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League reorganisation sees Epsom finish in bottom half of
Div 2s. They will be placed in a new Division 3.

Home Ground:
West Street, Ewell

for next season

Player of Year

Nigel Bennett

Players Player of the Year

Tim Tweedy

Res Player of
Year

Micky Green

Players Res Player of the Year

Micky Clark

Youth Player of
Year

Jeff Chandler

Players Youth Player of the Year

Neil Fewings

VFL

Position 13th out of 22

FAC

Pr

Horsham

1-3

FAV

1st

Shoreham

2-3

ACDC

Pr

Purfleet

2-3

LC

1st

Hampton

0-2

New competition - Loctite Trophy

SCC

SF

Feltham

1-3

LCC

2nd

Boreham Wood

0-3

SSC

2nd

Whyteleafe

0-1

Chairman

Nigel Anstis

v-c Peter Atkins

Secretary

Dave Wilson

Manager

Adrian Hill

Asst John Wood joining from Leatherhead - former
Epsom player.

Treasurer

Nigel Anstis

Res Manager

John Sears

Asst Malcolm Spratt

Youth Manager

Ian Wallis & Mike Pidgeon (asst)

AGM
19/6/90

Committee elected as above plus Sarah Barella
(Membership Secretary)

Players
leaving, Carlton Walcott (Chertsey), Jason Hopper (Molesey), James Dack
(Sutton)

New players
Graham Morris (Sutton), Matt Varndell (Sutton, Steve Barwick (Sutton), Dave
Hyatt (Croydon)

Jeremy and Andy
Boxall, Sean Tobin (Leatherhead)

Aug 90 Steve
Barwick joins on loan from Sutton United. Dick Strong also returns to the
club.

1990/91 Les Cleevely, Kevin Fitzgerald (from Dorking),
Martyn Jones (22) (Carsh Reserves), John Raffington all at

Carshalton -
Raffington joined Carsh from Croydon Youth and has over 400 appearances

Aug 90
Friendlies played at Horton Hospital Grounds, on the exact same site that
Epsom Town played in the

mid Twenties,
but they didn't realise it at the time. Most of the site is now covered by
the new School there.

Clive
Hadingham reported as having scored in friendlies v Whyteleafe, Cobham and
Dulwich Hamlet. I didn't even

know we were
playing Dulwich in a friendly. Scrapbooks don't show the results.

Aug 90
Camberley Town's stand is damaged by fire. Ground to be closed for a while.

18/8/90 M.Clark
joins from Sutton United

18/8/90 A
Richard Strong volley with six minutes remaining wins the game at Petersfield
after long spells of

Epsom
domination. Scoring goals will be a problem this season say papers.

18/8/90 Dave
Hyatt and Graham Morris debuts. Between them they would record over 1000
appearances over

the next
fourteen years.

Aug 90 Ricky
Kidd leaves Malden Vale for Redhill.

Club
advertising for a physio still following Ken Jones' departure for Carshalton
Athletic. He will return one day.

21/8/90
Maidenhead win at Epsom with former Chelsea player Paul Canoville in their
line up. Jeremy Boxall

scores a great
goal for Epsom but it is not enough as they lose 2-1.

23/8/90 Paul
Meredith joins Dorking from Tooting & Mitcham United

25/8/90 Epsom
lose 3-1 at home to Egham on a hot day. Behind early and never really in it.

27/8/90 An
afternoon loss on Bank Holiday Monday at Purfleet in the League Cup. Lost 3-2
to a late goal

after fighting
back twice.

27/8/90 Mark
Wiggins joins Carshalton Athletic from Banstead Athletic

1/9/90 An FA
Cup exit as Horsham defeat Epsom 2-0 at Queen Street. It was the first FA Cup
match that

they had won
since 1983! First half was 53 minutes long due to injuries to Hyatt, playing
against his old club,

and Edwards who
had to be substituted on the half hour. Both have nasty injuries.

4/9/90 Epsom
fail to win at Harefield for the first time and draw 0-0. Steve Barwick hit
the post in the first half.

8/9/90 Trevor
Jones makes debut after Rob Frankland leaves to join Kingstonian. Adrian Hill
is quoted as saying

that an
"outside influence" advised him he would be better at Kingstonian,
but he doesn't stay there long and

spends most of
his career at Croydon Athletic. The outside influence was later revealed as
Frankland's father.

8/9/90 Simon
Alldridge is sent off on his return from honeymoon at home to Horsham as they
defeat Epsom for

the second
time in eight days, 3-1 at West Street. Epsom took the lead after 11 minutes
through Tweedy but

it was 1-1
after 30 minutes. Alldridge had never even been cautioned before said the
local papers.

8/9/90 Race
Night at Clubhouse.

Sept 90 former player Kevin Fitzgerald joins Carshalton
from Dorking. Another former player John Raffington is still there.

15/9/90 A poor
performance at Malden Vale leaves Adrian Hill questioning the players
character. He wants

new players
and wants them to have heart rather than skill. In defence it was Malden
Vale's sixth straight win

and they were
top of the table. Two early goals in the first twenty minutes.

16/9/90 Gary
Greenaway joins Corinthian-Casuals from Leatherhead

22/9/90 Epsom
fight back after trailing 2-0 at home to Cove and take a 2-2 at West Street.
Cove's first visit.

Simon Alldridge
missed this game as it was the first of a three game suspension. Luke Harding
wasn't

expecting to
play yet headed the equaliser.

25/9/90 G.Bray
joins Uxbridge from Hayes

29/9/90 Camberley Town v Leatherhead played at Epsom as a
result of the fire at Camberley. Leatherhead won 7-0.

29/9/90 Epsom
lose 2-0 at Eastbourne. Nigel Bennett was away at a wedding but Buckwell came
in for his

first
appearance of the season. Brother Scott did not finish the match and limped
off near the end, leaving

Epsom with ten
men.

1/10/90 reference in League Bulletin to former player Gary
MaacDonald, now playing Carmel's brother Darren in EastEnders.

Oct 90 Malden
Vale Clubhouse is extended.

Oct 90 Camberley Town install a new 195 seat stand at
Krooner Park following the fire that destroyed its predecessor.

2/10/90 D.Lewis
joins from Dorking

2/10/90 O.A.H.
Galloway (Alan?) joins Hayes from Uxbridge

6/10/90 Epsom
draw at Hungerford Town and are improving. They went behind after 5 minutes
but Harding

equalised in
the second half. Lyndon Buckwell and Tweedy were brought in for Paul Mumford
and Ian Rondeau.

6/10/90 former
keeper Ian Stillwell breaks his leg playing for Met Police v Dorking (H).

9/10/90
Another 1-1 draw, this time at home to Feltham, but Epsom were ahead and the
visitors equaliser was

a 25 yard free
kick. Epsom are now working harder.

11/10/90 R.Bray
joins from Molesey

13/10/90
Shambles in an away game with Camberley Town. Their season started with the
closure of their ground

after their
stand was destroyed in a fire, and this "home" game was at Newbury.
They had just one point, but it

needed a last
minute equaliser from Steve Barwick to save a point in a 1-1 draw. Dave
Wilson became the

emergency
linesman following an injury to the referee.

Dec 90 former player and professional footballer Joe
Fascione is now Manager at Dulwich Hamlet having been Bromley

Manager last
season.

Oct 90 John
Raffington is transferred to Hendon after ten years and 425 appearances.

20/10/90 Epsom
fielded two pairs of brothers in the first XI v Banstead. Scott & Lyndon
Buckwell and

Jeremy and Andy
Boxall. Andy Boxall scores the second goal in a 2-0 win at Merland Rise.

Has this
happened before?

27/10/90 The
first of many spectacular goals for Andy Boxall as his 25 yarder won the
match against Flackwell

Heath in a
narrow 1-0 win at West Street.

27/10/90 Martin
Taylor joins from Sutton United

Oct 90 League Bulletin reports that Feltham are to have a
new astroturf pitch to be an upgrade on their 1984 original.

3/11/90
Shoreham game kicked off fifteen minutes late due to the linesmen having an
accident on their way

to the ground.
Epsom then have their own crash as they lead 2-0 but lose 2-3 at home. Awful!

10/11/90 Epsom
get a 1-1 draw at Leatherhead. Adrian Hill then sets his side a target of 54
points, believing

that this
would be good enough to keep Epsom in the top half. He is wrong as Epsom
actually get 57 and still

fall short by
two places and a point.

Nov 90 former
player Robin Lewis is still at Kingstonian.

Nov 90 Ray
Purvis (32) returns to the club from Dulwich Hamlet. Tim Tweedy will now play
further forward.

Isthmian League Bulletin info completed from 88/89 to
90/91 issue 14. Issue 15 next and move this marker when done.

17/11/90 Epsom
lose their first match in seven narrowly 1-0 at home to Newbury.

22/11/90 Rob
Dilger joins Chertsey Town from Leatherhead

22/11/90 P.M.
Andrews joins Molesey from Banstead Athletic

24/11/90 A
competitive 0-0 draw at Hampton, where Epsom haven't even scored since 1983.

1/12/90 An
86th minute goal sends Abingdon top after their 1-0 win at West Street.
Eventual Champions.

1/12/90 Paul
Mumford leaves for Sutton United

8/12/90 A snowy
point for Epsom at Southall's Western Road ground. We would never return.
The

hosts
equalised with seven minutes remaining. Tim Tweedy and Simon Alldridge both
out injured while both

Boxall's were
out, Andy with flu and Jeremy working.

12/12/90 Two
early goals for Hampton send Epsom out of the Loctite Trophy 2-0 at chilly
Beveree.

15/12/90 Epsom
lay the Ruislip bogey with a late David Fry penalty at West Street. Won 1-0.
They started with

ten men for
five minutes before Ruislip's eleventh man turned up. They also finished with
ten men after a late

sending off for
the player who had conceded the penalty.

Dec 90 Adrian
Hill revises his required target to 58 points.

20/12/90 John
Raffington joins Carshalton Athletic from Sutton United

22/12/90 Scott
Buckwell injured at Chertsey and stretchered off. Former player Carlton
Walcott scored one goal

and earned a
penalty as Epsom lose 2-0 at Chertsey. Seven booked including two unknown
Epsom players.

23/12/90 Paul
Meredith joins Banstead Athletic from Dorking

26/12/90 Third
defeat by Horsham this year as Epsom play poorly and lose 3-0 at Queen
Street.

Horsham advise
the attendance for this game as 232 but officially the Ryman League records
say it was 96!

29/12/90 Epsom
defeat Harefield, but prog is dated 29/12/91. A satisfying victory said the
papers. Well on top

throughout and
Lyndon Buckwell was outstanding.

Jan 91 former
player Gary Dodd joins Banstead.

2/1/91
Latuske, S Ward, Perkins, Holding, J.Egan, Gartell all played for Molesey v
Epsom in a 1-1 SSC

draw at West
Street.

5/1/91 Egham
(A) is p/p. Presume waterlogged.

10/1/91 Player
Contract signed by Nigel Bennett. DOB 9/10/71.

This was a
contract at £10 per week from 12/1/91 to 2/5/92.

12/1/91 Two
good goals from Steve Barwick as Petersfield are defeated 3-0 at West Street
but goalless at HT.

Andy Webster
and Simon Cole (Sutton) debuts.

14/1/91 former player Andy Dear, now with Kingstonian is
selected in a 20 man squad for the Isthmian League for the

match v FA XI at Kingsmeadow on 23/1/91 and also v
Combined Services at Aldershot Military Stadium on 5/2/91.

15/1/91 Epsom
win the SSC replay  at Molesey 2-1.

19/1/91 Then
Epsom are battered 4-0 by Maidenhead. Comprehensive. Trevor Jones was superb
in goal.

26/1/91 Andy
Boxall is injured and Tim Tweedy returns from his two game suspension for the

home game with
Hungerford. Epsom led at HT but need a late Tweedy equaliser to draw 2-2.

Jan 91 Adrian
Hill wants six wins from the next seven games to stay up. Epsom win five and
draw two, so it

wasn't far
away.

29/1/91 The
SSC run ends as Whyteleafe knock Epsom out this year 1-0 in the QF at Church
Road. Epsom

had won the tie
in both of the last two years. 84th minute goal just as a replay loomed.
Epsom hit the

woodwork three
times, through Buckwell, Fry and Tweedy.

29/1/91
Dorking FC Clubhouse badly damaged by fire. Will eventually be rebuilt next
to the original site.

Feb 91 future
manager Glyn Mandeville at Bedfont under 18s.

2/2/91 Epsom
hold on to win 1-0 at Cove. Late pressure after Epsom had been the better
side.

4/2/91
reported former player Joe Fascione leaves his post as Dulwich Manager after
just six months in the job.

9/2/91 Snow.
Malden Vale (H) is p/p, delighting the manager. Epsom would have struggled
this day.

9/2/91 The
whole Isthmian League schedule is postponed due to the snow, even at
Feltham's astroturf pitch.

Feb 91 Lee
Edwards suffers a car accident and is out for the season. Has struggled with
injury all year.

16/2/91 Easy
win for confident Epsom who stroll to a 4-0 win at Feltham.

19/2/91
Boreham Wood are too strong in the London Charity Cup and win 3-0 at
Broughinge Road. HT 3-0.

23/2/91 If we
aren't good enough to beat Camberley we don't deserve to be in the top eleven
says Adrian Hill. He

is right, as
Epsom draw 0-0 and miss out by a point at the end of the season.

2/3/91 Hill
clearly has words with his players as Epsom then win 5-1 at Bracknell Town.
Always a lucky venue

for Epsom but
this was their biggest ever win there. Epsom led 4-0 but at 4-1 Trevor Jones
pensave.

9/3/91
Continued improvement as Epsom are 3-0 up at HT v Eastbourne Utd and win 4-0.

16/3/91 Steve
Hill (37) is picked up from veterans football and plays for Epsom in a 0-0
draw at Flackwell Heath.

March 91
Supporters raise £1000 for Help a London Child thanks to Karaoke sessions.

19/3/91 Tony
Hoy sent off after 5 minutes, and Epsom were 2-0 down after 48 minutes, but
fight back to win 4-3

v Walton & Hersham in Southern
Combination Cup. Andy Boxall HT.

23/3/91 Epsom
defeat Banstead 3-2 but most of the post match argument centred on the
penalty award for

Epsom's first
goal.

30/3/91 Epsom
edge a tight match 1-0 over Chertsey as Tweedy scored from a half save from
Fry's free kick.

March 1991
Adrian Hill wins Hunting Gate Homes Manager of the Month and a £200 prize.
Picture on CAM.

Epsom were also
winners of the Mitre Sports Goalscorers of the month with 13 goals in five
games.

6/4/91 Steve
Hill is away on a school skiing trip as Epsom lose 2-0 at Ruislip Manor
despite Epsom being the

better side
throughout.

9/4/91 Epsom
play Malden Vale but they still lose 2-1 at West Street.

9/4/91 former player Carlton Walcott scores a hat trick
for Chertsey Town in their 8-0 away win at Camberley Town.

11/4/91
reported that former Epsom manager Derek Evans died at the age of 61. Died in
March 91 says

Middlesex
Chronicle. Played for Hounslow at Wembley in 1962 Amateur Cup Final and
replay,

along with
another former Epsom player Ken MacDonald. Was also an England Amateur
International.

13/4/91 Torn
ligaments for Lyndon Buckwell in the first half and will miss the rest of the
season. Epsom still

defeat
Leatherhead 2-0. Andy Boxall scored after eight minutes and were in control
from then on. Former keeper

Paul Riley
played for Leatherhead.

April 91
Isthmian League to be called the Diadora League from next season.

April 91 former
opponents Lion Sports are forced to fold.

Apr 91 Colin
Miles is at Chipstead this season.

Apr 91 Feltham
merge with Hounslow and will be based at Feltham Arena. It doesn't last long.

4/4/91 Mike
Erlebach joins Walton & Hersham from Dorking

19/4/91 Tim
Tweedy suspended 14 days (2 matches) from 30/4/91 after an accumulation of 8
cautions.

20/4/91 Epsom
record an excellent 2-0 win on their final visit to Faraday Road against
Newbury Town.

Newbury finish
with ten men after a late sending off (80). Martyn Day debut.

27/4/91 Epsom
still have a faint chance of finishing in the top 11 after a 3-2 win over
Hampton. "A frantic

relegation
fracas." 0-0 for 65 minutes until Hampton went ahead but a comedy own
goal over the keepers head

with a back
pass one minute later. Soon afterwards Ray Purvis scored from 30 yards and
Boxall scored the third

but a late
scrambled goal for Hampton made it a nervy ending as Epsom hung on to win
3-2.

28/4/91 and
5/5/91 Epsom & Ewell Parks Boys League Cup Finals at West Street. Prog Y.

May 91 Kevin
Duffell is at Tooting & Mitcham United

4/5/91 Adrian
Hill believes that one point at Abingdon will keep them up. He is right, but
unfortunately they are

beaten 4-0.

May 91 Steve
Latuske, Paul Mumford and Lyndon Buckwell all play for West Ewell in
Leatherhead & District

Senior charity
Shield Final @ Dorking. Prog Y.

Reserves:

Suburban League
(South)

Position  8th Out of 18

SLC

SF

Tooting & Mitcham

0-2

SPC

1st

Carshalton Ath

2-4+

1/9/90 Epsom
remain unbeaten after a 3-0 won over Croydon at West Street. Hadingham scores
twice.

Epsom are in
fact top of the table at this point. Played 4 W3 D1 F11 A5 Pts 10.

3/10/90 Three
Bridges (H) n/p

17/10/90 Three
Bridges (H) n/p

27/10/90 Epsom
draw at Leatherhead. Epsom's goal is the first by Andy Webster.

17/11/90 won
3-0 at Dulwich. Scorers D.Fry (2), Bob Churchley

27/11/90 Met
Police (A) n/p

8/12/90 and
15/12/90 Free dates for reserves.

26/1/91 Bromley
(A) is p/p.

2/2/91 Epsom
lose at home to Kingstonian 8-1. Many first teamers in the K's line up.

2/2/91 Martin
Dos Ramos comes on in goal for Dave Hyatt. Was he injured?

16/2/91 Molesey
(H) n/p.

2/3/91 A
Webster HT sees Epsom through to the SLC QF. Won 4-1 over Uxbridge at West
Street.

Following this
game there is a list of appearances for the reserves in the next first team
programme. Check!

9/3/91 Epsom let a half time lead slip v Walton Casuals
who won 2-1 at West Street. Hadingham scored, but was it

a penalty or
not. Report says it was but Dave's stats don't say. Check in prog!

16/3/91 and
19/3/91 Steve Delaney helps out but is an unused sub for both Reserve games.

6/4/91 Epsom
win 4-0 at Hendon in SLC QF. HT for Clive Hadingham.

22/4/91 Ricky
Dymond HT in a 5-1 win at Croydon.

24/4/91 Epsom
defeat Met Police 4-0 at West Street

27/4/91
Epsom  defeat Molesey 3-0 at West
Street with a 6.30 k.o. which follows the first team game.

Calculated 0-0
draw at home to Dulwich is still missing a date but is definitely after
27/4/91 as there is no

way the game
would have been played on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday with matches already on
the

Monday 22nd and
Wednesday 24th and Saturday 27th. If played, most likely to have been 4/5/91.

Was it actually
played at all? It may have been left as 0-0 draw? Everything else is correct.

All reserve
line ups except the last three matches are contained within this seasons
programme.

Youth:

Colours were Red, Red and White

Southern Youth
League

Position 3rd
Out of 8

SYLC

SF

Walton & H

0-2

FAYC

3rd

Plymouth

0-2

ILC

W

Bromley

4-0

SYLC is on a
group basis and we are grouped with Walton & Hersham, Dorking and
Banstead Athletic.

10/10/90 HT for
David Foster in a 6-1 win over Redhill.

24/10/90
Kieron Swift scores four as Kingstonian are crushed 6-2 in SYL. This Epsom
side look really good.

19/11/90 Walton
& Hersham defeated 2-0 in SYLC Group Match. Mark Connelly mispen.

5/12/90 Epsom
are 1-0 down at HT but fight back to win it with a late Ben Harding penalty
3-2 at Whyteleafe.

They will now
visit Plymouth in the last 32. Last years holders Tottenham are already out.

Last remaining
non-league club left in the FA Youth Cup - last 32

Only the 13th
non-league side to get this far in last 20 years.

2/1/91 Plymouth
(A) is p/p. Waterlogged.

16/1/91 Epsom
finally play Plymouth after two weather postponements and lose 2-0 at Home
Park. Prog Y.

Programme
wrongly says 15th Jan.

Keiron Swift
hit the bar near the end and then got booked. A fairly comfortable victory
said the Western Morning

News. The
first goal after 55 minutes was an o.g. from Martyn Day. Attendance 329.
Plymouth now play

Millwall (H) in
the last 16.

Line up this
day was Hardiman, Connelly, Doyle, Day (Staines 71), Harding, Chandler, Hall,
Fewings, Sell,

K.Swift,
C.Swift (Owen 77).

27/2/91 Epsom's
game at Walton & Hersham is abandoned at HT with the score 1-1.

7/3/91 Two
goals from Richard Sell at Whyteleafe but a late equaliser for the hosts
forced extra time and replay.

16/3/91 Neil
Fewings and Grant Hardiman are selected for Surrey v Worcestershire @ Imber
Court this day.

Mar 91 Mark
Pepper joins from Crystal Palace. A future first teamer and son of Micky
Pepper (60's).

18/3/91 Epsom
lose 2-1 in rearranged Walton & H SYLC Group match but still win group.

20/3/91
Kingstonian (H) is p-p for Loctite Cup replay with Whyteleafe this day.

20/3/91 Danny
Bailey comes on as sub in goal for Grant Hardiman. Was he injured?

3/4/91 A Sell
penalty near the end seals a 6-3 aggregate win over Uxbridge in Youth Cup SF
2nd leg.

Programme
produced for this game and it has youth stats in it. Check.

7/4/91 Neil
Fewings and Keiron Swift represent Surrey U16, and Grant Hardiman and Neil
Fewings represent

Surrey U18's .
Both games at Tooting & M v Essex K.O. 12pm and 2.15. Prog Y.

10/4/91 Fewings
scores HT this day in 4-1 win at Banstead.

17/4/91 Youth
won 2-1 at Kingstonian. Scorer Paul Staines and Adrian Hall (pen).

25/4/91 Two
goals each from Keiron Swift and Richard Sell
as Epsom defeat Bromley 4-0 at Carshalton Ath

in Final of
Loctite Youth Cup. Bromley had a player sent off early in the second half.

Friendlies

H/A

Score

Prog?

24/07/1990

Whyteleafe

N

1-3

No Issue

Played at Wilsons School, Roundshaw

02/08/1990

Cobham

H

drew

Played at Horton Hospital

02/08/1990

Reedham

A

RES

04/08/1990

Arundel

A

2-0

04/08/1990

Arundel

A

RES

07/08/1990

Met Police

A

0-1

07/08/1990

Cobham

H

RES
Played at Horton Hospital

09/08/1990

Redhill

N

2-0

No Issue

Played at Horton Hospital

11/08/1990

Merstham

A

0-2

11/08/1990

Merstham

A

1-1

RES

22/08/1990

Carshalton Ath

H

YTH

11/09/1990

Sutton United

H

2-3

RES

advised
by Mark Frake - Sutton historian