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FAC

1q

Woking

1-3

FAT

1q

Croydon

0-5

HC

2nd

Met Police

0-3

LSC

3q

Welling United

1-2

SSC

1st

Egham Town

0-1

SCC

1st

Wokingham Town

0-3

Home Ground:
West Street, Ewell

Berger
Isthmian League First Division

Position 10th
out of 22

Chairman:

Ian Grant

Treasurer

Alf Cooper

Secretary

Stan Bailey

Manager

Pat O'Connell

Reserve
Manager

Graham Hemphrey (39)

Press
Secretary

Dave Wilson

Membership
Secretary

Ivor Smith

Social
Secretary

Nigel Anstis

Committee:
Dave Ellins, Jimmy James, Vic Lumm, George Nathan, Graham Peacock, Wilf Smith

Hitachi to
sponsor Epsom for 78-79 season

Club announces
profit of £96 for last season

June 78
Chessington United fete includes a Superstars style competition. Epsom's team
came third.

Gary Butler
leaves the club for more first team football.

June 78 Future
player Peter Gaydon plays for Epsom & Ewell FC at cricket as a guest.
Currently

he is
Carshalton captain.

Willie Bennett
leaves after 1 game for Chessington Utd with Arthur Evans who becomes
manager.

Evans had
been reserve team manager at Epsom under Mike Christie before O'Connell came
in. Evans is

38 and married
with four children, and played for Fulham Juniors before a leg injury ended
his career.

Dave Ritman
and Trevor Wales are already there. Steve Jones, Elvin Box and Marvin Hough
all go there too.

July 78 Epsom
& Ewell FC defeat Ewell Village at cricket. First ever win in five
matches over recent years.

Many players
and Dave Wilson, Danny Dunwoody, Colin Bell.

Tony Coombe
joins Carshalton Athletic for a while. Due to be married in December 78.

Frank Allen
also makes the same journey.

Adrian Hill
signed from Croydon, and Dave Turner signed from Dorking

Joe Palladino
joins from Banstead.

Dick Vincent
is moving to Chelmsford for business anyway.

Keith Abbott
leaves for Dorking, while Dave Hall moves to Fisher Athletic.

Tommy
McCready was considering retirement, but Micky Lyel requires a cartilage
operation, so he will

probably play
on. He plays all season!

New local
youngster Roger Breen also joins the club. HT on debut for Reserves in
friendly v Chessington

on 3/8/78.

AGM 19/7/78 at
clubhouse. A small profit of £96 was made which was deemed unsatisfactory by
Ian

Grant if they
want to progress. Graham Peacock was re-elected to the Committee while Peter
Smith

takes Dave
Ellins place as Vice-Chairman, but he remains on the Committee too. Over 40
present, but

not yet clear
if it was Monday or Tuesday that the meeting was held.

7/8/78 Stan
Bailey suffers a heart attack while at work. He is making good progress in St
Thomas'

Hospital,
Waterloo.

19/8/78 Opened
the season with a 3-2 loss at Finchley.

22/8/78 Late
late winner from the spot for Horsham. Lost 2-1 at West Street.

22/8/78
Horsham were managed by former player Terry "Tex" Wiltshire. Prog
numbered 1.

Aug 78 Micky
Lyel will be out for 12 weeks while Alan Webb has an operation this week,
both with

cartilage
trouble. Willie Bennett, now with Chessington is injured again and career is
in doubt.

26/8/78
Makeshift Epsom side lose at home 2-1 to Harlow. Prog numbered 2.

28/8/78 First
win of the season and first goal for Tuite as Epsom win 1-0 at Aveley's Mill
Field ground.

2/9/78 Addlestone are defeated 2-0 at home in the FA Cup.
Future players Andy Abel and Roy Beswick played

as did former
player Paul Butler.

5/9/78 Lewes are defeated 6-1 with a Tuite HT largely
responsible. 5-0 up at HT. Programme numbered 3 even

though the
Addlestone one should have been 3. This was the last one to be numbered for
over 30 years.

Sept 78 Epsom get past Hounslow in an FA Trophy replay but
Woking end their FA Cup interest the following

week by a
score of 3-1. Two of the Woking goals are scored by future player Alan
Morton.

19/9/78 A 2-0 win for Epsom ended Wokingham's unbeaten
record. Confusion over the date but Wokingham programme

confirms the
date as 19/09/78 which was a Tuesday.

14/10/78 Heavy
5-0 loss to Croydon in FA Trophy, but they were top of the Premier at the
time.

17/10/78
Epsom win 2-1 at St Albans in LSC. Game stopped briefly because the home fans
were throwing

acorns at Dave
Turner from the terracing!

19/10/78 Glyn
OB 5 a side tournament saw Epsom defending their title. (NR).

21/10/78 Match is sponsored by Gerry Shepherd, Terry
Larkby and Gerry Larkby. Drew 0-0 with Wembley (H).

4/11/78 Phil Weller returned after a lot of injuries. He
scored and then limped off again as St Albans were beaten

4-0 at West Street. Club apologises for a limited number
of programmes this day. The were using the remaining

old covers prior to having them reprinted as Steve Delaney
was obscured by a black line on the original cover picture.

11/11/78 Epsom
win 2-1 at Met Police, just a month after being knocked out 3-0 in League
Cup.

Nov 78 Leatherhead lose 4-0 at Colchester in FAC. Former
Epsom player Trevor Lee gets the first for the U's.

Nov 78 Micky
Stratford joins from Kingstonian.

Nov 78 Mark
Steel (16) joines from Wimbledon. Advised in papers as Martin.

Nov 78 Martin
O'Toole returns to Epsom from Molesey and Steve Whittall also joins from
Molesey.

21/11/78
Finchley (H) is n/p.

25/11/78
Stratford makes debut at Harrow in 3-1 defeat, despite Tuite's 199th goal for
the club.

28/11/78
Bromley (A) is n/p.

Nov 78 Epsom
have trouble with planning officers who don't want them to put an advertising
hoarding on the

bottom bank
looking out to the trains. One of the posts was still there in late 1981.

2/12/78
Clapton game is not played due to SSC match with BAC Weybridge.

2/12/78 Epsom
play in yellow and white due to colour clash. They defeat Bae Weybridge 3-1
in SSC.

10/12/78 Old
Vic XI v Dennis Waterman's XI at West Street. Prog Y.

16/12/78 Tommy Tuite scores his 200th goal for the club in
a 4-0 win over Southall & Ealing Borough. Only the second

player ever to
do this in club history after Reg Marlow. In 2012 they remain the only two to
do this.

23/12/78 Met Police are defeated 3-1 at West Street in a
game brought forward from Boxing Day, possibly at

police
request. Archer, Hunn and Tuite on the score sheet.

Dec 78 Roy
Beswick joins from Addlestone. Formerly with Staines Town.

Dec 78 future
player Steve Hill is with Harrow Borough briefly (17 appearances).

Dec 78 Press
strikes lead to limited newspaper coverage.

Dec 78 Mick
Stratford joins from Kingstonian

Dec 78 Richard
Parkin leaves for Camberley

Dec 78 reference to Peter Gaydon approaching 350
appearances for Carshalton after joining from Dulwich Hamlet in 1972

Dec 78
reference to future player Ian Finch being at Carshalton since 1974/75

Dec 78 Alan
Walker is also at Carshalton and was leading scorer in 1977/78 - related to
Phil Walker.

Dec 78
reference to former player Larry Pritchard joining Sutton in 1965 from
Leatherhead

Jan 79 future
player Keith Seager joins Egham Town from Kingstonian

Jan 79 former
attacking player Phil Walker now listed as a defender at Millwall!

Jan 79 Alan
Cook joins from Hampton. A former Sutton and Woking player.

9/1/79 Bromley
(A) is n/p.

27/1/79
Improved performance in a 4-1 win over Ware. Att 200.

29/1/79
Southall & Ealing Borough (A) is not played as they had a rearranged
London Senior Cup tie.

3/2/79 Four
more for Epsom in 4-2 win at Walton & H. "Tom and Gerry" scored
two each.

6/2/79 Met
Police (A) is n/p.

Feb 79 Paul McLean (19) joins from Bromley. Dick Vincent
has applied to join Hampton after losing his place.

Feb 79 Club
are negotiating the purchase of their own ground.

Feb 79 Cliff
Etheridge returns from Chessington.

Feb 79 Steve
Percival is now with Ditton.

Feb 79 Fitzroy
Samoth is at Kingstonian whose Manager is Barry Rowan.

Feb 79 Clapton
(A) and Wembley (A) are p/p.

Feb 79 other
players (may have been earlier in season) Dick Vincent now with Hampton, Gary
Evans with

Redifon FC?,
Martin O'Toole and Alf Stone are both with Walton & Hersham.

24/2/79 Epsom
are lucky to win 1-0 over Maidenhead despite being outplayed for 75% of the
game.

26/2/79 After
4 straight wins, Epsom lose 3-2 to bottom club Southall.

10/3/79 Meant to play at home to Bishops Stortford but
they had a Hertfordshire Senior Cup tie so we hosted

Aveley instead
and won 3-0.

13/3/79 Harlow
(A) is p-p at 6.30. Prog Y.

17/3/79 Last
gasp defeat at Hertford. L 0-1.

21/3/79 First home defeat in league since August as
Bishops Stortford break the deadlock with two late goals.

24/3/79 Epsom
hammer soon to be promoted Harrow Boro 4-1 at West Street.

March 79 Micky
Lyel (31) retires Persistent cartilage trouble.

Mar 79 Dick
Vincent leaves for Hampton

Mar 79 Paul
McLean joins from Bromley

Mar 79 Alan
Cook joins from Hampton

29/3/79 Harlow
(A) p-p

31/3/79 Ilford
(H) p-p.

Apr 79 Barry
Rowan released as Kingstonian Manager

7/4/79 Epsom
lose 2-1 to Ilford. Pat O'Connell describes the performance as "a
joke".

12/4/79 Epsom
defeat Ilford in return match 3-1 in a vastly improved performance.

30/4/79 A
superb performance from Dave Turner gets a point in a goalless draw at
Champions Harlow Town.

The match was advised as to be played at Bishops Stortford
but there is no reference to this in the Harlow programme.

The match was
moved back to Harlow Town at short notice.

2/5/79
Unfortunately a 0-4 home defeat to Bromley ends the season.

May 79 Barry
Rowan joins Hampton from Kingstonian

May 79 Martin
O'Toole leaves for Walton & Hersham

May 79 Colin
Morris joins Walton & Hersham from Hampton

May 79 At the
Club Dinner on a Saturday night Gerry Archer is player of the Year while
Graham Hemphrey

won the
Reserve Team Player of the Year and Vic Lumm won Clubman of the Year. Dinner
was at the

Cavalier in
Wallington.

Reserves

SIC

3q

WR Sports

0-2

LIC

3q

Ambrose Fleming OB

1-2

SLC

1st

Sutton United

0-3

Suburban
League Section B Position 12th out of 16

3/8/78
Reserves 5-0 up at HT v Chessington at Chalky Lane. Eventually win 5-3. Roger
Breen HT.

2/9/78 8 new
players for Reserves who win 4-2 at Fleet with goals from Ralph Stanton (2),
Phil Weller and

Harry
McFadden.

16/9/78 Former and future players Rob Weller, Rob Dilger
play for Sutton v Epsom in our 3-0 defeat. Phil Weller

booked for
not retreating ten yards at a free kick. Also in their programme line up was
former player Richard

Hooke, with
other future players Bob Major and Peter Kemp.

23/9/78 Phil
Weller booked again for retaliation in a 0-2 defeat at Redhill.

27/9/78 Lost
3-0 at Dorking despite a pensave from Dave Lamble.

3/10/78 A 2-1
win over Lightwater aet with two goals from Steve Percival.

11/10/78 We
were behind at home to Banstead but Phil Weller's equaliser was worth the
admission money.

Drew 1-1 but
HT unk.

28/10/78 Former players John Brickell and Kevin Jordan
play for Molesey as we defeat them 3-1 at Walton Road.

Oct 78 Ted
Richards and Steve Whittall join club from Banstead and Molesey respectively.

18/11/78 No
game for Reserves.

22/11/78 Game
v Hounslow brought forward by a week to 22/11/78.

22/11/78 Crushed 5-1 by Hounslow (H). Former player Arnie
Venturini scores twice for the town where he lives.

25/11/78 SIC
tie v WR Sports is a 2pm kick off. No idea where it was though.

23/12/78 No
game for Reserves.

20/1/79 Martin Crawford makes debut for the Reserves as a
sub. He would go on to scout for Millwall, Reading and

Liverpool under Managers like Mick McCarthy, Brendan
Rogers and Steve Coppell. He is currently Assistant Manager

of Largs Thistle in the West of Scotland League. Recently
turned 65 at the time of the article written on 02/08/2020.

Feb 79 Steve
Hill is at Kingstonian

3/2/79 Roger
Breen suffers broken leg v Camberley. Won 2-0 at West Street.

10/2/79 No
game for Reserves.

Feb 79
Aldershot (H) is p-p. Date of game not clear but before 3/3/79 as it is
played then.

March 79 Nigel
Simpson joins. Former Sutton Youth player.

10/3/79 No
game for Reserves.

14/3/79
Farnborough Town (H) is p-p. Weather related.

Mar 79 Also
reference to another home game with Fleet being p-p but I can't find a date
for the fixture.

17/3/79 No
game for Reserves.

27/3/79 Harrow
Borough (A) is p-p.

31/3/79 No
game for Reserves.

Apr 79 Henry
Hill Manager of Molesey

14/4/79 Slough
Town win 2-1 at West Street despite a goal from Paul McLean. Prog Y.

18/4//79
Harrow Borough (H) put back a day to 19/4/79 and Harrow win 1-0. Prog Y.

21/4/79 No
game for Reserves.

7/5/79 Harrow
Borough field full first team and Epsom lead at half time before losing 4-1
at Earlsmead.

12/5/79
probably this date saw the reserves win 7-4 at Southcroft Utd the New
Addington League Premier

Division
Champions. Reported in Wimbledon News on 18/5/79 (Friday)

Friendlies

Prog?

03/08/1978

Chessington Utd

A

5-3

RES

Breen (3), Mc Fadden, o.g.

HT 5-0

05/08/1978

Dulwich Hamlet

H

1-2

Y

(1-1)

McCready

08/08/1978

Croydon

H

1-3

Y

(1-2)

Breen

10/08/1978

Chessington Utd

A

3-1

N

?

Tuite, Palladino, o.g.

12/08/1978

Chessington Utd

A

2-2

N

(1-0)

Tuite (2)

Jan 79 friendly v Chessington. J.Bates, J.Frewing, M.Earley all
played for them.

24/02/1979

Cobham

A

1-1

N

RES

K.Koper

(0-1)

12/05/1979

Southcroft Utd

A

7-4

N

?

?