Official Matchday Programme 2019-20 vs CHALFONT ST PETER AFC Saturday 7 December 2019 BetVictor League South Central Division PRICE £1 2019-20 club sponsor Are you at risk of type 2 diabetes? Find out by taking our 1-minute quiz www.FruitStreetHealth.co.uk Westfield Football Club established 1953 Woking Park, Kingfield Road, Woking, GU22 9BA 01483 771106 (matchdays) or 07407 480032 Around the Club Welcome to Woking Park Steve Perkins - Chairman Everyone here at Westfield FC, Dave Robson - Vice Chairman players, officials, supporters and Richard Hill - President generous sponsors are delighted to Michael Lawrence - Secretary welcome you all to today’s game in the BetVictor Isthmian South Central. Darren Pasley - Fixtures Secretary Peter Beale - Treasurer A particularly warm welcome is Mick Powell - Facilities Manager extended to our Match Officials and all those who have travelled from Neil Harding - Bar Manager Buckinghamshire for what is only our Kevin Putney - Facilities Supervisor sixth home league game of the Neil Collins - Website & Programme Editor season, mainly due to postponements Jim Ahmed - Commercial Manager caused by our soggy pitch. Rich Talbot - Marketing Manager We hope you enjoy your day out, our Pete Rumble - Youth Liaison Officer facilities and hospitality, and have a safe journey home. Management & Backroom Tony Reid - Club Manager Our visitors from Chalfont are currently sitting just below us in 10th Martyn Lee - Assistant Manager place, but only on goal-difference, and David Powell & Alex Lumley - Coaches their recent form shows 2 wins and 4 Stuart Baverstock - Goalkeeping Coach defeats in the last 6 away games, with Tiffany Weedon - Physio victories coming at lowly FC Romania Jim Lee - Kitman and Hertford Town but a recent 6-1 Roger Steer - Director of Football reverse at reviving Staines Town. Dean Thomas - Head of Recruitment Meanwhile, Westfield have achieved a Nick Ayling - Reserve Team Manager rather unusual run of 4 successive 2-2 Mark Long - Reserve Team Coach league draws, several of which were Robbie Porter - Under 18s Team Manager close to excellent results against top 6 teams, and just a little luck with our Vice Presidents finishing will no doubt turn our John Ellesley Michael Lawrence fortunes around. Philip Arthur-Wosop Alan Morton Our next home match looks to be an- other exciting contest with Tooting & Peter Gales Graham Pope Mitcham on Tuesday 17th . Nobby Reynolds Colin Rearden Enjoy the game, Alan Evans Neil Harding Neil Collins Programme Editor Brian Weston Pat Kelly John McIlhargy David Robson To our volunteers, fans, sponsors John Ludlow Michael Robson and everyone who helps to Mick Joseph Martin Powell support the Club at each game - Doreen Cable Mark Pullen WE THANK YOU ALL Special thanks to our CLUB SPONSORS BetVictor Isthmian League South Central Roundup by Ian Townsend Saturday 30 November We knew that leaders Hanwell Town hammering at home to Hertford Town last would still be the leaders at the end of the weekend, but it got back on track day as they started it with a five point yesterday as they shocked the Hawks by cushion. That cushion was down to three taking a two goal lead, Eric Lopes and points by full time as the Geordies, who Ethan Flanagan giving them the advantage travelled to fifth placed Chertsey Town, midway through the first half. Tayo were held one-one by the Curfews, the Oyebola got one back after the break, but hosts scoring both goals. Jake Baxter it wasn’t enough. scored at the right end. Tooting & Mitcham United remain sixth Ware, in second place, defeated Chipstead after a nil-nil draw with Marlow, whilst six-one last weekend, but they weren’t Waltham Abbey are seventh, a late Prince going to be able to repeat that scoreline Domafriyie goal the only one of their yesterday as they were travelling to match at Ashford Town. Bracknell Town. Were they? Well they did! Barking have been in superb form of late, The Robins had lost only one home game winning four consecutive league matches- going into the match, the Blues only one and they made it five at Chipstead. Michael away game, so we predicted a draw- but Dixon and Jack Hayes put the visiting what did we know? Ware were three up Blues two up, and although Daniel Moody within twenty five minutes, Liam Hope, got one back from the spot nine minutes Louis Rose and Harry Watkins finding the from time the Chips couldn’t find an net, and although Nathan Minhas got one equaliser. Barking are eighth. back the three goal cushion was restored Chalfont St Peter strengthened their before the break through Joshua Williams. squad this week with three signings, and That was that until the last five minutes of put them to the test as they travelled to the match, when Kyle Roberts, who had FC Romania. Neither side were on a good only been on the pitch for three minutes run, but it was the Saints who emerged before finding the net, got the last two. victorious, despite falling behind early on. Third placed Uxbridge were our form side Gabriel Ghinea put the Wolves ahead after over previous last ten matches, and after only eleven minutes, but a double from two games without a win got back to Dan Williams, one in each half, meant that winning ways at South Park last weekend. the Saints went marching in. They hosted Westfield, their visitors Staines Town and Bedfont Sports can- without a win in five but having drawn celled each other out at Wheatsheaf Park, their last three- and by full time they’d with not a goal between them. drawn their last four as they came from two goals down to grab a point. Mark Bitmead and Mahlondo Martin gave the hosts what looked like a commanding lead at the break, but two goals in three second half minutes from Tinashe Nkoma and Aaron Watson saw the visitors share the spoils. Max Blackmore Fourth placed Harlow Town hosted slots home the Northwood. Woods recent revival came to second goal vs a shuddering halt as they fell to a six-one Hanwell Town A series of articles by the author of the book ‘A History and Guide to Football Programmes’ describing how programmes have changed over a century-and-a-half of Association Football Lower League Club Programmes through the Depression Just as the dreadful, debilitating economic Depression of the 1930’s had little impact on the style and standard of the top club’s football programmes, so it appeared to by-pass clubs in the lower divisions of the Football League. They continued to produce fairly substantial 1d or 2d issues, apparently containing as many advertise- ments as before, suggesting that programme revenue did not suffer the same fate as the rest of the economy. Indeed, throughout the troubled 30’s, club programmes maintained the advances they had made in the 1920’s. Unlike today, where far larger crowds and considerably greater commercial clout produces a big difference in the standard of programmes issued by England’s top clubs, compared to those struggling at the bottom of the League, there was little in the quantity and quality of club programmes to suggest their respective status in the game. It was just as likely to find a 16-page programme in the Third Division North or South as in the First Division, and vice versa with 8-page issues, or even the folded sheet programmes favoured by such as West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur at the top level, and Mansfield Town further down. Port Vale, whose pre-war issues are notoriously difficult to obtain today, issued 12-page programmes with cream and red covers; Southport and New Brighton, both no longer in the League, were others to fill 12 pages as did Darlington - another difficult pre-war programme to obtain today. Bristol City in 1938/39 produced as big a programme as had been seen in the country, at 32 large pages, with a team group photograph on the pink cover (pictured right). There were plenty of advertise- ments, but City included a grid with every result from the Third Division South that season. Chester City, in the Third Division North in 1934/35, published a 16-large-page programme for 2d, and were one of the few clubs to print precise attendance figures and gate receipts for all their fixtures. To modern eyes, programmes from former League clubs such as Bradford Park Avenue and Gateshead (8 black and white pages for just 1d in 1937/38) seem from a long-gone era, and none more so than issues from Thames’ brief spell in the Third Division South, for 1930/31 and 1931/32. Their programmes were similar in style to those of West Ham - not surprisingly, given that they shared the Hammers’ long-time printers Helliar & Sons of Barking Road, Plaistow. Their 1d programmes were four large pages (one huge folded sheet) with adverts, half time scoreboard and match details on the front, club notes and league tables on page 2, team lines (in 2-3-5 formation) and adverts on page 3, and fixtures / results and more adverts on the back page. For more information and advice on programmes and programme collecting, please visit www.pmfc.co.uk. NLP column by David Richardson The court ruling that has seen Ossett United ordered to pay £135,000 will have given Non-League clubs plenty of food for thought about how they approach the issue of player-to-player insurance. The BetVictor Northern Premier League North West club have been sued by Rees Welsh, who broke his ankle in a tackle while playing for Radcliffe Borough against Ossett Town in April 2015.