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Post by timbo on May 17, 2010 17:27:49 GMT
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Post by Jon on May 17, 2010 19:47:46 GMT
Evening kick-off at 6.30 to avoid clashing with the Cup Final on the wireless. Most of 3 North were doing this, but we were the only ones in 3 South doing this along with Bolton from Div 1 and Barnsley from Div 2:  |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2010 20:10:06 GMT
Rather late for that cup final excursion advert, wasn't it? I'm afraid it'll be costing me rather more to see Blackpool at Wembley this coming Saturday. Mind you, plenty more notice given for the Newton Abbot section's trip to Clovelly in July.
A Devon Derby Dance at the 400? Those were the days....
Interesting to see those "amateur matches" in the fixture list - Wycombe v Wimbledon amongst them. And, as for Hugh Cameron, just the two league appearances for Newcastle before he moved on to Bury.
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Post by stuartB on May 17, 2010 20:13:58 GMT
Rather late for that cup final excursion advert, wasn't it? I'm afraid it'll be costing me rather more to see Blackpool at Wembley this coming Saturday. Mind you, plenty more notice given for the Newton Abbot section's trip to Clovelly in July. A Devon Derby Dance at the 400? Those were the days.... Interesting to see those "amateur matches" in the fixture list - Wycombe v Wimbledon amongst them. And, as for Hugh Cameron, just the two league appearances for Newcastle before he moved on to Bury. Come on Blackpool and Ollie!! please shut all these Cardiff fans up that live and work around me. The valleys will be very quiet next Saturday, brill |
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Post by merse on May 17, 2010 22:12:33 GMT
Interesting to see those "amateur matches" in the fixture list - Wycombe v Wimbledon amongst them.  Look down into the Spartan League for Yiewsley and tell me what historic feat they performed in the history of Torquay United, and Briggs Sports and what historic event took part on their ground only yesterday? Of particular interest to me are four clubs within a stone's throw of where I now live........................in the Isthmian League there are Tufnell Park FC (the very nearest) and in the Southern Amateur League, Alexandra Park, Winchmore Hill and the wonderfully named and still in existence Crouch End Vampires.......................I bet their goalie is scared of crosses!  Alexandra Park and Crouch End (where they still do) actually played at "The Banjo"......................now who knows just why that ground has that name? |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2010 9:07:04 GMT
Look down into the Spartan League for Yiewsley and tell me what historic feat they performed in the history of Torquay United, and Briggs Sports and what historic event took part on their ground only yesterday? Yiewsley became Hillingdon Borough who dumped us out of the FA Cup in 1976 and Briggs Sports once played at what is now the home of Dagenham & Redbridge. Bideford will be playing in the Southern League next season and Tiverton been reprieved to remain in the Southern Premier. The new Chester club will be starting in the NW Counties League (parallel to the Western League) and Grays haven't been accepted by the Isthmian and apparently haven't applied to the Essex Senior at the step below (an appeal expected). Allocations for the more senior leagues at www.thefa.com/Leagues/NewsAndFeatures/2010/~/media/Files/PDF/Leagues/ClubAllocations%202010_2011%20MASTER.ashx/ClubAllocations%202010_2011%20MASTER.pdf |
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Post by merse on May 18, 2010 9:45:07 GMT
Yiewsley became Hillingdon Borough who dumped us out of the FA Cup in 1976 and Briggs Sports once played at what is now the home of Dagenham & Redbridge. Well done that man as Foggy Dewhirst would say................. Hillingdon Borough were in fact the first ever "non league" club to win an FA Cup tie at Plainmoor since the Gulls entered the Football League; and as I've alluded to many times before that disaster came at the end of my very first week on the Plainmoor pay roll and culminated in manager Malcolm Musgrove losing his job on the Monday morning ! As for Ally Pally.......................I'm in the process of researching that wonderful place for my blog and can now confirm my assertion that Crouch End Vampires play at what I mistakenly called "The Banjo" is incorrect ~ they have their own ground at Coppetts Road, Muswell Hill N10, just off the North Circular. Alexandra Park FC play at "The Frying Pan", so called because it was the loop of the old Alexandra Park Racecourse in which all races over 5 furlongs involved a run up the straight, around the loop once or twice even; then back down the straight in the opposite direction and the winning post....................rather like a smaller version of Hamilton Park and Salisbury Racecourses. When I saw a Vampires game in process at The Frying Pan, I mistakenly assumed they were the home side rather than the visiting team ~ and it was a youth game! |
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Post by merse on May 26, 2010 8:48:44 GMT
Crouch End Vampires.......................I bet their goalie is scared of crosses! [/i] [/quote] The Vampires included 65 year old keeper Doug Thorburn for their eighth eleven fixture with local rivals Alexandra Park sixths recently whose own keeper was 64 year old Bryan King. Unfortunately, the Vamps only arrived with eight players and lost 19-0. With the Alex keeper only getting three touches of the ball in the first seventy minutes, his team decided to "allow him his freedom" and he went on to frequently moved up field and scored one for himself from the penalty spot! Who said Neville Southall was "old" when he payed for us? |
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