06 Ramsbottom United v Darlington

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President: J SmithChairman: H WilliamsSecretary: G ShuttleworthTreasurers: H Williams, C WoolfallCommittee: C Woolfall, A Edmundson, G Lay, DWolfenden, K ToppingLife Members: FA Rothwell, L Read, A Whalley, F Rothwell,J Wolfenden, P McSherry, A McleodProgramme Editors: R Isaacs,P Newhouse, R MossHospitality Manager: I McCoolCatering Manager: S FletcherTeam Managers: A Johnson, B MorleyFirst XI Coaches: J Hunter, G Moses, D GreenPhysio: K RichardsonRecent Honours: NWCFL Champions 2011/12Premier Runners Up 2010/112nd Div Champions 96/972nd Div Trophy 95/96Bolton Hospital Cup Winners2005/06. 2006/07, 2007/08The Harry Williams Riverside, Acre Bottom, Ramsbottom, LancashireTel: 01706 822799www.rammyunited.co.uk

First of all I’d like to offer a hearty Lancashire welcome to the players,officials and hardy supporters who’ve made the long trek down toRamsbottom for tonight’s match... and to their army of fans who’vesent £2 with their mates for buying them a programme. You’ve had itharder than most football supporters over the last few years, and Ithink that we’ve all been very impressed with the way you’ve continuedto support your team through such tough times. We all hope that youcontinue your rise through the leagues, and put Darlington FC backon the league football map, where it rightly belongs.We’ve had our own share of suffering over the last few weeks, par-

ticularly with the crushing defeat in 90 (+2) minutes at Mossley on Sat-urday. I think we were hoping for a repeat of the euphoric drubbingwe gave them towards the end of last season, with the game all doneand dusted by about 20 minutes in, so to go 3-1 behind, then drawlevel, and then lose it in injury time was pretty horrible. More concern-ing though was the struggle at the back without our fantastic long-serving captain Andy Dawson. It’s great to see Flanners back, but youcould tell that he was knackered. Jon Robinson is doing his best backthere, as you’d always expect from Jon Robinson, but he’s not AndyDawson. Later on in the programme we’ve started a brand new columnfrom physio Katy Brooks, so you can find out more about Dawson’sinjury and all the other stuff that’s going on behind the scenes.We’ve got a few big games coming up, including the FA Cup trip to

Conference North side Barrow next Saturday. The club are running acoach, which is £10 and leaves the ground at 10:30am (talk to Harry ifyou’re interested), and brace yourself for the £13 admission, or £14 ifyou want to sit down. We’re over in Scarborough so will be missing it- see if you can take it to a replay on Tuesday for us lads! We’ve also got the short trip to Radcliffe coming up, so even if you’re

not normally one to do the away games thing, I’d urge you to comealong and support the team. We easily outnumbered the home fanslast time we were there, and it’d be nice to do it again - albeit for abottom of the table clash!Just one last thing, and that’s about the club’s brand new website.

I’d like to say a big thankyou, on behalf of everyone, for the fantasticjob that Alan’s done with the redesign. It’s always been nice to have agreat site that isn’t just a standard Pitchero one, and it’s now lookingeven better than before. I know that Richard’s often a little bit behindon updating things, and I’m writing this column today because he’sgone awol, so perhaps this is something we need to address, butthere’s no doubting we have one of the best looking websites in foot-ball. So “Well Done” Alan.Enough wittering from me, let’s get down to business and see if we

can lift ourselves out of the relegation zone with a win against theteam hotly tipped to run away with the league title - God help us!- Rob

EDITORIAL - ROB MOSS

two huge games

We welcome Darlington to the Harry Williams Riverside Sta-dium tonight for what we expect to b a very tough test...it goeswithout saying that as a group we let not only ourselves butthe whole club down on sat at mossley...theres no gettingaway from it..it simply wasn’t acceptable and we can assureeach and every one of you that we will put it right.As a group we are very close knit, and believe me when I tell

you there were a lot of very upset bodies in the dressing roomat 4:45 on Saturday.

The focus and belief within the camp is as strong as everand tonight couldn’t come quick enough for us to have theopportunity to right a few wrongs.

Now that’s out of the way we'll focus all our efforts ontonight’s game. This is the start of a very important week forus with the game tonight and then the f.a.cup fixture up at Bar-row next Saturday. Two huge games for us, but these are thegames that we all look forward to - the type of games thatwe’re all in it for. The support weve had so far this season has been unbeliev-

able and the part each and every one of you has to playtonight is vital. So please get behind the lads and cheer us onto hopefully three massive points tonight...COYR cheers, Glenn

After the late but deserved reprieve atStocksbridge on Saturday, RamsbottomUnited comfortably cruised into the nextround of the FA Cup with a comprehensivevictory on Tuesday night.

The home side played some attractivepassing football, as they rarely lookedtroubled by their higher league opponents.

The three goal margin saw off Stocks-bridge, although the visitors could havetaken an early lead when a mis-directedback header from Andy Dawson hadkeeper Grant Shenton scrambling for theball before a Steels forward could poke ithome.That aside, Shenton had a quiet evening

as the hosts continued to take the game totheir opponents.

Dominic Smalley’s fine run and goal-bound shot took a wicked deflection off ateam-mate to the relief of Steels, beforethe industrious Grant Spencer foraged 40yards before firing inches wide.Smalley’s well-directed cross found Joel

Pilkington, whose flick on to Phil Dean sawthe winger fail to find the target with hishead.

It was almost one-way traffic, and itcame as no surprise when the Rams tookthe lead on 23 minutes.

Pilkington’s race into the area was un-ceremoniously halted just outside the box.Owen Roberts lined up the free-kick andplanted it firmly past the wall and in by theleft-hand post.

In a rare attack, Steel’s MatthewHamshaw placed a free-kick over the bar,but at the other end Smalley’s fine runended with an effort easily gathered byJack Ward in the visitors’ goal.

Smalley was then denied, again, this timewhen he was inches away from connectingwith a Gary Stopforth cross.

The need for a second goal to kill thegame off was discussed at half-time, and ittook just five minutes of the second halffor that to happen.A superb floated ball into the area from

Owen Roberts saw Lee Gaskell sneak be-hind the defenders to flick the ball homeby the near post.Danny Warrender then headed a corner

over before grabbing the home side’s thirdon the hour mark.

He gathered the ball outside the area,before racing past a static defence to placethe ball under the body of the advancingkeeper, and put the game out of reach ofthe Yorkshiremen.The visitors did have a couple of oppor-

tunities to get on the score-sheet.Substitute Alec Denton found space in

the right hand side of the penalty area, butinstead of firing goalwards, he chose topass the ball to a colleague, giving Dawsonthe opportunity to clear.

Alex Callery then beat the offside trap,but Shenton, on a night when he wasunder-worked, came flying off his line tothrow his body in front of the ball, and thedanger was cleared.Jon Robinson could have added a fourth

in the final minutes, but as he brokethrough, he fired straight at Ward.

A fine team performance, marred onlyby the sight of influential skipper beingcarried off late on with an ankle injury, seesthe Rams looking forward to a trip to for-mer League side Barrow in the next roundof the FA Cup.

wem-ber-ley...bring on the barrow

3 - 0Harry Williams Riverside Stadium17th September 2013Att: 127Rammy Goals: Roberts (23), Gaskell (50), Warrender (60)

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Welcome to the HWRS for tonight’s league game against Darlington.A special welcome to everyone who has made the journey down from

county Durham, probably all of whom will be visiting Ramsbottom for thefirst time.What can you say about Darlington?Without a doubt, I expect them to win this league, as they strive to regain

their position higher up the football pyramid.My sympathies, as usual, are with the supporters who have had to endure

some horrific times over the last few years.It’s amazing to think that just two years ago the “old” Darlington won the

FA Trophy at Wembley, whilst not long before that they were in League’sOne and Two.

I suppose we can look back to the stewardship of George Reynolds asthe turning point within the club’s history.I can still remember television pictures of him walking around the white

elephant stadium that he built, adorned with club scarves and applaudingthe fans.I doubt whether those fans would be applauding today.I used to love going up to Feethams. I’ve been there as a supporter with

Bury, and as a committee member with my former club Mossley, and havegreat memories of the place. A small, lower league ground full of character.That unusual walk through the gates and around the cricket ground, in acentrally situated area, ideally suited to League football. To move out, forme, was the start of the decline. The atmosphere in the new stadium, whichI have never visited, must have been sterile.

Darlington, traditionally, have never been one of the more successfulleague sides. I well remember a television documentary back in the 1970’s(?) when they were bottom of the old Fourth Division. The cameras boardedthe club coach for an away game to show us how life was at the wrong endof the league.

A car load of four Darlo fans passed the coach, and it was inferred thatthey were the only supporters driving down to support the team! Probablythe club’s best player at the time, Don Burleraux, was interviewed but all-

in-all it was quite a patronising programme from what I can remember.From then on, I have had quite a soft spot for the club.

To have watched their recent problems come to the fore, has not beenpleasant.They were not happy to have been told that the FA regarded them asa “new” club, and as such placed them in level five of the non-leaguegame.However, the Northern League it was, that greeted them last season,

and whilst it may have been a culture shock for many of their supporters,I’ll bet they enjoyed last year.New grounds, new experiences and an eventual championship-winning

campaign, despite Spennymoor’s valiant efforts, have given Darlo’s fanssomething to smile about.

They are experiencing more new grounds this season – includingthe HWRS – and will once again fancy their chances of silverwear.

I wish them well in their quest to return to the Football League.I expect them to do it, although I sincerely hope that tonight “little

ol’ Rammy” manage to snatch three points off them!Enjoy your non-league football!

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Darlington Football Club was formed in July 1883when a number of representatives from severalteams in the town met in a local grammar schooland decided to form one club to represent thetown. Feethams became the home for the new club,and it would stay there until 2003, when the clubmoved across town to a new 27,000 seater arena.Feethams was leased from local businessmanJohn Beaumont Pease in 1866 and the first turfcame from the nearby Park ground cricket pitch.Two years after its formation the club venturedinto the FA Cup for the first time but was beaten8-0 by Grimsby.Darlington were one of the original foundermembers of the Northern League in 1889 andwent on to win the title twice in 1896 and 1900.The club turned professional in 1908 and de-cided to join the newly formed North EasternLeague – although it would return to the North-ern League most unexpectedly a century later.The opening day in the North Eastern Leaguesaw the club beaten 5-1 by Sunderland, but theclub went on to better things in that league, win-ning it in 1913. The club reached the last sixteen of the FA Cupin 1910/11. They started in the first qualifyingstage and played eleven games in eight roundsbeating first division giants Sheffield Unitedalong the way before finally bowing out againstSwindon Town by 3-0 in the last 16.The First World War had a big impact on Darling-ton and the club ran into money problems. An-other Darlington team, the Forge Albion, tookthem over, and the new chairman, Mr J.B Haw,paid off the debts and also built the east standat Feethams.In 1920 the club finished runners up in the NorthEastern League and won the Durham Senior Cupagainst the other professional teams in thecounty. The following season Quakers went onebetter and won the North Eastern League, andduring the summer won election to the newly-formed Third Division North of the FootballLeague. Quakers performed well in the newleague, and after going through the home cam-paign unbeaten in their second season, they wonpromotion to the Second Division in their third.The second division campaign started with a 0-0at home to Nottingham Forest with over 13,000people inside the ground. They also playedagainst Chelsea and Wolves, who they would en-

counter again in the FA Cup in the 1950s. Theyfinished 15th in the table, above Fulham andStoke City, but the following season Quakers fin-ished second bottom and were relegated backto the Third Division North. The club won the Third Division North cup in1934, on the one and only occasion when theyhave played at Old Trafford. Quakers beat Stock-port County in the final by 4-3.The club remained in the Third Division Northuntil the Second World War which had a majorimpact on football in the country. Only a limitedamount of football was played however since thearmy was based at nearby Catterick, Darlingtonplayed regularly in one of the wartime leaguesand attracted some big name players, one ofwhom was Bob Thynne who was capped forScotland against England in 1944.In November 1955 the club made history. At StJames Park, Newcastle, Darlington played CarlisleUnited in the first ever FA Cup match to beplayed under floodlights in a second round re-play which Darlington won 3-1. In 1958 the teambecame members of the new national Fourth Di-vision – they had finished in the bottom half ofthe Third Division North the season before -- andstarted to encounter teams that they had neverbefore played at Feethams like Coventry City,Watford and Crystal Palace. Quakers enjoyed one of their best ever FA Cupruns in 1958 when they became one of the gi-antkillers of the competition. After beatingRochdale, Boston and Norwich, they came upagainst First Division Chelsea. After drawing 3-3at Stamford Bridge, Quakers beat the Londoners4-1 in the replay at Feethams in front of 15,150fans. In the next round they were drawn away toWolves, who included England captain BillyWright, but lost 6-1.The sixties saw a couple of improvements toFeethams. Flood lights were installed in Novem-ber 1960, and were opened for a game againstMillwall that Quakers won 5-2. However an elec-trical problem set the West stand on fire. Thestand was gutted and it was later rebuilt in theexact same style. The town end also had a roofput on it and soon afterwards got the nickname,the Tin Shed.The third round of the 1960-61 League Cup sawBolton Wanderers, with England striker Nat Loft-house in their team, come to Feethams. CrystalPalace and West Ham had both suffered defeats

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at the hands of the Quakers and 21,023 packedFeethams hoping to see a similar result. It wasnot to be and Bolton ran out 2-1 winners.In 1966 Darlington finished runners up to Don-caster and gained the club’s first promotion inforty years, but the glory didn’t last long as theywere relegated back to the fourth division thefollowing season. Quakers had another good run in the LeagueCup in 1967-68. They beat York, Southend,Portsmouth and Millwall before losing to first di-vision Derby County, managed by Brian Clough,at the Baseball Ground by 5-4.After just missing out on promotion in the 1969-70 season, the club’s fortunes nosedived.Between the 1969/70 and the 1979/80 seasonsDarlington had to apply for re-election to theFootball League no less than five times, but for-tunately every time the club was successful,probably because Darlington was easy enoughto reach on the motorway and rail network, un-like other clubs such as Barrow and Workington.The club’s plight was also featured on a docu-mentary by famous broadcaster Sir David Frost.The eighties saw the club in a financial mess andfans were forced to raise £50,000 in just sixweeks. The fans and people of the town ralliedround and the money was raised to save theclub. In 1985 the team won promotion to thethird division under manager Cyril Knowles andstayed there for two years. But then successiverelegations followed, and in the 1988/89 seasonthe club finished bottom of the fourth divisionand were relegated to the Vauxhall Conference.Former Aston Villa striker Brian Little becamemanager and he led the club back into theleague at the first attempt with a last day win atWelling and the season after that the progresswas maintained and the club was promotedagain as Fourth Division champions. However,after Little left for Leicester City, the club strug-gled in the Third Division and was relegatedagain.Playing at Wembley had always been apipedream for Quakers until 1996, when theyreached the third division play off final againstPlymouth Argyle. They finished fifth in the regu-lar season after suffering only one away defeatin the league all season – they missed out on au-tomatic promotion on the last day at Scunthorpe– and then they defeated Hereford United homeand away in the play off semi final to reach Wem-bley. However, despite the backing of 13,000

travelling fans Quakers were beaten by a secondhalf goal.In 1997 the east stand at Feethams, which hadstood for many years, was demolished and a newone built in its place, but soon after the chairman,Mike Peden, resigned. Local businessmanGeorge Reynolds took over, paid off the club’sdebts and started construction of a new 27,000all seater ground elsewhere in the town.In the 1999/00 season Darlington were in thethick of the promotion hunt, but slipped up inthe closing weeks and finished in the play offspots, facing their nearest rivals Hartlepool.Again, Quakers won both legs to set up a finalagainst Peterborough at Wembley. Despite cre-ating more of the chances in the game, Quakerswere beaten by another second half goal.The following season, Quakers lost in the FA Cup,but were then reprieved thanks to ManchesterUnited. Darlo lost in the second round of the FACup to Gillingham, but when Manchester Unitedwithdrew to participate in the World Club cham-pionship and indirectly help England’s bid tostage the World Cup, the FA held a draw for alucky second round loser, and it turned out to beDarlington. They were drawn away at Aston Villa,and only just lost by 2-1.At the end of the 2002/03 season the club saidgoodbye to its home at Feethams and movedinto the new ground at Neasham Road. In thelast game at Feethams Darlington played out a2-2 draw with Leyton Orient on an emotionalday, which also saw many former Darlingtonplayers return to the club as guests, one of themfrom as far away as California. The openingmatch at Darlington’s new home saw a hugecrowd of 11,600 people attend but KidderminsterHarriers won 2-0. However, crowds slowly dwindled, and withinmonths the club was placed into administration.On the pitch Darlington were struggling as welland facing relegation. However David Hodgson,who had enjoyed two previous spells as boss, re-turned as manager and helped guide the clubaway from the drop zone, and in the spring of2004, the club was rescued but the problemscontinued under several new owners.The club reached the play off semi finals in 2008but lost to Rochdale, and the following year, eventhough the club was in the promotion positionsat the time, chairman George Houghton put theclub into administration for the second time.

Consequently, the club had points deducted, pro-motion was missed, and almost all of the playersand management team left.Despite being under new ownership the followingseason, the club was relegated out of the FootballLeague into the Conference for the second time inits history. The fans thought that there was a brightnew beginning when Quakers battled through toWembley for the third time in the FA Trophy –overturning a two goal deficit against Gatesheadin the semi final along the way – and on this occa-sion the previous despair turned into sheer delightwhen Chris Senior headed a last minute winneragainst Mansfield.Unfortunately the win was not a springboard forsuccess, and by the turn of 2012, the club wasback into administration for the third time. Afterovercoming several difficult hurdles and negotiat-ing for many hours, a supporters group took con-trol of the club with the aim of making it stableonce again, but the FA controversially ruled, de-

spite an appeal, that Quakers should be demotedfrom the Conference back to the Northern League- -an unprecedented drop of four divisions.The new look club, now under fan ownership,wisely decided to leave the costly Arena andagreed a groundshare with Bishop Auckland atHeritage Park twelve miles away. Despite the rele-gation, the fans stood by the club, and an averageattendance record for the Northern League of over1,300 – around three times the previous best – sawQuakers win the Northern League title and promo-tion to the Evostik League First Division North witha triple hundred of points, goals and goal differ-ence ahead of previous champions SpennymoorTown.The club is now the strongest it has ever been, withvolunteers taking on many roles as it aims to climbthe national system back to the Football League.The future is the brightest it has been for manyyears, and it is now playing a central role in thecommunity.

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DATE OPPOSITION RES ATT STARTING ELEVENSat 17th Aug H CURZON ASHTON 1-3 254 Shenton Warrender Pilkington Stopforth + Dawson HulmeTues 20th Aug A Ossett Town 0-2 100 Shenton Warrender Pilkington * Drew Dawson HulmeSat 24th Aug A Warrington Town 0-1 192 Shenton Warrender Pilkington * Drew + Dawson HulmeMon 26th Aug H PADIHAM 1-2 309 Shenton Warrender Pilkington Drew + Dawson Spencer *Sat 31st Aug H AFC Liverpool - FA Cup 5-0 238 Shenton Warrender Roberts * Stopforth + Dawson RobinsonSat 7th Sept H NORTHWICH VICTORIA 2-2 212 Shenton Warrender Roberts * 1 Pilkington Dawson RobinsonTues 10th Sept A Ossett Albion 2-1 73 Shenton Warrender Pilkington Morley + Dawson RobinsonSat 14th Sept A Stocksbridge - FA Cup 2-2 129 Shenton Warrender Pilkington Stopforth Dawson Robinson *Tues 17th Sept H Stocksbridge - FA Cup 3-0 127 Shenton Warrender 1 Pilkington Stopforth Dawson + RobinsonSat 21st Sept A Mossley 4-3 173 Shenton Warrender Pilkington Stopforth Robinson Flannery #Tues 24th Sept H DARLINGTON 1883Sat 28th Sept A Barrow - FA CupTues 1st Oct A Radcliffe BoroughSat 5th Oct A Warrington Town FAT prelTues 8 th Oct H LANCASTER CITYSat 12th Oct A Wakefield Tues 15th Oct H ATHERTON LR Lancs TrophySat 19th Oct H (WORKSOP) (FAT1Q)Tues 22nd Oct H PRESCOT CABLESSat 26th Oct A Harrogate Railway AthleticTues 29th Oct H OSSETT ALBIONSat 2nd Nov A (FAT 2Q)Wed 6th Nov A Darlington 1883Sat 9th Nov H NEW MILLSTues 12th Nov H FC UNITED Doodson cupSat 16th Nov A Cammell LairdSat 23rd Nov H BURSCOUGHSat 30th Nov A Kendal TownWed 4th Dec A (Doodson Sport Cup)Sat 7th Dec A Curzon AshtonSat 14th Dec H OSSETT TOWNSat 21st Dec A Bamber BridgeThurs 26th Dec H SALFORD CITYSat 28th Dec H FARSLEYWed 1st Jan A PadihamSat 4th Jan A Northwich VictoriaSat 11th Jan H MOSSLEYSat 18th Jan H RADCLIFFE BOROUGHSat 25th Jan A ClitheroeSat 1st Feb H WAKEFIELDSat 8th Feb A Lancaster CitySat 15th Feb H HARROGATE RAILWAYSat 22nd Feb A (Doodson Sport Cup)Sat 1st Mar A Prescot CablesSat 8th Mar H CAMMELL LAIRDSat 15th Mar A New MillsSat 22nd Mar A (Doodson Cup SF)Sat 29th Mar A BurscoughSat 5th Apr H KENDAL TOWNSat 12th Apr A FarsleySat 19th Apr H WARRINGTON TOWNMon 21st Apr A Salford City Sat 26th Apr H BAMBER BRIDGE

SUBSTITUTESMorning * Spencer Robinson # Brooks 1 Dean Drew + Smalley * Gaskell # Toth BradburyMorning + Spencer Robinson Brooks # Dean Warburton Smalley * Gaskell # Toth Bradbury +Smalley Stopforth Robinson Gaskell # Dean Warburton * Brooks # Spencer + Toth BradburySmalley Stopforth Robinson Gaskell Dean # Edghill * Morley Johnson + Brooks 1 # RobertsSmalley Spencer Gaskell 2 Brooks # 1 Dean 1 Pilkington * Bradbury # 1 Edghill + Drew Toth WarburtonSmalley Spencer Gaskell Hulme Dean 1 Bradbury Edghill Prickett Toth * MorleySmalley Spencer # Gaskell 2 Hulme Dean * Toth * Prickett Johnson Bradbury # Warburton +Smalley 1 + Spencer Gaskell Hulme # Dean 1 Roberts + Flannery * Brooks # Morley Toth PrickettSmalley # Spencer Gaskell 1 Roberts * 1 Dean Flannery # Morley Prickett Brooks * Toth+ HulmeSmalley Spencer Gaskell Roberts Dean 1* Hulme # + Brooks * 2 Toth + Prickett Edghill

66/7: Parks Cup Runners-Up67/8:Parks Cup Runners-Up67/8: Kenyon Cup Winners71/2: Cornall Cup Winners72/3: Bolton Combination Div One Champions74/5: Bolton Hospital Cup Winners76/7: Bolton Combination Premier Division Champions76/7: Bolton Combination Open Cup Winners79/80: Bolton Combination Jackson Cup Winners81/2: Bolton Combination Jackson Cup Runners-Up82/3: Bolton Combination Second Division Cup Runners-Up82/3: Bolton Combination Second Division Runners-Up83/4: Bolton Combination Open Cup Winners84/5: Bolton Combination First Division Runners-Up84/5: Bolton Boys Federation Under-16’s League Champi-ons85/6: Bolton Combination Jackson Cup Runners-Up85/6: Bolton Boys Federation U18’s League Runners-Up85/6: Bolton Boys Federation U18’s Jubilee Cup Winners86/7: Lancashire FA Under-18’s Cup Winners86/7: Bolton Boys Federation U18’s Jubilee Cup Winners86/7: Bolton Boys Federation Under-18’s League Champi-ons87/8: Bolton Combination Open Cup Runners-Up

90/1: Manchester League Division One Cup Winners90/1: Manchester League Division One Champions93/4: Yorkshire Cup Runners-Up93/4: Bury & Radcliffe Junior Under-16’s Cup Winners93/4: Bury & Radcliffe Junior Under-16’s Champions94/5: Gylchrist Cup Winners94/5: Manchester Festival of Football Runners-Up94/5: Manchester County FA Youth Cup Winners94/5: Bolton Boys Federation Jubilee Cup Winners94/5: Bolton Boys Federation Cup Winners94/5: Bolton Boys Federation Premier League Champions95/6: North West Counties Division Two Cup Winners96/7: North West Counties Division Two Champions97/8: North West Counties Reserve Division Cup Winners98/9: Bolton Hospital Cup Winners98/9: North West Counties Reserve North Champions2000/01: Bolton Bys Federation Jubilee Cup Runners-Up01/2: Bolton Boys Federation Premier League Champions01/2; Bolton Hospital Cup Runners-Up05/6: Bolton Hospital Cup Winners06/7: Bolton Hospital Cup Winners07/8: Bolton Hospital Cup Winners10/11: North West Counties Division One Runners-Up11/12: North West Counties Division One Champions

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Ramsbottom United’s unbeaten five match runcame to an end in Tameside on an afternoon offrenetic action, but, ultimately, disappointment.This was a game that had the supporters of both

sides experiencing ups and downs over the ninetyminutes, as the game swung from one end to theother.

The Lilywhites started the brighter, and TomPratt, on loan from Bury, should have done betterwhen a left wing cross found him unmarked nearthe far post, but he completely missed the ball.

Ian Flannery had to shepherd Wayne Welbeckaway from goal after he had rounded Rams’keeper Grant Shenton, before the visitors re-sponded with an angled drive from Lee Gaskellwhich flew over the Mossley bar.Flannery was again in the right place to block a

close range shot, before Jon Robinson went closefor the Rams, as his header from a Grant Spencercorner was flicked over by home keeper RussSaunders. Seconds later, Spencer, himself, was de-nied when his header came crashing back off thebar.

The home side came back when a fierce volleyfrom Andy Keogh was superbly turned round fora corner by Shenton, who was then lucky to escapewhen he appeared to make contact with DannyBroadbent in the area, but the referee waved playon. Charlie Anderson was wide with a free-kick,whilst an in-swinging free-kick from the rightmissed everyone in the area and sailed inches wideof the far post. Keogh created another chance ashe turned on the edge of the box, but he placedhis effort wide of the post as the Rams were ridingtheir luck.On 19 minutes, however, it was the visitors who

took the lead, thanks mainly to some good refer-eeing. The linesman was flagging for a foul on JoelPilkington, but seeing the ball spray out to Do-minic Smalley on the right wing, he waved play on,allowing Smalley to progress to the by-line beforesending in a perfect low cross for Phil Dean to con-vert at the far post.

Pratt should have done better when, under nopressure, he placed his close range header overthe bar, whilst Lewis Nightingale tried to level mat-ters but saw his fierce free-kick tipped over byShenton. Shenton was then sold short by a headedback pass from Robinson, and his hurried clear-ance struck the back of a lurking attacker only tocannon away for a goal-kick.A left wing cross from Dean floated inches over

the bar and onto the top netting, as both sideslooked to add to the scoreline. Half-time arrivedwith the Rams one goal in front, thanks mainly tothe wastefulness of the home side.Mossley soon made up for that, though, as the

second half began.Within 13 minutes they had turned the game on

it’s head.On 48 minutes Welbeck timed his run to per-

fection as he sliced the Rams defence wide open,and he crossed for substitute Douglas Carroll tolevel matters from close range.Barely had the celebrations died down when the

Lilywhites added a second.Again the Rams defence was caught flat-footed

as the home side raced through. The linesmankept his flag down, despite appeals, and the ballwas crossed to Welbeck who had the simplest taskof crashing the ball home.

Amazingly, just minutes later, they could havehad a third, when yet again the home side beat theoffside flag, only to see Pratt fire over when heshould have at least tested Shenton.On 58 minutes, Mossley did notch a third. A cor-

ner from the left caused all sorts of confusion inthe box. Carroll was twice denied from close rangeat the far post, but the ball eventually broke forAnderson, and he made no mistake from tenyards, to open up a two goal gap.The Rams looked shell-shocked, and the home

side continued to inflict punishment. Nightingale’sfree-kick was fumbled by Shenton for a corner,whilst Pratt was unlucky to see his 30 yard blast sailinches over the bar. John Bennett then struck apost as Mossley looked to put the game beyondthe Lancastrians.It was all Mossley as chances galore fell to Ben-

nett, Nightingale, and Pratt before Shenton had tobe alert once more, to tip over a wicked bouncingheader.

Totally against the run of play, Ramsbottomgained a foothold.A Smalley cross from the right found Brooks at

the far post and he bundled the ball in, to reducethe arrears.

Suddenly the Rams sensed an opportunity toget something out of the game, and Lee Gaskellwas unlucky to see his header from an OwenRoberts cross well held by the diving Saunders.In the 89th minute, the Rams managed to level

the scores. A free-kick from the right was headedgoalwards by Brooks, allowing the predatory JonRobinson to poke it home from close range.

If the visitors thought they had done enough,they were sadly mistaken. The five minutes ofadded on time belonged entirely to the home side.

Louis Horne saw his back-header from a rightwing corner sail inches wide of the post, beforeNightingale sent in a 20 yard screamer whichShenton tipped over the bar.From the resultant corner, the Rams defence had

obviously not learned their lesson from a minuteearlier, and Keogh was granted sufficient spacefrom the corner kick to plant a header firmly intothe back of the net to snatch a dramatic late win-ner for Mossley.Whilst a bitter blow for the Rams, had the home

side taken more of their chances, such a late strikewould hardly have mattered.

EDITORIAL - GRAHAM SHUTTLEWORTHIt's certainly no time for the feint hearted as the team struggle

to kick-start their league campaign after what can only be de-scribed as a ten minute second half capitulation at Seel Park onSaturday, and with games coming thick and fast it's no time eitherfor players to walk round with their heads down!I'm not one for singleing out players in a game, after all it should

be a team effort, but on this occasion it would be wrong if I didn'tmention the performance that Grant Shenton put in at Mossley. Ihope we can all agree that a if we had a lesser keeper then thescoreline would have been something of an embarrassment.But there is another opportunity this evening to redeem somepride as we welcome Darlington 1883 to the HWRS, who must havesuffered something of a shock themselves after their goal-less drawat home to Harrogate Railway Athletic on Saturday, and in front ofan impressive crowd of 1,253.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It's 'Up For The Cup' for the next two Saturdays, and for those

who may not have seen the impressive and newlook website, theadmission charge at Barrow will be their usual Conference Northcharge: Seating - adults £14.00, concessions £11.00; Terrace -adults £13.00, concessions £10.00. Under 18's and under 11's cango anywhere in the round for £5.00 and £1.00 respectively.

Should the scores be level after 90 minutes then the replay wilbe on Tuesday 1 October when our usual admission charges willapply.We make the relatively short trip (again) to warrington Town on

5 October when we compete with the Wires in the FA Trophy, andthe right to host Worksop Town in the First Round Qualifying 14days later.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please note that our Lancashire Trophy fixture against Ather-

ton LR has been put back 24 hours to 16 October in order toavoid a clash with the England v Poland World Cup Qualifyinggame on the Tuesday evening.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And finally, congratulations go to youth team mem-

bers Liam Skinner and Tom Hartley who have beenselected to represent Lancashire FA in the County Cupfixture against North Riding County FA, and to DannyVincent who is one of the named reserves.

With a busy September with two games per week we have pickedup a few bumps and bruises which are more of an inconvenience thanan actual threat to keeping one of the players out of action.Jordan Hulme picked up

a severe haematomawhich kept him out of theFA Cup Replay but recov-ered enough to allow himto feature in the Mossleygame. Gary Stopforth hasstruggled with a bad deadleg for over two weeksand also keeps getting are-occurrence of an oldankle injury. Both seem tohave vastly improved but prove to be very sore after matches leadingto him not being able to train midweek which obviously affects hisconditioning and sharpness. This is a similar problem for GrantSpencer (knee) and John Robinson (ankle) who both aggravated oldinjuries in the last few weeks which, although manageable to get themthrough games, cause pain and discomfort and hinder their ability tomake training. Whilst Ian Flannery has returned from the hamstringstrain which has limited his match time, he continues to work on hisfitness and conditioning and as such is building up his playing minuteshence coming off the bench and getting substituted in our last twofixtures.

Last week Andy Dawson got carried off during the FA Cup replaywith Stocksbridge with an ankle injury. Following this we did fear theworst, especially as this was the same ankle which saw Andy miss tenweeks of last season. The injury has responded well to treatment andwhilst we were hopeful that he would return for the Mossley game un-fortunately he didn't pass a pre-match fitness test. Andy and I areworking hard to get him back and are hopeful that he should returnto action this week.

Following on from his suspension Phil Edghil is now availablefor selection again, and apart from the above mentioned in-

juries, we should have a full squad available.It has been a testing few weeks for all the squad and

staff. Whilst we have found some form in our FA Cup ex-ploits we are still struggling to find continuity in theleague. The mood remains positive amongst the play-ers and coaches as we know our ability and potentialand the overriding mood is one of continued opti-mism that the small injuries and fitness issues, whichare plaguing our top players, will work themselvesout and allow us to reach the level which we alwaysstrive to achieve.- Katy

EDITORIAL - OUT OF ACTION

Jordan Hulme in action at Stocksbridge

DARREN GREEN - UEFA COACHING BURSARYI would like to thank the Evo-Stik League and its officials, with special thanks

to Mark Oggley who recently presented me with a cheque towards my UEFA Bcoaching award, this was presented before the 3-0 FA cup win against Stocks-bridge Park Steels on the pitch before the game.Over the last 10 years I have been working through my coaching badges and

this is the next step in improving my own learning as a coach and also to hope-fully progress the players that I work with especially at Ramsbottom United.This is now my third season at Ramsbottom and I am grateful to Jonno and

Bernard for asking me to come in and work with them at such a great club whichhas seen a League title, promotion and a highest ever league position finish forthe club in the EVO-STIK narrowly missing out on a play off place.

This UEFA B coaching award can hopefully go some way towards ensuringthat the clubs progress does not stop there and as a club we can keep movingforward and myself and fellow coach Glen Moses can continue to help improvethe players to maximise their ability and potential on the pitch, it is a credit tothe managers that they have created such a talented squad of players to workwith, these players are a pleasure to coach and deal with at training and onmatch days, also it is pleasing to see some of our youngsters from last season’syouth squad now training with our first team and hopefully we can progressthem to be excellent first team players in the coming seasons.The UEFA B course began on the 19th August at Myerscough College and I

have so far completed two full weeks of the course with a further 8 supportdays on Fridays from now until April when I will have a final assessment by run-ning a 45 minute coaching session with a coaching topic allocated to me froman FA tutor, this will be assessed on many different aspects of coaching, suchas technical coaching detail, organisation and if the session is realistic to a gameand its outcomes.

Again many thanks to Mark Oggley and the EVO-STIK League, Jonno andBern for giving me the opportunity to work at this level, and the players atRamsbottom who are a credit to coach.Thank you for your continued supportDarren

Darren receiving his bursary from league representative Mark Ogley prior to the Stocksbridge match

Coach John Hunter

Joint Manager and midfielder Bernard Morley

Coach Glenn Moses

Coach John Hunter

Joint Manager and midfielder Bernard Morley

rammysquadJoint Manager and

striker Anthony Johnson

Physio Katy Richardson

Coach Darren Green

Right-back Dan Warrender

Centre-back and Captain Andy Dawson

Goalkeeper Grant Shenton

Right-back Jordan Hulme

Left-back Joel Pilkington

Right-back Dan Warrender

Centre-back and Captain Andy Dawson

Goalkeeper Grant Shenton

Right-back Jordan Hulme

Left-back Joel Pilkington

Left-back Owen Roberts

Midfielder Phil Edghill

Midfielder Gary StopforthLeft-wing Phil Dean

Midfielder Mark Drew

Midfielder Grant Spencer

Midfielder Phil Edghill

Midfielder Gary StopforthLeft-wing Phil Dean

Midfielder Mark Drew

Midfielder Grant Spencer

Midfielder Tom Toth

Striker Lee Gaskell

Striker Jon Robinson

Striker Adam Morning

Striker Tom Brookes

Right-wing Dom Smalley

Midfielder Tom Toth

Striker Lee Gaskell

Striker Jon Robinson

Striker Tom Brookes

Right-wing Dom Smalley

Striker Luke Bradbury

Striker Matty Warburton

EDITORIAL - SUPPORTERS CLUBThe FA has just officially registered “England’s” interest in hosting Euro2020 matches. EUFA has, for the first time, awarded the championshipsnot to a single country, but to the whole of Europe, which means thatcountries such as Belgium, Bulgaria and Belarus could finally play hostto a handful of matches. With their registrations of interest, countrieshave been invited to also submit their choice of host stadia. Spain hasgone for the new stadiums in Bilbao and Valencia, as well as Madrid’sOlympic Stadium and the lesser known Estadi Cornella el Prat inBarcelona. Italy has selected Rome and Milan as possible hosts, withUkraine going for Kiev and Donestsk. Have a guess which is the singlehost city “England” has selected... go on, give it a guess. And what aboutthe stadium? Which stadium do you think “England” has selected... Do Ieven need to give you the answer? It’s the same bloody answer it alwaysis. It’s the same answer we got when us country-bumpkins out in thesticks had the audacity to bid to host the new national stadium, or to bidfor the Olympics: “Get back to your Northern Slums and stop trying topunch above your weight.”Yet we watched an “England” match played out in front of a half-full sta-dium last week, with the whole top tier virtually empty, the corporateseats virtually empty, and “our” national anthem being sung by the usualload of laird-marfed cockneys. England = London = money = Wembley. The rest of us can just scrabblearound for the sparse crumbs of ‘legacy’ that might just fall off the tablewhile the corporate prawn-sandwich-eaters are looking the other way.Perhaps, as with the tennis and the cricket, we’ll even get to see DavidCameron’s smarmy face yet again surrounded by JP Morgan adverts (thecompany that’s just received another in a long line of enormous finesfrom regulators for their continuing misdemeanors).The corporate bulls**t has seen the death of real football at any kind ofhigh level in this country. It’s also seen the death of British industry andinvention, and is now starting to sound the death-knell of our countryand society as a whole. What better reason to throw that lovely new club-house open to us, the supporters, who follow Rammy home and awaythrough snow, rain and 4-0 defeats? Forget the prawn-sandwich brigadeHarry, what have they ever done for you? They’re ripping us off, stealingour money and lording it over the lot of us. Stick with the real fans whohave a real interest in real football, and in the success of Rammy United.

We’ll even help you run the thing! Let them eat their prawns at Wem-bley and The Emirates, and all of those other soulless characterlessplastic stadiums that their ill-gotten gains have paid for. Rammy’sa real club, with real players and real fans. Not a prawn in sight!By the way, if any corporate muppets are reading this and rub-bing their hands together then just be aware that these viewsare mine (and admitedly 90% of the country’s), not the views ofRamsbottom United Football Club. If you want to cause some trou-

ble please be my guest though as we could really go some of that“Big Bully Corporate Scumbags Beat Up Little Football Club” headlines.Bring it on!

Managers: Anthony JOHNSONBernard MORLEY

Manager: Assistant:

Grant SHENTONDanny WARRENDER

Joel PILKINGTONGary STOPFORTHAndy DAWSONJordan HULME

Mark DREWAdam MORNINGGrant SPENCERJon ROBINSONTom BROOKES

Phil DEANLee GASKELL

Dominic SMALLEYTommy TOTH

Luke BRADBURYPhil EDGHILL

Owen ROBERTSMatthew RUSSELLAdam NUTTALLSam HOWELLCallum SMITH

Referee: Assistants:

Next home game:

Managers: Anthony JOHNSONBernard MORLEY

Manager: Martin GRAY

Grant SHENTONDanny WARRENDER

Owen ROBERTSGary STOPFORTHAndy DAWSONIan FLANNERY

Dominic SMALLEYGrant SPENCERJon ROBINSON

Phil DEANLee GASKELLTom BROOKSPhil EDGHILL

Joel PILKINGTONJordan HULME

Tom TOTHMark DREW

Luke BRADBURYCallum SMITH

Matthew WARBURTONMatthew PRICKETTBernard MORLEY

Anthony JOHNSON

Mark BELLChris HUNTERAlan WHITEJonny DAVISJordan ROBINSONLeon SCOTTChris MOORECraig GOTTSteve JOHNSONStephen THOMPSONDavid DOWSONPaul ROBINSONCraig TURNSKerry HEDLEYAmar PUREWALSean GREGAN

Referee: Martyn Rawcliffe (Manchester)Assistants: Ryan Watson (Manchester), Christopher Bega (Manchester)

Next home game: Saturday 28th September 3pm, Rammy v Clitheroe

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