C O M M E N T S
/  H I G H L I G H T S

AL2

16th out of 16

FAC

Application Rejected

AC

Application Rejected - Due to no referee's
report being sent in the previous year??

LC

1st

Harrow Borough

1-2

SSC

2q

Egham Town

1-3

SCC

1st

Aldershot Services

1-4

Chairman

Mike Christie

President

John Martin

Manager

Peter Norris resigned on 12/10/71 and replaced
by Mike Christie

Secretary

Mike (MJ) Christie

143 London Road, Ewell 01-393 2055

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Coach

Don MacBurney

Assistant to
Coach

Mick Matthews

Mick Matthews
wrote in recently and these are his extremely helpful and thorough views on
his time at the club.

I joined the
year after Pete Norris took over as Manager (1971).

Pete Norris was a former London Schools coach who joined
Glyn School when Dario Gradi went to Chelsea under Dave Sexton.

“Coaching” was just fully emerging and the circle included
Norris, Gradi, Ted Powell, Sutton Grammar teacher, Sutton United

then Wycombe
and England player ( who coached England Under 18’s to European winners
converting Sol Campbell to

Centre half, team included Robbie Fowler, Paul Scholes,
Keith Blunt who went on to Spurs and now works in China, Mike

Smith later Wales and Hull City manager, Allan Batsford
Walton and Hersham Amateur Cup coach, then got Wimbledon into

the Div 4,
Eddie McCluskey coach for all of Enfields success in the 70’s/80’s)  with the younger crowd of Alan Gillette ,

Wimbledon assistant under Dave Bassett, Lennie Lawrence
who coached  at Carshalton initially,
then Charlton , Middlesbrough,

Cardiff. Charles Hughes was the FA coaching chief at the
time, the bastion of the long ball game, only way to play on the

then West
street pitch which didn’t respond well to 2 training sessions a week plus
game, especially in rain.

I’d played for him at Glyn and  for Surrey under Dario Gradi and Ted
Powell, but an injury meant I went into coaching, initially

with a local Sunday team called Westways and with one of
Peter’s school teams, joining Epsom and Ewell to assist the

then Assistant
Manager, Don MacBurney at Epsom in his second season.

In no way was
it glamorous or indeed how it had been sold to poor old Pete Norris, or how
he sold it to me.

Finances under Noel and Bob Bell’s organisation were..
shall we say... non-existent... so pre-season was spent on  ground

repairs, burning weeds, decorating the old club house
(shed), trying to repaint the old concrete team baths just to have a

chance of
attracting players as the old guard of Tex Wiltshire, Donny Hollands, Johnny
McNaught, Tony Seymour et al

had departed
to Crawley, Dorking, Redhill, and Banstead.

The die
hard’s of Colin Bell, Eric Norman, Tommy Thompson, Terry Self and Graham
Hemphrey (ex-Harrow Borough)

stayed. Kenny Ireland and his brother Bobby were there for
a while before Ken went to Sutton, and Pete initially trialled a

bunch of other Seniors (most of whom saw the ground and
sniffed, particularly Tony Slade from Tooting’s Nottingham Forest

side of 1959) and a younger group; Keith Spears, Mick
Drake, Graham Petersen, Rich Hook, Jimmy Honeywood, Alan Payne

from his
Surrey Schools side and Bob Chappell and a couple of others from Glyn Old
Boys including Johnny Eales (Rip)

In my first year Chris Roots, Mick Jones, Dave Jackson and
Andy Fillery came from Croydon/Whyteleafe. Some local lads

also
trialled, some of my lads from Westways and John Pritchard, Colin Rose, Alan
Newton from Epsom Boys Club.

Times were
tough; we didn’t even get petrol money for away games, some of which involved
long journeys, Eastbourne

(5 in a
mini!) Herne Bay etc. and Pete I recall even paid some important players from
his own pocket (only way to get

Ken Jolly to
turn up)

We tried
fundraising discos but the first while successful was then blighted by the
newly restocked clubhouse being

burgled and
all stock being nicked.

(Mr Bell
hadn’t renewed the insurance either)

Pete departed for Redhill and local car dealer Mick
Christie who ran Dorchester in Div 1 of the Morden Sunday League took

over as Chairman and Manager, bringing many of his players
with him, including Teddy Yorke and
Trevor Wales ( who couldn’t

play that
year....legally.. as the “amateur” ruling still applied to him.

He briefly flirted with Peter Kenchington as Manager who
brought along former top players like Paddy Long (RIP) and Barry

Jones from the
South London circuit, but they expected money... and there wasn’t any so that
all ended in tears.

Around that time Eamon Mulligan ex Banstead started
sniffing round and Peter Spittles who ran a Sunday team at Tolworth

called Excel
(can’t recall the name) came along as did some of his players Brian Kidwell,
Dave Argent, John Ray,

Micky Dunn, Stevie Whittamore,  (latterly the private detective implicated
in the News of the World Hacking Scandal). He also

had Geoff
Evans and Geoff Ray who finished up in Suttons team

I initially stayed with it but being then tasked with
washing the kit on top of everything else felt it was way too much, and

took up Pete
Norris’s offer from Redhill in January 1973 where he and Tony Slade had taken
over from Athenian Cup

Winning Jock
Hamilton who had departed with his players to Crawley when Redhill’s money
ran out.

They lasted till the end of that season; Norris went to
Woking and local lad Del Brown and Donny Hollands , took over and

with a couple
of former Epsom lads, and  Ray Poole ex
Hendon, Ricky Kidd per Dagenham, Paul Snape pre Sutton we

assembled a
reasonable team & reached the Athenian Cup Final.

Money was still tight and the possibility of the Memorial
ground being closed by the Council kept things up in the air but it was fun.

However a
throat cancer scare and operation lead me to sadly quit and Colin Turner a
Sunday manager with I believe

Wrythe took
over eventually becoming Manager.

I stayed around the scene, knew Dave Wilson (Rip) and Dave
Ellins at the club, and after the Vase Final season Pat O’Connell

asked me to
help him with a bit of scouting etc.

I introduced
Sos Ferrar and Del Brown,  did various
other things, and spent a lot of time working with young goal keeper

Mick Leonard
who went on to Halifax, then in Div 4 and then Notts County then in Div 1.
Work then caused me to move

away for a
while.

27/5/71 Epsom
re-elected for a second time. No one opposed it.

31/7/71 Dick
Vincent in goal for Whyteleafe, and saved penalty!

Aug 71 Micky
Pepper joins Mascot Sports

Aug 71 John Martin (33) former England Amateur
International joins Malden Town from Wimbledon - future Assistant Manager

5/8/71 Les
Peck plays for Sutton v Epsom.

Aug 71 Johnny
Eales (Tooting), Dave Leonard (Bromley), Ken Jolly and Richard Hooke all sign

This is not the same Dave Leonard that played once for us
in 1964/65. That one played for T&M this one played for Sutton.

Richard Hooke
was a previous England schoolboys captain in 69/70.

Bob Chappell,
Billy Howe, Tony Varcoe, and Richard Hooke were all ex-Glyn schoolboys.

Tony Varcoe is uncle of regular supporter Paul, and played
for Sutton, Guildford and Dorking, Alton and Windsor after Epsom.

Aug 71 Bobby
Ireland signs for Corinthian Casuals after a trial at Wimbledon.

Aug 71 Micky
Pepper at Mascot

Aug 71 Micky
Lyel at Mascot

Aug 71 Peter
Sackett signs from Cray Wanderers.

Aug 71 Future
Manager Ricky Kidd at Redhill

Aug 71 future
player Alan Ives at Redhill with Adrian Hill

Aug 71 future
players Peter Gaydon & Dave Burke at Croydon

Aug 71 Bobby
Ireland joins Corinthian Casuals form E&E. Ken Ireland would join him by
October.

Aug 71 Keith
Eshelby at Corinthian Casuals

Aug 71 future
player Dennis Bailey at Dulwjich Hamlet.

Aug 71 future
player Paddy Long at Dulwich Hamlet

Aug 71 Tommy
McCready at Wimbledon

Aug 71 Frank
Allen at Croydon

Aug 71 Marc
Talmage at Harrow after joining from Sutton United

14/8/71 Terry
Self plays for Harrow v Epsom. Mark Talmage also played. Talmage also played
for Harrow

v Epsom on
11/9/71 LC (scored) and 20/11/71 (scored twice)

17/8/71
Captain Dave Leonard is quoted "given the breaks, we could be among the
leaders at the end of the season"

He had left by
the end of October.

30/9/71 ex player Chris Kelly booked twice by Alan Turvey
in same game while playing for Sutton v Hayes, but not sent off!!

4/9/71 Late
start at Ware due to traffic on the North Circular. 20 minute late k.o.

Aug 71 keeper
Gerry Fowler went on honeymoon, so brother Geoff came in and played until
breaking two fingers

against
Uxbridge on 30/8/71, and was then replaced by Gerry again!

Sept 71 Terry
Self re-joins from Harrow B, Andy Fillery from Croydon Am, Ray Phillips from
Wingate. (prev Leatherhead)

Sep 71 future
player Ted Yorke at Tooting & Mitcham

Sep 71 future
player Gerry O'Rourke still at Wimbledon

Sep 71 future
player Peter Deadman is now at Hendon.

18/9/71 Adrian
Young sent off v Wingate, and then emigrated to Australia shortly afterwards.

30/9/71
Aldershot Services played at the Army Stadium in Bordon. Game originally
drawn as a home tie but switched.

Oct 71 Dave
Leonard joins Molesey but Dave Jackson and Chris Roots join from Croydon
Amateurs.

Paper article
in Oct 71 mentions that Colin Bell was related to the Bell's that ran the
club in the mid-late 60's

His dad was a previous Chairman - Noel Bell. Colin joined
straight from school. Elder brother Robert was a previous Secretary.

9/10/71 Johnny
Eales heads into net, which burst. Ref gave goal kick! Epsom lost 6-1

12/10/71 Peter
Norris resigned, quoting extra FA coaching sessions plus work commitments at
Glyn School.

Mike Christie
took over and became manager, chairman, and secretary until the end of the
season.

16/10/71 Ex
player Phil Hammond plays for Wingate.

23/10/71
Future Combined Counties League Vice-President Tony Ford ran the line in this
SSC match v Egham.

Nov 71 Ken
Jolly leaves for Redhill

Nov 71 former player Peter Deadman leaves Cray Wanderers
for Croydon. He was listed as Captain there even though he was at

Hendon earlier
in the season. Well travelled!

Nov 71 Alan
Morton and Gerry O'Rourke are at Wimbledon

Nov 71 Ted
Murphy is Wimbledon Reserves Manager in Suburban League

6/11/71 Late
start as Hemel Hempstead were late arriving.

7/11/71 Ladies
football scheduled for West Street as Kingston Ladies v Sidekicks. Don't know
if this was played.

20/11/71 Dave Jackson injured after 80 mins but sub Varcoe
did not appear, so Epsom finished with 10 men. Lost 0-4 at Harrow.

20/11/71 Mike
Christie was in fact listed in Harrow programme as sub.

20/11/71
Johnny Eales absent as best man at Ted Yorke's wedding!

20/11/71 in programme line up reference to Johnny Wood,
Marc Talmage and Graham Hemphrey (sub) all in the Harrow team.

27/11/71
sponge man Bill Carrick had to resign due to work commitments.

18/12/71 Lowe
makes debut v Hampton, but no first name. May have been Billy HOWE, not LOWE.
Check!

21/12/71
Johnny Eales leaves for Hampton. This upset Chairman, as Eales also played
for his Sunday side!

27/12/71 Team
at Worthing contained a few unnamed ringers. Line up taken from local papers.
K.O. 11am

According to
programme, line up reads Fowler, Jackson, Bell, Pritchard, Phillips, Drake,
Porter, Fillery,

Norman,
Bushby, O'Toole, sub: Roots. This was a hand written corrected line up, so
could well be correct.

This has convinced me to replace Blake with Drake here,
but I'm still not sure about Lowe, as he is not listed, yet is in the

press line up.
Could have been Bushby, but surely he was registered, so why hide if it was
him?

1/1/72 Sean
Canavan plays once for Epsom while on break from Trinity College Dublin.

He was the
cousin of Martin O'Toole and played for Bohemians in Ireland usually!

Jan 72 Graham
Hemphrey re-joins from Harrow B.

Jan 72 Micky
Drake returns to Durham University but returns briefly in March.

Jan 72 Dave
Webb leaves for Banstead Athletic

Jan 72 Dave Le
Grice joins Tooting & Mitcham after dpells at Dulwich Hamlet and Cray
Wanderers.

Jan 72 future
player Alan Morton is at Wimbledon where they refuse a loan request from
Poole Town.

22/1/72 Eric
Norman is on holiday and misses game.

Feb 72 Tommy
Tuite selected for Surrey Youth while with ST Merton

Feb 72 Peter
Kenchington rejoins, having played in the 60's

Feb 72 Dennis
Bailey resigns from Dulwich due to his form. Thinking of joining East
Molesey, presume Molesey FC.

Feb 72 future
player Keith Eshelby is still at Corinthian Casuals.

12/2/72
Staines (H)(L) p-p waterlogged. Prog Y Played 4/3/72.

19/2/72
Ruislip (H)(L) p-p waterlogged. Prog Y Played 25/3/72.

This programme
refers to a home match v Worthing for 26/02/72 bur this never took place.

Feb 72 Roger
Sears signs from Malden Town.

Feb 72 Graham
Hemphrey reported out for season with ligament trouble, but played again
later in the season.

Mar 72 Tony
Monk still playing occasionally and manager of Banstead Reserves.

Mar 72 Epsom
play Hemel Hempstead at their old ground in Crabtree Lane. They move shortly
afterwards.

Mar 72 Richard
Hooke plays for Luton Reserves but was back at Epsom for 31/3/72 game.

March 72
reference to the death of Tim Coleman. Was he our pre-war former trainer?

Mar 72 future Manager Adrian Hill is signed from Redhill
for Tooting & Mitcham by their Manager Roy Dwight, former 1959

FA Cup Final player and uncle of Reg Dwight (Elton John).
He believes Hill could get them to the top of the Isthmian League.

25/3/72 Epsom
played last 40 minutes with ten men due to injury to Kenchington. Sub already
used at HT.

11 stitches
required in a cut eye

30/3/72 Martin
O'Toole broke ankle in training.

31/3/72
Epsom's last game v Ruislip, although Ruislip still have 13 matches left to
play!!

15/4/72 Surrey Combination League Cup SF Beare Green v
Clarion is scheduled to be played at West Street. 2-1 to Beare Green.

24/4/72 North
Surrey Youth League Cup Final 6.30 k.o. Havana 5-3 Malden Vale

Apr 72 Gerry
O'Rourke and Alan Morton both released by Wimbledon. Morton had joined from
Fulham in the close

season in
August 1971, and had been second highest scorer with 13 in 28 appearances.
Tommy McCready

remains there.

April 72
Future player Chris Page is at Hampton Reserves this season.

April 72 former player Ted Murphy is to join Jimmy Rose as
his Assistant Manager at Dulwich Hamlet after Rose moves there

from Croydon,
taking future players Dave Burke and Peter Gaydon with him.

May 72
Possible non re-election of Epsom suggested at Athenian League meeting.
Following plea from Mike

Christie,
Epsom were re-elected for the third time in a close vote on 25/5/72.

According to
SCFA Handbook, Epsom & Ewell won the Surrey Under 18's Indoor Five a Side
tournament this year.

Competition had
run since 1963/64 and wasn't held after 1974/75.

Reserves:

Surrey Combination Division 1

There was also a Premier Division

Position

7th out of 14

SIC

1st

Addlestone

2-4

LC

SF

St Andrews

1-4

Epsom receive
bye in first round of League Cup.

6/11/71 SIC v
Hersham BL p-p

11/12/71 Prog
Y for SIC game at home to Norbury. Trailed at HT but won 2-1 with goals from
Norman and Thompson.

1/1/72 League
Cup v Tooting Scobra (H) is p-p for Epsom SIC tie.

1/1/72 Crescent Rovers are defeated 3-2 in Surrey
Intermediate Cup. Eric Norman scores his 17th and 18th goals of the season

says
programme. No further info.

8/1/72 No game
for Reserves.

15/1/72 LC QF
v Tooting Scobra (H) p-p. Waterlogged.

5/2/72 Clarion
game HT was 0-0.

19/2/72 Walton
Cas (H)(L) p-p

11/3/72 Walton
Cas (A)(L) p-p

25/3/72
Ronsons (H)(L) played at Ronsons. 2-2 draw.

5/4/72
Grosvenor (A)(L) p-p

11/4/72 Walton
Cas (A)(L) p-p - moved back two days

11/4/72 Instead
the League Cup Semi Final was played at St Andrews - lost 4-1.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

31/07/1971

Whyteleafe

A

1-2

HT 1-1

O'Toole. (Marchese mispen)

05/08/1971

Sutton Utd

A

1-2

07/08/1971

Probables v Possibles match at West Street

C O M M E N T S    /
H I G H L I G H T S

AL2

13th out of 14

FAC

Application Rejected

AC

Not Entered

LC

1st

Aveley

1-3

SSC

Pr

Whyteleafe

0-1

AL Div 2 Cup

2nd

Ware

0-2

SCC

1st

Wandsworth

1-2

Home Ground:

West Street, Ewell

President

John (J.R.P.) Martin

Chairman

Mike (MJ)Christie

Resigned on 13/6/73 for personal reasons

Secretary

Mike (MJ)Christie

Resigned on 13/6/73 for personal reasons

143 London Road, Ewell 01-393 2055

Res Secretary

Mr J.Pepperell 92 Walsingham Gardens,
Stoneleigh

from September 1972

New Manager

Peter Kenchington

Ex Wimbledon star from late 50's early 60's.

Player/Manager
Peter Kenchington resigned in October - replaced by Mike Christie with help
from

Mike Matthews
and Arthur Evans, until 28/3/73 when Peter Spittles took over.

Kenchington
said he'd keep playing, but quit Saturday football in November to play in
Morden Sunday League.

Rhodrons
effectively merged with Epsom & Ewell F.C., and Epsom ran three teams
this year. 2 in Combination.

Only 14 teams
in Div 2 this year as Leatherhead and Hertford Town left league, so no sides
were relegated from Div 1

Jul 72 Future
player Mick Stratford leaves Banstead for Dorking. Also Charlie Beevers and
Tony Seymour.

Paddy Long
joined club this year. Previously with Dulwich, Hayes, Ilford, Barking,
Maidstone, Carshalton, Walton

Fulham and
Millwall. Was a member of the GB Olympic squad in 60's but never played. Left
Oct 72 for Worthing.

Alan Webb
signed for the club. Previously with Tooting & Mitcham.

Webb lived for
many years at Wickham Avenue in North Cheam. His house backed on to

Cheam Rec
where the Epsom & Ewell Supporters FC would play most of their home games
in the nineties.

According to
Colin Bell the players used to train over there and into Webb's garden too!

Dave Argent
joined from Rhodrons in Surrey Combination.

Mark Talmage
previously with Tooting, Sutton, Wimbledon, and Harrow

Barry Martin
previously with Horsham, Leatherhead, Molesey and Redhill

Johnny
Pritchard is younger brother of Larry Pritchard

Johnny Woods
played in friendly v Northcliffe but did not return.

1/8/72 Chris
Kelly moved to Leatherhead from Sutton. Scored on debut in friendly v Epsom!

Aug 72
Wimbledon sign their reserve manager Pat O'Connell on Southern League forms
in case of emergencies.

Our future
manager was a former Fulham and Palace player.

15/8/72 15
year old caused £100 worth of damage to club. Sentenced to custody.

15/8/72 key
lost to dressing room for 45 minutes!

9/9/72  R.Kidd is in the Harrow Borough line up v
Epsom. Was this future player Ricky Kidd?

17/9/72 300+
attended match v Ex-Brentford XI. Long (3), and Kidwell scored in a 4-3 win
(ht 2-1)

1/10/72
K.O.11.15 on a Sunday

1/10/72 Epsom lose 1-2 at home to Wandsworth in the
Southern Combination Cup. The Epsom Advertiser lists a line up

with an
unknown player "Taylor" in it. However, Dave Wilson, who was
putting full stats together at the time makes no

reference to
anyone called Taylor in the seasonal stats. He says Dave Jackson plays and I
would trust Dave ahead of a

local
reporter's line up.

Oct 72 'A'
team advertise for players. Almost anyone will get a game, it was stated.

Transfers up
to November: D.Chapman from Epsom to Cambridge, S.Whittamore from Chessington
B.L. to Epsom

Steve
Whittamore moved to Manchester for business reasons but was back by the end
of the season.

According to Mike Matthews, Steve Whittamore became a
private detective and was implicated in the newspaper scandals of

2002/03 and he was found guilty in 2004 of providing much
government information to journalists, receiving a conditional discharge.

He was also referred to as a "middleman" when
his name was discussed at the more recent Leveson enquiry into newspaper

hacking. He
was once asked to do an address and vehicle registration check for Hugh Grant
and Liz Hurley!

He was also
asked to supply information about Charlotte Church to journalists.

His house at 3 Orchard Grove, New Milton, Hampshire was
raided in March 2003. The Guadian reported as follows on 28/03/2012:

It was obvious by the volume and content of the
documentation seized [that] Whittamore worked on a full-time basis for

numerous newspaper groups and journalists obtaining a
variety of information for them, said Alexander Owens, the lead

investigator in the Motorman inquiry and who raided
Whittamore's home office in March 2003, in his witness statement to the

Leveson
inquiry into press standards.

Whittamore was arrested and subsequently pleaded guilty to
obtaining and disclosing private information under the Data

Protection Act. Unlawfully obtaining or accessing personal
data is a criminal offence under section 55 of the 1998 act. It is

punishable by
a fine of up to £5,000 in a magistrates court or an unlimited fine in a crown
court.

Breaches under section 55 are protected by a small number
of exemptions, including the prevention and detection of crime

and –
crucially, in the case of journalists – if the offence can be justified in
the public interest. Whittamore was given a

two-year
conditional discharge and later described his former trade as playing
"Oliver to the press's Fagin".

He was 58 at
the time of the raid, leading to a date of birth of 1945 or 1944.

According to a
report by Lord Ashcroft:

Whittamore and wife Georgina were the targets of an
operation known as Motorman. Bonnie and Clyde they weren't, but deep in

the heart of suburbia the Whittamores were discovered to
be holding an alladdin's cave of information, most of it belonging to

other people. Trading as JJ Information Limited they had a
price list including vehicle checks £70, ex-directory numbers £70 (they

cost him £40)
and customers were charged £150.

Apparently 305 unnamed journalists (at the time)
commissioned 13,343 sdeparate lines of enquiry from Whittamore, split
into

three
categories.

Known breaches
of the Date Protection Act: 5,025

Probable
breaches of the Date Protection Act: 6,330.

Questionable
breaches of the Date Protection Act: 1,988.

The
journalists worked for 21 different newspapers and 11 magazines!

18/11/72 Dave
Gigg HT as Ware defeat Epsom 5-2 at Buryfield.

25/11/72 Colin
Bell smashed home a classic o.g. into roof of net after ball had come back
off of the bar!

29/11/72 Five
a side at Epsom Baths. Entrance 20p. Epsom enter a team.

Dec 72 Dave
Rainham joins from Molesey.

30/12/72
Originally this match was home to Hemel Hempstead but instead it was switched
to Hampton (H).

30/12/72
Johnny Eales and Ted Yorke play for Hampton v Epsom.

30/12/72
Carshalton, Sutton, and Banstead all abandoned mid match due to fog!

Jan 73 Peter
Norris takes over at Redhill with Mike Matthews from Epsom as Reserve
Manager.

Dave Jackson
leaves for Kingstonian

Jan 73 Epsom
invited to join Metropolitan League but they declined.

Jan 73 Future player Mick Stratford joins Dorking from
Banstead, as do former players Tony Seymour and Charlie Beevers.

6/1/73 Coach
run to Eastbourne with players all contributing to cost. Peter Spittles drove
it there!

First coach
run by club for three years. Was late due to traffic problems, and Epsom were
expecting to be fined.

6/1/73 Dave Rainham was injured early and Dave Argent came
on for him, but then Graham Hemphrey broke his nose and

also needed
stiches at hospital for a cut eye. 10 men. Lost 2-0. A bad day all round!

13/1/73
McCormack mispen as Epsom lose 3-0 at home to Ruislip Manor.

13/1/73 Also, my records show that Tony Davies made his
debut this day, but Dave Wilson's records show a Barry Davies,

while there
is a Tony Davies who is an unused sub on 27th January. I originally had Tony
Davies down and am happy to

change to
Barry Davies, but for some reason Dave put these two names in pencil, while
all others were in pen. Was he

unsure and are
my records better? I will stay with Tony for now but need to check local
papers again..

14/1/73 Tommy
Tuite scores 4 goals for S.T.Merton despite a broken nose.

3/2/73 Wingate
v Epsom first match at Wingate's new ground. Epsom win 2-1.

26/2/73 Public
meeting called to decide whether Epsom should disband. A Monday evening.

Papers believe
that this will be a formality but the winding up still has to be made
official.

John Martin
only sent a representative, but Ray Bloye cleared the £250 debt. Mike
Christie had got it down from £3k.

Christie was
even washing the kit at this point! Debts reduced through season by removing
pa system.

Also, new
programmes printed instead of duplicates. Also fruit machine reinstalled at
club.

Ray Bloye
also agreed payment of £500-£600 so his employees could use pitch and social
facilities on a Sunday.

Ray Bloye was
a 58 year old millionaire who ran a meat group, Matthews Holdings whose HQ
was in Church Street,

Epsom. Set out
by buying a butchers shop in 1945 in Mulgrave Road for £75.

Former long
serving player Colin Bell advised me in 2011 that Ray Bloye may have got
involved because an Epsom

player Alan
Howe knew him quite well.

Feb 73 Mention
of a local lad who may sign, who has been freely scoring in junior soccer.
Was this Tuite??

Almost certainly! Both he and Willie Bennett play three
games for Wimbledon in their Southern League team this season.

Mike Christie
Feb 73 "It does seem a pity that an area the size of Epsom & Ewell
cannot afford to support

a local
amateur football club"

Ray Bloye Mar
73 "I shall do everything I can to help and have called in two of my
employees Mr Grant and

Mr Peacock to
assist. I shall definitely back the club, and I will not let the club close
down"

Holding
Company proposed in March 73 to be opened to safeguard the lease with a
£1,000 share issue.

Micky Jones
signs for Redhill.

24/2/73 Tony Aspinosa makes debut as a sub. Originally
listed as Aspinoza but Dave Wilson says s not Z so I will amend.

Picture in
March 1973 shows Mick Christie 2nd from left, Wilf Smith 3rd and Dave Wilson
5th (furthest right).

March 73
Adrian Young reported to be returning to England from Australia. Alan
Thompson still playing in Sydney.

March 73
Future player Del Brown (26) appointed manager of Redhill ahead of others
including Peter Norris.

Mick Matthews
is his assistant manager who was at Epsom last year says local papers.

Papers say
that Del was a former Eastbourne United captain and also played for England
Schoolboys.

31/3/73 Epsom
25 minutes late to Hemel Hempstead. 7/4/73 Hemel 25 mins late in return leg!

We defeated
Hemel 2-1 on aggregate and faced a trip to the winners of Ware or Wingate.

March 73
Epsom & Ewell FC (Holdings) Ltd has Ian Grant, Graham Peacock joining
Mike Christie and Dave Wilson

as Directors.

1/4/73 Amateur
Managers XI v Press XI at West Street 11am.

21/4/73
Several unnamed ringers played at Ware. Names not listed, so the team line up
is as per local papers.

We still lost
2-0 and the winners would have been home to Hampton, Harrow or Edgware.

4/5/73 Surrey
Junior Cup Final at Epsom between Clarion and Dukes Head

Boys finals
also held there

Div 2 Cup
revised a bit this year

May 73 Peter
Spittles says he will carry on as manager next year. It doesn't work out like
that though.

Reserves:

Surrey Combination League

Div 1

There was a Premier Division too.

Manager:
Arthur Evans with help from Peter Spittles until he moved up in March to take
on the first team.

Position

13th out of 14

LC

2nd

Elmwood O.B.

2-5

when?

Inv.Shield

3rd

Green Lane Wands

2-4

SIC

4q

Welbeck United

1-2

Aug 72 reference in programme to two recent friendly wins
in midweek before their first game of the season v Meadvale Casuals.

26/8/72
Meadvale still defeated us 2-1 at West Street.

2/9/72 Due to play Raynese Park (H) but we play at home to
Decca instead and win 3-0 with two goals from Eric Norman.

6/9/72 Lost
2-0 at home to Green Lane United. 6.30 k.o. No more midweek fixtures after
this date.

Transfers up
to November: D.Chapman from Epsom to Cambridge, S.Whittamore from Chessington
B.L. to Epsom

and M.Marlow
from Chessington BL to Epsom. Any connection to Roy?

21/10/72 my records showed a 1-0 away loss to Malden Vale,
but the programme referred to a 4-0 loss. This actually tallies

up so I will
amend.

23/12/72 Lost
to Green Lane Wanderers. Were they the same as Green Lane United or a
different club?

17/2/73 Malden
Vale (H)(L) p-p

3/3/73 No
game?

17/3/73
provisional friendly (H) v Surbiton Town. Not played.

7/4/73
Worcester Park (A)(L) p-p

11/4/ and 12/4
two Combination games for Reserves.

14/4/73 No
game?

21/4/73Elmwood
O.B. (A)(L) p-p

'A' Team

Surrey Combination League

Div 2

Position

9th out of 9

LC

2nd

Clarion Res

3-4

Inv.Shield

SF

Clarion Res

1-4

Invitation
Shield was on a Group Basis in this division. Group of 4 and two went through
to semis.

18/11/72 No
game?

2/12/72 No
game

16/12/72
Worcester Park Res (A)(L) p-p

13/1/73
Roehampton Utd Res (A)(L) p-p

20/1/73 no
game?

17/3/73 A
Team lost 4-1 at Clarion in the Invitation Shield SF. Game played at Norbiton
Sports Ground. K.O. 2.30.

24/3/73 no
game?

31/3/73 no
game?

14/4/73 no
game?

28/4/73 1 hour
double header v Wimbledon Democrats Res. Away game first.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

27/07/1972

Northcliffe

A

2-2

@ Worcester Park.

Kenchington, Pritchard

01/08/1972

Leatherhead

A

0-6

12/08/1972

Dorking

A

3-4

Langton, Kenchington, Long

15/08/1972

Carshalton Athletic

H

0-4

Y

17/09/1972

Ex-Brentford XI

H

4-3

Y