NORTH GREENFORD UNITED A Warm Welcome To Berkeley Fields WINDSOR Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North Saturday 28th August 2021 Kick off 3pm Match Sponsor Andrew Swanzy Offi cial Matchday Programme 2 North Greenford United v Windsor WELCOME TO BERKELEY FIELDS We extend a warm welcome to the players, offi cials and supporters of Windsor for this Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North. We hope you enjoy a pleasant stay with us, along with the referee Dylan Ing and his assistants Mourad Bougouizi and Lee Wiles plus journeyman player. Although success can be our match sponsor Andrew Swanzy and had with this type of player is it benefi cial for wish you all a safe journey home. the long-term future of a club? The Windsor history section in this We were aware we had a very successful programme on page 14 makes for interesting Under-18s section, and still have, but where reading and subsequent discussion. do those players go when their time in the age group comes to an end? The then chairman Kevin Stott made an important decision in 2012 shortly after the Under the guidance of our current managers new club was formed to replace Windsor & Paul Mills and Gary Brown, we are creating a Eton. structure where the Under-18s can progress to the fi rst team. Kevin had attended the London Olympics and was impressed by those athletes who did it It is a process that can take some time for the love of their sport. because you will not necessarily succeed at our level with a team of youngsters. Whether or not this includes those athletes who are paid is not clear but the likes of You have to have some old heads but they tennis star Andy Murray are Olympians. have to be passionate about the club and be prepared to guide the younger members of However, Kevin’s stance was very clear in the squad. that he wanted a side made up of players competing for the love rather than fi nancial Although the required results do not come reward. immediately, the approach to be a community club has been benefi cial. The decision had the expected outcome with the management departing immediately Although we want to progress up the pyramid but Windsor were able to rebuild with an it is important we keep to the proper values emphasis on local talent. like our today’s opponents did from 2012. We made a similar decision a few years ago. Graham White For some time we had been reliant on the 2021-22 North Greenford United v Windsor 3 NORTH GREENFORD UNITED FC BERKELEY FIELDS, BERKELEY AVENUE GREENFORD, MIDDLESEX, UB6 0NX TEL: 020 8422 8923 www.pitchero.com/clubs/northgreenfordunitedfc Patron: Marc Todd First XI Managers: Paul Mills, Gary Brown President: John Bivens First XI Coach: Dino Pashias Chairman: John Bivens First XI Assistants: Mark Warwick, Danny Vice Chairman: Richard Rooney Glock, Simon Wright Treasurer: Barbara Bivens Under-18s Manager: Dino Pashias General Secretary: Richard Rooney Under-18s Assistant: Graham Lonsborough Football Secretary: Barbara Bivens Club Coach: Chris Paladino Assistant Football Secretaries: Goalkeeping Coach: Mark Warwick Darren Barden, Andy Martin, Pat Hillier Welfare and Safety Offi cers: Programme Editor: Graham White, Barbara Bivens, Richard Rooney Website: Darren Barden Commercial and Development Offi cers: Groundsman: Steve Goldfi nch Barbara Bivens, Richard Rooney NORTH GREENFORD UNITED IS A MEMBERS CLUB RUN BY AN ELECTED COMMITTEE Affi liated to: The Middlesex Football Association Members of: The Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League and The Allied Counties Youth League SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES AT NORTH GREENFORD UNITED We are looking for sponsorship partners for North Greenford United play in The Cherry our club for the forthcoming season. Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North. They Options can include: regularly compete against local teams giving Pitch Perimeter Boards or Banners you increased advertising exposure in local communities. Web Site Advertising For more information contact Barbara Bivens Match Day Sponsorship on 07915 661580 or email barbarabivens@ talktalk.net WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT 4 North Greenford United v Windsor PREVIEW OF TODAY’S GAME Welcome to today’s Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North game. We extend a warm welcome to this afternoon’s visitors Windsor, the Royalists manager Mark Cooper, his management team and players, along with the club’s committee members and supporters, and hope you all have a safe journey home after the game. We are all hoping that by April next year we will have completed all our fi xtures, and that non-league football at all levels will have fully returned to some form of normality. There is little doubt that today’s visitors would share the same sentiments. While we spent the last two Covid-19 lockdown seasons in what were to prove our last in the Spartan South Midlands Premier Division, Windsor were experiencing a similar situation with their four-season spell as members of the Uhlsport Hellenic Premier PAUL MILLS Division coming to an end. opportunity to go top of the table, beaten at home 4-1 by Edgware Town, while we, As was expected, with the FA implementing having secured an impressive EPR away win its NLS re-structuring plans which, if I at Dunstable Town, were being ripped apart remember correctly were fi rst proposed in the Preliminary Round by a strong Tilbury towards the end of the 2018-19 season, side who netted seven times without reply to both clubs were returned to the Combined move comfortably into the qualifying rounds. Counties, being placed in the League’s newly formed Premier Division North. This was clearly a result for the players and managers to put behind them, and refl ect on As it happened, the last time we played what has, on the whole, been a positive start against each other in the CCFL was in to their league campaign. season 2016-17, just after we had been relegated from the Southern League and had This has included an excellent win over successfully appealed against an FA decision Southall, who currently head the table, to place us in the Hellenic League with, a hard-fought away draw against St ironically, the powers that be making the Panteleimon and a narrow away defeat to an same decision with regards to Windsor the uncompromising Holyport side. following year. Both games between the two clubs in season On the clubs return to the CCFL, Windsor 2016-17 ended in draws, and were closely have had marginally the better start. Having fought, competitive and entertaining contests. lost their opening Emirates FA Cup Extra- Preliminary Round tie to Tuffl ey Rovers – a We can expect the same this afternoon as team the Blues beat after a replay at this both take the pitch determined to get back stage of the competition in 2019 – the to winning ways. Get behind the team and Royalists went on to win three league games enjoy the game. on the spin with impressive victories over Reading City, Wembley and CB Hounslow. COME ON YOU BLUES! Last Saturday, however, they missed the Pat Hillier North Greenford United v Windsor 5 MEET THE BLUES 2021-22 JACK CURD (Goalkeeper): Promising young goalkeeper who played regularly for the Under- 18s before being promoted and signing for the First Team in July 2019, and since then proving to be a reliable and dependable substitute keeper. SAM HOUSE (Goalkeeper): Experienced goalkeeper who signed for NGU in July 2019 and whose previous club was AFC Hayes. He made 26 appearances that season and was named as both manager’s and spectator’s player of the year. He went on to make a further 14 appearances last season before the second Covid lockdown. RYAN LEHANE (Goalkeeper): Another promising Under-18s goalkeeper who has been promoted to the First Team this season. LORCAN BARNETT (Defender): A promising SAM HOUSE young centre-back who recently signed for NGU SAMUEL OLANIPEKUN (Defender): An from Oxhey Jets. experienced defender who signed for NGU in July 2019 and has recently re-signed for the club, OLIVER LEWIS (Defender): A solid centre-back having played for several other clubs including who recently signed for NGU from Harefi eld Athletic Newham. United. SIVARUBAN SATHIYANANTHAN (Defender): WILTON MIGUEL-DOMINGOS (Defender): A pacy defender who signed for NGU in July Another promising young centre-back who 2019 and has also recently re-signed for the club, recently signed for NGU from Coggleshall. having played for several other clubs including Amersham Town. HARRISON OKWU (Defender): A pacy defender who can play anywhere along the back SAM MOLYNEAUX (Defender/Midfi elder): An who recently signed for NGU from Spelthorne experienced and versatile midfi elder who joined Sports. NGU from Delaford Colts towards the end of season 2018-19. He re-signed for the club in July 2019, making 22 appearances that season, followed by nine last season before the second Covid lockdown. ETHAN RELF (Defender/Midfi elder): Talented full-back and wide midfi elder who signed for NGU in August 2020, making his debut at Arlesey Town, followed by 12 more appearances and scoring 1 goal before the second Covid lockdown. TYRIQUE SPRINGER (Defender/Midfi elder): A young, strong left-sided player, and another player who has recently been promoted from our Under- 18s team. GEORGIE BROWN (Midfi elder): A talented ex- NGU Under 18s midfi elder who re-signed for the club in July 2019 and made 30 appearances that season, followed by fi ve last season before the ETHAN RELF Continued on Page 7 6 North Greenford United v Windsor MEET THE BLUES 2021-22 From Page 6 second Covid lockdown, scoring a hat-trick in the FA Vase win against Chalvey Sports.