Stowmarket Town vs Coggeshall

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STOWMARKET TOWN VS COGGESHALL

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

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HONOURS

Eastern Counties League First Division Winners: 2016-17

Suffolk Premier Cup Winners: 1962-63, 1976-77, 1985-86, 1990-91

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

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

CHAIRMAN: Kevin Blundell

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Ian Moyes

DIRECTORS:

Nigel Jarvis, (Director Infrastructure)

Stephen Hobbs (Financial Director)

Doug French (Commercial Director)

Paul Rudland (Director of Operations)

MANAGER: Paul Musgrove

ASSISTANT MANAGER: Richard Wilkins

GOALKEEPING COACH: Nathan Munson

RESERVES MANAGER: Craig Brown

UNDER-18’S MANAGER: Liam Hawkins

UNDER-18’S ASSISTANT MANAGERS: Ellis Smith and William Wharton-Richardson

SATURDAY 21ST JANUARY - ISTHMIAN LEAGUE - NORTH DIVISION

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WORDS FROM OUR CHAIRMAN

I would really like to welcome back everyone to Green Meadows for the second of three home games in a row this month.

A very warm welcome also to all players, staff, committee and supporters of Coggeshall Town FC.

Last Saturday was a very difficult day for the club. We didn’t get the result we wanted in the game against Lowestoft Town and then post the game our Manager Paul Musgrove approached Ian Moyes (Vice Chairman) and myself to inform us that he would be stepping down. I would like to take the opportunity to again thank Muzzy for everything he has done for the club over the years. We wish him all the very best for the future and we hope he enjoys his well earned family time.

Post a very fast reactive meeting the board of Directors and I are very pleased to confirm that Richard Wilkins and Nathan Munson have both agreed to step up and become our Manager and Assistant manager respectively for the interim period (return of a previous combination whilst both at Needham Market FC) Good luck gentlemen. Just like the entire club board members, we hope that all players and supporters will support them and will continue to bring the noise as always to push them forward at every game.

January and February were always going to be very tricky months with the sheer number of games we have as a club increased due to the re-scheduled calendar from the deep freeze and weather battered pitches in the previous months. Well done to our fixtures secretary Andonis Wolverson on managing to re-arrange the games in difficult circumstances.

Let’s keep the noise levels high from every single one of our great supporters to the club. We also look forward to seeing you again on Tuesday night for the re-arranged AFC Sudbury game, kick off @1945hrs. Make sure you wrap up warm.

Up the Stow

Kevin Blundell

ALANS STORY

Abuse in all sport has now become a noticeably massive thing and especially in football. Since the advent of that day a year ago when some very high-profile players told their very distressing stories live on the Victoria Derbyshire show and subsequently brought about the advent and birth of the wonderful organisation The Offside Trust who have done amazing work with no funding from The Football association at all to help them and a very minimal amount from the PFA. Their help has given me the strength to deal with what happened to me all those years ago as it did to them.

As a young child I wanted nothing more than to watch football, play football and be a professional footballer. My uncle used to take me to watch Luton Town from the age of seven onwards at first my uncle was wonderful nothing was too much trouble and enjoyed our visits to watch Luton at home and used to get extremely excited at around noon awaiting my uncle’s arrival to take me and even have a kick about in the park before the game. Unfortunately, there was an ulterior motive I later found out to this as from the age of around nine we used to go to coaching sessions with a team on our way to football under the guise of they worked for Luton Town and if I did well, I would have a chance to fulfil my dreams.

Just as the season started and the coaching session became more intense, I was told that they could help me fulfil my dreams if I did something for them after the games. At first it was nothing too bad just touching etc of parts of their anatomy, but it slowly became a lot more sinister with more of our team involved in some sadistic and sordid acts including being raped over one hundred times, some even photographed and filmed. When we left the so-called house, we were all given gifts and told that we must never tell anyone that these things had happened.

The older I got the more the acts became more depraved, and the threats became even more dreadful should we go to the police etc or even tell what had happened. I retreated into a shell on my return home and would turn into an insular and exceedingly difficult person. Luckily once I reached the age of twelve my

uncle no longer came to get me and the trips to football stopped as luckily, I found a more local club to allow me to play.

This club was well run and very safe with good coaches and it made me wonder what and why the original team coaches had asked me to do the things they did. I was still fearful of telling my parents so hid the sordid things away for many many years.

About 9 years ago I was summonsed to a meeting at a solicitor’s office in London after my uncle had died and left his will. I was taken to a side room and given a letter from my uncle by the solicitor that he instructed me was going to be read out at the will reading. The letter detailed my uncles and his friends sordid past and was his was of asking the family for forgiveness from his crimes, unfortunately it was to be announced that he had abused a member of the family with his friends in an unbelievably bad way and wanted forgiveness.

THAT PERSON WAS ME

The family had no idea but as you can imagine it was exceptionally harrowing for me and my mum and sisters and really was difficult for all to take, unfortunately I was blamed and called a liar by most of his side of the family meaning that I was cast aside as an outcast by that side of the family.

From that moment on I became an exceedingly difficult person to even talk to and took to drinking excessively ended up losing my wife, house, and a lot of family members. I also had to attend two court cases to see some of the dreadful people sentenced which was an exceedingly difficult experience.

As with all people that have suffered any sort of abuse, I tried to take my own life about a year ago but was found and have regular treatment from counsellors and doctors to ensure I can make the best recovery possible from these dreadful nightmares.

I apologise if this is harrowing reading, but it is the only way to get the message across and I will say I have left out the dreadful bits as no one should go through what I and my friends did for over those horrible years meaning most of us lost our childhood and still struggle dreadfully on the difficult days which we all still have.

Alan Arber A Survivor

COGGESHALL TOWN

THE SQUAD

MANAGER

JASON MAHER

ASSISTANT MANAGER

MARK HAWKES

COACHES

KEVIN HUNTER

GARY KIMBLE

GOALKEEPER COACH

SIMON TURNIDGE

PLAYERS

AKAN GEORGE (GK)

THOMAS MIDDLEHIRST (GK)

JAMIE L BENNETT

SHANE MCKENZIE-LA-ROSE

JAMIE RILEY

PAT AHERN

EHIZOJIE MARTINS ONOABHAGBE

RYAN DEAR

BILLY ROAST

CRAIG FERGUSON

FREDDY KING

NATHAN FUMA

JOSHUA OSUDE

MIKE OSEI

JASON HALLETT

WARREN BEATTIE

ROWAN DORLING

LEWIS SORAF

KRIS OTI

EVAN COLLARD

CAMERON FORDE-BROWN

HISTORY

Joint second oldest original football club in Essex, Coggeshall Town was formed at a meeting held at the White Hart Hotel, Coggeshall on September 27th 1878. The official report of that meeting was published in Coggeshall Parish Magazine in October 1878 and reads as follows:

“A meeting was held on Friday last 27th ult, at the White Hart Hotel for the purpose of forming a Football Club in this town. The chairman (Mr. G. F. Beaumont) announced that Mr. Hanbury had kindly consented to act as President to the club, and he was accordingly unanimously elected. The meeting next appointed Mr. G. F. Beaumont as Hon. Sec and the following gentlemen were chosen to form a Committee: The Rev. J. P. A. Bowers, Messrs. T. W. Haddon, A.T. Bremner, F. Beard, A. Judges, C. Poulton and J. Webster. Play is to commence on Saturday next, the 5th inst. At 3 o’clock punctually in Mynheer Park, kindly lent by Mr. T. C. Swinborne. The rules of the game may be obtained from the Secretary or any member of the Committee. It is hoped that the club may be strongly supported by players and non-players. The subscriptions for players is 1/- and for non-players 2/6d”.

Records held at the Coggeshall Museum, suggest that the Football Club was founded by J. K. King & Sons, a local family seed business. The account of the inaugural meeting makes no mention of the company although its role may be acknowledged through the club’s nickname, “The Seedgrowers” that remains to this day.

Coggeshall provided the first opposition for both Braintree F.C., in January 1879 and Halstead, in November of the same year. In 1880, at this time the traditional colours of Scarlet and Black were adopted. Abandoning the steep slope of Myneer Park the 1880 - 81 season was played on Mr Fuller’s Barnard Field in Pointwell Lane, Little Coggeshall, before spending the rest of the decade on the

the Highfields Farm Park. Then “Fabians” field in Colne Road was played on until 1895 when a permanent move to Highfields was made, this became the club’s home for 65 years.

Coggeshall’s early competitive football was in the Essex Junior Cup, in which they were losing finalists in 1898 - 99, before joining the North Essex League the following year. They won the N.E.L. four times and the Colchester & District League Division II B twice, becoming founder members of the Border League in 1911 –12. Always known as the “Town” team, after the Great War the club resumed as Coggeshall Town, although they played with a degree of success in the Braintree, Kelvedon and Halstead Leagues it was with the N.E.L. Division II that they really made their mark, increasing their titles to an amazing 14 times up to 1939. The post –war period became boom time for the club as they switched from the North Essex League to the Braintree and District League, before broadening their horizons in the fledgling Colchester and East Essex League, where their previous pedigree rewarded them with a Division 1 start in 1950—51. Runners up. A season later, they were promoted to the Premier Division and built up an impressive Supporter’s Club with a membership in excess of 200. Long serving officials, Secretary, John Alston and Treasurer, Norman Burton, provided a sound administrative base.

The Club’s ambitious committee, led by Chairman Lou Marks, then Tom Ritson were soon targeting the Border League as their next step up the football ladder, a goal they duly achieved in 1958—59. However, a shock awaited the Seedgrowers, when, in the summer of 1960, they were given notice to quit Highfields, their home for 65 years. Colonel F.t. Hill came to the rescue, first with an interim pitch at his Holfield Grange and then by offering the use of a bit of land behind the Cricket pitch at “The Crops”. Complete with a new pavilion, which is now the changing rooms. “The Crops” opened with a Coggeshall Brotherhood Cup –tie against Courtaulds in August 1961. The covered stand was added in 1964.

How the Seedgrowers began to blossom, winning Division 1 in 1962-63 and under the manager ship of ex Colchester United player, Bob Dale the championship in 1966-67, Alf Marshall was in charge when they retained their title and won the Knock-Out Cup in 1968-69. Another former Colchester star, Derek Parker, led them to the Border League and Cup double, the Essex Intermediate Cup, 2- 0 v Great Wakering in 1970 –71. The clubhouse was added in 1971. From 1972 onwards, the club played in the Essex Senior League without winning any honours.

The club’s future was threatened again in 1981 when the landowner announced that he wished to sell the land. Once more, the club embarked on a fundraising campaign. The commitment of those involved is evident from the efforts of the club manager, Peter Barlow, who embarked on a run from “The Crops” to F.A. Headquarters at Lancaster Gate to hand in an appeal for support to save the ground. A little behind schedule, he arrived at the F.A. to find it closed. Nevertheless, he raised £500 toward the fund. With the help of Coggeshall Parish Council and the Sports Council, the club raised the funding to buy the land and for the first time, just over 100 years since they were formed, Coggeshall Town owned their own facilities.

The Border League was again joined in 1990—91 followed by two spells in the Essex intermediate League which sandwiched a single season in Division IV of the Colchester and East Essex League. Since the last return to the Border League in 2000—01, the club has risen from Division III to the Pemier Division and back to the first Division. Ivan Gooday was Manager when first losing 1—0 to Harwich and Parkeston in the 2011-12 League Cup Final and then winning promotion back to the Premier Division as runners up in 2012 -13.

The start of the 2013-14 season saw major changes at Coggeshall Town with the club accepting a proposal from local businessman Graeme Smith to become involved in running the club. Initially Smith’s involvement was in

an advisory role coupled with managing the reserve team, which he took over midway through that season, leading them on to winning the Essex and Suffolk Border League Reserve Cup and saving the team from relegation. During the remainder of that season Smith’s influence at the club led to many improvements on and off the pitch.

The 2014-15 season saw Graeme Smith take full control of the football club and become 1st team manager alongside his assistant and long-term friend John Pollard. During this season, significant improvements were made throughout the whole club. On the pitch, the team secured a 6th place finish in the Border League Premier Division and were runners up in the League Cup final.

The 2015-16 season again saw many improvements to the newly named “West Street “ ground. It was a very successful season on the pitch also with Smith and Pollard leading the team to the league and cup double securing promotion to the Eastern Counties League division one. 2016-17 saw floodlights installed at “West Street” for the first time in the clubs history, which meant the club met all the requirements to compete in the league above. The continued ground upgrading and success of the team on the pitch led to great interest in Coggeshall Town highlighted by an attendance of 1022 against a Ipswich Town X1 in a pre-season fixture. More evidence of the growing popularity of the club followed with attendances soaring throughout the season. The opening match under the new floodlights was another big attendance when Braintree Town Reserves were the visitors to West Street with the “Seedgrowers” recording a fine 6-1 victory. .It was another tremendous season with the team again achieving promotion as runners up to take their place in the Eastern Counties League Premier Division for the start off the 2017-18 season.

HISTORY

owner of the club with Graeme Smith. Further ground improvements were carried out, with Smith and Murs overseeing a total refurb of the dressing rooms and Murs himself funding a complete transformation of the clubhouse inside and out which was well overdue. The facilities at the club were now ready for the team to move up another level and again the team did not disappoint winning the league at the first attempt by 6 points with a goal difference of + 116  scoring 146 league goals in the process. The last week of the season was an exciting one, with Coggeshall gaining two wins in five days against their nearest rivals for the title, Felixstowe who were 2nd and Stowmarket who were 3rd. The Away Match at Felixstowe, which was the title deciding game, played in front of a crowd of over 1541, with Coggeshall recording a 4-2 victory. This meant that the team achieved its third promotion in a row and moved up to step 4 of the football pyramid for the first time in their 140 year history as they took their place in The Isthmian League Division One North.

The 2018 – 19 season saw further development to the clubs facility’s at West Street, as well as creating new records on the pitch. We were now playing in step 4 for the first time in the clubs History, as well as making our debut’s in the F.A. Cup and the F.A. Trophy . A few additions to the squad were made which enabled us to have a good run in the F.A. Cup, finally losing 1 – 0 away to Weston-Super-Mare in the 3rd Round Qualifying. The good form was carried on throughout the season with the club making the play-offs finishing in 4th place, losing 1 – 0 away to Maldon & Tiptree in the semi-final.

an advisory role coupled with managing the

winning the Essex and Suffolk Border League

season

Smith’s influence at the club led to many improvements on and off the pitch.

The 2014-15 season saw Graeme Smith take full control of the football club and become 1st team manager alongside his assistant and long-term friend John Pollard. During this season, significant improvements were made throughout the whole club. On the pitch, the team secured a 6th place finish in the Border League Premier Division and were runners up

improvements to the newly named “West Street “ ground. It was a very successful season

leading the team to the league and cup double securing promotion to the Eastern Counties League division one. 2016-17 saw floodlights installed at “West Street” for the first time in the clubs history, which meant the club met all the requirements to compete in the league above. The continued ground upgrading and success of the team on the pitch led to great interest in Coggeshall Town highlighted by an attendance of 1022 against a Ipswich Town X1 in a pre-season fixture. More evidence of the growing popularity of the club followed with attendances soaring throughout the season. The opening match under the new floodlights was another big attendance when Braintree Town Reserves were the visitors to West Street with the “Seedgrowers” recording a fine 6-1 victory. .It was another tremendous season with the team again achieving promotion as runners

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AIDAN RESERVES TEAM

It was great to be back in action after the Christmas break as we welcomed Thetford Town Reserves to Greens Meadow for our first game since winning away in the league cup quarter-final against top of the table Walsham on 26th November . Unfortunately, we started the game off slow, not pressing or winning enough second balls, and we were punished on the 30th minute with a low strike from the edge of the box that beat our goalkeeper, Young Read. However, just on the stroke of halftime, we were able to draw level from a corner kick taken by Dan Knights.

Luke Bates was able to bundle the ball into the net for his second goal of the season. In the second half, we came out on the front foot, much like how we should play.

Unfortunately, Thetford then took the lead again as they caught us on the break, against the run of play, to go up 2-1. Dan Knights hit the bar before his delivery was headed home by young Joel Simmons to make it 2-2. It was a game of two halves as we huffed and puffed to come away with a share of the spoils. Well done to Thetford as they didn’t play like a team at the bottom of the table and deserved their point. We have no game next weekend, so we will work hard to put in a better performance away at Framlingham Reserves on 21st January

Lastly, I would like to extend my best wishes to Aidan Phair as he moves on to play for Brantham First Team. He always gave me everything he had and deserves this opportunity to play at a higher level.

Good luck, Aidan!

Jimmy up the Stow

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STOWMARKET SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB CIC

Stowmarket Community Sports & Social Club CIC was formed in 2009 with the aim to create a community club, driven by football, that builds better facilities for the good of Stowmarket.

Our mission statement focuses on five key principles:

• Community

• Equality

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• Trust and Respect Integrity and Fair Play

The CIC’s aim is to bring the community to Greens Meadow. To achieve this, our three main objectives are to:

• Improve the clubhouse facilities

• Improve the performances on the pitch

• Change the age demographic of the club to rejuvenate local interest

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“The Isthmian Football League strongly supports the FA statement that there should be a zero-tolerance approach against racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly, any form of discriminatory abuse whether it by reason of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sex and sexual orientation or any other form of abuse will be reported to The Football Association for action by that Association.” (The FA 0800 085 0508 / Kick it Out 020 7253 0162).The Isthmian League and all Member Clubs in the League are 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.”