BEDFONT & FELTHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDED 2012 e Bedfont & Feltham v Jersey Bulls Saturday 9th November 2019 Online Version Of Printed Programme p D FORf.Jn The Orchard, Hatton Road, Bedfont, Middlesex TW14 9QT Tel: 020 8890 7264 [email protected] www.bedfontandfelthamfc.co.uk Twitter: @BedfontFeltham Facebook: /BedfontFeltham Affiliated: Middlesex FA Members: Combined Counties Football League Middlesex County Football League (Sunday) The Surrey Youth League Club Colours: Yellow & Blue Change Colours: Red & White Programme Cover Design: Rob Healy Management Committee: President: Alan Hale Vice President: John Cronk Chairman: Brian Barry – [email protected] Vice Chairman: Alan Hale Treasurer: Rob Healy General Secretary: Derrick Smith Director of Football: Scott Savoy – [email protected] Membership Secretary: Jane Rescorla Media Manager / Photographer: Joanna Ginger – [email protected] Media Manager / Programmes: Rob Healy – [email protected] Match-day Coordinator: Andy Smith Additional Members: Adam Bessent & Chris Beauchamp Bedfont & Feltham v Jersey Bulls 0 The Cherry Red Reco rds Combined Counties Football League, Division One Saturday 9th November 2019. Kick-Off: 1.00pm Volume 7, Issue 12 Good afternoon everyone. As tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday, we will be taking part in a minutes’ silence prior to kick-off as a token of our appreciation to those who fell in the two world wars and subsequent conflicts. Please join us. Welcome to The Orchard for our twelfth home match of season 2019-20. This afternoon we welcome the players, officials and supporters of Jersey Bulls Football Club; and our three match officials for this cup fixture. We trust you enjoy your brief stay with us and have a safe flight home afterwards. Our visitors were here a few weeks ago, when they played our tenants British Airways FC, so will be used to the surroundings of Heathrow Airport. They have joined the league this season in a similar vein to neighbouring Guernsey FC a few seasons ago. They too have hit the ground running, and are sitting rather proudly at the top of the Division One table. We are due to visit the Springfield Stadium in February, and are certainly looking forward to that visit. On Saturday, Jersey Bulls beat Dorking Wanderers Reserves 5-0. Their biggest league win was 7-1 against Bagshot back in September. In fact, Bagshot are one of only 5 teams to score against the Bulls. They have scored an impressive 52 goals so far this season, and have only had 5 scored against them. Following last Saturday’s marathon match at Welling Town in the Buildbase FA Vase Second Round Proper that ended in a 1-3 loss in extra-time, we rested nine players on Tuesday evening when Hanworth Villa visited us in the Southern Combination Challenge Cup. We were winning the match thanks to a solitary goal from Nick Hardy just before half-time when suddenly, in the dying seconds of the second half, the Villains equalised. This led to a penalty shootout (rather than extra-time and a replay, per competition rules) and due to extremely good efforts from both team’s goalkeepers, only three penalties were actually scored. Unfortunately, two were in Hanworth’s favour which meant they won 2-1. We wish them well in the next round and for the rest of the season. We’re back at The Orchard on Tuesday to Premier Division side Knaphill – in the league’s Premier Challenge Cup. We will be away to Walton & Hersham next weekend. An updated fixture list can be found on the middle pages of this programme and on our website. For a full catalogue of last season’s programmes, visit our website. This season’s are being added as we go - https://www.bedfontandfelthamfc.co.uk/content.php?pg=downloads&pd=1047 Programmes for our midweek matches are now online only. Enjoy today’s match and see you again soon. Rob – Editor. Manager’s Notes Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Orchard. I hope our match officials and all associated with Jersey Bulls enjoy their short stay with us. We turn our attention back to the league campaign today after exiting two cup competitions over the last week or so. Our FA Vase run came to an end on Saturday at Welling. Going away to a Step 5 side, we were never going to be dubbed as favourites but after taking the tie to extra time and more than holding our own it was a sombre bus journey home. The boys worked incredibly hard for 120 minutes but they will say themselves that despite us working the home keeper, eventual man of the match, several times we never really hit our best levels. It was a record-breaking run for the club, but ultimately, we know we could've gone even further. Five goals, a clean sheet and 3 points a fortnight ago at Eversley was much needed as we look to edge up the table now that our squad is looking the healthiest it's been all year. Today, we welcome the champions elect to the Orchard. We won’t be favourites for the second week running as they look to make it 14 wins from 14 games. We will have to be at our best to get something from the game. Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the game. Adam. Introducing Our Visitors – Jersey Bulls Jersey Bulls is the newest football club in the English football league system and the most southerly. Following the footsteps of Guernsey FC, the Bulls have been founded by Chairman Russell Le Feuvre to give island players an opportunity to test their abilities in a more competitive environment on the mainland. It also gives islanders an opportunity to support a club side in Jersey that competes nationally like the Jersey Reds and Team Jets do in rugby and netball respectively. On 30 November 2018 the Bulls got official FA approval for their bid to join the English football leagues and a month later the Combined Counties League approved their membership bid to join Division One for the 2019/20 season. Since then, Bulls announced ex-island representative player Gary Freeman as Manager and signed up 32 players. On 6 July 2019, the Bulls played their first ever football match in a friendly at their home ground at Springfield Stadium against EFL League Two team Stevenage FC, losing 4-3. Striker Fraser Barlow made history when he put the Bulls in the lead to be the clubs first ever goal scorer. Another friendly ten days later saw a 3-0 reverse against Leicester City U23 Academy before a further leap into history was made when Bulls hosted their first ever league match against Ash United, winning 3-0. Barlow once again opened the scoring, followed with goals from Karl Hinds (penalty) and Harry Cardwell. The island of Jersey is geographically nearer to France (only 14 miles) than England (87 miles) at its closest point and entering a club in the national league will present a major challenge both logistically and financially. Bulls and their opponents will have to fly to or from Gatwick airport to play each other so the club has to rely on the generous support of their commercial partners to survive. With a population of just over 100,000 people on an area of only 45 square miles, Jersey is classed as a ‘crown dependency’, independent in status from the UK and having its own laws and government. It also has its own currency and its own language, Jérriais – a dialect of French, though you will be hard pressed to hear anyone still speak it unless you find yourself down at the Farmers Club. Our Visitors – Statistics Jersey Bulls – league results ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Aug H ASH UNITED 3-0 W 14 Aug a FC Deportivo Galicia 6-0 W 17 Aug a Godalming Town 5-0 W 25 Aug H FLEET SPURS 4-0 W 26 Aug a Westside 1-0 W 7 Sep H BAGSHOT 7-1 W 14 Sep a Kensington & Ealing 5-1 W 21 Sep H EVERSLEY & CALIFORNIA 5-1 W 28 Sep a AFC Hayes 2-1 W 5 Oct H SANDHURST TOWN 4-1 W 12 Oct a British Airways 4-0 W 19 Oct H WALTON & HERSHAM 1-0 W 2 Nov H DORKING WANDERERS RES 5-0 W Esoteric Recordings Division One Challenge Cup 2nd ROUND Dorking Wanderers Res 2-3 Jersey Bulls Game of the People Rangers’ slow road back continues THERE WAS some encouraging news for Rangers in their 2018-19 financial results, but the figures also revealed just how far the club is behind “old firm” rivals Celtic. Rangers made a loss of £ 11.3 million despite revenues climbing by 63% to £ 53.2 million, boosted by a lengthy involvement in the Europa League. Chairman David King said the financial year had been positive, although the club is still reliant on cash from shareholders – as witnessed by £ 33.8 million of “soft” loans being converted to shares. Furthermore, the club will need a further injection of £ 10 million to meet its liabilities in 2019-20. As at June 30, the club was holding just £ 1 million in cash. Nevertheless, as Rangers continue to rebuild, King was very positive: “Our Club has the highest expectations within the economic sphere that we operate and this requires the appropriate strategy, resources and operational capability. For the first time in many years we have all three of these at every level within the Club.” Revenues grew for the fourth consecutive season – they have more than trebled in that timeframe as Rangers worked their way through the divisions after their demotion in 2012.