Monday 14th September - Would you believe it is twenty years ago today that we lost our much-missed Secretary Dave Wilson, following a Youth match up at Banstead Athletic! People like Dave are the reason that this club didn't fold many years ago, and he will never be forgotten on this website. Many supporters will know that we held tournaments in his memory and a summary of those is available by clicking HERE Sunday 13th September - Today we commemorate our former Manager Pat O'Connell's 89th birthday. To my knowledge (unless you know different) we only have one older former player still with us, Tommy Millard, who is 94. Pat's not been in great health recently, but it is hoped that he still has a great day! Saturday 12th September - The cup draw section has been updated to show the latest round of FA Vase matches. Saturday 12th September - We were knocked out of the FA Vase on Saturday by Bearsted who romped to an easy 7-2 victory at Chalky Lane, with goals coming regularly throughout the match. Our goals came late in the second half from Courtney Swaby and Blessing Hombessa on an afternoon of indiscipline after we had two sin-bins and two bookings on the bench before Toby Young was then sent off for something he said after being sin-binned. Monday 7th September - I am sad to announce the passing of Hall of Fame player Micky Stratford at the age of 73. Micky played for Woking, Kingstonian and Sutton United before joining us, firstly on loan, making his debut on 25th November 1978 and going on to make a colossal 325 appearances for us, placing him eleventh in the all time appearance list. He also scored 18 goals for us, most memorably, the second goal in our 2-1 Surrey Senior Cup Final win over Woking in April 1981, and he was one of the very few players who remained after the Pat O'Connell departure in February 1982, becoming Captain from that point, remaining until May 1985 when Adrian Hill took much of the team to Croydon. He also played for Grays Athletic and Leatherhead before spending a few years at Banstead Athletic, where he was part of the team that reached the FA Vase Semi-Final, losing to Whitby Town in 1997 by which time he was 44! He returned as our Assistant Manager under Barry Barnes in 2003 but it was a brief stay and he was then involved in a Coaching capacity with Mick Sullivan at Merstham when they gained promotion from the Combined Counties League in 2008, also reaching the Quarter-Final of the Vase and winning the Surrey Senior Cup that season. An incredible career! Rest in Peace Mick! A pictorial history is available by clicking HERE Monday 31st August - Two injury time goals robbed us of the points as Tooting & Mitcham United came from behind to win 3-2 at Chalky Lane in front of a poor crowd of 206. That figure might appear ok compared to standard Saturday figures, but the club's stubborn refusal to consider an 11.30am kick off cost us around a thousand pounds in lost revenue, as we clashed with home matches for Leatherhead (Att-824) and Sutton United (Att-2179) which ensured that our local derby against one of the best supported clubs in the League was out-attended on the day by traditionally poorer supported clubs like Met Police (240), Chipstead (215), Knaphill (270) and even Spelthorne Sports at Step Six (282), all of whom chose to offer the morning kick off. We could have easily had 400 for this match; many buying programmes, food or merchandise while our club continues to prove that they still do not "get" how supporters think. Maybe they should actually look at the facts, as clearly the kick off time was not as "user-friendly" as they claimed! It was also interesting to note that in our previous eight competitive matches, our Managers have used all five substitutes, yet none at all took the field for this late match, and there will inevitably be the accusation of tired legs as we conceded those late goals. A strange decision by our Management team who currently have a colossal 44 players registered and you have to question what the point is of a post match interview, when that particular question wasn't even asked of them, despite supporters almost certainly wondering why none came on. Saturday 29th August - 60 years ago this day Reg Scott became our first ever substitute in our Athenian League match at Rainham Town when he replaced David "Fred" Grinrod in a 2-2 draw. However, the plan of introducing substitutions to influence matches didn't really work for us that season as we only made six and none of them scored! For all the older club news going all the way back to 2013 just click on the previous articles button and select the latest news option. This website contains an enormous amount of information and gets thousands of page views each month, which is humbling, bearing in mind the level at which the club I support plays at! It also contains a vast and detailed Historical Archive which is not just restricted to our club. If you wish to place a reciprocal advert here, or even sponsor the site itself, just drop me a line and your help can enable me to expand the site still further! The site is clearly in need of modernisation, but given the choice, I'd always prefer to have information and accuracy as the main priorities, ahead of a few random pictures of player huddles!