SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2019/20 EDITION NUMBER 38 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of your Newsletter, if you have anything to contribute, please do get in touch by email- [email protected] You can keep up to date with all the news from around the League by following us on Twitter at - @Sydwessex You are more than welcome to use any material (excluding attributed photographs) but it would be appreciated if any material used is acknowledged. It is hoped you enjoy reading this each week. With readership quite widespread, not only within our own competition, but across the three counties and beyond- if ANY club has anything they’d like to have published in here, whether that be a request for helpers, promotion of forthcoming events, items required or available for sale please contact the Newsletter Editor. As a general reminder- Match Reports, player news and photos are always welcome- it is your Newsletter! Saturday, 21 March 2020 Page 1 of 28 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2019/20 EDITION NUMBER 38 NOW HEAR THIS The Sydenhams Wessex Football League Show is the official podcast of the Sydenhams Wessex League. We’re on air live from the 103.9 Voice FM studios in Southampton from 3pm to 5pm every Sunday and you can also listen live on www.voicefmradio.co.uk from anywhere in the world. You can listen again afterwards, 1 hour after the show has finished via the same website and there is also a Voice FM App you can download to your Phone I-Pad or Computer device. Our aim is to promote all local football but specifically the 39 teams of the Sydenhams Wessex League. We have had managers, chairmen, players, press officers and secretaries joining us as studio and phone guests from all our League clubs, as well as guests from local teams both higher up and lower down the pyramid. This is your show and is a platform for your club to promote its events and raise its profile. If your club produces post-match interviews please either email us a copy of the audio or give permission for us to play them on air straight from your website or social media sites, as we will aim to play them on the show. Please come and join us one Sunday – either live in the studio or on the phone. You can email us on either [email protected] or [email protected] Thanks- Cliff Pledge and Greg Dickson Saturday, 21 March 2020 Page 2 of 28 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2019/20 EDITION NUMBER 38 STAT ATTACK LEADING GOALSCORERS- LEAGUE GAMES ONLY PREMIER DIVISION DIVISION ONE Scott Hills AFC Stoneham 20 Justin Bennett Bemerton Heath Harlequins 32 Craig Harding Alresford Town 19 Connor Kelly Newport (IoW) 22 Sam House Lymington Town 18 Lee Vint Verwood Town 20 Jason Parish Baffins MR/AFC Portchester 16 James Franklyn US Portsmouth 19 Bobby Scott Horndean 16 Liam Magee Romsey Town 19 Daniel Wooden AFC Portchester 16 Tom Moseley Downton 19 Max Wilcock Christchurch 15 Chae Sykes Laverstock & Ford 18 [two on] 14 Josh Bertie Andover Town 16 Details are based on clubs being up to date with records on Full Time at time of publication and may or may not include League goals from this weekend. THE LEAGUE GOALS PREMIER DIVISION Top three league attendances COUNT THIS WEEK- Bashley v Brockenhurst 339 14 March Fleet Town v Brockenhurst 241 28 September PREMIER DIVISION AFC Stoneham v Alresford Town 221 8 February 0 DIVISION ONE Top three league attendances DIVISION ONE Newport IOW v East Cowes Victoria 304 26 August 0 Andover New Street v Andover Town 248 8 October Laverstock & Ford v Downton 201 28 December PREMIER DIVISION GOALS DIVISION ONE GOALS Sharpest Meanest Sharpest Meanest Alresford Town 74 Christchurch 20 US Portsmouth 86 Petersfield Town 27 AFC Portchester 72 AFC Stoneham 35 Bemerton Heath 80 Hythe & Dibden 29 Hamworthy United 70 Horndean 38 Andover New Street 75 US Portsmouth 33 Fareham Town 69 AFC Portchester 40 Newport (IoW) 73 Newport (IoW) 36 AFC Stoneham 67 Baffins Milton Rovers 40 Hythe & Dibden 67 Bemerton Heath 38 Lymington Town 67 Alresford Town 41 Downton 62 Downton 38 Portland United 65 Bashley 41 Whitchurch United 55 Laverstock & Ford 43 Saturday, 21 March 2020 Page 3 of 28 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2019/20 EDITION NUMBER 38 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY . Advance notice of our AGM. Full details will be announced soon, but for your Diary and at time of writing- it’ll be at the Totton & Eling Sports Club, on SUNDAY 28 JUNE with a kick off of 10:00. It doesn’t clash with Father’s Day so no excuses this year Dads. LEAGUE NEWS It’s that time of the year, and the Football Association have already circulated their annual communication concerning applications for next season! The wording for the FA Cup indicates that there may be a reduction of clubs accepted from Steps 5 and 6. To apply for next season's FA Cup, FA Vase and FA Youth Cup The closing date is Wednesday 1 April 2020. A list of entries accepted will be published on the FA’s website in July 2020. If you require any further information or assistance with completing the application, clubs will need to please email [email protected] or call 0800 1691863 x 4583 / 4622. Thanks and good luck everyone! The Whole Game System- Going forwards clubs are reminded that they must use their email address and password to log in to the Whole Game System rather than a FAN number and password. The password to use is the one you previously used to log in with the FAN number. For help contact the FA on [email protected] Please also note that although the season is suspended, the deadline for signing or transferring players remains in place- 31 March, and also that clubs make sure they have updated match details on Full Time. DIDN’T THEY HAVE A LOVELY DAY PART TWO…… Continuing our random look at matches in the FA Vase and journeys undertaken and clubs from other Leagues met by our present Premier Division clubs over the years, there’s a correction to last week’s article. I am reliably informed that the match between AFC Stoneham and Penn & Tylers Green actually took place at Amersham Town’s Spratleys Meadow ground (a Spartan South Midlands ground) and not Beaconsfield. On a lovely early Autumn or early Spring day, the view from the stand across the Chilterns is superb, as long as you avoid the Red Kites. Penn ground shared at Amersham for one year before switching to Beaconsfield, due to not having lights. And still haven’t! FAREHAM TOWN 2004-05 Deal Town Lost 1-0 A trip to the Kent Coast where the North Sea and the English Channel meet for the “Creeksiders” in the Third Round Proper of the Competition. Deal were in the lower reaches of the Kent league, now the Southern Combination East, in which they still compete and a single goal saw them through and rewarded, with a trek to the North East and a 3-0 exit at Jarrow in the next round. FLEET TOWN 1993-94 Peppard Lost 5-2 As with Bashley we have to go back a long way to Fleet’s first spell in the Wessex League and a Preliminary Round tie at Peppard. Not a long journey to a Club who were champions of the Combined Counties League that season having previously played in the Chiltonian League and subsequently two terms in the Hellenic. Over some ten years they never found a satisfactory home of their own in or around Reading and folded in 2002, but on the day they were far the better side. Saturday, 21 March 2020 Page 4 of 28 SYDENHAMS FOOTBALL LEAGUE NEWS 2019/20 EDITION NUMBER 38 HAMBLE CLUB 2017-18 Westfields Lost 4-1 As relative newcomers to the Wessex League Hamble Club have limited Vase experience but enjoyed a good first run in the competition in 2017-18 reaching the Fourth Round Proper. Starting in the First Qualifying Round they defeated five fellow Wessex League sides before travelling to Hereford and overcoming Westfields from the Midland Premier League 4-1 with Nick Watts and Nathan Lynch both scoring twice. Sadly, they went out at Windsor in the next Round. HAMWORTHY UNITED 2005-06 Penryn Athletic Lost 2-1 Having received a walkover against Gloucestershire side Tuffley Rovers in the First Qualifying Round, the Hammers found themselves having to make a 360 miles round trip to deepest Cornwall and the outskirts of Falmouth to meet Penryn Athletic, then members of the South Western League, the forerunner of the South West Peninsula League. They went down by the odd goal in three and repeated the journey three seasons later, winning 2-0 on their way to the Third Round. Penryn have since dropped a level and via the Cornwall Combination now are currently sat top of the St. Piran league, one step below the South West Peninsula. HORNDEAN 2015-16 Winterbourne United Drew 4-4 The First Qualifying Round and Western League opposition in the form of Winterbourne United who played at Almondsbury, close to the junction of the M4 and M5. The “Deans” had four different scorers in the drawn game before winning the home replay by three goals to nil – scorers not recorded. Matters then got worse for Winterbourne with them withdrawing from the League prior to the end of the season. LYMINGTON TOWN 2006-07 Shrivenham Won 2-1 Shrivenham were mid table in the Hellenic Premier League when they hosted Lymington in the First Round Proper after a goalless draw at the Sports Ground.