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Official Benchwear and Match Ball Sponsor NATIONAL LEAGUE VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR 2015/16 & 2016/17 ISSUE 6 OFFICIAL 2017/18 MATCHDAY PROGRAMME EBBSFLEET UNITED v TRANMERE ROVERS SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 – KICK OFF 3.00PM / PRICE £3 MATCH SPONSOR / PROGRAMME SPONSOR Cover.indd 1 14/09/2017 13:34 Official Benchwear and Match Ball Sponsor NATIONAL LEAGUE VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR 2015/16 & 2016/17 ISSUE 6 COVER September 16 2017 | Tranmere Rovers Probably two of the best goalkeepers in the league, Fleet hero Nathan Ashmore is OFFICIAL 2017/18 MATCHDAY PROGRAMME our cover star, together with his opposite EBBSFLEET UNITED v TRANMERE ROVERS SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 – KICK OFF 3.00PM / PRICE £3 MATCH SPONSOR / PROGRAMME SPONSOR number today, Tranmere’s Scott Davies. Cover.indd 1 13/09/2017 17:26 Issue 06 Ebbsfleet United FC CONTENTS Stonebridge Road, Northfleet, Kent 02 Fixtures & Results 2017/18 DA11 9GN 12 Opposition Focus: Tranmere Rovers Switchboard 21 On This Day: 1961 and 1975 01474 533796 Email [email protected] 24 Steve Fleming and Phil Moss on their Website www.eufc.co.uk personal Fleet-Tranmere paradoxes Twitter @EUFCofficial 30 Come back to what you know: Ian Johncock on return to the National Chairman Dr Abdulla Al Humaidi 32 Another level: opposition from Div. 1&2 Vice chairman Peter Varney 36 Year Zero: Part III, with the Fleet of Directors 1979/80 on the FA Cup trail Dherar Al Humaidi, Dave Archer, 40 The Unlikely Lads Stuart Butler-Gallie 46 Something old, something new Honorary associate director Jessica McQueen Club secretary “Sponsoring the Fleet but support- Peter Danzey “ ing Tranmere. Will Steve Fleming Finance manager survive the directors’ box today?” Cheryl Wanless Club administrator STEVE FLEMING ON P24 Matthew Faithorn Communications manager THE WEEK’S EVENTS IN FOOTBALL MATCHDAY MUSINGS Ed Miller Head groundsman Relocation, relocation OTHER THAN OUR LOCAL Craig Freeman Assistant groundsman Whitehawk have been ordered by a tribunal to RIVALS, I think Tranmere Rovers Martin Young pay £7,429.69 to former striker Duncan Culley alongside Leyton Orient was Catering (now at Hampton) for unpaid wages. He was probably one of the fi rst fi xtures operations manager Tanya Parr supposed to have received £464 of his £500 a Fleet fans looked for back in July. In some Head chef Jack Cox week wages via invoice as a “relocation allowance” of my early years of supporting this club, Catering DRS Caterers but it was never paid, according to legal papers. Tranmere were in the old Second Division Kit manager Maggie Danzey while we were about to be relegated back Club photographer Wood turning heads to the Southern League, Southern Division Dave Plumb — some seven divisions apart (apologies to Safety officer Boreham Wood broke their league any Tranmere fans who might wince about Philip Grinter attendance record last week when 1,920 Stewarding that statistic!). A league fi xture between (with 1,264 away fans) fi lled Meadow Centre Circle Events us would have been unthinkable then and Head steward Park for the win over Leyton Orient. The I still have to pinch myself now. I’m sure Duncan Cole club’s previous best was 1,293 v Grimsby. Matchday announcer it would have been unthinkable, too, to a Dave Lockwood couple of long-time Tranmere fans who by Club shop Mike Moyes Counting the Owers quirks of fate have also found themselves Resurgent Bath City have lost manager Gary First-team manager supporting the Fleet in recent years — we Daryl McMahon Owers to troubled Torquay United who speak to Steve Fleming and Phil Moss Assistant manager appointed the National South boss after about that further on in these pages. And Steve Gritt a four-week recruitment drive. Martin First-team coach while we’re all jumping on the Tranmere David Jupp Kuhl will be his assistant at Plainmoor. bandwagon, I can just about claim some Goalkeeping coach Michael Jordan Rovers heritage too as my grandad was Physiotherapist from Birkenhead and he was a Prenton Park Jamie Crosswell COLUMNS regular in his youth: there are a few of his Assistant therapist old programmes still stashed in my attic Lewis Hards 06 Daryl McMahon 23 Community somewhere but they’re overrun by Fleet Academy manager 09 Peter Varney 45 Fleet Trust Danny Kedwell ones... which I’m hoping will be the result Striker coach 11 Dave Archer today, too! Ed Miller, Editor | Fleet Review Aaron McLean Editorial & Design Ed Miller • Photography Dave Plumb • Printing GreenInc • Contributors Leigh Edwards, Steve Fleming, Ian Johncock, Phil Moss www.eufc.co.uk fl e e t review 3 Tranmere 02-23.indd 3 14/09/2017 11:51 THIS WASN’T Printers of your award winning matchday SUPPOSED programme proudly support The Fleet TO HAPPEN Troubled Tranmere-Fleet fans are all the rage this afternoon. PHIL MOSS will have to run the gauntlet of the ‘2CW’ taunts as he confronts a 90 minutes he never wished for... he Fleet faithful will forever fondly HEAD TO HEAD: promotion over fi erce rivals Notlob [Bolton to you T How has it come remember the second weekend of May to this for Phil and I – Ed.] into the then Second Division.” 2017… apart from one Stonebridge Road regular Moss? Beloved Prior to that play-off triumph, Phil had for whom the weekend turned out to be bitter Club No.1 v established, along with his mates Ross McGinnes Beloved Club sweet, or rather sweet and then bitter. No.2? (now a journalist, photographer and founder of Phil Moss, well known to Ebbsf eet and website We Want Plates) and Stephen McMillan Tranmere fans alike (as we’ll discover), is a born (currently Features Editor for Guardian Sport), a and bred Birkonian who lived on Wirral for new Tranmere fanzine. 3 Men In A Boat, re ecting the f rst 29 years of his life. After a brief teenage the three guys in charge at Prenton Park (manager f irtation with the Red Men from Anf eld – King, chairman Peter Johnson, chief executive “Dalglish and Rush is the best partnership I’ve Frank Corfe), made its debut at Gay Meadow in seen play live” says Phil – ‘Mossy’ found his February 1991 and was a part of the Rovers regular spot at Prenton Park, f rstly in the matchday reading matter for a couple of years Cowshed – “the real home end, which was until, as Corfe described it, ‘one unfortunate a real cowshed!” – and latterly in the Town incident’ led to the fanzine’s demise. Paddock. I’ll let Phil take up the story… “3MIAB was selling in excess of 1,000 copies every issue, including being sold in the club “Those were heady days for d’Rovers under shop” recalls Phil. “It was an amazing time, the excellent and eccentric stewardship of the both on and off the pitch. The team featured late, great Johnny King. Having saved Tranmere John Aldridge, Johnny Morrissey, Ian Moore, from the then unthinkable of relegation from Ian Muir, Pat Nevin, Gary Stevens and was the Football League in 1987, Kingy plotted a beating West Ham at home and Manchester course for the ‘Deadly Submarine’ that saw City at Maine Road, and the players loved OLD-SCHOOL Tranmere make fi ve appearances at embley PUBLISHING: what we were doing with the fanzine! But between 1988 and 1991 – in the days when playing at The Tranmere then I included a poem that went beyond the BIG ON STATIONERY. the national stadium meant something – claiming fanzine 3 Men In acceptable and that was that. 3MIAB was done for SMALL ON PRICES. A Boat, which Phil the Leyland DAF Cup in 1990 and a year later helped establish and consigned to people’s attics.” u TELEPHONE: 020 7148 0929 www.eufc.co.uk fl e e t review 27 Tranmere 24-48.indd 27 14/09/2017 12:58 u Fortunately for Phil, but perhaps less so for to a non-league game, but all that was about the Rovers faithful, Tranmere’s programme to change. Alongside my fellow MyFCer Sara editor Peter Bishop had enjoyed 3MIAB and I made my way to Stonebridge Road, via the invited Phil to become a regular contributor Three aws, on April th, , to watch a - to Rovers Review during an amazing period draw with Woking, soon followed by another for Tranmere when they almost claimed Wembley trip to see Fleet win the FA Trophy. promotion to the new Premier League, Clearly this football club owning malarkey making the play-offs in , and . His was easy!” column appeared every game with a different Unlike many on the MyFC bandwagon, title each season, including ‘Behind the Phil stayed on board the good ship Fleet. A ench reecting Phils season ticket place in year later he moved to Northeet, where the Paddock and ff The Planet, a reference WILD ROVER: he still lives, and commercial manager to “my sometimes obscure writing style!” Phil moved Barry Wickenden invited Phil to run the club’s Fast forward to the weekend of May 13th/14th from fanzine sponsors’ area. Mossy gave up his season ticket to programme . bbseet were in their third play-off final in and wrote for at Prenton Park – “it was too expensive to keep four years, Tranmere their first since une st, . the Tranmere travelling up to Wirral, even with the free hotels publication in Both clubs were desperate to get promotion, to end the Nineties provided by family and friends” – to watch Fleet their respective nightmares of previous seasons. home and away, and he also became a regular But why was Phil at both games? I’ll let him pick up contributor to this publication.