Seagull Scene SSE Airtricity League First Division Season 2021 Vol. 37 No. 9 WELCOME TO THE CARLISLE BRAY WANDERERS FC I would like to welcome Ian Ryan and his Wexford FC team, club officials and supporters to the ROLL OF HONOUR Carlisle Grounds for this evening’s encounter. FAI Cup Winners (2) 1990, 1999 Tonight, we welcome up to 500 supporters into the game which will create a better atmosphere for the First Division Champions (3) players to play in. 1985/86, 1995/96, 1999/00 First Division runners-up (2) Bray Wanderers legend Mick Doohan will join 1990/91, 1997/98 Vincent Kirwan as co-commentor on the live stream of tonight’s game on LOI.TV. For just €5.00 Shield Winners (1) you can watch tonight’s game live at 1995/96 https://www.loitv.ie/en-int/page/home National League B Division Champions (2) 1991/92, 1998/99 Mick won two FAI cups (1990 & 1999) and a First division title (1999/2000) in his two spells with the Enda McGuill Cup (1) club. He made 343 appearances for the club 2005 between 1988 – 1993 & 1998 - 2003. He scored FAI Intermediate Cup Winners (2) 34 goals in all competitions and is the fifth highest in the club’s appearances record. 1955/56, 1957/58 FAI Junior Cup Winners (2) We welcome Callum Thompson back to the club on loan from Longford Town. Dean O’Shea, Glen 1955/56, 1957/58 Hollywood and Cian Maher have departed the club Leinster Senior League Winners (3) and we wish them the best of luck in their future 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959,60 careers. Metropolitian Cup (1) We are back in action in the Carlisle next Friday 1976 when we host Treaty United in the First division. Kick off is 7.30pm and tickets can be purchased European Qualification (2) Cup Winners Cup (1990) from the club website. UEFA cup (1999) Enjoy the game. Bray Wanderers Media Links Michael Duffy, Programme Editor Website: www.braywanderersfc.ie MATCH PROGRAMME TEAM Facebook: @BrayWanderersFC Editor: Michael Duffy Twitter: Contributors @BrayWanderers Michael Duffy, Brian Quigley, Mícheál Ó hUanacháin Instragram: @braywanderersfc Niall O’Driscoll, James Fenton Youtube: Photographs: Peter Minogue https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXRHX2Q4FkTGuPk 5enbqbgQ MATCH PREVIEW – Michael Duffy Bray Wanderers are on a six-match winning run against Bray Wanderers v. Wexford FC Wexford FC. Wanderers have won nine and lost once The Complete Record in the last ten meetings between the sides in all Competition P W D L F A competitions. League 9 7 0 2 19 8 FAI Cup 1 0 0 1 0 1 Wexford FC have lost on all of their previous four visits League Cup 2 2 0 0 5 3 to the Carlisle Grounds. Shield 0 0 0 0 0 0 Having lost their opening nine league games of this Total 12 9 0 3 24 12 season Wexford FC have improved over the last two months of the season in the second series of games. Home 4 4 0 0 10 3 They have won one, drawn two and lost five of the eight Away 8 5 0 3 14 9 games since. Total 12 9 0 3 24 12 They also recorded a good 3-0 win over Cabinteely in the FAI cup a fortnight ago. Their only wins of the League P W D L F A season were recorded against Cabinteely having Home 3 3 0 0 7 1 recorded their only league win of the season away to Away 6 4 0 2 12 7 Pat Devlin’s side. Kyle Robinson is their top league goal 9 7 0 2 19 8 scorer so far this season with six goals. Wanderers won the previous meeting this season 1-0 in FAI Cup P W D L F A a hard-fought game in Ferrycarrig Park. Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 Away 1 0 0 1 0 1 Bray Wanderers have created a five-point gap on sixth 1 0 0 1 0 1 place Athlone Town after last week’s away win over Cabinteely FC. Bray Wanderers are unbeaten in their last six league games with three wins and three draws League Cup P W D L F A in that run. Home 1 1 0 0 3 2 Away 1 1 0 0 2 1 Ryan Graydon is available to Wanderers this evening 2 2 0 0 5 3 having served his suspension for a sending off against Athlone Town last month. QUIGLEY’S WORLD OF FOOTBALL ‘’ 1969” By Brian Quigley Having been born in 1969, I have a deep affinity for Ford, an Australian who was then a curate of anything that went on that year. Not just the big-ticket Cirencester Parish Church [now he has an MA in items like the moon landing and the Woodstock Indian Religions and is a Buddhist teacher]. Festival, but also events that barely left a footnote on history, such as soccer clubs that were formed in Ellesmere Rangers are a Shropshire side with a club 1969. badge depicting a swan, an image that makes me think of the T. Rex breakthrough single ‘Ride A White Looking at soccer clubs formed in a particular year is a Swan’; the club play in the North West Counties rewarding business, like taking a virtual tour around League Division One South. Parkgate FC are based the various countries the clubs originated in. 1969 near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, and play in the gave birth to a club quite near to me – Newbridge Northern Counties East League Division One; they are Town, who currently play in the Leinster Senior nicknamed ‘The Steelmen’. League – and some far-away ones, such as Tusker FC in Kenya and Botswana’s Gilport Lions. My favourite club founded in 1969 is Spanish side Flat Earth FC, founded in 1969 as CDC Comercial and Tusker FC are based in Nairobi and are sponsored by renamed in 2019 by club president Javi Poves, a East African Breweries, brewers of the world-famous believer in the Flat Earth conspiracy. They play in Tusker beer. The club are nicknamed ‘The Brewers’ Spain’s regionalised fourth tier Tercera Division. and were formerly called Kenya Breweries. They are Kenya’s third-most successful club, having won 11 So what was happening elsewhere in the football world League titles and 4 FA Cups. in 1969? Waterford were League of Ireland champions, with Shamrock Rovers winning the FAI Gilport Lions are based in Lobatse in Botswana, and Cup. Across the water Leeds United won their first top- were founded by workers at the Botswana Meat flight title, while Manchester City lifted the FA Cup, Commission as Botswana Meat Commission FC. beating Leicester City in the final [Leicester wouldn’t Although the name was eventually changed to Gilport contest another FA Cup final until 2021, when they Lions, the club’s crest still says ‘BMC’ and has a finally lifted the Cup after beating Chelsea]. picture of an animal, presumably about to be turned into meat. The club won Botswana’s FA Cup in 2007. Across Europe, Fiorentina, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Saint-Etienne, Celtic, Feyenoord, Standard Other clubs founded in 1969 include Almondsbury FC, Liege and Benfica were champions of Italy, Spain, Parkgate FC, Cirencester United and Ellesmere Germany [then West Germany], France, Scotland, Rangers. Almondsbury FC were founded as Patchway Holland, Belgium and Portugal respectively. North End. They currently play in the Western League Division One and are affiliated to the Gloucestershire Why not take a virtual soccer tour through the year you County FA. were born sometime you are at a loose end. Enjoy the game tonight; hopefully we can win the South-East Cirencester United are also a Gloucestershire side and derby after our win in last week’s ‘El DARTico’! play in the Hellenic Football League Division One West. They were founded by The Reverend Adam Fruit supplier to Bray Wanderers FIRST TEAM SQUAD 2021 1 Brian Maher 3 Dylan Barnett 4 Andrew Quinn Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: BMDS Drawing Service Eddie Cox Benville Robinson Solicitors 5 Aaron Barry 6 Conor Clifford 7 Ryan Graydon Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Bray People Tax Assist Accountants Byrne McGuire Ltd 8 Mark Byrne 9 Joe Doyle 10 Gary Shaw Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: Wanderers Supporters Trust Dylan O’Neill Group Training Swedish Fan Club 11 Brandon Kavanagh 14 Richie O’Farrell 15 Daniel Jones Sponsor: Sponsor: Available to Sponsor Easy Self Storage BW Supporters Club FIRST TEAM SQUAD 2021 16 Darren Craven 17 Luka Lovic 18 Sean Callan Sponsor: Sponsor: Sponsor: CV Improvements Creative School Benville Robinson Solicitors 19 Darragh Lynch 20 Charlie Gallagher 22 Stephen Kinsella Sponsor: Available to Sponsor Sponsor: Daryl Bolger The Kids Coach 25 Kian Clarke 27 Callum Thompson Available to Sponsor Available to Sponsor 28 Sam Verdon 30 Jack Ross Available to Sponsor Available to Sponsor The Women's Game – Part 3 Mícheál Ó hUanacháin concludes his 3-part series on the Women’s game The Swinging Sixties wasn't just sex 'n' drugs 'n' total of only 15 games played. Many matches were rockandroll – it also marked the rise of a new wave of played at the top grounds, Ozier Park, Flower Lodge feminism, not least in sports. and the Markets Field, and some as curtain raisers for the men's club matches – in Ballybofey, for example, Women's clubs had come through their half-century of and Waterford. Benfica ran a bus to the Harps match ostracisation, and in November 1969 the Women's in April 1973, staying in Donegal the previous night for Football Association was formed in London with 44 a dance.