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DUGOUT WAYNE JEROME

Good afternoon and a warm welcome to Oldland Abbotonians Football Club for this Toolstation Western League First Division fixture.

It seems longer than two weeks ago since we last played a league game. On that day we entertained an in form Lebeq United and after trailing 1-0 at the break we came out for the 2nd half with a more determined attitude. we stayed patient until the 67th min when we were rewarded with an Alex Murphy diving header from a Haydn Hodges cross. Eight minutes later we got what proved to be the winner when a Dan Newens shot at goal was cleverly back-heeled in from that man Murphy to give us a much-needed home win and the three points.

Last Wednesday we played a team three tiers higher than us in Dorchester Town in the Dorset senior cup and what a performance the lads put in! We took them to the 98th minute when Dorchester scored with virtually the last kick of the game.

On the night I can honestly say the better team lost. Our work rate was superb and we never let Dorchester settle and we created the better chances in the game.

After trailing 1-0 at half time Murphy again got on the scoresheet to bring the scores level with his head at the back post from a well taken corner by Haydn. when it looked like we were going to go on and win the game we just couldn’t find that 2nd goal to kill them of.

As the minutes ticked away and extra time seemed on the cards we were dealt a cruel blow when Dorchester got the winner eight minutes into injury time. Neither bench could figure out where the ref found so much time from.

Having said all this I thought the lads were outstanding and set themselves a benchmark which they need to maintain through the rest of our league campaign, which starts today with a tricky game against 7th placed Oldland Abbotonians. A win today will see us climb above our opponents and move ever closer to the summit.

Enjoy the game today and many thanks for your continued support.

Wayne

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Good afternoon and welcome to the Consol Stadium Raleigh Grove. A warm welcome to all those connected with Oldland Abbotonians. I hope you all enjoy your visit to Dorset and have a safe journey home.

Our last game at home we hosted Dorchester Town in the County Cup. Dorchester fielded a pretty much full first team and I must say I was very proud of the performance from our lads and felt we were by far the better team on the night.

Unfortunately, we lost out to a very, very late goal from Dorchester which sent them through to next round. Football can be so cruel at times.

There was no game for the first team last Saturday so I ventured down to watch the reserves take on Dorchester Sports. It proved to be an entertaining

game but unfortunately, we were on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline.

Let’s hope we can push on this afternoon and get a positive result against an Oldland side who sit three places above us but have played two extra games.

A win today could push us up the league table and set us up nicely for the busy Christmas period that we have coming up.

Let’s all get right behind the team this afternoon and don’t forget to keep the faith.

COYZ.

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OUR HISTORY

AND HONOURS The club was founded in 1894, making them one of the oldest clubs in Dorset, they played their matches in those early days at Marston Road, on the outskirts of the Town.

They played county football with occasional silverware displayed in the town pubs. Following the opening of the Terrace playing fields just before the Second World War, this became the new venue for home games.

The Club then moved across the road from the Terrace playing fields in 1985 to it’s present home called “Raleigh Grove” fittingly using Sir Walter Raleigh’s historical connection with the town.

The Raleigh Grove site was built in 1985 on a grazing field, at the level of the raised banking that exists today on the north west side of the ground, this had to be leveled, to create a playing area, a task made all the more difficult as there was a pond in the far right corner of the ground.

When the site was built the club noted the regulations laid down for promotion from the Dorset Premier league at the time, so a covered section on the south west side of the ground was erected for supporters, also the pitch had four drains laid to aid the playing surface.

Dorset Senior Cup Runners-up - 1973/74, 2006/07 Dorset Combination Winners - 1981/82, 1984/85 Dorset Combination Cup Winners - 1981/82, 1984/85 Dorset Combination Cup Runners-up - 1982/83, 1993/94 Dorset Senior Cup Winners - 1982/83, 2003/04, 2007/08 Dorset Youth Shield Winners - 1989/90, 1990/91 Dorset Combination Runners-up - 1992/93, 2001/02 Dorset Premier League Runners-up - 2005/06 FA Carlsberg Vase Forth Round - 2006/07 FA Carlsberg Vase ‘Team of the Round’ - 2007/08 Toolstation First Division Runners-up - 2007/08

The clubhouse and stadium was a project due to the forethought of the then Chairman of the club, Mr. Ken Mullins, this spacious facility also incorporates the dressing rooms, bar, function room, kitchen, storeroom and toilets, including disabled facilities.

The record attendance at the ground is 1,000 versus Eastliegh (featuring ex-Southampton and England international Matthew Le Tissier), in the Andy Shephard Memorial match on July 27th 2003.

Four Football League clubs have played at Raleigh Grove, Plymouth Argyle, Torquay United, Swindon Town and Yeovil Town.

In 2001 the committee of Sherborne Town outlined a 3-phase, 5-year plan for the future development of the ground, the plans included a hard standing path on all sides of the pitch for spectators, a 150-seater stand to be erected, relocating the dugouts, improvements to the clubhouse, and the installation of floodlights. Expansion and upgrading the stadium has been ongoing every year.

The club joined the Toolstation Western League in 2006 after gaining runners up spot in the Dorset Premier League, exciting FA Cup and Vase runs have seen the club play from Cornwall to Suffolk.

Dorset Reserve League Winners - 2007/08 Toolstation First Division ‘Manager of the Year’ 2007/8 Kevin Leigh, 2012/13 Jamie Manley Toolstation ‘Hospitality Award’ Winners - 2009/10 FA Cup Second Qualifying Round - 2010/11 Somerset Floodlit Youth League South Division Winners - 2010/11 Toolstation First Division Winners - 2012/13 Dorset Senior Trophy Runners-up - 2012/13 Dorset County Youth League Division 1 Winners 2012/13

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1. Which Geordie played for England and managed the Republic of Ireland?

2. Which ground hosts the FA Cup Final?

12. Who was the first soccer manager to manage all three Birmingham clubs - Aston Villa, Birmingham and West Brom?

13. Who was the manager when England won the 1966 World Cup?

3. Which Joe managed Everton when they won the 1995 FA Cup?

14. Who went to Newcastle from Man Utd in the Andy Cole transfer deal?

4. Which Lane do Sheffield United play at?

5. Which London side did Ruud Gullit join in 1995?

6. Which London striker has played for Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Queen’s Park Rangers, Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham and Millwall?

15. Who were Asia’s two representatives in the 1990 World Cup Finals?

16. Who were the first club last century to win the FA Cup and the FA Amateur Cup?

7. Who was England’s manager for the 1990 World Cup in Italy?

17. Who were the first country to win the World Cup four times?

8. Who was Ian St John’s partner on TV?

18. Who won the European Cup in the first five seasons from 1955 to 1960?

9. Who was the England manager when the side failed to reach the 1994 World Cup finals?

10. Who was the first Footballer of the Year in England and Scotland?

19. Who won the World Cup in 1958, 1962, 1970 and 1994?

20. With whom did Alan Ball begin his playing career?

11. Who was the first Scot to make 100 appearances for his country?

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2010 was Oldland’s centenary Year after Bristol and District League handbooks of the 1920’s revealed that the team was founded as St. Anne’s (Oldland) in 1910.

St. Anne’s (Oldland) won the GFA Minor Cup at the end of the 1921/22 then lifted the 1925 GFA Junior Cup but had to wait until the 1950’s for further success.

Little is known about the club’s fortunes between the wars but they became founder members of the Bristol Premier Combination in 1962 and were promoted to the Gloucester County League in 1973, remaining there for twelve seasons until being re-elected as Oldland Decora in 1986.

The 1970’s was a successful period for the club; the reserves were District League division 5 and 4 champions in two successive seasons (1975 and 1976) and the first team won the GFA Senior Amateur Cup in 1977. In 1995 the first team were relegated from the Gloucester County League but bounced straight back as Bristol Premier Combination champions the following year.

ABBOTONIANS Pupils at Hanham Abbots school launched Abbotonians football club as juniors in 1947 and they enjoyed many league and cup successes in the early years, including Cup wins in 1961, 1966 and 1972. The club also won the GFA Intermediate Cup in 1962 and 1969 and the 1968 GFA Minor Cup. It also became the Bristol Churches League Under 16 league winners in 1959 and 1961 and Under 18 league winners in 1960.

Whilst playing at Longwell Green, Abbots were guided by long serving and now sadly passed away secretary George Threader, manager Jeff Evans and chairman Bill Holloway, whose son Ian has enjoyed tremendous professional success as a player with Bristol Rovers, Wimbledon and QPR and is now a successful football league manager.

OLDLAND ABBOTONIANS The two clubs merged in 1998, playing in the Somerset Senior League. The late Alan Bush was appointed chairman of the newly merged club. Oldland Abbotonians won the Somerset Senior League Division

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One in 2004/05, were Premier Division runners up in 2005/06 and eventually promoted to the Toolstation League in 2006/07. Derek Jones has remained with the club ever since and is now Chairman.

Lee Gibbs had led the club into the League before passing over to ex-Arsenal, Bristol Rovers and Portsmouth player David Hillier at the start of the 2008/09 season; Hillier helped them become the first ever Division 1 side to win the Les Phillips (league) cup, securing 7th place in the league as well.

Replacement manager Spencer Thomas and his squad managed to debut in the FA Cup and gain runners-up spot during the 2010/11 season but promotion was snatched away as the ground was not up to the League’s strict regulations so he and most of the squad left for Longwell Green.

A new management team of Paul Britton and Gary Brown arrived, planning permission was granted for floodlights and these were unveiled in November 2011.

The pair stayed at Castle Road for two seasons and led the side to a 5th place finish in 2012/13 but they too left and took most of the squad, this time to local rivals Bitton.

They were replaced by Nigel Lee but shortly before Christmas, Nigel left being replaced by Dale Dempsey.

Having finished 4th and been assured that promotion was imminent at the end of 2015/16 Oldland were disappointingly not promoted and had to start again.

with a host of new, keen and more importantly, local players.

The Reserves are managed by Tom Hutton and Steve Bristow and from 2018/19 a newly formed adult third team, The Colts, plays in the Bristol & District League, managed by Sam Jones.

The Under 18s are managed by Tony Podluzny.

In total, the club now runs three adultsides, a ladies team and Under-18s plus following a merger in the summer of 2013 at youth level with Deerswood Youth FC, 13 junior sides from under-6’s to under-16’s.

PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS Oldland has often been described as a nursery for Bristol Rovers with Vic Lambden, Peter Sampson, Brian Bush and Mike Tippets all playing for the club before turning professional at Eastville.

Former Rovers favourite Bobby Jones was one of many successful Oldland managers, a list which includes David Hillier.

Abbots rose to heady heights under the leadership of Alan Bush in the 1980’s with the help of former Rovers players Jeff Meacham, the late Steve Talboys (Wimbledon) plus Rovers favourites Graham Day, Peter Aitken and Phil Bater.

Among other youngsters who left Abbots to play for Rovers were Stuart Taylor, Phil Kite and Kevin Westaway.

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Hi everyone and welcome to Raleigh Grove, this week I have searched the “computer box” to bring you some random bizarre football stories...

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GREATEST FOOTBALLER TO NEVER PLAY FOOTBALL! For 20 years, Carlos “Kaiser” Henrique was signed to some of the best football teams in the world without ever actually playing for any of them!

The idea of “living a lie” is always presented as quite a dark and negative course of action; something people do in films before they throw themselves off buildings or make sad speeches or lose the ones they love; lose everything, in fact, as the lie eventually crashes down around them, forcing them aboard the late train to whichever unknowa-ble abyss of a new life awaits.

But what if living a lie could actually be really fun?

Not good, or especially noble, but something that nonetheless brings joy and light to your life and the lives of others, as well as excitement and noise, humidity, hysteria, lust, fame, friendship and stories with the vivid narrative mettle to outlast the lie, to outlast – possibly – a lifetime?

This is a meagre approximation of the lying life enjoyed

by Carlos “Kaiser” Henrique, “the best footballer never to play football”, as he is known – a man born in the abject poverty of Rio’s favelas, who scammed and charmed his way to two decades of ludicrous bullsh*t!

Armed with little more than a mullet, some Speedos and a prodigious gift of the gab, Kaiser – as he insisted on being known, possibly in homage to Franz “Kaiser” Beckenbauer, but more likely in reference to a beer popular in Brazil during his 80s and 90s pomp – was contracted to and affiliated with Rio’s four biggest sides: Botafogo, Fluminense, Flamengo and Vasco da Gama, as well as myriad clubs abroad he may or may not have ever played for. “I wanted to be among the players,” Kaiser says “I just didn’t want to play,” Kaiser adds. “It’s everybody else’s problem if they wanted me to be a footballer.”

In Kaiser’s case, the length [of his career] is what’s really extraordinary. You have a guy who be-comes friends with some very influential and famous footballers –

Bebeto, Carlos Alberto, Renato Gaúcho. Sudden-ly, you have a contact base of the best of the best. From there, it’s a question of what you do with it. Most people would go, ‘Cool, I’m friends with Zico,’ and be content to go to lots of good parties and possibly set up a business off the back of it.

But Kaiser created a barter system, whereby he’d sort everyone out with whatever they needed – and that could be absolutely anything – and, in return, he’d ask for a trial at a professional club, or for them to vouch that he was a pro-footballer. And these players, the best in Brazil, they bought into it.

He was funny, charming and super quick; he had that classic conman’s ability to think on his feet and rack any situation immediately in his favour. Even when you’re in danger, that ability to get people onside is the art. He got in with the mafia, took the blame for punch-ups, organised orgies, endlessly faked injury, persuaded journalists to write about him, paid the fans to sing his name at matches. The only thing he daren’t do was actually play, be-cause then his con would be exposed.

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“MALDON & TIPTREE??” a friend of mine questioned when sifting through the FA Cup first round fixtures last Sunday. “Who on earth are they?” (or words to that effect).

Queries such as this are actually quite common place for the Non-League Paper news team, mainly from those who don’t believe in life outside the Premier League.

So, on the day when Liverpool and Manchester City were locking horns in the top echelons of English football, it was perhaps fitting that the Maldon & Tiptrees of this world were enjoying their 15 minutes of fame.

Now one thing I must also confess is that when asked my “expert” opinion of all things Non-League whether Maldon & Tiptree could actually go to National League champions Leyton Orient and beat them in their own back yard, I told them to keep their money in their pocket! What do I know anyway?!

Once again, I had underestimated the magic of the FA Cup – but isn’t that what we just love about this competition? How does little Maldon & Tiptree, of Isthmian League Division One North actually turn up at Brisbane Road wearing a Barcelona-style kit and beat a team four leagues above them in the Pyramid playing like...well, Barcelona?

For anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating, take a look

at Jorome Slew’s fine solo winner in front of the ecstatic Jammers fans behind the goal? Jammy it was most certainly not.

And it wasn’t just Maldon & Tiptree who conjured up their bit of magic at the weekend. At the same time, Kingstonian were putting a thrown-together crisis club Macclesfield side to the sword at Moss Rose to earn a second round tie with AFC Fylde and ensure there will be at least one Non-League club at the third round stage.

Earlier, Dover Athletic enjoyed their big day in front of the BT Sport cameras by beating League One Southend United at Crabble. It set us up nicely for a Sunday Funday where Bromley held Bristol Rovers to a 1-1 draw and Altrincham stunned their league’s leaders York City to earn a mouth-watering away tie at Portsmouth, FA Cup winners of course just 12 years ago under Harry Redknapp.

So, with no fewer than 15 clubs left in the competition before next week’s first round replays – including another Step 4 side Chichester City, who were rewarded with an away tie at either Tranmere Rovers or Wycombe Wanderers after receiving a first-round bye – the magic of the FA Cup will no doubt return come November 30.

Hopefully, by then, the Premier League ignoramuses might actually have an idea who to put their money on!

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RESULTS AUGUST 2019 SAT 3 SAT 10 SAT 17 SAT 24 SAT 31

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SEPTEMBER 2019 SAT 7 SAT 14 TUE 17 SAT 21 WED 18 SAT 28

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