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Issue 1 Prescot Cables v Glossop North End Official Matchday Programme of Tuesday 21st August 2018, 745.pm Prescot Cables FC Community Evo-Stik NPL West Division Interest Company Ltd Joe Faux interview The Australian youngster gives us an update on his return to fitness. David Fry Remembering our photographer and friend PRINCIPAL CLUB SPONSORS MATCH SPONSOR: TBC BALL SPONSOR: TBC PAGE 3 2 | The Walloper FROM THE EDITOR Good evening everyone and wel- we were in last term. The abo- come back to Volair Park for our lition of the North / South split first home fixture of the 2018-19 of Division One, to be replaced Evo-Stik NPL West Division sea- by an East/West arrangement son. means we have a number of different clubs to look forward It is always a pleasure to welco- to visiting. It also means that it me the players, officials and su- would take either a brave man, PRESCOT pporters of Glossop North End or a fool, to try to predict the CABLES to our ground. We hope that all outcome of the season. COMMUNITY INTEREST connected with the Hillmen en- COMPANY LIMITED joy their visit. Greetings, also, to However, what we do know is Company Number: 05540352 our match officials for tonight’s that Brian Richardson will have match. recruited astutely and drilled into Vice Presidents: Phil Blundell, Bob his squad the import of working Nicholson, Keith Brown This fixture brings together two hard and never giving up. Chair: Doug Lace clubs who started the new cam- Vice Chair: Peter Kneale paign with defeats, although it Games against Glossop North General Manager: Ken Derbyshire would be as foolish to draw any End are always hard-fought and Club Secretary: Matt Roberts conclusions from the first match tonight will be no exception. The Assistant Secretary: Vacant of a 38-game season as it is to team will need to be at their beif Treasurer: Norman Parr get too giddy during the warm- they want to win the match. Social Events: Mick Flaherty up games. Executive: Geoff Conway, Gary Don’t forget that this Saturday Finney, Joe Gibiliru, Peter Roberts, Although three players have de- is FA Cup day! We have a home Matt Roberts, Jamie Weston, Robbie parted Prescot to try their luck tie, against Irlam in the Prelimi- Williams. at higher levels, Brian Richard- nary Round of The Emirates FA Bar Manager: Lynda Derbyshire son has managed to retain the Cup. Last season’s foray in to the Football Manager: Brian Richardson majority of the squad who came competition was not a success- Assistant Manager: Steve Pilling so close to achieving promotion. ful one... please come and get Coaches: Garry Williams & Roy With that play-off experience, behind the team if you can. Grundy the players will only accelerate Physio: Tony Carroll their development. Thanks for your support today. Kit: Paul Watkinson & Norman Parr Enjoy the match! Hospitality: Harry Boydell & Sandra However, we find ourselves in a Williams very different division to the one Gareth Coates Head Groundsman: Paul Brookes Ground Maintenance: Alan McNally, David Hill, Paul Watkinson Programme Editor: Gareth Coates Regular Contributors: Mike Rice, Roy McDonald, Paul Goodwin, Matt Roberts Club Photographers: John Hendry & John Middleton Soccer Club Swap Shop Evo-Stik North Programme of the Season, 2016-17, 2017-18 The Walloper | 3 OUR VISITORS’ HISTORY Uptatempores se corrovitati doluptur aut fugias magnamus, cusapel ipsantis ulpa dolorum autem que veles dicitibus.Nimus atem dolupta sperchi lluptisci dis suntemolore. GLOSSOP NORTH END: A HISTORY Our first home League match of 2018-19 is against a club who have played in the top flight of English football and at the national stadium. t’s a classic quiz question — which is the smallest town Iin England to have been the home of a top division football club? The answer: Glossop. Of course, it’s a long time since that 1899-1900 season, but the Hillmen (or Hillsmen, as they were known back then, in honour of owner Sir Samuel Hill-Wood) supporters always enjoy recoun- ting the proud history of the club. However, more recently they were given some more moments that they will talk about in the town for years to come and are hopeful of providing a few more. Founded in 1886, Glossop Nor- th End began by playing friendly amateur matches. They entered the North Cheshire League in 1890 and introduced profes- sional players in 1894. Their Chairman and benefactor was local cotton magnate Sir Samuel Hill-Wood who later left to be- come Chairman of Woolwich 4 | The Walloper The Hillmen are based at Surrey Street; the ground has been their base for more than 60 years. Glossop North End have twice reached The FA Vase Final; the picture below is from the Media Day ahead of the 2015 Final against North Shields Arsenal. In 1898, on their third application, they were admi- tted to the Football League. In their first season, by fini- shing runners-up to Manches- ter City, they won promotion to the Football League Division One. Unfortunately, they spent just one year in the division, the best victory being a 3-0 result against Nottingham Forest. Glossop played in League Di- vision Two until the end of the 1914-15 season and in 1908- 09 reaching the Quarter Finals of the FA Cup where they lost to Bristol City in a replay. They ceased playing during the lat- ter part of the First World War, but were reformed by Oswald Partington MP, who had been club captain in the 1890s. Between the wars the club played in the Lancashire Combina- tion and the Manchester League, of which they were champions The Walloper | 5 6 | The Walloper in 1927-28. They also won the ghout the town. There is now a sing 2-1 to North Shields as the Gilgryst Cup on three occasions. thriving Supporters Club, which long season finally caught up has funded makeovers to the with them. However, the pri- Matches again ceased during the ground and helped generate in- de of being a Hillman had ne- Second World War, Glossop re- terest in the club home and away. ver been higher and the feeling joining the Manchester League of watching your team take the afterwards. They won the Gilgryst This sparked a dramatic over- lead at Wembley is hard to beat. Cup for a fourth time in 1949. haul that saw a refurbishment of changing rooms, a new clu- Willcock continued at the helm In 1955 they moved from their bhouse, a new covered standing throughout the club’s first two original ground at North Road area and new perimeter fencing. seasons in the EVO-STIK Lea- to their present home at Su- Ground grading for the Northern gue, qualifying for the Play-offs rrey Street. Since then they Premier League was achieved, in 2015-16 and just missing have played in the Lancas- and now what was a required out the year afterwards. He hire Combination, the Man- was a side to make that count. and the club then parted ways. chester and the Cheshire Lea- gues before becoming founder Manager Chris Willcock and his Paul Phillips and Steve Halford members of the North West team provided that in 2014-15. took up the managerial reigns Counties League in 1982. That season will live long in the and Glossop started the 2017- memories of everyone invol- 18 campaign well. Starting with Glossop spent most of their ved in the club. At one point almost a new squad they main- NWCFL life in the First (now 21 points behind Runcorn Lin- tained a solid Play-Off posi- Premier) division, although much nets, but with games in hand tion through until mid-season. of it was spent at the lower end due to cup runs; they were re- fighting against relegation, whilst quired to play three games a Unfortunately, with the team su- the club itself fought for survival, week to play catch up. However, ffering multiple injuries, including victim of a criminally corrupt ow- the players kept on achieving. ‘keeper/manager Philips, the ma- ner in the 1980s. It was only the nagement had to play almost six- hard work of board members and Firstly they clinched a return ty players throughout the year. supporters kept the club afloat to Wembley with a two-leg- As a result, the team’s position after the disgraced regime. There ged win over Cornwall’s AFC St started to slip into mid-table. On was a little success: the club was Austell having defeated strong 12th March the management Manchester Premier Cup winners outfits like Worksop, Dunston pair left the club to join local ri- in 1997 and 1998, and Derbys- UTS and Shaw Lane Aquafor- vals Buxton FC, leaving the club hire Cup winners in 2000-01. ce. Once-in-a-lifetime? Pah! manager-less for the remaining half dozen games. The Board More recently though, things Then, having relentlessly chased acted quickly to appoint Mark have improved for the Hillmen. down the Linnets they clinched Canning, former GNE player and 2008-09 saw an once-in-a-li- the League with a 3-0 win over latterly goalkeeper coach under fetime day in the history of the Nelson with three games to play. Halford/Philips, as caretaker ma- club after the side embarked on Next they completed a League nager until the end of the sea- a terrific FA Vase run which saw and Cup ‘double’ with a 2-0 vic- son. Mark was assisted by Andy North End reach the Final at tory over Atherton Collieries Bishop, of Bury FC fame, in the Wembley.

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