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Berger
Isthmian League First Division

Position 3rd
out of 22

FAC

4q

Enfield

0-5

Enfield reach fourth round replay with Barnsley
at Tottenham

FAT

Pr

Tilbury

2-5

HC

3rd

Hayes

0-1

Scored by Joe Auguste, who joined Epsom that
season

LSC

3q

Hampton

2-3

SSC

WINNERS

Woking

2-1

@ Tooting & Mitcham United

SCC

1st

Wokingham

1-2

Home Ground:
West Street, Ewell

Chairman: Ian
Grant

Manager

Pat O'Connell

Asst Adrian Hill.

Secretary

Stan Bailey

Treasurer

Alf Cooper

Committee
elected at AGM Noel Rundle, Project Manager at Durst and Jim Keirle  join, replacing Jim Reid and Nigel

Anstis.

WINNERS OF
SURREY SENIOR CUP

AGM 26/6/80 at Old Clubhouse. New one is nearly finished.
Lost £4,544 this year mainly due to player costs and expenses.

Ian Grant spoke of his intention to resign
as Chairman next year.

Aug 80 John Reader joins from Malden Vale. Ian Finch and
Peter Gaydon join from Carshalton Ath, and Les Peck joins from

Molesey. Gaydon had actually been at Hayes more recently.
Jeff Hunn has returned to the club, and Gerry Archer is now

fully fit says
Advertiser. Ian Finch only joined part time as Chris Lightfoot was coaching
in America for 5 weeks.

Adrian Hill
has been appointed Assistant Manager in succession to Barry Rowan.

Keith Ellis
has left for Hayes, and Carl Stewart leaves soon after.

Adrian Hill appointed Assistant Manager - August 80.
Retired as player Dec 80 to become manager at Dorking.

2/8/80 Fitzroy
Samoth goal disallowed in a 0-0 draw at home to Tooting & Mitcham.

Aug 80 Future
player Steve Hill scores 6 in first four games for Hampton after his transfer
from Molesey.

18/8/80 A
Tuite HT on Monday evening saw Epsom ease to a 3-0 League win at Wokingham.
Now top of the League.

Club Captain
is Peter Gaydon.

6/9/80 Epsom lose Peter Gaydon early in the match with a
foot injury, although Epsom took the lead while he was receiving

treatment, and
went 2-0 up before losing 2-5 at home to Tilbury in the FA Trophy.

Sept 80 former keeper Glyn Howells in Manager at Camberley
Town. Father of professional David who would play for Tottenham.

13/9/80 The Eastbourne Gazetteer reporter said it was the
best performance they'd seen from Eastbourne in three years.

A goal in the
67th minutes from Tony Coombe settled the issue.

16/9/80 v
Hampton. Epsom reported to Surrey F.A. after linesman hit by sugar cube!
Personal hearing requested.

27/9/80 Epsom
are 2-0 down at HT but recover to beat Aveley 3-2. Debut for Gary Pike,
signed from Dorking as cover

while Finch
was at a wedding.

30/9/80 2-0
win over Met Police takes Epsom top of the table. Stayed there until 10th
October.

Oct 80 Barry
Walker and Russ Harmsworth at Croydon Res

4/10/80 David
Elleray refereed at West Street in his early days. A 3-1 win over Margate
puts Epsom in 3q of FA Cup.

Two goals in
three minutes just before HT did the damage.

11/10/80
Epsom go back to the top of the table for another week after beating
Camberley 5-1. No game on

18/10/80 and
Epsom lost top spot.

18/10/80
Instead Epsom were still in FA Cup, and a 1-0 win over Ashford Town puts them
into the 4q for the first time

since 1933. A
Samoth goal after 12 minutes from a keeper fumble was the only goal, but
Epsom hit the woodwork

twice in the
second half too. Virtually one way traffic. Att 384.

21/10/80
despite being just the better side, Epsom lose to a long shot at Walton &
H six minutes from time. Lost 1-0.

25/10/80
Played Oxford City away. Bobby Moore was manager, and Harry Redknapp was
Assistant Manager!

28/10/80 New signings Arnie Venturini and Alan Walker.
Both make debuts this day in a 2-2 draw at home to Kingstonian.

1/11/80 Enfield are top of the Isthmian Premier and batter
Epsom 5-0. They would go on to reach the 4th Round proper!

Nov 80 John
Reader leaves for Hampton.

Nov 80 Dave
Barnard joins from Sutton United.

Nov 80 Roy
Beswick leaves for Hampton but returns soon after

Nov 80 Gary
Pike (17) joins from Horsham

Nov 80 former
player Carl Stewart joins Wokingham from Kingstonian

4/11/80 Reader
plays for Hampton v Epsom along with future Epsom player Peter Bartlett. Drew
1-1 at Beveree.

11/11/80 Arnie Venturini scores a penalty rebound after the kick was taken by who? As we win 3-2 at home to Met Police.

15/11/80 Oxford C (H) p-p. Prog Y. A first class referee
(unnamed) declared the match off, and Oxford City came down and

inspected the
pitch themselves and disagreed. The referee then resigned as he felt that
Oxford City had called his

integrity into
question.

20/11/80
reported Former Chairman of Supporters Club, Ron Jewell dies from a heart
attack in Brentwood, Essex. He

was 54, and grandfather of current Treasurer Rob Oakes.
Was Manager of Martin Newsagents in Kingston Road, Ewell in the

fifties, and suffered his heart attack at their offices in
Brentwood. Wrongly reported as a former Chairman of the club but it

was the
Supporters Club. He lived at Royal Drive, Tattenham Corner.

21/11/80 New
clubhouse opened. Souvenir programme produced for 2-0 win over Lewes.

Opened by
Mayor of Epsom & Ewell, Daphne Harrison one year to the day that the
contract was signed.

Cost is
£85,000 but including Interest it is nearer £150,000. Ian Grant warns that if
this doesn't work, the club

won't exist in
five years. Full page supplement in Epsom Advertiser, and in Herald.

As Ian Grant
was making his presentation speech, the cover fell off the opening plaque!

29/11/80 A
Roy Beswick equaliser at Wembley gets a point after an Adrian Hill own goal
had given the hosts the lead.

02/12/80 Camberley away was last game as a player for
Adrian Hill (35), who left to join Dorking as coach after 136 games.

Also Alan
Walker has a suspected broken arm after falling on the "frozen
wastes" at Camberley.

Dec 80 Chris
Lightfoot leaves for Carshalton Athletic after losing his place to Ian Finch.

Dec 80 Barry
Rowan joins Molesey from Hayes

Dec 80 John
Reader leaves for Hampton

Dec 80 former
player Dave Turner joins Dorking from Walton & Hersham

6/12/80 A 21 man brawl was the highlight of a 3-2 London
Senior Cup defeat at Hampton. Steve Hill played for Hampton.

Gerry Archer
forced to retire xmas 80 - knee ligaments again v Worthing 9/10/80 coupled
with earlier problems.

8/12/80 Martin Francis joins the club. Brother of Gerry
the England International. Had played for QPR and Millwall, and then

for Wimbledon
and Hounslow. Makes debut the next day at Kingstonian. Age 27.

13/12/80 Epsom
scrape past Westfield 2-1 at West Street in SSC due to an unfortunate own
goal.

20/12/80
Wokingham (A) is p-p as they have a County Cup tie.

Dec 80 future
players Peter Bartlett and Steve Hill are at Hampton.

Dec 80 Mark
Steel (18) leaves for Dulwich.

Break in xmas
1980 £700 stolen in coins

1/1/81 5
different scorers as Epsom win 5-1 at Lewes.

3/1/81 An
injury time goal from Tony Coombe breaks the deadlock against Maidenhead
United at West Street.

3/1/81
Programme is dated 3/1/80 by accident.

17/1/81  7 bookings, four from Epsom in a 2-2 league
draw with leaders Billericay Town at the New Lodge Ground.

Apparently the
showing of yellow and red cards are now to be discontinued from this day
onwards!

A late
equaliser from Les Peck, who could have been sent off moments earlier for a
foul on the keeper.

Jan 81 Martin
Francis joins from Hayes

Jan 81 Chris
Lightfoot leaves for Carshalton

Jan 81 Paul
Allies joins Farnborough from Finchley

Jan 81 Barry
Walker (22) at Croydon. Has been there since he was 16 came through the youth
team

Jan 81 Russ
Harmsworth mostly youths but occasional first team at Croydon. Age 18

Jan 81 Malcolm Spratt signs from Welling, where he has
been for ten years, and Dave Argent returns to the club for a third

spell, but
only plays once.

Jan 81 future
Captain Graham Meakin is at Harrrow Borough Reserves recently selected for
Middlesex FA.

Jan 81 Micky
Cornwell joins on loan from Sutton United for a month.

Jan 81 Ray
Bloye sells Crystal Palace to Ron Noades. Bloye cleared Epsom's debts in
1973.

Early 81
Redhill receive cheque for £1000 from West Ham as thank you for Steve Milton!

24/1/81 Epsom win 6-0 at Ash United. Dennis Walker returns
to the line up. Alan Walker is still out injured. Francis HT.

24/1/81 A penalty save from Ian Finch against Peter Gaydon
for handball earns Epsom a home 1-1 draw against Wembley,

but it was
still two points dropped. Micky Cornwell scores in debut.

31/1/81 Two
more for Cornwell as Epsom defeated Hertford 2-0 at West Street.

Manager of the
Month for January for Pat O'Connell

7/2/81 Major
shock as Ware win 1-0 at Epsom with a penalty. Finch later booked for a
professional foul.

Feb 81 Alan
Walker has left the club as he cannot get to training. Also Fitzroy Samoth is
leaving for America shortly.

Feb 81John
Sears joins Dorking from Croydon

Feb 81 Adrian
Hill joins Dorking

Feb 81 Larry
Pritchard testimonial for Sutton

14/2/81
Sloppy Epsom edge Aveley out 3-1, despite them having an outfield player in
for the injured keeper in after ten

minutes.
Martin Francis then mispen (SAVE) against the reserve keeper. A better second
half saw two Epsom goals.

14/2/81
Chairman Ian Grant's birthday.

28/2/81 Micky Cornwell is not allowed to play v Walton in
SSC as Sutton do not want him cup tied. Epsom draw 1-1 after

an 80th minute
own goal from Tony Coombe. Replay p-p on 3/3/81 - waterlogged.

Mar 81 Alan
Morton leaves Woking for Kingstonian

Mar 81 Chris
Page is at Feltham

Mar 81 Pat
O'Connell wins February Manager of the Month

3/3/81 SSC
replay Walton & H (H) p-p. Played on 17/3/81 with same programme plus
updated insert. Prog Y.

7/3/81 Epsom get a revenge win at Ware 2-1 to keep up
their promotion challenge. A late winner from debutant Joe Auguste (27).

Mar 81 Joe
Auguste joins from Hayes

10/3/81 SSC QF
replay p-p again, and again on 12/3/81

14/3/81
Clapton (H) p-p. Prog Y.

17/3/81 A
Tuite HT sees off Walton 4-2 in SSC replay.

21/3/81 Epsom draw 0-0 at Sutton United in SSC SF. Micky
Cornwell plays against Epsom. First match in Semi Final of

SSC since 1957, which was also the last year these two
clubs met. Current Chairman Peter Molloy played for Sutton that

day, whilst
Sutton's Vice-Chairman Dave Hermitage played for Epsom! Tommy Tuite was a big
Sutton fan as a kid!

Att 500 but a dud game, with Delaney and Tuite missing
easy chances towards the end of the game. A gale didn't help!

28/3/81
Revenge for an earlier Trophy defeat as Epsom defeat Tilbury 5-0. However,
Epsom were 5-0 up at HT, and

Pat O'Connell was not very happy about the second half. He
was presented with the Manager of the Month award for January

before the
start of this game. Roy Beswick mispen (WIDE) after 83 minutes.

31/3/81 A magical goal by Steve Delaney "neither
Delaney nor Epsom will score a better one this season." said Advertiser.

Won 2-0 as Roy
Beswick scored an earlier penalty.

Apr 81 Neal
Sabourn is at Kingstonian.

April 81 Extra opening hours are not allowed by Council,
following a discussion. Bill Carpenter continues to support the club

position in
all of these recent matters, but this time, he is outvoted.

April 81 reference to Pam Cook doing many roles at the
club and that her grandfather Fred Taylor used to play for the club at

Horton, but I
have no reference of any Taylor in our pre-West Street days, even for the
reserves (so far).

4/4/81 A poor Beswick back pass is intercepted six minutes
from time, and Epsom go down 2-1 to St Albans, after leading

through a Les
Peck goal.

4/4/81 Surrey
Intermediate Cup Final at West Street - Kingstonian 2-0 Ham aet.

11/4/81 Epsom
let a 2-0 lead slip at home to Billericay and have to settle for a draw.
Promotion has virtually gone. The

equaliser
came five minutes into injury time. A brilliant solo goal from Tuite put them
2-0 up but they couldn't hang on.

14/4/81 A see saw match between Epsom and Sutton ended 3-2
in Epsom's favour with two goals from Dave Hanks. Both

teams had led in this match. Epsom were twice behind, but
each time they equalised quickly. Hanks scored the winner in

69th minute
after intercepting a poor back pass.

Club Hosted
Suburban League Cup Final between Sutton & Wealdstone on Wed 15th April

20/4/81
Maidenhead (A) is p-p for SSC Final.

Monday 20/4/81
Epsom defeat Woking 2-1 at Tooting & Mitcham in final of SSC.

Team Line up
taken this day incudes all players and Dave Argent who was the unused sub. I
had originally thought

it might be
Joe Auguste, but Colin Bell has confirmed it was Argent.

Woking were bottom of the Isthmian Premier Division and
were overrun. Alan Webb hit the bar before Tommy Tuite scored

in the 27th minute after good work from Roy Beswick and
Dave Hanks. Micky Stratford scored the second after 63 minutes

from a Tuite cross. After 72 minutes a Woking player head
butted Micky Stratford and was sent off, but Woking pulled one

back after 80 minutes with a header that was adjudged to
have crossed the line, although Epsom held on despite a spell

of late
pressure. Pat O'Connell just went to the dressing rooms and didn't come out,
leaving it all to the players.

25/4/81 Epsom
win 2-0 at Finchley. Roy Beswick scored from a rebound after a penalty was
taken by who? Check!

28/4/81 Tommy Tuite HT ensures his 300th goal on his 400th
appearance in a 4-0 win over Clapton at West Street. He had

a chance for a HT earlier but refused the penalty which
Jeff Hunn scored anyway. He scored this third, and 40th of the

season two
minutes from time. Attendance 187.

30/4/81 Two
days later he scores another hat trick in a 5-2 win at Maidenhead.

2/5/81 Epsom record a creditable 0-0 draw at Bishops
Stortford who will go on to win the FA Trophy the following week.

Stortford also confirmed as Champions with this point.
Billericay are runners up and Epsom have to settle for third place nine

points back
with 84, which was more than they would get in 1984 when they eventually do
gain promotion.

May 81 Pat O'Connell and Ian Grant bring the Surrey Senior
Cup to Fred Philpot's bedside as he is in Croydon General

Hospital. Fred
was the regular Advertiser reporter, and had been reporting on Epsom since
the mid 50's at least.

23/5/81 Annual Dinner at the Clubhouse on a Saturday
night. Peter Gaydon is Player of the Year, and Tommy Tuite is given

a special award of an oven. Dave Hanks was Reserve Team
Player of the Year and Clubman of the Year was Dave Wilson.

Reserves

Suburban
League South Division

Position 6th
out of 18

Surrey
Intermediate Cup

2q

Bowater

1-2

London
Intermediate Cup

2nd

Leytonstone/Ilford

1-2

Suburban
League Cup

1st

Addlestone & W

3-5+

Colin Bell was made captain when he played for the
reserves this season to mark 20 straight years in which he had played

for the club.

10/9/80 Epsom defeat Worcester Park 2-0 in Surrey
Intermediate Cup at West Street. Originally drawn there but pitch

unavailable as
still being used for cricket.

Earlier records suggested a League match at home to
Whyteleafe this day but club confirms that it was played on 01/10/80.

11/10/80 Worst display of the season says Dave Wilson as
Epsom crash out of the Suburban League Cup, despite a HT

from Roy
Beswick.

18/10/80 No
game for Reserves.

25/10/80 A
Jimmy Bates goal is enough for Epsom to beat Sutton Reserves 1-0 in Suburban
League.

1/11/80 Dave Wilson now says this was worse than the
Addlestone game! Lost 2-1 to Bowater in Surrey Intermediate Cup.

Papers refer to Nick Harris playing in this game but
Dave's stats say it was Kevin Finch. The appearance numbers tie up too.

29/11/80 Drew
1-1 with Molesey. Former player Johnnie Ware played v Epsom.

20/12/80
Dulwich (A) p-p. Waterlogged.

6/1/81 Former
player Harry McFaddeen scored for Dorking in our 3-2 win at West Street.

10/1/81 Epsom
scrape past Ulysses Reserves 3-1 in London Intermediate Cup at West Street.

31/1/81 Five
games unbeaten after a 2-1 win at Molesey in Suburban League.

3/2/81 Epsom
lose in third minute of injury time at Leytonstone in London Intermediate
Cup. Lost 2-1. Hanks scored.

A minibus went to the game driven by Colin Bell, while
Dave Wilson met some others as he went by train. Report in prog.

7/2/81 Epsom
are held 0-0 by bottom club Walton Casuals. Jimmy Bates is sent off with a
Walton player for fighting.

28/2/81 Redhill are beaten 3-1 but game was held up for 20
minutes after an injury to their player coach Laurie Devine who

broke his leg in a challenge with Bates. Robert Bray
scored a penalty this day, althogh Dave's stats just advise a goal.

7/3/81 Robert
Bray scored a penalty this day in 2-1 home win over Hampton., althogh Dave's
stats just advise a goal.

7/3/81 Former
player John Reader played for Hampton v Epsom.

21/3/81 Epsom
looked like getting a point for an hour, but lost 4-0 at Bromley, who would
go on to win the title.

31/3/81 Friendly at Carshalton Athletic is drawn 4-4. Some
youngsters used, Richard Smith, Andy Stewart, Peter Magraw. HT

Epsom were 3-1
up.

4/4/81 Former
keeper Dave Turner played for Dorking v Epsom in our 0-0 draw at Meadowbank.

7/4/81 Bray scores another penalty that is not in Dave's
stats as Epsom win 4-1 at Walton & Hersham. Barnard gets two.

17/4/81 In a five a side tournament at Leatherhead FC
Epsom topped their group after a 1-1 draw with Bookham A, and

beating Manor
Rovers 8-0, and Leatherhead Youth 7-0. Beat Claygate Royals 4-1 in SF, but
lost 5-4 to Leatherhead

Reserves in
the Final. Squad: Gary Pike, Paul Pritchard, Phil Shaw, Robert Bray, Sean
O'Connell, Kevin Duffell, David

Hanks, Dave
Barnard, Gary Macdonald. A goal counted for four points and a corner was one
point.

18/4/81 Trailing 1-4 at HT, Reserves defeated Horsham 5-4
after a roasting from Arthur Evans at HT. Robert Bray's goal was

a penalty
which was not advised in Dave's stats.

25/4/81
Thrashed 6-0 at Sutton United, although first half was fairly even and only
1-0.

Youth team axed for financial reasons but still reformed
to travel to Raismes in May for the under 19 tournament, which they

won after reaching the final last year. They won three
group games, and then beat Stade de Reims on penalties after a 2-2

draw in the semi final. Epsom then defeated Czech side
Skoda Pizen 2-1 in a match played over 40 minutes each way.

Squad: Gary
Pike, Mark Taylor, Paul Pritchard, Robert Bray, Mark Woods, Phil Shaw, Kevin
Duffell, Dave Barnard,

Graham
Whitehead, Kelvin Phillips, Dave Hanks, Robin Lewis, Dave Chapman, Richard
Smith, Gary MacDonald.

Friendlies:

Prog?

private trial

Sutton United

2-1

02/08/1980

Tooting & Mitcham Utd

H

0-0

Y

HT 0-0

05/08/1980

Horsham

H

4-0

Tuite (2), Gaydon, Peck

09/08/1980

Wandsworth

H

7-0

Y

HT 4-0 Tuite (2), Burke (2),

Samoth, Reader, Hunn (pen)

31/03/1981

Carshalton Athletic

A

4-4

N

HT 3-1

scorers in prog