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2 -Sporting Bengal United(FA Cup)(2).indd 1 FOOTBALL CLUB FOOTBALL WALTHAMSTOW 1 04/08/2019 19:12:37 vs SPORTING BENGAL UTD Saturday 10th August 2019 // 3PM Wadham Lodge // FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round WALTHAMSTOW FOOTBALL CLUB Match Day Centres, Wadham Lodge, Kitchener Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 4JP CLUB MANAGEMENT President: June Brazier Chairman & Secretary: Andy Perkins Vice Chairman: Steve Howe Company Secretary: Vacant Treasurer: Vacant Communications Manager & Assistant Secretary: Andrzej Perkins Club Historian: David Chapman Charter Standard & Veterans Secretary: Tony Brazier Life Members: A. Brazier M.B.E., J. Brazier, D. Chapman, D. Crabb, C.E. Gross, K.J. Harris, S. Howe, G. Larkbey, A. P. Perkins, D. Salmon, D. Thomas, C. Ward, D.E. Ward FIRST TEAM MANAGEMENT Player/Manager: Ryan Maxwell Assistant Manager: Nick Symons Physio: Lucelta Eugene MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2019-20 Editor: Andrzej Perkins Contributors: Tony Brazier, David Chapman, Graham Larkbey, Steve Howe, Aaron Moore, Charlie Ward Photography: Vacant SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: facebook.com/walthamstowfc Instagram: @walthamstowfc Twitter: @walthamstowfc YouTube: youtube.com/walthamstowfc Website: walthamstowfc.com 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 2 04/08/2019 19:12:38 ANDRZEJ PERKINS THE EDITOR ood afternoon everyone, welcome to business from the spot. 1-0 with just five on the clock. Wadham Lodge for this FA Cup Extra But as Vinny Murphy said in his interview after the Preliminary Round tie against Sporting match, we never really got out of second gear. Our Bengal United. composure and effectiveness in the final third meant the victory was particularly comfortable. Just the seven goals for us on Saturday then. Everyone alawys hopes for a positive start, but I think the Today’s game will be significantly different though, I energy and ruthlessness we showed last week caught expect. even the most optimistic of us off-guard a little. Sporting Bengal have been a bit of a bogey side for us in It’s easy to clam up a bit, and let the situation get to recent seasons, and they’ll no doubt be confident again you on opening day, as we saw last season with a 2-2 this afternoon, having started the season with an away draw against Hoddesdon Town. win against Southend Manor. We’ll have to be at our best to get something from the game. The winners of But a feature of our pre-season games, and our first this tie will be at home to Great Wakering Rovers in league game was that we started quickly, and put the the next round. opposition on the back foot right from the off. Emiel Aiken (who had a superb game, despite not scoring) Enjoy the game, could have put us one-up a few minutes before Billy Jones was taken down and Dwade James did the Andrzej 3 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 3 04/08/2019 19:12:39 CHARLIE WARD THE TREE SURGEON ell, last Saturday was an uneventful We met Hamlets on a very bad day at the office but, day, just the seven goals for us. we were cruelly clinical in forcing home the advantage. We certainly hit the ground running and That is a very good sign - I have seen many of our seemed to carry out Ryan’s ethos of fitness and getting teams over the years come up against a side that into the opposition faces, to the highest degree. was undoubtedly poorer than ours and yet we struggled to put them away and on some occasions It was great to see Dwade James back into the usual routine we dropped two points or even three, so it was nice but it was also pleasing to see some debut goal scorers, to see this side are able to put sides to the sword. with Jack Grosvenor & Ryan Reed on the score sheet. I am certainly looking forward to seeing the I suppose, in a way, Billy Jones also scored on highlights on the WD Sportz programme on Tuesday. his debut, certainly this season’s debut anyway. Mind you - if you score seven goals without Also, good debuts for Bennett and Aiken. reply, you would expect to be top of the table at the end of the match but, we were trumped by It was a wonderful all-round team performance and Woodford who outdid us by one goal at Sawbo. some will ask questions about the standard of opposition, you can only beat the opposition you are facing. Today we take our first and we hope, not our last, in this season’s FA Cup. 4 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 4 04/08/2019 19:12:40 CHARLIE WARD Our opponents are well known to us in the have at this stage of the season though! shape of Sporting Bengal, who of course ended our end of season unbeaten run, last season. This, of course, is the second of SEVEN home matches on the trot, five of those in the League, which In truth, I think it was a game too far is a ridiculous situation but, we have to get on with it. for us but, we still owe them one today. What we have to make sure of is that we take They like us, got off to a winning start to their advantage of the run of home games and try to League campaign and also kept a clean sheet make home advantage count. We will need to be but, managed to score six goals fewer than us. at our today best as the opposition is pretty stiff. As the programme needed to be at the printers by We take on Stansted, ESL runners up, next Monday, I do not know, when typing these notes, Saturday and follow that up with a match against if they doubled their points tally in mid-week. newcomers Hadley, who enjoyed a 5-0 opening day victory against Enfield, so no mugs there. What I do know is, we need to get a victory today as we do not want to go out of the Then it’s Hoddesdon, always a hard side to beat FA Cup so early nor do we need a replay. followed by West Essex in the Essex Senior Cup. Their home ground has not always been a I am sure they will be a different proposition from good venue for us, although we beat fellow the side we beat easily at their place at a similar stadium users, Tower Hamlets, last season, the time of the year, in a League game, last season. percentages over recent seasons are not favourable. But, the encouraging opening performance has What impressed me last Saturday was not just got everyone buzzing and confirms we have to be the performance from those on the pitch but, considered one of the favourites for promotion. the quality that we had to offer off the bench. Let us hope we can make just an impressive start in our Ryan’s biggest problem it seems to me is being able FA Cup campaign. to keep everyone happy. There are worse problems to 5 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 5 04/08/2019 19:12:41 THE BIG PICTURE 6 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 6 04/08/2019 19:12:41 Ryan Maxwell holds court before last Saturday’s win over Tower Hamlets 7 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 7 04/08/2019 19:12:42 today’s vistors sporting bengal utd Sporting Bengal finished 8th in the Essex Brasted Memorial Trophy in the Second Senior League. They made a steady start to round by us. the 2018/19 season getting 8 points from the first 5 games and starting the season with two Sporting Bengal also reached the Quarter- draws. final of the Errington Challenge Cup following a narrow 1-nil win over St Margaretsbury They beat Ilford in the Extra Preliminary at the Mile End Stadium but lost 4-3 on round of the FA Cup but were halted at the penalties to West Essex after a 2-2 draw. Preliminary round stage by Brentwood Town following a replay. Their run in the FA Vase They ended the season with 3 points from a also came to an end early, losing 3-2 to Enfield possible 15, winning 1 and losing 4. Their only Borough in the Second Round Qualifying. win in the last 5 games was a 2-0 victory over us whilst they were defeated by Ilford, Saffron They reached the semi-final of the Peter Walden, Southend Manor and Clapton either Butcher Memorial Trophy with wins against side of their win. Saffron Walden in Round 1, Harlow Town Reserves in the second round and Barkingside The biggest win they achieved in the league in the was a 6-0 thrashing of Enfield and their Quarter-final but their Semi-final against biggest loss was a 7-1 at the hand of Clapton Aveley Reserves was abandoned. The Bengal on the final day. Tigers were knocked out of the Gordon 8 2 - Sporting Bengal United (FA Cup) (2).indd 8 04/08/2019 19:12:43 we’ve met before ere’s not many teams we can Luke Ifil then rounded off the performance consider to be true bogey with a screamer from about 40 yards. teams, but Sporting Bengal are probably one of them. The game in February 2018 was Ryan Maxwell’s first game in charge for the club Having only beaten them twice in a league following the dismissal of Quyam Shakoor.