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DUGOUT WAYNE JEROME

Good evening and a warm welcome to you all and everyone from Wincanton Town Football Club for this Toolstation Western League First Division fixture.

Tonight sees us go head to head with local side Wincanton Town, this comes after the postponement of our first scheduled game last month due to COVID. We will be looking to keep up our good start to the season but we all know derby matches are hard to predict and there are no favourites in these games.

Tonight we have the luxury of picking from a full squad for the first time this season and will be looking to stay in touch with the league leaders.

On Saturday we hosted Verwood Town from the Sydenham Wessex League in the first qualifying round of the FA Vase and ran out 5-3 winners. A fantastic first-half performance saw us take a 5-0 lead into the break with a hat-trick from Henry LawerenceNapier and a brace from Ollie Hebbard.

We made three changes at halftime, which is something we would not normally do and we switched the formation in the second 45 minutes which saw us lose momentum and we never really got going to match our first-half performance.

But never the less it was a cup tie and all about progressing to the next round which we achieved. The win has set up a game against Bemerton Heath, who are from the Wessex League, this tie will be held at home on the 25th of September with a 3pm kick-off.

I hope you all enjoy this evenings game and thanks for your continued support.

Wayne

CLUB INFORMATION Sherborne Town Football Club, The Consol Stadium Raleigh Grove, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 5NS Tel: (01935) 816110 Lifetime President Ken Mullins, Steve Paradise & Colin Goodland Chairman - John Bowers Vice Chairman Steve Paradise Welfare Officer Gemma Tewkesbury Football Secretary Jo Reynolds Treasurer Glenn Shaw

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BOARDROOM WITH CHAIRMAN JOHN BOWERS

Good evening everyone and welcome back again to The Consol Stadium Raleigh Grove for tonight’s local derby against Wincanton Town. I extend the welcome to everyone associated with Wincanton Town and hope you have a pleasant stay with us this evening.

What a first 45 minutes it was against Verwood in the FA Vase on Saturday! I do not think I have ever seen a better performance from any team in my time at Sherborne Town.

It was first-class football with some fantastically worked moves resulting in us going in at halftime five-nil ahead. All this when resting players in preparation for a couple of tough upcoming league games.

The second half turned out to be a little frustrating as we did not return to the field and produce the same intensity and hard work going forward as we did in the first 45 minutes, giving away three poor goals without reply.

Never the less we go through to the next round of the Vase in two weeks at home to Bemerton Heath. Another side from the Wessex League who will be a challenge.

Tonight is local derby time against Wincanton Town where the form book goes out of the window. This promises to be a very exciting encounter as both teams like to have the bragging rights until we meet again in a few weeks. So let’s bring it on!

Enjoy the game and remember 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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RESERVE TEAM

ROUND-UP Good Evening everyone. When we took the reserve manager role we were determined to build a link with the Under 18 team and start giving the young Zebra’s a taste of mens / senior football.

bench and Aiden Faulkner coming into the starting line up due to an injury in the warm up to Lewis Morgan. Spencer Crampton was also as ever named on the bench.

I am pleased to say that last Wednesday we managed to have a training game against the Under 18s and following that we signed three of their players, Keaton Cooper, Aiden Faulkner and Troy Cole.

The game didn’t really go to plan and a poor performance in the warm up carried on to the pitch ending in a 2-1 defeat.

Our goal coming from Tom Beeson. The only positives were the young lads coming off the bench and did not disgrace therselves at all. An afternoon to forget for the rest of us.

We also have Spencer making more and more appearances giving the squad a very youthful look. We found this game very beneficial as did the Under 18 management team. Now we have established this link we are going to build on the relationship, something that is very positive for the club as a whole.

We have a few home games coming up and we are needing to get the performances right on the pitch. Sometghing we are going to be working very hard to do. Hope to see you on Saturday as we take on Portland United Res with a 3pm kick-off.

Saturday we travelled to Poole Borough, looking to build on a positive performance from the week before. Two of the under 18s came into the squad. Troy Cole starting on the

Good luck to the lads this evening.

Ash and Marc

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NON-LEAGUE

NEWS

THE BEAUTY of watching football is not knowing what’s going to happen inside those 90 minutes.

Unfortunately, for me, I was on the wrong end of that last weekend.

The National League went crazy with 50 goals flying in across 11 games. There were three 4-3s, two 3-2s, three 2-2s and a 3-3. There were comebacks galore, red cards, own-goals and more big attendances.

The start of the National League season really has delivered a strong advert for Non-League football.

However, on the same day in the division, there was also one 0-0, between Boreham Wood and Stockport County, which myself and 782 others attended.

Groundhoppers especially will have had a moment like this, watching a drab stalemate as wild scores from around the country filter through. ‘Why did I pick this game?’. It could even be happening right now as you read this! Sods law!

There was a spell last season when, in consecutive weeks, the games I went to finished: 1-0, 0-0, 0-0, 1-1, 1-0, 0-1, 1-0 before Hartlepool United ended my torrid run with a 7-2 victory at Wealdstone. I’d put in the hard yards.

I can’t complain too much, though. A month or so later, I was at Ashton Gate, watching Torquay United goalkeeper Lucas Covolan score a 95th minute equaliser against, coincidently, Hartlepool in the National League play-off final. It’s cliché but it was truly an unbelievable moment. My brain couldn’t process what my eyes had just seen.

It was the first time I’d attended a game in which a goalkeeper had scored and it made the arduous fixtures gone before all worthwhile. For every goalkeeper scoring a goal, there’s several dozen 0-0s waiting around the corner!

Besides, if we knew how every game would finish, who would score and in what way, then football wouldn’t have made it this far.

It’s part of being a supporter too, each season different to the next, although usually with hopes of success often dashed as early as Christmas.

Football happiness is rare and short-lived. Here on Saturday, gone by Tuesday. Another fixture ready and waiting to deliver a dose of sporting reality.

In a strange way, however, as Boreham Wood and Stockport toiled to a goalless draw, it felt good, it felt normal, as the world continues to heal.

NLP reader Neil David wrote in our letters page last week how nice it was to be back in Non-League grounds after attending Mildenhall Town’s FA Cup victory over Yaxley.

“The chatter among fans, having a beer watching the game, seeing how much the players are enjoying being back,” he said, before delivering the crucial line, “I didn’t think I’d miss live football as much I have.”

And that’s exactly how I felt at Boreham Wood despite the outcome. I hope now we have learned not to take things, or football, for granted. Not even the 0-0s.

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Wincanton Town Football Club was founded in 1890 and played most of its football in the Yeovil and District Football League at Dancing Lane on West Hill. In the early to mid 1990’s the West Hill ground was sold to fund Wincanton’s new Sports ground development on Moor Lane to the south west of the town. The club continues to play here still today.

During the club’s recent history, they progressed significantly in the late 1980’s by winning the Yeovil and District League Division 2 in 1988/89, winning Division 1 the following season before completing a notable hat-trick in 1990/91 as they became the Yeovil and District Premier Division Champions.

Wincanton remained within the Yeovil league set up for the next few years and in 2002/03 with Mike Hatcher as the first team manager the side finished as runners up in the Premier Division.

This then allowed the club to apply for promotion into the Somerset County League to which they were accepted. The club adapted well to the new ‘Senior’ level of football as they finished their first season as runners up in Division 3 thus securing back to back promotions.

Town scored over 100 goals along the way. In 2006 and following two seasons of mid table finishes in Somerset Senior League Division 2, the club made the decision to move over the border to play in the Dorset County League.

Wincanton were allocated a space in the Dorset Senior League for season 2006/07.

The side managed by Wayne Jerome stormed to the league title winning a 20-game league season by a 10-point margin and as a result were promoted into the Dorset Premier League.

The club finished in a creditable 5th position in its first season in the DPL, and then followed this up with three mid table finishes of 8th, 9th and 7th. Paul Down was appointed as first team manager in the summer of 2010, and in his second season (2011/12) the club finished in 4th position losing just 3 league matches all season.

The following season (2012/13) saw the club do even better as Wincanton finished as runners up to Portland United. This allowed the club to apply for promotion to the Toolstation Western Football League.

During the season Wincanton won 25 of their 34 league matches and scored over 100 goals in the process. Wincanton worked their way through to the final of the Somerset Senior Cup and a 1-0 win against Brislington Reserves in a match played at Street Football Club saw Town add a trophy to the cabinet in the final game of a memorable season.

Things got even better as early in the summer of 2013 Wincanton received confirmation that they had been accepted into the Toolstation Western League for the following season.

A busy summer then lay ahead as big changes at the club had to be made both on and off the pitch. The committee worked hard to ensure floodlights, hard standing and

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fencing was installed on time to achieve the league’s ground grading rules.

Gary Johnson then manager of Yeovil Town Football Club officially switched on the club’s new floodlights in October 2013. His then Championship first team squad played a match to celebrate the switching on of the lights.

Yeovil won 8-0 but a crowd of more than 450 watched the fixture. In the league the team finished its first season in the Western League in a very creditable 4th spot scoring 116 league goals.

Season 2014/15 saw the club enter the F.A. Vase for the first time, however Wessex League Bemerton Heath Harlequins proved too strong and won the tie at Moor Lane 5-0.

The team repeated their 4th position finish in the league and were one of only two sides to defeat runaway champions Barnstaple Town.

A run to the quarter finals of the Les Phillips Cup was ended by the eventual Cup winners Willand Rovers. At the end of the season manager Paul Down announced he would be standing down after five successful seasons in charge.

Season 2015/16 saw Andy Mitchell and Chris Wise take charge of the club as joint managers. A tough first half to the season with a completely new look team saw the team struggling in the bottom three, however the New Year saw the side enjoy better fortunes and a strong second half to the campaign saw the Wasps climb to a respectable 16th position.

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This season also saw the club enter the F.A. Cup for the first time and Wincanton beat Wessex League Premier division side (1 step higher) Whitchurch United 3-1 in a replay at Moor Lane following a 1-1 draw in Hampshire.

That victory earned the club an away tie at Southern league side Winchester City, a tie we would eventually lose 5-1 but a good experience for all concerned.

The 2016/2017 season was the 2nd under the Wise and Mitchell reign and with a settled squad the club looked destined for a solid top half finish until injuries to some key players disrupted things around Christmas time and meant the Wasps finished in 13th place overall.

Season 2017/2018 season saw a management shuffle with Chris Wise being the sole manager and having Andy Mitchell and Gary Chapman as his playing assistants. A 10th placed finish was secured as well as a first win in the F.A. Vase, 2-1 at Bridport from the league above.

For the 2018/19 season Mitch stood down from his role as assistant manager so he could concentrate solely on playing.

To fill the role the club welcomed back former player Matt Peters to work alongside Chris and Chappo. Too many drawn games hampered the team – 14 from their 38 matches which meant the team had to settle for a 14th placed finish.

Season 2019/20 saw an improvement with the club in 8th position when the season was cancelled owing to the global pandemic. With most of the squad retained for the new season alongside a few additions, hopes are high of a finish closer to the top of the table.

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Bitton produced a second-half comeback win away at Wellington to maintain their three point lead atop the league.

After Dean Griffiths helped the visitors make a blistering start, their second minute lead soon evaporated when brothers Miles and Jake Quick both struck for Wellington to make it 2-1.

A strong finish from Ben Withey levelled the scores ten minutes into the second half, and it was then left to Griffiths to complete the turnaround, scoring his second of the afternoon 15 minutes from time. Second-placed Tavistock also prevailed in a five-goal thriller, with three different scorers helping them come from behind to beat Street 3-2.

Having fallen behind to Harry Foster’s 17th minute penalty, the Lambs managed to get back on level terms one minute before the interval when Liam Prynn headed home Josh Parry’s pinpoint cross.

Another header from Warren Daw put Tavistock ahead early in the second half, with Josh Grant then doubling their advantage 25 minutes from time. Street wasted no time in reducing the arrears, with Foster pulling a goal back, but that was as good as it got for the home side who remain in the bottom five.

There was late drama at Homers Heath, where Bridgwater beat Buckland 2-1 to end a three-match winless run. After 89 goalless minutes, Bridgwater were given the perfect opportunity to go in front and the reliable Jake Llewellyn made no mistake with his spot kick. Jack Taylor then added a second for the visitors in stoppage time before Richard Groves scored with the final kick of the game to give the home crowd some late cheer. Keynsham produced a scarcely believable comeback, scoring four second-half goals to secure a 5-5 draw away at Helston Athletic.

The Cornish side dominated the opening 45 minutes, finding themselves 4-1 up at the interval thanks to goals from Billy Tucker, Ryan Turner, Tyler Elliot and Josh Storey. The K’s kept themselves in the game, and despite going 5-2 down early in the second half, they scored three unanswered goals in the closing stages through Will Hailston, Sam Jones and Adey Harvey to snatch a share of the points.

Millbrook were another side in the mood for a comeback, battling back from an early two-goal deficit before beating Clevedon Town 5-2. A quickfire double from Glen Hayer and Alex Camm put Town two-up inside 16 minutes, before the home side got back on level terms thanks to two goals in two minutes from Jake Foster. Millbrook kept their foot on the pedal at the beginning of the second half, with Rikki

Sheppard scoring twice within five minutes of the restart, before Dave Youldon struck late to complete the win.

Mousehole added to Cadbury Heath’s early season woes, winning 3-1 at Springfield thanks to goals from Joshua Magin, Tallan Mitchell and Callam Mconie.

Oldland Abbotonians were the big movers on Saturday, becoming just the second side to reach to points this season following a 4-2 win at home to Lebeq.

An early own goal put the Abbots in front, with Cam Brown levelling from the spot before Aaron Mansfield turned the game back in Oldland’s favour.

Mansfield started by capitalising on a defensive error to restore the lead, before repeating the trick less than two minutes later to give his side a 3-1 lead at the break.

Ibrahima Sarr produced an excellent long-range strike to get Lebeq back into the game, with Oldland finally wrapping up the points in the closing stages through Josh Dempsey.

There was also a big home win for Odd Down, who survived two red cards during their 5-2 defeat of Tytherington Rocks.

On an afternoon where their indiscipline could have cost them, the home side had Luke Bryan to thank for much of their victory, with the sharpshooter scoring twice inside the opening 20 minutes.

Raphael Waugh then added a third for the Bath outfit, before Bryan converted a penalty in stoppage time to make it 4-0 at the break. Shaq Perkins added a fifth midway through the second half, with the Rocks scoring twice against nine-man to add a little bit of respectability to the scoreline.

Wells City have now won three of their last four after beating Longwell Green Sports, and there was return to winning ways for AEK Boco who tip-toed past Portishead by a goal to nil at the Greenbank Rec. Both teams went home with a point in the mid-table clash between Bristol Telephones and Gillingham Town after the teams shared six goals. After Tom Bevan had nutmegged the home keeper for 1-0, Gillingham found themselves two goals to the good inside 20 minutes when Aaron Rodriguez finished coolly.

The Phones then turned the game around, with Will Boyer and Zak Meadows bringing the scores level prior to a goal from substitute Sam Glasson which give them their first lead. The home side weren’t able to hang on however, and Gillingham produced a mini-comeback of their own to make sure they left Bristol with a much-deserved point.

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Hi everyone and welcome to Raleigh Grove, this week I have searched the computer box to bring you another football story.

GAMES THAT NEVER HAPPENED – BIZARRE FOOTBALL POSTPONEMENTS If you’re a Brit, or live on our sunny little island, you’ll know that this country just doesn’t cope well at all with any sort of adverse weather condition, no matter how serious it is. . A light dusting of snow, a half-hour downpour of drizzle or even a couple of rumbles of thunder – it re-ally doesn’t matter. The country will panic! So it’s no surprise that Storm Doris or Hilda whatever, the storm with the least scary or intimidating name ever, is causing a few problems up and down Britain, with worrying reports of wheelie bins toppling over and Southern Rail’s already terrible train service suffering as a result of some blustery winds. Luckily, come the weekend, Doris or Hilda should have passed and a full Football League and Premier League fixture list will go ahead unscathed. If not, it could cause some havoc for games across the country, but down the years, football all over the world has been cancelled for far stranger reasons than a bit of bad weather…

Unexploded Bombs In 1985, a Division Two match between Sheffield United and Oldham, scheduled to kick-off at Bramall Lane on Saturday February 9th, had to be postponed because of the rather scary discovery of an un-exploded WW2 bomb. During excavations on a road adjacent to United’s famous old ground, the explo-sive was dug up, and because of difficulty diffusing the bomb and getting rid of it, the game was played on the following Tuesday.

The case in Sheffield is not the only time an explosive has affected football, and in Serie B, a game be-tween Salernitana and Frosinone in 2008 was also postponed because of a WW2 bomb. It was found right outside the Stadio Arechi in Salerno, and the 60-year old device led to the evacuation of 6000 lo-cals, obviously meaning the area was far too unsafe for a match.

Flying Fiery Toilet Paper In 2009, FC Groningen welcomed Ajax to their Euroborg Stadion, and were intent on making a brilliant atmosphere, and roar their team on to victory with… toilet roll. Countless rolls and thousands of sheets of toilet paper were launched onto the pitch, but some home fans were clearly too fired up by the visit of the Eredivisie leaders and stupidly set their paper alight. The blazing bog roll caused fires in the main stand and on the pitch below, and also led to inhalation problems for the players and fans alike. It was no surprise when the Police stepped in and ordered the abandonment of the game.

Hooligan Hogs Bizarre cancellations don’t just hamper elite football, and

in 2008, a sounder of wild boar went on a rampage in rural Gloucestershire and completely wrecked Soudley’s pitch just hours before they were meant to host Charfield. The pitch had only just been resurfaced, and the boar caused over £1000 of damage by digging up the penalty area and creating pot-holes in the centre circle.

There are only an estimated 1000 wild boar in Britain, and as well as ruining football pitches, there have been reports of them chasing horse riders and killing dogs. They’re all clearly mental.

Madonna and Becks Cancel Matches Marseille’s first home game of the 2009/10 Ligue 1 season had to be moved from the Stade Velodrome to Montpellier because golden oldie Madonna had performed at their stadium two nights before, and her stage dramatically collapsed. The accident made the pitch unplayable, and even something Like a Prayer couldn’t prevent Marseille’s season opener from being ruined.

Another celebrity who forced the cancellation of a game was a player himself; David Beckham. Towards the end of his career, England’s second most capped outfield player was half footballer and half global icon, so when he got injured before a friendly between LA Galaxy and Brisbane Roar, it was bad news.

Many tickets for the game in Australia had been sold with fans just hoping to see Becks, and not really caring about the meaningless match, but with him ruled out, the game was simply called off!

Zimbabwe Postpones Football Believe it or not, some people think there are more important things in life than football, and that was clearly the view of the Zimbabwean Government and Police, who cancelled all organised football in the African country for nearly an entire month. The reason for doing so was because the Government want-ed people to concentrate on the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

So between 20th March and 4th April, just a week after the league season had kicked off in Zimbabwe, all games were put on stand still. Clearly, football has to take a back seat sometimes.

So there you have it – some extremely strange reasons have forced football matches to be cancelled. Let’s hope everyone stays safe, and Storm Doris trundles off somewhere else, before games here are called off!

Goody

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RESULTS JULY SAT 31 HENGROVE ATH W 6-1 AUGUST SAT 07 DEVIZES TOWN W 6-1 SAT 14 WELLS 5-1 WED 18 WARMINSTER TOWN 0-0 SAT 21 LEBEQ W 4-2 SAT 28 TYTHERINGTON ROCKS A-A MON 30 RADSTOCK TOWN L 3-2 SEPTEMBER SAT 04 AEK BOCO W 3-0 SAT 11 VERWOOD TOWN W 5-3 WED 15 WINCANTON TOWN H SAT 18 CHEDDAR A OCTOBER SAT 02 ALMONDSBURY SAT 09 BISHOP SUTTON SAT 16 TYTHERINGTON ROCKS SAT 30 AEK BOCO

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