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Junior Cup Final Tuesday, May 14th 2019 v at Portman Road, Ipswich Town FC Kick-Off 7:30pm Official Souvenir Programme £1.00 Sponsored by: May 14th 2019 | Junior Cup Final P1 Respect Code of Conduct Spectators We all have a responsibility to promote high I understand that if I do not follow the Code, any/ standards of behaviour in the game all of the following actions may be taken by my club, County FA or The FA: This club is supporting The FA’s Respect programme to ensure football can be enjoyed in I may be: a safe, positive environment. • Issued with a verbal warning from a club or Play your part and observe The FA’s Respect league official Code of Conduct for spectators • Required to meet with the club committee • Obliged to undertake an FA education course I will: • Obliged to leave the match venue by the club • Applaud effort and good play as well • Requested by the club not to attend as success future games • Always Respect the match officials’ decisions • Suspended or have my club • Remain outside the field of play and within membership removed the Designated Spectators’ Area • Required to leave the club along with (where provided) any dependents • Let the coach do their job and not confuse the players by telling them what to do In addition: • Encourage the players to Respect the • The FA/County FA could impose a fine and/or opposition, referee and match officials suspension on the club • Avoid criticising a player for making a mistake – mistakes are part of learning • Never engage in, or tolerate, offensive, insulting, or abusive language or behaviour TheFA.com/Respect P2 Junior Cup Final | May 14th 2019 Welcome teams for reaching this final, and The KBB Centre and NEFF are very best wishes for the game. proud to sponsor the local county cup finals. Please remember there is a third team involved in tonight’s match. Both companies fully support Our team of officials have been Youth football and sporting appointed as a result of their initiatives and are absolutely performances throughout the delighted to be involved. season and deserve to be involved The Suffolk FA were looking for in this stage of the competition as cup sponsors and the chance to much as the two playing teams. have a top brand manufacturer in The game is sure to be tense and NEFF willing to help support The competitive and could be decided KBB Centre’s links with Suffolk by the smallest of margins. Whilst FA was an opportunity not to be we’re unlikely to all agree with every missed. The KBB Centre are a 5 decision the officials make, please Star MasterPartner for NEFF and rest assured that decisions will be we have a lot of innovative things made with the best of intentions. happening with them this year, Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Therefore I trust you as spectators, both with showroom changes and and a warm welcome to the final of players and team officials will join new NEFF products. the KBB NEFF Suffolk Junior Cup the match officials in adhering here at Portman Road. We are particularly excited about to RESPECT Codes of Conduct at NEFF’s main event of their 2019 all times; a Spectators’ Code of I’m delighted we’re able to host six calendar, which is the launch of Conduct is included within this Suffolk County Cup Finals at Ipswich NEFF’s ‘Home Connect’ which programme and Codes of Conduct Town FC this season, the most ever will be available on display in our applying to all match participants in a single season. Whilst we may showroom in June. not be able to host so many finals are displayed in the respective at Portman Road every season, changing rooms. We’d like to wish all the teams who hopefully those who do get to have made it this far the very best If the scores are level at the end perform in this stadium will be of luck! of normal time, we go straight to inspired to give us spectators their a penalty shoot-out. So please do Roger Peck (left) and Patrick best performance. save any fingernails just in case! Peck (right), Directors of the KBB Thank you to all our colleagues at Centre Football should be the best Ipswich Town for their hard work, experience For All. Please cheer, time and commitment to ensuring congratulate and encourage as these finals are the showpiece much as possible in a respectful culmination to another Suffolk manner for all involved. Let the football season. game begin… This competition has been played #AThrivingLocalGame since 1889-90 and the road to this year’s final has been as exciting Richard Neal as ever. Reaching this final crowns Chief Executive Officer successful seasons for the two Suffolk Football Association teams. Bildeston Rangers finished runners-up in Division One of the Touchline SIL and Bacton United 89 finished fourth in the same league. My congratulations go out to both May 14th 2019 | Junior Cup Final P3 INSURANCE MADE FOR FOOTBALL CLUBS - TEAMS - COACHES 0345 872 5060 [email protected] bluefinsport.co.uk Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 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My own football career never reached great heights. I played in a Primary Cup Semi-Final but didn’t make the final squad but one of my team-mates looked back at his time in local I once worked with a northern lad who supported football when our club celebrated an anniversary Everton. I used to ask him the Everton result every and wrote the most sincere and heart warming time they lost and then on one occasion I tried sentiments about this wonderful game that we to wind him up by saying ‘Never mind, it’s only play in our most beautiful County. He wrote: a game’. His reply was instant. ‘Aye, but it’s a “Without the enthusiasm of the people that passionate game’. How right he was. run our club, it is unlikely that we would be here Tonight’s final sees the culmination of hard work, tonight. From a personal point of view I would skill, determination, some luck and plenty of have missed out on some of the happiest and passion, but that’s just the two teams playing on proudest moments of my life, moments that I the pitch. For me, I cannot organise the Suffolk FA have shared with people that have become my County Cups without a team with no less passion, closest friends. Who said football was only a but no-one sees them and without them occasions game? It’s far more important than that.” like tonight would not take place. My squad consists of the referee co-ordinators Ian Adrian Moye Smillie, Graham Apperley, Ian Atkins, Mel Stickland County Cup Competitions Manager and Alan Dale. Darryn Marsh, Bruce Badcock and Suffolk FA Richard Neal are alongside myself when the tough, and not always popular, decisions have to be made, and Ruth Ward makes sure the administration for the finals is fully in control. May 14th 2019 | Junior Cup Final P5 Competition History The Junior Cup has been in existence since the 1889-90 So the 1919-20 season was the only season in which the season. FA presented Junior Cup was the only Junior Cup that was played for. However, in 1907 there was a split in the way football was run in the county. The FA presented Junior Cup was given to the Suffolk Schools’ FA for one of their cup competitions and so is no The existing Suffolk County FA, who owned the Junior longer owned by Suffolk FA. Cup, voted to affiliate to the Amateur Football Association. Consequently, a second Suffolk County FA was formed The cup is contested by adult Saturday Junior clubs who that was affiliated to the Football Association. play at a higher level than those competing in the Primary Cup. The FA presented a trophy to the new Suffolk County FA for their Junior Cup competition. Route to the Final This meant that there were two Junior Cup competitions First round: Walsham-le-Willows A 1 Bacton United 89 5, for several seasons. Bildeston Rangers 8 Coddenham Athletic 1. In 1913 the FA and AFA resolved their differences, but Second round: Stanford v Bacton United 89 – Away Win the outbreak of the First World War meant that the local Walkover, Brantham Athletic A 0 Bildeston Rangers 5. situation could not be resolved at that time. Third round: Kesgrave Kestrels 1 Bacton United 89 2, The Junior Cup was not played for again until the 1919-20 Bildeston Rangers 3 Old Newton United 2.