vs Didcot Town

Penn & Tylers Green Football Club

Uhlsport Hellenic League Division One East Saturday 22nd November 2014

Official Matchday Programme 2014/15

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Welcome to French Meadows - the home of Penn & Tylers Green FC - and the latest edition of the Matchday magazine. Enjoy the great football, great hospitality and a great read

PENN & TYLERS GREEN FC Not just a football club… the heart of a community

President Norman Rowe

Chairman Tony Hurst

Vice Chairman Andy Walker

Club Secretary Andreas Latta

Treasurer Paul Avis Welfare Officer Guy Plunkett

First Team Manager Giovanni Sepede

Assistant Manager JonPaul Iaciofano

Club Physio John Grimsdell

Reserve Team Manager Neil Cannings A—Team Manager Paul Benning

Club Officials

Youth Team Mark Bentley

Junior Football Darren Jones

Girls Football Vanessa Morton Mini Football Scott Marshall Development Off Neil Cannings

Press & Communications James Keating

French Meadows Elm Road, Penn Buckinghamshire, HP10 8LF

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Club News

WELCOME TO PENN & TYLERS GREEN FC

A warm welcome to todays visitors, Didcot Town and todays match offi-cials, James & both Steve’s, as French Meadows hosts the another exciting game of Hellenic League action

We hope you have a great day with us, enjoy the football, make use of our facilities and above all leave with fond memories

Last Weekends Action

Hellenic League Div 1 East Just two games took place in he league. Leaders Brackley Town 'Development' strode past mid-table visitors Woodley Town. A Matt Ham-mond brace led the way followed by others from Henry Jackson and Matt Carr. The visitors reply came from Steve Doe. Fourth placed Rayners Lane were beaten at home by second bottom Burnham with two goals second half goals from David Forgali. Berks & Bucks Intermediate Cup Todays visitors Didcot Town Re-serves visited bottom placed Saxton Rovers, and two Arron Grey goals were enough to win the tie. Wantage Town Reserves beat fourth place Ardington & Lockinge . A single goal was enough for Woking-ham & Emmbrook to progress against mid-table TVL club Unity Third from bottom Sandhurst Devels were well beaten at Abingdon United Reserves

PENN NEWS

What a Tie Long standing supporters of Penn & Tylers Green FC and members of Penn & Tylers Green Sports & Social Club, Hazel and Paul Hopkins got mar-ried earlier this year in Las Vegas in the United States of America.

The club was in their thoughts even on their special day as the Penn & Tylers Green FC club tie clearly shows. It is always good to see when people get their priorities right. Congratulations to the happy couple.

Great Win at Crendon The arrival of their new Prostar kit has spurred Penn & Tylers Green FC Girls U15 to two very creditable results this month in the Bucks Girls Football League, a 1-1 draw with Chinnor and a 3-2 win against Crendon Corinthians. The girls have also done really well to play the fixtures through the terrible whether and all three teams deserve great credit for persevering in the conditions and working together to ensure that the fixtures were played. The draw against Chinnor really was a game of two halves as what felt like a force nine-gale blew across the Chilterns escarpment and straight down Chin-nor’s exposed pitch. Penn & Tylers Green FC took full advantage of the wind in the first half and took the lead through a good strike from Megan Stokes. How-ever, the match turned in the second half after torrential (near horizontal) rain decided to start just after half time with Penn & Tylers Green FC now playing against the opposition, the wind and the rain. Prospects were looking bleaker than the weather after Chinnor equalised from a terrific long shot and our goal kicks started blowing back towards our goal, however somehow the girls found the spirit and determination to hold firm and earn a well-deserved draw. The conditions last weekend for the match against Crendon were equally un-promising, as no sooner had the waterlogged pitch passed the early morning pitch inspection than the fog rolled in. Fortunately the fog cleared and Penn & Tylers Green FC showed some excellent early form taking the lead through Emily Freeman’s left foot shot. Not without precedent, the girls then sat back and allowed Crendon to gain the up hand, equalising before half time and tak-ing the lead early in the second half. Clearly sensing their manager’s ever growing frustration on the side-lines, and perhaps his vociferous instructions, the girls then showed great character to impose themselves on the match, the defence pushed up (at last!), the midfield started closing down and making forward runs and the forwards got more in-volved in the play. We equalised through a Nancie Sinfield penalty after Niamh Potts was rather unceremoniously upended. The match was now end to end with both teams creating some good opportunities and with perfect timing in the last five minutes Penn & Tylers Green FC found the precious winner when, following a succession of throw-ins Lucy Howson found some space to cross for Nancie to find a cool left foot finish for her second goal. The girls can now look forward with greater confidence to the remainder of the season.

Girls Football

Penn & Tylers Green 2—1 Wraysbury Village

A win at long last; the First Team managed to put the negative run of results behind them. On a pleasant, sunny Autumn Satur-day afternoon in Penn the boys in blue & white took on Wraysbury Village FC in the third round of the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup. What on paper looked like a certain home win did not turn out that way. Wraysbury, playing in red & black had other ideas and

certainly gave us a game. They fought for everything and made it difficult for us. What did not help was the fact that we wasted too many opportunities. Playing down the hill in the first half we had plenty of chances but just did not find the target. Penn & Tylers Green FC played quite well in the first 45 minutes but were just not clinical enough. The relief came in the 20th minute when after a good move captain Danny Jordan managed to find the net with a low shot from the edge of the box, giving their good keeper no chance. “We need that second goal” someone from the crowd was saying. How right he was. At the beginning of the second half it did not take long for our visitors to put a few moves together. This combined with about 10 minutes of woeful defending gave them the opportunity to equalise in the 51st minute. This was not what was in the script, but if you do not close the game out and the other team takes their opportunity, than they deserve to be still in the game. After that it was one way traffic only, but it was just not falling into place. Anton Bradley had a shot from four yards out but their keeper Karim Toniaitia made a terrific save. Soon after that Chris Hurst was just about to pull the trigger, when a superb tackle by one of the opposition’s defenders deflected the shot to a corner. It went on and on and on. Into the bargain a stonewall penalty not given (opinion of the Chairman, Secretary and Supporters). Wraysbury FC had one defender sent off. This was a bit harsh and their club assistant official (who was honest and good throughout the game) was put a bit under pressure, which we all thought was not necessary. When we all thought that extra time was looming, Josh Fox came up with the goods in the 90th minute with a “stunning tap in from about two yards”. A further sending off for one of their players “blowing a fuse” after the goal was, however, justified. With 30 seconds of injury time to go we gave away a silly free kick at the edge of the box. Luckily, from our point of view, it came to nothing and we saw out the game.

Match Report A

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Our Opponents

Didcot Town • Club History

Didcot Town FC were founded in 1907 and prior to becoming founder members

of the Hellenic League in 1953 the club had competed in the North Berks, the

Reading & District, the Oxfordshire Senior and also the Metropolitan Leagues,

albeit with mixed fortune. Didcot adapted well to the new Hellenic League format and, under the captaincy of Ray Warr (who remains one of the club’s most dedicated support-

ers), became the inaugural League champions. After four seasons in the Hellenic League, Did-

cot joined the Metropolitan League and reached the League Cup Final in 1961/62. Then in 1963

Didcot returned to the Hellenic League where it has remained involved to this day.

Didcot waited until the 1965/66 season to taste success again when they won the

Premier Division Challenge Cup (Witney Town were defeated 3-2 in the final). The following

season the cup was successfully defended but the club had to wait ten long years for further

honours. Indeed, the intervening years had seen Didcot demoted to Division One, but season 1976/77 not only saw a return to the Premier League as Division One champions (from Flack-

well Heath) but also success in the Challenge Cup. A decade later, in 1987, Didcot again

returned to the Premier Division after finishing in third place behind champions Bishops Cleeve

and runners-up Cheltenham Town Reserves. The club benefited from Hellenic League rules which prevent- ed Cheltenham Reserves from participat- ing in the Premier Division and

Didcot took the second and last promotion spot. The season was rounded off with success

in the Division One Challenge Cup, where Cheltenham Town Reserves, again the victims,

were defeated 2-0 in the final. The club remained in the Premier Division for the next six campaigns, and managed a notable honour in 1992 when they lifted the Premier Division

Cup (Banbury United defeated 3-0 in the final). Despite this success the following season

resulted in disappointment with relegation to Division One. Within three years the club was re-

instated to the Premier League and while the League Cup was won in 1997 the club had to

wait until they moved to the impressive new Loop Meadow Stadium (in 1999) before a turna-round of fortunes was truly achieved. In fact, the club established itself as one of the most

consistent performers in the Premier Division over the next 7 years, never finishing outside the

top 7. And along the way silverware has been lifted in the form of the Berks

& Bucks Senior Trophy (2001 and 2003), the League’s Supplementary Cup (2003) and the

Challenge Cup (2004).

Season 2004-2005 ended up as arguably the most successful in the club’s history so far follow-

ing a memora- ble 3-2 win in the final of the FA Vase at White Hart Lane against pre-

tournament favourites AFC Sudbury. This came on the back of the club retaining the League

Challenge Cup with a 5-1 win against Carterton. Didcot came agonizingly close to claiming the treble but failed to win the League by a point despite amassing 97 points and winning 31 of their

42 matches. The club also ended with their best ever defensive record, just 21 League goals

conceded including a remarkable 19 clean sheets at the Loop Meadow. After a wait of 53 years

the team finally brought the Hellenic League trophy back to Didcot in 2006 and with it the club

ensured a move up into the Southern League for the first time. The Berks & Bucks Senior Tro-phy and the Hellenic League Challenge Cup were also claimed, the latter to make Didcot the

first club to win the competition three times in a row. The League triumph broke all records

with Town becoming the first club to reach more than 100 points in a season in the Hellenic

League and the average points per game (2.63) gave Didcot the best record of any club at level 5 or above in British football that year.

Didcot Town maintain their Hellenic League heritage through the Reserves competing in Divi-son One of the League.

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Scouting Review

Club History

P&TG FC

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Phone: 01494 529489

www.stephenhuntcarpets.co.uk

stevehuntcarpets@btconnect.com

League Tables A

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Todays Other League Fixtures

Finchampstead v Brackley Town Dev

Old Woodstock Town v Wokinghamn & Emm'

W D L F A Pts

Brackley Town 'Dev' 10 2 2 36 22 32

Easington Sports 8 2 3 30 16 26

Wokingham & Emmbrook 6 1 1 26 11 19

Rayners Lane 5 3 6 31 30 18

Headington Amateurs 5 2 5 31 21 17

Old Woodstock Town 5 1 4 14 15 16

Finchampstead 5 3 3 19 13 15

Woodley Town 4 3 2 19 17 15

Henley Town 3 3 3 16 15 12

Chinnor 3 3 5 18 20 12

Burnham 3 1 9 25 43 10

Didcot Town 3 0 6 15 14 9

Penn & Tylers Green 2 1 6 17 19 7

Chalfont Wasps 0 3 7 11 52 3

Division One East

Why do so many of us like, or should i say love, the game of football? It certainly

brings to the table many controversial, if not contentious, moments in play which

offers good banter, occasionally turning to argumentative scenes in both the clubs

and pubs post match and even at media level where differences of opinion in re-

gard to Law and on field situations are becoming common place. Amazingly (or

is it) the centre of attention appears to lay on the shoulders of the referee and to

his perception of certain incidents in play and last weekend was of no exception.

In the game Q.P. Rangers v Man City the visiting goalkeeper took a free kick

within his own penalty area and was judged to have played the ball twice before it

left the penalty area. The second time he played the ball it did leave the penalty

area only to be kicked straight back into the goal by a home forward, cheers from

the home fans suggested a legitimate goal but to their dismay the `eagle eyed`

referee spotted the incorrect procedure and quite rightly ordered the kick to be

retaken in line with Law. The Law is simple and the ball can only be played once

and must leave the penalty area to be deemed in play. If this incorrect procedure

occurred elsewhere on the field of play then the opposing team would be awarded

with an indirect free kick. It was amazing how many people did not realise this

aspect in Law including referees but we all live and learn no matter who we are.

In the Sunderland v Everton game a contentious issue arose concerning the

Everton goalkeeper who ran outside his area in hope of seeing the ball safely back

into the penalty area in order to clear the danger by hand. Relishing the ball would

not reach this mentioned area and with a visiting forward in close proximity he

laid his body (chest) across the ball to prevent any danger of losing any contact

with the ball. This left many scratching their heads as to whether he had unfairly

kept possession of the ball and in doing so prevented any chance of the on coming

forward gaining possession of the ball and possibly a scoring opportunity. One

must remember once the goalkeeper leaves his area his rights as goalkeeper disap-

pear (hands) and he becomes no different to other on-field players. Many thought,

as a goalkeeper, he had these rights but when I asked what would happen if a on-

field player done the same in the centre circle what should be the outcome, many

suggested an `indirect free kick` for obstruction, then why I ask, not the same for

the goalkeeper outside his area, of course `ifs` and `buts` arose. If anything a play-

er doing such is placing his self in danger with players challenging for the ball.

NO offence is the initial outcome but if it stretches beyond acceptance then surely

common sense would prevail and an offence would be perceived or a quick whis-

tle and a `drop ball` to prevent any form of anarchy occurring, but on this occa-

sion the goalkeeper was judged not to be circumventing law.

All incidents mentioned needed the response and integrity of the referee and his

team but it has to be said nine out of ten times they get it right, but as said such

issues cause justified banter that’s why we all love the game, referees as well but

unlike us the referee does not carry a TV around with him.

Dennis Hedges

On the Edge

W D L F A Pts

Bracknell Town 'Dev' 5 1 2 22 12 10

Ascot United 'Dev' 5 0 2 24 12 12

Stokenchurch 5 0 1 19 7 12

Thame United Reserves 4 2 1 13 5 8

Flackwell Heath Reserves 4 0 2 15 11 4

Penn & Tylers Green Re-serves

3 0 2 9 11 -2

Finchampstead Reserves 3 0 4 11 16 -5

Chinnor Reserves 2 2 2 8 14 -6

Henley Town Reserves 2 1 3 8 17 -9

Wokingham & Emmbrook Re-serves

2 0 5 11 16 -5

Chalfont Wasps Reserves 1 2 5 13 20 -7

Rayners Lane Reserves 1 1 5 16 21 -5

Holyport Reserves 1 1 4 14 21 -7

League Tables

Division Two East

Chinnor v Stokenchurch

Thame Utd v Holyport

Wokingham & Emm' v Henley Town

Todays Other League Fixtures

Berks & Bucks Junior Cup 3rd Round

Chalfont Wasps v Richings Park

Frontline (HRC) v Penn & Tylers Res

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Jamie Jackson 1 Kieran Beesley

Adrian Smith 2 Kieran Collins

Josh Fox 3 Lewis Wilcox

Jordan Gumbs 4 Fletcher Hoey

Dean Munday 5 Oliver Barton

James Louison 6 John Robinson

James Pritchard 7 Arran Gray

George Coyle 8 Jamie Newport

Chris Hurst 9 Sam Borland

Danny Jordan 10 Jack Hollister

Anton Bradley 11 Taylor Janes

John Harding 12 Kris Gray

Alex Sethi 14 Jack Kitchener

Adam Parsons 15 Jason McCabe

Josh Briant 16 Charlie Noble

Jonathon Feaver 17

Referee: James Wassall

1st Ass Referee: Steve Shannon

2nd Ass Referee:

Steve Reading

Todays Ball Boys Jack Keating Harry Pymm

Giovanni Sepede Manager Mark Janes

JonPaul Iaciofano Ass Manager Neal McDermaid

John Grimsdell Physio Lee Newport