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1st out of 15

FAC

1q

Redhill

0-3

FAV

F

Hoddesdon Town

1-2

LC

W

Virginia Water

3-1

SSCC

F

Chessington Utd

3-4

SCC

1st

Hampton

1-4

SSC

1st

Addlestone

3-4

SSL Champions

SSL Cup
Champions for second straight year

League &
Cup double repeated their achievement in 1926/27.

Res SSL
Champions

Reached Wembley
in first ever FA Vase Final

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Player of the
Year

Trevor Wales

President

John (J.R.P.) Martin

Aged 64 in March 1975

Chairman

Graham Peacock

Secretary

Stan Bailey

Press Sec

John Carpenter

01-393-5915 not 5913 as advertised earlier in
the season.

Groundsman

Eric Longhurst?

Treasurer

Dave Wilson

Manager

Pat
O'Connell, assisted by Arthur Evans, Ted Buxton, Colin Bell, Graham Hemphrey,
and Eamonn Mulligan a bit later.

Reserve Manager

Ted Buxton ex Swindon and Millwall scout.

Asst Graham Hemphrey

Wilf Smith well
involved at this time. 393 4930.

Committee: Wilf
Smith, George Nathan, Fred Read, J. Pepperell, D.Manning

26/5/74 SSL AGM this day. Epsom and Malden Town were
complimented by the League Chairman on an excellent cup final on 1/5/74.

Following the
meeting Epsom ask for extra plaques for their players.

Ted Yorke &
Johnny Eales return to Epsom from Hampton. Eales for a fourth time. Chris
Page also joins from Hampton.

New players
Trevor Lee, Colin Rose, Dave Worby, Jeff Ray, Micky Lyel, John Cox, Roger
Taylor (15 yr old keeper)

Walker signed a
month in to the season after returning from holiday in America.

Trevor Lee and Phil Walker joined (Cobham), Dave Worby
from Walton & Hersham. Steve Jones also signed from Cobham in Sept

Dave Worby was
a member of the Walton squad that won the 73 Amateur Cup Final, but did not
play through injury.

He won Athenian League in 69, and SSC in 62 + 71. Plus 3
floodlit league titles. Record appearance holder for Walton with over 450.

Played for
Sutton, Stevenage Town, and Chertsey briefly. Joined through contact with
Colin Bell.

Lee and Walker
were apparently juniors with Fulham at one point but didn't take it
seriously. (Colin Bell said this).

Having spoken
to both players now Phil was never at Fulham, just Trevor.

December 2011 piece in South London Press covers Trevor
Lee and what he did over his career after leaving Epsom, which he would do

in 1975. He was signed by Millwall and made over 100
appearances but was sold just five games into 1979/80 for £15k to Colchester.

Later played for Gillingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff,
Northampton with one other game for Fulham against whom he had been
released

as a youngster. Then went to Dublin, flying over at
weekends to play for St Patrick's. Then worked as a locksmith in Brixton Hill
and

then Garratt
Lane in Tooting. Got divorced in 1986 and lost his house. Then did volunteer
work for British Heart Foundation before

caring for his
sister in Mitcham. Discovered that Millwall historian Chris Bethell was
looking for him on Google and visited Millwall in

November 2011,
receiving a great reception.

In July 2015 Phil Walker's daughter created a twitter
account for him and he followed our club, so I got in contact and was able to
meet

with both Phil
and Trevor Lee in the Old Fields pub in Southfields on Tuesday 21st July.

Phil and Trevor first met at school Battersea County
School which became Battersea Technical Academy. Phil was born in Parsons
Green

while Trevor was born in Lewisham. Trevor was born on 3rd
July and Trevor on 29th August so they were very close in terms of age.

Phil was working in a factory at Acton and got talking to
a white guy who played for Wingate. He went along and played, scoring in the

match and stayed there for a little while. Trevor
meanwhile was at Fulham where they won the Youth League Cup.  With a 2 legged

win over
Arsenal (W3-0 L0-2). However, Fulham then let him go. Both then went to

Cobham as a result of a friend of Trevor's Steve Jones,
who would become another Epsom player in the Vase Final side. He had a car,
so

drove Trevor
to training at Cobham and Phil joined them soon after. Cobham were short of
players and the Manager Gerry Deane

brought a few
players in. Both impressed Pat O'Connell when Cobham got a 3-3 draw with his

fledgling Epsom side in 1973/74 and Pat was determined to
get them on board and Trevor played every game except one in this famous

1974/75 season. Phil joined slightly later as he was on
holiday in America and not long after Steve Jones came in too. Steve lives in
Lancashire.

Trevor's career is advised in the article above this. Phil
went from Epsom to Millwall of course before moving to Charlton Athletic in
1979,

Gillingham on loan in 1983 and then flying out to Hong
Kong to join Eatern AA for a little while. He then travelled to Portugal
where he

would stay with many years, frist with Leixoes SC before
then playing for seven years at Boavista and moving to Maia where he got
his

first taste of
coaching before retiring at 41.

Phil was one of thirteen children. An elder brother
Larrington (Larry) is an actor and was a cast member of Jesus Christ
Superstar

in the seventies but has also done many other things
including the Lenny Henry show. Another elder brother Dennis joined Epsom
and

would stay for
a few years, playing over twice as many times for the first team as Phil,
including just over a hundred appearances

for the Reserves too. Trevor had a brother Terry who
almost came to Epsom when Trevor returned in the mid eighties. Terry was
11

years younger and played for England Schools before
spending time at Arsenal in their Youth and Reserve sides before being
released

by Don Howe. He
went to Tooting & Mitcham but suffered from hip problems and now lives in
Peckham.

Trevor Lee played with George Best at Bournemouth. The
best ground he played at (excluding Wembley) was White Hart Lane, while for

Phil it was Benfica's Stadium of Light.

Trevor is still
a carer for his sister while Phil runs his own football academy.

Mark Talmage
released to Sheerwater

Barry Jones
released too. Micky Lyel released to Malden Town

Bobby Stenson,
Bobby Walker, and Terry Self released.

Future players
Paul Jablonski and Keith Eshelby are both at Corinthian Casuals alongside
former player Johnnie Ware.

July 74 Herne
Bay withdraw from Athenian League, but instead of inviting Epsom back, they
remain with 15 clubs.

July 74
Dressing rooms refurbished and re designed. Pitch and terraces improved.

July 74 Ted
Murphy leaves Dulwich Hamlet to become Manager at Hampton

Jul 74 Tommy
McCready joins Dulwich Hamlet

Jul 74 Alan
Ives joins Sutton from Tooting & Mitcham but doesn't stay long and is
back at Sandy Lane by Nov 75 if not earlier

Ground improved
to accommodate tea bar, store room and committee room.

Aug 74 Keith
Eshelby is at Woking

3/8/74 Adrian
Hill plays for Kingstonian v Epsom at West Street in friendly. Epsom lost
3-1.

Programme this day refers to the changing rooms having
been gutted and completely rebuilt inside. The tea bar no longer exists, but

is to be
rebuilt on the same site shortly afterwards in better condition, and with a
club Committee room. Maintenance of the banking

has been done. Many volunteers. Also during the next ten
weeks a brand new fence is to be erected along the West Street boundary.

6/8/74 Epsom
miss two penalties in a 3-3 draw with Corinthian Casuals. Friendly at West
Street.

Friendly v Cor
Casuals. Manager was Micky Stewart!

8/8/74 Gravesend Diamonds are defeated 2-1 at West Street
in a friendly. They would change their name soon after to Penhill Standard.

10/8/74 Gunter
went in goal for injured Fowler after 53 mins. Fractured finger. Future
player Peter Gaydon plays for Carshalton.

Also Dave Burke
and Tony Algar. Led at HT through Johnny Eales but had to settle for a 1-1
draw.

13/8/74 Newly signed keeper Chris Page suffers a head
injury in the friendly with Palace which we led 1-0 at HT. 18 year old Rob
Weller

replaces him
but Palace win 3-1.

17/8/74 Club
coach leaves for Lion Sports at 1pm. Convincing 5-0 win at Bisley including a
Tuite hat trick.

20/8/74 Epsom
win 6-0 at Chessington United. He had two disallowed but Tuite still got four
more.

In programme
line up former players Rodger Malyon, Jeff Ray, Brian Kidwell are all in for
Chessington.

Aug 74 John Carpenter (no relation to previous Carpenter
family) is the new Press Secretary. Carshalton's Press Sec has same name!

Aug 74 Micky
Lyel leaves for Malden Town. Trevor Wales and Pat O'Connell are still permit
players this season.

Aug 74 Steve
Jones joins from Cobham.

Aug 74 Corinthian Casuals to sign former player John Ware
(23) was at Chelsea Reserves four years ago making 20 appearances

Aug 74 future
player Tommy McCready is at Dulwich Hamlet

Aug 74 future
player Les Peck is at Tooting & Mitcham

24/8/74 Chris
Page given day off to win National Cricket trophy for Sunbury at Lords.

27/8/74 Fourth League win without conceding a goal. Epsom
defeat Horley 2-0 and O'Connell says they will have the league sewn up

by Christmas!

Sept 74 future
Manager Adrian Hill (29) joins Woking from Kingstonian

14/9/74 Coach
to Redhill for FA Cup tie is 40p. Leaving club at 1.45pm.

Redhill had
not conceded a goal for 525 minutes and this would continue as they won 3-0.
Former player Don Hollands was the

Redhill caretaker manager. Future players Barry Denman,
Alex Reid and Dick Vincent all play for Redhill this day. Ian Ferrar is also
in the

programme line
up.

Colin Bell approaching 600 apps in an Epsom shirt says
club - mostly reserves. Very unlikely, as only with the club since approx
1962

and would have
needed to play 50 games in every season at a time when the teams rarely
reached 40 games a season.

Sept 74 future
keeper Bobby Dell is at Croydon

Sept 74 Les
Peck joins Bromley from Tooting & Mitcham

21/9/74 Future
players Mick Stratford, and Dave Turner (gk) are in the Molesey programme
line up v Epsom this day.

Epsom win 2-1
despite having Ted Yorke sent off after 26 minutes. For retaliation on Mick
Stratford.

Oct 74 Larry
Pritchard, Alan Ives and Ricky Kidd are at Sutton United

Oct 74 future
players Kelvin Roots and John Sears at Croydon Roots had signed from Sutton

Barry Gunter
plays last game for club 12/10/74 before moving to Australia. He left on
18/10/74.

His last game
was v last years Champions Westfield, and he was made captain for this 6-2
First Round League Cup win.

19/10/74 Epsom
defeat Nat West Bank 9-1 in SSC 2q. Ritman misses a penalty for 10-1.

O'Connell
stopped Chris Page from taking the penalty as it was "taking the
mickey"!

Tommy Tuite
scores 44 goals for ST Merton Amateurs in Morden League Div 5. 300 in total
for club at age 20!

26/10/74 Epsom play their very first Vase match and defeat
Reigate Priory 4-0 at West Street. Johnny Eales got two but also mispen.

27/10/74 Tommy
scored 7 in a 10-0 win v Downs United

Mick Leonard
and Tony Tillin also played for ST Merton Amateurs

29/10/74 Graham
Peacock attended the SSL meeting this evening.

Nov 74 future Assistant Manager John Martin is new Walton
& H Manager . Had left Westfield for Bracknell Town - former W&H
player

Nov 74 Tommy McCready (29) resigns from Dulwich and quits
football. Must have changed his mind though as he would still play for us in
future.

Nov 74 Tommy
McCready leaves Dulwich but makes it clear he hasn't retired. He is at
Staines Town by Dec 74

Nov 74 Chris
Lightfoot is at Romford. Had been there since joining from Leamington in 1972

9/11/74 Club
Dance at Bourne Hall this evening. Reduced programme produced.

Reference to
another one on 7/12/74 called the Tramp's Beanfeast at Nork Hall,
Banstead.

Club also
running a Christmas draw on 14/12.

9/11/74 Steve Jones and Trevor Lee play against their old
club in a 9-0 win over Cobham. Tuite scores 6 and matches the club record.

O'Connell wrongly tells him that the record was seven.
Epsom were only advised of their fixture two days previously and a
shortened

programme was
produced.

12/11/74 Epsom
are drawn at home to Hampton but have to play away as they have no
floodlights.

12/11/74
Hampton v Epsom & E. Hampton's manager is Ted Murphy, former player and
AC winner with Wimbledon in 1963.

Hampton defeat
Epsom 4-1. Future player Paul Butler plays and scores twice for Hampton.

16/11/74 and
23/11/74 Horley v Epsom in FA Vase is waterlogged. Finally played at Molesey
on 27/11/74. Epsom win 2-0.

27/11/74 Future
keeper Malcolm Broadway is in goal for Horley Town in programme line up for
this match.

AGM originally
advised for 27/11/74 but put back two weeks.

4/12/74 Glyn OB
Five a side at Epsom Baths. Epsom reach semi and lose to eventual winners
Westways.

Dec 74 Paul
Jablonski, Keith Eshelby and Johnnie Ware at Corinthian Casuals - Also Burke
- was this Dave?

6/12/74
Athenian League Annual Eighth Christmas Supper at Windsor Hotel, Lancaster
Gate. London. Prog Yc.

7/12/74 v
Worthing FAV (A) Pat O'Connell quoted as saying "I think I'd better pop
up to the twin towers tomorrow and have a

look at the
Wembley pitch". We were only through to the last 32 at the time!

11/12/74 AGM
held at club and not 27/11/74 as previously advertised. Profit £24. Ken
Stebbings and Arthur

Stockham
elected to the Committee.

14/12/74
Kidwell, Argent, Malyon, and Percival are all in Chessington line up v Epsom
this day. Also future player Chris Dunne.

17/12/74 Graham Peacock is the Epsom rep at the SSL
meeting this day where Epsom are congratulated on their FA Vase success

so far.

21/12/74 Kidwell, Argent, Percival all played against
Epsom for Chessington. The winners were at home to Ulysses says the
programme,

but we actually
play Kew Association (H) in 4q.

28/12/74 A Trevor Lee hat trick turns the game around as
we trail Kew Association in SSC at HT but win 4-1 at West Street in the end.

Dec 74 President John Martin gives notice for club to
leave ground, as he wishes to redevelop it. They are meant to leave on
25/3/75.

He bought in in
1959 for £4,000, and wanted to sell it for £80,000. Only valued at £6,000 as
a football ground.

Matter went to
Epsom County Court in January where John Martin's people asked for more time
to prepare their case.

Protest March
held through Epsom on 9/3/75 regarding the proposed sale of the ground. John
Martin was asking to build 40 two

person old
peoples flats with communal accommodation.

4,000
signatures added to a petition

John Martin
remains as President, but leaves the post in the 1975 AGM.

Indoor training
at Longmead School Gym in early 75.

Dec 75
According to Colin Bell Pat O'Connell gave out Christmas presents and Tommy
Tuite got a dolly, while Willie Bennett got a

purse with a
padlock because he was notoriously reluctant to put his hand in his pocket!

Jan  75 future Manager and player Ricky Kidd is
at Sutton with the returning Larry Pritchard who was a former player

Jan 75 future player and Manager Adrian Hill may sign for
Croydon but has already played for Kingstonian and Woking this season.
Is

leaving Woking
now but needs FA clearance as it is his third team this season.

Jan 75 former
player Martin O'Toole is at Croydon

11/1/75
Addlestone lead 3-0 but Epsom fight back to level before losing 4-3 in SSC at
Liberty Lane. Epsom were fined £3 for this

match but not
clear why in SSL minutes. Also fined £3 for the Reserve game this day, again
without any reason stated.

Jan 75 Chris
Dunne transferred from Chessington.

Jan 75 Elvin
Box (17) joins after a spell with Palace Youth and Carshalton Athletic Youth.

Jan 75 Winners
of Vase tie against Eastbourne Town will be at home to Tunbridge Wells or
Hornchurch in the last 16..

18/1/75 and
25/1/75 FAV tie at Eastbourne Town is postponed. Eventually played at
Eastbourne United on 3/2/75. Won 2-0.

31/1/75 Surrey
Senior League votes against a merger with Spartan and Metropolitan Leagues by
a vote of 8-7. Epsom voted for it.

8/2/75 Epsom
defeat FA Vase favourites Hornchurch 1-0 with a Phil Walker goal. Now at home
to Addlestone in qf (H).

After the
game, Secretary Stan Bailey took a call from a Hornchurch fan asking what the
score was. He couldn't believe the score

and asked if
Stan was sure he'd got that right. "Of course I am, after all I am the
Epsom Secretary"!

Very arrogant
attitude from most of the Hornchurch contingent from the manager down who
said he'd never heard of Epsom.

15/2/75 Epsom defeat Lion Sports 5-0. Before this game
they were second, nine points behind Malden Town, but with 8 games in hand!

Feb 75 future
player Paul Jablonski is at Corinthian Casuals as is Keith Eshelby who had
been there for many years now.

Feb 75 Arnie
Venturini sent off for Hayes v Enfield after 7 minutes and then promptly
sacked by Hayes!

Mar 75
reference to a 16 year old Colin Brooks, who played a few games for the
reserves but has now been signed by Arsenal!

Mar 75 former
player Chris Roots is at Croydon along with Kelvin who is presumably his
brother.

1/3/75 Addlestone are unbeaten in 21 matches,  before a loss at Dulwich in SSC the week
before, but Epsom defeat them 2-0 in the

FA Vase QF
thanks to goals from Tuite and Wales. Attendance 1,048. Biggest for 15 years
says papers.

During the game, Dave Worby collided with the referee and
knocked him out, so he reached for the whistle and blew it to stop play.

Ref was unable
to continue.

Disco at Bourne
Hall after the match v Addlestone.

5/3/75 SSL v
Sussex League @ Horsham. Was this played?

8/3/75 Future keeper Malcolm Broadway now plays for
Merstham against us in a League match after playing for Horley earlier. This
time

we won 3-0.

Mar 75 Ted
Yorke becomes a father. Poss 10/3/75 but definitely a Monday night.

15/3/75 No game for the first team for some reason, so Pat
O'Connell plays almost the full team v Westfield Reserves in SSL Reserve

Section and we
unsurprisingly win 8-0 at West Street. Micky Dunne, Dave Ritman, Tommy Tuite
and Trevor Lee all score twice.

18/3/75 Graham
Peacock is Epsom's rep at SSL meeting again.

22/3/75 v
Stamford. Pre match lunch for players at White Horse Hotel in Epsom

Any SF replay
would have been at Kettering. Any Final replay would have been at Orient.

Papers records
attendance as 1,643. Club says 1,604

Epsom trail at
half time but win 2-1 with goals from Lee after 53 and Walker after 78.

29/3/75 A 0-0
draw in Stamford in front of 2,500 is enough to send Epsom to Wembley. 500
went with Epsom.

Stamford were
rumoured to be on £35 a man if they had won.

29/3/75 Referee
this day was A.Hamil, who was on Match of the Day the week before with
Brighton v Blackburn.

It transpires
after the game that Chris Page had played both ties v Stamford with a broken
hand!

31/3/75 Morning
kick off at Chobham but won easily 5-2 in SSL. 4-0 up after 36 minutes. Over
500 present.

31/3/75 reported that Malden Town were unable to field a
team this day but no action was taken by SSL. They must have given plenty

of notice as
Epsom would have been without a game otherwise.

3/4/75 Tickets
on sale for the first time at Chessington League match this day. Won 2-0.

5/4/75 SSL
travelled down to play the South Wales League @ Merthyr this day.

8/4/75 A 3-1
win at Worplesdon in the League Cup was marred by an ankle injury to Phil
Walker. Taken to hospital but will be ok.

Apr 75 Two
Epsom supporters were arrested for fighting at Stamford, and were fined £70
on 9/4/75. Ian Sinclair Wilson, and

Patrick John
Kinstrey were the offenders.

Apr 75 John
Sears, Kelvin Roots, Chris Roots, Martin O'Toole, Ada Hill all at Croydon

Apr 75 Mick
Leonard is at ST Merton on a Sunday

Apr 75 future
player Gerry O'Rourke is now at Staines Town after many years with Wimbledon.

West Street
ground purchased by Ray Bloye through Matthews Holdings on 11/4/75. Price
undisclosed but well under the £80,000

valuation. A
new 5 year lease was purchased at £800 a year rental. Was due to appear in
Court again on 6/4/75 but settled out of

court it
appears after a phone call between Graham Peacock and John Martin that week.
Figure quoted in papers was £13,000.

Graham Peacock and Ian Grant both work for Matthews
Holdings and both joined it on the same day in 1970. Grant is described as

"Epsom's
flamboyant administrator".

15/4/75 Epsom
& Ewell applied for the Spartan League says SSL minute book.

Advertiser
supplement for FA Vase final, and big coverage of semis 27/3 + 3/4 + 17/4 +
24/4/75

Herald coverage
on 18/4/75 and 25/4/75

Herald
supplement has plenty of pictures and reference to Eamonn Mulligan the  trainer who was unlucky not to play at
Wembley

as a
youngster, as he was named in a 14 man squad for England Schools at Wembley,
but wasn't put on the field. Ex-Redhill,

Whyteleafe and
Banstead before joining in 1973.

Tony Lindon
donated 12 bottles of champagne and new track suits to the club.

Tommy Tuite to
have trial with Brighton afterwards, and Willie Bennett has been offered a
Combination game for them.

FA Vase Player
Profiles:

Chris Page
(24). Joined from Hampton 6ft. Safe and fearless.

Willie Bennett
(20) Joined from Wimbledon after a season with Charlton Juniors. One of the
more talented players in the side.

Alan Webb (27)
Former Surrey Youth player joined from Tooting & Mitcham. He is a
printer.

Trevor Wales
(capt). Permit player formerly pro at Charlton Athletic, Sheppey and then
Chessington and Ashtead. (32).

Dave Worby.
Joined from Walton & H (30)(I think 34). Tall strong man at the back.

Steve Jones
(20) joined from Cobham and previously with Fulham. Always in the right place
at the right time.

Phil Walker
(20) Outstanding prospect. Joined from Cobham but at Wingate previously.

Tommy Tuite.
Only 5ft 4in (20) joined from Wimbledon and formerly with Chelsea Juniors Top
scorer and brilliant opportunist.

Johnny Eales
(28) Joined from Hampton. A buyer by profession and brilliant in the air.

Trevor Lee
(20) Joined from Cobham and a member of the Fulham team that won the Youth
Cup. Previously with Crystal Palace.

Pat O'Connell 150 games with Fulham. Reads the game well.
Played in 1962 FA Cup Semi final over 15 years there. An inspiration.

Pat O'Connell
also referred to the team spending the night at Shell, near the river, and
they went by coach from there.

19/4/75 Dick Wilson, Bill Toms, and George Tarran all
present at Vase final. Wilson had 214 consecutive Epsom appearances in 30's

Tommy Dunne
also invited. Not sure if he was there. Don't know who Bill Toms is. Cannot
trace this name anywhere. Who was he?

Papers said he
played from 1934-38 but he never made a first team or reserve team
appearance.

Surrey Senior
League cancel all games this day.

Trevor Wales
says that the players spent the night at Lensbury and had new suits bought
for them to wear at Wembley.

Unfortunately
Epsom trail 2-0 at HT and despite a Wales goal after 82, they lost 2-1 to
Hoddesdon Town.

Hoddesdon only
had two shots on target. Goals were in 15th and 44th minute with Wales
pulling one back after 82 minutes.

Attendance
9,500 slightly more of which were Hoddesdon fans.

Dave Worby had
his car stolen in the evening of the Vase Final at the Cavalier! Found in
Croydon on the Monday.

19/4/75 Post
Vase party at the Cavalier in Wallington. Prog Yc. More than 100 were
present.

The Cavalier
was in the Wallington Shopping Arcade, not near the station as previously
thought. It was half way up the hill between

the station
and Stanley Park Road on the left is a shopping mall, and the Cavalier was on
the left as you went in. It was gone by

the time I
lived there in 1994.

Epsom applied
for a 13th medal for Ted Yorke as he had played in 4 of the earlier rounds.
It was turned down.

23/4/75 Epsom
defeat Virginia Water 3-1 in League Cup Final at Leatherhead. Water's only
shot was a penalty goal four minutes

from time.

Trevor Wales
says that medals were issued for the Surrey Senior League titles and Cups but
that they have got lost

because of
various house moves. He did have an FA Vase medal though and I have pictures.

Accepted back into Athenian League for 75/76 on 24/4/75.
Hoddesdon were turned down, despite a fourth vacancy arising

after Leyton's
amalgamation with Wingate.

26/4/75 A
Ritman hat trick was his first for the club in a 3-1 win at Westfield in SSL.

28/4/75 A 3-1
win at Merstham puts Epsom in the League Charity Cup Final.

30/4/75 @
Camberley SSL v Spartan League, but no Epsom or Hoddesdon players selected.
Prog Y.

May 75 future
player and Manager Adrian Hill is at Croydon.

May 75 SSL gave
"special congratulations to Epsom & Ewell FC".

1/5/75 and 5/5/75 Epsom draw twice with Malden Town in
SSL. One of the games was switched to West Street, as Manor Park was

unavailable.
In between Epsom defeated Sheerwater 3-0 in another game switched to West
Street due to cricket considerations.

Malden chose
to adopt very physical tactics and were very fortunate to avoid bookings or
worse said Herald. Many reserves

played in the
second match, with the Cup Final in mind.

1/5/75 Ritman
mispen in first match which finishes 0-0 at West Street. This was the only
away League game we failed to win.

7/5/75 Epsom
are defeated 4-3 by Chessington United in League Charity Cup Final at
Chertsey. Two "astounding goals"

from Peter Berry said Herald. Wales on holiday and Worby
injured, and Ritman had to limp off with an ankle injury after 15 minutes.

Epsom were 1-0
up at HT after a goal from Tuite but it all went wrong in the second half.

8/5/75 Chris page scores with penalty in a 5-0 win over
Wandsworth. It was the fourth goal, and started a run of seven straight
wins

at the end of
the season.

10/5/75 Club
apologises for lack of programmes recently in Res game v Worplesdon. Many may
not have been issued recently.

10/5/75 Epsom defeat BAC Weybridge 3-1 with two goals from
Pat O'Connell one of which was a penalty. Tuite mispen, presumably

earlier in the
match.

12/5/75 Title
clinched with a 3-1 win at Worplesdon.

Virginia Water
only club to score in three matches v Epsom.

15/5/75 Tuite
gets his 50th goal against Westfield in a 4-1 SSL win.

22/5/75 A long
season finishes with a 3-1 win over Whyteleafe. Over 400 were present to see
Whyteleafe lead after 40 minutes

but Epsom
equalised after 75 minutes through Lee and Tuite and Lee again won the match.
101 League goals in 28 matches.

31/5/75 End of
Season Dinner Dance at Surrey Hillls Hotel at 7.30pm. 297 present.

Player of the
Year was Trevor Wales.

Awards are also
given to Tommy Tuite and Micky Dunne for being top scorers in the first and
reserve team respectively.

Pat O'Connell
also receives an award for Club Services.

May 75 Pat
O'Connell is promoted to General Manager of the club this month

May 75 Future
player Peter Coker is young player of the year for Crystal Palace 74/75

Approx May 1975
big team photo with players and officials.

May 75 Epsom
& Ewell FC apply for Suburban League for 1975/76 - they don't get
accepted due to a lack of lights

Reserves:

Surrey Senior League Reserve Division

Position

1st out of 15

SIC

4q

Meadvale Casuals

0-2

SSLC

2nd

Wandsworth

1-3+

Reference to a Micky "Turka" Taylor playing for
the Reserves this season as advised in his own book, detailing his non-league
career. Clearly

he was there for a part of this season as he refers to
many players of the era, but stats show that he made no Reserve appearances
for us.

21/8/74 Andy
Dunne Youth manager 2003/04 scored for reserves v Chessington. Brother of
Micky and Chris.

21/8/74 No
result sheet for game with Chessington Res. Fined £2.

24/8/74 Epsom win 4-3 at Sheerwater. Brooks comes on for
Cox according to papers but for Martin on Dave's stats. I will stick
with

Dave's stats.

28/8/74 Geoff
Fowler pensave at 2-2 with ten minutes remaining as we hold on for a 2-2 draw
at Horley. Geoff's only appearance.

28/9/74 Paper
says Rob Weller played but Dave's stats say Gerry Fowler played. I will go
with Dave's stats.

26/10/74
Reserves win 10-0 at Westfield. J.Frewing (4), C.Rose (3), K.Woolcott,
W.Martin, J.Cox were the scorers.

Oct 74 Kevin
Woolcott came from Carshalton and Terry Hurley joins from Leatherhead.

30/11/74
Virginia Water (A) is n/p. Rearranged for 12/4/75.

28/12/74 Cup
tie at Meadvale Casuals is p-p.

4/1/75
Chessington (A) is n/p this day. Rearranged for 17/4/75.

11/1/75 Cup
tie with Meadvale Casuals is played in Redhill, but venue unknown. They are a
Redhill based team so presume their

home pitch.

18/1/75 Cobham
(A) is n/p this day. Rearranged for 15/2/75.

25/1/75 League
Cup tie v Wandsworth is p-p. Eventually played on 22/2/75. Prog Y Same
programme may have been used.

1/2/75 Colin Rose sent off v Malden Town, but held on for
0-0 draw at Manor Park. Fined £5 and suspended for 28 days. Former player

Roger Sears
plays for Malden Town v Epsom.

8/2/75 Virginia
Water (H) is p-p as first team are at home in the Vase. Rearranged for
8/3/75.

15/2/75 Cobham
(A) is p-p. Rearranged for 22/3/75.

1/3/75 SSL Res
division 0-1 Surrey Intermediate League (West) @ BAC Weybridge.

8/3/75 Gary
Kent sent off after 20 minutes, but Reserves still defeat Virginia Water 6-0
in SSL!

15/3/75 No game for the first team for some reason, so Pat
O'Connell plays almost the full team v Westfield Reserves in SSL Reserve

Section and we
unsurprisingly win 8-0 at West Street. Micky Dunne, Dave Ritman, Tommy Tuite
and Trevor Lee all score twice.

22/3/75 No
linesman in match at Cobham who were fined £1.

22/3/75 Dave
says Roger Taylor was in goal but the papers say it was Rob Weller. I will
stick with Dave's stats.

28/3/75
Worplesdon (H) is n/p. Rearranged for 10/5/75.

29/3/75
Whyteleafe (A) is p-p. Rearranged for 8/5/75.

Apr 75 Kelvin
Gregory returns from a spell at Maidenhead.

5/4/75 Paper says Cox played at 7 but Dave's stats say
Knight. I will go with Dave's stats for this, but there is also mention of a
sub Box

for Gregory
which isn't mentioned, but surely this wasn't made up so I will add it here.

12/4/75 Paul
Basten (15) makes debut in a 1-0 win at Virginia Water.

17/4/75
Reserves beat Chessington 2-1 in a match switched to West Street because of
the state of the pitch. Epsom clinched the

League with
this win.

24/4/75
Reserves lose their only League match of the season 2-1 at Merstham.

30/4/75 Epsom
win 3-2 against Wandsworth in an away match switched to West Street.

30/4/75 Paper says Ted Buxton came on for Micky Dunne but Dave says
he was on for Craig Dunne. I will go with Dave's stats.

3/5/75 Whyteleafe (A) moved back to 8/5/75. Eventually drawn 1-1 at
Church Road with a Graham Hemphrey goal.

10/5/75 Colin
Bell mispen as Epsom draw 1-1 at home to Worplesdon in final match of the
season.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

03/08/1974

Kingstonian

A

0-0

RES

HT 0-0

03/08/1974

Kingstonian

H

1-3

Y

Tuite

HT 0-1

06/08/1974

Cor Casuals

H   k.o.7pm

3-3

Y

Tuite (2), Rose

(0-2)HT
2mispens 38+43

Eales
and Webb mispens

06/08/1974

Sutton United

A

0-4

RES

08/08/1974

Gravesend Diamonds

H

2-1

N

Lee, Dunne

(0-0)HT

10/08/1974

Carshalton Athletic

H

1-1

Yc

Eales

(1-0)HT

10/08/1974

Carshalton Athletic

A

1-2

RES

Bell

13/08/1974

Crystal Palace

H

1-3

Y

Ritman

(1-0)HT

01/03/1975

Chessington Utd

A

5-0

RES

Palladino
(2), Knight (2), Kent