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Position 9th out of 16

FAC

Not Entered - see below

AC

4q

Leyton

1-4

Div 2 LC

1st

Lewes

1-3

SSC

3q

Malden Town

2-3

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Club Colours
appear to be blue and white stripes but change to royal blue in Dec 65 v
Lewes

President

John (JRP) Martin

Chairman

George Tarran

v-c Noel Bell

Secretary

Gordon Temperley

Treasurer

C.Corby

Match &
Press Sec

Bob Bell

Manager/coach

Jimmy Smith

Appointed 1/6/65

Salary £5.5s per week plus expenses

Previously a
player with Leyton Orient and Burnley. Born in Bolton.

Picture of Jimmy in 66/67 Handbook P36.

Club Coach

Len Stone

Asst Tony Williams later in the season.

Reference to
winter training HQ at the Elliott School, Putney Common.

Committee C.Carley, Derek Harper, C.McLaughlin, Mrs
Shirley Bell, A.Hickey, Ron Jewell, Len Cox, D.Soane, J.Peel, W.Inkpen,

and Mick
Christie

Mick Christie
was described by Colin Bell as a bit of a villain, echoing what Dave Wilson
had once said. He believed that Christie

might have been offered a lot of money by John Martin to
close the club in the seventies, but I struggle to see how this was the
case

as he almost
kept the club going single handedly in the early seventies and held regular
appeals for help. Also Manager of a

team, Dorchester, in the Morden Sunday League that Colin
played for. Used to live in Kingston Road but not there now and it is
not

even known if
he is still alive as I write this in 2011.

Shirley Bell
was Bob Bell's wife. Both have now passed away and are at Randalls Road,
Leatherhead.

Ron Jewell
doing all the Supporters Club work in the Club House these days. Grandfather
of former Treasurer Rob Oakes.

Club not
entered for FA Cup due to administrative error by secretary Mr Temperley

May 65 reported in Epsom Advertiser that Epsom have been
speaking to Roy Daley the Carshalton Reserve Manager about their vacant

Manager's
position. Bob Bell advises that a decision will be made within 7 to 14 days.
It was a three hour meeting.

1/6/65 Club
again decides to apply for Associate Membership of the FA and Full membership
of the London FA

1/6/65 Club gets three copies of the lease, one held by
Chairman and one each by Secretary and Supp Club. I
have one of these.

New club rules
also adopted.

22/6/65 Stand
to be reroofed and glazed ends fitted. Cost £250

AGM 8/7/65 -
All above members re-elected

Larry
Pritchard joins Sutton from Leatherhead. Previously with Walton after
starting career at Epsom

July 65
Ex-coach Bill Kennedy receives no-confidence vote at Carshalton Athletic.
Resigns in September, after 2 months

of strange
scenes at Carshalton, where the Chairman was ill, and no-one else would make
a decision.

Bill Mackay
turns pro and is playing for Dover this season.

July 65 Len
Stone joins as coach. Programme calls him Ken!

20/7/65
training starts.

July 65 Bill
Harding joins from Carshalton Athletic.

Aug 65 rumoured that former player/Manager and former
Hounslow and England player Derek Evans may return as a player for the

match v Civil Service but doesn't appear to. Other players
listed are Chris Linnehan, Roger Guyett, Peter Robinson and Roger Durdle.

Aug 65 Frank
Fondyke joins from Harrow Town

Aug 65 future
player and Manager Adrian Hill leaves Bromley for Redhill but returns in Jan
66

Aug 65 George
Glenister joins from Tonbridge.

Aug 65 future
player Dave Le Grice leaves Dulwich at the age of 18 after two years there.
Is a copyholder from Herne Hill and

would have a
trial for Leicester City at some point this season.

Aug 65 Paddy
Long joins Maidstone from Hounslow

21/8/65 0-3
down at half time, but fight back to 3-3 draw at home to Herne Bay.

Dave Fillery
and Dave Leonard at Tooting in Sept 65

Ex Tooting
& England player John Harlow playing for Carshalton F.C. v Epsom 18/9/65

Johnny Eales
leaves for Carshalton Athletic in Oct 65, but transfer is requested by
12/8/65. Playing for Banstead by May 66.

25/8/65 Despite Epsom Advertiser advising a scoreline of
0-3 Epsom actually lost 1-3 to Croydon Amateurs on this day with Cox scoring.

28/8/65 Peter
Deadman debut. Would go on to much success with Hendon and England (40
Amateur Caps).

Sept 65 Letter
received from Cobham asking for travelling expenses of £2.16s.4d. Cobham

Sept 65
Maurice Griffiths signs for Epsom officially but doesn't stay long.

Sept 65 Dave
Legrice joins Rushmere United from DH

Sept 65 Tom
McCready is at Wim with O'Rourke

18/9/65 Drawn
away but game switched to West Street as Beddington Park not suitable.

Oct 65 Jimmy
Smith calls for Athenian League to follow League experiment and allow subs.
They come in for 66/67.

In the
Athenian League October meeting, the League agreed to write to Epsom asking
them to attend to their administration.

Mr Temperley
was late arriving to the meeting!

9/10/65 Debut
for Peter Kenchington at Molesey. Future manager of club. Only plays once
this season!

21/10/65
former player Larry Pritchard plays for England Amateurs v Wycombe in a 0-0
draw.

28/10/65
former player Dave Hermitage retires aged 32 to concentrate on Secretary
duties at Sutton United.

Nov 65  Peter Scott joins from Finchley

Nov 65 future
player Gerry O'Rourke is at Wimbledon.

Nov 65
Advertiser provides report of Epsom Methodists with a young Chris Kelly and
his brother Richard the stars of the team. He

would join
Epsom from them in August 1967 and go on to have a very famous career.

Nov 65 former
Trainer Fred Aldred is now at Carshalton Athletic.

Nov 65 Ray
Fillery (33) lives in Stratford Road, Thornton Heath and now Captain of
Carshalton

Nov 65 Ron
Applebee is at Barking

Nov 65 Steve
Dunwoody is at Malden Town - ex DH

Nov 65 future
player Dave Worby is with Sutton Reserves but soon leaves for Walton &
Hersham.

2/11/65 Peter
Keary and Brian Pell selected for Surrey v Sussex @ Woking

13/11/65
Johnny Bangs (31) and Albert Pollington expected to play for Merstham.

13/11/65 Epsom
win 5-0 at Merstham in SSC despite a Bill Harding mispen.

13/11/65 12
names listed in press report but no subs were allowed so one didn't play.
Who?

20/11/65 Wiltshire injured so Epsom finish with ten men.
Game was first of the season to kick off at 2.15 instead of 2.30 due to
light.

20/11/65 Brian
Coombes was cautioned for foul play.

27/11/65
Leyton gate (532) is biggest for two years since Walthamstow (app700)

Despite appearing in the club history as our best
attendance for a while, the following week's programme says that the

attendance
was disappointing "no more than 270 were present", and Leyton only
brought one coach down instead

of the
promised 250! It was a cold day with heavy rain, which didn't help.

Leyton, under
future Amateur Cup winner Ted Hardy (1974 - Bishops stortford) would reach
the last 16 this season.

Dec 65 future
Assistant Manager Barry Rowan is at Millwall.

4/12/65 Epsom
play in new all royal blue strip but lose 1-3 in LC replay to Lewes.

Attendance was
80 with 53 paying for the stand. Not a pleasant day?

5/12/65 Trevor
Wales scores 4 goals for local Sunday side Dorchester in Morden League.

11/12/65 Epsom
lose to Malden Town. Would have been at home to Sutton if they had won.
Former players Steve

Dunwoody and
Roger Brunwin played for Malden Town.

18/12/65 Epsom
late arriving at Eastbourne. Fined £1.1s - Not paid by Feb 66 meeting of
Athenian League.

18/12/65 Bill
Harding cautioned for ungentlemanly conduct.

Jan 66 John
McNaught joins from Carshalton Athletic

Jan 66 Dave Worby playing for Sutton United Reserves after
brief spell in first team. Sutton Manager advised him to look elsewhere in
Jan 66

However, he had joined from Walton & Hersham earlier
in the season so needed special clearance for a second transfer. He
would

eventually
return to Stompond Lane.

Jan 66 reference to Colin Murphy who played for Croydon
Amateurs before Epsom and then Redhill is playing for Tunbridge Wells

Rangers in
Southern League

Jan 66 Malcolm
Baddelow is at Epsom Methodists in local football. Chris Kelly is also there
by Feb if not earlier

1/1/66
McNaught makes his debut in a 4-2 win at Marlow.

According to
Colin Bell McNaught used to live in Carshalton and his house backed on to
Colin's whose house was the last

house on the
right in Salisbury Road.

Jan 66 Micky
Tuvey (21) joins from C.Palace. Formerly a junior with Arsenal and Millwall

Jan 66 Alan
Wilkinson joins from Edgware after moving into the area.

Dave Hyatt's
dad Les scores hat tricks for Welbeck Utd v Norbury Rangers and again in
March v Beddington Corner.

Feb meeting of
Athenian League - Epsom also owed for League handbooks £5.10s.

15/1/66 Lewes
(A)(L) match postponed - early in the morning due to 4 inches of snow. Prog
Y.

22/1/66 Don
Hollands cautioned v Cheshunt (H).

Feb 66 Chris
Hill leaves for Banstead Athletic.

Feb 66 Epsom
announce no return trip to Frankfurt due to cost.

Feb 66 Ray
Francis playing for Leatherhead

Feb 66 Ron
Vosper (ex-Dover and Sutton keeper) and Peter Kendall now running the A team.

Feb 66 Jimmy
Smith hampered by an old spinal injury received when playing professionally,
and a lump had formed

which
required to be cut away. Unable to take training which was left to Len Stone
and Tony Williams (Asst Coach)(ex-Uxbridge)

Winter
training was held at the Elliott School on Putney Common with 3 gyms and two
floodlit five a side courts.

Feb 66 Gerry
Rich, George Ives and Alan Page all unavailable to play in goal on 05/02/66
says Epsom Advertiser.

5/2/66 Epsom
win 2-0 at Ruislip Manor despite a Bill Harding mispen and 3 disallowed
goals!

Feb 66 rumoured that Derek Evans and Ken MacDonald may
return to Epsom. They are currently with Civil Service. They don't join.

12/2/66 Bill
Harding sent off for retaliation after 50 minutes of our 2-0 home win over
Windsor & Eton. Suspended 21 days.

It didn't
really matter though, as he was injured during this time after falling from a
9 storey building! A cradle broke his fall.

Just cuts and
bruises and 16 stitches.

12/2/66 League Meeting minutes advises that Epsom played a
man short against Windsor but I have a full line up and don't see an

offence here,
unless they are referring to the sending off, of course!

Feb 66 Alan
Ward (23) a former Wolves Reserve team player who has had spells with
Rotherham, Burnley and Ferryhill Athletic

rumoured to be
joining from Civil Service but not clear if he ever plays. A wing half or
inside forward.

19/2/66 Epsom
are 3-1 down, recover to win 4-3 v Berkhamsted.

Feb 66 Epsom Advertiser reports that epsom will not be
going to Eintracht this year as originally planned due to the costs of the
trip.

26/2/66
Windsor (L)(A) match postponed - Prog = Y. Waterlogged.

March 66 Terry
Thomas lives in Colchester!

March 66 Brian
Coombes reported as leaving for Bromley but plays for Epsom in April!

Mar 66 Brian
Coombes joins Bromley from Epsom but returns to Epsom in Aug 66

Mar 66 Peter Gaydon, John Aldrich, Dave Fillery, Graham
Hemphrey, Eddie Clack and Ray Watkins all playing for Tooting & Mitcham.

Mar 66 Peter
Kenchington is a national newspaper delivery man - which stopped him playing
for Epsom

March 66 Paper
reports that about 20 kids with banners, many under tens, are displaying
banners and singing at games.

Jimmy Smith
offers to take them to Eastbourne on the coach if they can be there for 12pm.

12/3/66 Peter
Scott scores two but only remembers the first one as he had double vision for
most of the game

Paper quotes
" Picked up the ball near the end of the game, and sped goalwards, still
clutching his bottle of smelling salts"

Epsom were 3-1
up at HT, but held on for a draw, and nearly pinched it at the end.

12/3/66 I have
an additional programme with the Lewes players signatures on it, if anyone
from Lewes is interested!

19/3/66 Another Scott collision this week, but Aylesbury
player has to go off after 6 minutes. Epsom take 60 minutes to score but win
3-0.

22/3/66 Epsom
draw 1-1 at Windsor but League Bulletin says the game was due to be on
Wednesday 23rd March instead.

However, Bulletin doesn't list dates that midweek games
were played and the Windsor programme says Tuesday 22nd so I will stick

with that.

April 66
former player Ted Murphy (31) released by Wimbledon. Won the Amateur Cup with
them in 1963.

7/4/66 Herne
Bay abandoned due to bad light. Epsom at fault for a late start. Fined £5.5s

Epsom were
leaving by coach from London Bridge at 3.30 but it took over three hours on
the A2. Day before Good Friday.

40 minutes
each way agreed, but still only 65 were played. Players changed in the coach
on the way.

Secretary of
Herne Bay Sid Ward reported Epsom. He had phoned Epsom's secretary and was
told "They are on their way", but

clearly Gordon
Temperley wasn't aware of the problems. Game started just before 7pm.

Referee Mr AJ Pique decided to start the game, and Herne
Bay started as if they wanted to punish Epsom for their inconvenience.

By the end though Herne Bay fans were applauding Gerry
Rich "after an amazing game" in goal. HT 2-0, with second goal
right on the

40 minute half time mark, although it was suggested that
it may not have crossed the line. No HT played. Colin Warnett scored both

goals for
Herne Bay. A white ball was called for in the second half, and training
lights were switched on, but to no avail.

HB Press says
that Deadman and Grinrod played, not Wray and Ireland. Ad disagrees!

9/4/66
Covington Cup Final played at West St. Epsom & Leatherhead v South
London.

11/4/66
R.Wakeling, P.Scott and J.McNaught all booked v Wingate. Wingate had a player
sent off in same game.

The Wingate player P.Jacobs was sent off for striking
while Wakeling was cautioned for ungentlemanly conduct, McNaught for
dissent

and Scott for
foul play. Epsom Advertiser makes no mention of McNaught's booking.

April 66
Former player and Amateur Cup winner Ted Murphy is released by Wimbledon.
Future players Tommy McCready and

Gerry O'Rourke
are still there.

14/4/66 Jack
Crump, former British Athletic Team Manager dies aged 60 at Epsom & Ewell
Hospital. Was an OBE for services to

sport, and had a small part in Epsom Town FC during and
following the war, speaking prominently at their last ever meeting in 1946.

April 66
Reported that Wimbledon cannot get rid of their floodlights. Cost of
dismantling and transport is about £500. 8 pylons.

April 66 Future manager Pat O'Connell leaves Tooting &
M for Kingstonian. Future player Dave Leonard has already made this journey.

23/4/66 Epsom
lose 5-2 at home to Aveley with a Keith Welham mispen.

26/4/66 Bill
Hickey, Committee member since the before the war dies suddenly at his
Stoneleigh home. Arm bands

worn for next
game v Walton & H (Fr) Had been Chairman of the Supporters Club in
1957/58.

27/4/66 HT unknown at Ware. Derek Hoddle, father of Glenn
was playing for Ware today. Former Uxbridge player. According to Steve

King, Ware historian, Derek's brother David played in goal
for them in 1969/70 and Glenn used to go and watch his dad at Ware, like
he

had done at Uxbridge. In fact there was a reference to him
in a Ware programme that wonders whether he will turn out better than
his

father!

May 66 former
keeper Ray Watkins retires. Was at Tooting & Mitcham.

4/5/66
Athenian League meeting reported Epsom started with ten v Windsor on 12/2/66.
Club fined 10s.6d

plus 10s.6d
for failing to answer correspondence. Windsor game was only 40 mins each way.

4/5/66
Athenian League meeting reported Epsom played an ineligible player M.E.Tuvey
at Eastbourne on 26/3/66

Apparently he
had signed but not served the 14 day qualification period. Fined £1.1s

5/5/66 Only played with 10 men against Herne Bay, yet led
at half time. Herne Bay Press said "if ever a team were justified in
saying

we wuz robbed
it was Epsom" The ten men put up a "spirited and skilful display
that few would have begrudged them a point".

Herne Bay
papers says Fred Grinrod scored, but Ad said it was Tony Sackett after 35
minutes. I am happy with Ad report.

They also
have Fred Grinrod and Fred Botfield in the line up, but Advertiser says Tony
Sackett and Charlie Wray. They are wrong.

Unfortunately
two quick goals after HT and a late one made it 3-1 to Herne Bay.

7/5/66 Wood
Cup Final at West Street. Epsom & Leatherhead v South London under 13s.
K.O. 10.30.

May 66 Brian
Jenkins scores 150th goal for Walton & Hersham v Kingstonian.

Athenian
League meeting in June 66 advised that "in view of the misdemeanours of
Epsom & Ewell this

season their
record be reported to the League Council". Epsom were warned by SCFA
too.

09/05/66
Jimmy Smith resigned, but persuaded to continue by supporters. 4 page
resignation letter presented. I now have this.

In letter to
George Tarran, he felt that the blame was not all his, as many errors were
administrative.

At the time of
the letter, Jimmy Smith lived at 2 Farlington Place, Roehampton. SW15.

18/5/66 Line
Up: for Sutton friendly was: L Geararts (Gerry Rich - 2nd half), Colin Bell,
AN Other, John McNaught, Micky Pepper,

Don Hollands,
Terry Pattenden, Alan Cox, Peter Scott, Micky Iles, Brian Coombes.

Reserves:

Athenian League Reserve Division 2

Position

3rd out of 16

ALC

1st

Eastbourne

2-10

led 1-0 but keeper injured hand and went off.

SIC

1st

Surbiton Byron

0-1

21/8/65
Reserve team did not travel to Herne Bay as they only had 6 players. Fined
them 20 guineas plus expenses!

Herne Bay had
not been notified until 1.05 which was too late to call off the officials.
Epsom wrote to apologise but they

and
Berkhamsted who did something similar on 30/8/65 were reprimanded by the
League for this.

18/9/65 No
game for Reserves. Was originally going to be Herne Bay (H) but the first
team switched their SSC tie

with
Carshalton F,C, to West Street.

25/9/65
Reserves late arriving at Eastbourne. Fined 10s.6d.

The club was
reprimanded by the League for this, and wrote to apologise.

25/9/65 My
records have this as a 2-10 defeat but handbook wrongly says 1-9. League
Bulletin confirms the score as 2-10.

I have this
down as Neale Trophy but that was the Corinthian League competition that we
left when relegated last year.

This was the
League Cup that now replaced the Neale Trophy. Epsom Advertiser also confirms
2-10 and we were a goal up

before keeper
Flint was injured. It also wrongly mentions that this was a League match.

16/10/65 Ken
Hoare sent off v Marlow. Suspended 14 days. Advertiser refers to the loss
being only 4-1 and the goal coming from

newly signed Tony Kenchington. I thought this was more
likely to have been Peter Kenchington but the first team report advises that
he

was unable to
play for the first team due to work commitments, so he wouldn't have
travelled all the way to Marlow. Check with

Doug
Kenchington one day.

Oct 65 18 year
old Peter Dunckley joins from Crystal Palace.

6/11/65 Jimmy
Wand sent off for violent conduct v Ware. Suspended 14 days

20/11/65 Res
beat Aveley 7-2 this day. However, Advertiser says it was 8-2 and provides
the scorers. This must be wrong. Check!

Thurrock Gazette confirms 7-2 in a full report and advises
the scorers by position. The left half got two and the centre forward got 3.

27/11/65 No
game for Reserves.

1/1/66 2-0
down at HT, but won 3-2 v Edmonton at West Street.

8/1/66 Won
Intermediate Cup tie at Banstead by 2-1 but handbook says after extra time
and I have no record of this yet.

Programme
doesn't refer to it and nor does the League Bulletin so I assume there wasn't
any.

15/1/66
Reserves game v Aylesbury (H) p-p pitch frozen but no snow, unlike at Lewes
for the first team.

15/1/66 Epsom
are admonished by the League Bulletin compiler DWG Thake for not advsing
details of their next SIC opponents.

5/2/66 Surbiton Byron are a Parthenon League side playing
at Tolworth according to the programme. Presume different to Surbiton Town.

Did they play
at Tolworth FC or Surbiton Town or somewhere else?

26/2/66 Waterlogged pitch - p-p v Marlow (H)(L). Programme
says it is a long time since a postponement of this type at West Street.

5/3/66 Epsom
trail at Wingate but fight back to win 4-1. Jones HT.

28/3/66
Charlie Wray cautioned at Aveley for "persistent infringement".

Charlie Wray
was described by Colin Bell as having a stutter and a quiet lad.

2/4/66 Rodney Taylor (18) breaks leg at Ruislip. Is in
Mount Vernon Hospital at present (9th April). Epsom Advertiser calls him Roy.

9/4/66 Epsom defeat Lewes 5-3 according to League Bulletin
but Epsom Advertiser wrongly says 5-2 in a brief report. One of the
goals

came from Reg
Scott who is the brother of Peter and played his first match v Herne Bay on
06/04/66.

18/4/66
Programme advises that Cheshunt won this match with two late goals but
unclear when we scored or what HT score was.

23/4/66
Berkhamsted (A)(L) K.O. 5pm

'A' Team

Surrey Combination

8th out of 13

Most home
games played at Gibraltar Recreation Ground.

18/9/65
Surrey Comet says Epsom A beat Power Samas 3-1 but Epsom programme on 25/9
says it was a 2-1 win. Check!

18/9/65 Game
was played at Gibraltar Rec.

9/10/65 A Team
lose to a penalty after 87 minutes. L1-2 at Guildford A.

20/11/65 No
game for A Team.

27/11/65 Due
to play Dennis Motors (Guildford) at (H) but p-p at "last moment",
due to the groundsman at Gibraltar Rec! This

has caused the
club "considerable expense".

11/12/65 Won
5-3 v Redhill at Gibraltar Rec.

18/12/65 Power
Samas (A) Lost 1-2

15/1/66 No
game

22/1/66
Dulwich H (H) p-p

5/2/66 Lost
1-14 to Dennis Sports

12/2/66 No
game for A Team.

19/2/66
Dulwich H (H) at Gibraltar Rec - Won 4-2.

26/2/66 Blank
day for 'A' team too.

19/3/66
Guildford C (H) at Gibraltar Rec.

April 66
Three games missing. 1 win and 2 losses F10 A8 still to find assuming the
Power Samas game (18/9) was 2-1 not 3-1.

Also Final
table is still missing. 3 games maybe unplayed?

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

07/08/1965

Feltham

H

1-1

RES

07/08/1965

Wembley

A

0-4

12/08/1965

Wembley

H

RES - was this played?

14/08/1965

Civil Service

H

was this played?

22/04/1966

Surbiton United Res

H

3-6

RES HT 1-3

30/04/1966

Walton & Hersham

H

0-4

07/05/1966

Carshalton Ath

H

1-2

Harding

18/05/1966

Sutton United

H

2-2

Y

19/5/66 Epsom
International XI v Showbiz team at West St.

Y

Epsom win 7-6,
and Jimmy Smith, Tosh Chamberlain, and Craig Douglas all played

21/05/1966

Leatherhead

H

4-1

Thomas (2), Harding, Welham

23/05/1966

Crystal Palace

H

1-4

HT 0-3
Tosh Chamberlain plays and scores for Epsom

28/05/1966

Tooting & Mitcham

A

planned but never played. Cancelled.

Aug 65 Bill
Frindall plays for Banstead Cricket Club

21/1/66 George
Harrison marries Patti Boyd at Epsom registry office

Feb 66 Lawrie
McMenemy manager of Bishop Auckland