rrane our first game until we have tried and tested all aspects of facility from playing on the pitches to pouring a pint in the bar and Life President: Frank King ensuring there is hot water in the showers. This in itself will take time but get ready to move home games from Lancing by around mid Directors: season. I can't wait !! Kevin Borrett (Chairman), John Lines (CEO), Mark Butler (Finance)

David Hillier, Paul Osborn (Commercial) James Clewlow (Legal Advisor and Company Secretary), Jeff Barrett Club Committee: The above plus: Sean Bravery (chairman), Annie Raby, Mark Wells, Sam Borrett, Jeanie Charman Roger Charman, Joe Clarke, Ray Farrell, Howard Frogley, Paul Ockenden Nigel Smithers, Matt Dale, Mark Barrett, Paul Osborn HORSHAM FOOTBALL Club Secretary CLUB Jeff Barrett 07712 888980 Email: [email protected] FOUNDED 1881 Youth Secretary & Child Welfare Officer: Annie Raby 07800 922442 Email: [email protected] Health & Safety Officer: Roger Charman Major honours Programme: Mark Wells West Sussex Football Website: Mark Wells League Commercial: 1899-90, 1900-1, 1925-6 Programme advertising: Sue Bravery Email: [email protected] Sussex County League Matchday advertising: Paul Osborn 07748802424 Email: [email protected] 1931-2, 1932-3, 1933-4,

1935-6, 1936-7, 1937-8, Vice Presidents: S.Bravery, Mrs J Brittain, G Brittain, J.Dale, T.Dickinson, D.Duffield 1946-7 Mrs J.Mallard, W.Michel, D.Rick, J.Smyth, E.Stephens, Southern Combination Howie the Hornet Football League Life Members: 2015-16 Jeff Barrett, Roger Charman, Clive Edwards, Howard Frogley, Adam Hammond Sussex RUR Cup Frank King, Maureen Smith, Nigel Smithers, Ted Streeter, Eric Wright, Miss Joan Young 1900,Annie 1931, 1932, 1934 Raby, Ivan Raby, Mark Wells, John Lines (Jt), 1935, 1936,1937, Trustees: A.Baker, D.Burstow, C.Edwards, F.King 1938 (Jt), 1946, 1949

(Jt), 1951,1952, 1957 FOOTBALL 1st Team Manager: Dominic di Paola Sussex Floodlight Cup 1st Assistant Manager: Adam Westwood 1977-8, 2001-2 1st Team Coach: Jon Meeney Sussex Senior Cup Goalkeeping coach: Andy McCarthy 1934-5, 1938-9, 1949-50,

InjuryTherapist: Stephanie Apps 1953-4, 1971-2, 1973-4, Kit Man: Darren Etheridge 1975-6 Youth Development Officer: Ivan Raby FA Cup 1st Round U16 Manager: Adam Hartley Coach: U13 Green Manager: Ian Scott Coach: Ellis McKay, Andrew Stowell 1947-8, 1966-7 U13 Amber Manager: Tony Massimo Coach: Steve Bridle, Aaron Coniff-Broom FA Cup 2nd Round U12 Manager: Paul Brown Coach Alex Bethell, Ross Butterfill 2007-8 U11 Manager: Sam Jones, Matt Robinson Metropolitan League 1951-2 website: www.horsham-fc.co.uk Athenian League Division Two 1969-70 Athenian League Division One 1972-3 Isthmian League Division Three 1995-6

Life President: Frank King Directors: Kevin Borrett (Chairman), John Lines (CEO), Mark Butler (Finance) David Hillier, Paul Osborn (Commercial), Jeff Barrett James Clewlow (Legal Advisor and Company Secretary)

Club Committee: The above plus: Sean Bravery (chairman), Annie Raby, Mark Wells, Sam Borrett, Jeanie Charman, Roger Charman, Joe Clarke, Ray Farrell, Howard Frogley, Nigel Smithers, Matt Dale, Mark Barrett, HORSHAM FOOTBALL Club Secretary CLUB Jeff Barrett 07712 888980 Email: [email protected] FOUNDED 1881 Youth Secretary & Child Welfare Officer:

Annie Raby 07800 922442 Email: [email protected] Health & Safety Officer: Roger Charman MAJOR HONOURS Programme: Mark Wells West Sussex Football Website: Mark Wells & Matt Dale League Commercial: 1899-90, 1900-1, 1925-6 Matchday advertising: Paul Osborn 07748802424 Email: [email protected] Sussex County League Vice Presidents: 1931-2, 1932-3, 1933-4, S.Bravery, Mrs J Brittain, G Brittain, J.Dale, T.Dickinson, D.Duffield 1935-6, 1936-7, 1937-8, Mrs J.Mallard, W.Michel, D.Rick, J.Smyth, E.Stephens, 1946-7 Howie the Hornet Metropolitan League 1951-2 Life Members: Athenian League Jeff Barrett, Roger Charman, Clive Edwards, Howard Frogley, Adam Hammond, Frank King, Division Two Maureen Smith, Nigel Smithers, Ted Streeter, Eric Wright, Miss Joan Young, Annie Raby, Ivan 1969-70 Raby, Mark Wells, John Lines Trustees: A.Baker, D.Burstow, C.Edwards, F.King Athenian League Division One FOOTBALL 1972-3 1st team manager: Dominic Di Paola Isthmian League 1st team assistant manager: Adam Westwood Division Three st 1 team coach: Jon Meeney 1995-6 Goalkeeping coach: Andy McCarthy Injury therapist: Stephanie Apps Southern Combination Kit man: Darren Etheridge Football League U23 Development manager: Bryan O'Toole Coaches: Lee Hayes, Will Searle 2015-16 U14 Amber manager: Tony Massimo Coach: Steve Bridle Sussex RUR Cup U14 Green manager: Ian Scott Coach: Andy Stowell, Rob Carter 1900, 1931, 1932, 1934 U13 manager: Paul Brown Coach: Alex Bethell, Ross Butterfill U12 manager: Ben Pugh (Jt), 1935, 1936,1937, U11 manager: Sam Jones Coach Matt Robinson 1938 (Jt), 1946, 1949 (Jt), 1951,1952, 1957 website: www.horsham-fc.co.uk Sussex Floodlight Cup 1977-8, 2001-2

Sussex Senior Cup 1934-5, 1938-9, 1949-50, 1953-4, 1971-2, 1973-4, 1975-6 The Isthmian Football League and Horsham FC strongly support the FA FA Cup 1st Round statement that there should be a zero tolerance approach against 1947-8, 1966-7 racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly any forms of nd discriminatory abuse, whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual FA Cup 2 Round orientation, gender, faith, age, ability or other form of abuse will be 2007-8 reported to the Football Association for action by that association.

RESULTS Bostik League South East Division Table Emirates FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round (involving Bostik South East sides) P W D L F A Pts Saturday 8 September 1 Hastings United 4 4 0 0 14 5 12 Corinthian 1 Horsham 1 Corinthian-Casuals 0 Whyteleafe 0 2 Cray Wanderers 4 4 0 0 9 0 12 Faversham Town 1 Worthing 3 3 Whyteleafe 4 4 0 0 10 3 12 Fleet Town 1 East Grinstead Town 2 Hastings United 2 Kingstonian 1 4 VCD Athletic 4 4 0 0 7 3 12 Hythe Town 0 Tonbridge Angels 2 5 Ashford United 4 3 0 1 8 2 9 Leatherhead 2 Herne Bay 0 Met Police 3 Cray Wanderers 2 6 Phoenix Sports 4 3 0 1 9 6 9 Moneyfields 1 Thamesmead Town 0 7 Hythe Town 4 2 1 1 7 5 7 Phoenix Sports 2 Lancing 2 Ramsgate 1 Sevenoaks Town 1 8 Faversham Town 4 2 1 1 6 5 7 Sittingbourne 0 Gosport Borough 1 9 Guernsey 4 2 0 2 8 7 6 Whitstable Town 0 Bognor Regis Town 5 10 Sittingbourne 4 2 0 2 10 10 6 Replays 11 Ramsgate 4 1 0 3 8 8 3 Tuesday 11 September Lancing 0 Phoenix Sports 3 12 Haywards Heath Town 3 1 0 2 5 6 3 Sevenoaks Town 1 Ramsgate 3 13 Horsham 4 1 0 3 8 11 3 Whyteleafe 2 Corinthian-Casuals 1 14 Whitstable Town 3 1 0 2 2 6 3 Wednesday 12 September 15 Thamesmead Town 4 1 0 3 7 12 3 Horsham 5 Corinthian 0 16 Greenwich Borough 4 1 0 3 5 10 3

FIXTURES 17 Herne Bay 4 0 2 2 4 6 2 Saturday 15 September 18 Sevenoaks Town 3 0 0 3 4 8 0 Ashford United v Cray Wanderers East Grinstead Town v VCD Athletic 19 Three Bridges 3 0 0 3 3 12 0 Greenwich Borough v Guernsey 20 East Grinstead Town 4 0 0 4 2 11 0 Horsham v Herne Bay Hythe Town v Hastings United Phoenix Sports v Whitstable Town Ramsgate v Thamesmead Town Sevenoaks Town v Haywards Heath Sittingbourne v Whyteleafe Three Bridges v Faversham Town CULVER ROAD GROUND REGULATIONS Spectators may not bring the following into the ground: musical instruments, drums, klaxons, air horns, whistles, fireworks, smoke bombs, flares, glass bottles/containers, tin cans or any object that may be deemed to be dangerous. Spectators may not bring alcohol or food and drink into the ground. Spectators must, if required, submit themselves to be searched in order that the club can prevent any prohibited items from being brought into the ground. The club reserves IMPORTANT the right to eject from the ground and prosecute any person who has: Horsham FC does not accept any liability for a) Failed to comply with an instruction given by a County FA or club any injury to or claims of any kind from, official, steward or police officer spectators arising from incidents either within b) Thrown missiles of any description the ground or its precincts. All spectators must c) Encroached onto the playing area remain behind the pitch barrier at all times. All d) Made obscene, racist or insulting gestures or used obscene, racist or vehicles are parked in the car park at the insulting language owner’s risk and the Horsham Football Club e) Used violence of any nature accepts no liability for any losses or damage to f) Climbed on any building, wall, fence or floodlight equipment vehicles of any kind. Parking is not allowed on g) Defaced or committed any act of vandalism against Horsham Football Culver Road. Club or Sussex County Football Association property h) Taken glasses or glass bottles outside the clubhouse building

Greetings That's more like it! After four successive losses it was nice to record a good victory during the week to restore some of the positivity that seemed to have been lacking since that excellent victory at Carshalton last month. Some might point at the standard of the opposition and say that we should expect to be beating teams like Corinthian and, to an extent, they're right. But a combination of a poor pitch and the never-say-die attitude of the underdog, that we ourselves displayed at Carshalton, meant that our progress in the Emirates-sponsored FA Cup was never going to be easy and it wasn't until we'd played almost two and a half hours of football against the Southern Counties East League side that we really took control. But we really played some eye-catching football at times and it was great to see the goals shared around the team. It was also nice to see both sides given a warm reception at the end of what was a very entertaining match.

The challenge now is to prove that the result wasn't a one-off and that we can translate our FA Cup form into the bread and butter of the Bostik South East League. Hoping to spoil that aim this afternoon are Herne Bay, to whose players, supporters and officials we bid a hearty welcome and remind them that they had their bit of fun here last season in winning twice so surely now it's only fair that they allow us to enjoy a victory! Our officials today are referee Greig Walker and his two assistants, Paddy O'Reilly and Dominic Barrow. Enjoy the game, gentlemen, and here's hoping you return home with nothing but memories of a well-contested match. The same sentiment applies to Hornets director Mark Butler who, with his wife Angela, have very kindly agreed to sponsor today's match with committee member Nigel Smithers providing the matchball.

I would also like to officially welcome Harvey Sparks to the club, the twenty-two year old midfielder having joined us from Bognor Regis Town this week. Dom really has put together an impressive squad of players, arguably the best for a good many years, and it is surely only a matter of time before we start climbing the table. At the other end of the scale, the U23s have had a very difficult baptism in the Bluefin Development League and were missing several first choice players for Thursday's visit of Hastings United, resulting in a rather comprehensive 7-1 defeat. Nobody was under any illusions as to how difficult this first season would be for Bryan O'Toole's squad, with many of the lads under the age of twenty, and so it has proved with defeats in each of their opening three matches. We wish them well in turning their fortunes around. Our younger age groups kicked off their respective league campaigns last weekend and you can find out how they got on, later in this programme. We wish all our youngsters a successful and, above all else, enjoyable season.

One of the pitfalls of an extended cup run is the enforced rearrangement of fixtures and we have our first rescheduling of the season with next Saturday's league match at Thamesmead Town now taking place on Wednesday 17th October (kick-off 7.45pm) to allow for our Emirates FA Cup 2nd qualifying round tie to take place here against Heybridge Swifts that day. Please help spread the word, bring a friend, a family member or bully a neighbour into coming along next Saturday to support the lads as we look to take a step closer to the glamour of the First Round Proper. Sponsorship is currently available for this fixture with full match sponsorship costing £80, for which you would receive two adult admissions, complimentary match programmes, prominent logo display (if applicable) and advertising on pre-match publicity and in the matchday programme, acknowledgement over the PA, boardroom hospitality, the presentation of the Man of the Match award and a photographic souvenir of the day. Anyone interested in sponsoring this match should contact Commercial Director Paul Osborn on 07748802424 or email [email protected].

Assuming no replay is required next weekend, we will be off on our travels again when we visit Hastings United on September 25th (kick-off 7.45pm), followed by the long trip to Suffolk to take on Bury Town in the Buildbase Trophy. The club is running a coach to Bury St Edmunds at a return fare of £12 (£6 for U16s), leaving Collyers at 1030am. To book your place, please contact Jeff Barrett on 07712 888980 or [email protected].

Mark Cover image: Eyes on the prize for Lewis Hyde in Saturday's match at Corinthian (photo: John Lines)

From the boss

Good afternoon everyone. This afternoon we face a Herne Bay side that has made a very similar start to ourselves and who, like us, will be hoping to kick on after a couple of defeats. Last season they beat us twice here, in the FA Cup and the league, with that league defeat effectively ending any hopes we had of making the play-offs so hopefully we can get some sort of revenge for that today. They're a young team who, as we saw last season, have three of four outstanding players in their side so the test for this group now is can we take the good things from Wednesday and improve on them?

I think we were all frustrated after Saturday's draw, especially having conceded such a late equaliser, and probably deserved some of the criticism we received but thankfully we had the opportunity to put things right on Wednesday and we did that quite comfortably in the end. I don't think anyone could doubt we were the better side over the two matches but they proved a difficult side to break down, both on an awful pitch at their place and again here. Their goalkeeper made some great saves and if it wasn't for him, we would have won the first match comfortably. On Wednesday we got our first two goals at just the right time, with Lee scoring just before half-time and then Biff heading in the second, just as they were starting to gain a bit of confidence. We knew they would try and throw everything into it in the first fifteen minutes of the second half because they had nothing to lose so we had to ride that out and show a bit of patience. We were also able to keep the ball a lot better on a decent pitch so they eventually ran out of legs and we were able to enjoy the last half hour, bop it about, and probably could have had another three goals. After four successive defeats, it was good to put a few smiles back on people's faces but football is about momentum and confidence so we know we've got to build on the win. It also means that we remain in the FA Cup, which is always good for keeping the club in the spotlight and we'll be looking for that to continue when we play Heybridge Swifts here next Saturday.

One real positive for me was the strength of our bench on Wednesday, which was the best I've think I've ever had. We have an excellent squad here this season so it's always difficult to leave some players out of the starting line-up but it's down to them to make a telling contribution when they came off the bench, which I know is easier said than done sometimes. But we saw what can be done with our final goal when all three of them; Tyrell, Joey and Jack Brivio all combined to score a great goal. Our aim is to have real competition for places and we're getting that now, whereas before we were having to put square pegs in round holes at times. Although we're aiming to keep a settled side now, it would be silly of me not to bring in new players if I think they can improve the side and we've already seen a glimpse of what Jack Brivio can offer us with his two substitute appearances against Corinthian. Jack is a really talented player but things haven't really worked out for him at Burgess Hill so I'm delighted he has agreed to join us. We have also signed Harvey Sparks from Bognor and hope to have him in the squad today. Harvey is a left-sided midfielder who can also play wing-back. He has a lovely left foot and was a stand-out performer for Worthing when they got promoted. He's got a good delivery, is a good athlete, and technically excellent. We thought we'd got him in the summer so we were really pleased when he told me he wanted to join us. We are looking to progress the club and Jack and Harvey are the sort of calibre of player that will help us do that.

Enjoy the game

Dom

Bostik South East Division Round-Up

Just four sides hold a 100% record after the opening four matches of the season, with three yet to pick up a point. Perennially-fancied Hastings United lead the way with an impressive fourteen goals, of which eight have been scored by Daniel Ajakaiye. The former West Ham Academy player has scored in every one of Hastings' first six matches, including two in each of their most recent victories over Sevenoaks Town (3-2) and Phoenix Sports (3-0). Tucked in behind them in second place are Cray Wanderers who have yet to concede a goal in the league, having enjoyed back-to-back 2-0 wins over Sittingbourne and East Grinstead Town, and then come Whyteleafe, who followed up their Bank Holiday Monday defeat of East Grinstead with an identical 3-1 success against Horsham. Completing the quartet of perfect records are VCD Athletic who have won each of their four matches by a single goal margin, most recently successive 2-1 triumphs versus Greenwich Borough and Three Bridges.

Having begun the campaign with three wins on the spin, Ashford United slipped to a surprise 1-0 loss at Whitstable Town a fortnight ago – a result that was the Oystermen's first success of the campaign – and it was a similar story at Phoenix Sports for whom the joy of their 1-0 home win against Thamesmead Town was quickly dampened by that heavy loss at Hastings. Having missed out on a place in the play-offs on goal difference last season Hythe Town have made a steady start to this campaign, bouncing back from an opening day reverse at Ashford to move into seventh, although they will hope that Zak Ansah remains injury-free with the striker having scored six of the Cannons' seven goals thus far. The early fixture list has been unkind to Faversham Town, dealing them four consecutive Kent 'derbies', of which they have been successful in only two, the latest of which was a 3-1 defeat of Sevenoaks that took them into eighth spot with Guernsey – without the 'distractions' of the FA Cup – and Sittingbourne a point further behind. The islanders recorded the division's biggest victory so far when returning from their Bank Holiday visit to Three Bridges with a 5-0 win under their belts while, a fortnight ago, the Brickies were narrowly edged out in a nine goal thriller at Thamesmead where seven of the goals came in the first thirty- seven minutes!

Horsham are one of half a dozen clubs on three points along with fellow Sussex side Haywards Heath, whose inaugural Isthmian League victory came at our expense on the Bank Holiday when they came back from 3-0 and 4-3 down to claim a stoppage time winner. A Rory Smith hat-trick against Whitstable got Ramsgate up and running, as are Greenwich thanks to a brace of goals by Teshuane Tyreece Walters in their 2-1 success at Herne Bay, who have picked up just two points prior to today's visit to Culver Road.

The three bottom places are, perhaps predictably, occupied by two of last season's promoted sides albeit Sevenoaks and Three Bridges have played a game less than all but two of their rivals. Having kicked off their campaign with a thumping 6-1 demolition of Lordswood in the Emirates FA Cup, The Oaks have suffered league losses to Horsham, Hastings and Faversham while the Bridges defence has been breached on no fewer than twelve occasions with their highly-experienced forward line – that includes ex- Hornets Trevor McCreadie and Jamie Taylor - having found the net just three times. Propping up the table are East Grinstead, whose league form is in stark contrast to their FA Cup travails with defeats to Phoenix (1-3), Hythe Town (0-3), Whyteleafe (1-3) and Cray Wanderers (0-2).

Bostik South East leading goalscorers Bostik South East highest attendances 8 - Daniel Ajakaiye (Hastings United) 595 - Guernsey v Ashford United 18.8.18 7 - Eddie Dsane (Whyteleafe) 429 - Ashford United v Hythe Town 11.8.18 6 - Zak Ansah (Hythe Town) 404 - Hastings United v Thamesmead Town 11.8.18 4 - Jeff Duah-Kessie (Phoenix Sports) 316 - Cray Wanderers v Whitstable Town 19.8.18 4 - Rory Smith (Ramsgate) 310 - Faversham Town v Herne Bay 11.8.18 3 - Charlie MacDonald (VCD Athletic) 303 - Hythe Town v Herne Bay 27.8.18 3 - Tom Loynes (Sittingbourne) Biggest victory 3 - Kweku Ansah (Phoenix Sports) 3 - Nassim Dukali (Thamesmead Town) Three Bridges 0 Guernsey 5 27.8.18 3 - Leon Lalor-Dell (VCD Athletic) Highest aggregate 3 - Michael Power (Cray Wanderers) 3 - Ira Jackson (Sittingbourne) Horsham 4 Haywards Heath Town 5 27.8.18 Thamesmead Town 5 Sittingbourne 4 1.9.18

MATCH REPORT H orsham 5 Corinthian 0 Emirates FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round Replay Wednesday 12th September 2018 Having been frustrated by a last-gasp equaliser last Saturday, Horsham almost got off to the perfect start in the midweek replay with Corinthian when Chris Smith’s cracking effort smashed against the underside of the crossbar. The same player was then denied by goalkeeper Aiden Prall, who made a decent save at his near post. The visitors sat deep, hoping to contain their higher-ranked opponents, and Rob O'Toole sent a looping header over the top from a free-kick but – like Saturday – Horsham initially struggled to deliver the final ball with which to find the breakthrough. Smith shot straight at Prall and, two minutes later, Charlie Harris’ thunderbolt flew wide while on a rare Corinthian counter-attack, Connor Heffernan chased down a long ball and made his way into the area only to be denied by Josh Pelling.

Prall continued his impressive display by acrobatically keeping out Lee Harding's goalbound header and the visiting 'keeper then had to have his wits about him to spare the blushes of team-mate Jamie Billings who almost headed the ball into his own net. Finally, two minutes before the interval, Horsham got the goal their efforts deserved when Harding's shot from the edge of the area took a deflection that wrong-footed Prall who could only help the ball over the line.

Despite an initially sloppy start to the second half, Horsham needed just ten minutes to double their lead, the goal coming after a succession of corners. With the first corner being swiped wide by O’Toole, the second chance was gleefully gobbled up as a deflection gave the Hornets another chance, and this time it was taken thanks to a towering header from a leaping Joe Shelley who rose head and shoulders above everyone else and superbly planted the ball into the net. With the relative cushion of a two goal lead, Horsham pushed forward looking to finish the visitors off and Smith raced beyond the defence in an attempt to slide in at the far post but Prall’s quick reactions drew a fine block as he raced to meet him, Then another dangerous shot from Harris whizzed wide after the midfielder decided to take it on himself after Corinthian's players defence stood off him.

The Horsham attack was in free-flow as the home side continued to dominate. Smith’s cross towards the box was just too high for Harding, who could only head upwards and over the bar, but a third goal inevitably arrived soon after. With just over fifteen minutes remaining, Smith’s cute flick into the path of O’Toole set the striker up with an easy finish, coolly slotting in before dancing a jig of delight in celebration. Smith got the goal his performance deserved, three minutes later, stroking in unmarked as he turned in Harding’s low centre. The victory assured, there was still time for another goal as Jack Brivlo opened his account for the club less than a week after signing from Burgess Hill Town, the substitute nodding in from close range with his first touch of the game as he converted fellow sub Joey Taylor’s whipped cross at the back post after Smith couldn’t quite reach.

Prall prevented a sixth goal with a fine one-handed stop on the line from Harding’s shot after Taylor’s pass fed him, while Horsham forward Tyrell Richardson-Brown was able to see the funny side late on when he was serenaded with an ironic chant of ‘Donkey Riding’ after he blasted a comical effort out of the ground.

Horsham: Josh Pelling, Steve Metcalf (Joey Taylor,78), James McElligott, Daryl Coleman, Lewis Hyde, Joe Shelley, Will Hoare, Chris Smith, Rob O'Toole (Tyrell Richardson-Brown,74), Charlie Harris (Jack Brivio,76), Lee Harding

Corinthian: Aiden Prall, Cameron Heffernan, Jordan Campbell, Jamie Billings, Jack Healey, Jack Bath, Bradley Large, Jamie Miller (Luke Tanner,60), Connor Heffernan, Oscar Housego (Conor Johnson,74), Charlie Clover (Steven Ita,66)

Referee: Craig Green

Did he not like that! Remembering Graham Taylor OBE

He was one of the most successful club managers of his generation and widely acknowledged as one of football's 'nice guys', yet pilloried by the gutter press following his failure to take England to the 1994 World Cup Finals. We look back at the career of Graham Taylor, OBE, who was born this day in 1944.

The son of a sports journalist, it was probably unsurprising that Graham Taylor should forge a career not in the steelworks of the town of Scunthorpe in which he grew up but in football, with the seeds of his lifelong passion for the game sown in the stands at Scunny's Old Show Ground. It was with the Lincolnshire club that Taylor began as an apprentice, having upset his school teacher when declaring his intentions to pursue a career in the game - "Grammar school boys don't become footballers" the disapproving retort. He went on to join Grimsby Town as an eighteen year old, in 1962, where he would play 189 times as full-back before a £4,000 transfer to Lincoln City that ended 150 appearances later, in 1972, through injury. His playing career prematurely over, Taylor became the youngest person to qualify as an FA Coach – at just 27 – and then the youngest manager in the league a year later when he stepped up from player-coach at Lincoln to replace outgoing boss David Herd. Four years later he led the Imps out of the 'old' Fourth Division as champions, with a then league record number of wins, fewest defeats, and record points total.

Having taken Lincoln to a very satisfying ninth place finish in their first season back in the Third Division, Taylor was approached by top flight West Bromwich Albion to be their manager but he surprised everyone by opting to drop back down a division to manage an unfashionable Watford side that was backed by new owner, and global superstar, Elton John. So began one of the most successful owner/manager relationships in the history of the game. Watford's rise was meteoric, from Division Four also-rans to European football in six whirlwind years! Taylor achieved promotion in his first season, winning the league with the most wins, fewest defeats, most goals scored and fewest goals conceded of any side in the four divisions, and followed that up the following year with promotion to Division Two after missing out on a second successive title by a point to Shrewsbury Town. After two seasons of consolidation, the Hornets were at it again, securing promotion to the highest tier of English football behind champions Luton Town.

Tipped by many to struggle among the 'elite' teams of Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Spurs, the Hertfordshire side confounded their critics by winning four of their first five fixtures to top the table and, by the end of their debut campaign, had beaten Arsenal twice as well as defeating Spurs, Everton and Liverpool and smashing a Football League club record-equalling eight goals past Sunderland on their way to an incredible second place finish. Despite having developed a reputation for 'route one' football, Taylor helped develop many talented players at Watford such as the mercurial John Barnes, winger Nigel Callaghan and striker Luther Blissett, who later joined Italian giants AC Milan for £1 million. Taylor's first match in European competition saw Watford beaten 3-1 at 1.FC Kaiserslautern but a 3-0 win at Vicarage Road in the second leg saw them through to the second round where, this time, it was a 3-1 away success that sent them through at the expense of Levski Spartak. But the third round was as far as the Hornets would go when a heavy 4-0 second leg loss saw Czechs Sparta Prague – who had earlier knocked Real Madrid out of the competition – go through to the quarter-finals. The season would end in another 'first' for both Watford and Taylor when they reached the FA Cup Final, losing 2-0 to Everton.

In his final season, Watford finished ninth in the league and reached the FA Cup semi-finals before Taylor left to take over the Aston Villa hot seat. Villa, who had won the European Cup just five years earlier, had just been relegated from the First Division but Taylor took them back to the top flight in his first season as runners-up to Millwall. Although only avoiding relegation with a final day draw in 1988/89, Taylor masterminded a complete change in fortunes for the Midlanders the following season when they finished second behind Liverpool to bring European football back to Villa Park. But, before the draw had even been made for the opening rounds, Taylor had accepted an offer to take over the England national team following the resignation of Bobby Robson, immediately after the 1990 World Cup Finals.

Despite a career of near-consistent success with, for the most part, unfancied sides, news of his appointment led to critics in the media pointing at Taylor's failure to win a 'major trophy' and how he had never played top flight football, never mind at international level. There also remained worries about Taylor's tactics, with many still accusing his sides of playing direct football, despite that not having been the case during his time at Aston Villa. But, despite the fears, England lost just once in Taylor's first twenty- three matches although their less than convincing Euro '92 qualifying campaign, in which it took a late Gary

Lineker goal against Poland to seal their passage to the Sweden-held finals, provided extra ammunition to his detractors in the media. It didn't help Taylor's cause that he appeared to favour work-rate over creativity with players such as Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley, and Paul Gascoigne frequently omitted from the side. England were put in a tough group, along with France, eventual winners Denmark, and hosts Sweden but, had it not been for a slice of misfortune, they might have beaten both France and Denmark rather than drawing 0-0 before facing the Swedes in a 'must win' game. Ahead after just four minutes through a David Platt goal, England wasted several chances to extend their lead and conceded twice in the second half to end their interest in the competition for another four years. To compound the misery of English fans and media, Taylor withdrew Lineker after an hour of what would be the forward's final match of his England career, just a goal short of Bobby Charlton's then record of 49 goals, casting further doubts upon Taylor's managerial nous.

In typically understated style, the tabloid press were forthright in their criticism, with The Sun particularly harsh on Taylor by superimposing his face onto a turnip under the headline "Swedes 2 Turnips 1". When England also lost their next match, a friendly against Spain, the same newspaper depicted Taylor as a Spanish onion.

England were drawn with Norway, Holland, Poland, Turkey and San Marino in qualification for the 1994 World Cup and seen as favourites to qualify with the Netherlands. But it was Norway who took the group by storm, scoring twelve goals without reply against San Marino, defeating Holland and drawing 1-1 at Wembley. Further dropped points against Holland and Poland, and a particularly poor display in a damaging 2-0 loss in Oslo (that prompted the headline 'Norse Manure'), left England needing to win in Rotterdam to take the second qualifying spot. But before that, Taylor's England agreed to take part in a four-team tournament in the US, seen as a precursor to the following year's World Cup Finals. Disaster struck when the US won 2-0 ('Yanks 2 Planks 0' declared The Sun), after which an independent parliamentary candidate stood under the banner 'Sack Graham Taylor'!

With Taylor now living on borrowed time, England headed to Holland for their showdown and saw a shot cleared off the line and another hit the post before losing Platt to a red card. Minutes later, Ronald Koeman put the hosts ahead and, after England had again been denied by the woodwork, Dennis Bergkamp controversially added a second after appearing to use his arm to handle the ball and England were out. It didn't help Taylor's cause that a Channel 4 documentary fly-on-the-wall had been allowed to follow him throughout the dismal campaign, further undermining his authority. The final insult came for Taylor came in England's now meaningless match away to San Marino when a slip by defender Stuart Pearce allowed David Gualtieri to score the fastest ever World Cup goal – after just 8.3 seconds! That England emerged 7-1 victors mattered not a jot and, six days later, Taylor resigned as England national team manager with his reputation in tatters.

He was back in club football just four months later, though, when appointed manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers, much to the disgust of many Wolves supporters but the following season Taylor guided the club to the Division One play-offs – their highest placing in eleven years. But fan pressure finally told and he resigned in November 1995, having won just four of the first sixteen league games. Returning to the club with which he made his name, Taylor was appointed General Manager at Watford but later installed himself as first team manager, declaring himself "bored stiff" in the role of General Manager. The golden touch hadn't completely deserted him as he led the Hornets to back-to-back promotions, taking them into the coveted Premier League although they were relegated after just one season – a rare failure for Taylor with the Hertfordshire club. Despite heading the table the following season, after an unbeaten run of fifteen games, Watford fell away to finish ninth in the Championship at which point Taylor decided to retire, having become only the third man to manage 1,000 league games in England.

Tempted back into the game in 2002, Taylor guided Aston Villa to sixteenth in the Premiership only to retire for a second time, citing tensions between himself and Villa chairman Doug Ellis. He subsequently became a regular pundit on radio and television and, in 2003, became vice president at his hometown club Scunthorpe United for whom he oversaw a turnaround in fortunes, with two promotions and a title win in four seasons. A keen supporter of charitable causes, Taylor was made an honorary life president of Watford Football Club, with the Rous Stand at Vicarage Road renamed the Graham Taylor Stand in recognition of his achievements at the club.

Graham Taylor died of a heart attack on 12th January 2017, aged 72.

Today's opponents

HERNE BAY Herne Bay Football Club was formed in 1886 and began life in the East Kent League, then having a short period in the Kent League before winning the East Kent League in four successive years between 1902 and 1906 and returning to the Kent League as a result.

The club moved to their current ground at Winch’s Field in 1953, drawing over 1,000 spectators to their first match there. Within two years they won the Division 2 title but were forced to join the Aetolian League when the Kent League folded in 1959. They were on the move again when, after coming Aetolian League runners-up in 1963/64, they joined Division Year formed: 1886 2 of the Athenian League where they enjoyed several successful seasons followed by promotion to Division 1 on winning Division 2 in Nickname: The Bay 1970/71. A good run in the FA Cup saw the Bay reach the 4th qualifying round, where they lost to the then ‘mighty’ Margate in front of a record Current ground: home attendance of 2,303. At the start of the 1974/75 campaign the club Winch's Field returned to the Kent League with the nineties seeing Herne Bay emerge Previous leagues: as the most successful and consistent side in the Kent League, winning East Kent League, Kent four Kent League titles. The 1996/97 season was without equal in the League, Aetolian League, history of the Kent League. Within the space of four weeks the club won Athenian League, Isthmian the Kent Senior Trophy, The Kent League Division 1 Cup and The Kent League League Championship for a unique treble. Kent League champions: A complete change of management and playing staff took place after the 1991/92, 1992/93, 1996/97 1997/98 season, with manager Tommy Sampson leaving the club to 1997/98, 2011/12 take over the reins at Deal Town and taking the majority of the established first team players with him. That Deal Town side became the Athenian League champions first Kent League club to win the FA Vase at Wembley in the last ever Division Two: 1970/71 Vase Final staged at the old stadium in May 2000. Bay had a fantastic 2000/01 season, finishing runners-up in the Premier Division and scoring Best FA Cup run: 93 goals in the process, but the following season proved to be one of 4th Qualifying Round 1970/71, great disappointment, exiting all cup competitions at the first round stage 1986/7 and finishing a poor 7th position in the league. Best FA Vase run:

A major grant was awarded to provide new perimeter fencing and Semi-finals 2011/12 refurbishment of the changing facilities and these works were complete Last season: prior to the start of the 2003/04 season when the club celebrated fifty 12th Bostik South Division years at Winch’s Field. With the appointment of Simon Halsey as manager for 2009/10 Herne Bay finished runners-up in the Kent League Managers: John Embery and Premier Division two seasons running before, in 2011/12, sweeping all Jermaine Darlington before them en route to capturing the Premier Division title and reaching Last match: semi-finals of the FA Vase. Promotion to the Isthmian League followed Hythe Town (h) and, after a difficult debut season in which they finished just a point 11.9.18 Won 3-0 outside the bottom three, they made steady improvement to record a best-ever 8th place finish in 2015/16. In May 2017, John Embery and Kent Senior Cup former QPR full-back Jermaine Darlington were appointed joint-managers and steered the club to 12th place with 21 wins and five draws from their 46 matches.

Herne Bay have played six matches this season, winning just the one; a 7-1 thumping of Southern Combination League side Arundel in the preliminary round of the FA Cup. They opened the season with a 1-1 draw at Faversham then went down to an Eddie Dsane penalty in their next match at Whyteleafe before taking a point from their local derby with Hythe Town (2-2). Two weeks ago they went down 2-1 at home to previously pointless Greenwich Borough and, on Saturday, took a patched up side to Leatherhead where they were knocked out of the FA Cup (2-0). Last season Herne Bay enjoyed two wins at Culver Road, beating us 5-2 in the FA Cup and 2-1 in the league back in January. ATHENIAN LEAGUE MEETINGS This afternoon is the thirtieth occasion on which Horsham and Herne Bay have met, including friendlies, and we thought we'd take a look back at those early fixtures that found both sides competing in the now- defunct Athenian League.

The Athenian League was formed way back in 1912 with an initial membership of between twelve and sixteen clubs until 1963 when it absorbed both the Corinthian and Delphian Leagues, who promptly disbanded. Considered the stronger of the two leagues, most of those clubs in the Corinthian - Horsham among them - helped form Division One with those from the Delphian making up Division Two. A year later the Aetolian League, in which Herne Bay had been consistent performers, merged with the London League to form the Greater London League (the forerunner of today's Spartan South Midlands League), prompting Bay to make the switch to the Athenian. It wasn't until Horsham suffered a first-ever relegation, in 1966, that the two sides would meet each other and went face-to-face in the opening match of the 1966/67 campaign.

Although it was the West Sussex side who took the points at Winch's Field that day, courtesy of a Keith Wellham goal, the home side were unlucky not to take at least a point with goalkeeper Ian Page in fine form. By the time of the rematch, at the end of March, Horsham were pushing for an immediate return to Division One but initially struggled to get the better of a solid defence. Even when they did take the lead, through Mick Streeter, Bay hit back to level within five minutes when Heard fired a twenty yard free-kick straight through the wall and into the net. Don Hollands restored Horsham's lead before the break but Hollingsworth levelled things up again before Hollands struck twice more in the final three minutes to secure his personal hat-trick and two points for the home side.

When Herne Bay visited Queen Street just before Christmas 1967, they sat proudly atop the division but their aggressive style of play and the clinging mud failed to check Horsham who scored twice in the second half, through Russell Penticost and Dave Puddicombe, with Ray Pottle claiming Bay's consolation goal a minute from time. Bay had fallen away dramatically, and Horsham's own promotion hopes were realistically out of their hands, by the time they met in the return the following April and the visitors struggled to settle into the match at first beforeto a Barry Steer treble put them in control, with Norcott replying for Bay.

It was another festive meeting that saw Herne Bay register their first victory in this fixture when, in December 1968, Eddie Collins scored all four of the home side's unanswered goals with an early missed penalty failing to put Bay off their rhythm as they defeated the league leaders in convincing style. Things were a lot closer when Denny Ringrose and Dave Stewart made their Horsham debuts as the teams met on the closing day of that season, with John Warman and Bay's Pottle scoring in a tame 1-1 draw.

The 1969/70 season saw Horsham record a league double over the Kent club, on their way to winning the Division Two title, but it took a solitary Barry Steer header (what else?), fifteen minutes from time, to secure a hard-fought win at Queen Street in front of four hundred spectators. Just a couple of weeks later, Horsham travelled to Winch's Field and kept their unbeaten away record intact by winning 3-1 to leapfrog their hosts into second place. The home side had lost their manager just a few days before yet might have taken an early lead had Dai Mason not produced an outstanding save from Collins. But it was Horsham who took the initiative and ran up a two goal lead inside the opening eleven minutes, first when Steer headed in a cross from player-coach Roy Osborne and then when Don Hollands converted a Steer flick-on. Osborne scored the third himself from thirty yards but Pottle gave Bay hopes of a second half comeback when he scored from Rodney Ralfe's underhit backpass. The second half brought all-out attack by the homesters but Mason and the Horsham defence stood firm, with Bay's frustration compounded by the late sending-off of Wickens for kicking out at Hollands.

Herne Bay took the title the following year so the teams were kept apart for just one season, with the 1971/72 campaign just three games old before they met at Queen Street. Beaten by Letchworth Town and Croydon Amateurs in their opening two fixtures, the Hornets' hopes of making a confidence-boosting early breakthrough floundered on Bay's attempts at playing the offside trap that was as successful during the first half as it was unsuccessful in the second. Horsham ought to have held the half-time advantage but Tex Wiltshire's spot-kick was well saved by Malcolm Campbell, following a foul on Colin Newstead, although they had to wait just five minutes after the restart before going in front. Steer, who was vying with Pottle for the outstanding goalscorer in this fixture, scored with a bullet header but Collins was denied an immediate reply by a good save from Mason in what was the only time the home 'keeper was really tested. Dave Hutchins made it two when the back line was breached and Newstead made it 3-0 on 63 minutes despite looking suspiciously offside. The scoring was completed five minutes later when the Bay defence was caught square and Newstead teed the ball up for Peter Medhurst to net an easy fourth.

The prolific Collins had retired by the time the sides met in Kent on New Year's Day but Bay had found an able replacement in d ebutant Malcolm Jenkins, who scored one and laid on the second in a 2-2 draw. Newstead put the Hornets ahead from the penalty spot after Beale had handled but, after a Steer effort had scraped the bar, Jenkins opened his Herne Bay account to restore parity. The visitors went back in front when a fine run and cross by Keith Mills was headed acrobatically past Campbell by Mick Harrington but they went on to spurn a number of presentable chances in the second half and were punished when Jenkins set up Norcott for the equaliser. Despite a late rally, in which Wiltshire drove one against the angle of post and crossbar and saw another effort grabbed on the line, the two sides had to settle for a share of the points.

Season 1972/73 proved to be Horsham's final season in the Athenian League when, by winning the Division One title, they were promoted to the Isthmian League. Four successive victories at the start of the campaign had put the Hornets top ahead of their September visit to Winch's Field where, despite missing the absent Andy Tasker, Barry Steer, Gary Cross and new signing Steve Ibbitson - who had the 'flu – they went ahead after just eleven minutes when Medhurst nodded in Mills' cross for his first goal of the season. Skipper Pottle, ever the poacher, netted from a mistake by Rick Summerfield to make things all square again but both sides were guilty of profligacy in front of goal until Wiltshire combined with Terry Molloy for the youngster to score what proved to be the winning goal.

All good things have to come to an end and not only did January 27th 1973 mark the final Athenian League meeting between the two sides but it also brought to an end Horsham's eighteen match unbeaten league run as a solitary goal from Paul Prior sent the points back to Kent. The Hornets attacked almost constantly down the slope in the first half but could not get the ball into the net against a massed defence, determinedly marshalled by skipper Tony Higgins. The only goal of the game came in the second half when Bobby Adam fouled Izatt and Prior dashed through to head home his brother Laurie's free-kick. Mills saw a last-ditch attempt diverted against the post but it was not to be as Horsham slipped to the first of just three league defeats all season.

"Whenever we had to travel make the long trip to Herne Bay it seemed previously unknown injuries or niggles arose within the squad, making late changes to team selection necessary" recalls our former defender, Dennis Strudwick. "The syndrome became amusingly known as 'Erne Bay Ankle. It was on one of these occasions, with Manager Roy Osborne explaining the personnel changes and alterations to the team's tactics, a knock on the dressing room door was followed by a request for the team by the PA announcer.Did you know? “Give me five minutes”, Roy asked. On time, a further knock followed but with increased urgency and a voice slightly louder than before asked, “Have you got your team yet?” The increase in volumeHerne was Bay met joint equally-manager by Roy, Jermaine “No, give Darlingto me anothern signed five.” for The Queens door slammed Park Rangers shut and from Roy non continued-league addressingAylesbury theUnited team. for The £25,000 PA man in 1999 was andpunctual. went Fiveon to minutes make 71 la ter,appearances after a loud for knock, the London the door side flew before open forjoining the third then time. First “I’mDivision desperate. Wimbledon I have in to2001. announce After retiring the team from to professional the crowd. Havefootball you in got 2006, it yet he? ”signed Clearly frustratedfor AFC Wimbledon at having been to become interrupted the first again ex,- WimbledonRoy gathered player his to composure play competitively and replied for the rapidly, newly “Freeman,-formed Hclub.ardy, Willis, Lofthouse, Shorthouse…” and another name that we can't publish! “Woah, Woah, Woah. Slow down” said the PA announcer . “Now, who was left back?” The dressing room collapsed in laughter!" Horsham Football Club fixtures 2018/19 Date Opposition Comp F-A Att Scorers Pos 11 Aug SITTINGBOURNE LGE 1-2 195 Smith 14 18 Aug Sevenoaks LGE 2-1 166 Shelley, Harding 10 21 Aug Haywards Heath VT 5-2 112 O'Toole,Richardson-Brown,Landais,Smith 2 - 25 Aug Carshalton Athletic FAC 1-0 274 Harris - 27 Aug HAYWARDS HEATH LGE 4-5 240 O'Toole, Boswell, Richardson-Brown, Smith 13 01 Sep Whyteleafe LGE 1-3 196 Hyde 13 04 Sep Bracknell Town VT 1-3 175 O'Toole - 08 Sep Corinthian FAC 1-1 118 OG - 12 Sep CORINTHIAN FAC 5-0 124 Harding, Shelley, O'Toole, Smith, Brivio 13 15 Sep HERNE BAY LGE 22 Sep HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS FAC 25 Sep Hastings United LGE 29 Sep Bury Town FAT 02 Oct PHOENIX SPORTS LGE 06 Oct Ramsgate LGE 17 Oct Thamesmead Town LGE 20 Oct EAST GRINSTEAD LGE 03 Nov Ashford United LGE 10 Nov GREENWICH BORO' LGE 17 Nov VCD ATHLETIC LGE 24 Nov Three Bridges LGE 01 Dec WHITSTABLE TOWN LGE 08 Dec Hythe Town LGE 15 Dec CRAY WANDERERS LGE 22 Dec Haywards Heath LGE 01 Jan GUERNSEY LGE 05 Jan Faversham Town LGE 12 Jan WHYTELEAFE LGE 19 Jan Phoenix Sports LGE 26 Jan RAMSGATE LGE 02 Feb East Grinstead Town LGE 05 Feb HASTINGS UNITED LGE 09 Feb VCD Athletic LGE 16 Feb THREE BRIDGES LGE 23 Feb Whitstable Town LGE 02 Mar HYTHE TOWN LGE 09 Mar Cray Wanderers LGE 16 Mar Greenwich Borough LGE 23 Mar ASHFORD UNITED LGE 30 Mar SEVENOAKS LGE 06 Apr Sittingbourne LGE 13 Apr Herne Bay LGE 20 Apr FAVERSHAM TOWN LGE 22 Apr Guernsey LGE 27 Apr THAMESMEAD TOWN LGE

Home matches in CAPITALS KEY: LGE – Bostik South East Division, VT – Velocity Trophy, FAC – FA Cup, FAT – FA Trophy

2018/19 Career totals First team stats Apps Subs Goals Apps Goals Darren Boswell 2 3 1 131 40 Dean Bown 26 6 Jack Brivio 2 1 2 1 Daryl Coleman 5 1 0 6 0

Alex Duncan 102 2

Charlie Farmer 2 1 187 21

Lee Harding 7 1 2 8 2 Charlie Harris 8 1 1 13 2 Jack Hartley 1 2 41 3 George Hayward 6 1 7 0 Will Hoare 8 1 9 0

Toby House 46 15

Adam Hunt 58 1

Lewis Hyde 4 1 76 9 Scott Kirkwood 84 9 Dean Lovegrove 7 11 0 James McElligott 6 6 0 Steve Metcalf 7 1 84 7

Rob O'Toole 9 4 21 10

Josh Pelling 9 94 0

Tyrell Richardson-Brown 4 5 2 9 2 Joe Shelley 5 2 97 26 Chris Smith 4 3 5 7 5 Joe y Taylor 4 1 5 0

Horsham FC – on this day, 2007: The Hornets' historic run to the second round of the FA Cup began this day, eleven years ago, with the visit of Arundel to Queen Street. The County Leaguers caused a few early problems but the result was never in doubt from the moment Carl Rook netted the first of his personal treble on thirty-one minutes. Simon Austin made it 2-0 before the break but that's the way it stayed until the hour mark when an incredible spell of five goals in twelve minutes took the scoreline to 6-1 before Dean Wright wrapped things up with a seventh in stoppage time.

Match sponsors 2018/19 Horsham Football Club would like to thank all this season's match & matchball sponsors Date Opponents Match Sponsor Ball Sponsor 11.08.18 Sittingbourne Kevin Borrett Dennis Strudwick 27.08.18 Haywards Heath John Lines Howard Frogley 15.09.18 Herne Bay Mark & Angela Butler Nigel Smithers 22.09.18 Heybridge Swifts Sam Borrett 02.10.18 Phoenix Sports Tanbury Garage Blue Stragglers 20.10.18 East Grinstead Matt & Jack Dale Mark Wells 10.11.18 Greenwich Borough David Hillier Matt Dale 17.11.18 VCD Athletic Alan Keary Dennis Strudwick 01.12.18 Whitstable Town HISC HISC 15.12.18 Cray Wanderers Horsham FC Committee Lyla Maj Clarke 01.01.19 Guernsey Horsham FC Stewards Dennis Strudwick 12.01.19 Whyteleafe Neil Richmond & Co Sean Bravery 26.01.19 Ramsgate Holly Osborn Pete Tanner 05.02.19 Hastings United Watson Associates Mark Barrett 16.02.19 Three Bridges Simon Edwards Consultancy Jack Everley 02.03.19 Hythe Town Paul Arnold HISC 23.03.19 Ashford United 'Patricia' Rae Mark Barrett 30.03.19 Sevenoaks Town Tanbury Garage Saint Agnes 20.04.19 Faversham Town Jim Rae Oscar Kent 27.04.19 Thamesmead Town Monksgate Business Services Dennis Strudwick

Twenty-three years on from the landmark introduction of the Bosman rule, last week saw another instance of player power carving into football’s status quo with Denmark players holding a strike over their commercial rights. The hold-out by the likes of Christian Eriksen, Kasper Schmeichel and Lasse Schone was the result of an in-house conflict between players and the Danish FA over their own individual sponsor deals and the national team sponsor, Hummel. The dispute saw the Danish FA resort to calling up players from the third tier of its football pyramid as well as futsal players for the international friendly against a full-strength Slovakia side. All the talk was whether the Denmark FA (DBU) could save face and reach a middle ground before the match in Trnava as well as a competitive match which followed against Wales. For the first match, they couldn’t. Ticket prices for the Slovakia game were slashed to €1 and, with little to be expected from their team, Denmark’s makeshift side was defeated 3-0. Which isn’t exactly a drubbing by any means for a team hastily assembled like a Frankenstein. Humiliation for the DBU was averted in time for the UEFA Nations League clash with Wales on Sunday. Out of a situation spawned from the politics of sports business, let’s not forget that the players from the third tier have a national team cap. When speaking to players from our own lower leagues who have won England C honours, they describe it as a ‘very proud moment’ to represent your country and a ‘privilege’.

Half -time quiz – Major League Soccer (name the clubs)

1.Which MLS club is known as the Fire? 2.From which city do the Whitecaps hail? 3.This club has the same prefix as Madrid's most famous club side. 4.Name the two MSL sides from Texas. 5.What is the full name of the club known by the acronym SKC? 6.Which club plays it's home matches at the Yankee Stadium? 7.Name the three Canadian-based MLS clubs. 8.Former Swansea City boss Bob Bradley now manages which MLS side? 9.Complete this club side _ _ Revolution. 10.The state of Oregon is home to which Western Conference team? answers on next page

Quiz answers: 1.Chicago 2.Vancouver 3.Real Salt Lake 4.Dallas FC, Houston Dynamo 5.Sporting Kansas City 6. New York City FC 7.Vancouver Whitecaps, Toronto FC, Montreal Impact 8.Los Angeles FC 9.New England Revolution 10.Portland Timbers U23 Development League

The Development Squad's young and understrength side was ruthlessly taken apart by an impressive Hastings United side on Thursday night. Already smarting from back-to-back defeats at Lewes and Ramsgate, both results that manager Bryan O'Toole (left) felt were unjust, the Hornets' goal was breached after just fourteen minutes and were 3-0 down by half-time. Two more goals followed for the visitors in the space of a minute before Horsham captain Henry Daramda-Martin pulled a goal back for the hosts. But Hastings added two more before the end to run out deserved 7-1 victors.

"We have to face facts that they were far superior to us" admitted O'Toole. "It didn't help that we were missing a few players but we've been short every match this season and it doesn't help that we have nowhere to train. But I make no excuses, Hastings were just a really, really, good team. I was warned they would be strong and they were 100% right. Apparently they won the U19 cup last season, they're all academy boys who train four times a week, and you could see the difference. The fact is that we're not at that level yet and that's hard but we need to regroup and manage ourselves better. All the time the personnel keeps changing then it's going to be difficult but, as manager, I need to take the reins and find a way to make ourselves harder to beat. I hold my hands up and say that I got it wrong on Thursday as we tried to match them and play a passing game where the reality was that we should have been more compact and tried to contain them. Okay, so we probably still wouldn't have won but I don't think we would have lost so heavily either.

I can't dig anyone out after that and I was pleased that, unlike at Ramsgate, we kept battling to the end but we will need to look at approaching our next game differently as Tooting & Mitcham are another team similar to Hastings."

Team: Tom Baxter, Aran Ammah, Adam Hunt, Dean Lovegrove, Jack Reeves (Harry Law 75), Aaron Kadua, Obed Salazaku, Henry Daramda-Martin, Isaac Gardiner (Tim Cook 56), Ben Whiteley (Harry Maynard 76) Matt Blogg. Unused Sub Jack Manton

Henry Daramda-Martin Tom Baxter NEXT MATCH: Horsham U23s v Tooting & Mitcham United U23s Bluefin Development League South Wednesday 19th September 2018 @ Oakwood Football Club, Tinsley Lane, Crawley Kick-off 7.45pm Adults £3, U16s £2 Bluefin U23 Development League fixtures 2018/19

Date Opposition Co F-A Scorers Att 20 Aug Lewes mpLGE 1-4 Craddock 70 04 Sep Ramsgate LGE 1-5 Mulopo 31 13 Sep HASTINGS UNITED LGE 1-7 Daramda-Martin 31 19 Sep TOOTING & MITCHAM LGE 27 Sep CRAY WANDERERS LGE 02 Oct Molesey LGE 11 Oct BURGESS HILL TOWN LGE 18Sep Oct THAMESMEAD TOWN LGE 25 Oct Sittingbourne LGE 01 Nov MARGATE LGE 07 Nov Herne Bay LGE 15 Nov CARSHALTON ATHLETIC LGE 21NovOct Nov Three Bridges LGE 29 Nov LEWES LGE 06 Dec RAMSGATE LGE 10Decv Dec Hastings United LGE 1Nov4 Jan Tooting & Mitcham LGE 23 Jan Cray Wanderers LGE 31 Jan MOLESEY LGE 07 Feb Burgess Hill Town LGE 11 Feb Thamesmead Town LGE 21 Feb SITTINGBOURNE LGE 26 Feb Margate LGE 07 Mar HERNE BAY LGE 11 Mar Carshalton Athletic LGE 21 Mar THREE BRIDGES LGE

Home matches in CAPITALS All home matches will be played at: Oakwood FC, Tinsley Lane, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 8AT (ko 7.45pm) Admission: £3 adults, £2 U16s

Down with the kids – a round up from Horsham Youth

2018/19 The 2018/19 Arun & Chichester League programme got Arun & Chichester League underway last Sunday which meant it was time for the talking Division A fixtures to stop and the lads of our U11s, U12s, U13s and U14s to put in to practice what they had been taught over the summer. U12 The U11s were rampant in their Development League match, 09 Sep A Chichester City Colts White scoring eleven goals without replay at AFC Worthing with nine 16 Sep A Chichester City Colts Red of them coming in the second half, among them hat-tricks 23 Sep H Worthing United from newcomers Alfie Russell and Jack York. 30 Sep H Worthing United Strikers 21 Oct H Chichester City Colts White By contrast the U12s' visit to fierce rivals Chichester City 28 Oct A Worthing United Colts White was settled by just one goal, unfortunately for the 18 Nov A Worthing Town Blue Hornets, scored by the home side. "Chichester are a well- 25 Nov H Chichester City Colts Red drilled, organised and physical side" said manager Ben Pugh. 02 Dec H Worthing Town Blue "Personally I thought we were the better of the two teams and thought the performance today was first class, with every

player giving their all. We were sucker-punched with their goal U13 to be honest and walked away feeling as though we should 09 Sep A Barnham Trojans Blue have got something out of the game.” 16 Sep H Rustington Otters There was a cagey start at Barnham before Joe Sherwood 23 Sep H Worthing Minors put our U13s ahead against the home side, only for the 07 Oct H Chichester City Green Trojans to equalise within minutes. Horsham took command 14 Oct H Bognor Regis Town in the second half with better control of the ball, sharper 21 Oct A Chichester City Green passing and a calmer approach and Rylan Schickell fired 28 Oct H Barnham Trojans Blue home our second with Joe adding a third after cutting in and 11 Nov H Worthing Minors shooting past the Barnham ‘keeper. Horsham were now in 25 Nov A Bognor Regis Town control and, with three minutes left of the seventy, Joe 09 Dec H Worthing Town Blue grabbed his debut hat-trick when a great through ball set him 06 Jan A Worthing Town Blue free to poke home. 13 Jan A Rustington Otters At Gorings Mead, U14 Amber were rocked when Edgaras 20 Jan H Worthing United Colts Kazlauskas and Josh Massey-Gooding gave visiting Bognor 27 Jan A Worthing Town Blue Regis Town Green a 2-0 lead but the Hornets turned the match completely on its head through goals from Zain Beg All matches subject to change (2), Sam Henderson (2), Nico Massimo and Max Warren to Check website for latest information win 6-2. Sadly the U14 Green couldn't match Ambers heroics or visit http://full-time-league.thefa.com and went down to a 2-0 loss to last season's runners-up, Chichester City.

Introducing…. Sam Jones (Manager, U11s) Sam is new to the club this season and, after successful trials, he and his coach Matt Robinson believe they have a great side ready for the new season and are looking forward to the new challenge.

Job: Royal Mail Favourite food: Curry all the way! Favourite film : The Great Escape Favourite music: Anything - no favourites Premier Football - Crystal Palace Favourite TV programme: Match of the Day Season's thoughts - to form a team from strangers and build a team that bonds and works for each other eventually and be top of the game in the division.

On this day….

1830 The Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened to become the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, and the first to provide a scheduled passenger service. On its inaugural journey, some thirteen miles out of Liverpool, the first of many problems occurred when one carriage derailed and the following train collided with it. Later that journey ex-cabinet minister William Huskisson became the first reported railway fatality when he was hit by a passing train, sustaining injuries from which he later died. 1859 "One of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", Portsmouth-born Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died this day 1859. Undeniably one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Brunel was responsible for the design and construction of such iconic projects as the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Great Western Railway and SS Great Britain - the world's first propeller-driven, ocean-going, iron ship that was, at the time of construction, the largest ship ever built. In 2002 he was placed second in a BBC poll to determine the 100 Greatest Britons. 1916 The first use of tanks on the battlefield took place on this day at the Battle of the Somme, with the deployment of British Mark I tanks. The Mark I were capable of performing on one of the most difficult battlefield terrains ever, with their rhomboid shape enabling them to overcome the extreme terrain, thus helping the allied forces make valuable in-roads into the German defences and ultimately leading to allied victory in World War I. 1978 Muhammad Ali became the first boxer to win the world heavyweight boxing title three times when he outpointed Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome on this day, forty years ago. Spinks had beaten a complacent Ali - eleven years his senior - in Las Vegas on a split decision, six months earlier, in what was the only occasion Ali would be defeated in a title bout. The rematch drew a crowd of 65,000 to New Orleans where, this time, a far fitter Ali won by a unanimous fifteen-round decision. 2008 New York-based global financial services firm Lehman Brothers were the fourth largest investment bank in the US, having been in operation for 158 years. The shockwaves were felt around the world then when, on this day 2008, the firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in what remains the largest bankruptcy filing in US history, with the company holding over $600,000,000,000 (six hundred thousand million) in assets. The collapse is thought to have played a major role in the global financial crisis of the late noughties.

My first time

The appearance of the robin is usually a cheering sight around Christmas time but that wasn't necessarily the case for a young Steve Moore, whose first visit to Queen Street saw the robins of Carshalton Athletic help themselves to the festive treats provided by the home defence. Yet Horsham's 3-0 loss, the passage of time, and a self-imposed exile to the west country thankfully hasn't diminished Steve's love for the Hornets.

"A murky pre-Christmas Saturday in 1975 was an unpromising day to begin a love affair which survives to this day and continues a lifelong connection with my home town on the back of a heavy home defeat. A visit to Queen Street as a 13-year-old at the invitation of some of my neighbours in Old Millmeads was, initially, something to do in the afternoon after we'd all played local league football on a Saturday morning. But first impressions last, and watching players in the flesh in front of a real crowd at an atmospheric ground was always going to win out over the fleeting coverage television then offered of the professional game, even if Horsham's promising first hour that day came to nothing as Carshalton cantered to a win with three late goals. While I knew nothing of the players, it was only a few games before I could delight in the goals and skills of Eric Whitington, the pace of full-back and fellow ex-Collyerian Den Strudwick, who I was to enjoy professional dealings with many years later, and to question how any footballer could seriously be called Goodgame! Fittingly perhaps, it was weeks before I saw Horsham actually win a game but it was a prelude to Yeovil dramas, a long uphill walk to see penalty shootout heartache at Team Bath (and a longer walk down again), Swansea nights and Guernsey delights. Thanks Horsham FC: it was, and continues to be, a blast."

MATCH REPORT: Horsham could congratulate themselves on holding their title-chasing opponents to within a quarter of an hour from the end and might possibly have knocked the Robins off their perch if a couple of early second half chances had gone in. But, once Carshalton scored, they ripped the defence apart with some telling runs and crosses. Mick Cornwell, Den Strudwick, Dave Roberts, Tony Goodgame and Eric Whitington all had chances to open the score - the latter striking the goal frame with a header - although Strudwick and 'keeper Dai Mason had to be at their best to keep the scoreline goalless. A second half injury to Cornwell saw Carshalton gain the upper hand and Walker converted a cross by former Birmingham City man Allen, with Delaney adding a second shortly after, compounding the agony for Mason who had earlier split his shorts! Goodgame, who was having just that, again went close before Allen scored a third towards the end. Horsham Carshalton Athletic Dai Mason I Finch Dennis Strudwick J Millar Mick Fountain K Baker Terry Williamson C Barrett Bill Patterson P Gaydon John Green C Gedney Vic Bragg D Burke Micky Cornwell S Williamson Tony Goodgame G Allen Eric Whitington S Delaney Dave Roberts A Walker Norman Gall S Palmer

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Referee: Greig Walker Assistant Referees: Paddy O’Reilly & Dominic Barrow

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