C O M M E N T S
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AL2

15th out of 16

FAC

1q

Tilbury

0-1

AC

2q

Tooting & M

1-2

LC

2nd

Windsor & Eton

1-2+

SSC

3q

Banstead Athletic

0-2

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

President

John (JRP) Martin

Chairman

Noel (NP) Bell

Secretary

Bob (RC).Bell

Telephone Epsom 8348. Club number Ewell 4930,
which was Wilf Smith's.

85 Castle Avenue, Ewell.

Treasurer

Mr N.R.(Russ) Williams

joins in
March 1970.

Committee: Ron Jewell, Bill Inkpen, Wilf Smith, Len Cox,
Derek Harper, Mrs S.Bell, S.Duncan, M.Pickhaver, A.Stroud,

A.Parrett

Manager

New manager Peter Norris for Dave Fillery in
June 69

Norris was a
local schoolmaster at Glyn school

Reserves:

Ray Fillery as manager

Groundsman:

Len Pickard

Supporters
Club Committee are President John Martin, Chairman Ron (RTA) Jewell, v-c Noel
Bell,

Secretary Mrs
SFB.Bell, Treasurer Len (LW) Cox. Committee: Mrs E.Wimshurst, Wilf Smith
(Social Secretary),

George Nathan
(Bar Secretary), FW Garrett, RP Howell, Miss Madge Easton, Miss Maryse
Jewell, EC Mitchell,

Bob Bell

Players
leaving this year are Dave Fillery (player manager), Alan Parrott (emigrating
to Australia)

Alan Parrott
later got married in Melbourne to his English girlfriend Fiona.

Currently
playing for a club in the second division of the Victoria League in
Australia.

New players
are Dave Morrish (Sutton), Micky Iles (returning)(Molesey), Philip Hammond
(Leyton Orient)

Hammond was a
schoolboy international, and former captain of London Schools

Shaun Smyth
joined from Sutton

Training
started on 1st July. First local club to start training.

Peter Norris's
phone number - Ewell 2627

Trevor Wales
playing for Ashtead in Surrey Senior League

Supporters
Club Membership 2s and half price for under 15's.

'A' team restarted under Sandy Duncan in the Surrey
Combination. First game was (H) v Crystal Palace on 21/8/69.

However, Surrey Combination makes no mention of the club
throughout Sept and Oct so presume we resigned early.

I have spoken
to Roy Leverington in 2019, son of former player Reuben and he advises that a
few games in this

competition were played. He recalls a match at Bromley
being an away game v Crystal Palace where they were 5-0 down

at half time
but recovered to lose just 5-4.

30/7/69 Ron
Harris becomes a vice-president of the club, and brings Chelsea down for a
friendly.

Programme this
day states that "THIS IS EPSOM & EWELL'S YEAR"!

30/7/69 A
copy of this programme is sold on Ebay by Richard Lambert in 2008 for
£260.00!!! It was very rare

Chelsea
edition and not listed in their own records. Their first team did have
another game that day, which is

probably why.
A healthy bonus for the club!

Aug 69 former
player Peter Deadman returns to Dulwich Hamlet. He left the previous year.

Aug 69 Peter
Gaydon leaves Dulwich for Tooting & Mitcham where he was a youth player
originally.

Aug 69 Dave
Burke is also at Tooting & Mitcham and these two players would follow
each other to Croydon,

Dulwich,
Carshalton and Epsom & Ewell in future years.

Aug 69 former
player George Glenister is at Malden Town - previously with Tonbridge and
Gravesend

Aug 69 Paddy
Long leaves Maidstone for Walton & Hersham

Reference to future Assistant Manager John Martin in Aug
69 being a former Westfield Youth and a pro with Hastings United

Aug 69 future
player Dennis Bailey, son of future Secretary Stan is at Dulwich Hamlet.

2/8/69
Banstead Athletic open new clubhouse. Still standing as of December 2011.

16/8/69 Jim
Morris in goal for Ruislip. Was this Graham's dad? Apparently not according
to Graham.

19/8/69 Don
Hollands and George Wakeling played for Horsham v Epsom

and on 25/2/70
both the above were joined by Peter Kenchington, who also scores.

23/08/69 Main
stand at Harrow caught fire during the game. Harrow scored seconds later!

Terry Self,
Johnny Woods, Mick Calvert all played for Harrow v Epsom that day.

Sept 69 future player Micky Lyel is Resrve team Captain at
Mascot Sports in Wandsworth but moves up occasionally.

Sept 69 future
player Gerry O'Rourke is at Wimbledon where he has been for a while.

Sept 69 former
player Chris Kelly is still at Tooting & Mitcham.

Sept 69 Johnny
Eales is at Harrow Borough

Sept 69 Dave Leonard (full back) joins Dulwich from
Wealdstone - then changes his mind and returns to Maidstone instead

1/9/69 Kit forgotten en route to Hemel Hempstead. Not sure
if it was retrieved or whether we used a spare Hemel kit!

6/9/69
Eastbourne Town defeated in League Cup. Dave Morrish was away on holiday for
two weeks.

13/9/69 Lion
Sports played at Church Road Bisley, and referred to their ground as
"The Den".

20/9/69 Smyth
mispen (HIGH) v Tilbury. Epsom outclassed 1-0.

25/9/69 'A'
team reported as having been dismissed from the Surrey Combination after
refusing to continue at HT

while
trailing 1-7 to Leatherhead Casuals. Bob Bell disputes this and says that
club withdrew from League.

Sept 69 Bobby
Hartley joined club.

27/9/69
Seymour goal in 12th minute of extra time beats Lion Sports in Amateur Cup.

28/9/69 A
young Mick Sorensen, future Epsom player and son of Jan (50's) scored 8 times
in a Sunday game!

Oct 69 George
Glennister leaves Malden Town for Tooting & Mitcham.

Oct 69 Gerry
O'Rourke and Tommy McCready get testimonials for Wimbledon this season.

Oct 69 long term supporter and brother of former player
Steve, Danny Dunwoody is playing for Belmont B.L. this season.

Oct 69 former
player Wayne Lewis leaves Dulwich Hamlet for Bromley. Also fomer Tooting
& Mitcham United.

4/10/69 Late
equaliser by Morrish gets a replay from a 2-2 draw at Whitehawk. Three more
matches are required

to determine
the winner.

11/10/69 Shaun
Smyth missing with an ear abscess that gives him trouble this year.

15/10/69 Tony
Seymour is 22 this day and Alan "Tommy" Thompson is 21 this day.

18/10/69
Admission raised away at Whitehawk to 2s.6d to cover costs.

25/10/69
Tooting & M (H)(AC) Against Epsom that day were Peter Gaydon, Dave Burke,
and Chris Kelly.

There was also
meant to be a town band playing that day.

Nov 69 former player George Glenister joins Tooting &
Mitcham from Malden Town. South London Press says he was

previously
with Gravesend & Northfleet and Tonbridge but makes no mention of Epsom.

Nov 69 future
player Alan Ives is at Redhill where the Captain is Adrian Hill our future
Manager.

Nov 69 Micky
Pepper is at Colliers Wood

Nov 69 Peter
Deadman  is at Barking again.

Nov 69
Ted  Yorke at Harrow Borough and Terry
Self and John Wood

8/11/69
McNaught was rested. He had played the last 6 games with a broken toe!

Micky Iles
left club in November to move to Southampton - work commitments as GPO
officer

8/11/69 Last
game for Micky Iles. Players gave him a toaster, and club gave him an
electric clock.

15/11/69 Tony
Monk, Micky Finch and Mark Freeborough's dad, Steve all played for Banstead v
Epsom.

Monk and
Freeborough both scored. Tony Seymour sent off for swinging a punch after 42
minutes.

Suspended 4
weeks as a result. Programme says he was sent off after 5 minutes.

Also former
player Ronnie Barton played for Banstead.

15/11/69
future Assitant Manager John Martin suffers broken leg v Lion Sports while at
Westfield

Nov 69 Future
player Dave Worby heads the winner v Ashford in FAC 4q.

19/11/69
Joint Boxing evening venture with Boxing Club at Epsom Baths. Tickets 2
guineas but boxing only

(no food) is 5
shillings. 120 were at the first one, and 180 at the next.

29/11/69 3 inches of snow at Rainham but game goes on.
Wilf Smith helps the home supporters clearing the lines!

Lights
approved for the ground by the council

13/12/69 Not
one of the best games says Herne Bay Press.

20/12/69 New
signing Mick Sinclair from Sutton becomes new captain.

27/12/69 Eddie
Jones leg injury 58 minutes v Eastbourne. Tony Seymour went in goal.

Following
10/1/70 loss to Marlow, Morrish went to Hayes, McNaught left, and Thompson
too.

Jan 70 Erik
Sorensen re-joins from Leatherhead. Son of Jan (50's) and brother of Mick

Residing at
Loughborough College but will travel down.

Jan 70 Shaun
Smyth returns from a holiday in USA.

Jan 70 sponge man Derek Harper moves to Bournemouth after
doing job for 5 years according to the Press. Actually

it was
Portsmouth and he resides in Petersfield in April 2014.

Derek had
been with the club as a Committee Member and 'A' Team Manager as well as
physio since 1963.

Jan 70 Charlie
Wray reported as rejoining club from Bishops Stortford but never plays for
the first team.

3/1/70 John Farrington plays last game for reserves before
moving to America for 8 months on a working holiday that

is meant to
end with a trip to Mexico for the World Cup.

10/1/70 John
McNaught sent off v Marlow for retaliating.

Feb 70 Eddie
Jones has recovered but leaves club for Dorking with John McNaught.

Micky Lyel
selected for Surrey v Kent @ T&M on 10/02/70

Feb 70 Steve
Delaney is at Croydon Amateurs

Feb 70 future
player Peter Kenchington is now at Horsham along with former players George
Wakeling,

Tex Wiltshire
and Don Hollands.

14/2/70 I have
Wiles as the penalty scorer here but Bobby Hartley has written to say
that

Wiles earned
the penalty but he took it. Check local paper reports.

18/2/70
Another Boxing Night at Epsom Baths. Same prices as earlier in the season.

23/2/70
Supporters Club AGM in Clubhouse. Or maybe the actual AGM.

25/2/70 see
19/8/69 comments.

5/3/70 Future
player Richard Hooke appointed England Schools Captain for season.

14/3/70 John
Ilott scores twice for Leyton v Epsom. Related to 80's Essex cricketer Mark?

Cliff Buck
scores on debut for Epsom and Ewell.

March 70 Ken
Jolly struggling with a groin injury which may end his career says programme.

21/3/70 Epsom
win 1-0 Woodall saves penalty in 52nd minute

Mar 70 Mr N.R.
(Russ) Williams joins as Treasurer

11/4/70 Colin
Bell gets married. F.A. Cup Final day.

18/4/70 Epsom
beat Harrow 4-0. Johnny Eales, Ted Yorke, Terry Self, and John Wood all play
for Harrow.

Invicta League
Cup Finals staged at Epsom for 4 Sundays starting on 26/4/70. Prog Y

9/5/70 Epsom
lose 3-0 at Edmonton. Prog was issued as I've seen it in a catalogue, but I
don't have it.

Surrey Lower
Junior Cup Final staged on 9/5/70 - Risley v Engelfield Green Res

Surrey
Intermediate Cup Final also staged on 16/5/70. - Met Police Res v Addington
United. Programme Y.

Epsom
re-elected at Athenian League meeting. First re-election application in many
years.

Club Handbook
says that Kelvin Gregory scored one less and Bobby Hartley got one more.
However,

the match
reports and Dave Wilson's stats confirm Gregory scored six and Hartley two
this season.

Reserves:

Athenian League Reserve Division 2

Position

12th out of 16

Manager: Ray
Fillery

SIC

3rd

Merrow

0-1

LC

2nd

Horsham

1-5

Programme and
club Handbook were often in disagreement this year.

Only 26 games
played this year so Epsom played four of the teams just once.

The unplayed
games were Edgware (A), Harrow B (A), Rainham Town (H), Uxbridge (H)

6/9/69
Programme advises a trip to Eastbourne but it was actually a trip to Windsor
& Eton where we lost 1-4.

20/9/69
Programme remarks on how well the Reserves did to come away from Herne Bay
with a 3-2 win. However

the Handbook
summary advises that it was a 2-2 draw. The Handbook was wrong and the
programme was right.

27/9/69
Definitely no game for res this day.

11/10/69 Malcolm Shelbourne makes his debut for Epsom
Reserves at Horsham in a 2-0 defeat. Malcolm becomes

our kit
sponsor in 2014/15 through his company Intercem.

18/10/69
Definitely no game for res this day.

25/10/69 No
match this day for res.

1/11/69 A
paper says Epsom & E won 3-0 but it was definitely 3-1 at Marlow. Checked
with local paper tables.

Programme
originally advised this as a 2-1 win on 18th Oct, but it was all wrong.

29/11/69
Ruislip (H)(L) p-p Snow. Lots of it!

20/12/69 Malcolm Shelbourne remembers this match at Hemel
Hempstead was played in thick fog and only knew

we had
equalised when John Farrington came swirling through the mist celebrating!
Drew 1-1.

27/12/69 Epsom travel to Worthing and win 3-2 in the
League Cup. The programme places this the wrong way around

and confuses the issue by not putting "LC" by
the next round, a trip to Horsham on 24/1/70, which also appears to

have been the
original date for the league fixture.

3/1/70
Programme results advise a 3-2 loss at home to Marlow but it was a 3-2 win
according to handbook.

It was
definitely a 3-2 loss though and this was confirmed in a report by the Bucks
Free Press..

10/1/70
Edmonton (H)(L) p-p.

17/1/70 Graham
Petersen scores winner v Wingate.

24/1/70
Horsham (H) p-p and again on 14/3. Eventually played on 14/4.

The reason it was p-p on 24th January was so the second
round of the League Cup could take place there instead

and Horsham
defeated us 5-1 in that second round tie.

31/1/70 Programme says Epsom & E lost 2-1 at Leyton,
but it was definitely 3-1. Checked with local paper tables.

14/2/70
Edmonton (H)(L) p-p again. Frozen patches.

21/2/70 No
game for Reserves.

14/3/70 Res
game at home called off at short notice.

27/3/70 Good
Friday was not so good as we crashed 5-0 at home to Eastbourne.

28/3/70 Led 3-1 at Worthing but conceded two second half
penalties and lost 4-3 in the end. Maybe tired after game

the previous
day.

30/3/70 No
game on Easter Monday for Reserves.

4/4/70 Res
lose 3-0 at Rainham. Originally thought to be friendly, but this was a league
game. It was thought that

Epsom didn't
play Rainham or Edmonton this year, but this was wrong. 4 matches were not in
the schedule, and

these were
against 4 different teams.

18/4/70 No
game for Reserves.

Assumed that on 14/4 Horsham (H) was 3-3 and (16/4 or 21/4
or 25/4) Edmonton (A) was 1-3. Handbook says this .

28/4/70 Res (H) v Worthing lost 0-1. 6pm k.o. Two more
games are outstanding for the reserves at this date says prog.

These were
Windsor & E (H) on 2/5/70 and Edmonton (H) on 9/5/70

Paul Damper Worthing Historian advises that the Worthing
match on 28/04/70 was in fact 0-0 which tallies the table!

I just need to
check where I got the 0-1 result from before amending this.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

26/07/1969

Leatherhead

H

0-4

Y

30/07/1969

Chelsea XI

H

1-2

Y

Morrish

02/08/1969

Merstham

H

0-1

HT 0-0

05/08/1969

Leatherhead Res

H

2-2

Possibly first team friendly not Reserves

09/08/1969

Hoddesdon

H

2-2

Y

HT 1-2

Smyth, Hemphrey

11/08/1969

Sutton United

A

1-7

RES