Programme 17Th October 2015 2

Wymondham Town Football Club V North Walsham Football Club Anglian Combination Division One 17th October 2015 KO 2:30pm V Sponsored by Barry Hagan £1 . Welcome to King’s Head Meadow, the home of A bit about the opposition: Wymondham Town Football Club Name: North Walsham Town FC Nickname: The Angels Welcome to the King’s Head Meadow and The 1883 Bar for the sixth league game of the 2015-16 season. We hope you all have an Home ground: Greens Road, North Walsham NR28 0HW enjoyable evening and that we’re able to end the day celebrating a Established: 1879 WTFC victory. Team colours: Home - Black & White !! Away - Red Today’s sponsor: Manager: Matt Lown Today’s game is kindly sponsored by Barry Hagan. Last match result: Mulbarton 7-1 North Walsham (Mummery Cup) Barry played for Wymondham Town from 1959 to 1964. He then went Last year’s position: 7th on to manage the Reserves in the 70s & since the 1980s he has been a physio for all the teams. Barry continues to support the club & is This week’s fixtures in the Almary Green currently one of our Vice Presidents. Anglian Comb Division 1. 17/10/15! Beccles Town v Sheringham 17/10/15! Foulsham v Aylsham 17/10/15! Hempnall v Hindringham 17/10/15! Loddon United v Holt United Fancy sponsoring the a match? Or having a pitch side advertising 17/10/15! Poringland Wanderers v Brandenham Wanderers board? Options include: Match sponsorship £60 per match Recent results: Pitch side board £350 per year 13/10/15! Sheringham! 3-1! Wymondham Town Foyer board £50 per year 10/10/15! Bungay Town! 13-0! Hempnall Town Contact [email protected] or ask one of the 10/10/15! Hellesdon! 2-3! Bradenham Wanderers Club’s Officials for details of our various sponsorship packages. 10/10/15! Poringland! 4-4! Holt United 10/10/15! Stalham Town 2-2! Hindringham 10/10/15! Waveney! 4-1! Loddon United 2. 3. Redgrave to join our crew & get us sailing again with a win against The President’s Bit North Walsham today. It was not a good weekend the first in October; Norwich lost, Ipswich I have been asked as Life President of Wroxham FC, why I do not go lost, Wroxham, Dereham & Mulbarton all lost, the only good result was there now. About 5 years ago I did write in my President’s page the Wymondham’s win at Holt. following: In the evening it’s down town to the football club for a few drinks & the ‘I was Chairman here at Wymondham in our Centenary year, we won steak night where we got plenty to eat, then it’s home time to watch the league that year. Then I went to Wroxham for a small fee. I England get beaten by Australia and are out of the World Cup. In the became Life President and spent 25 happy years there. I did the raffle early stages, the same of our England football team, who gets for over 20 years, received the clubman of the year award, and the sacked? stand is named the Les King stand in recognition of y support for the Our hard-working treasurer, one of our best players in our Ladies club. The club won many awards, leagues & cups and to think Bruce team, enjoyed a well-earned holiday in California, Emma kindly Cunningham had a team which won the Jewson Premier League 6 bought me an LA hat home, when she was there she watched Steven times in 8 years was the best. No one will ever beat Bruce’s record in Gerrard play for LA Galaxy, it was a good game & all the local football. entertainment as well as the football made it a special & enjoyable The league was much stronger then as ten teams have now moved on event. Emma’s first job when she came home was to get the to a higher grade of football. In May 2009 Wroxham did well to reach programme ready for our special Ladies game against Cambridge the FA Vase final at Wembley. United; they were started on Sunday & were hand delivered to my No one will ever work harder in football as Kenny Cooke for Wroxham; door at 10:30pm on Thursday, I made sure Emma went home with a Kenny arranged all the buses and tickets for supporters with the help bottle of wine for her hard work. of Colin Hazel. We had our lunch at Wembley where the royalty sit, we I myself & many others think that with the costs of running our club watched the game from the Royal Box, this was something Kenny and the hard work of our small group of club officials, if you want to thoroughly deserved; to see his team play at Wembley, Wroxham lost see football at the Kings Head Meadow, the least you can do is buy a but they did well to get there, it was pleasing to see that many local programme & support some of the events in the club house. people had a good day out. I sold over 100 tickets in Wymondham & It seems that Chairman Andy Gardiner’s strong letter in the local when you look from the Royal Box & see these people it is special. press, asking people who come to our matches to buy programmes A week after Wembley, Kenny Cooke resigned as treasurer & other and support the club financially, has worked as last Sunday all match officials and sponsors left the club, it was the last time I saw Wroxham programmes were sold before kick off & we could have sold a few play. To me Wroxham FC will never be the same without Kenny Cooke more. Andy Spellar who kindly sponsored the game and Mark at the helm. It’s a long way from Wembley Stadium back to football Wilkinson from M W Surfacing Ltd, who sponsored our 1st Team here at Wymondham. There’s some good lads at Wroxham who are bought programmes & even Thatch bought two. Over 150 watched a still my friends, but I think more people are now watching local football great ladies game & over 75 enjoyed the carvery in the club house. where players pay to play. That’s why we get good support here.’ Let’s hope the support continues. I have to tell Brownie after our heavy shock defeat at Blofield, our boat Enjoy the game. sailing down the Tiffey seems to have stopped, no fish have been Best wishes seen, only a few water hens. I will have to ask my mate Steven Les King 4. 5. A few words from the Chairman: We are meant to be a club but more and more I get the feeling its 4 Good Afternoon everyone and Welcome to this afternoons match. We teams who like to play football with everyone else doing the work to lay that match on. I would implore all our teams to make the effort to welcome our visitors from North Walsham and hope they have an th enjoyable afternoon with us here at Wymondham Town Football Club. turn up here on Sunday November 8 when we play the fourth and final qualifying round against Bedford 1pm Kick Off. We need the Before I move on to positive things I cannot let last Saturdays largest crowd possible that day so please attend. We will be doing all shambolic result and behaviour go without some comment. I have day Carvery so either eat before or eat afterwards but just come and never been one to brush things under the carpet. I would therefore like support the club. to publicly apologise for last Saturdays events at Blofield when we were humiliated 10-1. I would also like to apologise for my programme In closing I would like to thank all our sponsors and supporters for notes in last Sundays Ladies FA Cup programme which were written sticking with us. It makes us feel that what we are doing is worthwhile prior to last Saturday (when I said how proud I was of the first team) in keeping the club going. The lease has not yet been signed as there which obviously were in tatters by the time people read that are many things at the minute that we want complete clarification on programme on Sunday. regarding the massive disparity in what we get for £4,500 (we have to create and pay for all maintenance etc) as to what the Youth I make it absolutely clear to all players, managers, sponsors, Football teams seem to get for 5-6 football pitches fully maintained by supporters and all our many unpaid helpers that drug taking in anyway the council at £845. Once we have a sensible answer to this I am shape or form will not be tolerated by this club. This Club although in sure we can proceed. decline over the past years is a historic club that has traditions that I will not allow to slip as have previous committees. I would rather not Kind Regards sign the lease, fold the club or pull the mens teams out of the Anglian Andy Gardiner Combination and re build at the bottom from scratch as Mulbarton Chairman have done than see us become a laughing stock. WTFC Unfortunately for too long people have thought they were doing us a favour by playing here and look where that has got us. Wymondham Town Football Club has standards end of before, during and after the match end of.

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