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TEAM SOLENT FOOTBALL
2016/17 No. 23 Official Match Programme
v South Shields
Saturday 28th January, Kick Off - 15:00, Test Park THE BUILDBASE FA VASE REFEREE: SAVVAS YIANNI ASSISTANT REFEREES: ROBERT COCKLE & ALAN OVERTHROW FOURTH OFFICIAL: ALEX RUSH-FEAR
Photo by Lucy Evans
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A Note from the Chairman Good afternoon everyone and welcome to Test Park. We are pleased to welcome the officials, players and supporters of South Shields football club, for this afternoon’s Buildbase FA Vase 5th round tie. Hopefully, the long journey from Northumberland to the south coast, has been as bearable and enjoyable as possible. This is the biggest game in the history of Team Solent football club and everyone connected with the club and SSU, has been relishing this match, since the draw was made. With home advantage, this will be a fantastic experience for the players to compete against an experienced team like South Shields and I am sure Jimmy, Kev, Mike and Dave will have been meticulous in their preparations for this match. Last Saturday’s Sydenham’s Wessex Premier League match away to Bournemouth, was postponed due to a frozen pitch and this has given the team a well- earned break from the recent heavy fixture load, ensuring no injuries and/or yellow/red cards have been incurred, that would impact on the availability of key players. The previous Saturday, we defeated fifth placed AFC Porchester, who are managed by former England and Arsenal player, Graham Rix. It was a hard fought game against one of the better sides in the league and although Porchester took the lead, we came back with a goal scored by Tobi Adekunle, direct from a corner. The game was fairly even and looked like it was heading for a 1-1 draw, when Tyrell Mitford scored with a cracking 35 yard drive, in the 87th minute, to give us the three points. The reserves gained a useful point in last week’s home game, in a feisty 2-2 draw
against local rivals, Totton & Eling. First Team manager, Jimmy Taylor came up from his centre back position, to score with a well struck shot, from just outside the penalty area, to give us the lead, but T &E hit back with two goals. We managed to secure a point, with a late equaliser, despite having much of the game and a goal disallowed. The youth team’s last match, in the Hampshire Cup, saw Dave Fear’s side gain an impressive 2-1 victory over Eastleigh. Ethan Taylor and Luke Bennett gave the team two second half goals after being 1-0 down at half time. This win puts them into the semi-final of the competition. A great deal of time and planning has gone into staging today’s game and I would like to thank everybody who has contributed towards the overall collective effort, in particular, Phil, Martin, Matt and Liam in Solent Sport, Paul and the ground staff at Test Park. Your efforts are greatly appreciated, by the football club. Our next home match, is at home to Wessex League Division 1 side, Tadley Calleva, on Monday (30th) in the Sydenham’s Wessex League cup. As holders, we will be looking to make further progress in the competition and emulate last season’s cup run, where we defeated Newport IOW, in the final. We have been entertained with some exiting football and drama in the previous rounds of this competition and hopefully we can all enjoy a competitive game of football played in the right spirit. Thank you for attending this afternoon’s match and enjoy!
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THE BUILDBASE FA VASE
The FA Vase effectively replaced The FA Amateur Cup in 1974. In Numbers:
2 St Andrews Finals
43 Seasons (inc. 2016-17)
1 Upton Park Final
37 Wembley Finals
1 White Hart Lane Final
2 Villa Park Finals
Current Holders: Morpeth Town
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In that year The FA Council had decided to abolish the official distinction between amateur and professional footballers and this meant the end of The Amateur Cup and Amateur Internationals involving England.
Villa Park and St Andrews two each, Upton Park and White Hart Lane one each. Thirtytwo different clubs have got their hands on The Vase, donated by former FA Councillor Frank Adams. Whitley Bay lead the way with four wins.
Two-hundred and twenty clubs entered The Vase in its first season but they did not include those clubs which had dominated in The Amateur Cup. Enfield, Hendon, Dagenham, Skelmersdale United and others at their level were immediately allocated to The FA Trophy.
Aficionados of The Vase competition tend to rate the 1992 Final between Wimborne Town and Guiseley as the best so far. Wessex League Wimborne had a modest record in the competition before then, having never ventured beyond the Third Round, but they embarked on a spectacular Vase journey that took them all the way from the First Round to The Final. A goal down after 14 minutes at Wembley, the Dorset side fought back to win 5-3.
For the first time in history, small clubs – even village clubs – had the chance of playing in a national final at Wembley. The first Vase Finalists were Hoddesdon Town from the Spartan League and Epsom & Ewell from the Surrey Senior League. The Hertfordshire side edged home 2-1 before a crowd of 9,000. Even a competition as democratic as The Vase had its elite clubs in the early years. Billericay Town, initially of the Essex Senior League, won it three times in four seasons. Halesowen Town, then in the West Midlands Regional League, appeared in three Finals and were successful in two of them. They even beat a Southall side that had a young Les Ferdinand leading the attack. Until the new Wembley opened in 2007 the record attendance for a Vase Final was the 26,489 who saw the drawn 1989 Final between Sudbury Town and Tamworth at the old Wembley. Tamworth won the replay 3-0 at Peterborough and Ian Moores, a former Division One player with Tottenham Hotspur, scored one of the goals.
When The Vase Final returned to Wembley, a record 36,232 fans saw Truro City beat AFC Totton 3-1. Whitley Bay, the 2002 winners, achieved a sensational hat-trick of Final victories from 2009 to 2011. The Northern League’s dominance continued for two more seasons, with success for Dunston UTS and Spennymoor Town before Sholing, then Wessex League champions, got their name engraved. North Shields then came from behind to win the first Final to go to extra time since 2001-02. In 2015-16 Wembley Stadium staged the first Non-League Finals day, which saw both the Vase and the Trophy decided backto-back in front of almost 47,000 fans. Morpeth Town came from behind to stun Hereford 4-1 with 45-year-old Chris Swailes on the scoresheet to win the Vase with a third different club.
The 2013-14 Vase competition was the 40th in history. Wembley has hosted 34 Finals,
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THE BUILDBASE FA VASE Full 5th Round Draw Cleethorpes Town V Atherton Collieries Bromsgrove Sporting V Bristol Manor Farm Crowborough Athletic V Coleshill Town Hinckley AFC V Buckland Athletic Newport Pagnell Town V Sunderland RCA Ely City V Sporting Khalsa Team Solent V South Shields Southall V Exmouth Town
Team Solent’s Route in The Buildbase FA Vase: Date
Home
Away
Venue
Result
Sunday 10 September
Hythe & Dibden FC
Team Solent FC
Hythe & Dibden FC
1-2
Saturday 24 September
Hallen FC
Team Solent FC
Hallen FC
1-3
Saturday 22 October
Helston Athletic FC
Team Solent FC
Helston Athletic FC
1-2
Saturday 12 November
Shaftesbury Town FC
Team Solent FC
Shaftesbury Town FC
1-3
Saturday 3rd Decemeber
Team Solent FC
Bodmin Town FC
Test Park
1-0
Saturday 7 January
Team Solent FC
Croydon FC
Test Park
3-0
South Shields progress to date 2nd Preliminary Round
Esh Winning
0-4
South Shields
1st Round
South Shields
2-1
Runcorn Linnets
2nd Round
South Shields
2-0
Marske Utd
3rd Round
South Shields
3-0
Staveley MW
4th Round
South Shields
4-0
Morpeth Town
The Buildbase FA Vase remaining events: Date
Round
Winning Club
Losing Club
Saturday 18 February
Sixth Round
£3,375
£1,125
Saturday 11 March
Semi-Final first leg
£4,500
£1,500
Saturday 18 March
Semi-Final second leg
£4,500
£1,500
Sunday 21 May
The Final
£25,000
£17,000
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Photo by Steven 9 Hogg
Team Solent
Photo by Kirsty Bradbury
Team Solent Football Club is the biggest sport club within Southampton Solent University. The men’s first team has recently won the Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Division 1 title, the reserve men’s team plays in the Wyvern Combination League, and a development team plays in the British Universities (BUCS) competition. The men’s first team also compete in the FA Cup and FA Vase each season, as well as being previous winners of the Southampton FA Senior Cup on four occasions. Team Solent also has a highly successful women’s football section, now competing
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in Southern League Division 1 and recent winners of BUCS Division 1. Team Solent FC play on the university’s newest facility at Test Park - a multiple sports complex with a 3G pitch, rugby and football pitches. The men’s and women’s teams are predominantly made up of current university students, supplemented by alumni, staff and a few external players. In keeping with the nature of university sport, the team personnel changes substantially from year to year as students graduate.
Photo by Kirsty Bradbury
Photo by Steven Hogg
Team Solent Line up Bradley Banda (GK)
Lewis Pitts
Adeoye Olumuyiwa
Steven Black
Patrick Nolan
Ryan Dacres - Smith
Ellis White
Curtis Thorn
Jemal Wiseman
Mike Lamb
Jim Orvis
Matt Sheedy
Tyrell Mitford
Tobi Adekunle
Manager James Taylor Assistant Manager Michael Marsh
Jesse Waller-Lassen (C)
Physio Danni Bannan
Silvano Obeng
George Butler
Goal Keeper Coach Lee Webber 11
Team Solent Roll of Honours League League
Between
Best Finish (seasons ended)
Junior Division 1
2005-06 (1 season)
Champions - 2006 *
Senior Division 1
2006-07 (1 season)
Champions - 2007*
2007-11 (4 seasons)
Champions - 2011*
Division 1
2011-2015 (4 seasons)
Champions - 2015*
Premier Division
2015 – date (2nd season)
Seventh – 2016
Between
Best Finish (seasons ended)
2011-date (6th season)
Winners - 2016
Senior Cup
2006-date (11th season)
Winners - 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016
Junior ‘A’ Cup
2005 - 06 (1 season)
Winners - 2006
2007-2011 (4 seasons)
Winners - 2008 and 2011
2005-2006 (1 season)
Winner - 2006
Southampton League
Hampshire Premier League Senior Division Sydenhams League (Wessex)
NB: * denotes promoted Cup Honours Cup Competition Sydenhams League (Wessex) League Cup Southampton FA
Hampshire Premier League Senior Cup Hampshire FA Junior ‘A’ Cup
Other Cup Competitions Entered Cup Competition
Between
Best Finish (seasons ended)
FA Cup
2013 - date (4th season)
Preliminary Rd - 2017
FA Vase
2012 - date (5th season)
Round 5 - 2017 (ongoing)
Hampshire FA Senior Cup
2011 - date (6th season)
Round 3 - 2015
Hampshire FA Intermediate Cup
2006 - 11 (5 seasons)
Quarter-final - 2011
HFA Russell-Cotes Cup
2012 - 13 (1 season)
Round 1 - 2013
Southampton Senior League Cup
2006 - 07 (1 season)
Quarter-Final - 2007
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Fixtures and Results 2016/17 Upcoming Games: Date
Home
Away
Venue
Cup
Monday 30th January
Team Solent
Tadley Calleva
Test Park
SLC
Saturday 4th February
Team Solent
Newport (IoW)
Test Park
SWLP
Monday 6th February
Team Solent
AFC Stoneham
Test Park
SSC
Saturday 11th February
Whitchurch United
Team Solent
Longmeadow
SWLP
Wednesday 15th February
Portland United
Team Solent
Weyline Stadium
SWLP
Saturday 18th February
Team Solent
Blackfield & Langley
Test Park
SWLP
Tuesday 21st February
Bashley
Team Solent
Bashley Road
SWLP
Date
Home
Away
Venue
Result
Tuesday 24th January
Bournemouth
Team Solent
Victoria Park
P-P
Saturday 14th January
Team Solent
AFC Portchester
Test Park
2-1
Saturday 7th January
Team Solent
Croydon
Test Park
3-0
Tuesday 4th January
Team Solent
Fawley
Test Park
3-1
Wednesday 27th December
Team Solent
Verwood Town
Test Park
6-1
Saturday 17th December
Alresford Town
Team Solent
Arlebury Park
2-1
Tuesday 13th December
Portland United
Team Solent
Weyline Stadium
1-1 Won 4-2 on pens
Saturday 10th December
Horndean
Team Solent
Five Heads Park
3-2
Monday 5th December
Team Solent
Hamworthy United
Test Park
7-0
Saturday 3rd December
Team Solent
Bodmin Town
Test Park
1-0
Previous Games
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The Opponents: South Shields
It has now been over 125 years since the first recorded appearance of a named South Shields Football Club. It was in 1888 that a team from the town began playing friendly matches. From those early times, the club has been subject to both fortune and misfortune, with halcyon days of great success and also periods of severe reversal. The name of Jack Inskip features prominently in the early annals of South Shields FC, and he is credited with the formation of a junior club in 1899 of local schoolboys from the Adelaide Street area of Laygate. This team was known as South Shields Adelaide Athletic, and after much success, it re-organised two years later as a limited company in 1910, changed its official title to that of South Shields Football Club, and was
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victorious in the Durham Challenge Cup the following season. Numerous records plus two consecutive North Eastern League championship titles won, in which seasons only four games were lost. The 1913-14 and 1914-15 campaigns turned out to be most remarkable for Shields, winning six trophies, becoming champions of the North Eastern League, winners of the Durham Football Association Challenge Cup, the Ingham Infirmary Cup and retained the Black Cup (Tynemouth Infirmary Cup). Shields were champions of the league for 1915-16, and in 1919, the years of effort behind the drive for the Football League came to fruition with its election to the Second Division.
In the 1921 season, with Shields top by five point, promotion was in the air and the distinct possibility of derbies against the league neighbours Newcastle United and Sunderland was an exciting prospect. However, the impetus was not maintained and the club finished in sixth place. Shields reached the FA Cup fifth round in 1925-26 and again in 1926-27, and the attendance record for Horsley Hill was achieved, 24,348, but Swansea Town denied Shields’ further progress. The club sold its best players, though, and was relegated to the Third Division North before, facing impending bankruptcy, the only possible viable alternative from closure was to move. A new club was eventually established and won the 1938-39 North Eastern League championship, and the Durham Challenge Cup. In 1950, Shields moved to Simonside Hall, and for a few years from the mid-1950s, it was widely acknowledged as one of the better non-league clubs in the country. Shields played in five different leagues during the 1950s and 60s, and many will recall with great pleasure the appearance of Stanley Matthews in a game at Simonside Hall in 1966. A major change in the national non-league set-up came in 1968 with the formation of the Northern Premier League, part of the new soccer ‘pyramid’, with South Shields invited as a founding member. The club advanced to the FA Cup third round in 1970 and was drawn away to Queens Park Rangers. The final result of 4-1 also told a story of missed chances by Shields and numerous injuries sustained, against a side that included Terry Venables and Rodney Marsh.
Also in 1974, the club reached the FA Trophy semi-final, but financial problems culminated in 1974 with the total loss of the club and the ground of Simonside Hill. The club went to Gateshead for the second time in 44 years and re-emerged as Gateshead United and took the place of South Shields in the Northern Premier League. A new club, the South Shields Mariners FC, was born, and started with nothing. Initial progress was indeed quite remarkable, only the lack of a ground with adequate and sufficient facilities to satisfy the required criteria of the Northern League for promotion prevented this being maintained. After the winning of two consecutive Northern Alliance League championship titles, and an appearance in the FA Vase quarter-final, the club joined the Wearside League. Further success followed with the winning of the Durham Challenge Cup at Roker Park in 1977. A ground to develop became a long-running issue over the course of 18 years, so the club remained a member of the Wearside League, seemingly unable to leave the council-owned Jack Clark Park. In 1992, the redundant sports club and ground of Filtrona FC was bought by the club. Gradual upgrading and development of Filtrona Park and promotion to the First Division of the Northern League was achieved in the years that followed. The club’s recent successes were in 2009-10 as winners of the League Cup and J R Cleator Cup, but it faced a major challenge to stay at Filtrona Park after its former owner put it up for sale, and eventually Shields were forced to leave the ground in 2013. They also suffered relegation to Northern League Division Two in 2012-13, and kicked
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off the following season 20 miles away from home in Peterlee. The club played home matches there for two years until new chairman Geoff Thompson bought Filtrona Park – now renamed Mariners Park – in 2015.
In his first season at the helm, Shields won the Northern League Division Two title with 107 points, and in the off-season, Mr Thompson continued to press ahead with his plans for the club.
Team Sheet Defenders
Barrie Smith
Craig Baxter
Dillon Morse
Louis Storey
Ewan Simpson
Darren Holden
Alex Nicholson Midfielders
Forwards
Andrew Stephenson
Julio Arca
Robert Briggs
Wayne Phillips
Ryan Bolam
Michael Richardson
David Foley
Stephen Ramsey
Gavin Cogdon
Jon Shaw
Carl Finnigan Goal Keeper
Liam Connell
Manager
Lee Picton, Graham Fenton
Physio
Andrew Morris
South Shield Roll of Honours Northern Football League
Champions 2015-16
Wear-side League
Champions 1976 –77, 1992 –93, 1994 –95
Records
FA Vase - Quarter Finals 1975 –76
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Runners-up 1995–96, 2007–8
Assistant Manager
Martin Scott
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TEAM SOLENT 3-0 CROYDON
Photo by Lucy Evans Ref Number
5091/86;
Date
Saturday 07/01/2017
Kick-Off
3pm
Referee
Mr Leigh Crowhurst
Ground
Test Park (#1)
From
Uckfield
Visit Number
77 (20th visit of the season)
Assistants
Wayne Webb/ Stuart Mallows
Conditions
Overcast, damp, mild
Adjustments
At: 155
Anemometer
12°C
Other Notes
Fourth Official: Ross Murphy
Match Details: 12
1-0
Adekunle
56
2-0
White
75
3-0
Waller-Lassen
TEAM SOLENT met Croydon on a damp afternoon at Test Park, playing for a place in the last sixteen of the FA Vase which ends at nowhere other than playing under the Arch at Wembley Stadium. The win was achieved with a fine overall show and the dream continues. Solent’s side had a familiar look about it, although Gibraltar youth international Bradley Banda didn’t make the trip over having suffered from illness. This meant the only nonstudent in the starting XI was Lee Webber, the
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Competition
The Buildbase FA Vase Round 4
club’s 38-year old goalkeeper who became the fourth different custodian used by Team Solent in the FA Vase run so far! For this scribe, it was the seventh sighting of Croydon, although the first since 1989!! An Olumuyiwa ball over the Trams defensive line and Waller-Lassen stretched but didn’t get a touch, the ball running through to Croydon keeper Ameyaw. Croydon wide-man Chin showed some good pace but his ball in, whilst under pressure, was saved by Webber. The ball was immediately moved up the other end where Waller-Lassen attempted a 25-yard effort that Ameyaw got down to parry and gather.
seemed to stir the Trams into action for a while as the Solent defence had to stick to their tasks. Dual-Kessie tried a distant effort for them but Webber watched it drift wide. Mott had a free-kick about 25-yards out, but the Croydon player put the ball over.
Team Solent No
Sub
gl
1
Lee Webber
2
Adeoye Olumuyiwa
3
Curtis Thorn
4
Patrick Nolan
5
Ellis White
6
Jim Orvis
7
Ryan Dacres-Smith
8
Jemel Wiseman
9
Tyrell Mitford
10
Jesse Waller-Lassen
1
11
O (Tobi) Adekunle
1
YC
RC
83 19
1
65
Half-time: 1-0 and there was still all to play for.
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Sub 3/5: No
Sub
12
Silvano Obeng
14
Matt Sheedy
15
Lewis Pitts
65
16
George Butler
83
17
James Taylor
It wasn’t going Solent’s way as Croydon were playing the ball around well and there was also the pacy Chin who proved menacing, none more so than when he crossed in from the right and Ibikunle, unmarked, moved onto it at the back stick and the ball smacked off the underside of the bar and down on the pitch side of the line before being gathered by Webber.
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YC
RC
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A low effort by Croydon’s Dual-Kessie from wide on the left forced Webber to get down low to save. But Solent didn’t have too much longer to wait to score the game’s opening goal. Wiseman swept the ball wide left from midfield and sent Mitford on a good run forward which took him to an angled position inside the box, Ameyaw blocked his effort and the ball ran to Adekunle who hit it firmly and first time into the far corner. That was just what Solent needed, a goal reasonably early in the game. However, it
Solent turned on the style almost from the very first kick of the ball in the second half. They appeared to be a touch fitter than the South London visitors, possibly due to the Wessex League having matches to play during the Christmas period whilst Croydon had not played for twenty days … but would that really have made much difference? Waller-Lassen slipped a good pass to Mitford but Ameyaw was out to block the Solent striker’s shot and as Waller-Lassen tried to battle through into the box, visiting defender Rothwell got across to make a strong but fair challenge. Goal number two for Solent came in the 56th minute when Mitford’s shot caught a deflection and the ball fell to White who took a touch with his right to open up a shooting chance and buried a low 15-yard effort with his left! There was clearly no better time for the Solent defender to score his first goal of the season and it was finished with the nonchalance of a seasoned striker too!
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Croydon
No
Sub
1
Francis Ameyaw
2
Harry Brockman
3
Toloupe Jonah
4
Jamie McGeoghegan
5
Max Rothwell
6
Cedric Abraham
7
Olutani Ibikunle
8
Andy Mott
9
Jeff Dual-Kessie
10
Karl Douglin
11
Lauris Chin
gl
YC
RC
Ameyaw gathered from Waller-Lassen close to full-time but, by this point, it didn’t matter as Team Solent had clearly got themselves over this particular hurdle and they and only 15 other teams survive into Round 5 that is scheduled for 28th January.
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72
Sub 3/5: No
Sub
12
Billy Taylor
14
Reiss Franklin
15
Rohann Howell
88
16
Kamelko Pope-Campbell
72
17
Danny Carpanini
There was a further Team Solent goal on 75 minutes when a fine pass by Adekunle located Waller-Lassen wide on the left, the keeper advanced but wasn’t going to make it before the Solent talisman who struck a most delightful chip over him and all the way into the net … it was a difficult skill to execute but the Solent skipper made it look absolutely effortless. Incidentally, that goal was Solent’s 100th of the season in all competitions, achieved in 38 matches (at a most impressive 2.63 per game).
gl
YC
RC
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There was a feeling that Solent had the match well under control by that point and they went for further goals and Nolan, a cup goal-scoring specialist, came up from the back and rose to head an Orvis corner but somehow guided it wide of the target. Shortly after that, the industrious DacresSmith hobbled from the field to be replaced by Pitts.
Yes, the goals were great, but good defending is also paramount and the back line was well tested during the first half. It was great to go off at half-time leading having had to defend so stoutly; in the end fitness and hard work contributed so much to this victory. It was a fine all-round show by the Sparks who had been well prepared by the management team. It must be time for the club to order some memorabilia for the fans now that we have a decent amount of prize money! OK, I admit it, I’m jealous! That chief announcer Phil Green has the only Team Solent scarf that currently exists … yet again, Santa didn’t leave me one!! We look forward to the draw on Monday and, as it opens up nationally we could be facing any of the following teams, with only one of the other 15 ties finishing in a draw and another, in that footballing hotbed of the North-East, finishing a bit prematurely when the floodlights went out!
Words by Gary Day
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THANK YOU!
A big thank you to tonight’s Ball boys: Matthew Vundla Oakwood Jets under 10 James Thurston Oakwood Panthers under 12 Johnny Chambers Oakwood Panthers under 12 Dominic Elliot Oakwood Panthers under 12
Produced by students on the Solent Press unit at Southampton Solent University. Editor: Solent Press Contributors: Bill Moore Photographers: Steve Hogg
Designers: Gary Day Tom Fowler Lucy Evans
Kirsty Bradbury
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£1 NEXT UP v Tadley Calleva - Monday 30th, 19:45 In the event of a drawn game today, teams will play extra time and if the scores are still tied after 120mins, replay at South Shields will take place on Saturday 4th February. Should the game not be played today, please retain your ticket as this will be valid for rearrangements at Test Park.
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