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THE EMIRATES FA CUP 2019 – 20
PRELIMINARY ROUND
SITTINGBOURNE V UXBRIDGE
SATURDAY 24 TH AUGUST 2019 KO 3.00PM
Season 2019-20, Programme 2

Sittingbourne Football Club is a UK company limited by guarantee:
Company registration number, 11360242.
Registered office: The Martin & Conley Stadium,Woodstock Park,
Broadoak Road, Sittingbourne, ME9 8AG
Who’s who
President: Alan Barty
Vice Presidents: Tania Spice, Andy Spice, and John Cooper.
Directors: Maurice Dunk (Chairman), Ken Medwyn (Vice
Chairman), Peter Pitts (Company Secretary) , John Pitts
(Football Secretary / Treasurer). Colin Page, Alan Barty, Glen
Parkes, Mick Sayce, Andrew Marjeram (Non Exec).
Other Committee members : Danny Appleton (Turnstile
Manager). Roger Pudner (Groundsman), Edward Lucas
Assistant First Team Secretary.
Other Key Personnel: Faye Goatham (Turnstile), Jackie
Mount (Programme sales), Tony Rickson (Match reporter),
Sandra Pitts & Lynne Lucas (Boardroom), Clive Phillips
(Club shop), Dudley Hird & Tony Rickson (Club Historians).
Roger Wilkins (Head Steward)
The Isthmian League and Singbourne FC strongly supports the FA
statement that there should be a zero tolerance approach against
racism and all forms of discriminaon. Accordingly any form of discriminatory
abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity , sexual
orientaon, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse
will be reported to the Football Associaon for acon by that Associaon.
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SITTINGBOURNE V UXBRIDGE
SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST 2019, KO 3.00PM
Manager: Chris Lynch
Ast Manager: Nathan Elder
Coaches: Darren Blackburn, Josh Hall,
Physio: Marc Wheeler
Kit Manager: Warren Chambers
Team Assistant: Harry Chambers
Manager: Danny Edwards
Assistant Manager: Fred Cummins
Coach: John Carroll, Daniel Neilson
Physio: Mirko Vracar
G/K Coach: Shaka Mughal, Sean Dawson
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Alexander Bradley (Brighton)
Assistants: David Ellis (Brighton), Duncan Brooker
GOALS
SUBSTITUTE
PLAYER NO
GOALS
SUBSTITUTE
PLAYER NO
1. Tom Benham
2. Lewis West
3. Emmanuel Ndew
4. Lewis Chambers
5. Cory Walters-Wright
6. Lex Allan
7. Enoch Adjei
8. Chris Webber
9. Shaun Brown
10. Tom Fagg
11. Chris Barnard
12. Hamilton
14. Jason Fregene
15. Tyron Guthrie
16. Kane Phillip
17. Festus Lori
18. Johan Caney Bryan
19. Roman Campbell
20. Stefan Lawrence
21. Caleb Roberts
22. Joshua Oliver
Paul McCarthy
Abdul Kazi
Mark Goodman
Alan Hedley
David Thomas
Mark McLeod
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The Secretary’s Jottings
Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the Martin & Conley Stadium for the Preliminary round of
the greatest cup competition in the world – the Emirates FA Cup.
Our visitors are Isthmian league North side Uxbridge. Uxbridge are a team that we played whilst
both sides were in the Southern League in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons. To say our
record is poor against Uxbridge is an understatement as we lost all four league matches over
those two seasons. Hopefully, from our point of view it’s time for a change.
Last Tuesday we played Cray Valley PM. An experienced team that had a few ex league players
in their ranks and managed by ex-Brickie, Kevin Watson. I read a lot of criticism about this match
from supporters which I do not agree with. This was a much better performance than the match
at Whitstable. We matched Cray Valley for long periods and went close on a number of occasions.
Supporters have to realise that Cray Valley have large resources that we simply do not
have. Being finalists in the FA Vase, a match that was shown live on BT Sport, and the money
they made on the run to the final has set them up to be league champion favourites. Not many
teams will get points from them this season I’m sure.
Would you like our main stand named after you for the rest of this season or do you know a company
that may be interested? For a £10.00 outlay this would be possible if you are the winner of
the draw that will take place soon. Our commercial director, Andrew Marjeram, has organised the
competition. You can join by giving your £10. To Andrew or any committee member or Director.
The winner of today’s match will receive £2,890. This season the FA have introduced a payment
for the losing team. In this round it is £960.00. If there is a replay of today’s match it will take
place on Tuesday 3 rd September.
On Monday we visit Ramsgate for a 3:00pm kick off.
Enjoy the game
John
Your name on the stand for the season
e mail commercial@sittingbournefc.com

Hello Everyone
It’s that exciting Emirates FA Cup time when we all dream of Wembley (and not Wembley FC
Vale Farm—which I have visited some 30+ years ago !).
As John has said in his notes, we don't have a good record against Uxbridge, but a glance at
the league tables later in in this programme shows a remarkable coincidence that both teams
have identical records. Of course with the unfortunate circumstance of us losing our point, that
isn’t exactly true. It's still strange and I suppose it all points to their being two drawn games and
the decision going to a penalties decider!
The new website is coming along nicely and the timetable now is to figure out how to transfer it
to our existing host and then to update it. This will then be followed by a period of
familiarization for me and then exhaustive testing, phew!! It will then be ready to be formally
launched. There will then be two websites. Its likely that the domain name
www.sittingbournefc.co.uk will be the main one, with sittingbournefc.uk being the archive and
also including occasional other content.
The first managerial casualty of the BetVictor Isthmian League has been announced and it’s the
Aveley management team of Danny Dafter and Gary Heywood who have departed.
The manager was quoted as saying that “In hindsight we shouldn’t have agreed to take on the
job for the season”. The departure comes after the Millers have drawn their first two games.
Now I can only speculate, but if you have been to to the new Aveley ground you will have seen
what a fantastic facility it is. Great clubhouse, conference hall, bars plus state of the art 3G
pitch and LED flood-lights, so I am wondering if the two draws are not enough for the
ambitious board and perhaps, despite the facilities, the playing budget is not there. I’m afraid
that money talks at all levels of football and its therefore no different at our level where the
monied clubs will be the ones to be promoted. That’s why we are grateful to our new
Commercial Director for what he is doing as we do of course rely on our sponsors.
A regular topic on Twitter is the cost of attending football matches at all levels but especially at
the lower levels. We reluctantly put our normal entry fee up to £10 this season but still it doesn’t
take a mathematician to realise that gate money alone can’t sustain a club. John has spoken
about the success of the Paul Merson event, however the price of tickets for that had to be on
the steep side to make it worthwhile but we are planning on much lower price events which we
hope you will support, more details on that when the events have been finalised.
On the topic of money there has been an amazing rant by the Boreham Wood Chairman who is
bemoaning the fact that his Vanarama National League club gets only 400 supporters at home
games. The article began “After Saturday’s disappointing 1-0 home defeat against Sutton United,
played out in front of a paltry crowd of just 407 that included 130 away fans .” The Chairman
went on to say that they are getting over 500 less supporters than the average Vanarama National
League club. He said “I can’t keep wasting my money if the apathy of a Town continues
and it won’t support a club to compete at National League level.” This article is well worth a
read at https://www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk/uncategorized/lack-of-support-a-concern/
Enjoy the game and lets hope that we can have a good FA Cup run, which in all the years that I
have supported the club has been a rarity.
Finnaly I have included details of how to get to Uxbridge’s game in the event of a draw.
Peter
From the Programme Editor

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Uxbridge — A Brief History
In the late 19th century the game of “football”
was growing in popularity and on the 3rd February
1871 a group of eminent local businessmen
held the inaugural meeting of Uxbridge Football
Club. A local solicitor, Mr William Gardiner, was
elected as the Club’s President and the club’s
colours were chosen as white shirts with a light
blue Maltese cross and a light blue velvet cap
with silver tassel. Friendly games against local
opposition were played in the early years, until
the FA Cup was entered in 1873. A First Round
Victory over Gitanos set-up a Second-Round tie
against eventual finalists Royal Engineers,
which the Engineers narrowly won 2-1. It was at
this time that Uxbridge could boast amongst its
ranks a Full England International. Hubert
Heron played for England on two occasions
whilst an Uxbridge player before he moved to
Wanderers FC where he gained further international
honours. His brother Francis, formerly of
Uxbridge, also played for England after joining
him at Wanderers FC.
The club changed its colours to Oxford Blue
and Cambridge Blue shirts in 1874 but they
were in financial difficulties and folded later that
year. The main problem for Uxbridge was the
lack of a permanent home ground (a problem
that was to plague them until the middle of the
next century), the committee searched the town
for a suitable base but were thwarted at every
turn and they led a nomadic existence, moving
ground every few years. The enthusiasm for a
team in Uxbridge was still prevalent and the
Club was reformed in 1879. In 1886 Uxbridge
FC amalgamated with another local club, Uxbridge
Crescents, and played under this name
in season 1886/87, before reverting to plain old
Uxbridge the following season. It was at this
time that the Red Shirts, which are still worn
today, were adopted and the nickname “The
Reds” was born. Their first trophy was won in
1889 when they lifted the West Middlesex Cup,
defeating Colnbrook 1-0 in the Final. The end of
the 19th century was a particularly successful
period for The Reds as they won the West Middlesex
Cup on three further occasions and also
won the prestigious Middlesex Senior Cup
twice. In 1894 they beat the 3rd Grenadier
Guards 2-0 and repeated that success two
years later with a 3-2 victory over local rivals
Southall in a replay in front of over 5000 spectators.
The outstanding achievement however
was in reaching the final of the F.A. Amateur
Cup in 1898. This was the clubs first season in
the competition and they had to win eight ties
before meeting Middlesborough in the final at
Crystal Palace.
Unfortunately, their North East rivals proved too
strong for them on the day and ran out 2-0 winners.
During this successful period for the club
they became founder members of Division Two
of the Southern League in 1894, finishing fourth
in their first four seasons. However, in season
1898/99 they finished next to bottom and the
dwindling crowds (averaging around 500)
meant that financially the club was once again
in trouble. A decision was therefore taken to
withdraw from the Southern League and join
the local Middlesex League to try and stabilise
the club. However, a majority of the more talented
players joined other clubs and they struggled
in their new surroundings, finishing bottom
with only one point from their 14 games. At the
end of the season the club had a deficit of £130
and with few players the club once again folded.
For two years much fund raising amongst the
local community finally saw the club’s debts
paid and the reformed Uxbridge FC joined the
West Middlesex League for the 1902/03 season.
In 1904 the Great Western Suburban
League was entered and here they stayed until
the outbreak of the First World War. Their best
finish during this period was as Runners-up to
Brentford Reserves in 1910/11. They also won
the Middlesex Charity Cup on two occasions in
1908 and 1913, as they looked to re-establish
themselves as a force in the football world. Following
the end of hostilities Uxbridge joined the
Athenian League and added “Town” to their
name. An unsuccessful first Athenian League
campaign saw them relegated back to the
Great Western Suburban League in 1920. A
successful four seasons saw them back in the
Athenian League in 1924 where they remained
until 1937. The Middlesex Charity Cup was won
for the third time in 1935 as Finchley were beaten
4-3. Two poor seasons saw them finish bottom
of the Athenian League in 1936 and 1937
and the club failed to be re-elected.
They joined the Spartan League for the
1937/38 season, dropping “Town” from their
name at the end of the campaign stood proudly
at the summit.

Uxbridge — A Brief History Cont
Championship celebrations however were cut
short when it was discovered that The Reds had
played an ineligible player and were deduced six
points, placing them in third position behind
Champions Marlow.
Following the debacle of their one and only season
in the Spartan League they resigned and
joined the London League prior to the Second
World War.
During the war years they continued to play and
joined the newly formed Great Western Combination
League before re-joining the London
League in 1945, finishing as Runners-up to Edgware
Town. Uxbridge were founder members of
the Corinthian League in 1946 and remained in
this league for the next seventeen years. Finally,
in 1948, after over three quarters of a century of
searching, a ground of their own was purchased.
A piece of land in Cleveland Road, Cowley was
bought for £5,800 by then president Mr W.S. Try.
The ground was named after a large house that
stood on the land and “Honeycroft” was the new
home of Uxbridge Football Club. During this period,
they won their only Championship to-date
when they were crowned Corinthian League
Champions at the end of the 1959/60 season.
They also won the Middlesex Senior Cup for the
third time in 1951 when they defeated Hayes 2-1.
This was a successful period in the club’s history
as they finished in the top five of the Corinthian
League on no less than eight occasions and
crowds were averaging around the thousand
mark. A re-organisation of Non-League football
saw the end of the Corinthian League in 1963
and club found itself once again in Division One
of the Athenian League. This was a lean time for
The Reds, they were relegated to Division Two in
1967 and financial problems once against beset
them. They gained national publicity in 1976
when England were looking for a side to play as
part of their warm-up for the forthcoming World
Cup campaign. Uxbridge took on a full-strength
England at Wembley, losing 8-0.
The ground problems that had blighted Uxbridge
throughout their history surfaced once again and
the club had to find a new home. In 1978 they
moved to their current headquarters in Horton
Road, Yiewsley. A former works Sports & Social
Club they have developed the site to the superb
standard you see today. Over the past 31 years
they have added floodlights (opened by the visit
of Arsenal in 1981), new stands, fencing and in
more recent times a new clubhouse was opened
and car park laid. On the playing front the club
won the Middlesex Charity Cup for the fourth
time in 1982, their first silverware for 31 years,
and moved to the Isthmian League in the same
year, winning promotion to Division One in 1985.
The Final of the AC Delco Cup (League Cup)
was reached in 1986, where they met Premier
Division Champions Sutton United. The Reds
failed to stop Sutton completing “The Double”
though, losing 3-1 in the Final in front of over a
thousand spectators at Imber Court, the home of
Metropolitan Police FC, Uxbridge entered the
London Challenge Cup for the first time in the
1992/93 season and hence followed a love affair
between the Reds and the magnificent trophy. In
the eight seasons they entered the competition
they reached five finals, winning on three occasions
in 1994,1997 and 2000. They won the Middlesex
Senior Cup for the fourth time in 2001,
defeating Harrow Borough 3-0 in the Final held at
Honeycroft. In 2004 the club were moved across
the pyramid to the Southern League and have
reached the Play-Offs on three occasions. In
2004/05 they lost on penalties, after leading Maldon
Town in extra-time, in 2007/08 they narrowly
lost 0-1 at Oxford City and in 2011/12 they lost 2-
1 at Bedworth United in the Semi-Finals. In 2018
Uxbridge were moved back across the pyramid,
re-joining the Isthmian League in the South Central
Division.
They have won the Middlesex Charity Cup on
three more occasions in the last seven years.
Defeating Brentford in 2013, Wembley in 2014
and last season Ashford Town (Middlesex) at
Hanwell Town FC.
In the summer of 2016 the Club lost one of its
stalwarts when long serving President Alan Odell
passed away. Alan had been associated with
The Reds for over 80 years, firstly as a supporter
and player in his youth, before serving in various
official duties as a committee member. He is sadly
missed.
This season Uxbridge have appointed only their
sixth manager over the past 49 years. Ron Clack
was in charge for 18-years from 1970, followed
by Peter Marshall for one season, Michael Harvey
for three, before George Talbot took the reins
for fourteen seasons in 1992. In 2006 Tony
Choules became the man in charge, being replaced
by Danny Edwards for the current campaign.
Danny is a 40-year-old UEFA A licensed coach
who spent the past 15 years as manager of Chalfont
St Peter AFC before deciding to leave at the
end of last season. He steered Chalfont St Peter
to Step 4 of the league system in 2011, as well
as reaching the 3rd Qualifying Round of the Football
Association Challenge Cup on three occasions.
Danny brings Fred Cummings as his Assistant
Manager, Fred is well known to the followers
of the Red Army as a combative centre half
with 320 First Team appearances for Uxbridge in
the 1980’s.

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Paul Martin—The Lure of the 92
Have any of you reading this completed visits to all 92 League Grounds? If you have I take off my
hat to you. I once had the ambition of completing this challenge but have realised that this is now
probably not going to happen. In some ways, this achievement is perhaps now slightly easier
than it has been in the past because a lot of League Clubs have moved in the last 20/30 years
and are now reasonably stable in their new environments (Bolton Wanderers not withstanding).
So how have I done? Just completed a quick count up of the current 91 grounds and, disappointingly,
have only reached 56. You may have spotted that I have put 91 grounds – this is because
Coventry City are currently resident at St Andrews (Birmingham City).
But hold on a minute, what about the League Grounds I have visited which are now replaced by
new versions (for example, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur)? And what about those Clubs who
have left the League set up?
In the first category, I can add a further 27 grounds visited. For example, in the Premier Division,
Manchester City, Southampton, Arsenal, Tottenham, Brighton, West Ham and Leicester are all in
new stadia and I have visited previous versions.
And then there are ex-League clubs who are now members of the Non-League fraternity. Lots of
examples in the National League: Aldershot, Barnet, Barrow, Chesterfield, Dagenham & Redbridge,
AFC Halifax Town, Hartlepool, Notts County, Stockport County, Torquay United, Wrexham
and Yeovil Town. Then further down the Pyramid are Bradford Park Avenue, York City, Boston
United, Hereford United, Kidderminster Harriers, Maidstone United, Scarborough and Darlington.
Apologies if I have missed any! This adds another 15 for a grand total of 98!!! Can I claim
membership of the 92 Club?
My current ambitions? A visit to Tottenham’s new stadium, a visit to Brentford’s new ground when
it opens and games at MK Dons, Oxford United and Norwich City, none of which I have managed
to tick off.
Away Travel Details For Uxbridge
Ground address: Honeycroft, Horton Road, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 8HX
Telephone: 01895
443557
Directions:
M4 to Junction 4
(Heathrow), A408 towards
Uxbridge for 1
mile, turn left into Horton
Road and ground
½ mile on the right.
is
Nearest Rail:
West Drayton (19 minute
walk) served from
London Paddington,
29 min journey
Approx mileage from Sittingbourne: 98 (Via South Mimms) 1 Hr 47 mins or 76 miles 1hr
25mins via Clacketts

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FROM THE
SCRAPBOOK
25 YEARS AGO.....
Sittingbourne’s only appearance in the
FA Cup in Season 1994-95 was a First
Qualifying Round tie away at Folkestone
Invicta.
According to manager John Ryan,
Sittingbourne were without six players
he considered first team regulars.
Goalkeeper Efrem Ebbli and Martin
Buglione were suspended, Matt Stock
and Paul Haylock remained injured and
striker Lee
McRobert was
down with flu.
Also defender
Brian Clarke was
out long term
after undergoing
surgery on his
knee.
On a lovely
sunny afternoon
things began to
go wrong for the
Brickies as early as the 15th minute
when goalkeeper Andy Hough was sent
off after he had conceded the penalty
that produced the only goal of the game.
Hough came off his line to bring down
Invicta’s Steve Ridley. Midfielder Andy
Blondrage had taken over the goalkeeper’s
jersey for the penalty but he couldn’t
stop Paul Chambers from tucking the
ball away. Lloyd Hume took over in goal
for the remainder of the game which
saw very few chances from that point
onwards.
It didn’t help matters when Dave Ward
was red carded in the 71st minute after
receiving a second caution. Ward quit
the club after this game.
John Ryan when commenting on Ward’s
departure stated;
“Dave can’t resist a challenge but unfortunately
the game has changed so dramatically
that he is going to stray the
wrong side of the referee more times
than not.”
The Sitting-bourne faithful expressed
their disgruntlement during the game
which must have
started to put
pressure on
Ryan who was
working with a
much reduced
budget.
The previous
season the
Brickies knocked
out GM Vauxhall
Conference side
Dover Athletic in
the competition at the First Qualifying
Round stage.
It was now becoming obvious to all at
the club, that this was going to be a long
hard season.
Sittingbourne: Hough, Strouts, Hume,
Beard, Collinson; Blondrage, Ward,
Saunders; Fleming, Daniels Ullathorne.
Subs Clark, Verrall.

A series of articles by the author of the book ‘A History and Guide to Football Programmes’
describing how programmes have changed over a century-and-a-half of Association
Football. These articles will appear throughout the season in the Sittingbourne FC
programme.
Part 2 -Nineteenth Century Teamsheets
The first ever football programme is probably lying undetected in an old suitcase in an attic; or
lining an antique cutlery drawer; or it may be displayed in one of the football museums which are
springing up at clubs around the country. Quite frankly, we do not know with certainty which was
the first ever fixture to have a team-sheet printed and distributed to spectators, but we can take a
pretty educated guess at how it looked.
The purpose of the earliest programmes was to identify the players and advise spectators of
forthcoming fixtures. There were no team numbers on the backs of Victorian football shirts, but
players did sometimes have distinguishing features, whether in the colour of their stockings, or
the type of cap or cowl they wore. Certainly, there were well defined formations - firstly 2-2-6 and
then 2-3-5 - and spectators were able to identify the players from the positions they took up on
the field, which corresponded to the formation in which their names were printed on the teamsheet.
Thus for the match between Queen’s Park and The Wanderers on 9th October 1875, the home
team’s “Centre Back-up” (centre half) C. Herriot was to wear a “Black and white cap - no stocking”
while C.W. Alcock, the Wanderers Captain and Centre would wear a “Cap - blue and white
chequers”. The front of this card would be recognisable as a programme / team sheet today - it
had the teams, referee and umpires and fixture details. If there was printing on the reverse, it
would likely be a fixture list, perhaps incorporating results to date, and details of forthcoming fixtures.
When Heart of Midlothian visited Royal Arsenal at Plumstead on 30th March 1891, the large single
sheet had match details and team selections on one side, and on the reverse was printed a
poem which served as the welcome to the visitors. At the foot of the page were four small advertisements
for local traders.
In April 1893, at the Ardwick Ground, Hyde Road, Manchester (home of the club which evolved
as Manchester City) Bolton Wanderers and Newton Heath (now Manchester United) contested a
Manchester Senior Cup Final and the team sheet, sold for 1d, listed the teams with spaces to
record the result and goalscorers. As the game developed around the turn of the century, so did
its programmes, and as football left the Victorian age, match programmes assumed some of the
familiar features by which we recognise them today.
For more information and advice on programmes and programme collecting, please visit
www.pmfc.co.uk.

FA Cup Preliminary Round Preview
The preview is by Phil Annets (@FACupFactfile on Twitter) (All you want to know about the
FA Cup!)
The FA Cup Preliminary Round will see 320 Steps 3 to 6 clubs battle it out for a place in the 1 st
Qualifying Round.
Among their number are eight clubs competing in the FA Cup for the first time who won their
debut ties in the last round, including Longridge Town who beat Barnoldswick Town 6-1 and
Melton Town who scored two very late goals to win 2-1 at Worksop Town to cause the Cupset
of the Round.
There are also eight other clubs who are into the Preliminary Round for the first time after winning
their first FA Cup match in two or three attempts. Abbey Rangers and Broadbridge
Heath had had the most campaigns but both finally registered their first FA Cup win at the
fourth attempt.
One of the sixteen clubs into this Round for the first time is Widnes, who have reached this
stage courtesy of their League status rather than their Cup exploits. Widnes are one of only
two teams in this round yet to win an FA Cup match, the other being the recently formed Ossett
United who went out on penalties last season.
There are also 16 clubs who compete at Step 3 in the pyramid in this round who in recent past
competitions would not have started until the 1 st Qualifying Round. They’ll all be mindful that
seven Step 4 clubs who had to start earlier than normal in the Extra Preliminary Round have
already been knocked out.
All the Step 3 sides have avoided each other. However, Stalybridge Celtic versus West
Didsbury & Chorlton, Bromsgrove Sporting against Leicester Road, Peterborough
Sports taking on Bugbrooke St Michaels, and Bowers & Pitsea facing Barkingside are all
Preliminary Round ties where a Step 3 side hosts a Step 6 club. Could one of these produce
the Cupset of this Round?
Only twenty-five of the 160 ties pair up two clubs who will face each other in their league campaign
this season, and just 30 pit two sides together who have met before in the FA Cup. The
most common tie sees Bedworth United and Halesowen Town meet for the sixth time with
the West Midlands side ahead by three wins to two.
Wisbech Town have beaten Ely City in all three of their previous FA Cup encounters. Bridgwater
Town have done the same to Brislington, but in their case the result has been 1-0 every
time.
In the previous Round, Long Eaton United won 8-2 at Bottesford Town, sweet revenge for a
6-0 defeat by the same team just two seasons earlier. So, in this Round there’s hope therefore
for the likes of Staveley Miners Welfare who lost 5-1 to their Preliminary Round opponents
Lincoln United last time around.
In the Extra Preliminary Round the top nine winning margins were all produced by the away
side. Two of those teams won 7-0, Heanor Town and AFC Mansfield, and they go head to
head in this Round. It has nil-nil draw written all over it!
Top scorers, Whickham, netted 10 times in the last Round and their home tie with Thornaby
is one of a handful of games that kick off this Round on Friday night.

John Clarke IBF / BSF President

Match Reports by Tony Rickson
Tuesday, 20th August 2019
BetVictor Isthmian League South East
Sittingbourne (1) (Campbell 16) Cray Valley
Paper Mills (2) 3 (Edgar 5, Flack 27, Smith
63),
Attendance: 166
A battling Sittingbourne performance, but sometimes
you just have to hold your hands up and
admit that the opposition were the better side
and fully deserved their win.
Unbelievably, this was Cray Valley Paper Mills’
first ever win at this level of football 100 years
on from being founded. But they arrived in the
Isthmian League this season with an impressive
track record, winning the tough South East
Counties League title and playing at Wembley
in the FA Vase final just a few months back.
And if this was their first win at this level, it surely
won’t be their last, and they looked like having
the all-round quality to sustain another
championship chase this season.
Sittingbourne had their moments, twice fighting
back well from falling behind in the first half, but
the third goal midway through the second half
killed it, and Cray were comfortably able to see
it out from there.
The Brickies made two changes from the team
that drew at Whitstable four days earlier, Shaun
Brown making his full debut upfront with Roman
Campbell switched to the left-wing, and Stefan
Lawrence taking over in goal.
Poor Lawrence, a former youth team player at
both Gillingham and Dover, had to pick the ball
out of the back of the net as almost his first job,
Edgar’s shot from outside the box taking a wicked
deflection off the covering defender and
looping into the far corner.
Both Campbell and Tommie Fagg had already
gone close before Sittingbourne equalised on
the quarter-hour, a good build-up down the right
ending with Brown’s shot going across goal and
Campbell pouncing on it to score near the far
post.
For a while there was little to choose between
the sides but Cray went back in front when they
switched play well from left to right, and
Oloyede, who had a magnificent game upfront,
turned the defence and crossed for a simple tap
-in from close range.
Sittingbourne enjoyed their best period of the
game in response, driven on from midfield by
energetic captain Chris Webber, and looking
dangerous from set pieces, either corners or
Lewis Chambers’ mighty long throws.
Lex Allan headed just over from one corner,
Campbell got clear on Fagg’s through ball but
the keeper diverted his shot for another corner,
Chris Barnard and Allan both had headers
saved by the keeper under pressure, and great
link-up play by Barnard and Lewis West on the
right ended with Brown’s shot blocked for yet
another corner.
Sittingbourne went close a couple of times in
the second half, West shooting over after a
great build-up and Brown just failing to get a
touch in front of goal from Enoch Adjei’s shot.
But generally, it was Cray’s game, and with
some sturdy defending, clinical passing, and
hard running all over the pitch, they proved the
better side in the second half and settled it
when a low right wing cross was neatly steered
home first time from the edge of the area by
Smith.
So having lost the one point for their valiant
draw at Whitstable for inadvertently fielding an
unregistered player, Sittingbourne are stuck
without a point after their first two matches.
It’s FA Cup time on Saturday, when Uxbridge
visit Woodstock, but after that the slog resumes
to lift themselves from the wrong end of the
league table. It’s going to take hard work, commitment,
determination and enthusiasm. Bring it
on.
Sittingbourne: Stefan Lawrence, Lewis West
(Festus Lori, 65 min), Abdel Ndew (Jason Fregene,
79 min), Lewis Chambers (Yellow card),
Cory Walters-Wright, Lex Allan (Yellow card),
Roman Campbell, Chris Webber, Shaun Brown
(Yellow card), Tommie Fagg, Chris Barnard
(Enoch Adjei,
62 min). Subs not used: Joshua Oliver, Caleb
Roberts.
Cray Valley PM: Andy Walker, Kalvin Morath-
Gibbs, Danny Smith, Ashley Sains, Ali
Tumkaya (Liam Hickey, 24 min, Yellow card),
Denzel Gayle (Kweku Ansah, 44 min), Anthony
Edgar, Ryan Flack, Emiliano Hysi (Matthew Attenborough-Warren,
75 min), Emmanuel
Oloyede, Josh James. Subs not used: Tommy
Osborne, Max Ovenden.
Referee: Kirsty Dowle;
Assistants: Matthew Goldsmith, Gordon
Greaves

BetVictor Isthmian League South East
P W D L F A +/- Pts
1
Haywards Heath
Town 2 2 0 0 7 2 5 6
2 Herne Bay 2 1 1 0 5 3 2 4
3 Cray Valley PM 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 4
4 Hastings United 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 4
5 Whyteleafe 2 1 1 0 5 4 1 4
6 Whitehawk 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 4
7 Sevenoaks Town 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4
8 Burgess Hill Town 2 1 0 1 8 7 1 3
9 Ashford United 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
10 VCD Athletic 2 1 0 1 6 6 0 3
11 Chichester City 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3
12 Hythe Town 2 1 0 1 4 7 -3 3
13 Guernsey 2 0 2 0 6 6 0 2
14 East Grinstead Town 2 0 1 1 4 5 -1 1
15 Faversham Town 2 0 1 1 3 5 -2 1
16 SITTINGBOURNE 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 1
17 Whitstable Town 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1
18 Ramsgate 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
19 Three Bridges 2 0 0 2 3 5 -2 0
20 Phoenix Sports 2 0 0 2 2 5 -3 0
BetVictor Isthmian League South Central
P W D L F A +/- Pts
1 Chalfont St Peter 2 2 0 0 6 1 5 6
2 Hanwell Town 2 2 0 0 5 0 5 6
3 Westfield 2 2 0 0 5 0 5 6
4 Tooting & Mitcham United 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 6
5 Waltham Abbey 2 1 1 0 7 4 3 4
6 Chertsey Town 2 1 1 0 5 2 3 4
7 Ware 2 1 1 0 7 5 2 4
8 Marlow 2 1 1 0 5 3 2 4
9 FC Romania 2 1 0 1 7 6 1 3
10 Harlow Town 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3
11 Bracknell Town 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
12 Chipstead 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
13 Staines Town 2 0 2 0 5 5 0 2
14 UXBRIDGE 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 1
15 South Park 2 0 1 1 2 5 -3 1
16 Barking 2 0 0 2 3 7 -4 0
17 Hertford Town 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0
18 Northwood 2 0 0 2 2 7 -5 0
19 Bedfont Sports 2 0 0 2 1 6 -5 0
20 Ashford Town (Middx) 2 0 0 2 1 7 -6 0

Brickies Lottery Results
The lottery is now even more attractive. There is now an annual prize (in December) of £500, and
each month a prize of £100. In addition Each week there are draws for £40 ( 3 prizes except for
the week when there is a £100 prize when there will be two £40 prizes).
Week Commencing 19th August 2019
£40, Ticket number 171, Roger Wilkins, Rainham
£40, Ticket number 180, Sheila Laming, Sittingbourne
£40, Ticket number 564, Holly Neal, Sittingbourne
Week Commencing 12th August 2019
£40, Ticket number 060, Carol Cooper, Sittingbourne
£40, Ticket number 154, Karen Newcombe, Sittingbourne
£40, Ticket number 638, Geof Rudd, Sittingbourne
Week Commencing 5th August 2019
£40, Ticket number 068, Fay Jordan, Sittingbourne
£100, Ticket number 549, David Cummins, Queenborough
£40, Ticket number 667, Stephen Horn, Sittingbourne
Week Commencing 29th July 2019
£40, Ticket number 017, Christine Delman, Sittingbourne
£40, Ticket number 140, Alfred Dunk, Sittingbourne
£40, Ticket number 427, Malcolm Hawkins, Sittingbourne
Now is the time to join our lottery, see John Pitts or Peter Pitts (On the PA) or the bar for a form,
cost is just a £1 a week! (Payable monthly. Quarterly or annually)

Sponsorship Opportunities
Match Day Sponsor - this gives the sponsor and guests (Up to four)
access to the boardroom to enjoy half time and post match food and
drink. Costs of this is a very reasonable £175
Matchball Sponsor - £50
Mascot - An ideal present for a football mad youngster = £50 Includes
mascot plus three guests plus Hospitality.
Man of the Match - Your chance to be the official "Man of the Match"
awarder £15
Sponsor a Brickie and have your name in the programme as a sponsor
for the entire season, rates are:
Complete Player...............................£50
Socks only........................................£10
Shorts only.......................................£15
Shirt only...........................................£20
Boots only.........................................£15
Web site advertising—An exciting opportunity to advertise on a web
site that has a verifiable 3000 plus hits a month. Box Advert, £75. All
enquiries for web site advertising to Peter Pitts via
bournefc@hotmail.com or call 07785 906627
Inside Programme Advertising: (Black & White or Colour). From
£50.00 (Business card size)
Ground Perimeter Boards: Size 8 feet x 3 feet = £200, then £150
per year renewal.. Other sizes negotiable
For any of the above see any committee member. Or email
andrew@sittingbournefc.co.uk