Stowmarket Town vs Barking FC by Stowmarket Town Football Club

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SATURDAY 2ND APRIL // ISTHMIAN LEAGUE - NORTH DIVISION

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GAMEDAY SAT 2ND APRIL / ISTHMIAN LEAGUE - NORTH DIVISION

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CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: Neil Sharp

Stowmarket Community Sports and Social Club CIC Bury Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1JQ 01449 612533

DIRECTORS: Nigel Jarvis, Stuart Loftus, Neil

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Sharp, Michael Prentice (Director adult football) John Griffin ( FA grading infrastructure) Vicki Theobald (company secretary) Delwyn Prentice (commercial) MANAGER: Paul Musgrove ASSISTANT MANAGER: Richard Wilkins

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GOALKEEPING COACH: Paul Walker

Eastern Counties League First Division Winners: 2016-17 Suffolk Premier Cup Winners:

PHYSIO: Mark Blenkinsop KIT MANAGER: Doug French RESERVES JOINT MANAGERS:

1962-63, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1990-91

Craig Brown

Suffolk Senior Cup Winners: 1930-31, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1957-58, 1961-62, 1964-65, 2006-07

UNDER-18’S MANAGER: Liam Hawkins

Suffolk Junior Cup Winners: 1907-08 Essex & Suffolk Border League Winners: 1950-51 Essex & Suffolk Border League Cup Winners: 1950-51, 1951-52, 1970-71, 1991-92, 1994-95

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UNDER-18’S ASSISTANT MANAGER: Ellis Smith and William Wharton-Richardson YOUTH CHAIRMAN: Kevin Blundell

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WORDS FROM THE MANAGER

PAUL MUSGROVE

WE ARE BACK AGAIN AT THE HOME OF NONLEAGUE FOOTBALL

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We welcome you all to Greens Meadow this afternoon. We extend this to the players, staff and committee of Barking. It seems ages ago since our last home game. We are glad to be back. Injuries continue to hamper our back line. Joe Jefford is a long term doubt with an ankle injury. Tom Bullard should be back in the next week. We know how good these two have been for us this season. Tev Allen is still out with his knee injury and is making progress but his is slow and needs to be monitored through Mark our physio and Russ the S&C coach. Our last two games have been a whirl wind of emotions and that’s what football can do to you in the space of three days. Aveley if we had a draw it would have been a fair result. However the gods weren’t looking down on us and we lost. Over the course of a season you get the rough with the smooth decision wise. We move on and the boy we do it in stye on a cold Wednesday night. The Premier Cup is something as management team and team we wanted to win this season and credit to the lads they us all very proud. If you haven’t noticed or unaware ground improvements are in progress to get the ground grading required to stay at step 4 or move onto step 3. If anyone reading these notes can help in anyway please contact the club via Twitter or the club website.

We all need to remember where we are at and where we have been and stay grounded. It’s tough because over the last five years we have had more ups than downs so we when we don’t perform at all of our high standards it feels like a loss. We have no god given right to think any game will be easy. With 7 games to go in the league. 4 of these are at home. Sing your hearts our, bang the drum and cheer in the lads as it makes such a huge huge difference. I hope we all push together to see how far we can go. Please keep showing your continued support for the whole club and teams as its massive to us all on match days. Muzzy

STOW TOWN 3 LEISTON FC 0 WEDNESDAY 30TH MARACH 2022 SUFFOLK PREMIER CUP Match Report: Iain van der Ree

STOWMARKET PUT ON AN IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE TO REACH THE FINAL OF THE SUFFOLK PREMIER CUP. The Old Gold and Blacks emphatically put aside the disappointment of the weekend’s defeat at Aveley as they took on higher league Leiston at Bloomfields in the Suffolk Premier Cup semi-final on Wednesday night. The Stowmarket fans amongst the 347 in attendance provided the non-stop cup atmosphere that visibly lifted Paul Musgrove’s players who repaid the exuberant support with high quality entertaining football. Stow looked comfortable from the kick off and played with purpose as both sides looked for the opener which came in the 31st minute when Sam Donkin in the Leiston goal mishit his clearance to Reggie Lambe who passed to Luke Brown only for Ollie Saunders to intercept and put the ball past the on-rushing Donkin for an own goal, which only served to increase the noise from the travelling Stow supporters by a couple of decibels. The second half saw the Blues pressing and James Bradbrook getting a hand to a decent strike from Will Davies. However, it was going to be a night to forget for Leiston’s central defenders as Lambe sent in a pass to Brown which bounced in the air and former Stowmarket player Seb Dunbar being adjudged to have handled the ball in the box, just as Josh Mayhew was waiting to come on for Luke Brown. The confident and ever reliable Mayhew sending the keeper the wrong way with his first kick of the game 15 minutes from time. Mayhew added his second a minute from time to seal the victory for Stowmarket as he sidefooted into the net as Donkin could only parry a hard hit Chris Casement strike. Stowmarket Town will play in their first Turners Hyundai Suffolk Premier Cup Final for 25 years on Thursday 21st April at Colchester United against either Needham Market or Kirkley and Pakefield who play their semi-final on the 12th of April. Stowmarket Town Ollie Saunders 31’ (OG) Josh Mayhew 75’ (Pen), 89’ Attendance 347

MATCH PHOTOS

OLLIE BROWN SP ON SOR E D BY W.GOODE R M A N G A S S E R VIC E S

BARKING PLAYERS JAMES SHAW EDDIE ALLAN OLIVER PAIN JAMES FOLKES BARNEY WILLIAMS JAY LEADER ELLIOT OMOZUSI LOUIS DILLON PETER OJEMEN JACOB ADEYEMI OLUMIDE OLUWATIMILEHIN JESS NOREY FLAVIO JUMO KIERAN JONES TOM SALTER DANIEL MCCULLOCK OSARETIN OTOTE GEORGE PURCELL CHARLIE MACDONALD CHARLIE HEATLEY

HISTORY We continue our footballing journey in the Isthmian League after our return in 2017 following a gap of 13 seasons. Our renaissance started when Mick O’Shea and Rob O’Brien took us into third place in the Essex Senior League in 2014/15 and the winning the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy. This progress was maintained in 2016/17 when Glen Golby and Steve Willis led us to win the Essex Senior League championship and promotion back to the Isthmian League. Our present manager Justin Gardner took us to tenth place in 2017/18, thus justifying our promotion and our highest finish since 2005/06..

17 EARLY DAYS The ancient abbey town and fishing port of Barking has been represented by a football team since at least 1880 and we are the longest established football club borough of Barking and Dagenham. Barking’s colours of Royal Blue are said to originate from the Short Blue fishing fleet which plied the oceans from Barking Creek for many years and supplied London with fish. In 1880 the Barking Rovers club was formed, playing on Eastbury Field, and is known to have existed until at least 1890. The Vicarage Field ground was opened in 1884 with a match against IIford which Rovers won 2-0 but in 1889 Barking Rovers were accused of damaging the Vicarage Field cricket pitch and were forced to return to Eastbury Field. Barking Woodville from Forest Gate became known as Barking Woodville and moved to the Vicarage Field in 1896 and appear to have disbanded in 1900 when the Vicarage Field lease expired. The Vicarage Field was then occupied by Barking Institute, formed in at least 1896 as Barking Working Lads’ Institute, as the local Church Institute were involved in running it with the name being changed to Barking Institute. Barking Institute’s name changed to Barking in 1902. The name was changed again to Barking Town from 1919 to 1932, reverting to Barking until 2001 when changed again to Barking and East Ham United for five seasons. The club progressed to the South Essex League from 1900/01 and the London League from 1909/10, playing in both for several seasons (leagues were smaller in those days). In 1912 their application to join the Isthmian League was rejected but they had been founder members of the Athenian League in 1911, resigning after only two matches, having been fined for not fielding the strongest possible team, and not rejoining until 1923. During the Second World War matches in the South Essex Combination were played at the Merry Fiddlers Ground, Dagenham as the Vicarage Field was converted to an anti-aircraft site and all matches in 1945/46 were played away.

ISTHMIAN LEAGUE YEARS Barking were invited to join the Isthmian League in 1952 and in 1978/79 under Eddie McCluskey won the championship and were named FA Non-League team of the year. Floodlights were installed at the Vicarage Field in 1958 and Barking was the first club to play an Isthmian League match under its own lights. In 1973 Barking were required to leave the Vicarage Field by the council and were leased the present ground. In June 1990 the Isthmian league’s ground grading committee deemed that Mayesbrook Park was unfit for Premier division football and at the league’s AGM there was a vote whether or not to relegate Barking which was won by eight votes. However, this was a temporary reprieve as in the next season after 39 years at Premier Division level, the club suffered the first relegation in its history and in 1996 relegated to Division 2. Promotion back to Division 1 was won in 2000/01. Following restructuring Barking played in the Southern League Division 1 East in 2004/05 and 2005/06, reaching the play offs in both seasons. In 2007, following the tragic death of chairman Peter Webster in late 2004 and the subsequent liquidation of the parent company, the club was demoted to the Essex Senior League in 2006. THE PROFESSIONAL GAME Over 40 Barking players have gone on to the professional ranks and the most recently famous old boys are in no particular order: Kevin Hitchcock, Darren Purse, Lamar Reynolds, Jack Leslie (probably Barking’s first black player), James Dillimore (Millwall), Harold Halse, Len Casey, Peter Carey, Mark Lazarus, Laurie Abrahams. George Shalders , Joe Hawkins and Jack Tresarden (West Ham United and capped in 1923) who played for “The Hammers” in the first Wembley cup final in 1923.

18 OUR BOBBY Our most famous ex player is of course Bobby Moore, the West Ham United and World Cup winning England captain. He never played for our first team but research supported by the memories of our late president, Ron Debenham, has indicated that he played for our A (third/ youth) team before being signed by West ham at a young age. The programme for a charity match in 1969 played at the Vicarage Field states Bobby “decided to play on the pitch where he had previously appeared as a member of Barking’s ‘A’ team”. This was corroborated in 2015 by former Barking player Alan Batten, who played alongside Bobby in our A team in 1954/55 which was subsequently wound up and Bobby moved on to West Ham United. Bobby’s parents had been active members of Barking FC Supporters’ Club and organised the transport, comprising fleets of coaches and even a special train in those days, to away matches. FOR THE RECORD Among the club records is an unbeaten run of 17 games in 1968/69 which was almost matched by a run of 15 matches in 1996/97. In the light of modern complaints about fixture congestion it is of interest to note that Barking played 14 games in April 1927, losing only four of them. The club record run of unbeaten league games is 23 set by the reserves in 2011/12 which comprised the whole league season and one game from the next. Compiled by Derek Pedder with acknowledgements to Gavin Ellis, Fay Pedder, Les Wilson, Terry Gilbert, Nathalie Hoodless, Mark Harris, Colm Kerrigan, Phil Sammons, Fred Hawthorn and Ronald Price Amended and updated by Terry Gilbert November 4th 2019

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