OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME - MAYPLACE GROUND, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 6JT - 20th October 2021 - SCEFL
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OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME CR H A V AL AY ML LEY E T PM 20th October 2021 S SENIOR CUP v MAYPLACE GROUND, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 6JT
From The Chairman Welcome to the Mayplace Ground as we host Cray Valley PM in a London FA Senior Cup game. Our last game saw us go down to a 4-0 loss at home to Crowborough Athletic in the SCEFL whereas Cray Valley grabbed a point in a league game against Chichester City. Cray Valley are flying high in the Isthmian league and top the Division. It will be a very tough test for us however a great opportunity for the boys to bounce back from our disappointing league start. Intriguing cup game ahead!
MATCH PREVIEW Mark Doig - Kent Sports News Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division stragglers Tower Hamlets entertain Isthmian League South East Division high fliers Cray Valley PM in the London Senior Cup. Although, clubs often look at this tournament as one for giving run outs to squad players who need game time. it’s a trophy that Cray Valley enjoy. They won it in 2016/17 and were beaten finalists one year later. Even last season, although interrupted by Covid-19, they reached the semi-final and the opportunity to play an AFC Wimbledon side at their new Plough Lane ground. As it was after the end of the normal season, manager Kevin Watson allowed his players to decide for themselves on whether they wanted to play and the squad who turned out only lost to two late goals. It has been a difficult start to the season for Tower Hamlets who have just four points from their thirteen games from one win and a draw. They had been suffering odd goal defeats until their last two home games that were four-nil losses to Deal Town and Crowborough Athletic respectively. However, one victory would take them out of the bottom two and it’s still early in the season. That is for another day though and this London Senior Cup tie could be an intriguing match at Phoenix Sports’ Mayplace Ground in Barnehurst.
Tower Hamlets A Brief History Tower Hamlets Football Club is an English football club based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The club are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at the Mile End Stadium. Up until July 2013 the club was playing under the name Bethnal Green United. The club was established in 2000 by Mohammed Nurul Hoque and Akhtar Ahmed as a community club. The club played in several leagues, including the Canary Wharf Summer League, the Inner London Football League and the London Intermediate League, before joining the Middlesex County League. They were granted Senior status after winning the league's Premier Division in 2009, and were promoted to the Essex Senior League. In the 2009–10 season they finished fifth in the ESL and won both cups operated by the Essex Senior League, beating Burnham Ramblers 4–1 in the final of the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy. In 2020 our First Team switched leagues to the Southern Counties East and are playing our home games at Phoenix Sports Mayplace Road Ground. Club Honours FA Vase – Last 16 – 2011/ 2012 season Eastern Junior Alliance U18 League Cup Champions - 2010/ 11 Essex Senior League Cup - 2009/10 Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy Champions - 2009/10 Middlesex County ‘Premier Division Champions - 2008/09 Middlesex County Open Cup Winners - 2008/09 Middlesex County Premier Division Cup Runners up - 2008/09 Echo League U16 ‘A ‘Division Champions - 2008/09
Cray Valley PM A Brief History Records held by Kent FA show that Cray Valley Paper Mills FC (CVPM) was founded in 1919 - the team originally playing in green and white, matching the livery of the paper mills vehicles and company banner - and was supported by the Nash family who owned the paper mills until its closure in 1981 Playing in the newly formed Sidcup and Kent League Division 2, the Club’s first match was a 1-0 victory against Hamilton House FC on September 20th 1919, followed by a 7-0 victory in our first away match at Sidcup Invicta. CVPM went on to win the division in their first season - gaining promotion to the Bromley & District League Division 1. The following season they were again champions - also winning the Kent County Junior Cup, defeating Sittingbourne Paper Mills 3-0 in the Final. Their next success came as members of the Kent Amateur League Western Section in 1932/33 - winning the Divisional title that season before finishing runners-up in 1936/37. Records between the late-fifties and the early-seventies are scarce, until 1975 when CVPM joined the South London Alliance League, winning Division 1 in 1979/80 and the Premier Division in 1980/81 - their final season playing at the sports ground of the mills at St Pauls Cray in Kent. Early in the 2017/18 campaign, current manager Kevin Watson was appointed. A very successful second half of the season saw The Millers finish in 6th place, while again reaching the final of the London Senior Cup – on this occasion being beaten by Balham. The Club’s centenary season 2018/19 saw The Millers again scale new heights – winning the SCEFL title by a single point, accruing 91 points from 38 matches while scoring 108 goals with a goal difference of +72, and securing promotion to the Isthmian League. CVPM also made their first appearance at Wembley – Combined Counties League side Chertsey Town beating them 3-1 after extra time in the FA Vase Final in front of a crowd of 42,962. When the Club’s first season in the Isthmian League South East Division (Step 4) came to a premature end due to the Covid-19 outbreak, The Millers were placed in 3rd position off the back of a run of eight consecutive victories and looking set to challenge for further promotion. While the 2020/21 season was also curtailed in December 2020 due to Covid-19, there was still time for The Millers to embark on a record breaking run in the FA Cup. Progress to the First Round Proper will live long in the memory – in particular a famous 3-2 victory at National League side Maidenhead United in the Fourth Round Qualifying. Season 2021/22 sees the Club continue to expand it’s Youth section and will field 17 teams across the various age groups, plus a Ladies side, in addition to the First and U23 Development teams.
Phoenix Sports Club Mayplace Road East, Barnehurst, Kent, DA7 6JT No spectator or unauthorised persons are permitted to persistently stand in a seated area or smoke in any area of the stadium where smoking is not permitted. “The Southern Counties East Football League strongly support recent FA statements that there should be a zero tolerance approach against racism and all forms of discrimination. Accordingly any form of discriminatory abuse whether it be based on race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, faith, age, ability or any other form of abuse will be reported to the relevant County Association for action by that Association.” “The Southern Counties East Football League supports the ‘Swearing – Let’s Tackle It’ campaign and strongly condemns the use of foul and abusive language at football matches."
Match Filming Tower Hamlets are proud to be working with VEO who will be recording our games during the 2021/22 Season If any opposition or spectators are looking to also film or use professional photography at our home games please politely inform us at info@towerhamletsfc.co.uk
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THERE’S no greater buzz among Non-League supporters than experiencing the magic of the FA Cup. That thrill of seeing your hometown club pitched against the elite in the world’s greatest cup competition. There’s simply nothing like it. Sadly, though, the FA Cup gods can’t shine down on everyone and it takes a sprinkling of dust from Lady Luck herself at times in order to keep the dream alive. Take Horsham FC for example. After celebrating a famous win over Woking – two levels their superior – in the fourth qualifying round last Saturday, Hornets fans would be have forgiven for getting carried away while glued to the televised first-round draw on Sunday lunchtime. Their reward…a trip to Carlisle United – a round trip of 682 miles for a game which wouldn’t really over-excite the TV companies ready to potentially place them in the nation’s spotlight. Understandably, the Hornets would have looked on in awe at fellow Isthmian Leaguers AFC Sudbury, whose reward for becoming the first team to beat National League South leaders Dartford this season was a mouth- watering home clash against League Two neighbours Colchester United – a tie which will almost certainly whet the appetite of those either side of the Suffolk/Essex border. My message to Horsham, however, is fear not. The magic of the FA Cup has not passed you by just yet. As local sports editor, I remember covering Farnborough Town’s path to the fourth round of the cup back in 2002-03. After a handsome first-round victory over Harrogate, the town was filled with anticipation until they were handed a rather underwhelming trip to Southport in round two. Still, the run went on, however, as Boro came through 3-0 against the 10-man Sandgrounders to book their place in the third round for the first time in the club’s history. Premier League and Championship big guns lay in wait but Farnborough’s reward was a depressing 540-mile round trip to League Two Darlington in the snow! Talk about a damp squib! Incredibly, Graham Westley’s side came through that too, winning 3-2 in arctic conditions to make the hat for round four. Third time lucky, Premier League champions Arsenal were their just rewards and despite a 5-1 defeat to Arsene Wenger’s star-studded Gunners side in a tie eventually switched to Highbury, the club enjoyed their finest hour – a day that could never be taken away from a support base starved of success for so long. The same could also be said for Lincoln City. Non-League football’s best ever FA Cup run to the last eight in 2016-17 saw the National League Imps come through low-profile trips to Championship duo Ipswich Town and Brighton & Hove Albion to take their place in the fifth round. Again, the giants of English football lie in wait but Lincoln were instead paired with a trip to Burnley where their run was expected to end with a whimper and without the fanfare it thoroughly deserved. Not so, as Sean Raggett’s 89th-minute header earned Danny Cowley’s side the most famous win in their history and an eventual quarter-final clash with Arsenal at the Emirates. The rest, as they say, is history, as far as Lincoln are concerned. You see, Horsham may well be cursing their luck right now and wondering if the FA Cup gods will ever shine on their plush new Camping World Community Stadium in West Sussex. Hope, though, as Farnborough and Lincoln proved, is still on the horizon and but there’s still time for the magic of the cup to be conjured. As Del Boy would say in Only Fools and Horses…“He who dares, wins!”
TOWER HAMLETS Fixtures and Results League Canterbury City (A) L 1-2 League Erith & Belvedere (H) L 1-5 FA CUP Sheppey United (H) L 1-4 League Rusthall (A) L 0-1 League Hollands & Blair (A) W 3-0 League Fisher (A) L 0-2 League Glebe (H) L 0-4 FA VASE Balham (A) W 2-1 League Erith Town (A) L 1-3 League Lordswood (H) D 3-3 FA VASE Crawley DG (H) L 1-3 League Holmesdale (H) L 1-3 League K Sports (A) L 2-3 League Punjab United (A) L 4-5 League Deal Town (H) L 0-4 League Crowborough Athletic (H) L 0-4 LONDON Cray Valley PM (H) 20/10
London FA Senior Cup First Round 1) AFC Croydon Athletic 1-1(p) Dulwich Hamlet 2) Clapton v Erith Town 3) Erith & Belvedere 3-2 Charlton Athletic u23s 4) Welling United (p)1-1 Hanwell Town 5) Tower Hamlets v Cray Valley (PM) 6) Glebe 4-0 Phoenix Sports 7) Dartford 5-2 Athletic Newham 8) Metropolitan Police v Leyton Orient 9) Tooting & Mitcham 4-1 Redbridge 10) Corinthian Casuals v Harrow Borough 11) Fisher 0-2 Brentford 12) Haringey Borough v AFC Wimbledon 13) Cray Wanderers AWO Hendon 14) Barking v New Salamis 15) Sporting Bengal 2-4 Cockfosters 16) Balham v Wingate & Finchley
Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division Results Saturday 9th October Chatham Town 5-1 Tunbridge Wells Erith & Belvedere 3-2 Welling Town Erith Town 3-0 Hollands & Blair Fisher 1-0 Punjab United K Sports 2-3 Bearsted Kennington 4-1 Crowborough Athletic Lordswood 0-6 Glebe Rusthall 2-1 Canterbury City Sheppey United 1-0 Holmesdale Tower Hamlets 0-4 Deal Town Wednesday 13th October Canterbury City 3-0 Lordswood Erith Town 3-1 Fisher Holmesdale 4-0 Welling Town Saturday 16th October Tower Hamlets 0-4 Crowborough Athletic Tuesday 19th October Crowborough Athletic 0-2 Chatham Town
Premier Division SCEFL Table Up to and including 20th October
Player Sponsors Tower Hamlets are welcoming Player Sponsors for our 2021/22 Season in the Southern Counties East Football League. Those sponsoring a player will have a season long mention in this matchday programme, receive Social Media mentions and feel the warm glow of helping support their local football club. For more details or to sponsor one of the lads for just £50 please contact the Chairman or email us at info@towerhamletsfc.co.uk
THE TEAMS Taiwo Alieu Chris Lewington Raphael Duyile Connor Dymond Harrison Abu Nathan Green Levi Fernandez David Opreon Akwasi Marfo Jack Sammoutis Ismael Mendy Ali Tumkaya Tola Odedoyin Marcel Barrington Wale Odedoyin Matt A-Warren Ismael Traore-Mendy Rory Hill Ayorinde Omoyayi Hassan Ibrahiym Asad Ahmed Denzel Gayle Benas Vaivada Francis Babalola Ishmed Turay Gavin Tomlin Tyler Hinds Nathaniel Blanks Kemo Darboe Jude Salmon Abdul-Wahab Wahab Paul Semakula George Turner Harry Hopper Sergiu Anton Jack Beerling Ardian Fera Ade Adeyemo MATCH OFFICIALS Tommy Breen - Joshua Price - Ashley Da Santos
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