Sandbach United v Wythenshawe Town

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2018/19 SEASON

Saturday 16th January 2019 KO 3pm

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CLUB DETAILS Club Name : Sandbach United Football Club Legal Entity : Unincorporated Ground : Sandbach Community Football Centre Address : Hind Heath Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 3LZ Telephone : 01270 768389 County Affiliation : Cheshire FA Year Formed : 2004 Record Attendance : 1400 v Crewe Alexandra Legends (2014/15) Previous Leagues : Staffordshire County Senior League, Cheshire League Honours : Crewe & District Cup winners 2015/16, NWCFL Division 1 (Reusch Cup) Finalists 2016/17

MEDIA Website : http://www.sandbachunitedfc.co.uk Twitter : @SandbachUtd & @SandbachFC_1st Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Sandbachutd

CLUB COLOURS Home colours : Blue/White shirts, Blue shorts and stockings Home goalkeeper colours : Green shirt, Black shorts and stockings Alternative Colours : Maroon shirts, shorts and stockings Alternative goalkeeper colours : Yellow shirt, Black shorts and stockings

CLUB CONTACTS Club Chairman : Paul Reel Club Secretary : Will Newton 1st Team Secretary : Paul Chapman Programme Editor : Jack Beresford Head Steward : Roy Lane Manager : Andrew Hockenhull Assistant Manager: Junior Brown Coaches: Roy Lane, Tony Ledwards, Scott Hardie Goalkeeper Coach: Andrew Kimber Executive Committee : Paul Reel, Mike Senior, Ian Dolman, Will Newton, Darren Williams, Peter Colclough, Sandra Buckle

SANDBACH UNITED – CLUB HISTORY Sandbach United Football Club was established in 2004 when Sandbach Albion and Sandbach Ramblers joined forces in their quest to improve the football facilities in Sandbach. Hence the R & A on the club badge.

In January 2004, the membership of Sandbach Albion and Sandbach Ramblers voted in favour of amalgamation, with the aim of playing as a single club from the start of the 2004/5 season.

Sandbach Albion was formerly known as Hays Junior Football Club and was founded in 1994, playing on the pitches of what was then Albion Chemicals. As health and safety issues became more prevalent in the 90’s, they left that site and for 5 years the senior home ground was at Sandbach Cricket Club. The younger sides played their games at junior schools throughout Sandbach.

Sandbach Ramblers Youth Football Club was formed in 1995 to provide access to schoolboy football for the youth of Sandbach. Of course there had been a Ramblers team in the town before, Sandbach Ramblers were initially formed over 100 years ago, playing in the Cheshire County League and winning the Cheshire FA Senior Cup in 1914, before folding in 1975 reforming in 1979 and disbanding in the late 1980s.

SANDBACH UNITED – CLUB HISTORY In 2006 Sandbach United formed the adult team, which initially competed in the Crewe and District League before moving to the Staffordshire Senior League First Division and then being promoted to the Premier Division for the 2008/9 season. In 2011, the club was awarded grants by the Football Foundation and the local council of over £2 million to build a 3G pitch and 9 grass pitches, together with changing rooms and an education facility. The Sandbach Community Football Centre was opened early in the 2011/12 season.

United switched to the Cheshire League in 2011 and won promotion to the Premier Division for the 2013/14 season before moving to The Hallmark Security League for the 2016/17 season. The clubs first season in the Hallmark Security League was better than they could have dreamt, winning the Macron Club of the Month in December, finishing in 6th place and the playoffs in Division 1 as well as being Reusch First Division Challenge Cup Runners up. Their goal keeper, Ryan Moss also collected two Reusch Keeper of the Month awards. In another first for the club, the 2017/18 season saw the club enter The FA Vase with a home 2nd Qualifying Round fixture against AFC Emley.

The club has over 600 players and 40+ teams that operate from its Hind Heath Road base. United have teams playing in the Mid-Cheshire Youth League, and the Cheshire Girls League among others, and the age range covers adults and veterans teams right down to Soccer School for Reception and Year 1 children.

Wythenshawe Town – CLUB HISTORY As it is well documented, Wythenshawe Town Football Club was founded in 1946 as the North Withington Amateur Football Club and was the idea of some young men who attended St. Crispin’s Church on Hart Road in Fallowfield. The first committee was held in the lounge of a house on Garswood Road in Fallowfield and in attendance was Eric Renard, Brian Honeysett and others.

Eric’s brother Stanley Hahn became involved much later, but then totally immersed himself in the club.

The club first played in the South Manchester & Wythenshawe League (1946 1958) where the first team took the accolade of Division One Champions in the 1949/50 season, before Cup Glory the season after with the side winning the Barker Cup. In 1958, a move to the Cheshire and Lancashire Amateur League saw the first team successfully climb through the divisions, to eventually be promoted to Division One at the end of the 1964/65 season. The then North Withington Amateurs went on to top the Division for an impressive five consecutive seasons. And in that time, they amassed silverware too, winning the Whitehead Cup twice as well as the Rhodes Cup, Aggregate Trophy, Hellawell Shield and Lancaster Amateur Cup. In 1972 and under the leadership of Chairman Billy Moore, the club applied and were accepted into the Manchester League. Success came quickly with the first team being crowned Division Two champions the season after their debut.

Three back to back wins in the Manchester Challenge Trophy started with the 1976/77 season to 1979/80, the latter also being the year the team did the double winning the Lancashire Amateur Cup as well as being awarded for Sportsmanship.

It was the Summer of ’74 when the club’s headquarters moved from the Princess Hotel in Withington, Manchester to the newly acquired ground at Timpson Road, Baguley, where Town continue to play their football today. At the same time, it was decided to name the new ground after the residing Chairman Stan Hahn and Club Secretary Eric Renard, hence the name Ericstan Park. The club also designed a new badge, incorporating a fox and a cockerel, the cockerel representing Stanley Hahn (the German for cockerel is Hähnchen) and the fox for Eric Renard (the French for fox is renard), to forever honour the club’s founding members. Not long after, in the early 80’s, the decision was made to change the club’s name to Wythenshawe Town FC to reflect their new home.

Wythenshawe Town – CLUB HISTORY After a long spell in the Manchester League, current Chairman Kenny Hope took the club to the Cheshire League in 2014 and at the same time, formed a five-year plan to get the club to semi-professional level.

Nobody could have predicted the success of Town’s Cheshire League debut in Division Two when they made national headlines winning every single league and Cup game; 39 games in total, earning the side the title, ‘The Invincibles’ and being awarded National Team of the Year. The winning streak continued the season after, taking the total to 49 games unbeaten before a draw ended the winning run. Nevertheless, the season ended on a high with Town runners-up in the MFA County Cup as well as League Champions, and promotion to the Premier Division in the CFL. Throughout the club’s spell in the Cheshire League, infrastructure was put in place to prepare for semi-professional football. A working partnership was formed with professional football club Fleetwood Town, providing the club with access to the very best resources such as professional coaches, advice on player development and commercial matters. The partnership puts Town in a better position to attract talented footballers with a passion to play, bringing winning players to the club, while Fleetwood have an extra pair of eyes helping them discover emerging talent. That, and the two sides enjoy an annual pre-season fixture, hosted at Fleetwood’s state-of-the-art Poolfoot Farm Complex.

The club made significant development to the grounds and facilities at Ericstan Park, to make way for the necessary ground grading for application to the North West Counties Football League. And while playing in the Cheshire Premier League, Chairman Kenny Hope set high standards across the club to ensure its operation, was professional and welcoming. The attention to detail paid off with the club winning Hospitality Club of the Year for the 2016/17 season, an award that acknowledges the hard work and effort of everyone involved.

The ambition to play semi-professional football came to realisation at the end of the 2017/18 season, after two seasons in the Cheshire Premier League where Town finished 7th and 8fth respectively. With promotion secured to Step 6 football and the newly formed Hallmark Security North West Counties League South Division, the 2018/19 seasons heralds a new era at the club.

Stone Dominoes 0 Sandbach United 6

Jack Beresford reports

How they lined up: SUFC Green, Pearson, Ledwards, O’Riordan, Stockton, Rowntree, Allcock, Buckley, Lane, Cain, Garner-Knapper.

SDFC Quinn, Kuzan, Griffiths, Emanwell, Wilkinson, Doody, Smith, Mellon, Gulinn, Hyson, Lewis Stone have been through all sorts this season, after nearly going but a few weeks ago due to lack of finances they are currently going through a reshuffle behind the scenes, manager Peter Griffiths has had to build his team from scratch after taking charge only a matter of weeks ago. His squad todays featured six debutants and only three substitutes.

It didn’t take Sandbach long to take the lead, in fact just 41 seconds had been played before Josh Lane picked up the ball in the opposition half before sliding it through to captain Chris Rowntree who danced his way into the box, skipping past a tackle before lashing it into the top left corner of the goal leaving the keeper with no chance. Rowntree’s goal was Sandbach’s fasted goal since Jamie Morgan’s goal against Charnock Richard in February 2017.

Manager Andy Hockenhull could not have wished for a better start to the game, he would have been more delighted when his team doubled their lead ten minutes later thanks to a second Josh Lane penalty on as many games. Cal Wilkinson hacked down Billy Buckley in the box and the ref showed no hesitation when it came to pointing to the spot. Lane stepped up and squeezed his penalty into the bottom left corner, the keeper guessed the right way but he couldn’t keep the ball out.

United were playing some really good stuff and their free flowing football meant that they couldn’t easily get in behind the Stone defence. Harry Cain played an over the top ball down the left flank to Josh Lane, he then played the ball into the box to Ryan Allcock who ran into the pass before shooting towards the far right corner, however his shot went agonisingly past the outside of the post.

As the rain began to pour down the pitch became very sticky and dribbling with the ball was becoming nearly impossible. Luckily for Sandbach they are a side that like to keep the ball moving and keep dribbling to a minimum as they try and pass teams off the park. United’s passing football was proving hard for the male shift Stone side to deal with and Sandbach make the home sides task a lot harder with ten minutes if the half to go as Kieran Garner-Knapper scored a contender for goal of the season. Buckley again found himself in space, this time down the left side. He then sent in a deep cross that was aimed towards Knapper at the back post, the right winger watched the ball all the way onto his right foot before volleying into the top right corner of the net leaving the keeper helpless. It was a superb goal, high in technical quality.

Sandbach we’re dominating the game and the cane very close to adding a fourth when Matt Pearson raced down the right flank before sending in a teasing low cross into the box, Ryan Allcock managed to beat the defender to the ball, however his shot from six yards was saved by the legs of the keeper. However, Allcock made up for this miss two minutes later as a low Josh Lane cross from the left was spilled by the keeper and it fell to the feet of Allcock who fired it into the top right corner.

At half time Sandbach’s dominance had seen them out four past Reece Quinn who took a knock to his left arm early in the first half so he was basically playing with just one arm as there was no sub keeper on the Stone bench. As the back room teams enjoyed the superb cream cake that was supplied by the Stone hospitality staff, the rain continued to come down and as the second half began the pitch was a bog.

The second half took a long while to spark into action. At 4-0 up Sandbach had taken their foot off the gas and they were just knocking the ball around nicely, trying to work the opposition into the ground. With half an hour of the game to play sandbach has their first shot of the half as Buckley cut in from the left and shot from outside the box but it was easy for the keeper to collect at his near post

Ten minutes later Sandbach’s fifth goal came when Ryan Allcock made space on the edge of the box before shooting across goal and into the bottom right corner of the goal, past the full stretched keeper who couldn’t get near it. With 20 minutes to go Sandbach bought on youngster Tom Williams and he came close to scoring his first for the first time when Ledwards’ cross from the left was cleared as far as Williams on the edge of the box who looked to lose his footing as he went to shoot which took the power out of the shot and it was easy for the keeper to hold.

Chris Rowntree rounded off what was a superb performance from Sandbach as he added a sixth with 12 minutes to go has Harry Cain’s shot from 20 yards was blocked and it looked up into the air. Wilkinson looked to head the ball back to his keeper but Rowntree intercepted the pass and volleyed in from just inside the box. In all honestly Sandbach could have had plenty more goals today but they had to settle for 6. Despite conceding six Reece Quinn in the Dominoes goal was superb and he made the score looked relatively respectable. Despite being bottom of the league Stone must take be proud of what the have achieved in the last few weeks as it looked for certain that they were going to fold and no longer be a football club.

SANDBACH UNITED 1ST TEAM WOULD LIKE TO THANK

Jack Beresford reports

Last time out: Cheadle Heath Nomads 1 Sandbach United 3 How they lined up:

CHNFC Tyrer, Coates, Stuart, Tyson, Hare, Benson, Warren, Graham, Tindall, Herbert, Kirby SUFC Green, Pearson, Ledwards, O’Riordan, Stockton, Rowntree, Twigg, Buckley, Lane, Cain, Garner-Knapper Sandbach had a break from league action as they travelled to the Proseal Stadium to face Cheadle Heath Nomads in the First Division Cup quarter final, a competition that Sandbach were runners up in during the 16/17 season. In the league the home side sit 10th, however they do have a couple of games in hand on some teams around them. Sandbach on the other hand find themselves in 7th, they also have games in hand which could become useful as they push for promotion. In all honesty the first half didn’t live up the pre match expectations of most people in the ground. It was a dull first 45 with very little chances. In fact most people had lost interest and began plane spotting as the planes flew over from the nearby Manchester Airport.

After 16 minutes of misplaced passes Sandbach finally had thier first attack on goal as Billy Buckley had the ball in the centre off the field and then spotted the run of Harry Cain down the right who had beaten the offside trap, as Cain beared down on goal the keeper came rushing off his line, the winger got into the box and looked to poke the ball past the keeper and into the near right corner, however the keeper managed to save the ball and tip it around the post with his legs. Fifteen minutes later it was the home sides turn to have their only shot on goal of the first half. Sandbach right back Matt Pearson looked to head the ball back into the arms of Matt Green, however Richard Tindall intercepted the ball and bought it down before shooting straight at the keeper from just inside the box. It was a let off for Sandbach for Sandbach who couldn’t afford any lapses in concentration. A very poor first half ended with the scores at 0-0. Both sides had the solitary shot on goal but neither had found the breakthrough.

The second half began in a much higher tempo than the first and the first chance of the half came via Isaac Graham as his freekick from 25 yards had the keeper scrambling as the ball went just past the left post. Ten minutes later the home side took the lead as Graham was allowed to stride into the box uncontested and as he got to the right by-line he fired it low across goal and Tindall was on hand to slide the ball into the empty net at the back post.

Sandbach manager Andy Hockenhull knew that something had to change as his side were struggling in the last third. He bought on both Lucas Baker and Tom Williams, both of these lads have been snapped up from the under 17s as they have impressed this season. Ten minutes after the substitution Sandbach levelled as Billy Buckley’s freekick from the left was directed into the net by Zac Tyson who headed past his own keeper who could do nothing about it.

That was the slice of luck that Sandbach needed The two youngsters had made a massive difference, their speed and directness was tough for the home side to handle. Tom Williams especially was causing havoc down the right side, his pace saw him continuously get fouled by the left back who couldn’t handle him at all.

Equalising had given Sandbach the momentum and when a poor cross field ball from the left fell into the path of Aidan Haughton on the halfway line, he then raced through past the defence and towards the goal, as he got into the box the keeper rushed out as he looked to close the angle but Haughton calmly lifted the ball over the keeper and into the net sparking scene of jubilation on the Sandbach bench. It was a great finish from Haughton who has found goals hard to come by this season so hopefully this goal kickstarts his season.

Sandbach had done brilliantly well to turn the game around and four minutes like Harry Cain put the game beyond doubt with an absolute peach of a strike.

As Buckley sprayed the ball across the pitch to him he brilliantly bought the ball down and the cut in from the left side before nailing the ball into the bottom left corner of net.

Three goals in eight minutes had killed the game off for United and left the home side wondering what had happened. At one stage they were leading and totally in control of the game, ten minutes later they’re two goals down and crashing out of the cup. The game ended 3-1 to United and despite being poor on the ball for 75 minutes they still managed to grind out a win, they progress into the semi final that will be a huge game for the club as a whole.

SANDBACH UNITED 2018/19 STAFF ANDY HOCKENHULL Manager

DONNY BROWN Assistant Manager

ANDY KIMBER Goalkeeper Coach

ROY LANE Coach

TONY LEDWARDS Coach

PAUL CHAPMAN Secretary

CHRIS CADMAN Match Announcer

JACK BERESFORD Media

STEVE THOMAS Treasurer

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Upcoming fixtures On the 23rd Sandbach travel to Cheadle Heath Nomads in a repeat of the First Division cup quarter final last week

Sandbach then travel to Beaumont Park on the 2nd March to face Abbey Hulton in a rearranged fixture

On the 9th March Sandbach are back at home as they face Cheadle Town who they beat 7-0 earlier in the season.

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Goals

Ryan MOSS

Jake ALDRED

Ryan ALLCOCK

Nia BAYUNU

Harrison BOSTOCK Billy BUCKLEY

Connor BROTHERTON Liam BROWNHILL

Jake CHADWICK Adam CLAYTON Brad COOPER © Jordan DAVIES Jordan ERDMANN Kieran KNAPPER Josh LANE Elliot LEDWARDS Jack McKAY

Brad BYRNE Liam CRELLIN-MELLIS Samuel FITZGERALD Adam FARRANT Lee GREGORY Danny HUDSON Sam HEATHCOTE Spencer JENKINSON

Yaw OPOKU-BERCHIE Declan O’RIORDAN Matt PEARSON Chris ROWNTREE Kris STOCKTON Dean TWIGG

Matthew LANDREGAN Ashley LEATHER Tom MEACHIN Chris MIDDLETON

Samuel PARR Ben PURDHAM Matty ROBERTS Grant SPENCER

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