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H I G H L I G H T S

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Position 10th out of 18

FAC

3q

Enfield

0-1

FAV

2nd

Molesey

1-2

LC

F

Chalfont St P

0-1

SSC

1st

Walton & Hersham

1-2

SCC

SF

Hampton

0-1

President:

The Mayor of Epsom & Ewell - Councillor
V.R.Barrett

Chairman:

Beau Reynolds

Wife Gemini took many photos

Secretary

Stan Bailey

5 Burbage House, Poole Street, New North Road,
London. N1: 01-739-4105

and 01 934 2606 (w)

Manager

Pat O'Connell

trainers Graham Hemphrey, Colin Bell

Asst Arthur Evans

Treasurer

Dave Ellins

Physio Wally Langford

Membership Sec

Arthur Stockham

Committee:

Nigel Anstis, Jimmy James, Vic Lumm, George
Nathan, Fred Read, Ivor Smith, Wilf Smith

Stewards

Wilf Smith, Fred Read and George Nathan

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Press Secretary

Dave Wilson

23 Elmstead Gardens, Worcester Park 01 330-0011
(h) 01 278-4241 (w)

28/6/76 New
Chairman elected at AGM at West Street. Beau Reynolds replaces Graham Peacock
who resigns due to

business
pressures. A bigger attendance than last year, over 50 were present, but
Reynolds was not, as he was on

holiday in the
South of France. He watched Epsom regularly last season and took the club
history on holiday with him!

He is the owner
of a publishing company in Blackfriars and lives in Teddington. John
Carpenter also resigned from

the Committee
but elected onto it were Nigel Anstis, a future Chairman, Vic Lumm (father of
a future Chairman Pete), Ivor

Smith and
Jimmy James. Club made a £420 profit and due to the increased turnover, they
will have to register for VAT, but

v-c Ian Grant
feels this will only have a marginal effect.

Training starts
on 6/7/76 but has been running on a voluntary basis for five weeks and thirty
turned up last week.

Beau Reynolds
was described by Pat as a really nice chap, who was in the adult industry.
His wife Gemini was significantly

younger than
him, and was famously responsible for the Crystal Palace picture where a
female ended up in the players bath.

Beau was
brought in by Ray Bloye and Dick Varey on the sort of promise that if he did
well they could get him on the board

at Crystal
Palace, but it would never happen. He drove a green Rolls Royce and was
responsible for the glossy programme

that season.
Apparently he lived with Gemini for many years, but then got married and
divorced in fairly quick time.

Pat O'Connell
also refers to Roy Nash around this time, a very good groundsman at West
Street.

Gemini went on
to do other things in later life including writing a book about men and
become pen pals with the convict Charles

Bronson! She
also wrote to canoe man John Darwin while he was in prison and currently
lives in Cyprus.

8/7/76
reported Tommy Tuite gets married at St Teresa's Church, Bishopsford Road,
Morden to Lesley Margaret Cooper.

Tuite's parents
lived at Burford Road, Sutton. Picture in Epsom Herald.

10/7/76
Cricket match  Epsom & Ewell FC v
Wandgas Worcester Park @ Grafton Road. Wandgas 133-6 dec but FC were

bowled out for
132. Tony Coombe made 43.

July 76 Martin
Peters now training with Epsom. Former player Tony Monk is now manager at
Whyteleafe.

Aug 76 Micky
Lyel is let off with a caution after his sending off v Carshalton at the end
of last season as it was self defence.

Aug 76 Gary
Kent and Steve Jones return from Windsor & Eton.

New players
signed: Gerry O'Rourke from Staines

Dickie Vincent
from Woking

Martin Peters
from Banstead

John Adams from
Leatherhead

Keith Weaver
from Millwall

Dave Argent
from Chessington

Steve Percival
joins from Chessington.

Johnnie Martin
becomes Assistant Manager and coach. Signed from Walton where he was manager.

Had been very
successful with Westfield in early seventies before being signed to Walton to
cover the Batsford exodus.

Mick Matthews
has now left the club due to business.

Madge Easton
made Honorary Vice President after 50 years support.

Aug 76 Martin
O'Toole at Croydon

Aug 76 future
player Alan Ives at T&M

Aug 76 former
player John Frewin at Corinthian Casuals

Aug 76 A full
first and second team line up is pictured (in SCRAPBOOK) Herald photo.

7/8/76 A late
equaliser in friendly with Isthmian Champions Enfield. Drew 2-2.

14/8/76
Millwall return for a friendly but without Lee and Walker. Lost 0-2 to two
goals in the last seven minutes.

Aug 76 Colour
programmes introduced with glossy cover. Sold by Gemini and her friends! The
first two are not numbered but

number 3 v
Addlestone on 24/8/76 is the first one numbered since 1963.

Aug 76 Willie
Bennett requiring an x-ray after injuring his knee.

Aug 76 Johnnie
Ware joins club. Ex-Chelsea and Hampton.

21/8/76 40th
Wedding anniversary at North Cheam Community Hall for Sarah and George
Nathan. Married on 14/8/36.

George still
works at Unigate Dairies. Club gave them a cheque for £150.

21/8/76 Epsom
win 1-0 at Haringey Boro on the opening day of the season. Hot and dusty
after the summer drought. It

needed an 85th
minute goal from O'Rourke from a Webb corner.

Aug 76 future
players Steve Hill and Micky Stratford are at Woking this season at least to
start with.

Steve Hill
scores on debut for Woking v Enfield 21/08/76 - Alan Morton got the other
goal

Aug 76 formere
player Peter Deadman is at Haringey Borough.

24/8/76 Andy
Abel, Jeff Hunn, Richard Parkin, and Paul Butler all played for Addlestone.
Hunn pen saved.

Aug 76 New dug
outs constructed by Wilf Smith, Arthur Stockham and Vic Lumm.

Aug 76 Eshelby,
Reid and Bennett are all out injured again, so Pat O'Connell adds himself to
the squad.

28/8/76 Epsom
batter Grays with three first half goals. W3-0 in League match. Grays had
also arrived 20 minutes late.

30/8/76 2-0 win
at Marlow takes Epsom top of the Athenian League for the first ever time.

Sept 76 Chris
Page leaves club for Molesey after losing his place to Dickie Vincent.

Sept 76 Dave
Argent joins from Chessington United. Aged 27. Had been at the club a few
years back.

4/9/76 0-1
defeat to Epping loses top spot a week later!

Sept 76 John
Adams leaves for Addlestone.

Sept 76 future
player and Manager Ricky Kidd is at Sutton United this season.

Sept 76 future
player and Manager Adrian Hill is at Croydon this season.

Sept 76 future
player Ian 'Sos' Ferrar is at Guildford and Dorking United this season
although they fold midway through.

Sept 76 former
player Chris Kelly continues at Leatherhead this season.

7/9/76 Easy
3-1 win at Leyton Wingate. Late consolation for the hosts after Epsom
dominated. Epsom are top again.

11/9/76 Epsom
had to wear red, as Marlow brought the wrong kit with them! They also
suffered a second half dismissal.

Scorers in 4-1
win: Peters (3), O'Rourke (19), Tuite (39), O'Rourke (46)

12/9/76
Charity Match Manor Hospital Epsom v Showbiz XI @ Manor Hospital Ground. Prog
Y. Many well known players

listed as
possibles inc Dennis Waterman, Robin Askwith, Ray Davies and Robert Powell.

14/9/76 and
from now on for a while, all SSL meetings are held at Decca in Tolworth.
Graham Peacock's resignation was

also advised
here.

14/9/76 Epsom
were 2-0 up at Redhill after an hour, but Redhill forced a draw.

Sept 76
Isthmian League announce that they are expanding.

18/9/76
Worplesdon (A) in SSC is put back a week as Epsom have an FA Cup tie.

18/9/76 Tommy
Tuite 150th appearance at Camberley. Drew 1-1 in low key F.A. Cup tie.

Sept 76 Willie
Bennett suffering from a flaked bone.

Sept 76 Barry
Denman is now player manager of Kingswood in SIL. They play Epsom Res on
Saturday in SIC!

22/9/76 FA Cup
Replay v Camberley K.O. 3pm on a Wednesday. Same again on 13/10/76.

22/9/76 An
extra time winner from Tony Coombe was required to see Camberley off in FA
Cup.

25/9/76
Comfortable 5-2 win at Worplesdon in SSC.

29/9/76 Club
Meeting to amend Rules

2/10/76 Lyel
returns to the side after a thigh injury and replaces the off form Keith
Eshelby. Still lose 1-0 at Hounslow.

Epsom &
Ewell buy a works canteen from the Thamesmead G.L.C. estate at Woolwich. This
is the new clubhouse

90 feet by 35
feet plus 8 x 60 feet pylons

Cost of new
clubhouse is £1,000. £10,000 required to erect and furnish it once planning
permission is granted.

New floodlight
pylons also purchased for £1,600

They were
delivered on Sunday 17/10/76 with lots of helpers there.

9/10/76 Johnny
Eales is sent off at Boreham Wood but Epsom hang on for a 1-1 draw. Micky
Lyel was already off the

field receiving
treatment for a cut that later needed five stitches. Eales sending off was
described as a flick by the

Epsom papers,
but a "savage elbow" by the Borehamwood Post. Only spotted by
linesman at the other end of the ground.

13/10/76 Replay
win over Boreham Wood saw Epsom draw Enfield at home in next round of FA Cup.

A new
Supporters Club formed October 1976 - Danny Dunwoody as Chairman and Tony
Lindon as Vice Chairman

Oct 76 future
player Mick Sorensen, son of fifties player Jan (Jorgen) and brother of
seventies player Erik joins Kingstonian

from Wycombe
Wanderers.

Oct 76 Roy
Beswick is at Staines but at Kingstonian by November 1976

Oct 76 Ted
Yorke is at Kingstonian

16/10/76 Easy
win 6-0 v Kew Assoc in SSC. Game was switched to Epsom after being drawn
away.

At 4-0 Kew lost
their keeper injured.

23/10/76
Johnnie Ware makes debut for Epsom v Enfield in FA Cup. Wales is away on
holiday, and Epsom lead 1-0 before

a late Enfield
equaliser. Enfield manager Fred Callaghan knows Pat O'Connell and Epsom well
and lives in Hinchley Wood.

Attendance
listed as 824 (Herald) and 895 (Advertiser).

Ilford at home
would have been th reward if we were to beat the Isthmian Champions.

24/10/76
Dennis Waterman gets a hat trick as his team
defeat Epsom XI 11-10 with a penalty by Tony Gubba. Att 1,800+

Advertiser
says more than 2,000 were present. Raised about £1000. Many well known
players Alan Mullery, Gordon Jago,

George
Armstrong, Dave Sexton, Julian Wilson. After game Dennis Waterman and Trevor
Lee played in a darts match at

the club with
other players. Picture of both teams plus Top of The Pops dancers Legs and Co
- Y. Former player Phil

Walker now with
Millwall, runs the line. Prog - Y

26/10/76 Epsom
narrowly lose 1-0 to Enfield in Cup replay.

30/10/76 Epsom
bounce back against Erith & B with a 5-1 win. They led 4-0 at HT and
Tuite got a HT including a penalty.

2/11/76 Epsom
defeat Virginia Water 3-0 in SSC tie played at Camberley, who had lights.

6/11/76 Tuite
scores all 5 v Ruislip, with three within the 30th and 34th minutes!

Ruislip keeper
taken to hospital with suspected broken leg.

Nov 76 Possible
Crystal Palace trial for Tony Coombe. Harley Street specialist visit for
Willie Bennett.

Nov 76 former
player Dave Rainham was captain at Cobham but then disappeared in this month
and the team played much

better from
this point onwards according to the Surrey Advertiser seasonal review for
Cobham!

20/11/76 Epsom
crash out of the FA Vase 2-1 at Molesey. Former Epsom keeper Chris Page
played for Molesey.

Extremely
controversial decision. Referee blew for offside and then allowed the goal
which proved to be the winner. The

referee
obviously was indecisive as he then went over to Pat O'Connell to explain why
he had done it!

24/11/76 Glyn
OB Five a Side at Epsom Baths won by Corinthian Casuals. Epsom won first
match on pens v Old Suttonians

after a 1-1
draw, but lost 1-0 to "Amateur Five" in the semi.

27/11/76 Epsom
win 3-0 over Egham but Egham had 75% of the play. O'Connell blasts his
players afterwards.

4/12/76
Rainham Town (A) is p-p or moved back. Fixture listed in League Bulletin but
not played. Many p-p's this day.

11/12/76 Easy
5-0 win on the ice v Redhill in SSC 4q at the Memorial Ground. First full
game of season for ex-Redhill player

Alex Reid and
he was man of the match and scored inside two minutes.

Dec 76 No
action is to be taken against Johnny Eales for his sending off at Boreham
Wood, as the linesman concerned

has emigrated
to South Africa.

Dec 76 former
players Dave Rainham and Jeff Lyons are with Cobham this season.

Dec 76
Guildford & Dorking United fold and resign from Southern League. A new
club Dorking Town are created but

Guildford City
will not reappear for 20 years.

14/12/76 Tony
Coombe plays for Crystal Palace Reserves at Birmingham City in Football Comb.
Prog (SCRAPBOOK).

Other players
in the side are Rachid Harkouk, Vince Hilaire, and Martin Hinshelwood. Played
well in 2-0 win.

18/12/76 game
at Egham p-p waterlogged.

Dec 76
Application for Isthmian League accepted along with 17 other clubs. 16 of
these are from Athenian League, plus

Met Police and
Milton Keynes although Milton Keynes never appear.

Former player
Ken Ireland sacked by Banstead Athletic in xmas 76.

Willie Bennett
has to stay in hospital over Christmas as his knee has not recovered fully
from an operation. He will not play

again this
season says O'Connell.

Tommy Tuite is
injured game against Redhill on 1/1/77 and will miss the game at Lewes on
8/1/77. First match missed

after 166
consecutive appearances! 7 stitches required to a knee injury. Alex Reid
scores the only goal of the game.

8/1/77 Lewes
1-5 Newstead got hat-trick for Lewes nine years after he did it against Epsom
in a 10-0 defeat!

Former Epsom
player Tex Wiltshire is Lewes manager at this time.

9/1/77 E &
E quiz team win event at Kingstonian. Dave Wilson, Johnny Eales, Roger Benke,
and John Lumm.

Jan 77 local
paper report on Madge Easton. Her father was Alfred Easton and apparently was
a Committee member.

15/1/77 Messy
SSC game at Walton & Hersham is drawn 1-1 but Epsom lose the replay 1-2
at West Street a week later.

Future Combined
Counties League Vice-President Tony Ford ran the line in this match and the
replay too.

15/1/77 Former
keeper Mick Leonard makes debut for Halifax v Southend in Football League.
Won 3-1. Not 18 until May.

Halifax manager
was Alan Ball.

19/1/77
Crystal Palace Res 1-4 Orient Reserves in Football Combination. Tony Coombe
plays for Palace as does Terry

Fenwick.

Supporters
Club purchase a physio lamp for £80. Supporters Club has two Committee
members in it, Nigel Anstis, and Vic

Lumm. Tony
Lindon's phone number was Burgh Heath 54568 (h), Epsom 26431 (w). 80
Tattenham Grove, Epsom.

24/1/77
Wimbledon Reserves 41 match unbeaten record is ended as Epsom win 3-0 in SCC
2.

Unfortunately Tony Coombe breaks a bone in his foot and
will be out for a while. Originally scheduled for 29/01/77 says Wimbledon
News.

Trevor Wales
makes 150th appearance at Rainham 29/1/77. Four goals for Tuite in 6-2 win.

Colin Bell
leaves club for Chertsey in Feb 77 but returns shortly and is playing for the
Reserves again by the end of March.

5/2/77 Epsom
win 2-0 at Hounslow in ALC. Future player Arnie Venturini played for
Hounslow. First victory there since 1954.

12/2/77
Cheshunt game p-p (H). Prog Y (11). Cheshunt are angry at the wasted journey,
but O'Connell said it was playable.

12/2/77 In the
programme line up this day was Dennis Bailey, son of Secretary Stan and a
future Epsom player.

19/2/77 Epsom
lose to Grays in a poor performance. First time that firsts and Reserves both
lost since 24/1/76.

26/2/77 The
same thing happens the following week, as Epsom lose 2-0 at home to Hounslow
while Res lose at Lion Sports.

Many fans
chanted "what a load of rubbish" at the game and O'Connell agrees
"we were diabolical".

Many changes
expected for match v Haringey as O'Connell gives the youngsters a chance.

Trevor Wales,
Martin Peters, Gerry O'Rourke are all axed and Phil Weller (Sutton) brother
of football league star Keith comes

in for debut.
Willie Bennett is back in training.

Feb 77 future keeper Andy Abel is at Addlestone &
Weybridge. Paul Butler, Jeff Hunn, Vinny Reid and Richard Parkin also there.

Feb 77 Dave
Turner is at Redhill

Feb 77 Epsom
are among clubs fined £10 for not having paid for their Athenian League
Handbooks.

March 77
future player Steve Hill is released by Woking at his own request. Was
leading scorer with 16 but there had been a

change of
Manager and he was no longer happy there. He then goes to Wycombe Wanderers
where he scores in a 3-0 win at

Woking. The
paper says it was not a great goal and refers to the fact that not many of
his for Woking were that good! Harsh!

Mar 77 Mick
Stratford leaves Woking for Kingstonian

Mar 77
reported in Surrey Advertiser that future player and Manager Ricky Kidd is
not happy at Sutton United and may leave.

5/3/77 Epsom
defeat Haringey 1-0 but would not win another league game for two months.

9/3/77 A good
win for Epsom at Molesey in ALC 3. 64th minute Tuite goal was the only goal
of the game.

12/3/77 2
goals in three minutes break a 1-1 draw as Epsom lose 3-1 at Letchworth.
Tuite limped off after 70 minutes.

March 77 future
player Micky Stratford leaves Woking at his own request.

15/3/77 Tommy
Tuite is absent with a pulled hamstring as Epsom can only draw at Erith.
"Sorely missed".

19/3/77 Rainham
Town home game postponed due to damage caused to pitch during erection of
lights!

Damage is so
bad that they get next week's match v Cheshunt switched to Cheshunt to give
the foot long ruts time to

recover. They
will play the home match with Cheshunt later in the season.

23/3/76 Future
Combined Counties League Vice-President Tony Ford ran the line in this match
at Egham.

26/3/77 Late
goal for Cheshunt followed by taunting from home fans and manager. Cheshunt
player sent off near the end, and

Epsom left
straight after the game without stopping. "Ugly scenes" say both
local papers.

Epsom consider
making a protest.

March 77
Cambridge City apply for the expanded Isthmian League but this causes uproar
at the club and they rescind that

application
around a month later (reported - 25th April).

29/3/77 Epsom
hold Lewes to a 1-1 draw including a penalty save from Dickie Vincent. Epsom
could have won it.

Martin Peters
booked v Lewes - his sixth of the season.

2/4/77 Epsom
can only draw 0-0 with bottom club Ruislip at West Street.

5/4/77 League
Bulletin schedules us with a trip to Worthing but the match is moved back.

9/4/77 League
match at Epping postponed as they have an Intermediate Cup tie on their
pitch. Athenian League and Essex FA

couldn't sort
it out.

In view of
this, O'Connell played his full first team in the Reserve fixture at home to
Chobham, who are duly dispatched 6-0!

11/4/77 Epsom
draw at Uxbridge in ALC QF 2-2 aet. No goals in extra time. Epsom were 1-0 up
but were fortunate to

get the replay
in the end, due to a late Micky Lyel header.

13/4/77 Leyton
Wingate home game postponed, as team arrived at 7.15 for a 6.15 kick off. No
lights, even though they

were in
position! Referee was considering 30 mins each way. Prog Y. 230 present for
the game but the electricity

board had not
finished the cabling.

16/4/76 Future
Combined Counties League Vice-President Tony Ford ran the line in this match
at home to Letchworth.

Alan Webb makes
200th appearance against Uxbridge on 19/4/77

19/4/77 and 21/4/77. Double programme issued v Uxbridge
and Worthing. The latter match was originally scheduled for 19/04/77

but was moved
back for the cup tie.

19/4/77
Uxbridge are thumped 3-0 in ALC replay at West Street. Gerry O'Rourke
returned to the side.

Apr 77
reference to a supporters football club playing Banstead Athletic Supporters
in two matches (A) 8/5/77 + (H) 15/5/77.

23/4/77 A 0-0
draw with Cheshunt is Epsom's seventh draw in ten matches.

25/4/77 Epsom
win 2-0 at Farnborough in ALC SF. First home defeat for Farnborough in 87
home games!

26/4/77 New
Clubhouse plans up for approval at council. Successful.

However it
transpires that Epsom have used brighter bulbs than they were allowed. Will
be assessed next season.

28/4/77 Alton
(H)(L) match reduced to 70 minutes in length due to late start. The away kit
hadn't arrived in time!

We still lost
1-0 and Bobby Page mispen. Originally scheduled for 27/4/77 but moved back a
day.

3/5/77 Three
goals in seven minutes as Leyton Wingate soak up Epsom pressure at 1-1 but
win 4-1.

Despite
programme being colour and glossy, it is only voted second best in Athenian
League, but were named in the top 20

non-league
programmes in the country. I don't know which club had a better programme but
Farnborough's was good.

7/5/77 A 2-0
defeat at Alton was only notable for the injury to the referee who had to be
replaced. Former player

Tony Varcoe
played for Alton, as did S.Varcoe.

Supporters
Football Club first ever match v Banstead Athletic (A) on Sunday 8/5/77. Drew
2-2 with goals from Dave Ellins

and Clive
Hooper.

9/5/77 Epsom
lose 1-0 at Hampton in SSC SF. A second half goal against a weary Epsom. In
the programme line up for

Hampton were
Joe Fascione, Alec Macfarlane and Peter Bartlett, all future Epsom players.

10/5/77
Reserve team played this fixture. First win in seven games, and the only goal
Epsom scored in their last 6 fixtures.

10/5/77 GK
Dickie Vincent came on as sub and went up front in 80th minute. Remained ever
present as a result.

12/5/77 Long
term supporter Madge Easton passes away after being rushed to hospital from
her home, John Gale Court in

West Street.
Funeral 19/5. Aged 63. The club had made her an Honorary Life-President
recently. Her last game was at

Hampton
recently. Had been watching for almost 50 years said papers. Heart attack.

14/5/77 Epsom
lose toss of coin for choice of venue for Athenian League Cup Final. They
lose 1-0 at Chalfont St Peter.

Many injuries
ensured that Epsom were well short of a full strength side. Only Johnny Eales
remained from the Athenian

League Cup
Final (Div 2) in 1968 v Edmonton. An 85th minute goal was enough to defeat
Epsom.

15/5/77 Epsom
lost 5-2 to Banstead Supporters at West Street. Dave Wilson was the linesman.
The same two players

scored as did
last week. Reporters Ian Ward (Epsom) and Mick Lidbury (Banstead) both played
and provided very

contrasting
reports!

May 77 Accepted
into new Isthmian League Division 2 for next season

16/5/77 Future
player Jeff Hunn scores twice for Addlestone v Epsom

I had this
loss at Addlestone down for Tuesday 17th May but it appears in the Times that
day and was definitely played

on Monday 16th
May.

18/5/77 Tommy Rochester passes away at his home in Castle
Road, Epsom at the age of 62. Born in the North East and a former

player, Coach
and Manager. One of the very few players to have played for us either side of
the war.

3/6/77 End of
season presentations at Clubhouse at 8pm.

Micky Lyel
gets Clubman of the Year award. Presented by Trevor Lee. Player of the year
was Dick Vincent. All arranged

by Danny
Dunwoody the Chairman of the Supporters Club.

June 77 Future
Chairman Pete Lumm (16) wins the Epsom & Ewell FC Darts Singles title 4-3
over Alex Reid. 64 entries.

Reserves:

Surrey Senior League Reserve Division

Position

2nd out of 18

SIC

4q

Warlingham

0-1

SLC

3rd

Camberley

1-2 agg

14/8/76 Dick
Vincent guested for Lensbury v Epsom Reserves. Epsom won 2-1.

21/8/76 Epsom
stun Farnborough 6-0 in SSL. Farnborough were eventual champions with Epsom
runners up. Peters HT.

According to
the SSL the wrong ref was listed on the result sheet. Fined £1.

Aug 76
B.Hennessy join Westfield from Epsom.

11/9/76 Steve
Jones scores after 21 seconds of Res match at Westfield - Won 4-0

15/9/76
Wandsworth (A) is not played.

25/9/76 HT for
Alan Vince in SIC. A 4-2 win at Kingswood Wanderers who were Managed by
former player Barry Denman who

also played.

9/10/76 80 plus
were present as Epsom defeated Camberley 2-1 in SSL match. Fifth consecutive
victory.

30/10/76
Chertsey (H) is moved back for Epsom's SIC tie with BAC Weybridge that they
win 2-0 in Byfleet.

6/11/76 Ninth
straight win for Reserves 3-1 at home to Horley.

13/11/76
Wandsworth are defeated 5-2. My stats say a programme (team sheet) was
produced but I can no longer trace it.

13/11/76 This
game was originally meant to be at home to Lion Sports but was moved back and
Wandsworth came in instead.

20/11/76 Epsom
win 7-2 @ Purley v Croydon M.O. Eleventh straight win.

27/11/76
Winning run ends with a 1-1 draw at Sheerwater in League Cup first leg.

4/12/76
originally scheduled to play Ash United (H) but fixture switched so we host
Westfield.

4/12/76
Westfield (H) p-p in SSL - prog Y

11/12/76
Sheerwater game kicks off late. They are fined 75p.

18/12/76 First
time Reserves fail to score all season in 0-1 loss to Warlingham in SIC.

1/1/77
Camberley (A) is p-p.

8/1/77
Camberley (A) is p-p. Waterlogged.

15/1/77
Camberley (H) p-p in SSL Cup 3rd round - prog Y

2/2/77 Keith
Champ, Gary Kent, Steve Jones, Tony Tillin, Leigh Montgomery all selected for
SSL Reserve Section v

Wimbledon
& District League in 1st round of SCFA Junior Interleague Competition @
Molesey. 2 subs allowed and Dennis

Walker is one
of these selected, and Graham Hemphrey is selected later, and Elvin Box plays
too.

5/2/77 Was
originally meant to be Chertsey (H) but we defeat Westfield 4-0 instead at
West Street.

12/2/77 13th consecutive League victory for Reserves, 3-0
at Camberley. Keith Champ pensave at 0-0 and we led after 8 minutes.

19/2/77
Reserves lose at home to Camberley in 1st leg of League Cup. A draw in the
return leg sends them out.

19/2/77 Report
advises that Steve Jones was injured and unable to continue so we played with
ten men for twenty minutes.

However, Alex
Reid came on as a sub for Steve Percival after 75 minutes, so either this was
earlier, or the injury was later.

Mar 77 Epsom
are accepted into the Suburban League for next season.

31/3/77 Cobham
(A) is moved back 2 days.

2/4/77 Epsom
win at Cobham with a first half Marvin Hough goal.

2/4/77
Worplesdon (A) is moved back two weeks to accommodate this fixture.

9/4/77
O'Connell played his full first team in the Reserve fixture at home to
Chobham, who are duly dispatched 6-0!

23/4/77 Steve
Jones breaks his right leg 89 minutes in the 4-0 win over Ash United (A).
Incorrect result sheet. Fined £2 but not

sure what was
incorrect. Cracked tibula and would be out for 6 months. In plaster for 8-12
weeks.

26/4/77 SSL (Reserves) v Surrey Intermediate League -
Keith Champ, Dennis Walker, Steve Jones & Leigh Montgomery all selected

for the match
at Chessington but match wasn't played. See 5/5/77 comment below. Hemphrey,
Kent and Tillin all subs.

5/5/77 Keith
Champ, Gary Kent, Graham Hemphrey, Leigh Montgomery, with two subs Dennis
Walker and Tony Tillin

are selected
for Surrey Senior League Reserve Section v Surrey Intermediate League (South)
@ Leatherhead.

Won 1-0 with a
Gary Kent penalty.

10/5/77
Chertsey (H) is moved back 9 days to 19/5/77.

12/5/77 Epsom
beat Malden Town 2-0 but miss two penalties from Bell and Kent.

17/5/77
Reserves lose 1-0 to Farnborough and have to settle for runners up spot. Both
leave for Suburban League.

Camberley and
Chertsey also move.

19/5/77
Chertsey are defeated 4-0 at West Street. Worplesdon (H) originally on this
date is moved back two days.

21/5/77 v
Worplesdon - Lyel and Vincent went up front, and Arthur Evans made his yearly
appearance! Derek Williams

scored all four
goals before the interval. HT 4-0 and won 4-1.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

07/08/1976

Enfield

H

2-2

Y

HT 1-1

Eales, B.Page

Att 450

11/08/1976

Dulwich Hamlet Res

1-0

Tuite (pen) (Eshelby mispen)

12/08/1976

Wandsworth

0-2

RES

14/08/1976

Millwall

H

0-2

Y

HT 0-0

Att 300

14/08/1976

Lensbury

A

2-1

RES

Ware (2)

16/08/1976

Crystal Palace

H

1-3

Y

HT 0-1

Eales

24/10/1976

All Stars Game

H

10-11

Y

Att 1,800

19/03/1977

Banstead Athletic

A

1-3

N

HT 0-3

Bell (pen)