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ICIS 3

14th out of 17

FAC

Prelim

Burgess Hill

1-4

FAV

1st

Abingdon Tn

0-1

LC

1st rep

Chesham United

1-2

SSC

1st

Crystal Palace

2-3

AMT

2nd

Met Police

0-1

SCC

QF

Ashford Tn (Middx)

2-5

Home
Ground:

Banstead Athletic F.C.

Chairman

Peter Atkins

Secretary

Dave Wilson

Treasurer

Peter Atkins

Manager

Adrian Hill

Asst John Wood

Res Manager

Malcolm Spratt but vacated in Sept 96. Barry
Webb will now take over.

June 96 Former
player John Rains leaves Carshalton Athletic to become manager of Sutton
United.

Larry Pritchard
had indicated in May that he did not wish to continue.

June 96
Braintree switch Pyramid sides and join Division 3 but Cove and Harefield and
Ruislip and Saffron

Walden all
leave. Collier Row merge with Romford and Newbury Town have lost their place
as they did not

reform.

4/7/96 Training
starts a week earlier than usual.

25/7/96 Sutton
v Epsom @ Collingwood Rec. 7pm k.o. Three half hour games. Scores not
reported.

27/7/96 Firsts
play Banstead in a friendly and Reserve match will follow afterwards.

Epsom trail at HT but Boxall and Miller scored to put
Epsom ahead after 67 minutes before Banstead won 3-2.

July 96 Alan
Galloway joins from Southall.

July 96 Kevin
Stone leaves for Chipstead.

July 96 Epsom
are given the go ahead to build a nine hole golf course and driving range at
Banstead Road.

35 objection
letters but no success in their aim. Roundabout likely to be built there says
council.

31/7/96 Stuart
Miller hits the post in the second half of a 1-0 friendly loss at Feltham.
Late goal.

Aug 96 Simon
Hatton is at Hampton along with Richard Sell

Aug 96 Steve
Flack, former Woking & W&H is Cor Cas Assistant Manager

Aug 96 Nigel
Webb is at Leatherhead

Aug 96 Mark
Wiggins is at Molesey

5/8/96 Epsom
win at Hampton who had former players Neil Fewings, Tommy Maloney, Robin
Lewis, Lyndon

Buckwell, Neil
Wallis and Hampton's Assistant Manager Barry Barnes who had to play the first
15 minutes

in goal. Epsom
won 2-0 fairly comfortably.

10/8/96 Dave
Argent and a Farnham player are sent off in a pre-season friendly. Epsom won
2-0 at Farnham.

Aug 96 Adrian
Hill sets a target to concede fewer goals this year. It fails as Epsom will
finish with the worst

defence in the
division.

Aug 96 Former
keeper Paul Riley leaves Farnham.

Aug 96 former player Murray Jones, formerly with
Brentford, Exeter, Grimsby and Doncaster has joined Sutton United

whose manager
is John Rains  the former Epsom player
and Assistant Manager.

17/8/96 After a goalless first half, Andy Boxall scores
from the kick off with a 50 yard strike. Amazingly, within

forty five
minutes David Beckham had done the same thing at Selhurst Park against
Wimbledon, but Boxall's

was first!
Unfortunately, Hornchurch equalised, and after Miller put them ahead again it
finished 2-2.

Aug 96 First
rumours abound regarding the Epsom Hospital Cluster Land and a 2,000 capacity
football

stadium at the
Boiler House site at Horton Lane. An outline planning application has been
submitted.

19/8/96 former
player Mark Wiggins scored HT on his debut for Molesey as they defeat Marlow
4-2.

Aug 96 former
player Clive Gartell leaves Dulwich Hamlet to join Sutton United.

Aug 96 Nigel
Bennett gets married.

Aug 96 former player Steve Latuske joins Whyteleafe from
Banstead Athletic. The Manager is Lee Richardson another

former player
from 1981/82. Also former player Steve Milton returns there after a spell at
Fulham and Woking.

League Bulletin
advises that Richardson actually joined Whyteleafe in the late 60s!

24/8/96 A
Stuart Miller goal after one minute and forty seconds sets them on their way
to a 2-0 win over

eventual wooden
spoonists Southall at Merland Rise. He gets another after 81 minutes.

28/8/96
Division Two Wivenhoe are edged out 3-2 by Epsom in League Cup. Epsom led but
trailed before two

moments of
opportunism from Miller clinched the game. The winner came after 87 minutes.

31/8/96 Early departure from FA Cup again 4-1 at Sussex
League Burgess Hill at Leylands Park. Although the

hosts were the better side, Epsom had some very odd
decisions against them including a penalty near the end

when Dave
Argent had been tripped over on top of the ball and handball was the
decision!

7/9/96 Epsom progress in FA Vase with a 3-1 win over
Tunbridge Wells. After wasting chances, Epsom finally

took a 2-0
lead after 28 and 34, but the visitors got one back before HT and it was a
bit nervy before the third

goal was scored
by Steve Smith.

9/9/96 Dave
Argent two match suspension following his sending off at Farnham in the
friendly.

9/9/96 Epsom
get a creditable 3-3 draw at First Division Chesham in League Cup after extra
time. Epsom led

but trailed
3-1 before Micky Owen (77) and Kevin Webb (90) took the tie into extra time.
Chesham hit the

bar in extra
time. Replay required.

14/9/96 No league game for first team but Epsom have a
friendly at Division One leaders Maidenhead and draw

3-3 with them
too after trailing 3-1 at HT before Boxall scored twice. Epsom led after 6
minutes through Owen.

18/9/96 Epsom
are just edged out by Chesham 2-1 in the League Cup replay at Merland Rise.
Boxall and

Miller were both missing and Tony Hoy was sent off in the
second half or there may have been more extra time.

It was Hoy's
first appearance of the season and he will be suspended for three matches..

Sept 96 Martin
Jones joins from Banstead.

Sept 96 former and future player Richard Sell transfers
from Hampton to Egham Town. Within a month he has

cancelled his
registration.

21/9/96 Epsom
expect to win but are held 1-1 at home to Kingsbury. Epsom control the game
yet require an

87th minute
goal from Martin Jones on his debut to get the draw.

28/9/96 No game
for first team.

Oct 96 Chesham
United give notice of an approach for Stuart Miller.

Oct 96 Les
Cleevely joined Sutton from Carshalton

Oct 96 future
player James Earp transfers from Banstead Athletic to Leatherhead.

Oct 96 Steve
Latuske returns to Banstead Athletic from Whyteleafe.

Oct 96 Richard
Sell returns to Hampton from Egham Town.

Oct 96
L.Satchell joins from Whyteleafe

Oct 96 Martyn
Jones joins from Banstead

Oct 96 Glyn
Mandeville joins Aldershot from Molesey

5/10/96 Four
different scorers as Epsom see off Eastbourne Town in FA Vase 2q. 27 minutes
before they

scored but 2-0
after 30 minutes. It was 4-0 before a late Eastbourne penalty after 76
minutes.

Unfortunately Stuart Miller injured knee ligaments and
will be out until xmas, but never the same player again..

Reminiscent of
the Hadingham injury against the other Eastbourne side on 31/12/88.

12/10/96 A
tricky tie at Clapton is decided by an own goal. Won 1-0. The keeper is Roy
Drake, who was in

goal for that
Aveley own goal earlier this year at Maidenhead. This one was credited to him
though. Local MP

Tony Banks was
an interested spectator. Dave Hyatt has a great game.

Spare days are
turning into a bonus as they are keeping the players fresh says Adrian Hill.

15/10/96 Former
manager Ricky Kidd testimonial @ Redhill. Prog Y.

19/10/96 Dave
Argent returns from suspension but Braintree still win easily 5-2. A lively
cameo from the sub,

Ben Forey who
earned a penalty which Boxall then scored near the end.

26/10/96 Epsom
lead twice but lose 3-2 at home to Northwood. Galloway was out with a stomach
upset, and

after 29
minutes there was an incident which resulted in Graham Meakin and Benning for
the opposition were

sent off. Two
further Northwood players were booked all for challenges on Forey. First half
lasted 55 minutes!

The Northwood
winner came five minutes from time.

30/10/96 Epsom
Advertiser reports on Jamie Stainer who along with wife Karen are winners of
the Tomy

Parents of the Year competition. Jamie a former Epsom
player now aged 28 had been diagnosed with Aplastic

Anaemia and
required bone marrow from his brother. He is now in remission.

30/10/96 Epsom
depart the SSC 3-2 at home to a Crystal Palace side containing Dean Gordon
and Gareth

Davies. Epsom
trailed 3-0 at HT but fought back and nearly got a draw. Virtually a full
Palace Reserve side.

2/11/96 Robbed at Abingdon Town in FA Vase. Epsom badly
missed Stuart Miller but a bad performance from

both Epsom and
the referee who disallowed a perfectly good goal from Martin Jones only after
it hit the back

of the net, left the game heading into extra time, where
Abingdon got a goal five minutes from the end. Lost 1-0.

9/11/96 Fifth
straight defeat at home to Harlow Town who win 3-1 at Merland Rise. It was
goalless at HT but

two goals in
two minutes soon after the restart finished it off. Epsom were 3-0 down
before scoring after 76.

16/11/96 Two
goals from Andy Boxall including a late equaliser, pinch a 2-2 draw at
Camberley after being

ahead at HT.
Reference in the report to some odd decisions by the officials this week.

18/11/96 Epsom slip up on a Monday evening at Tring by
2-1. Future player Paul Bunter score for Tring with a

penalty, but Epsom equalised through Jones before Tring
got the winner. Tring had a defender in goal all match.

20/11/96 Met Police play a friendly against a team called
Yellow Submarie, which the League Bulletin advises is a team

of veterans from Epsom, although no names were mentioned.
In the Met Police side were former Epsom players

Colin Rose and
Chris Holding.

23/11/96
Flackwell (H) is p-p. Prog Y. This game was due to be played at Leatherhead
as Banstead had

another FA Vase tie. This would have been the third year
in a row that Flackwell would have played Epsom at

a different
venue. It would have been five different venues for the last five Epsom v
Flackwell games!

30/11/96 Epsom again conceded two goals in a minute as
they lose 2-1 at Hertford after leading with 6 minutes

remaining.
Graham Meakin returned after his three match suspension. Dave Hyatt pensave
with approx fifteen

minutes left at
1-0. Third successive season that Hertford have missed a penalty against
Epsom.

Dec 96 former
keeper Geoff Smyrk transfers from Banstead to Walton & Hersham.

Dec 96 Warren
Burton joins Sutton from Tooting & Mitcham

Dec 96 James
Earp joins Leatherhead from Banstead

7/12/96 Epsom
are two points from the bottom of the table after losing 3-2 at home to
leaders Wealdstone.

However Epsom
played well and good results will be around the corner if they keep playing
as well. Hibbert

HT for
Wealdstone. Hoy injured after 14 minutes and replaced by Galloway.

10/12/96 Lewes
(H) is rearranged to 11/12/96 as Banstead have an SSC match.

11/12/96 Epsom
defeat Lewes 2-0 in an Associate Members Trophy match with two second half
goals from

Jones and
Boorman, who struck a spectacular and rare right foot volley.

14/12/96 An
unfortunate set of circumstances at East Thurrock as Epsom are beaten 3-2.
Dave Hyatt was

injured during
the game and replaced by Graham Meakin after 48 minutes. He had landed
awkwardly on his

right ankle after 27 minutes but couldn't carry on.
Meakin's first ever game in goal. Boxall scored two goals, the

first from 25
yards right into the top corner, and the second from the spot after sub Nick
Cawthorne had won

the penalty.

21/12/96 Generally regarded as the worst ever day for
weather in Epsom's tenure at Merland Rise, Aveley came

to visit, and
Epsom, with a very, very strong wind, went behind with a shot that was headed
for the left corner

but was blown
in the right corner, giving Chris Bedworth no chance. Epsom stormed back to
lead 3-1 and

Meredith then hit the post, but the Aveley keeper
continued to take lots of time, as if he knew the second half

would be
different. It was as Aveley got four goals to win 5-3!

Dec 96 Ben Forey, who had joined from Old Latymerians, is
leaving the club to move to America where he has

a job. Andy
Nimmo has returned to training.

Dec 96 Chris
Bedworth quits the club after the Aveley defeat.

26/12/96 Epsom
roar back to form with a 5-2 win at Lewes. Sub Stuart Miller returned to the
side after injury,

and the fifth
Epsom goal saw an enormous number of passes strung together before Miller
scored with a great

shot. In goal
for Epsom was 18 year old Paul Murphy, who usually played for Carshalton FC
Reserves in the

Southern
Amateur League. He met his team mates for the first time on the coach to the
game! Andy Boxall

had one of his
best ever games for the club.

Dec 96 Adrian
Hill says "we'll finish in the top half of the table, there's no
question about that".

26/12/96
Isthmian League President and former Chairman Barry East dies.

28/12/96
Wingate & Finchley (H) is p/p. Frozen pitch.

Jan 97 Epsom's
game with Wokingham in SCC is switched to Wokingham, provisionally for
21/1/97.

Jan 97 former
player Warren Burton transfers from Tooting & Mitcham to Sutton United.

Jan 97 Epsom
are one of only five ICIS league clubs to have scored in every game this
season, despite being

near the
bottom.

Jan 97 future
player Mark Freeborough cancels his registration with Dorking.

Jan 97 former
player David Jones transfers from Kingstonian to Staines Town.

Jan 97 Geoff
Smyrk joins Walton & Hersham from Banstead Athletic

Jan 97 Barry
Gartell joins Carshalton from Sutton United

Jan 97 Lee
Dooley joins Fisher Athletic from Dulwich Hamlet

Jan 97 D.Draper
leaves for Tooting & Mitcham United

Jan 97 EEBC
pass plans for a 2,000 stadium at Horton Lane on the Boiler House site. All
they have to do is

buy the ground
from the Health Authority, but they won't sell.

11/1/97 Aveley
(A) is p/p.

14/1/97 A tight
game at Imber Court is decided in the hosts favour by a single goal.

Jan 97 former
keeper Trevor Jones transfers from Dulwich Hamlet to Carshalton Athletic.

Jan 97 Dave
Argent cancels his registration with Epsom & Ewell. He soon transfers to
Carshalton Athletic.

18/1/97
Hornchurch (H) is p-p. Heavy rain on the day led to a p/p at 10.30. Prog Y

18/1/97 Matt
Elliott makes his debut for Leicester City against Wimbledon after a Club
Record £1.6 million

transfer from Oxford United. Manager there Martin O'Neill
had been watching him for a while. Local papers said

that he had been watched by Manchester United and Leeds
and had rejected Crystal Palace and Southampton.

Apparently his potential was first spotted by Charlton's
physio Jimmy Hendrie who was helping at Epsom on a

part time basis. From Charlton he went to Torquay, whom he
left in March 92 for Scunthorpe for £50,000, and went to

Oxford for £150,000 in November 1993. Matt said "I'm
very ambitious and have been pestering Oxford to let me

go for several
weeks. Graham Souness offered me a good deal to go to Southampton but my mind
was

made up as soon
as I met Martin O'Neill."

O'Neill said
"I've been tracking Matt for over a year now. With his talent I'm
surprised he isn't playing

Premiership
football. He's one of the best defenders in the business, and I'm delighted
my team have

been
strengthened by such a powerful player."

21/1/97
Wokingham (A) is switched to 27/1/97.

25/1/97 Southall (A) is played at Kingsbury as their
ground share with Tring is now finished. Epsom dominated

and led after
ten minutes when Boorman converted a Cawthorne corner but Epsom were behind
after 57

minutes. This time it was Epsom's turn to get late goals
as Graham Morris equalised with five minutes left, with

the aid of a
slight deflection before a fantastic winner from Boxall after 88 took the
points, sliding the ball in at

the near post
from a narrow angle. Won 3-2.

27/1/97 Two
days later we won 3-2 again at Wokingham, who fielded mostly a reserve side.
Two goals from

Martin Jones
and another from Graham Meakin were enough against a side who had a full
first team game the

next day.
Should have been more convincing. They now play Ashford Town (Mx) at home but
this will be

switched to
Short Lane instead. No prog Issued by Wokingham.

Jan 97 Ian
Grant interview in the Herald relating to their attempts to get the Boiler
House site dealt with.

Jan 97 Trevor
Jones joins Carshalton from Dulwich

Feb 97 Dave
Argent joined Carshalton from Epsom

1/2/97 Despite
the weather problems, Epsom have a free week.

1/2/97
Carshalton lose 2-0 at Staines. Dave Argent and Russell Harmsworth were in
Carshalton's side, while

David Jones was
at Staines after leaving Sutton.

Feb 97 Neil
Fewings moves to Milan to teach English. Only 21. Plays for West Ewell with
Lyndon Buckwell.

4/2/97 Epsom's
first home win since 24th August. Youngster Paul Murphy was in again for
Hyatt who was

unavailable
and he would play a few games in a row now. Boorman put Epsom ahead against
Flackwell after

ten minutes
but Flackwell were awarded a penalty after 27 which Murphy saved. Epsom went
on from this to

win 5-0.

8/2/97 Back to
Kingsbury for the second Saturday in three weeks, where this time they won
3-1, but had to

respond after
going behind after 66 minutes. Steve Smith equalised soon after and a Boxall
penalty and Miller

header made
the points safe. Meakin was booked and now receives a two match suspension.
The penalty

was awarded for handball by a defender on the line. The
ball had been placed in the net, but the ref had already

blown for the
penalty and Gower for Kingsbury was sent off for the handball. Right at the
end Tim Smith

came on after
an 11 month absence but he hardly had time to kick a ball before the whistle
blew!

11/2/97 Aveley
(A) is p-p. Prog Y.

15/2/97 Epsom receive Tring again after their 11-1
hammering last season. This time it is much tougher though

as Epsom led
2-0 after 20 minutes before Tring levelled it up at 2-2 and 3-3 before Jones
scored a fourth. After

this Epsom
conceded a penalty, but Murphy pulled off another save, his second in three
games..

Feb 97 Matt
Elliott scores at Newcastle as Leicester lead 3-1 before losing 4-3 to an
Alan Shearer led revival.

22/2/97 Epsom show promise despite a 3-1 loss at Harlow.
Debut for 20 year old Danny Arkwright, who joined

from
Whyteleafe. Epsom trailed 2-0 but after pulling one back after 70 they
pressed for an equaliser before a

third goal in
injury time flattered the hosts. First defeat in six matches against the
promotion challengers.

Mar 97 Barry
Gartell joins Kingstonian from Carshalton Athletic

Mar 97 Dave
Argent leaves for Carshalton Athletic

Mar 97 Danny
Arkwright joins from Whyteleafe

Mar 97 M.Rivers
joins from Croydon Athletic

Mar 97 P.Murphy
joins from Whyteleafe

1/3/97 Clapton
recorded their first win at Epsom in the Isthmian League and first since 1959
with a 2-1 result

which was a
deserved win. Epsom scored with a comedy own goal towards the end and weren't
really in it.

Meakin was out
suspended while Jones (knee) and Boorman (toe) were also out.

March 97 Adrian
Hill believes that fitness is the key, and he will be working on this next
pre-season.

8/3/97 Epsom
lose comfortably 4-1 at Braintree Town but keep up their scoring run in the
Isthmian League

thanks to a
Boxall penalty at 2-0.

March 97 future
player James Earp cancels his registration with Leatherhead.

11/3/97 Wingate
& F (H) is rearranged as they have a London Senior Cup tie.

March 97 Andy
Boxall is third in the list of leading scorers in the Division.

March 97 former
player Mark Wiggins transfers from Molesey to Walton & Hersham.

March 97 former
player Noel Frankum transfers from Leatherhead to Carshalton Athletic.

15/3/97 A much
improved performance but defeat still followed 2-1 in their last visit to
Northwood. Epsom led

after 6 minutes through Nick Cawthorne's first goal in
senior football but Stuart Miller limped off with a damaged

hamstring three minutes later and he was replaced by Jason
Emmerson making his debut. Epsom well on top

still but
against the run of play the hosts equalised after 27 and got the winner with
five minutes remaining.

Epsom are now
the only side in the Isthmian League to score in every game after Collier Row
were held 0-0.

21/3/97
Croydon Advertiser does a piece on Steve Latuske a former Epsom player now
with Banstead, who

reach the semi
finals of the FA Vase this year, narrowly losing out to Whitby Town.

22/3/97 Lost
2-3 at home to Camberley, but not even close. Epsom should have been ahead by
HT but were

1-0 down and
3-0 after 83 minutes, before Epsom kept their scoring record intact with just
ten seconds of

normal time
remaining before Boorman added to Boxall's strike. Fifth straight loss.

24/3/97 former player Barry Miller is placed on the
transfer list by Wokingham Town who advise that a fee will be required.

29/3/97 An
Easter Saturday loss at Flackwell Heath makes it six straight losses as they
are beaten 2-1.

Rawlinson came
in for Emmerson who had a hairline fracture of the foot. First half was a
total non-event, but

Epsom took the
lead after 48 minutes as Boxall headed in a Boorman cross but eleven minutes
from time

Flackwell
equalised and with seconds remaining they got the winner.

it transpires
that Flackwell had ten first team players out this day.

31/3/97
Epsom's losing run ends as Boorman gets an 81st minute equaliser at home to
Lewes in a 1-1 draw.

April 97 former player and future and Manager Lyndon
Buckwell transfers from Hampton to Tooting & Mitcham.

Apr 97 Stuart
Miller leaves for Wealdstone after scoring 32 in 77 games for Epsom. He will
return to get

another 6 in 25
appearances.

April 97 Egham Town announce that they are on the
internet! Gareth Coates (16) a future Ashford Town historian

is the man
behind it.

5/4/97 Epsom
led 2-0 but were pegged back for a draw at Wingate & Finchley. Boxall
scored and he was

followed by Nigel Bennett, scoring only his second ever
goal for the club as his header was saved but he netted

the rebound. It
was 2-1 at HT, and the hosts equalised after 78 from close range.

12/4/97 Epsom
end their run of nine games without a win after a 3-1 win over Hertford in a
game of three

penalties, two
for Epsom and one for Hertford, which were all scored. Epsom got a late third
goal from

Rawlinson.

15/4/97 Adrian
Hill's 52nd birthday and Epsom hand out the presents in an amazing 4-7 home
defeat to

Wingate &
Finchley. Adrian Hill, now a postman, says the local papers, branded this the
worst defensive

display he had
ever seen. It was 3-3 at one point, and Epsom had a chance to go ahead but
didn't take it.

Hill also
confirms that 35 year old Graham Meakin will be released at the end of the
season, and he will join

Southall next
season. Hart HT for Wingate & Finchley.

19/4/97 Epsom
come up short at Wealdstone 2-1 in a match played at their temporary ground
in Edgware.

They included
Stuart Miller in their line up while Tim Smith, Steve Smith and Danny
Arkwright were all

unavailable,
and Boxall failed a pre-match fitness test on an injured ankle which gave a
chance to 20 year old

Marc Rivers who had joined from Croydon athletic and only
played twice for Epsom Reserves but he did better

than Miller
who struggled and was subbed with twenty minutes remaining. Epsom actually
took the lead after

51 minutes
after Nimmo's shot was blocked Rawlinson followed up for his third goal in
three games.

Cawthorne and
Rivers were particularly impressive.

22/4/97 Epsom lose their record of scoring in every game
after a 3-0 home defeat to Hornchurch, but have still

scored in every
away game since August 1995 (0-0 draw at Harefield on opening day).

26/4/97 A tame
end of season performance in a 3-1 home defeat to East Thurrock. A drab 90
minutes with

exception of a
spectacular equaliser from Tony Boorman. Boxall was out suspended for one
match and so

Rawlinson
returned with Rivers who had got a HT for the Reserves two days earlier.

29/4/97 Last
game of season was a 4-1 defeat at Aveley but a Steve Smith goal ensures that
Epsom score

in every away
league game this season. Boxall mispen (SAVE) in second half. Epsom trailed
3-0 after 22

minutes. Epsom
finish fourth from bottom but having scored more goals than promoted
Northwood! Worst

defence. They
score in every single away league game this season. Their goal aggregate of
140

is 12 more than
anyone else. Papers say Rawlinson as the scorer but I was there and it was
definitely Smith.

May 97 Leon
Raishbrook is at Sutton United

May 97 Mark
Freeborough is at Kingstonian

24/5/97 Menu
provided for Annual Dinner Dance at Cuddington Golf Club. Prog Y.

Tony Boorman is Player of the Year, while Andy Boxall
received the Players Player of the Year Trophy. Darren

Webb was
Reserves Player of the Year and Andy Rawlinson  was the Players Reserve Team Player of the

Year. Dean May
received the Nigel Anstis Clubman of the Year Award, and Graham Morris and
Nigel

Bennett
received awards to mark 300 games with the club.

28/5/97
Banstead Herald front page covers a wedding between Dean Meyer and Lisa Howe
as they are taking

43 relatives
with them to the Dominican Republic.

30/5/97 Former
Epsom player Clive Gartell becomes Molesey manager. A former player there for
some years.

He was only 31
and left Sutton United to take the position.

May 97 Jimmy
Dack at Sutton this year under manager John Rains.

May 97 Nigel
Webb is at Leatherhead this season.

Reserves:   Suburban League South Division

Position  9th out of 13

SLC

1st

Egham Tn

2-5

SPC

2nd

Vandyke

1-4

SLS

SF

Basingstoke Tn

1-3

Aug 96 Reference to former player Kevin Stone going to
Chipstead. Later in season it transpires that Barry Stone has gone

there. It looks
like they both went and that there was no name confusion.

Aug 96 Tony Dowson returns to his native North East while
Marcus Alcindor returns after three seasons away.

19/8/96 First
match of season saw a goal from Marcus Alcindor as Epsom beat Leatherhead 1-0
at home.

23/9/96
Malcolm Spratt's last game as manager due to business commitments. Epsom beat
Croydon 3-1

Barrie Webb
the former Croydon and Redhill manager takes over. Spratt had been in charge
since 1991.

28/9/96
Reserves have no game this day.

30/9/96 Epsom defeat Chipstead 2-1 but programme disputes
the scorer of the second goal. Programme says

Cawthorne,
while paper report seays Owen. I will stick with programme on this. Check v
stats

7/10/96 A spectacular strike from Andy Nimmo sees Epsom
past Sheerwater in Surrey Premier Cup 1-0 after

extra time. The goal came in the first period. Ben Forey
and Micky Owen were ineligible due to first team appearances.

15/10/96 Epsom
qualify for qf's of Suburban League Shield after a 5-2 win at Carshalton Ath.
Ben Forey

scored twice
while Cawthorne, K.Webb and Tony O'Connor also scored.

15/10/96 New Manager Barrie Webb was away on holiday so
Gary Rands and Ian Estall ran the side this day. Dave

Argent returned
from suspension but Tony Hoy was suspended.

15/10/96
Referee was Paul Maskell who still regularly runs the line at Epsom first
team games.

15/10/96 In the Carshalton line up this day was future
player Jamie Sinclair and 1988 Sutton FA Cup hero Matthew Hanlan.

Oct 96
reference to Neal Sabourn being known as "Sotty". Not sure why
though. Heavy tan maybe?

19/10/96 Epsom lead through Nick Cawthorne and Rawlinson
also scores but they still lose 3-2 at Leatherhead.

Oct 96 Dave
Draper leaves for Tooting & Mitcham.

28/10/96 Andy
Rawlinson scores twice as Epsom defeat Croydon Athletic 3-1 at Merland Rise
in awful

conditions. One
of these was a penalty rebound after his own mispen (SAVE).

9/11/96 A Tony
O'Connor goal looked like it was enough to see Epsom past Vandyke in the
Surrey Premier

Cup, but a late equaliser sent the tie into extra time,
where Epsom lost 4-1. Game played at London Fire Brigade

Ground (presume
it was the one used in the eighties near NESCOT in Ewell).

18/11/96 Two goals in the first five minutes was a great
start but that was the final score as we beat Raynes Park Vale.

7/12/96 Epsom
draw 2-2 at Chipstead for whom their manager, former Palace player Jim Cannon
makes his

first appearance for many years. One goal was credited to
Darren Webb whose free kick took a slight deflection off

Paul Keeley. Surprised it wasn't credited to Keeley but
I'm not going to change it now! Chipstead's first goal was a

header from a
corner by former player Barry Stone.

16/12/96 Chris Bedworth pensave v Tooting & Mitcham.
We were 3-0 up at the time and won 4-0 at Merland Rise.

16/12/96 Kevin
Smith also returned to the line up following "serious illness".

25/1/97 Epsom
trail at HT in SL Shield QF at Hayes but came back and got a last minute
winner through

Rawlinson.
Described as a "fortunate" win.

1/3/97 Epsom
lose 3-1 to Basingstoke in the Suburban League Cup Semi-Final. Goalless after
90 minutes,

they conceded
a disputed penalty and were 2-0 down before Neil Sabourn got one back but as
they pushed

for an
equaliser they conceded a third near the end.

26/3/97 Darren Webb sent off v Fisher Ath. He was in goal
at the time and a Fisher player went too after a scuffle.

Tony O'Connor
then went in goal despite only being on the field for a few minutes.

24/4/97 Marc
Rivers HT in a 4-0 win at Banstead.

26/4/97 Barrie Webb has to play Paul Murphy as an outfield
player as Epsom crash 5-1 at Croydon. He was a sub.

Andy Rawlinson
is joint highest scorer in Suburban League with 15 (J.Kirwan (Cor Casuals)).

24/4/97, 26/4/97, 28/4/97 and 3/5/97 Calculated
appearances are missing one app and one goal which are still missing at

the end of the
season.

24/4/97, 26/4/97, 28/4/97 and 3/5/97 Apart from that
missing entry I have calculated the teams for these games from the

match programme. However, there are 19 other players who
played in some of these four matches and I don't know which

ones. They
are: R.Dymond (2), G.Harfield (2), K.Webb (2), C.Wood (2), D.Jones (3),
T.O'Connor (2), M.Owen,

G.Morris, A.Rawlinson, J.Rahman, G.Rands,
unknown (x1)

There are also
four other subs who came on in these games. They are: G.Rands (2),
T.O'Connor, R.Dymond

There are also seven goals to allocate but I only have six
scorers. They are: M.Rivers (3), R.Dymond, D.Meyer, A.Rawlinson

We had subs for
all games so at no time did we play with ten. One app is definitely missing.

Friendlies

H/A

Score

Prog?

25/08/1996

Sutton United

A

three half hour games. Scores not reported.

27/07/1996

Banstead Ath

A

2-3

Boxall, Miller

HT 0-1

27/07/1996

Banstead Ath

A

1-2

RES

31/07/1996

Feltham

A

0-1

HT 0-0

31/07/1996

Carshalton FC

H

1-2

RES

@ Weston Green

02/08/1996

Farleigh Rovers

?

3-0

RES

Friday night

prob home

03/08/1996

Cove

A

0-1

HT 0-1

(8 mins)

05/08/1996

Hampton

A

2-0

Boxall, Boorman

HT 1-0

Att 40

10/08/1996

Farnham

A

2-0

Galloway, Boxall

HT 1-0

13/08/1996

Cobham

A

0-0

14/09/1996

Maidenhead United

A

3-3

Owen, Boxall (2)

HT 1-3

26/03/1997

Hampton

A

2-3