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RYMAN LEAGUE
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CONTENTS ISSUE 17
04 - CHAIRMAN’S NOTES 14 - THE OPPOSITION THAMESMEAD TOWN FC Sporting Club Thamesmead Bayliss Avenue, Thamesmead, London, SE28 8NJ Tel : 0208 311 4211 Company Number : 03915330 KEY PERSONNEL Hon Patron - Rt Hon Teresa Pearce MP Life President - Albert Panting Honorary Vice-Presidents - Alan Martin, Peter Tiernay, Eddie McCann, Gareth Connaleigh, Alan Woodward, Keith McMahon & Terry Hill Chairman & Club Owner - Paul Bowden-Brown Directors - Paul Bowden-Brown & Kai Isaksen Club Secretary - Dave Joy Marketing & Communications - Mike Green Boardroom Hospitality - Sue Dingwall Football In The Community Officer - Steve Rous Press Officer - Mike Green Turnstile Operations - Keith Jones Club Photographer - Richard Brooks
FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT Director of Football - Ian Docker First-Team Manager- Tommy Warrilow First-Team Assistant Manager - Alex O’Brien First-Team Physiotherapist - Carly Payne First-Team Coach - Craig Gibson Academy Manager - Ian Docker Under 21 Manager - Gary Ryan
MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Editors - Jamie Barwick & Mike Green Designer - Jamie Barwick Email: jamie_barwick363@yahoo.co.uk Print - Darenth Print and Design
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30 - MEAD MATTERS 35 - CLUB STATS 36 - FIXTURES & RESULTS After hopefully having your fix of turkey, the Queen, Doctor Who, Eastenders and Strictly yesterday, welcome to the “proper” start of Christmas – Boxing Day football! Welcome to Bayliss Avenue for our first part of our festive programme against our friends and neighbours from Phoenix. In today’s Mead, we have some festive fun with Tommy and look at the days when football was
actually played on Christmas Day itself as well as all the regular columns from Carly, Dave, Gary and Ian as well as the latest from the Gaffer and the Chairman’s office. Enjoy the game today and may we wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR – see you in 2017! Cheers Greenie
RYMAN LEAGUE STATEMENT The Ryman Football League is committed to eliminate discrimination whether by reason of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sex and sexual orientation.
The League is also committed to promoting equality by treating people fairly and with respect, by recognising that inequalities may exist, by taking steps to address them and providing access and opportunities for all members of the community. THAMESMEAD TOWN The Official Matchday Programme
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Paul
BOWDEN-BROWN May I welcome the officials, players and supporters of Phoenix FC our local neighbours, on this cold Boxing Day afternoon, and after some warm hospitality and maybe a nice mince pie and hopefully an enjoyable game they all have a safe short return journey home. May I also personally, once again, take this opportunity to welcome all those local resident’s that have decided to join us as new supporters through our season ticket initiative this season. I know that the benefit of the £30.00 season ticket for four has made a lot of difference to the families that are involved at this time with this initiative, and I hope during the next few weeks we have more families join us and become new supporters. Also may I thank all the schools that have joined the Passport Scheme that allows all persons under the age of 14 to come to a match free of charge as long as they are accompanied by an elder who is only charged the concession price. Finally also to all the schools that have arranged to visit the club during
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the season, the club allow them on free as we feel that the children may go home and tell their parents how much they enjoyed the experience, but whatever scheme you are involved in you are very welcome to SCT as the club’s guest. As most of you will know I have not been around for the last few weeks due to my ill health I have been suffering from bronchitis with a little bit of pleurisy thrown in to make things interesting. But I’m now well on the road to recovery and, while I have not passed my medical to join you this afternoon, hopefully I will be able to join you all when we visit Tilbury on the 31st. Since I last wrote my programme notes at the beginning of December we have had a great run of results, and to be honest I am very pleased for Tommy and his squad of players. It has proved that my unconditional support for them during the previous difficult few months has been fully rewarded, by the club rising up the league. I know personally the effort and hard
work that my management team have been putting into getting it right on the field all those hard training sessions and all this hard work is now paying off. I can remember when we were sitting at the bottom of the league people around me stating I should bite the bullet and just admit I had made a mistake bringing Tommy to the club, but no I had faith in my own convictions. As I have said before you do not become a bad player overnight and the same goes for a manager and, as I have said on numerous occasions, I feel I have the best non-league manager in Tommy at this club, and I feel my loyalty and belief is paying dividends. Here we are at the end of December, we have played five months of football and had a good FA Cup run which earned a bit of money for the club, it all helps. For those that have been reading my programme notes this season will know that this is the last season that we shall be playing at SCT,
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this decision is mainly based on the inability of SCT being able to accommodate our training needs for both the first-team and the Under-21s.
benefits the club were offered and given when we first moved into these fantastic facilities being removed. I felt, at times, people forget that the football club was here long before the SCT, and as I have said many times, in my opinion, I feel that the club in those early days allowed decisions to be made that in the long term has found us where we are today moving from the SCT.
But the other part of my decision was the inability of the club being able to agree a long-term strategy that both parties could work to within a reasonable financial figure. I wanted to have the club playing at SCT for the next 10 years, but this was not part of the new strategy of the Peabody Group and my requests fell on deaf ears, they seem to have other ideas on how they can use the facilities at the SCT more beneficially without the involvement of our club. Therefore I have had to look for a new home for the club and too this end I think I have found one. I have reached the legal process of putting my money where my mouth is and a proposed ground share agreement has been given to the Ryman League for their approval. Once this is done and the document is signed by all parties I will advise you all were I have decided will be the club’s new home for the next five seasons. It has been a long slog for me because I knew the alternative for the club was to let it die, but as I gave my word when I took over the financial responsibilities of this club, I would do all I can to ensure it continue to operate. I know a few of the older generation and members of the old committee have suggested to me that they would fully understand if I left the club to die, but I have not taken the club over to lose this battle now, so I ignored those around me sometimes annoying individuals, but I feel whether I am right or wrong as long as I am the one putting the money in I should be the one making the decisions and sometimes I will not
In my opinion moving to the SCT was not the correct decision that was made especially without some formal agreement in place by those in charge of the club at that time, other than 1 year licences.
seek advice from others. Unfortunately this club is run as a business and a limited company so the Directors are responsible for the legal running of the club. I know of course I will be known as the Chairman that took Thamesmead out of Thamesmead, but the alternative is quite clear for all to see by going to company’s house and reading the accounts. Therefore, I have no regrets of what I have done, as I believe it will be a new beginning for the club and Tommy and his management are ready for the challenge and I hope you will support me and continue to follow the club. Finally, I have just been advised that Mick Hayes, the Trust Thamesmead old CEO, is leaving the Trust after 12 ½ years this Christmas. I first met Mick when I joined the club in 2012, and since then he has always been a dear friend to the club. Yes, we have disagreed on many issues but only due to his budgets being reassessed resulting in many of the
Anyway Mick and his staff have worked tirelessly with me since 2012 and especially on a financial basis he was very eager to assist me in complying with Peabody’s cash flow policy’s. I therefore would like to thank Mick personally in print for his support, and make him an offer, that he will always be a friend of the club and maybe in his part retirement he will find the time to join is on the terraces as he has done in the past, he was a true friend to me and I fully appreciate the efforts he personally took to ensure the club continued to play at SCT over the last 4 years. May I take this opportunity to wish all of you a very Happy New Year and I hope you will agree with me that 2017 will be a year for everyone to remember when the club was given a new lease of life something it certainly needs if it is to survive. Enjoy the match! Paul Bowden-Brown Chairman and Managing Director
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MANAGER’S NOTES
TOMMY
WARRILOW I would like to welcome our neighbours from Phoenix to Bayliss Avenue this Boxing Day afternoon, and I hope that you all had a good Christmas! We were obviously delighted to keep the winning run going in our last game nine days ago against Witham. We went in at half time two goals up and said they’d been good and bad in the performance because we’re expecting so much more from the boys now. We’ve told them that when we’re having a go at them now it’s not just possibly because they’re not playing well, it’s because we know how much
more we’ve got to give. And the Witham game was a classic example of that – 4-2 against a side who, on their day, can beat anyone and in the game before they came to us had got a good draw at Hornchurch. We really should have been out of sight as we gifted the two goals to them through individual errors and yet we had the character to go back and create the chances that we needed to where we could have scored four or five in the second half to keep the winning run going. I have been asked what I actually hoped for when I put in my notes against Great Wakering at the start of
the month and I said that we need a “big December”, and if I’m honest its exactly what we’ve done since that day. I’m not just saying it in hindsight – the Chairman will tell you, week in week out even when we were bottom of the league – I’m an honest fella and I know what I’ve seen; we’ve been alright this year. There’s an old saying someone once told me in football about rather being a lucky manager than a good manager. But I don’t think we’ve had a lot of luck in the first half of the season – don’t get me wrong we’ve been our own worst enemies at time, but we do
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create a lot of chances. We’ve turned quite a long way since pre-season here when everyone was worrying about us scoring goals to now talk about the chances that we’re creating. We’ve done it before – OB and I – we’ve been around the block and five wins on the bounce is fantastic, but it doesn’t win anything! We won’t get carried away and there’s no reason that we can’t take the form into the New Year. We did it in our little stint at Cray after finding our shape through some in’s and out’s and I think we’ve done the same here. I’ve told the boys if someone comes available better that’s football – but at the moment there’s no real need as there’s nothing that wrong with what we’re doing.
We’ve “just” got to make sure that we don’t make things hard for ourselves. This run honestly does not surprise me, and if anyone says “you’re bound to say that”, then they haven’t been listening to me or reading my notes all season! I know what I see – I’m happy with what we’re doing and I can’t see any reason why it can’t continue. Every game we’re playing at the moment is a difficult one to call for different reasons. I don’t care who we play – I’ve got a lot of friends at Phoenix and I’m so pleased with the way they’ve grown as a club over the past few years. But whether it’s them or VCD – I got no more pleasure in beating VCD than I did in winning against Witham – I want to win games. I’m expected a tough game – it is a local derby on
Boxing Day, which hopefully everyone will have come to join us to get some fresh air after enjoying their day yesterday. So it’s a completely different animal – all the game’s we’ve got are tough. Yet again that showed last week when Hornchurch only just edged out Wroxham – you’ve got to be respectful on who you’re playing, but if we can sort ourselves out and do what we do then there is no reason at all that this winning run can’t continue! Join us if you can in the Mead Bar after the game – and if you can’t and aren’t making the trip to Tilbury on Saturday, may I wish you and your family a very Happy (and safe) New Year! Tommy Warrilow First-Team Manager
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THE TREATMENT ROOM
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In her regular column, first-team physio Carly Payne brings us up to date with the current injury list...
Hello everyone, I hope that you all had a good Christmas. Five wins from five in December really has raised the spirits throughout the whole club – not that they were ever down even when we were bottom of the league.
hoping that he would have been able to join in with training last week when the Gaffer had the boys in on Tuesday and Thursday. Tom O’Connor was involved last time after suspension – he’s now back fully fit I’m glad to say.
last year, and they’ve promised me that after giving me a “santa” hat last time that they won’t use last year’s photo again. Let’s all get behind the lads against today and make it six wins in six. Enjoy the New Year everyone!
Injury wise Aaron Rhule missed out against Witham last week with an ankle problem, but I’m
Please look out for me at the Darts tomorrow night – I’ll have the same sign with me that I had
Carly Payne First-team Physio
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SECRETARY’S COLUMN
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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, may I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that your festive holiday is going well. This afternoon we welcome our close neighbours Phoenix Sports to SCT, I hope they enjoy their short stay with us. Last Saturday saw us chalk up another three valuable points, a solid 4-2 home win against Witham Town, we have now put 5 victories together back-to-back and this has made our league position definitely more healthier than a few
weeks ago! Today will see us involved in a very tough encounter, Phoenix have started the season really well, their manager Steve O’Boyle, who spent many seasons here as both player and manager of a very successful reserve side, has put together a very capable Ryman North side and as long as they can find a degree of consistency in the second half of the season I see no reason why they can’t get themselves into a play-off position. On New Year’s Eve we travel to play Tilbury, which is always a difficult
place to go and earn points. It has a 3 o’clock kick-off as does our New Year’s Day fixture on Monday 2nd January when we again travel through the Dartford Tunnel to play high flying Aveley, they are now managed by Thamesmead’s former manager Terry Spillane, but all said it will be two very tough matches. Enjoy today’s match and all the best for the New Year. Best wishes. Dave Joy Club Secretary
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THE OPPOSITION
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CLUB INFO
Nickname: Phoenix Founded: 1935 Chairman: Andrew Mortlock Manager: Steve O’Boyle Last Season: 14th Ground: Phoenix Sports Ground Capacity: 2,000
PHOENIX SPORTS
From being threatened with relegation to now being considered one of, if not the, form team in the division Thamesmead Town host Phoenix Sports on the back of five straight victories.
The Mead will no doubt want to make it six in succession, but must be on their guard against Phoenix who sit six places and ten points higher in the table. That said, the away side arrive at Bayliss Avenue with mixed form.
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After registering back-to-back wins over Brightlingsea Regent and Witham Town they fell short against Bowers & Pitsea in a 3-1 loss.
Last time out, they played out a 2-2 draw with Tilbury, but if they are to harbour any hopes of pushing for the play-offs they will have an eye on beating Thamesmead this afternoon. For the Mead they are riding the crest of a confidence wave, but with harder games on the horizon in Tilbury and Aveley, the Mead could do with another three-point haul.
CLUB HISTORY Phoenix Sports Club was formed in 1935 as St. Johns Welling which later changed its name to Lakeside. After the Second World War they reformed and renamed Phoenix as it was seen to be rising from the ashes of the previous two clubs amid the destruction of the blitz. After entering the Sidcup League, Kent Amateur League, and the Dartford League, the club settled in the Kent County Football League Division One West, finishing runners up twice in the 1950s, and once in the 70s. Due to financial difficulties we were forced to form a Limited Company and are now called PHOENIX SPORTS CLUB (1982) LTD. The club entered the Spartan League in 1986-87 and competed there for six seasons. They then returned to the Kent County League Division One West, winning the challenge cup in 1993-94. We won the league in 1999-2000, gaining promotion to the Premier Division, however after two relegations we ended up in Division Two West. We won Division Two West in 2004-05 and Division One West in 2007-08, regaining our Kent County League Premier Division status. In recent years we have seen a steady improvement in the standard of football played at Phoenix, especially after the introduction of our Saturday morning soccer academy for juniors and a new management team at our senior level. This resulting in the 1st team winning Div 2 of the Kent County Football League, The West Kent Challenge Shield, The Hospitals Charity Cup and the Kent Junior Cup in season 2004-2005.
Maintaining steady progress to win the Div 1 Championship and promotion to the Premier Division and also the West Kent Challenge Shield and the Hospitals Charity Cup again, followed by a win in the KCFA Intermediate Challenge Shield.
After 3 seasons in the Premier Division, the first team became founder members of the Kent Invicta League at step 6 of the National League System the highest level of football the club has ever played at. We went on to finish runners up, missing out by only two points to eventual champions Bly Spartans as well as reaching the League Cup Final, again losing out to Bly Spartans. This past season our 3rd senior team gained entry into the Kent County League, winning Reserve Division West and reaching the final of the KCFA Junior Cup group A and the Hospitals Charity Cup. We presently have a total of 38 teams at Phoenix, making us one of the biggest clubs in the area. Phoenix are also a FA Charter standard community club, the highest level of youth recognition from the Football Association. Unfortunately the 1st team and Reserve team Management both decided to resign for personal reasons at the end of season 2011-2012. After an exhaustive process we appointed Steve O’Boyle and Tony Beckingham as Joint 1st Team Managers, and John Hope as Manager for the Reserves assisted by Brian Magenis and John Barry. After a successful campaign and losing only 2 League games the 1st Team managed to win the Kent
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Invicta League Championship to gain promotion to the Kent League, which has been renamed as Southern Counties East Football League. After finishing in 6th place in our inaugural season, we have made some more ground improvements and have received confirmation of an F Grade. We aspired to a higher finish, hoping for maybe 4th spot, for the next season. We had a very good start to the season but unfortunately lost in our first ever appearance in the FA Cup. Losing on penalties after a replay. We then began an unbelievable run in both the League and FA Vase. The Vase journey was fantastic culminating in us reaching the 4th Round Proper, losing to the eventual winners North Shields. In the League we managed to lose only 1 game all season and accumulating 30 clean sheets. Due to these performances we managed to win the League quite comfortably in the end. These achievements meant that we also had to work miracles off the pitch, but we eventually managed to get all the necessary works done in time to gain promotion to The Ryman League North Division. After a long 1st season, we managed to finish in 14th place of 24 teams. This can only be classed as a great result for the club. We now try to push on for another good season and hopefully a higher place finish, although we will not now be an unknown quantity.
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MATCH ACTION
4 THAMESMEAD TOWN P Vines (16), Teniola (29,53), Kinch (64)
2 WITHAM TOWN Green (48), Osei (59)
The Mead’s incredible December continued with a fifth win in fourteen days as Witham Town were beaten at Bayliss Avenue. Two up at half time through Paul Vines’ 16th goal of the season and Alex Teniola’s header, the Mead dominated the opening 45 minutes. And when Witham pulled one back shortly after the break, Alex’s cool finish for his second and the Mead’s third eased the nerves only for Osei to bundle home a second.
points to make it fifteen out of fifteen since December 1st!
undeserved lifeline when Green bundled the ball home.
Alex almost opened the scoring early on as his header (from Ellis’ corner) was cleared off the line. The same players then combined for Vinesy’s opener on 16 minutes – Ellis hit the bar and Alex’s shot was saved before following up Vinesy scored his fourth in three games since returning from injury.
The response though was magnificent and swift – Ellis’ great ball released Alex who raced clear and drilled the ball past the advancing. Witham then bundled a second when Osei scored.
The lead was doubled shortly after as Alex headed home superbly from a free-kick for his fifth goal of the season.
Skipper Kinchy then brilliantly steered home a header five minutes later to score the goal that ultimately sealed the
It could have been six before the break as Vinsey’s deflected ball into the middle fell to his strike partner who shot Thamesmead Town Line-Up wide. Substitutes 1. Tom Wellham 2. Harvey Brand 3. Nathan Simpson 4. Scott Kinch 5. Lewis Knight 6. Joe Vines 7. Ellis Green 8. Bode Anidugbe 9. Paul Vines 10. Alex Teniola 11. Jay Porter
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12. Tyrus Gordon-Young 13. Ike Feehi 14. Michael Ademiluyi 15. Tom O’Connor 16. Richard Butler
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The second half had barely started when the visitors got an unexpected and
Tom then made a stunning save to tip over the same player’s angled drive as the visitors looked to level the scores. It was a threat that didn’t last too long as just at the half’s midway point, the Mead skipper sealed the points, as he ghosted in to meet a corner an flash his header into the net. When he stated in his programme notes before the home game with Great Wakering that the Mead needed a good December, the Gaffer couldn’t even have dreamed of winning the next five games – could he?
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FOR SIXTEEN
As today is the Mead’s last home game of 2016, how much can you remember about the footballing year? Try our 16 questions on topics ranging from Euro 2016 to the Ryman League – good luck… 1. What unwanted record did John Sheridan receive in January from Newport County? 2. At the end of February who won the Capital One Cup at Wembley? 3. Johan Cruyff passed away in March aged 68, but which Spanish club did he both manage and play for? 4. Who won the Ryman League Division One South title in April?
Charity Shield?
11. In September who was the first managerial casualty of the 2016/17 season when Leyton Orient sacked their manager? 12. Who was sacked as MK Dons manager in October after six and a half years in charge?
5. And who won the Ryman League Division One North Play Offs in May?
13. In October, who scored England’s first goal with Gareth Southgate as “interim” manager?
6. Which Premier League striker scored the first goal of Euro 2016 in June?
14. Who were the opponents in Sam Allardyce’s only game on charge of England?
7. Did Iceland knock England out of Euro 2016 in June or July?
15. Who quit as Rotherham United manager at the end of November after just 39 days in charge?
8. Who did Wales beat in the Quarter Finals of Euro 2016? 9. Who contested August’s
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10. What was significant about the Mead’s entry into this season’s FA Cup in August?
16. Who won the Balon D’Or for the fourth time in December?
Answers on Mead Matters...
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ACADEMY MATTERS
ACADEMY MATTERS 2016/17 FIXTURES SEPTEMBER Wed 14 Crystal Palace FA OCTOBER Wed 5 Dulwich Hamlet Wed 12 Dartford Reds (LC) Wed 19 Charlton Athletic Trust NOVEMBER Wed 2 Dartford Reds Wed 16 Bromley Whites Wed 23 Phoenix Sports Wed 30 Millwall (Lions) DECEMBER Wed 14 Maidstone United (Blues) JANUARY 2017 Wed 11 Three Bridges Wed 18 Three Bridges Wed 25 Crystal Palace FA FEBRUARY Wed 1 Fulham (Sedgehill) Wed 8 Dulwich Hamlet MARCH Wed 1 Charlton Athletic Trust Wed 8 Dartford Reds Wed 15 Bromley Whites Wed 22 Phoenix Sports Wed 29 Millwall (Lions) APRIL Wed 26 Maidstone United (Blues)
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Good afternoon and here’s hoping everyone had a great Christmas Day and are now raring to go on this Boxing Day derby. Good luck to Tom and the boys and here’s hoping for another three well-earned points. Our academy lads finished off this year ten days ago away at Maidstone United and found themselves seven nil down at half time. Gary took the team and Tommy went down to watch. The lads started of slowly and were obviously nervous with the first-team manager being present, but after a few words of wisdom from the Gaffer and Gary, the lads “only” lost the second half 1-2; losing 1-9 at the
final whistle with Ryan Walters netting our goal. Hard lessons need to be learned and the sooner the lads realise that attitude is the key, then the quicker they will progress! In the New Year, I will be pushing Gary to now start bringing through our better players into training sessions with his Under-21s and making sure they get minutes on the field too. We must ensure we follow our pathway into the first team. Have a great Boxing Day and enjoy the match. Yours in sport. Ian Docker Academy Manager
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COMMUNITY SCHEME Community coaching comes to the Wolvercote Road Ball-court….
COACHING SESSIONS EVERY Thursday from 5:00pm
THAMESMEAD TOWN FC COMMUNITY SCHEME IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE METROPOLITAN POLICE LESNES ABBEY & THAMESMEAD EAST With thanks to Paul Bowden-Brown (Chairman TTFC) & Rt Hon Teresa Pearce MP
CHRISTMAS DAY FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL ON CHRISTMAS DAY?
For football fans, the Christmas period serves up a real festive feast, with fixtures stuffed into the calendar like sage and onion into a turkey’s nether regions. Christmas Day, however, is a football-free zone, with supporters left to sit indoors and endure the Queen’s speech, cracker jokes, and kisses from elderly relatives. This wasn’t always the case, as up until the 1950s, football was traditionally played on Christmas Day. The first Football League match to be played on Christmas Day 1889 and saw Champions Preston North End beat Aston Villa 3-2 in front of a crowd of 9,000.
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Clubs often played derby matches on Christmas Day, and one of football’s biggest early derbies was Blackburn Rovers versus Darwen. In 1890, a match between the sides at Ewood Park ended in a Christmas Day riot!
As the Football League expanded, clubs began to travel longer distances for Christmas Day matches. There was no public transport shutdown, so fans and players could take trains and buses for festive away trips.
CHRISTMAS DAY FOOTBALL
It was customary to play return matches on Christmas Day and Boxing Day against the same opponent, to ensure that paired-up teams had equal distances to travel. The most famous Christmas Day football match took place in 1914, when one of the deadliest conflicts in human history was paused for a kick-about. The First World War ‘Christmas Truce’ saw around 100,000 troops along the Western Front exchange gifts, sing carols, and play football. The match has attained mythical status, but letters from soldiers provide evidence that it did take place. A letter home described how it all started. “A German looked over the trench – no shots,” he wrote. “Our men did the same, and then a few of our men went out and brought the dead in (69) and buried them. The next thing, a football was kicked out of our trenches and Germans and English played football.”
Playing football on a religious holiday was a contentious issue at a time when Sunday football was still banned, and some footballers abstained from playing in Christmas Day matches. Participation was actually voluntary, with FA rules at the time stating that “no club shall be compelled to play any match on Good Friday or Christmas Day”. Indeed until 1925, Arsenal were prevented from playing Christmas Day matches at Highbury as the ground that the stadium was built on was owned by St John’s College of Divinity, and the terms of the club’s lease, playing matches was banned on religious holidays. One of the strangest Christmas Day stories came in 1937 from the game between Chelsea and Charlton at Stamford Bridge which went ahead despite thick fog in London. With the score at 1-1 in the second half the fog thickened and Charlton keeper Sam Bartram began to lose sight of his team-mates – there was a good reason; they weren’t on the pitch as the game had been
abandoned! Christmas Day 1957 was the last with a full league programme. The arrival of floodlights and evening games had removed the need for fixtures to be squeezed into public holidays, and many fans were preferring to stay at home with their families on Christmas Day. In those last matches, Blackpool beat Leicester 5-1, Manchester United beat Luton 3-0, and Sheffield Wednesday and Preston drew 4-4. Chelsea beat Portsmouth 7-4, with a 17-year-old called Jimmy Greaves scoring four – whatever happened to him? The last English League match played on Christmas Day was Blackpool versus Blackburn in 1965. A crowd of 21,000 turned up to see Blackpool win 4-2. A revival of Christmas Day matches was tried in 1983 but failed miserably. Brentford had arranged to play a Third Division game with Wimbledon at 11am on Christmas morning but after pressure the game was played on Christmas Eve instead!
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Q AND A WITH
TOMMY WARRILOW Over the course of the season, we ask the Gaffer some very serious questions putting his usual column together. But as its Christmas, we’ve had a bit of fun – and we thank Tommy for playing along – with these festive posers... THE MEAD - What’s your earliest Christmas football memory? TW - No real memories as in those day’s all the games were local derbies and have merged into each other.
would you give the side and why? TW - At the moment it’s a C+ as we haven’t got the results that our performances have deserved! THE MEAD - Who’s your Player of 2016? TW - There’s probably three that I can’t split – Bode Anidugbe, Jay Porter and Paul Vines. THE MEAD - Is there a player who’s really excited you this season?
THE MEAD - What’s your best Christmas football memory?
TW - Aaron Rhule when he’s running with the ball!
TW - All the good games that are played at Christmas.
THE MEAD - What do you hope your players had for Christmas dinner?
THE MEAD - And what’s your worst? TW - Haven’t had one - yet! THE MEAD - What’s the best or worst football based present you’ve ever been given or received? TW - Bah humbug! Never bought one or ever received one. THE MEAD - What do you think of Christmas football? TW - Nothing at all – absolutely love it! THE MEAD - If you were preparing a “Mid-term” School report on the Mead’s season so far, what grade
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TW - Salad! They’re very good with their diets and I was told that they were looking at salmon with lots of water with it!!! Now do I believe them, that’s the question? That said, I’m having Turkey with ALL the trimmings!!! THE MEAD - What’s your hope for football in general in 2017? TW - I really hope that more English players develop properly rather than becoming boring players and they come through with quality as I think the national team at the moment is so boring with no flair which if I’m honest doesn’t look as if
it’s been encouraged! And can we also get a few more characters in the game please… THE MEAD - If you could have asked the chairman to sign you one player as a Christmas gift, who would it have been and why? TW - Gareth Bale as let’s face it he is one of the best players in the world at the moment though what he’d think of Tilbury and Aveley away I’m not sure! THE MEAD - Finally your festive message for the Thamesmead fans? TW - I want us to break into the play-offs and whilst it’s been frustrating for everyone so far this season with your brilliant backing and help, I honestly think that it is definitely on!
THE UNDER-21S
THE
UNDER-21s Hello everyone and I hope you all had a good Christmas.
In our last game of 2016, we had a fantastic victory away to Harlow Town ten days ago. Despite having to travel on a Friday night, just for a change we arrived early and in extremely high spirits I have to add – the reason? We went through the Blackwall Tunnel rather than Dartford and the boys were singing something all the way – what I’m not too sure! Anyway despite the early arrival we didn’t start too well – partly because the Gaffer had asked us to play a different formation, but mainly because Harlow threw everything at us early on and we were a goal down before we really knew where we were. Having said that the new formation of playing three at the back did help in the respect that BOTH our usual full backs were out and didn’t play! Once we sorted things out we came in at the break 1-1 – George Jeffreys scored with his first touch. That said it, took George 30 minutes
to touch the ball and I was on the verge of pulling him off when he scored! The winning goal in stoppage time at the end showed how close the squad is as the bench cleared to celebrate sub Jack Godfrey’s goal – an inspired substitution they call that I think! Seriously, the first half of the season has gone really well. At the end of the day we are a reserve side who needs to play every week and that’s exactly what we’ve got this year in this league. As a result the first half of our season has been so much better than I could have ever hoped and we’ve now got players who are knocking on the Gaffers door to get into his first-team plans – I think that the boys are starting to realise now that they’re only one good game away from pulling on a first team shirt! Enjoy the game and a Happy New Year to you all!
2016/17 FIXTURES AUGUST Tue 30 AFC Sudbury SEPTEMBER Sat 10 Brightlingsea Regent Tue 27 Brentwood Town OCTOBER Tue 11 AFC Hornchurch Tue 25 Cray Wanderers NOVEMBER Thurs 3 Great Wakering Rovers Wed 16 Witham Town DECEMBER Thurs 1 AFC Sudbury Tue 6 Brightlingsea Regent Fri 16 Harlow Town Tue 20 Cheshunt JANUARY 2017 Wed 4 Harlow Town Thurs 12 Brentwood Town Tue 17 Billericay Town Thurs 26 AFC Hornchurch Tue 31 Haringey Borough FEBRUARY Mon 6 Cray Wanderers Tue 14 Great Wakering Rovers Sat 18 Tilbury Tue 28 Witham Town MARCH Mon 6 Haringey Borough
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THE PASSPORT OPPOSITION SCHEME
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The aim of the scheme is to invite ALL Primary School’s in Thamesmead and in the surrounding area to become a “School Partner”, and for all of their pupils to be offered the “Primary Passport” which will allow every holder FREE entry into any First team League game providing the holder is accompanied by an adult, who will be charged a reduced entrance fee of £5.00 as opposed to the “normal” Match day admission charge of £9.00.
BISHOP JOHN ROBINSON
The club will provide training sessions at the school within the school curriculum itself or separately, and every “School Partner” will then be invited to be the “School of the Day” at a first team home game of their choice. If you’d like your school to get involved, please get the appropriate person to contact MIKE GREEN at commercialttfc@ live.co.uk or on 07845 751319 to arrange a meeting…
WINDRUSH
We’re delighted to welcome two new schools into the scheme this afternoon – LESSNESS HEATH PRIMARY SCHOOL and WILLOWBANK PRIMARY SCHOOL – and with more school meetings already in the diary for the new term in January, will your school be next to join???
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TOTAL APPEARANCES 2016/17 PLAYERS
Alabi, Azeez Ademiluyi, Michael Anidugbe, Bode Ayoola, Rasheed Brand, Harvey Butler, Richard Coleman, Luke Danquan, Richie Denny, Joe Edwardes, Richard Efe, Jeremiah Everett, Ainsley Fakinos, Cesc Feehi, Ike French, Connor Gogic, Alexsandr Gordon-Young, Tyrus Green, Ellis James-Lewis, Merrick Kinch, Scott Knight, Lewis Koroma, Sam Lovell, Jake Mahoney, Jack McCarthy, Tyler Nanetti, Cristian O’Connor, Thomas Ovedele, Gus Ovenden, Max Oyinsan, Josh Porter, Jay Pyke, Levander Rhule, Aaron Simpson, Nathan Skates, Sam Smith, Leon Springett, Steve Stone, Adrian Teniola, Alex Vines, Joe Vines, Paul Walker, Andy Walker, Fraser Wellham, Tom Whiteley, Warren Williams, Jordan
LGE APPS
1 (5) 19 (3) 12 2 (2) 1 (3) 0 (2) 11 (1)
LGE GLS
10 (3) 13 (1) 6 12
7 25 0(1) 15 (3) 11 (7) 7 4 (1) 5 (3) 8 (2) 11 (4) 20 (2) 5 4 (1) 6 3
CUP GLS
1 3 1
0 (1) 1 (1) 3 (8) 1 (2) 1 3 (1) 13 (2) 2 (3) 17 15 (1)
CUP APPS
1 1 (5) 24 (6) 1 12 7 (4) 1 (6) 1 (2) 18 (1) 1 0 (1)
5 (3) 1 5 (2) 0 (3) 1 7 1
2
1 (2) 6 (1)
3
1 1
4 (2)
1
2 (1) 2 1 1 4 (1) 6 5 5 1 1
1
2
1 2 3
1
2
4 6 12
8 (1) 1 3 7 1 5 3 (5) 5 7 (2) 3 2 (2) 4 1
APPS
1 1
2
1
1
4
2 (3) 9 (9) 1 (2) 1 3 (1) 17 (4) 2 (3) 19 (1) 17 (1) 1 1 14 (4) 19 (1) 11 17 1 1 7 33 (1) 1 (1) 18 (3) 18 (7) 1 7 9 (1) 8 (8) 8 (2) 16 (4) 27 (4) 8 6 (3) 6 7 1
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RYMAN DIVISION ONE NORTH LEAGUE TABLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Maldon & Tiptree Thurrock Aveley Bowers & Pitsea Brightlingsea Regent Tilbury Cheshunt AFC Hornchurch Bury Town Haringey Borough Phoenix Sports Norwich United Witham Town VCD Athletic Soham Town Rangers Dereham Town Thamesmead Town Romford Ware Waltham Abbey Heybridge Swifts Brentwood Town Great Wakering Rovers Wroxham
P 26 26 26 24 22 26 26 25 25 26 27 24 27 26 25 26 25 24 25 26 24 26 26 25
W 17 15 13 13 13 12 11 10 12 12 11 12 9 9 9 8 9 7 7 7 6 7 6 4
D 3 4 7 5 4 7 9 11 5 4 7 2 7 6 5 7 3 8 5 5 6 3 3 4
L 6 7 6 6 5 7 6 4 8 10 9 10 11 11 11 11 13 9 13 14 12 17 17 17
F 60 46 50 50 51 39 46 37 40 57 41 35 44 29 39 34 43 30 39 35 33 34 27 24
A 27 21 39 33 33 32 40 22 34 44 45 31 46 39 39 43 46 45 48 46 43 54 58 55
GD +33 +25 +11 +17 +18 +7 +6 +15 +6 +13 +13 +4 -2 -10 0 -9 -3 -15 -9 -11 -10 -20 -31 -31
Pts 54 49 46 44 43 43 42 41 41 40 40 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 26 26 24 21 21 16
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FIXTURES & RESULTS DATE OPPOSITION AUGUST Sat 13 Heybridge Swifts Tue 16 Thurrock Sat 20 Guernsey (Kick-off 1:00pm) Tue 23 Guernsey Sat 27 Brentwood Town Mon 29 Aveley
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H A A H A H
COMP
R1N 2-1 85 R1N 2-1 84 FACP 2-2 1142 FACPR 1-1 (4-2p) 147 R1N 0-2 76 R1N 3-3 95
10 6 7 10
A Walker A Walker A Walker A Walker A Walker A Walker
F Walker F Walker F Walker Anidugbe F Walker < Simpson
Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Springett <
Kinch Kinch Kinch * Kinch * Fakinos * Kinch >
Knight Knight Knight Knight Knight J Vines
Springett* Denny Denny Denny Denny Denny
SEPTEMBER Sat 3 Chertsey Town Tue 6 Tilbury Sat 10 Bury Town Tue 13 Romford Sat 17 Hanwell Town Tue 20 Hanwell Town Sat 24 Great Wakering Rovers Tue 27 AFC Hornchurch
H H H H A H A A
FACP R1N R1N LC FACP FACPR R1N R1N
1-0 0-1 1-1 4-3 1-1 4-2 AET 1-2 1-3
78 112 87 47 146 84 81 85
12 12 20 21
McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy A Walker McCarthy McCarthy Walker * McCarthy
Simpson Simpson Simpson F Walker Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson
Porter Porter Porter Springett Porter Porter Porter Porter
Butler Butler Anidugbe Butler Butler * Butler * Anidugbe Anidugbe
Denny Denny < J Vines J Vines J Vines J Vines J Vines J Vines
Springett Springett Springett Denny * Springett Springett < Denny Denny *
OCTOBER Sat 1 Merstham Tues 4 Folkstone Invicta Sat 8 Corinthian Casuals Tue 11 Ware Sat 15 Dereham Town Tue 18 Thurrock Sat 22 Brightlingsea Regent Tue 25 Maldon & Tiptree
A A A A H H A A
FACP KSC1 FATP R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N
1-5 0-2 1-2 1-3 5-2 0-1 3-4 1-2
188 121 40 72 114 133 102
21 21 23 23 23
McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy
Simpson Butler Simpson Simpson Anidugbe Simpson Anidugbe Anidugbe
Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter
Anidugbe Danquan < Anidugbe Anidugbe Kinch * Kinch * Kinch > Kinch
J Vines Denny J Vines < Butler > J Vines Knight Denny Knight
Denny < Springett Mahoney Mahoney * Denny Denny Knight Denny
NOVEMBER Tue 1 Haringey Borough Sat 5 Wroxham Tue 8 Hanwell Town Sat 12 Witham Town Sat 19 Soham Town Rangers Tue 22 AFC Hornchurch Sat 26 Norwich United Mon 28 Haringey Borough
H H A A H H A A
R1N R1N LSC1 R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N
1-1 4-1 1-3 2-3 1-2 0-3 1-2 2-3
87 96 50 63 93 101 83
23 21 22 23 23 24 24
McCarthy McCarthy Ovenden Gogic McCarthy McCarthy Wellham Wellham
Brand Brand Lovell Brand Brand Brand Brand Brand
Porter Porter Alabi * Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter
Kinch Kinch Oyedele < Kinch Kinch * James-Lewis < Kinch James-Lewis
Kinght Knight Skates Knight Knight > Knight > J Vines J Vines *
Denny Smith Denny Smith Smith Smith Smith Smith
DECEMBER Sat 3 Great Wakering Rovers Tue 6 Waltham Abbey Sat 10 VCD Athletic Tue 13 Cheshunt Sat 17 Witham Town Mon 26 Phoenix Sports Sat 31 Tilbury
H A A A H H A
R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N
1-0 1-0 3-2 3-1 4-2
76 32 75 105 68
22 20 19 17 17
McCarthy Wellham Wellham Wellham Wellham
Brand Brand Brand Brand Brand
Porter Porter Porter Porter Simpson
Kinch < Kinch < Kinch Kinch * Kinch
Knight Knight Knight J Vines Knight
Smith J Vines J Vines Knight J Vines
JANUARY 2017 Mon 2 Aveley Sat 7 Bowers & Pitsea Wed 11 Romford Sat 14 Cheshunt Sat 21 Wroxham Tue 24 Norwich United Sat 28 Ware
A H A H A H H
R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N R1N
FEBRUARY Sat 4 Heybridge Swifts Sat 11 Brightlingsea Regent Sat 18 Dereham Town Sat 25 Romford
A H A H
R1N R1N R1N R1N
MARCH Sat 4 Soham Town Rangers Sat 11 VCD Athletic Sat 25 Maldon & Tiptree
A H H
R1N R1N R1N
APRIL Sat 1 Bury Town Sat 8 Bowers & Pitsea Sat 15 Waltham Abbey
A A H
R1N R1N R1N
Mon 17 Phoenix Sports
A
R1N
Sat 22
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Mahoney > Mahoney < Mahoney Mahoney > Anidugbe F Walker *
Nanetti Nanetti Anidugbe > Nanetti Coleman > Mahoney
P Vines P Vines P Vines < P Vines P Vines Nanetti
Stone < Stone * Nanetti Fakinos < Nanetti Stone 2
Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter Porter
Butler * Coleman < Fakinos * F Walker * Butler < Coleman <
Anidugbe < Anidugbe * 2 Coleman > Coleman > Mahoney * Fakinos >
Coleman >
Nanetti * Mahoney > Nanetti Anidugbe < Nanetti Nanetti Green Whiteley
Mahoney > Green O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor
P Vines P Vines P Vines > Feehi Feehi Feehi 2 Feehi < P Vines <
Stone < Nanetti Stone Ayoola > Stone < P Vines > Stone > Feehi
Green Rhule * Green * Rhule Whiteley Whiteley Whiteley Green
Fakinos * F Walker * Rhule * Green < P Vines < Anidugbe * McCarthy * Rhule *
F Walker < J Vines < Mahoney > Porter * Anidugbe * Green < P Vines < Stone <
Coleman Stone >
Whiteley Rhule Rhule Rhule < Rhule < Anidugbe Rhule Mahoney
O’Connor < O’Connor Green O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor
P Vines P Vines P Vines P Vines P Vines 2 P Vines P Vines P Vines
Feehi > Stone > Feehi > Oyinsan Oyinsan > Oyinsan Oyinsan < Oyinsan
Green Green Whiteley * Whiteley Mahoney Mahoney Mahoney Rhule
Butler * Anidugbe < Butler < Denny * Simpson < Feehi * Feehi <
Maloney < Feehi> Stone > Green < Feehi >
Stone >
Simpson >
Green Green < Pyke > Green < Green Anidugbe Anidugbe < Ademiluyi
Mahoney > Anidugbe Edwardes Anidugbe O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor O’Connor <
P Vines P Vines 3 * Feehi P Vines P Vines P Vines P Vines French >
Oyinsan * Oyinsan > Koroma Teniola * Teniola < Teniola * Teniola > Teniola
Rhule < Rhule Williams Rhule Anidugbe Rhule Rhule Rhule
Simpson < Mahoney < McGarrigle * J Vines < French < Ademiluyi < James-Lewis > Efe *
Levander * Efe > Quinn < Feehi * James-Lewis * J Vines > Ademiuyi < Anidugbe <
Green Green Green Green Green
Anidugbe Anidugbe Anidugbe Anidugbe Anidugbe
Tenoila Teniola > P Vines < P Vines 2 P Vines <
Feehi > Gordon-Young * Gordon-Young * Gordon-Young < Teniola 2 >
Rhule Rhule Rhule > Rhule > Porter
James-Lewis < Feehi < Simpson < Teniola Gordon-Young <
J Vines > P Vines > Ademiluyi > Ademiluyi * Feehi >
Stone < Stone < Stone > Green *
P Vines Stone > Rhule >
Kinch * Feehi > Danquan *
Danquan > Simpson * Odukoya > Ademiluyi > French * Knight >
Simpson * Teniola * Simpson >
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AWAY DAYS
AWAY DAYS
Follow the Mead on the road with this handy guide to the grounds up and down the country. Every week weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll highlight our next away trip for the travelling Mead Army...
AWAY
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AFC HORNCHURCH
GREAT WAKERING
THURROCK
Bridge Avenue Hornchurch RM14 2LX
Wakering Hall Lane GT Wakering SS3 0HH
Ship Lane Thurrock RM19 1YN
AVELEY
HARINGEY BOROUGH
TILBURY
Mill Field Stadium Mill Road Aveley RM15 4SJ
Coles Park White Hart Lane N17 7JP
Chadfields St Chads Road RM18 8NL
BOWERS & PITSEA
HEYBRIDGE SWIFTS
VCD ATHLETIC
Len Salmon Stadium Crown Avenue SS13 2BE
The Texo Stadium Scraley Road Heybridge CM9 8JA
Old Road Crayford DA1 4DN
BRENTWOOD TOWN
MALDON & TIPTREE
WALTHAM ABBEY
The Brentwood Centre Doddinghurst Road CM15 9NN
Park Drive Maldon CM9 5JQ
Capershotts Sewardstone Road Waltham Abbey EN19 1NX
BRIGHTLINGSEA REGENT
NORWICH UNITED
WARE
North Road Brightlingsea CO7 0PL
Plantation Park Blofield NR13 4PL
Wodson Park Wadesmill Road SG12 0UQ
BURY TOWN
PHOENIX SPORTS
WITHAM TOWN
Ram Meadow Cotton Lane Bury IP33 1XP
The Mayplace Ground Maylace Road East DA7 6JT
The Village Glass Stadium Spa Road Witham CM8 1UN
CHESHUNT
ROMFORD
WROXHAM
The Stadium Theobalds Lane Cheshunt EN8 8RU
Ship Lane Thurrock RM19 1YN
Trafford Park Skinners Lane Wroxham NR12 8SJ
DEREHAM TOWN
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Norwich Road Dereham NR20 3PX
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