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A S C O T U N I T E D F C<br />
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ASCOT UNITED vs. VIRGINIA WATER<br />
Sat 5 Mar 2022<br />
Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North<br />
Matchday<br />
Programme<br />
Season<br />
2021/22
twitter.com/<strong>Ascot</strong>UnitedFC<br />
www.ascotunited.net<br />
T H E Y E L L A M E N<br />
Yellow and Blue<br />
Sam Gray (GK)<br />
Alex Sykes (GK)<br />
Adam Everiss<br />
Calum Ferguson<br />
Chris Ellis<br />
Dan Bailey<br />
Dan Price<br />
Danny Walden<br />
Denis Nortey<br />
Duarte Surpanu<br />
Elliot Carey<br />
George Lock<br />
Ian Davies<br />
James Harper<br />
James Richardson<br />
Josh Masters<br />
Keaton August<br />
Louis Bouwers<br />
Rashid Hamid<br />
Rory Merrick<br />
Sam Evans<br />
Sean McCormack<br />
Taylor Morgan<br />
Toby Thompson<br />
Tom Scott<br />
T H E W A T E R S<br />
Maroon<br />
Matthew Jones<br />
Ryan Blake<br />
Isiah Goddard-Joseph<br />
Owen Cartwright<br />
Joe McBride<br />
Elijah Oladunjoye<br />
Saaim Shabeer<br />
Ross Nunn<br />
Tom Hickey<br />
Joel Drew<br />
Adam McNamara<br />
Ben Harris<br />
Casey Bocarro<br />
Turnell Sinclair<br />
Josiah Bridgeman<br />
Harry Brooks<br />
Luca Gabrielle<br />
Billy Blake<br />
Jamie Tompkins Manager Ceri Jones<br />
Dan Masters Asst. Manager Adam Bessent<br />
Jamie Ashdown GK Coach<br />
Bjorn Dunkley Coach Jake Bessent<br />
Steve Quelch Coach Matt Holliday<br />
Chad Smith Therapist Mitch Taylor<br />
Mark<br />
Roberts<br />
Match Officials<br />
Christopher<br />
Potter<br />
Steven<br />
Williams<br />
Last Match:<br />
Holyport<br />
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Tue 1 Mar<br />
1-0<br />
COCO<br />
Next Match: Abbey Rangers A Tue 8 Mar<br />
COCO
ASCOT UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB<br />
Racecourse Ground, Winkfield Road, <strong>Ascot</strong>, SL5 7LJ<br />
Chairman: Simon Negus<br />
Club Secretary: Dan Birchmore<br />
Director of Football: Neil Richards<br />
1st Team Manager: Jamie Tompkins<br />
Assistant manager: Dan Masters<br />
Coaches: Bjorn Dunkley, Steve Quelch<br />
Goalkeeping Coach: Jamie Ashdown<br />
Allied U18 Manager: Josh Nice<br />
Therapist: Chad Smith<br />
Sports Psychology: Izzy Woods<br />
Racecourse Facilities Manager: Jo Gavin<br />
Administration Manager: Emma Paton<br />
Clubhouse Catering: Lisa Richards<br />
Reporting, Comms and Programme: Neal Jeffs<br />
Directors:<br />
Doug Page<br />
Mark Cooper<br />
Rob Jones<br />
Zoe Reilly<br />
Phil Wray<br />
Graham Jones<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Football Club Limited. Registered in<br />
England and Wales. Registration No. 6883550<br />
Registered Office: Ternion Court, 264-268 Upper Fourth<br />
Street, Central Milton Keynes MK9 1DP.<br />
Affiliated to the Berks & Bucks F.A. No. Q-B&B0165<br />
IN THE CHAIR<br />
with Simon Negus<br />
A warm welcome to <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> for today's<br />
Cherry Red Records Combined Counties<br />
League Premier Division North fixture.<br />
Good afternoon and welcome to the Racecourse for<br />
todays Combined Counties league game against our close<br />
neighbours from <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong>.<br />
I’m sure we all share the sentiment on the front cover of<br />
todays programme, standing firmly in support for Ukraine.<br />
As a club we are making a significant donation to the<br />
fundraising efforts, and are exploring other things we can<br />
do to help. It is perhaps a good time to announce that we<br />
have just appointed our first ever Club Chaplain. I’m<br />
delighted to say that Tim Rose, a coach in our junior<br />
section and Reverend at St Mary Magdalene in Littleton,<br />
has volunteered to take this role and anyone in our club or<br />
wider football community is welcome to contact him to<br />
discuss any pastoral concerns or issues.<br />
We were delighted with the draw for the Semi-Final of the<br />
Senior County Cup… a home match against Wycombe<br />
Wanderers, the draw that Jamie wanted! No date has been<br />
agreed yet at the time of writing, but plans are already<br />
being discussed for what is likely to be the biggest game<br />
we’ve hosted for many years. Watch out for the appeal for<br />
volunteers! With the team on such a good run at the<br />
moment, it’s great to have the positivity flowing around<br />
the club.<br />
We have two teams in County Cup Final action this<br />
weekend - the U16 Diamonds Girls play Crystal Palace in<br />
the Surrey Cup at Dorking FC and the U14 Youth Boys play<br />
Aylesbury Vale Dynamos in the Berks & Bucks Cup @ AFC<br />
Wallingford… good luck to all involved.<br />
It’s also a big weekend for the Ladies senior teams - the<br />
First Team can secure their highest ever league finish<br />
with a positive result against Eastleigh, and the all<br />
conquering Reserves will wrap up the League title with at<br />
least a point against Ruislip. Whatever happens, the<br />
Ladies Section goes from strength to strength and I can<br />
see an exciting few seasons ahead.<br />
Good luck to all of teams this weekend! Simon
FROM THE DUGOUT<br />
Welcome to the players, officials<br />
and supporters of <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong>.<br />
Enjoy the game!<br />
Jamie Tompkins<br />
First Team Manager<br />
Hello and welcome to <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> FC players, staff and club committee and to all supporters in<br />
attendance for this afternoons fixture.<br />
The busy football calendar continues and we are in the middle of 5 games in two weeks! Still, the<br />
squad are full of energy and aiming to set a club record of 10 consecutive wins.<br />
A hard fought win and a touch of class from Taylor Morgan and Sam Gray secured the 3 points on<br />
Tuesday night.<br />
Like our opponent’s midweek, <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> are scrapping for points at the bottom end of the table<br />
and these games are always the hardest to play in. A comfortable 5-1 win against Edgware Town last<br />
week and two wins against Abbey Rangers this season, shows they have ability to outperform any<br />
team on their day.<br />
In other team news, we are delighted to welcome back two former players to the club this week, Elliott<br />
Carey and Kai Walters, both great characters and will add further quality to the squad.<br />
Good luck to our ladies first team and reserves this weekend! It has been a brilliant season for both<br />
teams, an almost-certain league title for the reserves and a potential record high finish for the first<br />
team so we will look to draw inspiration from this.<br />
Thank you to our sponsors, club officials and volunteers for all the fantastic work and ongoing support<br />
towards our football club.<br />
Enjoy the game! Jamie<br />
ASCOT UNITED FC MANAGEMENT TEAM: PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:<br />
Dan Masters<br />
Assistant Manager<br />
Jamie Ashdown<br />
Goalkeeping Coach<br />
Bjorn Dunkley<br />
Coach<br />
Steve Quelch<br />
Coach<br />
Chad Smith<br />
Therapist
W E L C O M E T O T H E W A T E R S<br />
W E L C O M E T O T H E W A T E R S<br />
ON COURSE!<br />
With Programme Editor Neal Jeffs<br />
Welcome to the players, officials and<br />
supporters of <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> for this Cherry<br />
Red Records Combined Counties League<br />
Premier Division North match.<br />
Happy<br />
reading, and<br />
enjoy the<br />
game! Neal<br />
Welcome back to The Racecourse for another important league game as the pressure<br />
mounts at the top. We’re certainly doing our bit but looking at the table it is so tight<br />
with only 2 points separating 2nd and 6th place! It was great to see Elliot Carey back<br />
on the pitch for us on Tuesday. When he was in top form during his last spell he was<br />
superb in a combative, dominant midfield role and hopefully we can see more of that<br />
over the next few weeks. My 2nd hope for this week is that the rain stays away as, after<br />
90 minutes behind the goal on Tuesday, my feet and flags have only just dried out! My<br />
main focus this week is on tomorrow. It is such a big day for our football club with 2<br />
county cup finals – boys U14 Berks and Bucks cup final in the morning at Wallingford<br />
and girls U16 Surrey cup final at Dorking in the afternoon – and all that is in addition to<br />
the 2 Ladies games which have huge significance to final standings. If you are free<br />
tomorrow afternoon then The Racecourse is the place to be as The Ladies Reserves<br />
will win the title if they draw with 2nd-placed Ruislip Rangers, who are the only team<br />
that can mathematically catch them.<br />
ми з україною<br />
Looking ahead, we’ve got a brilliant county cup draw looming against Wycombe<br />
Wanderers. I know we are assessing demand and ticketing and we are also<br />
intending to publish a commemorative paper copy of our matchday programme,<br />
so more on that later. More on the date later, but we expect it to be set for the end<br />
of March / beginning of April. The other semi-final sees MK Dons travel to the<br />
winners of the to-be-played Quarter final tie between Chesham United and<br />
Reading FC. And, on Tuesday night we are on the road at Abbey Rangers. That is<br />
another massive six-pointer and so if you can get yourself down to Addlestone<br />
Moor then do so! And finally, as this week’s imagery shows, there are bigger<br />
things than football right now and it goes without saying we all hope for an end<br />
to conflict soon. Neal
RESULTS AND FIXTURES 21/22<br />
Date Opposition<br />
H/A Comp Result Att<br />
06-Aug Holyport<br />
H FAC XP 3-0 450<br />
14-Aug Southall<br />
A COCO 0-5 50<br />
17-Aug Tadley Calleva<br />
A COCO 5-1 n/k<br />
21-Aug Risborough Rangers A FAC P 1-1 175<br />
24-Aug Risborough Rangers H FAC P R 3-2 277<br />
28-Aug Reading City<br />
H COCO 2-2<br />
31-Aug Wokingham/Emmbrook A COCO 2-1<br />
04-Sep Hythe Town<br />
A FAC 1Q 0-1 278<br />
11-Sep Hengrove Athletic<br />
A FAV 1Q 2-0<br />
18-Sep Wembley<br />
H COCO 1-1*<br />
21-Sep Windsor<br />
H BBT 1Q 3-1 120<br />
25-Sep Tadley Calleva<br />
A FAV 2Q 4-1<br />
28-Sep Burnham<br />
H COCO 5-0<br />
02-Oct Edgware Town<br />
A COCO 4-2<br />
09-Oct North Greenford United H COCO 3-2 101<br />
16-Oct Windsor<br />
A COCO 1-3<br />
23-Oct Wallingford Town<br />
A FAV 1 2-2 (5p6)<br />
30-Oct Egham Town<br />
A COCO 1-1<br />
06-Nov Spelthorne Sports<br />
H COCO 0-2<br />
13-Nov Hanworth Villa<br />
A COCO 0-3<br />
16-Nov Newport Pagnell Town H BBT 2Q 8-2<br />
20-Nov St Panteleimon<br />
H COCO 3-1<br />
23-Nov AFC Croydon Athletic A LC 3-5<br />
27-Nov CB Hounslow<br />
A COCO 3-0<br />
04-Dec Southall<br />
H COCO 2-2<br />
18-Dec Reading City<br />
A COCO 2-3<br />
27-Dec Wokingham/Emmbrook H COCO 4-2 159<br />
15-Jan Wembley<br />
A COCO 2-1<br />
22-Jan Edgware Town<br />
H COCO 3-1<br />
25-Jan Thatcham Town<br />
H BBT 2 3-0<br />
29-Jan Spelthorne Sports<br />
A COCO 2-1<br />
05-Feb St Panteleimon<br />
A COCO 3-2<br />
22-Feb Didcot Town<br />
A BBT QF 3-1 197<br />
26-Feb Burnham<br />
A COCO 4-0<br />
01-Mar Holyport<br />
H COCO 1-0<br />
05-Mar <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong><br />
H COCO<br />
08-Mar Abbey Rangers<br />
A COCO<br />
12-Mar Holyport<br />
A COCO<br />
19-Mar CB Hounslow<br />
H COCO<br />
26-Mar Tadley Calleva<br />
H COCO<br />
29-Mar <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong><br />
A COCO<br />
02-Apr North Greenford United A COCO<br />
05-Apr Hanworth Villa<br />
H COCO<br />
16-Apr Windsor<br />
H COCO<br />
18-Apr Abbey Rangers<br />
H COCO<br />
23-Apr Egham Town<br />
H COCO<br />
TBA Wycombe Wanderers H BBT SF<br />
Scorers<br />
Laflin, Lock, Surpanu<br />
Laflin 2, Lock, Morgan, Denton<br />
Laflin<br />
Scott, Lock, Evans<br />
Laflin 2<br />
Laflin 2<br />
August, Laflin<br />
Laflin<br />
Morgan 2, Laflin<br />
August, Bailey, McCormack, Nortey<br />
McCormack 2, Laflin, Denton, Lock<br />
Laflin, August, Bailey, Morgan<br />
Laflin 2, McCormack<br />
Everiss<br />
Nortey, Laflin<br />
Nortey<br />
McCormack 2, Laflin 2, Denton, Morgan, Hamid, Davies<br />
Laflin 2, Morgan<br />
August 2, Bailey<br />
Laflin 2, August<br />
Laflin 2<br />
Morgan, Scott<br />
Gutteridge 2, Bailey, Scott<br />
Morgan, Bailey<br />
Morgan, O.G., Laflin<br />
Laflin 2, Bailey<br />
Laflin, Surpanu<br />
Laflin, Surpanu, Scott<br />
Morgan 2, McCormack<br />
August, Lock, Scott, O.G.<br />
Morgan<br />
*Abandoned due to serious injury with 12 minutes remaining. Result stands.<br />
COCO - Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North, FAV - Buildbase FA Vase, FAC - The<br />
Emirates FA Cup, BBT - Berks&Bucks Trophy, LC - Cherry Red Records Premier Challenge Cup
SPONSORSHIP<br />
Sponsor a Yellaman! Contact Neil Richards at neil.richards@ascotunited.co.uk.
TODAY'S FIXTURES AND RECENT RESULTS<br />
Midweek results:<br />
Weekend fixtures:<br />
Looking ahead:
LEAGUE TABLES<br />
Premier North:<br />
Premier South:
ASCOT UNITED ALLIED U18<br />
ALLIED COUNTIES YOUTH LEAGUE SOUTH<br />
David Thompson rounds up recent news from Nicey's camp<br />
After the highs of the thrilling 3-3 draw in the top of the table clash against Westfield a few weeks back (see<br />
previous games programme notes), the young Yellamen have had match after match postponed in both the<br />
Subsidiary Cup and the Allied Counties League Cup. In fact, twice the game against Guildford City in the<br />
League Cup has fallen foul to a waterlogged pitch at the hosts stadium!<br />
This has left a fixture pile up with games to come in the League, League Cup, Subsidiary Cup and the Grant<br />
McLellan (Combined Counties) Under 18 Cup including 2 games which would win the young Yellamen the<br />
league if they beat <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> and Fleet Spurs!<br />
Manager Josh Nice will certainly need to try and keep his lads all fit for some big games coming up!<br />
The full list as it stands for the next few weeks is below which includes 2 matches in 2 days on the 28th and<br />
29th March!!<br />
Away v <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Water</strong> (League) 07/03<br />
Away v Guildford City (Lge. Cup) 14/03<br />
Home v Badshot Lea (Subsidiary Cup) 22/03<br />
Away v Windsor (Subsidiary Cup) 28/03<br />
Home v Farnham (Grant McLellan Cup) 29/03.<br />
All support home and away for the young lads is always appreciated by them and anyone who was at the<br />
Westfield game will testify how enjoyable and competitive the under 18 games are! The lads would<br />
especially welcome the extra support on the 29th v Farnham who are likely to bring a sizeable contingent of<br />
fans themselves!<br />
Finally, good luck to Toby Thompson who has been signed by Chalvey Sports FC Men’s team in the Combined<br />
Counties Div 1, until the end of the season, to help them in their current relegation battle! Toby joins 3 other<br />
new signings last week for them, in their battle to stay up! He will still be playing in the U18 team for <strong>Ascot</strong>!<br />
And, good luck to <strong>Ascot</strong> Ladies from all at <strong>Ascot</strong> Allied. In their respective games this weekend the<br />
Yellawomen reserves are at home and will win the league title if they draw with 2nd Placed Ruislip and the<br />
first team are away at Eastleigh where a win would guarantee them a record high league finish of 3rd. Good<br />
luck ladies!!<br />
That is it for the under 18 round up and hopefully normal service will resume with full match reports of<br />
those big games due in the coming weeks! (weather permitting!!!)
APPEARANCES AND GOALS<br />
Below are the updated <strong>Ascot</strong> United appearance and scorers' records for<br />
this season's squad.<br />
2021-22 All-time<br />
App Goals App Goals<br />
D Amate 7 0 7<br />
R Andrady 2 0 20<br />
K August 31 7 31 7<br />
D Bailey 30 6 59 10<br />
L Bouwers 16 0 162 11<br />
E Carey 1 0 51 4<br />
I Davies 15 1 74 36<br />
J Denton 29 3 205 22<br />
C Ellis 23 0 80 1<br />
S Evans 8 1 25 1<br />
A Everiss 21 1 21 1<br />
L Farhall 1 0 1<br />
C Ferguson 11 0 31 1<br />
W Frank 2 0 2<br />
B Gill 1 0 1<br />
O Graham 6 0 6<br />
S Gray 34 0 120<br />
M Gutteridge 2 2 25 4<br />
A Hall 1 0 1<br />
R Hamid 12 1 12 1<br />
J Harper 10 0 10<br />
H Laflin 30 29 139 81<br />
G Lock 33 5 157 10<br />
J Masters 16 0 24<br />
S McCormack 33 7 33 7<br />
R Merrick 10 0 30<br />
T Morgan 27 12 43 15<br />
J Nice 3 0 5 1<br />
D Nortey 19 3 19 3<br />
D Price 2 0 46 10<br />
J Richardson 4 0 68 12<br />
T Scott 19 5 19 5<br />
D Surpanu 32 3 39 5<br />
A Sykes 1 0 2<br />
J Tarrant 1 0 1<br />
T Thompson 3 0 3<br />
D Walden 5 0 5<br />
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MATCH REPORT ROUNDUP<br />
ASCOT EDGE OUT HOLYPORT TO MOVE THIRD<br />
Morgan’s goal enough to equal record winning sequence<br />
Tuesday 1st March 2022 - Cherry Red Records Premier Division North - <strong>Ascot</strong><br />
United 1 - 0 Holyport<br />
Taylor Morgan’s first-half goal was enough to secure <strong>Ascot</strong> United a club record-equalling ninth<br />
consecutive victory against relegation-haunted Holyport on Tuesday evening, moving them up to<br />
third in the league. However, The Yellamen were second-best for long periods against Derek<br />
Sweetman’s energetic side, who will feel that they could have taken something from a tight<br />
encounter.<br />
Holyport arrived in desperate need of points having slipped to 2nd-bottom with a five-point gap to<br />
16th-placed Wokingham and Emmbrook. However, <strong>Ascot</strong> manager Jamie Tompkins had made it<br />
clear in his program notes that teams scrapping near the bottom are often hard to beat, and with a<br />
smattering of ex-Yellamen in their squad, the visitors were also looking to avenge an opening-day<br />
FA Cup defeat at The Racecourse.<br />
And, ‘Port were the better team in the opening quarter of an hour and almost took a 15th minute lead<br />
when Ashley Hunt smartly headed on for George Lock to run onto – the Holyport number 11 sharing<br />
the same name as <strong>Ascot</strong>’s number 2 – although his low shot was smartly saved by home ’keeper<br />
Sam Gray. But The Yellamen improved and would take the lead four minutes later in what was the<br />
only other clear cut chance of the half; Morgan superbly planting a left-footed effort into the left<br />
hand corner of the goal after Keaton August had picked him out from the right wing.<br />
Tompkins would introduce all five substitutes between half time and the final whistle, and it was<br />
one of them – James Richardson – that blazed his side’s only meaningful attempt of the second half<br />
over from Sean McCormack’s powerful cross early in the period; albeit a difficult chance arriving at<br />
pace and taken first-time. But the visitors looked most likely to score after that and Festus Lori<br />
might have done better with a flashing header at the far post from Lock’s cross before Gray made a<br />
couple of decent stops amidst penalty area ping-pong, although it was his 80th minute save from<br />
Usman Lalustani’s strike that took a couple of deflections which earned the plaudits when he<br />
clawed the ex-Yellamen’s effort away at full stretch low down to his right. Defender Dan Wilson<br />
might have done better in the third minute of stoppage time when the ball broke kindly for him on<br />
the edge of the area, but the big defender rushed his effort which sailed well wide as Holyport’s<br />
final chance went begging.<br />
A win is a win regardless, and incredibly this was probably <strong>Ascot</strong>’s toughest test in a run that has<br />
seen them beat two step four sides; much credit for that goes to Holyport who will surely take<br />
confidence as their quest for safety continues. <strong>Ascot</strong> United: Gray, Lock, Masters, Merrick (Carey),<br />
Bouwers (Everiss), Bailey, McCormack, Scott, Morgan (Davies), August (Richardson), Surpanu<br />
(Nortey).
ASCOT UNITED LADIES<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Ladies Reserves caused a cup upset as they<br />
edged into the league cup semi finals on Sunday afternoon at<br />
the expense of Long Crendon. John Swallow’s invincible<br />
Thames Valley League Division 3 (East) were made to work for<br />
it by the high-flying Division 1 outfit – who clawed themselves<br />
back from 2-0 down to level the tie at 2-2 at half time – before<br />
The Yellawomen nicked it in the final fifteen minutes to record<br />
a 31st consecutive victory.<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> opened the scoring in the 16th minute when impressive Lauren Knight pressed and regained<br />
possession near the half-way line, paving the way for Clodagh Farrell to rifle into the roof of the net from<br />
inside the area. Tia Johnson then doubled her side’s advantage five minutes later with a speculative low<br />
shot that crept in at the near post.<br />
But the visitors would claw their way back into the game and scored two goals in a lengthy period of<br />
stoppage time at the end of the half – both of them almost carbon copies of each other – as Michelle Bailey<br />
nipped in on both occasions to lob Cara O ‘Brien and level the tie at the break.<br />
The second half was a tight affair with Darcey Young constantly asking questions of the visiting defence<br />
with her intelligent passes into the channels, and eventually they were undone when Johnson nipped in<br />
between defender and goalkeeper to flick home the winner in the 79th minute, only moments after<br />
signalling her intent with a long range effort that had fizzed over.<br />
But it took a smart late save from O-Brien to deny Bailey a hat-trick when she stood up well to beat her effort<br />
away for a corner and seal Swallow’s side a place in the last-four. And, as importantly, this was a good test<br />
for the already-promoted Reserves against higher-ranked opposition ahead of next season – and next week<br />
they get the chance to seal the title when second-placed Ruislip Rangers visit The Racecourse.<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Ladies saw their league cup quarter final tie at<br />
Abingdon United on Sunday called off two days earlier. In the<br />
league, The Yellawomen can guarantee finishing 3rd if they win<br />
their final league fixture at Eastleigh this weekend. Youngster Tia<br />
Johnson (pictured with Alix Todd) bagged January's player of the<br />
month award after her impressive step into first team action from<br />
the U16s, netting 4 goals in what seems to have been a seamless<br />
transition from the junior ranks.<br />
Abingdon<br />
United<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United<br />
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League Cup QF (27th Feb)<br />
Results - last matches<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United<br />
Reserves<br />
Long<br />
Crendon<br />
3<br />
2<br />
League Cup QF (27th Feb)
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striker Sarah Leonard. The Group have practices in<br />
Basingstoke, Yateley, Church Crookham and Hartley Wintney.<br />
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PEN PICS AND SPONSORS - ASCOT UNITED<br />
Sam Gray – goalkeeper<br />
Solid goalkeeper, confident with the ball at<br />
his feet. Established first teamer since 18/19<br />
and was players’ player of the year in 19/20<br />
when he appeared in every league game.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Josh Masters - defence<br />
Established left-back having broken into the<br />
team in 20/21 following a move from local<br />
rivals Holyport. Sponsor:<br />
Alex Sykes – goalkeeper<br />
Goalkeeping coach and reliable backup. Has<br />
International experience having played for<br />
the England Futsal team. Sponsor:<br />
Dan Bailey – defence<br />
Experienced centre back who skippered<br />
Flackwell Heath in 19/20. Previously played<br />
at a higher level with Marlow and has a level<br />
2 coaching qualification. Sponsor:<br />
Louis Bouwers – defence<br />
A physical and dominant centre half who<br />
signed from Faringdon Town in 16/17 and now<br />
well-established as club captain. Made 146<br />
appearances heading into 21/22 but must<br />
wait to add to that tally whilst he recovers<br />
from injury. Sponsor:<br />
Chris Ellis – defence<br />
Signed in 18/19, a strong and dominant<br />
defender. Vastly experienced having played<br />
for Camberley Town, Egham Town and<br />
Chipstead. Looking to re-establish himself in<br />
21/22 following a year out with serious<br />
injury. Sponsor: Novem nine<br />
George Lock – defence<br />
A fearless right back previously with Binfield<br />
and Bracknell. Technically strong and a<br />
consistently high performer. Supporters POY<br />
in 18/19 and has now featured in well over<br />
100 games pushing him into the top 15 on the<br />
all-time appearance list. Sponsor: Dave<br />
Bucktrout<br />
Danny Walden - defence<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Allied U18 captain who is<br />
expected to feature for the senior side<br />
during 21/22. Sponsor: Cox Green Academy<br />
Jonny Denton – midfield<br />
Former <strong>Ascot</strong> Youth team star who returned<br />
in 17/18 after a scholarship in the U.S. A dead<br />
ball specialist, he has now twice won the<br />
player of the year award. 'JD' starts the 21/22<br />
season having made 176 appearances.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Tom Scott - midfield<br />
Signed for 21/22 having had spells with<br />
Harrow Borough and Beaconsfield. A<br />
tenacious ball winner with great<br />
communication. Sponsor: Lydia Baker<br />
Calum Ferguson – midfield<br />
Signed in 19/20 having previously starred for<br />
a National League youth side. Also had a spell<br />
with Highworth Town. Sponsor:<br />
Sam Evans – midfield<br />
Played for the U16s and U18s in 19/20 before<br />
making his first team debut in the same<br />
season. Sam has been with the club since<br />
his debut for the U8s and is now an<br />
established part of the senior side with<br />
maturity belying his age. Sponsor: Dave<br />
Norris
PEN PICS AND SPONSORS - ASCOT UNITED<br />
Dan Price - midfield<br />
Popular attacking midfielder who returns to<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> for 21/22 having been out for two years<br />
with a serious knee injury. Previously<br />
appeared 44 times in 18/19 when he scored<br />
10 goals. Sponsor:<br />
Sean McCormack - forward<br />
Skilful forward signed from Walton and<br />
Hersham for 21/22 having also played for<br />
Maidenhead United and Bracknell Town.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
James Harper - midfield<br />
A former professional with Premier League<br />
experience, Harper played 316 times for<br />
Reading between 2001-2010. Also featured for<br />
Sheffield United, Hull City and Doncaster<br />
Rovers before beginning his non-league<br />
journey in 2014. Signed from Windsor FC in<br />
Sept '21.<br />
Rory Merrick – forward<br />
Signed for 19/20 and continues to improve.<br />
Looking to re-establish himself after injury in<br />
an already-disjointed previous campaign.<br />
Calm and composed figure on the pitch and<br />
has great technical ability. Sponsor:<br />
Keaton August - forward<br />
Signed from Windsor FC for 21/22. Can play<br />
anywhere across the front three and has an<br />
abundance of pace. Has a keen eye for goal<br />
backed up by providing plenty of assists. A<br />
personal trainer, he works hard and is<br />
physically strong. Sponsor:<br />
Ian Davies – forward<br />
Prolific goalscorer who scored 25 goals for<br />
Binfield in 18/19 before top scoring for <strong>Ascot</strong><br />
with 23 goals in the curtailed 19/20<br />
campaign. Netted another 12 from 24 games<br />
in 20/21. Sponsor: Zipcar UK<br />
Harry Laflin – forward<br />
Laffers joined in 18/19 and has become a goalmachine<br />
despite often playing out of<br />
position. Enters the season having scored 52<br />
goals in 109 appearances with an improving<br />
goals-per-game ratio. Has previously won<br />
supporters’ player of the season award.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Taylor Morgan - forward<br />
Pacey forward who impressed whilst playing<br />
against us for Fleet Town during pre-season<br />
20/21. Has played at a higher level including<br />
several seasons in the US Major League.<br />
Previous clubs include Toronto, Ostersunds<br />
(Sweden), Falkirk, Airdrie and Whitehawk.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Jamie Tompkins – manager<br />
Highly respected throughout the club who<br />
guided the team to league cup glory in 18/19<br />
before taking the team to top of the league<br />
before the 19/20 campaign was curtailed.<br />
Football Development manager at Brentford<br />
FC. Sponsor:<br />
Duarte Surpanu - forward<br />
Skilful winger with lighting quick feet, signed<br />
midway through in the 20/21 season and has<br />
the potential to cause problems for any<br />
defence. Sponsor: Maidenhead Town<br />
Denis Nortey - forward<br />
Striker who signed in Sept '21 and scored on<br />
his debut having previously played for<br />
Eversley & California, London Tigers,<br />
Aylesbury United and Rayners Lane.<br />
Rashid Hamid - forward<br />
Lively forward who signed from Burnham, for<br />
whom he scored 3 goals in 11 appearances in<br />
the curtailed 20/21 season.<br />
Jamie Ashdown - goalkeeping coach<br />
Needs little introduction, former professional<br />
Jamie began his career with Reading before<br />
making over 100 appearances for Portsmouth<br />
between 2004-2012. A huge asset to the club<br />
where he coaches at all levels. Sponsor:<br />
Dan Masters – asst. manager<br />
Dan is in his fourth season with <strong>Ascot</strong> Utd and<br />
is a crucial part of the coaching staff.<br />
Sponsor:
CLUB HISTORY - ASCOT UNITED<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United as we know it, was founded in 1965 by a men’s team who played their games at Sunninghill with “after<br />
match meetings” in The Wells in Cheapside village (now Mikado’s). Teams played as long ago as 1928 under the name<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United but nothing to link them directly to the current club. In 1965, the club had gained permission from the <strong>Ascot</strong><br />
Racecourse Trustees to convert the land east of coach park 10 into a football pitch. A wooden clubhouse was built and<br />
this team went on to win many prestigious trophies in the years that followed.<br />
Various youth teams represented <strong>Ascot</strong> United over the years up to 1988, and 1992 the East Berks 7-a-side Association<br />
was formed by our then Chairman Keith Wicks introducing small-sided junior games and having disbanded in 1980 the<br />
men’s team also reformed. The club continued to grow, entering into partnership with Charters School and being<br />
awarded FA Charter Standard status in 2004. The men’s senior team enjoyed early success through the East Berks<br />
League gaining continued promotions to the Senior division and winning various Cups including the Fielden Charity Cup<br />
in 1996/7. 2001 saw the 1st team join the Reading Senior League and winning the Evening Post Senior Cup at the<br />
Madejski Stadium in 2006. Promotion to the Hellenic League soon followed in 2007, followed by promotion to the<br />
Hellenic Premier Division in 2009. The club today has grown to become one of the largest Community football clubs in<br />
the UK with over 1000 registered players and over 70 teams playing every weekend embracing all ages and abilities<br />
from 5 year olds through to Vets. A new clubhouse opened in September 2010, together with an improved main pitch,<br />
floodlights and a stand.<br />
The club has enjoyed much success at all levels particularly in the Ladies and Girls Section where they are regularly<br />
winners of leagues and county Cups. Our senior Ladies won promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern Region<br />
Women’s’ Football League in 2017-18 and consolidated their position with a mid-table finish in 2018-19. Meanwhile, 2018-<br />
19 was an outstanding one for our junior Boys’ teams who won an array of county cups at various age groups, a feat<br />
we’ve rarely previously achieved.<br />
The past decade has been hugely successful for our first team; our debut in the FA Cup in 2011 attracted 1,149 people to<br />
the Racecourse on a Friday evening where the famous trophy itself was on display and the match was streamed live on<br />
Facebook. Between 2012-13 and 2015-16 we reached the Quarter Final of the FA Vase twice, enjoyed two top-three<br />
finishes in the Uhlsport Hellenic League Premier Division, and won both the Bluefin Sport Challenge Cup and Perpetua<br />
Press Floodlit Cup. More recently, our players’ development took the spotlight, as a host of Yellamen have enjoyed<br />
success with other local sides and many of our talented development players stepped up into the first team. After<br />
finishing 2017-18 in style, in 2018-19 new manager Jamie Tompkins led his side to the top of the table for long spells,<br />
winning two team-of-the-month awards, and finishing with league cup glory once again by defeating Windsor 3-1.<br />
We were transferred into the Combined Counties League for the 2019-20 season, playing on our new 3G pitch facility,<br />
which transformed the club by facilitating more of our teams’ matches and training at The Racecourse. The stronger<br />
platform facilitated further player development, and Jamie’s young side would lead the table for long periods before<br />
establishing what looked like a title-winning margin at the top shortly before the league was aborted due to<br />
Coronavirus. Retaining much of the same squad for 2020-21, Jamie saw his side in and around the challengers before<br />
another pandemic-curtailed season, although they battled through to the league cup final where they were ultimately<br />
beaten on penalties by Redhill.<br />
As <strong>Ascot</strong> enjoy a third season in the Combined Counties League, everyone hopes for a safe and consistent campaign,<br />
and if silverware comes with it then that will surely be a bonus in current times!
CLUB HISTORY - VIRGINIA WATER