Wymondham Town Ladies FC V Bedford Ladies FC FA Cup 4th Preliminary Round 8th November 2015 KO 1pm V In loving memory of Norman Keeping £1 . Welcome to King’s Head Meadow, the home of Wymondham Town Football Club Welcome to the King’s Head Meadow and The 1883 Bar for the fourth preliminary round of the 2015-16 Women’s FA Cup. We hope you all have an enjoyable evening and that we’re able to end the day celebrating a WTFC victory. Today’s sponsor: Today’s match is kindly sponsored by Olive Keeping, in loving memory of Norman Keeping who followed Wymondham Football Club with interest. With best wishes for a successful season. Computer problems ? 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Mick began his football at the age of 11 playing for Ronnie Skinners We all hope they will win & the team mascot, the rabbit, will have to be under 18s side Wymondham Sunday Youth, however he was soon spotted by Alf Fincham, manager of a very successful Attleborough on duty & all of the girls that have been part of the team in the past will youth side & played there with the likes of Justin & John Fashanu hopefully come along & give the team their support. I can remember winning most league and youth cups, he also played for Wymondham when the Ladies team started playing here. At that time there was not Old Boys with the infamous Pheonix brothers in the Anglian that much interest in ladies football, but as the seasons have gone by Combination at the age of 14 before being signed by Thetford Town. the team have got better, winning the league & cups & have got more Mick began playing for Thetford Town at the age of 16 in the then & more support. After the great win against Cambridge United when Eastern Counties League and soon became leading goal scorer which over 150 supporters enjoyed the game, our ladies set a fine example attracted Kings Lynn to the 18 year old. After a successful pre-season for Norfolk Ladies football & as they say in boxing, came top of the Mick was no signed on contract so decided to help Graham Morgan ratings. get Wymondham promoted from teh first division of the Anglian Our Sharon, the club’s Delia Smith, provides the post-match Combination with 46 goals in one season, forming a formidable partnership with Paul Leserve, alas this was to be Mick’s only season refreshments for the teams & likes to join in with them, a reward for at Wymondham as he was snapped up by Bill Punton at Great her hard work & it’s good that they all enjoy their Sunday afternoon & Yarmouth. all are a credit to our club. Mick went on to have a very successful time in the Eastern Counties Over the weekend of the 24th & 25th October I enjoyed watching our League playing for Lowestoft Town under Paul Chick & Donny Pye 1st Team against Aylsham, who were unlucky to lose 3-4. Our regular where he played 3 seasons & scored 137 goals. supporters came & I sold out of programmes. The next day more Kings Lynn finally signed Mick on contract in 1985 & he had three supporters than the day before enjoyed the Ladies match as our team seasons there under Freddie Eastall & Peter Mendham before leaving won 3-1 to go top of the league. to play for the highly successful Sudbury side where he went on to win Many had an enjoyable evening in the clubhouse at my mate Ryan the Ridgeon’s League three times, the Suffolk Senior Cup & ECL Cup Brown’s 18th birthday party. When Ryan is at the football club he’s before playing at Wembley in the 1989 FA Vase final, drawing 1-1 at Wembley but losing the replay at Peterborough United 2-0. always busy, & when Ryan takes your order at the chinese take away where he helps out he tells me that I can have two meals for the price Mick then decided to turn his hand to management & with John of one, that’s 4 spare ribs instead of 2, so you can tell Brownie Senior Fincham took Attleborough Town from Division 3 of the Anglian Combination to Premiership Champions in just 5 seasons, winning the that no trout or salmon is needed from the River Tiffey, just get our Norfolk Junior Cup at Carrow Road & the Junior & Senior knock-out boat sailing again. cups on the way. Attleborough are still the only team on record to be As promised in previous programmes, a piece on a previous player: unbeaten for a season in all competitions. Mick started his own business Moneyproperties Estate Agents in 2002 4. 5. & was chairman of Wymondham Town for 2 seasons where he turned the club around, however work commitments made this difficult to continue. Whilst there he started today’s highly successful Wymondham Ladies team with Kevin Swann & Carl Harmer. Mick went on to manage his son Curtis. (Bertie) Silfield Unites side for 5 seasons where they won the league & cups most seasons, producing players such as Sam Borrer - now at Dereham Town, Jamie Spellar - now at Norwich United & Jackson Ramm who went on to play for Blackburn Rovers. Mick has nothing to do with football these days & prefers to watch his sons Christian & Curtis play. He has sponsored many sports teams over the years but has now decided to put all his fundraising efforts towards helping Les King & the local charity Star Throwers, a Wymondham based charity supporting cancer sufferers. Les King cuts the tape to open opening Moneyproperties Estate Agents shop in 2002. Mick always wanted to be top of the league, now over the years his estate agents are also climbing the league to become one of the best in Norfolk. Enjoy the game. Best wishes Les King 6. have a vision to make this one of the best and most profitable clubs in A few words from the Chairman: the county. Yes to do it probably lies away from the Kings Head Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the famous old Kings Head Meadow but we have to plan for advancement or the club will contract Meadow for this fourth FA Cup Qualifying round match. We welcome and disappear. all players, coaches committee and supporters from Bedford Ladies and hope they will enjoy their afternoon here in Norfolk. As yet we still have not signed the lease and will not be signing it under the present proposal. To charge us under a full business lease Wymondham Town is one of the oldest clubs in the Country first when it’s a public open space that we can neither protect or have any playing in 1883 with their home always being here at the Kings Head jurisdiction over is a nonsense. Also we have to fully maintain this Meadow. If you look in our Meadow View Gallery you will see many public space in every way shape and form. We quite simply get no pictures going back to the senior winning cup teams of the 1890s. A help from the council or anyone. The Wymondham Youth Football Famous Picture also of our England Goalkeeper the Reverend Club is a fantastic organisation but they have 5 or 6 pitches at Ketts George Berkley Raikes. Reverend Raikes kept goal for Wymondham Park fully maintained by the Council with a lot more things being done as well as making 4 full first team appearances for England. for them in the pipeline by the Council. They pay just £845 per year for a complete exclusive on Ketts Park. We are seeking complete Since the club was saved in March last year this is without doubt the clarification on why there is such an alarming disparity between what biggest game in the clubs recent history of what is a historic Norfolk they pay for having everything done for them and what we pay for club. A club that has never played junior football! An incredible 132 having to do everything for ourselves our rent has been set at £4,500 year old record that we try to preserve as a board. We wish our ladies per year. Also there is a massive difference between 1 pitch here and all the very best this afternoon and thank you all for attending this 5 or 6 at Ketts Park. match whether supporting Wymondham or Bedford. The Council or at least some members of it want no senior side in Sometimes we lose sight of just what it is a club should be about. It’s Wymondham and especially on the Kings Head Meadow to pay the not about petty and deluded empire building its about all pulling in the new rent we have to generate and additional £9000 in bar revenue to common cause of Wymondham Town Football Club.