ROYSTON TOWN vs LEAMINGTON - MATCHDAY PROGRAMME - Saturday 30th SEPTEMBER 2023

ROYSTON TOWN VS

LEAMINGTON

3PM, SATURDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2023

MATCH SPONSOR:

DAVID BATEMAN

Saturday 30th September 2023

Kick Off: 3pm

Royston Town FC would like to welcome today's opponents Leamington FC for their first ever visit to Garden Walk for this Pitching In Southern Football League Premier Division Central fixture.

We wish their Players, Officials and Supporters an enjoyable afternoon and hope that the match will be a keenly contested and entertaining game.

We also welcome today’s Match Officials and hope they too have an enjoyable game.

BATEMAN DAVID BATEMAN

TODAY’S MATCH IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY DAVID

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CLUB HONOURS

WINNERS

Herts County League (Div I) 1969-70, 1972-73

Herts County League (Premier Div) 1976-1977

South Midlands League (Div I) 1977-1978

South Midlands Reserve League (Div II) 1978-1979

South Midlands Reserve League (Div I) 1979-1980

North Herts (Div IV) League Cup, 1978-79, 1979-1980

Herts Charity Shield, 1981-82, 1989-90, 1996-1997

Herts Intermediate Cup, 1988-1989

Chiltern Youth League (Div I) 1989-1990

South Combinations Reserve Floodlight Cup, 1992-1993

Chiltern Youth League Cup, 1992-1993

South Midlands Challenge Trophy, 1995-1996

Eastern Region Women’s League (Div II) 1998-1999

Eastern Counties Youth League Cup, 2001-2002

South Midlands Reserve Challenge Cup 2004-2005

KB Tyres Division III Champions 2006-2007

South Midlands League (Div I) 2008-2009

South Midlands League Cup (Div I) 2008-2009

South Midlands Floodlit Cup 1994-1995 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012

South Midlands Reserve League (Div II East) 2008-2009

South Midlands Reserve Challenge Cup 2008-2009

KB Tyres Division I League Cup 2009-2010

South Midlands Reserve Floodlit Cup 2009-2010

BIS Cambs League Division 2A 2010/2011

BIS Cambs League Divisional Champions 2010/2011

Veterans Cambridgeshire Invitation Cup 2010/2011

South Midlands Premier League 2011/2012

South Midlands Premier League Cup 2011/2012

Suburban League North Division 2012/2013, 2013/2014

Joint Winners of the Hinchingbrooke Cup 2013

Eastern Region Women’s League Plate 2013/2014, 2014/15

Suburban Premier League 2015-16

Eastern Region Women’s League Division 1 West 2015/16

Southern League Div 1 Central 2016/17

Southern League Challenge Cup 2021/22

RUNNERS UP

South Midlands Challenge Cup, 1978-1979

Herts Charity Shield, 1978-79, 1998-99, 2004-05, 2008-2009

South Midlands League (Premier Div) 1979-1980

North Herts (Div IV) 1979-1980

North Herts (Div III) 1981-1982

North Herts (Div II) 1982-1983

South Midlands Res Section Trophy, 1982-1983

Chiltern Youth League Cup, 1986-87, 1988-1989

Herts Intermediate Cup, 1989-1990

Herts County Youth Cup, 1992-1993

North Herts (Div I), 1993-1994

South Midlands Floodlit Cup, 1995-1996

Herts F A Women’s Cup, 1998-99, 2001-2002 2013/14

Eastern Region Women’s League (Div I) 1999-2000, 2013/2014 2014/15

Eastern Junior Plate, 2001-2002

KB Tyres Division I 2008-2009, 2009-2010

South Midlands Reserve Challenge Trophy 2009-2010

South Midlands Reserves Floodlit Cup 2010/2011

Hertfordshire Women’s County Cup 2013/2014

Eastern Region Women’s League, League Cup 2014/15

Southern League Division 1 Central 2014/15 2015/16

Royston Town Women 0 Needham Market Women 2

SCORES ON THE DOORS!

LEAGUE TABLE

PITCHING IN SOUTHERN LEAGUE

PREMIER CENTRAL DIVISION

MENTION

‘FA Cup fairytales’ and your minds naturally think back to the magic produced on the field over the years; Wimbledon’s historic win in ’88, Luton Town beating Premier League Norwich on the road, or Lincoln City’s run to the quarter-finals in 2016-17 But every year The NLP takes great delight in revealing the stories the fans don’t see that the FA Cup never fails to conjure up This week we met three more unsung cup heroes who have their own particular reason to be glued to the action

James Connor was cruelly denied a chance of fulfilling an FA Cup dream as a player. He had turned heads as a teenage midfielder at Aldershot when the club were liquidated in the early 90s. Labelled one of London’s top young talents at the time, Mick McCarthy swooped to offer him a 5-year deal at Millwall, but just 10 games into his fledgling career, a knee injury forced him to hang up his boots and set his sights on a different career at just 22.

These days, Connor runs his own successful wealth management firm and, through choice, has had no dealings with football – until recently. After agreeing to run his son ’ s U9s at Hanworth Villa, Connor rediscovered his love for the game and is now back in the hotseat having taken over the chairmanship of the Isthmian League South Central club from his Dad Jim, who founded the Villains back in 1976. This weekend, Connor turns their attentions to the FA Cup where victory at Horsham this afternoon will see them reach the fourth qualifying round for only the second time in the club’s history.

“To be honest, I was never a huge football fan and never really understood the mentality of a football fan, until now, ” he told us “I’ve been back in football now for two years and I’m loving every minute of it The Non-League scene is such an exciting place to be It’s where it’s at When we played Hythe Town in the first qualifying road, we took the kids swimming in the sea Those are the stories to the ‘Road to Wembley’ that supporters of the bigger clubs don’t see We’ve got a really tough game to come against Horsham and we’ll be playing as the underdog But giant-killings do happen in the FA Cup, it’s what makes it such a special competition, so we ’ re just really looking forward to it ”

Someone far more used to the thrills and spills of a cup campaign is Paul Carden He returns to the scene of his greatest triumph when he takes Nantwich Town to face his old club Chester Dabbers boss Carden, 44, spent five years at the Deva during his days as an all-action midfielder Relegated from the Football League shortly after joining the club in 2000, Carden briefly joined Doncaster but returned within months and in 2003-04 captained the Blues to the Conference title

“I’ve got a lot of brilliant memories of Chester but that was the highlight,” says Carden, whose Nantwich side saw off Shifnal Town, Liversedge and Step 2 Banbury United en route to the Chester clash. “But are we a banana skin for Chester? Do they get complacent thinking, ‘It’s a night game, we ’ re at home to a side a couple of leagues below’. “Who knows? “We’ve just got to hope the stars align.”

The last remaining Step 5 side left in the draw are Emley AFC – and there’s plenty of cup magic around the Welfare Ground too. Andrew Painten went to watch Emley for the first time with his dad as a boy, and often asked when they could go back. Now, as chairman, he hopes his own son is savouring the moment – just like he did – with the West Yorkshire outfit on the up again.

“I’ve been a fan for long enough to recall we ’ ve often been the bridesmaid, never a bride,” Painten said of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division side. I reckon we might just now be ready to get our glad rags on. ”

The Pewits’ best FA Cup run for more than 20 years is inspired in part by wanting to make the most of a second chance after they were reinstated when Avro, their conquerors in the extra preliminary round, were removed from the competition as punishment fielding an ineligible player. This week, they make the trip to National League North side Alfreton Town – a team ranked 70 places higher than them in the Pyramid

but boss Richard Tracey won’t be daunted after eliminating two higher-ranked foes to reach this stage

Painten said: “We’ve done it the hard way after being drawn away each time since coming back in It’s a big ask to win the next one – just look at the league tables – but football has a funny way of defying what you think will happen ”

TWO NEW CROWS! TWO NEW CROWS!

WHO'S WHO OF THE CROWS

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