Chairman - David Dent
Secretary - Martyn Tweddle
Treasurer - Diane Dent
Directors - Alan Boddy
Brian Burn
Carolyn Mulley
Paul Mulley
Norman Smith
Tony Bennett
Academy Director - Darren Tait President - John Atkinson
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We would like to welcome, players, officials from Ossett, for this evenings game in the Northern Premier East League.
After watching game Saturday and trying to get involved as much as I could, you can see the confidence of the lads is low at this present time.
Goals change games and after we narrowly missed taking the lead we conceded a poor goal and you are then up against it.
I thought we started the 2nd half well but just couldn’t find that goal, then we concede the 2nd from our corner and all belief seemed to dwindle, this is an issue we need to solve and try to instill some confidence around the whole club.
We need to go back to basics and start by trying to keep clean sheets and then build from there, tonight will be another tough test but one we should try to embrace.
1. Who in 1976 scored all 4 goals in a 2-2 draw ?
2. In what year was the original Wembley Stadium built?
3. Which country scored in 8 seconds v England in 1994?
4. With which club did Gordon Banks start his league career with ?
5. Name the only English player to play with the same manager at3 premier league clubs?
6. Name the last player to score a goal for Shildon?
7. Name the 4 scottish places that have 2 league clubs in them?
8. Name the only player to score in the Champions League, Premier League, League Cup & UEFA Cup?
9. Name the player that has had back to back trebles with 2 different clubs?
10. Who managed teams in the Champions League, UEFA Cup & Cup Winners Cup and won none of them?
Answers
FORMED in 1890 as Shildon Town, the Railwaymen joined the Auckland and District League two years later and in 1894 merged with the Rangers and Heroes to become Shildon United. In 1900, the club played in the new Northern League Division Two but folded that season due to financial problems – as did the Second Division.
A re-formed club joined the Northern League in 1903 to replace Stockton St John’s. In 1907, Shildon joined the semi-professional ranks of the North Eastern League, finishing second in season 1932/33.
Before WWII the club won four successive Northern League Division One titles; a record that stood until overhauled by Blyth in 1984. In 1937 the team was unbeaten on their march to the title with Jack Downing firing in a record 61 league and cup goals.
A replay win at York City in 1927/28 saw the club reach the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time. In the first round they have also played Brentford, Doncaster Rovers, Lincoln City, Scunthorpe United and Oldham Athletic three times.The last time the club reached the first round was in 2003/04, losing out 7-2 against Notts County.The club also reached the second round, in 1936/37 against Dartford.
The Dean Street turnstiles and distinctive grandstand were erected in 1923.A £45,000 grant saw new dressing rooms and a social club built beneath the stand 60 years later.
Shildon won the Second Division championship in 2001/02, scoring 135 goals and finished runners-up in two cup competitions.The following season they won the Northern League Challenge Cup with a 3-2 golden goal victory over Billingham Synthonia at Feethams.
Tragedy struck the club in February 2004 when 26-year-old player, Lee Hainsworth was killed in a road accident on his way to training. He had been with the club for six years.The Brown Street stand was renamed in his memory.
Bill Aisbitt, a lifelong stalwart at the club, died in June 2003 and the boardroom was named in his honour after over 50 years loyal service.
At the end of the 2004 season, the Railwaymen came under serious threat through financial difficulties when the former chairman severed all ties with the club.At the end of the season all the players and the manager left the club, leaving it crippled.
But during the close season, the club appointed a new chairman, Brian Burn who ensured its survival.The club survived a relegation scare and since then has gone from strength to strength.
In 2012-13, the club reached two cup semi-finals.A depleted side lost in the Durham Challenge Cup to Spennymoor Town.The match brought an end to the playing career of midfielder Chris Hughes after he suffered a knee injury. And there was more heartbreak as the side narrowly missed a dream day out at Wembley after losing their two-legged FA Vase semi-final to a late extra-time goal in the second leg at home.
In season 2013-14, the management team further strengthened the playing squad, bring in several experienced players in a determination to bring silverware back to Dean Street for the first time.The investment paid off with the club narrowly missing out on the league title, remaining competitive until the final weeks of the season.
But the club were able to avenge the semi-final defeat of the previous season when they faced Spennymoor Town in the final of the Durham Challenge Cup. On an historic Good Friday, Shildon striker, Billy Greulich-Smith added a new chapter to the club’s history books with two late goals – the winner in added time at the end of the 90 minutes – to overcome their local rivals by two goals to one.After missing out on the Northern League Championship in the 201415 season by one point, the team re-grouped and won the Northern League Cup and became Champions of the Northern League the following season.
Following the sudden departure of the Management Team, Chairman David Dent appointed Daniel Moore in January 2017 and Moore guided us to 3rd position in the League and a Durham Challenge Cup Semi-Final.
The first piece of silverware came at the start of the 2018/19 season with a 41 Penalty victory against Dunston UTS. During this season Daniel Moore guided us to another top 6 finish and the season finished as it started with silverware coming back to Dean Street after the Club defeated South Shields 1-0 in the final of the Durham Challenge Cup held at the Stadium of Light.
For the 2021/22 season, and after 2,896 games in the Northern League, the Club has been promoted to Step 4 of the Football Pyramid (Northern Premier League – East), the highest level the Club has ever played at.I
n our inaugural season in the Northern Premier League East we finished the season in a creditable 5th Position. In the play off game we were narrowly beaten by Marske United. Further improvements have been going on through the summer with the community garden now finished and open as well as a new changing block to bring us up to league standard.
Jamie Tunstall and Deano Browne were also installed as the new management team.
Black History Month: “The fleet-footed dark girl”
Emma Clarke’s story is one that, for over a century, was forgotten, and her name, important as it is to the history of football, was lost. She should be heralded among the pioneers of the game, alongside Arthur Wharton and Lily Parr, but it wasn’t until 2017 that her story was uncovered, more than 120 years after he debut. Without some determined digging by historian Stuart Gibbs, and a stroke of photographic luck, it’s possible that she would have gone unremembered forever.
Bootle has a habit of producing footballers. The Merseyside town has been the childhood home of Jamie Carragher, Steve McManaman, Roy Evans, Alvin Martin, and in recent years, Manchester United and England player Alex Greenwood. All of them were preceded, however, by Clarke, who was born there in 1876 to William and Wilhelmina. Like her more famous counterparts, she started her footballing career on the streets, kicking about with neighbours and friends, before being apprenticed to a confectioner at 15. She didn’t allow her sporting dreams to end there, however.
In 1795, another footballing pioneer by the name of Nettie Honeyball decided to do something against the derision that women had received in the previous decade. The first ever women’s match had been in 1881, and had ended with spectators storming the pitch in anger and the players barely making their escape. Honeyball was a pseudonym that the woman in question – probably Mary Hutson – used to protect herself from that kind of abuse, but nevertheless, she was determined to make her point, and founded the British Ladies Football Club. At the age of twenty, Clarke joined, becoming the first black female player in the game.
Clarke’s career for the BLFC is difficult to track, owing to the number of pseudonyms being used and changed throughout the infancy of woman’s football, and how many of those pseudonyms happen to have been Clarke. But a photograph was taken of the BLFC’s first exhibition match, a North v South game which took place in Crouch End, London, in 1895, which proves that she was part of this pioneering event. 10,000 people turned out to watch the spectacle, in which Clarke played (unexpectedly, given her home town) for the South side. It was here that a South Wales newspaper picked her out as “the fleet-footed dark girl on the wing”,
but in also referring to her as “ a coloured lady of Dutch build”, who played in goal, causing the confusion as to her identity and a century of her being misidentified as Carrie Bousted. But for the evidence found in the photograph, that would still be the story we believed today.
Her side was on the receiving end of a 7-1 battering, and the comment after the game was not complimentary about womens football in general, suggesting that once the novelty of the spectacle had worn off it was doubtful that there would be much interest in watching the fairer sex compete. But the novelty certainly lasted for a little while, and the BLFC toured the country playing exhibition matches and raising money for charitable causes, playing in front of tens of thousands, and at grounds as impressive as Upton Park and Portman Road.
By 1897, the exertion of travelling in this way had taken its toll on the team and the BLFC stopped playing matches, but the impact had been made and womens football was here to stay. Clarke joined Mrs Graham’s XI, a side named for the famous suffragist Helen Graham Matthew, who had played in the North v South match and set up her own team. Clarke continued to play until her late twenties, disappearing from the playing record in 1903.
Sadly, she also disappears from the census in 1905, leading Gibb to speculate that she died sometime before her 30th birthday. As with most working-class people in the historical record, the details of her life are not recorded and difficult to discover. But Emma Clarke definitely made her mark on history, and helped open up the way for both female and black footballers to ply their trade
in the twentieth century and beyond. Forgotten for so long, it’s important that these stories are kept alive.
Enjoy the game.
Martyn Green, The Untold Game
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By Jon Couch
AS FA CUP draws go, there really is nothing like the fourth qualifying round. Yes, the first round ‘ proper ’ (a word banned in NLP Towers), and third round draws will grab all the publicity but, for me, there isn’t anything quite like the euphoria of the final qualifier before the ‘big boys’ come in.
Give the change of the Non-League landscape these last few years, I would argue that the Holy Grail for all FA Cup dreamers starts here – and this week’s draw sure didn’t disappoint. Take Anstey Nomads for example. The lowest ranked club left in the competition as I write this, the Step 5 Nomads have progressed through five rounds to get to this stage for the first time in their history, culminating in a 5-0 victory over fellow minnows Shefford Town & Campton last weekend. Their reward, a home tie with Chesterfield, second in the National League with average attendances of over 6,000 and FA Cup semi-finalists in 1996-97. Who says the magic of the FA Cup only starts at round one?
And Nomads weren’t the only ones to pick a dream tie in the live talkSPORT draw this week. Beckenham Town, riding high in Isthmian League South East having won promotion from Combined Counties South last week, were rewarded for their 5-3 success over Binfield with a visit of Dagenham & Redbridge to their modest Eden Park Avenue ground. What a scalp that could be?
Elsewhere, Coalville Town were handed a dream trip to Notts County’s famous Meadow Lane stadium, steeped in FA Cup history, Sevenoaks Town were given a short trip to National League South leaders and Kent rivals Ebbsfleet United and St Ives Town were pulled out a home tie against top-flight strugglers FC Halifax Town, no doubt dreaming of adding their names to the cup archives. Underdogs Hanley Town, Stocksbridge Park Steels or Ashington and Clitheroe or Bury AFC - in their first FA Cup foray as a phoenix club - were also looking to continue the journey as this column went to press with Tuesday night replays – arguably the biggest games in their club’s history.
One tie which will stand out to the FA Cup purist, however, is Blyth Spartans’ visit of National League Wrexham.
You have to go back to 1977-78 to stumble across the history between these two sides and a fifthround replay played at Newcastle United.
After a 1-1 draw in the initial tie at Wrexham, the replay was switched to a snowbound St James’s Park and was watched by an official attendance of 42,187 – easily the biggest crowd of the season there and one which wouldn’t be bettered for 22 years!
Wrexham won the replay 2-1 and went on to lose 3-2 to Arsenal in the quarter-finals that season. These days, of course, the Dragons are owned by A-lister Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and have dreams of replicating such glory.
But in order for the Hollywood storyline to roll into action, they’re going to have to rewrite history and get past old foes Blyth first.
Lights, camera, action!
OSSETT UNITED; SOAP, AGADOO AND UNITY.
A warm welcome to our friends from the West Yorkshire town of Ossett as United make their second visit to Dean Street. United took 4 points off us last season, thanks to a 0-0 draw here and a late winner at their Inglefield ground as we lost 2-1 on a glorious spring day at the end of March.
The club are an amalgam of Town and Albion, both well established clubs but who realised four years ago that two teams playing at the same level in a town of 21,000 people was not financially viable. It was a friendly merger and one which clubs in our region may want to look at. Two clubs in Chester-le-Street playing at the same level? Two Ryhope clubs for many years?
Since the merger they have done well and hold their own in the NPL. This season, they have beaten Carlton Town (oh dear), Stocksbridge PS and Grimsby Borough, drawn with Dunston (33 on Tyneside) and Bridlington Town while they have lost to Stockton, Cleethorpes Town and Pontefract Collieries. A mixed bag there as they sit nicely in midtable.
I went to the game at Ossett in March and had a very enjoyable day in what I saw as a splendid example of a (relatively)prosperous Yorkshire town. The real gem in Ossett is their brewery. Situated on the edge of town, they have been there for a good few years and brew some splendid beers, the finest of which are Yorkshire Blonde and White Rat. Both are popular, both are very well hopped beers and both are far, far superior to the produce of Yorkshire ales brewed by John Smiths and Carlsberg Tetley. In fact, I shall be wearing my Ossett polo shirt and bobble hat to welcome them to our ground. It’s a shame that the town can’t offer them a decent pint.
I think it is a well-accepted fact that we need to improve our performances which, hopefully, reached a nadir on Saturday. Carlton Town were not a great side but they were well organised. They played a rigid 4-4-2 and that was too much for us. We rarely threatened their goal, while they forced several good saves out of a rapidly improving Matty Bateman. He is turning into a very good goalkeeper – unfortunately he is getting plenty of practice. The players were clearly frustrated and it seemed to me that the harder they tried, the less they produced. There was some head shaking in the crowd and the support was as frustrated as the players.
I watched Wilf Tray’s post match chat with Ian Clarke, who is now fully aware of the problems that he is facing in lifting the team out of the relegation zone. Good players who finish fifth don’t become bad players over the summer. Ian’s first job is to get rid of any negativity around the dressing room and get the players to believe in themselves and show what they can do.
We can make a start on that tonight. Hopefully, Ossett will still be down after exiting the FA Trophy at Runcorn Linnets on Saturday. Combine that with a hasty departure from wherever
they pick up players and the possibility of slow moving traffic on the A1(M) and we may catch them cold, rattle in a couple of goals and cruise to the kind of win that we racked up against Bridlington.
The other local teams are doing well. Stockton Town look set up for automatic promotion already and on the evidence I saw a couple of weeks ago, they have some promising youngsters coming through. The occasion was an FA Youth Cup tie with Morpeth Town which looked to be a straightforward win for the visitors when they took the lead twice only for a combination of slack goalkeeping and opportunist finishing to allow Stockton back into the game. Morpeth were 3-2 up at the break but the Anchors (silly nickname) ended up winning 54. That was one of three games I saw in a week where seven or more goals were scored –alas none of them were at Sunderland.
Hebburn Town are in third, although they went out of the Trophy against Warrington Town to a last minute penalty. I imagine Daniel Moore wasn’t very happy about that.
Consett are in third place and are looking comfortable in this league place ,while Dunston are in sixth and well in touch with the leading group. New boys North Shields are tucked into the middle group in tenth position, well ahead of us in 19th.
After today’s game, we have 3 out of the next 4 games at The J Denham Dean Street Stadium. After Tadcaster Albion away on Saturday (1 place and 1 point above us) we have Stocksbridge PS (3 and 5), Lincoln United (I place below us and 1 point behind) and then the rearranged game with Worksop Town on the 1st of November. They are eight and ten points ahead of us at the moment. The other three games give us the chance of establishing a decent base above the relegation/play off spots. The ball is very firmly in our court. Let’s hope the players can calm down a wee bit and play the football which we know they are capable of. Why the soap in the title? Well, Ossett is the home of the Cussons family and Thomas of that ilk, a 19th Century Chemist, developed soaps. His youngest son, Tom was responsible for
developing Cussons Imperial Leather, a soap that portrayed itself as a luxury brand at supermarket prices.
They are now based in Manchester, have extensive overseas markets (Australia, Nigeria and Indonesia being the most prominent) and are part of a large international group called PZ Cussons. There appears to be no more involvement from the Cussons family, who had left Ossett for the dark side of the Pennines and built their soap factory near Salford. Tom was a rugby league man and supported Swinton so he must have been a decent bloke. One of his antecedents became Chairman of Manchester City when they were still widely regarded as a cross between a disaster and a joke. Let’s hope we can clean up against Ossett tonight Boom, Boom.
Up The Railwaymen
Many Thanks to all our volunteers for all their invaluable help during the season.
General Manager - Michael Wilson
Gatemen - Peter Quinn
Andy Hilling
Maintenance - Daniel Tatham
Kieran Dent
Pitch Maintenance - Tom Finley
Event Co-Ordinator - Carolyn Mulley
Matchday Operative - David Race
Interviews - Wilf Tray / Chris Pearce
Programme Article - Peter Sixsmith
Kitchen/Bar Manager - Sue Charlton
Cleaning - Ellie Barron-Hay
50/50 Ticket Sales - Liam Stockley
Boardroom Hospitality - Sid Dent
PA Announcer - Dennis Duncan
Photography - Tom Clegg & Amanda Scaife
Ossett United was created on the 1st June 2018 following the merger of Ossett Town AFC (est. 1936) and Ossett Albion AFC (est. 1944). Both Ossett Town and Ossett Albion had managed to gain Northern Premier League status and maintain that level of football for a remarkable period of time.
The two clubs merged under the leadership of a new board brought together from the two previous clubs. The founding directors were John Chidlaw (OA), James Rogers (OT), Emma Chidlaw (OA), Dawn Rogers (OT), Lee Summerscales (OA) and Lee Broadbent (OT) forming the new Board with support from Phil Smith as CEO. John Chidlaw took on the role of Chairman for the first season. The Club made its new home Ingfield, the previous home of Ossett Town, and used Dimple Wells, the previous home of Ossett Albion, as its Ladies and Academy Team base.
On the pitch, the first year (2018/19) was a remarkable success with attendances significantly increased from what either club had experienced previously, coupled with success on the pitch reaching the play-off semi-final and winning the County Cup, under the guidance of manager Andy Welsh. Off the pitch things were not as successful with a number of resignations and board changes and some challenging financial issues to deal with following the merger. By the end of the 2018/19 season, Phil Smith had taken on the mantle of club chairman following a number of board changes.
Wayne Benn took up the managerial reigns in late 2019 following a poor start to the 2019/20 season, however, that season was ended abruptly in March 2020 with the onset of a global pandemic known as Covid 19. The season was null and voided. Off the pitch there were more troubles for Ossett United in November 2019 as a significant and unprecedented court case, dating back to a tackle in 2015 when Ossett Town were playing Radcliffe Borough, was lost with United facing legal
and damages costs amounting to £135,000. Fortunately, the club received a generous loan from two of its closest supporters to avoid the club going into liquidation (at worst) or selling the Ingfield ground (at best).
The start of the 2020/21 season started late due to the ongoing pandemic and virtually finished as soon as it had started with only eight league games having been played by United. This time the season was curtailed rather than null and voided and meant a second season had gone unfinished. Off the pitch Rogers and Smith swapped roles due to Smith's work commitments and Rogers took on the role as Chairman, a role he had previously held at Ossett Town. 2020 also saw the club declare Dimple Wells as surplus to requirements and made arrangements to surrender the lease making Ingfield the single home of the united club.
Last season saw many changes at Ossett United both on and off the field. After a strong start to the Pitching In NPL East season a run of only one win in three months saw Wayne Benn and Andy Hayward leave the club in December. Jas Colliver and Mark Ward were appointed to re-ignite the season and strengthen the squad which they did from day one. The duo saw the club go unbeaten at home with 7 wins and draws however the away form continued to be inconsistent. Off the field new dugouts were installed, before the erection of a new pitch side barrier followed by the upgrading of the floodlights to LED to bring the facilities to a high standard.
Colliver and Ward have spent the close season working hard to retain players from the squad as well as bringing in re-enforcements to strengthen the squad further as the club looks to improve upon the ninth placed finished in 21/22.
Management Team
Jas Colliver Colliver was appointed as manager on Christmas Eve 2021. His most recent role was at Grantham Town working with Carlton Palmer, he also has extensive managerial experience at Staveley Miners Welfare, Sheffield and Handsworth.
Ross Killock Ross Killock returned to Ingfield as first team coach after retiring as a player due to injury. Killock was a popular player here and played for the likes of Leeds United, Chester, Halifax Town and Scarborough Athletic. This is Killock’s first coaching role, he did oversee one game as caretaker manager last season
Gary Middleton Making over 1000 games as a defender in his playing days, Midi played alongside Colliver at Stocksbridge Park Steels and was his assistant at Sheffield FC. Midi has extensive coaching experience and will be a valuable member of the management team
Emily Crispin – Sports Therapist Emily graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a BSc Honours in Sport and Exercise Therapy. She qualified in first aid at work and trauma management within sport. Emily qualified in first aid at work and trauma management within sport.
Players
EDD HALL – Goalkeeper Edd joined the club in January 2022 and is widely acknowledged as one of the best goalkeepers at step four, being voted as the second best goalkeeper in the NPL East for the 21/22 season. Edd has National League North experience having played for Bradford (Park Avenue) and Farsley Celtic.
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JAKE TEALE – Goalkeeper Young goalkeeper, formerly of York City, Jake has impressed the management since their appointment with his commitment and desire to improve. Jake is a key member of the squad and has not let the side down when called upon.
BRAD BEATSON – Defender Beatson is a central defender who joined the club from Frickley Athletic and made 16 appearances. The former Sheffield Wednesday trainee swapped life at Gainsborough Trinity for Boston United in 2017 having spent the first season of his senior career in the National League North. Beatson was one of Colliver’s first signings, a player he has targeted at previous clubs.
DANNY BURNS Central defender signed from Worksop Town. A tall commanding player, Danny started his career at Cambridge United before spells at Buxton, Blyth Spartans, Nuneaton Borough and Stafford Rangers as well as a spell at Frickley Athletic alongside Brad Beatson.
HARRY GAGEN – Defender After a loan spell at Ingfield in 2020, Gagen signed permanently for the club on his release from Barnsley. Gagen established himself in the side last season winning the Players Player of the Year award.
ROSS HARDAKER – Defender Hardaker is a very popular with players and supporters alike. He played for both Albion and Town, making his debut as a 15 year old after returning to England after a spell playing in Germany. Despite talk of a talk of a statute being built in Ossett for the cultured full back the rumours so far are unfounded.
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MCONNOR HODGSON – Defender/Midfielder Summer signing from Barnsley who he joined at the age of eight. Hodgson is equally adept in a number of positions and made appearances in the Barnsley u23 side to aide his development. Hodgson was targeted by a number of clubs before agreeing to join Ossett United.
LUKE HOGG – Midfielder Popular midfielder Luke Hogg joined the club in September on loan from NPL Premier Division side who he joined in the summer after two successful seasons here at Ingfield.
MICHAEL HOLLINGSWORTH – Midfielder Holli is a fantastic signing and strengthens the midfield, he has National League North experience and brings experience, ability and leadership to Ingfield.
OLI METCALFE – Midfielder Metcalfe spent the second half of the 21/22 season on loan from Guiseley before making the move permanent in the summer. The central midfielder has gone from strength to strength as he looked to establish himself in the side. Metcalfe will undoubtably establish himself as a key player at Ingfield.
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CRAIG NELTHORPE – Midfielder A key player in the squad, Nelthorpe is an experienced player with football league experience at Doncaster Rovers and Darlington as well as playing for a number of National League sides. Nelly adds steel to the side and is always dangerous from set plays.
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GEORGE THEWLIS – Midfielder Young midfielder who has spent his youth career at Leeds United and Bradford City. Having trained with Ossett United he did enough to earn himself a deal at the club.
LUKE ALDRICH – Forward Summer signing from Eccleshill United where he scored over 20 games as the side narrowly missed out on promotion to the NPL, Aldrich is an unselfish player as he looks to create space and opportunities for his team mates whilst also being very dangerous in front of goal himself.
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OLLIE FEARON – Forward Much sort after in the summer a player Colliver was delighted to add Fearon to the squad this season, a player who averaged a goal every two games last season. Fearon is a hardworking forward with an eye for goal who will make the side stronger on and off the field.
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BRAD GRAYSON – Forward Signed from Gainsborough Trinity, Brad will bring experience and competition to a talented Ossett United forward line. As well as a successful nonleague career in England Brad has also played in Sweden, The Philippines and Australia.
IFY OFOEGBU – Forward Ofoegbu made an instant impact on signing from Grantham Town last season scoring the clubs goal of the season on debut in the New Year’s Day victory over Brighouse Town and became an instant fans favourite, cemented further with an injury time winner v Sheffield.
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JOE STACEY – Forward Versatile left sided player, Stacey had a four year spell in Virginia, US where he was part of a football scholarship at Bluefield College. On returning to England he has played for Alfreton Town and Frickley Athletic
JACK WILSON – Forward Signed on loan from Bradford City, Jack impressed for the Bantams in a pre-season friendly against Ossett United, the forward has great ability and will hope to follow in the footsteps of Charlie Wood and break into the Bradford City first team squad after a loan spell at Ingfield.
BASILE ZOTTOS – Forward Exciting forward signed this summer after his release from Sheffield Wednesday, where despite being 19 years old was a regular in their u23 side. Zottos has a desire to return to the professional game and had options to sign for a National League club but felt this was the best move for him
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Matty Bateman (GK)
Billy Greulich-Smith
Aidan Heywood
Ben Trotter
Jack Vaulks
Kurt Matthews
Chay Liddle
Dean Thexton
Joe Posthill
Michael Sweet
Alex White
David Atkinson
Jon Weirs
Wilson Kneeshaw
Max Booth
Vinnie Steels
James Boucher
Lucas Hallimond
Kory Whitfield
Karl Dinsdale
Referee
Alex Clark
Assistants
Matthew Davidson
Simon Williamson
Edd Hall (GK)
Jake Teale (GK)
Brad Beatson
Danny Burns
Harry Gagen
Ross Hardaker
Connor Hodgson
Luke Hogg
Michael Hollingsworth
Oli Metcalfe
Craig Nelthorpe
George Thewlis
Luke Aldrich
Ollie Fearon
Brad Grayson
Ify Ofoegbu
Joe Stacey
Jack Wilson
Basile Zottos