Bishop Sutton v Cheddar

“THE LAKE VIEW” Official matchday programme of Bishop Sutton F.C.

Toolstation Western League Division One Cheddar Thursday 11th April 2024

7.30pm

Good evening everyone, Welcome back to Lakeview for tonight’s Toolstation Western League Division One fixture with Cheddar. We offer a very warm welcome to all their supporters & officials along with the three match officials too, hoping they all have a safe journey home too.

Just four games remain now of what has been a trying and difficult season for the club. We await to see what will happen with the promotion and the relegation from the League with several clubs rumoured to be requesting a move back to the Western League and three teams applying for promotion from below (believed to be Avonmouth, Mendip Broadwalk and Fry Club).

Your support for the club, both on and off the field, is always very welcome so please come to as many games as possible as we look to finish the final part of the season in a better place.

Enjoy the game!

Bishop Sutton Club History

The club was re-formed in 1977 with just an U15 team playing in the Weston-superMare Sunday League and then progressing in successive seasons to the Bristol and Avon League U16s and the second and first divisions before being admitted into the Somerset Senior League for the 1981-82 season.

The next ten years were spent climbing through the four divisions before being voted into the Western League for season 1991-92. The First Division was won in 1997-98 and then followed seventeen successive seasons in the Premier Division, the highlight being winning the Premier title in 2012-13.

Unfortunately our ground grading did not permit progression to the Southern League and all the team management and players then left the club. Relegation from the Premier followed at the end of season 2014-15 and we have experienced mixed fortunes in the First Division since then.

For the season 2020-21 Jon Toy came in as manager but unfortunately we were only able to play 10 games before the season was curtailed due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Having retained a lot of last season’s squad and added a couple of new players, we finished in mid table in season 2021/22 followed by seventh place last season.

Jon left in the summer and was replaced by Catalin Andrei and Steve Taylor.

Chris Blammon took over in the autumn of 2023 as first team manager.

Toolstation Western League Premier Division Pos.

Team

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pts

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th

Helston Athletic 28 Falmouth Town 29 Clevedon Town 31 Barnstaple Town 28 Bridgwater United 29 Buckland Athletic 30 Shepton Mallet 29 Brixham 31 Torpoint Athletic 28 Nailsea & Tickenham 30 Street 31 St Blazey 28 Ilfracombe Town 26 Saltash United 28 Wellington 29 Oldland Abbotonians 27 Welton Rovers 28 Millbrook 26

22 22 20 17 19 15 15 13 12 12 9 9 7 7 5 5 3 2

3 3 5 8 2 7 6 9 4 3 7 5 8 4 8 0 6 0

3 4 6 3 8 8 8 9 12 15 15 14 11 17 16 22 19 24

95 74 67 70 80 79 53 65 48 58 52 45 39 41 34 30 25 12

23 21 26 31 42 46 41 34 50 55 64 60 46 60 73 80 78 137

69 69 65 59 59 52 51 48 40 39 34 32 29 25 23 15 12* 6

Toolstation Western League Division One Pos.

Team

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pts

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd

Portishead Town Radstock Town Cribbs Reserves Wincanton Town Bitton Wells City Brislington Bradford Town AEK Boco Longwell Green Sp. Middlezoy Rovers Bristol Telephones Hallen Cadbury Heath Odd Down Shirehampton Hengrove Athletic Keynsham Town Warminster Town Gillingham Town Cheddar Bishop Sutton

35 38 37 38 36 36 34 38 37 40 38 38 36 37 39 37 37 37 38 36 32 38

25 25 24 24 22 24 22 17 18 18 18 17 15 15 12 11 10 10 9 10 5 0

6 6 5 4 8 2 4 9 6 5 2 5 7 4 6 7 6 4 7 3 1 3

4 7 8 10 6 10 8 12 13 17 18 16 14 18 21 19 21 23 22 23 26 35

101 92 93 93 82 82 113 79 65 83 74 62 59 70 65 68 53 75 57 53 42 17

25 43 54 68 43 50 42 59 48 82 73 78 60 62 106 73 81 106 90 89 87 159

81 81 77 76 74 74 70 60 60 59 56 56 52 49 42 40 36 34 34 33 16 3

A big thank you....

... to all our sponsors....

... from Bishop Sutton F.C.

TODAY’S Bishop Sutton Blue & White Shirts, Blue Shorts & Blue Socks

B I S H O P S U T T O N

Owen ALLISON Chris BLAMMON Cole CAMPBELL Jack CREANEY Terry FRANCIS Brady GOULD Dan HAINES Sam HUGHES Tyler LANE Regan LASHENKO Blake LONGDEN Finley MADDERN Aaron MARCH Harry MESSENGER Thomas MOLLOY Sam NYE Oakley RAWLINGS Ashley ROBINSON Luke SEVIOUR George STEVENS William NORTON-SMITH Billy TAYLOR Joe WHITTAKER

LINEUPS Cheddar AFC Yellow Shirts, Black Shorts & Yellow Socks

Kieran WEBSTER Tom DAVIES Ollie HUCKER Morgan BACON Liam BAILEY Dean CHRISTOSTOMOU Adam DAVIES Lewis CHAPPELL Jack BUSBY Toby HUCKER Joe CARTER Tommy SKIDMORE Sam TALBOT Jake BUXTON Ryan EARDLEY Michael MURCH George FAIRCHILD Elliott KEEN Liam GRAHAM Luke PROSSER Sam HOPES Jamie WITHERS Eric DAVIES Ethan SPENCER Chris ROUTLEY Ben CROOK

C H E D D A R A F C

Focus on....

CHEDDAR AFC

Cheddar Football Club was established in 1892, playing at the local cricket ground near the then Cheddar railway station on the Strawberry Line. The Cheddar Valley League, of which the Cheese Men were one of the founders, was formed in the 1900’s. A couple of years after winning the league in 1911, the club joined the Western & District League and moved to a new ground where the Kings of Wessex Academy playing fields are now situated.

A historic £1500 investment in 1952 allowed the club to relocate to the current ground, Bowden’s Park, after re-joining the Cheddar Valley League shortly after the Second World War. The ‘shack’, as it was affectionately known opened in 1981 as a licensed facility providing the foundation for future Somerset County League success and was converted into the current clubhouse in 1987.

To coincide with the centenary year in 1992, the club built new changing rooms and installed flood lights, allowing evening matches to be hosted. Cheddar FC then advanced to Somerset County League Premier Division in 2004 and in 2011 gained promotion to the Western League Division 1 for the first time.

Cheddar has continued to look to progress each season and as recently as 2018/19 had a second-place finish which usually would have guaranteed promotion to the division above.

This was complimented by a good run to the second preliminary round of the FA Cup and the second round of the FA Vase.

The added introduction of the play-off system gave a new dynamic to the 2021/22 season where we finished 1 point outside the play-offs in what was an enthralling final game of the season.

2022/23 was a transitional period following the departure of several of the “old guard” players resulting in an opportunity for the previous seasons reserve team to step up which they duly did so and secured our position in the Toolstation for this season as we look to build on that.

Focus on....

CHEDDAR AFC

A big thank you to the sponsors of our reserve & under 18 teams...

With the under-18’s...

WESTERN COUNT IES FLOODLIGHT YOUT H LEAGUE NORTH DIVISION FIXTURES & RESULTS Date 2023 Thu 14 Sep Thu 21 Sep Thu 12 Oct Mon 16 Oct Wed 29 Nov 2024 Thu 25 Jan Thu 1 Feb Mon 12 Feb Thu 7 Mar Thu 21 Mar Wed 17 Apr Wed 24 Apr Wed 1 May TBA

Opponents

Ven. Res.

Scorers

AEK Boco Bristol Tel. Hengrove Ath. Oldland Abbots.

Brislington

H H H A A

W 3-1 L 2-4 L 3-5 L 0-2 L 0-3

F. Maddern (2), Diaw F. Maddern, Comerford F. Maddern (2), Kemble -

Oldland Abbots.

Bristol Tel. Longwell Green Longwell Green Hengrove Ath. Almondsbury AEK Boco Almondsbury Brislington

H A A H A A A H H

W 2-0 W 4-1 L 1-4 L 1-3 L 0-3

F. Maddern, Gwyther Kemble (2), F. Maddern, Diaw Gwyther Osborne -

WCFY LEAGUE - NORT H DIVISION T ABLE POS.

TEAM

P

W

D

L

F

A

GD

PTS

1st

Longwell Green Sp.

11

8

0

3

35

15

20

24

2nd

Brislington

7

7

0

0

25

3

22

21

3rd

Hengrove Athletic

7

6

0

1

22

10

12

18

4th

AEK Boco

9

3

1

5

21

25

-4

10

5th

Bristol Telephones

10

3

1

6

14

32

-18

10

6th

Bishop Sutton

10

3

0

7

16

26

-10

9

7th

Almondsbury

7

1

2

4

13

21

-8

5

8th

Oldland Abbotonians

9

1

2

6

7

21

-14

5

With the reserves....

SOMERSET COUNT Y LEAGUE DIVISION 3 FIXTURES & RESULTS Date 2023 Sat 19 Aug Sat 26 Aug Sat 2 Sep Sat 9 Sep Sat 16 Sep Sat 23 Sep Sat 7 Oct Sat 14 Oct Sat 28 Oct Sat 11 Nov Sat 18 Nov Sat 25 Nov Sat 16 Dec Sat 23 Dec 2024 Sat 13 Jan Sat 20 Jan Sat 27 Jan Sat 2 Mar Sat 16 Mar Wed 20 Mar Mon 1 Apr Sat 6 Apr Tue 9 Apr Tue 16 Apr Sat 20 Apr Tue 23 Apr Sat 4 May Sat 11 May

Opponents

Ven. Res.

Draycott H Highridge Utd A Worle (Cup) A Worle Rangers A Chew Magna A Tunley Athletic H Nailsea United H Burnham Utd H Sporting Weston A Peasedown Alb A Draycott A Yatton & Cleeve H Fry Club Res A Somerton Res H

D 2-2 L 1-2 L 0-1 W 6-5 L 4-6 W 3-0 L 1-3 L 2-3 L 0-9 L 1-7 W 3-1 L 2-3 L 1-3 W 4-3

Nailsea United A Sporting Weston H St George E-I-G A Somerton Res A Burnham Utd A Highridge Utd. H Tunley Athletic A Winscombe H Fry Club Res H Peasedown Alb. H Yatton & Cleeve A Worle Rangers H St George E-I-G H Winscombe A

W 2-1 L 0-1 L 2-4 W 2-1 W 2-0 W 2-1 W 2-1 D 3-3 L 0-1

LEAGUE TABLE Pos. Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th

P

Pts

Sporting Weston 20 St George 21 Nailsea Utd Res. 21 Fry Club Res. 22 Yatton & Cleeve 19 Winscombe 19 Peasedown Alb. 18 Highridge 19 Bishop Sutton 21 Draycott 21 Worle Rangers 22 Somerton Town 23 Burnham Utd 22 Tunley Athletic 20

53 43 43 43 37 36 33 30 29 28 21 15 6* 0

Fixtures & Results 2023/24 Date

Opponents

Ven. Res.

Scorers

Sat 29 Jul

Bradford Town

H

L 0-5

-

Tue 1 Aug

Middlezoy R

A

L 0-1

-

Sat 5 Aug

Wincanton T

H

L 1-4

F Maddern

Wed 9 Aug

Cribbs Reserves A

L 2-7

Lane, Hughes

Sat 12 Aug

Shirehampton

H

D 2-2

Lane, Nye

Tue 15 Aug

AEK Boco

H

L 0-2

-

Sat 19 Aug

Warminster T

A

L 0-5

-

Tue 22 Aug

Hallen

H

L 0-2

-

Sat 26 Aug

Wadebridge (FAV)H

L 1-3

Longden

Tue 29 Aug

Brislington

A

L 1-5

Hughes

Sat 2 Sep

Keynsham T

H

L 2-5

Hughes, Campbell

Sat 9 Sep

Bristol Tel.

A

L 0-2

-

Wed 13 Sep

Shirehampton

A

L 1-2

Hughes

Sat 16 Sep

Portishead T

H

L 0-4

-

Tue 26 Sep

Hengrove Ath.

A

L 2-5

Pile (2)

Sat 30 Sep

Radstock Town

H

L 1-5

Robinson

Sat 7 Oct

Cadbury Heath

A

L 0-10

-

Tue 10 Oct

Gillingham T

H

L 1-5

J. Capon

Sat 14 Oct

Portishead T

A

L 0-6

-

Tue 17 Oct

Longwell Green A

D 2-2

Carter, o.g.

Sat 21 Oct

Warminster T

H

L 0-5

-

Sat 28 Oct

Wells City

A

L 0-3

-

Sat 18 Nov

Cribbs

H

L 0-3

-

Sat 25 Nov

Bitton

A

L 0-8

-

Sat 2 Dec

Bradford Town

A

L 0-8

-

2023

Fixtures & Results 2023/24 Date

Opponents

Ven. Res.

Scorers

Sat 16 Dec

Hallen

A

L 1-4

Lane

Tue 26 Dec

Cheddar

A

L 0-7

-

Tue 9 Jan

Brislington (SPC) A

L 0-4

-

Wed 13 Jan

Middlezoy R

H

L 0-3

-

Tue 16 Jan

AEK Boco

A

L 0-1

-

Sat 27 Jan

Brislington

H

L 0-7

-

Sat 3 Feb

Bristol Tel.

H

L 0-5

-

Sat 10 Feb

Keynsham T

A

L 0-7

-

Sat 17 Feb

Odd Down

H

L 0-2

-

Tue 20 Feb

Hengrove Ath.

H

L 1-2

Rawlings

Sat 9 Mar

Radstock T

A

L 0-4

-

Sat 16 Mar

Wincanton T

A

L 0-4

-

Tue 19 Mar

Longwell Green H

L 2-6

Francis, Lane

Sat 23 Mar

Gillingham T

A

D 0-0

-

Mon 1 Apr

Hengrove Ath.

A

L 0-3

-

Sat 6 Apr

Odd Down

A

L 0-3

Thu 11 Apr

Cheddar

H

Sat 13 Apr

Wells City

H

Sat 20 Apr

Cadbury Heath

H

Sat 27 Apr

Bitton

H

2023

2024