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Home Ground:
West Street, Ewell

Berger Isthmian
League First Division

Position 9th
out of 22

FAC

1q

Poole Town

1-3

FAT

2q

Wokingham Town

0-2

HC

4th

Harwich & P

1-2

LSC

1st

Woking

1-2

SSC

4q

Dorking Town

1-3

SCC

W

Hampton

7-2

New club
sponsors: Durst, replacing Hitachi, who
went on to sponsor Liverpool instead.

Durst were
already sponsoring the Youth team

Chairman:

Ian Grant

v-c

Peter Smith

Secretary:

Stan Bailey

Treasurer:

Alf Cooper

Manager:

Pat O'Connell

Assistant
Manager: Barry Rowan. Signed from Kingstonian, where he was manager!

Membership
Secretary

Ivor Smith

Press Secretary

Jim Reid

Committee

Dave Wilson, Graham Peacock, Dave Ellins, Vic
Lumm, Wilf Smith, Nigel Anstis.

Reserve and
Youth Manager Arthur Evans returning from Chessington United.

Took over from
Pat temporarily through illness in Feb/March.

June 79 Club
announce the link up with Durst and also with Mitcham Royals. Players from
their ranks include

Tony Gale. The
club are forming a Youth side for the first time in many years.

The Durst
agreement was worth £2250 and this was signed on Wednesday June 27th,
although it needed to be

amended before
it would be approved by the FA.

AGM 28th June
at Clubhouse on a Thursday evening. The above was announced along with the
news that the

club were
arranging the purchase of the freehold of the ground for £12,500.
Negotiations were protracted but were

finally
settled. Several estimates now received for the erection of the clubhouse
around £40,000 - £45000, so

total costs inc
freehold are around £55k. The club's recently introduced lottery has raised
£5,578 which is all in a

special account
for the clubhouse said Peter Smith, while Graham Peacock who covered the
accounts while

Alf Cooper was
on holiday, advised a smaller profit of £400.

Training had
started four weeks ago it was said at AGM. Pat O'Connell said he gave himself
ten years to win the

Isthmian
Premier, so if they go up this year, they'll have three years to win it. He
says "we have just got to be

the best non-league club in the
country". George Nathan resigns from the Committee while Jimmy James
takes

his place as
Social Secretary and Stella Lamont joins to assist with production of the
programme. Also former

Wimbledon
Chairman Jim Reid has joined as Press Officer. Dave Wilson remains on the
Committee though

and is still
Reserve Team Secretary.

July 79 Twenty
years after they sold it, the club have now bought the ground back. They are
not allowed to sell

it for
redevelopment for at least five years says one of the clauses.

July 79 Tommy
McCready retired at start of season

July 79 Micky
Stratford leaves Epsom for Sutton United.

Aug 79 trial
match behind closed doors sees a 2-0 win over Ruislip Manor. Carl Stewart and
Tony Pomell from

Hampton are
there as is Vinny Reid from Addlestone. Also Bob Major from Kingstonian.

Aug 79 Also
mention of Alan Crotty from Lensbury but he never plays a game for any of the
club's teams.

Aug 79 Gerry
Archer out of action for three months with cartilage damage. It would
eventually end his career.

Aug 79 Barry
Walker is at Croydon

Aug 79 former
player Ted Murphy resigned as Hampton Manager on the eve of the season -
business commitments

Aug 79 Dennis
Giles is at Kingstonian

4/8/79 proposed
friendly with Ruislip p-p as they have a cup match to play from last year.
Instead Crystal

Palace come
down and draw 1-1.

Fitzroy Samoth
joins from Kingstonian.

14/8/79 An
ineffectual Chris Kelly scored Leatherhead's winner in a 2-1 friendly match
at Fetcham Grove.

28/8/79 Epsom
defeat Corinthian Casuals in Hitachi Cup 7-0. Casuals were due to play a
Hitachi Cup match with

Dorking, but
they were required to stay in the Athenian League instead, so the next round
was played.

HT's for Tuite
and Beswick.

First 8 games
did not concede a goal in first half, and led in all 8, winning 7 of them.

Aug 79 Epsom at
the top of the table after three games. Only held for a week though as Epsom
had cup replays

29/8/80
reported that former player Derek Williams is to make debut for Tooting &
Mitcham on 1/9/79.

4/9/79
Farnborough (H) is p-p for Epsom's FA Cup replay at Arundel this day which we
win 1-0 at Mill Road.

8/9/79
Ex-Epsom and League player John Leedham played for Crawley Town against Epsom
in FAT match. Already there is

future Epsom
player Mick Sorensen.

Epsom won 2-0
but the first goal was a penalty for handball, even though it actually hit
Tony Pommell's hand

and not a
defender.

11/9/79 Wembley
finish with 9 men in 2-0 Epsom win at West Street. One sent off and the sub
was injured!

Sept 79 Mick
Leonard, former reserve keeper makes debut for Notts County, after leaving
Halifax. Clean sheet v

Luton at Meadow
Lane.

22/9/79 Many
Millwall players were playing their second game of the day, and Epsom should
have won this friendly,

but had to
settle for a 1-1 draw.

25/9/79 Youth
goalkeeper Mark Taylor plays in this 2-1 win at Farnborough in League Cup.
Won 2-1 a day after his

18th birthday.
Debut.

29/9/79 Chris
Lightfoot debut. Lost 0-4 at St Albans. Also Paul Pritchard debut. A 17 year
old from Fulham.

Lightfoot came
from Bishop's Stortford.

Sept 79
Clubhouse is to cost £75,000. Other ground improvements cost £12,000.

16/10/79 Robin
Lewis debut as second half sub v Southall & Ealing Boro. Six minutes
later Epsom scored the first goal and

went on to win
4-0 in this replay after 0-0 draw. Epsom hadn't scored in 466 minutes!

Oct 79 Alan Walker (29) joins Tooting & Mitcham from
Carshalton Athletic for an undisclosed fee - had joined Carshalton in Feb
1975 from Sutton

Oct 79 future
player Paul Jablonski joins Kingstonian from Sutton

Oct 79 Chris
Lightfoot joins from Bishops Stortford

Oct 79 Gerry
Archer breaks down in training with the same knee problems. Had only just
returned from a spell out with the

same injury,
and it would end his career.

20/10/79 Epsom
win 2-0 at Beckenham. I do not believe that a programme was issued for this
match.

24/10/79
representative match at West Street between Sutton & District League and
Balham & District.

Oct 79 Dave
Turner quits the club as he can't get his first team place back.

29/10/79 A
fine 3-1 win with a weakened side over Bishops Stortford in Hitachi (League
Cup). Through to last 16 - 4th round.

29/10/79
Former Arsenal and England player John Radford played for Stortford, while
Gary Dodd (16) made his debut..

Nov 79 Dave
Burke joins from Carshalton Athletic.

Nov 79 Carl
Stewart in hospital for tests on his liver.

Nov 79 Bob
Major leaves for Tooting & Mitcham

Nov 79 future
player Peter Gaydon joins Hayes from Carshalton

Nov 79 Richard
Strong joins Staines Town from Kingstonian

Nov 79 future
player Steve Chapman joins Kingstonian from Walton & Hersham

3/11/79 A Jeff
Hunn HT helps Epsom to a 5-3 win over Hertford Town.

Future top
referee Mark Halsey played in goal for Hertford Town this day. He would also
referee an Epsom 3-2 win at

Kingsbury on
27th November 1993.

6/11/79 A Tony
Pommell HT earns Epsom a 6-0 win over Civil Service in LSC. He would leave
soon after though.

15/11/79
Adrian Hill commented at training that both he and Tommy Tuite were the only
ever presents this season, and then

he fell at
training and fractured his wrist. Then Tuite injured his hamstring v Bishops
Stortford on the Saturday!

20/11/79 A
virtual Youth team represented the club in the Glyn OB 5 a side tournament.
Prog Y. Epsom won,

defeating
Chessington in the final 1-0.

27/11/79 Heavy
1-4 home defeat to Kingstonian. An air of gloom at West Street after the
match said Advertiser.

Tommy Tuite and
Roy Beswick selected for FA XI v London University at Hayes on 5/12/79

Beswick played
and scored the second goal in a 3-0 win and was then subbed at HT. Tuite was
injured so couldn't play.

Also former
player Larry Pritchard (Sutton) and future player Paul Jablonski
(Kingstonian) were selected.

1/12/79 Dorking
defeat Epsom in SSC at Meadowbank by three goals to one. They were ahead
after 20 seconds.

Dec 79 Jeff
Hunn has a break from football due to pressure of business but would return.

Dec 79 Gary
Kent has a poisoned arm after an anti tetanus injection.

Dec 79 Dave
Burke joins from Carshalton

Dec 79 Dave
Turner leaves for Molesey

Dec 79 former
player Paul Butler joins Molesey from Hampton

Dec 79 article
of a 16 year old keeper Gary Pike currently at Horsham with Millwall
interested and favourites to sign him

Dec 79 future
player Alan Ives joins Carshalton from Tooting & Mitcham - had been there
for a while

Dec 79 former
and future Player Tony Coombe is now Carshalton Captain following the
departure of Peter Gaydon to Hayes

11/12/79
Harwich's coach was late, but they still won 2-1 at Epsom in Hitachi Cup 4th
Round.

15/12/79
Hertford (A) p-p.

18/12/79
Maidenhead (A) p-p. Prog Y. O'Connell was annoyed as he felt that the game
could have been called off earlier,

saving Epsom a
journey.

22/12/79
Chesham United (H) is not played. Probably p-p.

26/12/79
"Epsom are butchered" said Advertiser, as Butch Dunn hits HT for
Bromley is a 5-1 win at Hayes Lane.

26/12/79 Future
keeper Malcolm Broadway plays for Bromley.

Dec 79 Former
keeper Chris Page leaves Chessington for Feltham, where he takes over from
Dick Vincent, who took his

place at Epsom.

1/1/80 Epsom v
Bromley is p-p - frozen pitch.

Jan 80 Dennis
Giles joins Hampton from Kingstonian - hadn't been at K's for very long

5/1/80 3-0 up
after 16 minutes and won easily 4-1 at Horsham in the first match of the
80's. Tuite HT.

8/1/80 Terry
Hurlock played for Leytonstone/Ilford and scored winner at Epsom. 88th minute
goal, and result was a little harsh.

19/1/80 Epsom
depart the London Senior Cup 2-1 at Woking. Two very controversial decisions
by ref.

22/1/80 First
half HT for Tommy Tuite in 4-1 win over Hampton. Future keeper Steve Chapman
is in goal for Hampton.

Jan 80 Sutton
United give permission for Epsom to talk to Micky Stratford about a return.
He joins on loan.

Also Lee
Wallace (Carshalton) and Ian Gabriel (17) (Fleet) both join.

Jan 80 Robin
Lewis has had an operation, while Dennis Walker and Dave Burke are still
injured and may need ops.

29/1/80 Two
second half goals from Tommy Tuite see off Horsham 2-0 at West  Street. He also missed a penalty.

30/1/80 Steve
Delaney selected for FA XI v AFA XI @ Imber Court. Prog Y.

5/2/80 Bromley
(H) p-p - waterlogged.

Feb 80 former
player Paul Butler returns to Hampton from Molesey

Feb 80 Dave
Dyer loaned from Sutton to Leatherhead

12/2/80 A 1-0
loss at Wokingham Town ends a 5 match winning run. Tuite mispen ten minutes
from time.

16/2/80 Unlucky
to lose 3-2 at Leytonstone/Ilford. Fighting for the equaliser as time
expired.

19/2/80 Next
four results are 2-5, 3-2, 2-3, 3-2 as Epsom show inconsistency.

26/2/80 Game at
Maidenhead is moved back to 12/4/80.

Mar 80 Mick
Stratford joins from Sutton

1/3/80 Club
Jumble Sale at Church Hall of All Saints Church, Fulford Road, West Ewell.

15/3/80 Chris
Lightfoot broke his arm after 12 minutes and Gary Kent went in goal at
Clapton in a 2-0 win.

18/3/80
Maidenhead (A) p-p - waterlogged.

22/3/80 Chris
Page returns to club after a quick transfer from Feltham to replace Chris
Lightfoot.

Mar 80 Tony
Coombe returns to club from Carshalton Athletic.

26/3/80 Merrick
Harriott HT v Hertford in 3-1 win in Hertford.

5/4/80 2-0 down
but fought back to draw at Bishops Stortford.

April 80 Alan
Robshaw joins from Penhill Standard.

7/4/80 Future
keeper Malcolm Broadway plays for Bromley v Epsom.

22/4/80 Won
2-0 at Egham. It is believed that a programme was not issued. At the start of
the match, Pat O'Connell noticed

that the
keeper Alan Cooley had played for Dorking v Epsom in an earlier round. They
protested and Egham started with ten

men before a
reserve keeper took the defenders place after ten minutes. A minute later, it
was 1-0 after Tuite latched on to

a bad back
pass, and Carl Stewart scored a second goal after 62 minutes.

WINNERS OF
SOUTHERN COMBINATION CUP 7-2 v HAMPTON AT HAMPTON - 28/04/80

Won 7-2 at
Beveree with Tommy Tuite getting 5 goals. He could have had a sixth, but
allowed Roy Beswick to score

his second with
the penalty instead. Hampton had a player sent off at 2-0.

3/5/80 Gary Kent
played in goal on his 100th appearance. In fact Epsom used 6 starting keepers
this season

Reserves

Suburban League
Section B Position 13th out of 17

Surrey
Intermediate Cup

1q

Malden Town

1-3

London
Intermediate Cup

2nd

Victoria Surdoc

0-3

Suburban League
Cup

1st

Croydon

2-4

15/8/79 Res
friendly v Bank Line W3-0. A very, very faint possibility that this was
played on Wednesday 8th, not 15th.

25/8/79 Res
game at home to Southall & Ealing p-p - they cannot raise a team. Only
advised Epsom at 1.35pm.

30/8/79
reported that Epsom protested to Suburban League about this.

4/10/79 Simon
Melius comes on for keeper Nigel Simpson during our 3-0 home loss to Redhill.

11/10/79 a
large part of the first team played for the reserves v Banstead - won 3-0.
Banstead mispen - twice taken.

13/10/79 Epsom
are knocked out of SIC 3-1 at Malden Town. Former players Roger Sears and
Mark Talmage score for them.

27/10/79 Future
Hayes and England keeper Paul Hyde in goal for Hillingfon Reserves this day.

1/11/79
Reserves are humbled 0-7 at West Street by Dorking Town who would eventually
finish next to bottom!

10/11/79
Striker Kevin Davies went in goal and Epsom led, but lost to two second half
goals.

15/11/79
Whyteleafe (H) is p-p as there is a Youth game at West Street already that
night.

17/11/79 No
game for Reserves.

21/11/79
Whyteleafe is p-p.

15/12/79
Chertsey (H) p-p.

29/12/79 8
First teamers played in this match, but Epsom could only draw 1-1 with
Farnborough at West Street.

5/1/80 Epsom
beat Fleet Town 3-1 this day but are fined £1 for a non-phoning in of a
result. This is very unlike Dave W!

12/1/80 drew
1-1 with Barking after extra time. 0-0 at 90 minutes and replay required in
Barking next weekend.

12/1/80 J-P
Ferneé came on as sub and crossed for the Pouso equaliser, but it was not
clear who he came on for,

Jan 80 Harry
McFadden joins Dorking.

26/1/80 Jimmy
Jackson is sent off at home to Southall but not clear if it was a straight
red or two yellows.

29/1/80 Epsom
win 2-1 at Walton & Hersham in a friendly with a Jimmy Bates penalty in
the closing minutes.

2/2/80 Victoria
Surdoc played at the Nationsl Dock Labour Ground in Sidcup. K.O. 2.15 as no
lights.

9/2/80
Hillingdon (A) is p-p.

15/3/80 Epsom
secure a good 2-2 draw at Hillingdon Borough. Paper says that Jose Pouso
played but Dave's stats say it was

John Foxhall.
I will stick with Dave's records, even though it is probable that Dave sent
the line up in to the papers himself.

22/3/80 First
defeat in 7 matches for Reserves 2-0 at Harrow Boro.

29/3/80 No game
for Reserves.

5/4/80 No game
for Reserves.

Apr 80
reference to Kevin Davies having a broken arm. Ian Gabriel and Mark Steel are
also injured.

19/4/80 Epsom
lose 1-0 at Slough Town. Paper makes no reference to a sub which was Foxhall
for Hockham, although it does

say that the
other sub Melius was unused.

Apr 80 Suburban
League is to switch to two regional divisions from next year.

First season
for the Youth team. Arthur Evans in charge.

No League
entered but did enter Isthmian Youth Cup and FA Youth Cup.

First ever game
was at home to Wimbledon on 07/08/79. Won 6-0. Played at Kingston Poly

6/10/79 Robin
Lewis scores after 35 seconds as Epsom defeat Shoreham 3-1 in final
qualifying round of FAYC. Prog Y.

8/11/79 Youth
Team reached 1st round proper of FA Youth Cup. Led twice but lost 3-2 at home
to Gillingham

Prog produced
but my copy is poor.

Gillingham go
on to play Aylesbury away in next round.

15/11/79 Epsom
defeat Horsham 8-1 but there is a big discrepancy between the newspaper
report and Dave's stats.

Paper says
Kevin Davies scored and Martyn Carslake got two, but Carslake isn't listed in
Dave's stats all season, although he

was eligible
age-wise (16). He did play a few games for the Reserves but not the Youth
team which does seem odd, but either

way, he was not
a Youth regular, and Dave's records that state the scorers were sub Ferneé
(2) and Lewis.

The other
scorers all agree. As for the line up, the paper also says Jimmy Jackson
played at 8 but this is also disputed by

Dave's record.
My guess here is that the paper saw a line up in the programme and went with
it. Check!

I have checked
programme line up and Jackson is listed as 8 on it. There is no mention of
Carslake though.

I will stick
with Dave's stats.

3/12/79 Surrey
v Kent @ Molesey in 1st Rnd of County Youth Cup. L0-1. Robert Bray selected
and played for Surrey. Prog Y

Feb 80 Youth
Team are invited to compete in an International Junior Tournament in France
in June 80.

10/3/80
Reference in programme to a potential friendly at Banstead for Res / Yth but
never appears to have been played.

25/3/80 Extra
time can't separate Epsom Youth and Tring Youth in Berger Youth Cup. Ht 1-1,
FT 1-1. Replay required.

1/4/80 Replay
ends with a 1-0 defeat for Youth v Tring. Winners would have been home to
Chesham or Camberley.

15/4/80
Friendly win 1-0 over Brighton Youth. Mark Steel scored the winner after 32
minutes.

5/6/80 25
strong party leaves for Raismes in France. A 16 man squad will play in a ten
team event from 7 countries, in two

groups of five.
Ian Grant, Dave Wilson and some supporters including Chris Henry travel with
the team.

7/6/80 v COS
Raismes k.o. 10.25 p.m.!

W2-0 Davies, Lewis, both in last 5 minutes.

20 minutes each way

8/6/80 v Evora
(Portugal) 1.30 p.m.

D0-0

20 minutes each way

8/6/80 v Reims
(France) 5.30 p.m.

W2-1 Pritchard, Hanks

20 minutes each way

9/6/80 v Skoda
Pizen (Czech) 10.40 p.m.

D2-2 Only a draw required. Hanks (2)

20 minutes each way

F v Vejle
(Denmark) D1-1 Lost on pens 6-5 after Robin Lewis mispen. McDonald (68)
equalised for

40 minutes each way

Epsom in second
half after being behind at HT (29).

Epsom are to be
invited to compete again next year.

4/5/79
reference in Epsom programme 3/5/80 of a friendly at West Street between
Epsom and Sutton youth but no result.

Was it played?
K.o. 2.30pm

Youth
Appearances and scorers in Ware Programme 3/5/80 -
stats advise Gary Dodd with 6 appearances but it is actually 7.

Friendlies

Prog?

trial match

Ruislip Manor

A

2-0

N

Pommell, Tuite

02/08/1979

Molesey

A

1-4

N

RES

Kevin Davies

04/08/1979

Dulwich Hamlet

A

1-1

N

RES

Gary McDonald

played at the KLG Ground.

04/08/1979

Crystal Palace

H

1-1

Y

Pommell

HT 1-1

08/08/1979

Brentford

H

0-2

Y

HT 0-2

10/08/1979

Wimbledon

H

6-0

N

YTH

@ Kingston Poly

McDonnell (2) Lewis (2), Pritchard, Hanks

11/08/1979

Cray Wanderers

A

2-1

N

Tuite, Hunn

HT 1-1

14/08/1979

Leatherhead

A

1-2

N

Tuite

HT 0-1

15/08/1979

Bank Line

H

3-0

N

RES

Davies (2), McDonald

18/08/1979

Decca

11-1

N

RES

Dave O'Reilly (4), Davies (3),

Harry McFadden, Brian Crowley,

Steve Delaney, Micky Earley

22/09/1979

Millwall

H

1-1

Y

HT 0-1

Stewart

29/01/1980

Walton & Hersham

A

2-1

RES

K.Davies, J.Bates (pen)

15/04/1980

Brighton Youth

H

1-0

Y

YTH

HT 1-0 Mark Steel