Old Bradwell United v Clapton Community FC - Official Match Programme

Welcome to today's matchday programme for our Anagram Trophy 3rd round tie.

A big welcome to our opponents today Clapton Community FC who have made the long trip from East London. We hope you enjoy today's game.

KEENO'SCORNER..

Welcome to today’s Anagram Trophy match and a warm welcome to the Players, Management and Supporters of Clapton Community FC who have made the journey up from London Both teams come into game in good form with Clapton having won 3 on the bounce and ourselves 4 These matches are always a bit of an unknown for both clubs but the expectation will always be of a tough game.

As mentioned our form has been good of late and really all season minus the blip against Clinton. We are hoping to be somewhere near to full strength this week having had availability issues for the last few weeks. We have had to chop and change personnel and positions a little in the last few weeks which is all part of the game at this level

We have utilised our Development squad a lot this season and will continue to do so as when they have been called upon they have been excellent

Our game last week at Eynesbury was a tough match and whilst we ran out comfortable winners in the end we had to work hard for the points, all the more satisfying when you are under strength. We do still have some long term absentee’s in Shaun, Smudge, Cos, Bhas and Coco but hopefully we can get some of them back in the lead up to or just after Christmas

Obviously I never set out to go for 10 years back then but its one of those roles which sucks you in and whilst it takes up a lot of your time you struggle to imagine Saturdays without it.

What’s pleasing is that there are 4 or 5 players from that win 10 years ago still involved with the squad now. Id like to think that overall the club are in a better position now than when I took over and recent successes has certainly made it worthwhile More so for the players who have given me and the club so much One final note is that Scott Valentine’s opening goal last week was the 800th goal scored since I took over which comes in 339 games a very decent and surprising return when I found out.

Enjoy the game

Cheers

Next week (1st December) will be my 10 year anniversary of when I took over as manager with a 3-2 win away at Wolverton Town.

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History of the competition...

The increase in ground and facilities standards for the Football Association Challenge Vase over recent years has resulted in a number of senior clubs no longer being able to enter the competition Lack of finance, planning obstructions or restrictions on ground development by landlords have meant that many clubs have found it impossible to meet the improvements

One League with member clubs having had applications for entry rejected over the years is the Chiltonian Football League and, in 1996, the then Secretary of the League, Tony Ford, put together a case on behalf of the League for the introduction of an additional national competition below the Challenge Vase. The proposal was submitted to The Football Association and considered by the Challenge Vase Sub Committee Unfortunately, the proposal was turned down In 1998, the Isthmian Joint Liaison Committee, comprising the Isthmian, Combined Counties, Essex Senior, Spartan South Midlands, Chiltonian, Essex Intermediate, Hertfordshire Senior County, Middlesex County and Surrey County Premier Leagues was reconstituted with the exclusion of the five Lower Feeder Leagues These five Leagues, together with the three Feeder Leagues, founded a new Isthmian Lower Joint Liaison Committee under the chairmanship of Pat Burns, the chairman of the Spartan South Midlands League

At the inaugural meeting in July 1998, the Hertfordshire Senior County League representatives raised the possibility of staging a competition for those senior clubs excluded from the Football Association Challenge Vase. Several of their member clubs had found themselves no longer eligible, due to the increased ground requirements and missed the inter League rivalry the competition provided The original proposals from 1996 were unearthed and circulated to the member Leagues and, with a few updates and amendments, were found to be acceptable being approved at the following meeting in April 1999 It was agreed that the competition would start in the coming season, be restricted to those leagues within the Isthmian Pyramid and, following suggestions put forward by the various league representatives the title of the competition was resolved; the Capital Counties Feeder Leagues Trophy

Entry forms were submitted to the clubs within the Chiltonian and Hertfordshire Senior County Leagues and, once the list of entrants to the Challenge Vase had been published by The Football Association, to all those clubs within the Combined Counties, Essex Senior, and Spartan South Midlands Leagues who had not been accepted or who had not entered the Challenge Vase Entry forms were also sent to any club that had been relegated from a qualifying League or division at the end of the previous season to widen the scope slightly and ensure a reasonable inaugural competition

Eventually, it was estimated that some fifty eight clubs were eligible to enter the competition. Forty clubs finally made application, and all were accepted Sanction from The Football Association was duly received, and the competition was underway Most rewarding was a proposal for sponsorship received from Iain McNay, the Managing Director of Cherry Red Records Limited, who wished to add the competition to his stable of football sponsorships The proposal, accepted by the Committee and approved by The Football Association, retitled competition as the Cherry Red Books Trophy with the winners receiving a financial award of £200 and the runners up £100. In addition, a sponsor's advertisement was required to be published in the match day programme issued by each club for the competition matches

2022/23 CUP DRAW

Round 1

Match 1 Shepherds Bush v Hertford Heath Shepherds Bush resigned Walkover for Hertford Heath

Round 2 - Saturday 22nd October 2022

Match 2 Galleywood 5 1 Sudbury Sports Match 3 Clapton Community 2 1 Battersea Ironsides Match 4 Sporting Hackney 1 4 Sungate Match 5 Larkspur Rovers 2 2 Cuffley (5 4 Pens) Match 6 Codicote 3 0 Lymore Gardens Match 7 Toby HWO The 61FC (Luton)

Match 8 Milton Keynes College 1 1 Belstone (4 5 Pens) Match 9 Brimsdown 1 2 OIR

Match 10 AFC Walcountians 2 1 Cricklewood Wanderers

Match 11 Totternhoe 1 2 Catholic United Match 12 AFC Caddington 1 3 Bush Hill Rangers Match 13 Sarratt 2 2 Kensington Dragons (4 2 Pens) Match 14 Kodak (Harrow) 1 5 Chipperfield Corinthians Match 15 Bovingdon 1 2 Sandridge Rovers Match 16 Hertford Heath 1 2 Ware Sports Match 17 Old Bradwell United HWO Aston Clinton

Round 3 - Saturday 12th November 2022 unless stated

Match 18 Old Bradwell United v Clapton Community (26/11) Match 19 Sarratt 1 5 Chipperfield Corinthians Match 20 Ware Sports 9 1 OIR Match 21 Galleywood v Belstone Match 22 Catholic United v Larkspur Rovers (26/11) Match 23 Codicote v Sungate (26/11)

Match 24 Bush Hill Rangers 3 2 Sandridge Rovers Match 25 Toby v AFC Walcountians (26/11)

Quarter Finals - Saturday 11th March 2023

Match 26 Winners Match 19 v Winners Match 22 Match 27 Winners Match 21 v Winners Match 23 Match 28 Winners Match 18 v Winners Match 25 Match 29 Winners Match 24 v Winners Match 20

Semi Finals - Saturday 1st April 2023

Match 30 Winners Match 26 v Winners Match 27 Match 31 Winners Match 29 v Winners Match 28

Cup Final – Date and Venue To Be Advised

Match 32 Winners Match 31 v Winners Match 30

A W O R D F R O M

Afternoon all. Our favourite day of the week is back again

A quick shout out to everyone behind the scenes pushing the club in the right direction consistently This is evident with the new goals, Veo, social media work, pitch improvements etc You’re giving the players a perfect platform to start from… but can we please get some better lager on draft?

My thoughts on the season so far; I feel we started the season well, but never reached our full playing potential early on I think the lads know we could have performed better, yet we still dug out some good results, playing some good football along the way We all know it’s all about the three points come Saturday and picking up maxiumum points bar a minor blip at Clinton is top draw. So fair play to the boys!

Recent weeks we have been getting back to our best and playing some enjoyable football, as the results themselves have shown. I think we all agree, when we ’ re at it, there’s no better place to be than our changing room when we are winning. So let’s stay focused and take each week as it comes

H E S K I P P E R

With some key players to come back in, we will no doubt keep on improving The depth we have in the first and development squads has served us well in recent weeks and the lads who have deserved their shot are getting them and no doubt will continue too.

Looking forward to today’s game, we welcome Clapton Community, who have a strong social media presence, and it’s always nice to see a fan run club, rather than these greedy owners like Clive! Today makes for an interesting game with both teams at the same step on the football pyramid and equally doing well in their respective leagues plus we all love knock out football We are looking forward to this one

Id like to finish on a quick thank you to all of you who come out to support us week in week out, home and away. Your support is very much appreciated and felt by the players, and that shows on the pitch Hopefully we can keep performing and getting the results we all turn up for on a Saturday

“This is football heritage”

Thank you SO’N 6,7,8

OUR VISITOR'S...

CLAPTON COMMUNITY FC

Currently based between Walthamstow and Newham, Clapton Community FC was founded in 2018 with a fully fan owned, democratic model, allowing fans to have a say and get involved in running the club Each of the 1,700+ members can vote on important issues and join the clubs committees

The club has a women ’ s first team playing in the Greater London Women’s Football League Premier Division, as well as men ’ s and women ’ s Development teams, Beginners, 5s, Young Tons and even a cricket team.

As the name suggests, having a positive impact in the local community is key to their activities Their charity partner is the Magpie Project, supporting mums and young children They collect for foodbanks and have donated thousands to good causes.

In 2021 they won the Football Supporters Association Lockdown Heroes Award in recognition of the Hardship Fund Clapton Against Coronavirus Members pay in if they can afford it, and the funds are given to those with short term need Since March 2020 over £15,000 has been donated and distributed.

The club gained a lot of media attention at home and abroad due to the success of their purple, red and yellow away kit, a homage to the International Brigades who volunteered to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War This went viral and has sold over 16,000 shirts so far.

In their first season, their men ’ s first team won promotion to the MCFL Premier by winning the MCFL Division One (East and Central) title, ahead of fellow promotees Stonewall, NW London and London Samurai In that season they also won the Jim Rogers Cup defeating Hilltop on penalties and reached the Anagram Records Trophy final

The team finished 2021/22 third in the MCFL Premier, and were victorious in the Alec Smith Cup Winning the final dramatically on penalties after dragging the game back to 2 2 from 2 0 down.

In a massive coup for the club, in Autumn 2019 they won the lease to the Old Spotted Dog Ground in Forest Gate A few months later, the club bought the freehold The women ’ s first team are playing at the OSD this season, with the men ’ s team following soon after.

L1 L1

Stats as of season 15/16 onwards,including COVID 19 affected seasons

PLAYER

Name: Ewan Keene Age: 21 Position: Centre Back Year Joined the Club: 2017

Number of Apps: 119 Number of Goals: 6 Favourite Team(s): Arsenal, Celtic, Brentford Favourite Player: Tony Adams, Ben White Favourite Football Moment: Old Bradwell winning County Cup Football

Ambition: Win as much as possible and enjoy playing with my mates down Old Bradwell.

Teammates...

Worst Haircut: Before his hair cut i would of said Bhas and his iced gem look, but now i have to say Ross Butler and his attempt at holding onto his hair"

Worst Trainer: "Aaron Bhasin, hands down". Biggest Moaner: "Dale Collins"

Worst Clobber: "I've got two people for this; Jamie Cox and Aaron Bhasin. Ones got a wardrobe from 2007 and the other has some rather questionable items of clothing i'll let you decide which is which"

Teachers Pet: "The son my old man never had; Ross Butler"

Future OB Manager: "Shaun Ennis"

Finally, favourite OB Player - Past or Present: "Sammy O'Neill"

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FIXTURES/RESULTS

THEDEVS

Our development side have made a strong start to the season, currently sitting in 3rd place in the Hellenic Division Two North. They remain 7 points off of top spot with two games in hand on leaders Winslow United Dev with all to play for heading into the second part of the season

Having dropped just 2 points through the first 6 games of the season the Devs headed to Headington sat 2nd in the league, and came away on the wrong end of a deserved 2 0 scoreline This was followed up by a heavy 0 5 defeat in the Bluefin Challenge trophy at home against Division 1 high flyers Milton United albeit the game was arguably closer than the scoreline suggests, a number of key absentees and missed chances made the afternoon all the more difficult

They bounced back last weekend at home to Aston Clinton Sports with a comfortable 4 0 win with the goals coming from Lewis Dazley, Wellsy, his 4th of the season, Ben Green and a penalty cooly despatched from Sam Cox

looking ahead, this weekend they head to Aston Clinton for the reverse fixture hoping for a similar outcome to last weekend. Further down the line in the second half of the season are two fixtures against leaders Winslow, with chances to make up the current point gap

Y O U T H U18s

4 wins from 4 to start the season see's our u18 side sitting top of the MK and District Development league Division 1. A resounding 5-0 win last time out against bottom of the league Stony with goals from Matthew Haworth, Prosper Sube, Enaan Hussain and 2 from Kian Walshe.

Next fixture for the u18s is the 4th December at home to MK Warriors U18 Eagles. 14:00 kick off at Abbey Road.

U16s

A mixed start to Ewan's U16 side with 3 wins and 4 losses to start the season. last Saturday they were comfortably beaten 1-3 at home to Winslow United u16 tigers with OB goal being a late consolation.

This Saturday they are away to Hanslope Hornets u16s which is expected to be another tough game