OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME - MAYPLACE GROUND, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 6JT - 20th October 2021 - SCEFL

OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME
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20th October 2021
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    SENIOR CUP

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  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

Wood Mangal

 Turkish Kitchen
   329 Bethnal Green Rd,
       London E2 6LJ

 Traditional Turkish Food
  to Eat-in or Take Out

also on Deliveroo and Just Eat

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