the Hampton Who are your four fa- Was Alan Devonshire the players to watch today? All vourite all time Hampton club’s best ever manager? for every Hampton game. His views are certainly uncompromising! of them. players? Goalkeeper: Mark In my lifetime, Dev is Smith - He saved us so When was your first game, Which season was the that he likes the team to play, How are Ricky Wellard, definitely the best manager, Richard? It was when I was best Hampton team in your he’s also a very nice bloke. many times in that Isthmian just ahead of Dowse. Dev Matt Whichelow, Nathan League promotion season. 5 or 6 so would have been in opinion, and why? Or was Ever visited Grosvenor Mavila and the other ex- did so much for us with all 1974 or 1975, when my Dad it before the NLS days? Last Vale before? How does it He is currently at Eastbourne the promotions, and im- Stones settling into the Borough. Defender: Charlie finally gave in to me asking season (17/18) was great, compare to the Beveree? I side? Ricky is leading the provements to the club. to go and watch football, especially with the 21 game have been to Grosvenor Vale Wassmer stands out from Have you seen Hamp- side very well and Matty last season. He was an we lived in Hampton so we unbeaten streak but nothing a couple of times, sorry but scored a lovely goal in the ton take on Wealdstone walked down to the Bev. I was better than winning the we have the best ground in absolute unit, and headed before? I saw Hampton FA Cup against Burgess Hill everything away. He is one have hardly any memories of Ryman in 15/16. the League. Town, Nathan however has beat Wealdstone 2-0 in the the game itself but the feeling Who are your four favourite of many who have followed Middlesex Senior Cup final, Have you ever followed the opportunity to be the best to Woking. of walking into a stadium for all time Hampton players another team? I’ve been to left back in the League. at Uxbridge, witnessing a Midfielder: Tough one! the first time, irrelevant of (one keeper, one defender, see a lot of games around And who should Beavers James Simmonds master- where or what sport it is, still one midfielder, one striker)? the country, and many James Simmonds was class class. A great day, and great be fearing today? No one, with us, as was Brendan excites me to this day. Sam Howes (GK), Dean Wells abroad as well, and whilst the moment you fear the op- performance. Who or what made you (DEF), Brendan Kiernan (MID) I keep an eye on Bristol Kiernan. Both were great The ex Stones players in our position is the moment you on the ball and got forward come to that game? My and Jamal Lowe (ST) Manor Farm’s results (my lo- start to make excuses for not side have played a mas- obsession with football and Can the Beveree ever host cal team) I wouldn’t say that I a lot. But I’m going to go for sive part in our good start winning. Max Kretschmar in his one the 74 World Cup had just League football? Yes we can. support another side. How do you think each although Josh Urquhart has finished, we hardly had any season, last season. He was left due to travelling issues, Are the club ready for Na- How is non league football team will fare this season? excellent. He too has joined on tv in the 70s so I was ex- tional League football? Yes perceived among your You may well join us in the and has since signed for Big- pecting to see the next Johan Woking, from whom we gleswade United. we are. friends and colleagues? playoffs if everything goes originally signed him. Cruyff. Oh well! Was Alan Devonshire the A lot of my colleagues see your way. Ever visited Grosvenor Are you despairing of non-league as a bit of an Striker: . It was Vale? How does it com- club’s best ever manager? And finally... where will close between him and ever making it through the What do you think of Hampton oddity but they support each club be in five years pare to the Beveree? I play-offs? Depends how you Liverpool, Man Utd, Bristol Charlie Moone, but Tarpey hope to come down soon, managers since? I think that time? I would like to see just edges it for me. What define “making it”, but can we Alan probably was but Gary Rovers etc, so what do Hampton as a competitive but from what I have heard get into the National League they know? But there are a a player he was. Incredible and seen in pictures it looks McCann has impressed me NLP team. I can’t comment finishing ability, and I was Premier? You bet we can! greatly with the style of football couple of enlightened people on Wealdstone on a similar level to The Bev, gutted when he left. His qual- perhaps slightly better. ON THIS DAY HAMPTON & RICHMOND BOROUGH 13.10.2018 IN HISTORY Left: All Sport Weekly’s report on the 28 years ago.. disaster at Grosvenor Vale. Probably the game we’ll the Stones worst local never speak of! Cup defeat since losing to Wembley BY GORDON MCKAY in 1968, and Potters Bar in Saturday October 13 1990: 2006 Ruislip Manor (away) FA Cup 3rd Qual Rd: Lost 0-1 Saturday wouldn’t normally dwell on October 13 such a dreadful afternoon - 2007: Bishops www.wfcmegastore.co.uk but this occasion marked the Stortford (h)FA Iscene of probably Manor’s cup 3rd Qual: greatest-ever result on what is Won 1-0 now our home ground. bit of a Southern League Prem giant-killing Stones were two levels higher by us this than Ryman Div One Manor timeA as we and were expected to win knocked out easily, with the majority of the Conference South 854 crowd loudly supporting Stortford in our them. However as we all know last season of the FA Cup can be a cruel ground sharing at competition and so it proved in Northwood’s this instance with an Chestnut Avenue. 18th-minute goal from Kevin We were one Quinn knocking us out. Maybe level lower in the one day we can erase the pyramid at the memory of this one with a time (Ryman major giant killing of our own Prem) but we were at Grosvenor Vale...... showing signs of putting a decent side together so Monday October 13 1975- this wasn’t a total Bath City (away) Southern surprise. League Prem: Drew 2-2 Perhaps the real Monday night fixture at shock was that we Twerton Park as we thoroughly searched for our first away points of deserved the win Athe season. A healthy following of Stones and maybe could have were on the back foot for most of the game. down our fifth away defeat in a row was fans (two coachloads) made this journey in Having gone behind early on we managed looming until an underhit back pass was had a few more but had to settle for a soli- an expectant mood, not so much down to to get back into the game when John pounced upon by the one and only George tary Steve Hughes strike to put us through. our prowess but more to do with The McCormick headed home from a corner so Duck who drilled his shot low past the A good day for the Stones and a rare Romans languishing near the foot of the all square at half time. The 2nd half much-reviled Kenny Allen in the Bath goal. moment of joy for the long suffering Stones table. continued in the same vein with Bath on top A crowd of 981 watched this one with over faithful... even though we were beaten at Bath were probably better than their and it was no surprise when they regained 100 Stones in attendance. Hampton 1-0 in the next round. league position though and on the night we the lead on the hour mark. As the clock ran FIND PRE-LOVED PROGRAMMES THE MEGASTORE: WFC FIND PRE-LOVED LIKE THESE AT GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY BY TIM PARKS HAMPTON & RICHMOND BORO REWIND 13.10.2018

Wealdstone v Hampton: Joy is unconfined as Six years ago: A Stones celebrate Richard Jolly’s late, late winner in Tales of Hughie Lindsay, 2012 against Hampton thriller at the Vale Tuesday October 27 2012, Ryman Prem: Wealdstone 3 Hampton 2 a cruel Cup defeat and WHO remembers this pulsating top-of- the-table clash at Grosvenor Vale four years ago? Hampton were actually leading the fledgling table but it was an amazing comeback Wealdstone who repeated their trick of coming back from 2-0 down to beat his is the third successive year we’ve the leaders - having done the same to faced The Beavers at Grosvenor Vale Kingstonian in a tremendous 5-2 win since they were promoted (by winning at The Vale a month earlier. www.wfcmegastore.co.uk Tthe Ryman League at a canter) in 2016. THE We trailed to a goal from Joel And it’s about time we put in a decent Ledgister on 24 minutes and were showing! shocked when a quick Hampton break This Rewind feature v Hampton that first GOOD saw Tom Hickey sidefooting home season was, naturally enough, all about a chance to extend the visitors’ lead. past games and after demonstrating that we Hickey, of course, would go on to torment had a decent record against the Surrey to head and most talk was about how were several Isthmian clubs who wanted to us with goals at the Vale for the Beavers wide we then went and got walloped 4-2. Hughie Lindsay would perform for Hampton, sign me - but I’d made my decision and the following season (both in the league On New Year’s Day 2018 these pages were half a season since the ex-England and wanted to honour it. and Middx Cup Final) which prompted us to filled with other matches on the first day of Great Britain Amateur international had left sign the talented midfielder. “Hampton played just around the corner Even kicking downhill towards the tea bar the year, tactfully skirting around that afore- Lower Mead in a fit of pique to sign for his from where I lived - and still do -and they said walloping - and then we lost again, 3-0. hometown club. end after the break, with a raucous Brian were a lovely little club with some good Collins Stand roaring them on, it seemed So what do you do now? I’ve decide to It seemed a strange decision - the people. The chairman was a young the rhythmic regularity of our attacks would cherry-pick one good, one bad and one midfielder, just turned 30 and arguably at comedy writer called Alan Simpson (who fail to beat the inspired Rodney Chiweshie downright ugly clash, from a Wealdstone his peak, had felt threatened by the created Steptoe & Sons with Ray Galton, in the Hampton goal. Then: a stroke of luck perspective over the 50-odd years that we September signing of another amateur and worked with Tony Hancock) and I’d ... or just bad positioning by the keeper? have been facing the Beavers. They were international, Enfield’s John Connell, and been on summer tours with the club. I A long looping shot-cum-cross to the back known as simply ‘Hampton FC ‘ up until decided to take a step down having prom- stayed there for three or four years but by stick from Alex Dyer delightfully 1977 but HRBFC state that the current club ised the Beavers manager he would sign for then the game was all about workrate and bamboozled the flailing Chiweshie, the ball is still the one that took part in the 1950s them if he ever left the Stones. Much bigger athleticism. Not really my thing”. sailing past to nestle in the top corner. and 60s as lowly members of the Spartan clubs wanted to snap up the inside forward Hughie disappointed a little on his return Ten minutes later and delirium as Sean and Athenian Leagues. but Hughie was adamant. to Lower Mead on that cold February after- Cronin - in his 100th game for the club - When I first starting watching the Stones n a recent interview for this programme noon, not really getting into the game as met an outswinging corner with a sweet left in 1969, Hampton were lesser lights playing Hughie admitted: ‘If I’m honest, I knew the Stones continued a march to the Middx foot volley which gave defence and keeper at the Beveree which in those days was my powers were on the wane but I was Cup Final (where we lost 3-2 on aggregate no chance. 2-2! pretty much an enclosed field. We were in Istill really upset. I stormed off to Hampton, to Enfield, of course). The Brian Collins stand was shaking and the top-flight of amateur football, the Isth- who I knew were keen to sign me, and put The next time I saw us face Hampton shouting as Shabazz Baidoo, back to goal, mian League, and looking back through the pen to paper that very evening. In retro- was in 1974 in an early qualifying round of then stroked the ball through the heart of records there were 1,052 people present on spect it was the worst thing I could have the FA Cup, when we were flying along in the defence and the predatory Richard 21 February 1970 when we chalked up a done... Hampton were in the Spartan the Southern League Prem and the Jolly netted. Hampton left the field to a 1-0 win over the Beavers at Lower Mead in League in those days, a couple of levels Beavers were three rungs lower in the Isth- rousing chorus of “two nil, and you f****d it an early round of the Middlesex Senior Cup. below the , and the football mian Div Two. They gave us a fright at the up”. Hard to argue with that. Four-figure crowd for a county cup game! was frenetic. Everyone charged about like pretty, tree-lined Beveree but in the replay Wealdstone: Banks, McCubbin, Chap- We’d be happy with that when we face lunatics. I was used to playing for a team we won comfortably enough, 2-0. pell, Parker (c) (Massey 76), Cronin, Uxbridge at the Vale next month.That was that tried to slow things down and control Dyer, Webb, O’Leary (Brooks 81), Dean the first time I’d seen our two sides go head the tempo. If I’d just waited a few days there OVERPAGE: THE BAD & THE UGLY (Baidoo 84), Jolly, Pett. Subs not used:

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pressurise our defenders, winning posses- sion high up the park in the early stages Eleven years ago: with their prolific striker Lawrence Yaku – a former Stone – always a danger. ut slowly, bayed on by the Hearbreak Harris Wealdstone support, we got to grips THE and came close to taking a half- Btime lead as Ryan Ashe turned, shot and looked on in dismay as the ball crashed hits brave Stones UGLY off the face of the crossbar. The high Saturday Oct 27 2007, FA Cup 4th Qual tempo continued after the break but, as Round: Hampton 1 Wealdstone 0 the half-fit James Gray and Marcus Gross WE’VE faced Hampton many, many times finally flagged, Hampton took a grip. Sean over the years in the Middlesex Senior Cup Thomas in our goal made some marvel- (most notably two losing finals in 2012 and lous saves but it was a cruel blow when 2014) and of course in the Ryman League Hampton sub Glen Harris leaped to meet www.wfcmegastore.co.uk for a few years.... but the most high-octane an 87th-minute cross and head beyond the clash came 11 years ago in the FA Cup so nearly... Stones come within a defiant Thomas. Fourth Qualifying Round at their Bev- whisker of taking the lead when Ryan Thus it was the Beaver boys who went eree ground. This was serious stuff. Ashe (out of picture) crashed his on to meet League Two Dagenham & Red- Around 250 Stones fans travelled THE shot against the Hampton bar in the bridge in the First Round Proper (and be down to the banks of the Thames, first half. The late Jomo Faal-Thomas pipped at home), and then just missed out swelling an official crowd of 679 (No2) looks on on automatic promotion to the Blue Square (closer to 1,000) with the carrot of a BAD Conference National, finishing third. They place in the First Round proper (and were beaten by Eastbourne Borough in the this final qualifying round we had for the Beavers, who had climbed through, a £10,000 cheque from the sponsors) play-off final at Stevenage Borough. dumped out Bishops Stortford from and out of the Ryman League and were dangling enticingly. The following season they went even the Conference South, and would later currently flying along at the top of the Blue Wealdstone were then in the Ryman closer when AFC Wimbledon pipped them overcome and other Connie South side Square South. Premier Division, with Gordon Bartlett finally to the title, and they suffered the double- Welling United in the Trophy. You could soon see why. constructing a team (even post-Jolly and whammy of again beaten in the play-off Hampton, though, were tough opposition Their energetic, muscular game consisted Jermaine Beckford) capable of holding its final, this time by Hayes & Yeading. – it had been a decade of upward mobility of hitting long balls into the channels to own at that level… indeed, on the way to

Stones press officer Colin Pope Desperate days as Stones pulled no punches in the next home programme (right) , giantkilled by the Beavers (even if he couldn’t spell rejuvenation) Saturday March 12 1977, Middlesex Senior actually tipping us Cup semi-final: Hampton 3 Wealdstone 2 to finish bottom of THIS was such a humiliation that I’d the table! In fact forgotten all about it... Isthmian Div Two THE Alan Fogarty’s side Hampton ran rings around our over-hyped rallied to finish 14th Southern League Prem stars in this one- and DID beat Wey- sided County Cup semi-final. Our much- UGLY mouth in this game changed side (see programme, left) were as they set off on a reeling at half time, 3-0 behind and goals from long unbeaten run Willie Watson and Bill Byrne weren’t enough to avoid defeat. to the end of the Incidentally, note how the programme cover aped our season. So the jolt own ‘Royal Blue Review’ which was redesigned the previous of losing to

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