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RFL1s

9th out of 24

FAC

Pr rep

Corinthian Casuals

1-2

FAT

2nd

Newport County

1-2

LC

Pr

Ashford Tn (Middx)

1-4

SSC

2nd

Walton Casuals

0-1

Home
Ground:

Banstead Athletic F.C.

Chairman

Pete Lumm

Vice-Chairman

Derick Hayles

Manager

Adrian Hill

resigned 8/4/03

Secretary

Dave Wilson

01372-729817

0207 393-3652 (W)

Treasurer

Pete Lumm

0208 603-0475 (w)

AGM?

25/06/02
Training starts

Kevin Lock has
not joined the club after his loan spell.

10/7/02 Newly
formed AFC Wimbledon play first friendly at Sutton and lose 4-0 in front of
4,627. Future Epsom player

Nick Drew
played for Sutton and former Epsom player David Fry played for Wimbledon.

14/7/02
Former Epsom legend Johnny Eales dies aged 56. Member of the 75 Vase side,
and the first to

die
(probably). He had been present at Epsom's game in April 02 with Tring Town.

24/7/02
Funeral at St Giles Church in Ashtead - 3pm.

July 02 New
club formed AFC Wimbledon, groundsharing at first with Kingstonian, but
eventually taking it over with

K's as
tenants. They play their first friendly this month being defeated 4-0 by
Sutton United at Gander Green Lane in

front of
4,657. Epsom ,Sutton and Kingstonian all vote for them to be elected to the
Ryman League but are outvoted

and they start
life in the Combined Counties League where they will spend the next two
years.

July 02 Threat
that Croydon will fold over unpaid VAT but they survive the order.

July 02
League minimum admittance charge is £5 so entry will rise from £3. The extra
cash we generate will go

towards the
Youth Team says Pete Lumm.

July 02 Epsom
are drawn at Corinthian Casuals in FA Cup with the winners to visit Met
Police or Lancing.

July 02 Epsom
are drawn at Fleet Town in the F.A.Trophy. The winners visit Staines Town who
are currently

groundsharing
at Egham while Wheatsheaf Park is redeveloped. They used Walton & Hersham
last year.

July 02 In
Surrey Senior Cup we are at home to Westfield and a home game against Walton
Casuals for the winners.

July 02
Richard Sell has undergone a knee operation, while Andy Nimmo who was out all
season is to have a final

operation on
his ankle. Sell should be back in two or three months while Nimmo could be
three weeks.

July 02 Pete
Lumm says "I don't expect us to go very far in the Trophy" yet we
end up going to Wales in the end!

23/7/02 Epsom
start season with a 2-1 friendly win over Chessington & Hook at Chalky
Lane, with goals from

Huckle and
Hatton in the first half but Chessington pull one back 8 minutes from time.
Epsom programme wrongly

advises score
as 2-0.

July 02 James
Hall no longer being on Reading's horizon.

July 02
reference to former player Barry Miller, brother of Stuart now playing for
Doncaster Rovers. Had been at

Gillingham but
now Doncaster Captain.

July 02
Staines Town sign former player Paul Sears.

27/7/02 2pm
and 4pm friendlies for first and reserve teams against Horsham YMCA at
Gorings Mead.

27/7/02 Micky
Owen gets married this day so Epsom are depleted. Kevin Webb and Mark
Freeborough. Adrian

Toppin was at
his sister's wedding, while Dave Hyatt was on holiday and Graham Morris was
working. Epsom led

after 58
minutes with an assist from Jefferson Curtis whose long kick was controlled
and scored by Barry Stevens

Horsham YMCA
equalised after 61 and Huckle was just over the bar at the end.

3/8/02
Friendlies for first and reserve teams at Three Bridges but not to be played
on their main ground.

3/8/02 Epsom
crumble to a 3-0 loss at Three Bridges. Adrian Hill not too worried about the
score but the performance

was poor. We
will be in trouble if we play like this during the season.

Aug 02 Epsom
drawn at home to Camberley Town in League Cup. This is wrong and we are
actually at home to

Ashford Town
(Mx).

10/8/02
Friendlies for first and reserve teams at Bedfont.

Epsom win 5-1
to gain a little revenge for their FA Cup horror show last August. Fabio
Carpene scored after 6 minutes

and Simon
Hatton's cross was hooked in by Andy Baptiste for Joel Rogers to score after
55. It was 3-0 after 63 with

a good strike
from Hatton. Bedfont scored on 70 but Kevin Webb scored after 80 with a free
kick and a Hatton penalty

in the final
minute after Hall was fouled completed the scoring.

13/8/02 James
Hall and an own goal from Abbott make up the scorers in a 2-0 friendly win at
Dorking.

Aug 02 Adrian
Hill says Carshalton or Bognor must be favourites to win the division. He
thus predicts the top two!

Aug 02 Two new
players, Ray Power and Andy Baptiste who is a St Lucia international.

Aug 02 future
player Leon Raishbrook returns to Corinthian Casuals from Croydon Athletic.

17/8/02 Debut
for my blue Epsom cap! Steve Davies bought it along.

17/8/02 Tim
Smith injured after friendly with Dorking and will be out for a week or two.
Papers report it as 2-1.

17/8/02 Epsom
start season with a 1-0 win at Met Police. Nigel Bennett limped off after ten
minutes with a knee

injury, and
Ray Power made his debut as a sub. Epsom led on 26 after a half cleared
corner was drilled back in by

Barry Stevens
and it went in, taking a slight deflection off an outstretched defender's
foot that was on the line.

Fabio Carpene
also made debut this day coming on for Rogers while Hatton came on for
Stevens who had suffered a

knock on his
ankle. Webb was just wide near the end of the game.

Bennett will
be out for a while with ligament damage.

20/8/02 Epsom
make it two wins out of two thanks to a great Simon Hatton strike after 68
minutes. Possession was

just in
favour of the visitors but they didn't make much with it, and Hatton's shot
from 18 yards would have gone a lot

further if
the net hadn't been there to stop it. Barry Stevens was out for this game and
the next one v Bracknell.

Top of the
League for first time in twenty two years. Top from 24/8/02 to 23/9/02.

24/8/02 Epsom
finally defeat Bracknell in a home match, as they win 3-2 to go top of the
table for the first time since

1980. Epsom
are two points clear but conceded after 13 minutes. Epsom were level after 19
after Webb was fouled

and Hatton
scored the penalty. Hall headed in Buckley's corner after 38 and Power's pass
found Webb whose deep

cross was
headed in by Huckle. Bracknell pulled one back on 87 but Epsom held on to win
for the first time in ten

League
attempts.

Aug 02 Marcus
Kempster is released by the club but would return in January.

26/8/02
Performance of the season as Epsom win 3-1 at Worthing. They were one of the
favourites for the title and

Epsom had won
three games before this Bank Holiday Monday game, but Epsom were ahead on 36
seconds after

Barry Stevens
cross / shot looped over the keeper. Ninety seconds later it was 2-0 as
Stevens again did the hard

work and his
pass left Huckle a close range chance which he scored despite the keeper
getting his hands on it.

Worthing got
one back after 61 but this only made Epsom stronger and Stevens finished
calmly with a lob over the

keeper after
74 minutes. Brighton Argus says that "the visitors always looked to have
the greater quality."

Epsom have the
only 100% record in the Division with four wins.

Adrian Hill
not getting carried away though.

31/8/02 Epsom
draw 1-1 at Corinthian Casuals in this FA Cup tie. Former Epsom Youth player
John Russell-Smith

hit the bar
in the first half, but Epsom led after 48 when Buckley's cross was headed in
by Huckle. However, future

Epsom player
Leon Raishbrook equalised after 74 minutes.

3/9/02 Replay
is lost 2-1 at Merland Rise. Nasty game involved two sending offs after 20
minutes. Sohiby was

sent off for
hitting Lee Dooley but Adrian Toppin retaliated and also saw red. Epsom
should have led after 30 when

Stevens
brilliant run was ended in a foul but Hatton mispen (SAVE). Then James Hall
limped off just before half time

and Casuals
hit the bar. They took the lead after 56 and scored again after 73. Graham
Morris pulled one back after

76 but a late
rally came to nothing. Kevin Webb's brother Mark, a former Epsom Reserve team
player came on for

Casuals in the
second half.

Sept 02 James
Hall will be out for three matches injured. Adam Stones steps in for these
games.

7/9/02 Epsom
make it five League wins out of five with a 3-0 win over Chertsey Town at
Merland Rise. They were

bottom and
without a point and Huckle hit a post early. Epsom led after 37 when Rogers
hooked in from a Huckle

knock back.
Power made the game safe after 87 with a penalty for a foul by Webb and after
89 Toppin scored with a

low drive.
Andy Baptiste first team debut. Appeared promising but would only ever make
two sub appearances.

11/9/02 Epsom
drop their first League points in a 0-0 draw at Croydon. Epsom had the best
of the very limited

chances in
this poor game. Adrian Hill calls our performance "dreadful".
"We haven't played like that for months" he

added. No real
programme produced, just a team sheet.

14/9/02 Epsom
have a free Saturday after their FA Cup defeat and some fringe players will e
used against Westfield

in the Surrey
Senior Cup. Hill says "I'm not really interested in the competition as
my main aim is to establish

ourselves as
a Division One side this year". He has one eye on the next League match
against Leatherhead.

Sept 02 future
player Matt Fowler is with Sutton United this season.

17/9/02 Epsom
edge past Westfield in Surrey Senior Cup 4-2 at Merland Rise. Bennett,
Dooley, Hall all injured and

Barry Stevens
was away, but Andy Nimmo returned after 14 months out having played 70
minutes for the Reserves.

He was not
expecting to return so quickly but had to come on after 17 minutes for the
injured Adam Stones. Epsom

led after 25
when Power converted a Hatton cross but Westfield were level a minute later.
Epsom went ahead again

after 48 as
Hatton took advantage of former Leatherhead legend John Cassidy's slip and
chipped the keeper and

Epsom looked
in charge, but Freeborough's own goal after 65 made it level again. Power got
his second after 76 with

Joel Rogers
wrapping things up in the final minute.

Adrian Toppin
suspended for three matches starting with the Leatherhead game on 21/9/02 but
Hill is hoping that

James Hall
will return. He does.

21/9/02 Papers
say it is James Hall's 200th appearance but it is only 196.

21/9/02 Epsom
defeat Leatherhead 2-1 at Merland Rise in a game blighted by two terrible
refereeing decisions.

Epsom do most
of the work in the first half but the visitors get stronger in the second.
Epsom lead after 54 on a

breakaway
with Webb's finish deceiving the keeper Julian Gray. A soft penalty equaliser
after 68 when a Leatherhead

player ran
into Power and fell over. Former and future pro Alex Inglethorpe scored from
the spot. Game boiled over in

the last
twenty minutes with seven yellow cards. On 87 Epsom got a penalty of their
own when a Stevens cross

deflected off
a player's foot onto his arm. Another poor decision and Power scored the
winner from the spot. Three

bookings for
Epsom; Webb, Stevens and Hatton.

23/9/02
Battle of Colston Avenue. Top of the table match saw Epsom relinquish top
spot in a 2-0 defeat to Carshalton

on a Monday
night. Nasty game which resulted in the Carshalton manager Graham Roberts
branding the Epsom

players as
"a disgrace to football" Of all the players to throw that
accusation out...!! Generally admitted that this was

the day when
Adrian Hill lost his appetite for the job. This incident would have at least
a partial bearing on his

decision to
retire at the end of the season.

Graham
Roberts continues, "I can't believe they were top of the league. They
can't have played anyone good yet and

must be up
there by force." A typical ignorant and over reaction comment.

23/9/02 Lee
Dooley and Kevin Webb were sent off in a match that left the home side with
two serious injuries. The

home side
also had a man off. Dave Hyatt had a fine game but was at fault for the first
goal which was a soft shot

that went
straight through him after 40 minutes. Dooley went for two bookable
challenges while Hyatt was booked for

a challenge
that left a home player with some serious knee damage. Not long afterwards
another home player suffered

a broken
ankle and Carshalton scored against the ten men after 70 minutes. Then they
had a player sent off for

retaliation
to Dooley's challenge before Webb went for a second bookable challenge.
Carshalton report advises "some

of the worst
tackles seen at Colston Avenue for a long time." Totally out of
character for our boys with the possible

exception of
Dooley who would receive his own punishment later in the season. Second half
delayed while waiting for

ambulances to
arrive.

Sep 02
Bulletin advises that Andy Oswald is released by the club but I have no
record of anyone by that name.

28/9/02 Walton
& Hersham (A) is p-p as they are still in the FA Cup. Rearranged for
5/11/02.

28/9/02
Friendly at Farnham is won 5-0. Kevin Webb scored twice with goals from
Nimmo, Stevens and Huckle.

Sept 02 future
player Jamie Goodwin is with Corinthian Casuals this season.

1/10/02 Epsom
draw 1-1 at home to Horsham. James Hall shot over the keeper but was wide.
However the keeper

had collided
with Hall and the ref gave a penalty which Paul Bunter scored after 28
minutes, but a long throw did the

damage after
84 minutes as we conceded an equaliser. Fair result though.

The draw puts
Epsom back on top of the table although Carshalton have a game in hand.

Oct 02 Paul
Bunter rejoins the club and Andy Baptiste is released after time keeping
issues travelling from Peckham.

Oct 02 Robbie
Burns joins Walton Casuals from C&H

5/10/02 Epsom
travel to Fleet Town for an FA Trophy tie not long after the two teams had
met there in the Vase (2000).

The Blues
were the better side and led after 25 minutes when Stevens picked out Joel
Rogers who headed the cross

in, but Fleet
equalised after 47 with a drive from distance. Right at the end though
Stevens missed an open goal

from 15 yards as he chipped the ball over the bar. No
extra time in Trophy games so a replay is required on Wednesday.

8/10/02 Walton
& Hersham (A) is p-p for the FA Trophy replay against Fleet. Rearranged
for 5/11/02.

9/10/02 James
Hall and Simon Huckle scored to ease Epsom through this replay against Fleet
by a 2-0 scoreline. It

some way
short of recent performances, and they were missing Kevin Webb and Lee Dooley
who were suspended.

Hall scored after 17 minutes and Huckle had a goal
disallowed soon after but netted anyway after 57 with a delicate lob.

Epsom travel
to Egham to meet groundsharing Staines Town in the next round.

9/10/02 We
were also missing Nigel Bennett and Jamie Buckley through injury, while Joel
Rogers was away and Paul

Bunter was
ineligible.

Oct 02 former
keeper Robert Frankland is at Croydon Athletic this season. Has been there a
while.

Oct 02 former
player Marcus Kempster joins Carshalton Athletic.

Oct 02 Mapo
Otite is released by the club.

Oct 02 Jamie
Sinclair leaves for Redhill. Already there are Paul Whitthread and Rossi
Hartigan, all former Epsom.

reported
11/10/02 Former player George Smith is currently at Pease Pottage Village in
Sussex Division 3 and is 35.

However, this
day his 14 year old son also played in this 8-0 win over Ifield. His son
replaced him on the field.

12/10/02
Epsom's unbeaten run at home goes on with a fine 1-1 draw with Bognor Regis.
Bognor mispen (POST) after

Hyatt had
fouled the Bognor player after 28 minutes but they led after 46. Fortunately
we were back level within a

minute when
Huckle equalised with a swerving shot from 25 yards. Dooley and Webb returned
from their one game

suspensions
picked up against Carshalton.

15/10/02
Disappointment at King George's Fields as Corinthian Casuals defeat us 1-0.
Future Epsom player Jamie

Goodwin
scored after 28 minutes when he forced the ball over the line following a
scramble. Epsom had the better

chances
before that but Casuals also hit a post in the second half. They also had a
player sent off after 80 for pushing

Lee Dooley but
Epsom couldn't threaten further. Epsom are no longer top.

15/10/02
Former Epsom players Paul Whitthread and Jamie Sinclair are at Redhill.

19/10/02
Epsom lead early at Mayfields where Croydon Athletic won every home league
game last year, but the game

finishes
level at 1-1. Athletic had many injuries including former players Tony
Quinton and Robert Frankland. Kevin

Webb's free
kick was headed back in by Huckle for James Hall to score after just 90
seconds, but Croydon were level

after 6
minutes and Epsom did not take their chances and paid the price with two
dropped points. Also Adrian Toppin

was booked
for dissent while Webb was lucky to stay on the pitch after an awful
challenge got him a yellow card too,

while Lee
Dooley also got booked later on. Epsom were unchanged for the third straight
game, but are looking jaded.

22/10/02 Egham
(H) is moved for Epsom's Surrey Senior Cup tie with Walton Casuals.

23/10/02 A
first half goal is enough for Walton Casuals to dump Epsom out of the Surrey
Senior Cup at Merland Rise.

Oct 02 Before
Epsom's two matches against Ashford Town (Mx) Adrian Hill says he is not
interested in the cups and

will play his strongest side in the League match and will
play people who have not had regular games in the League cup

tie. It shows.

Oct 02 former
loan player Kevin Lock is released by Banstead Athletic. He joins Carshalton
Athletic.

26/10/02 A
three goal first half burst sees Epsom through to a comfortable 3-0 League
win over Ashford. Epsom led

after 27 when
Huckle knocked the ball back for Barry Stevens to score with a low shot.
Three minutes later Stevens

was put
through by Graham Morris and although his shot was saved, he was first to the
loose ball and rolled it in to the

empty net. It
was 3-0 on 44 minutes when Webb bundled in a Huckle cross. We nearly got a
fourth early in the second

half but eased
up a little.

30/10/02
Ashford got revenge in this League Cup tie with a 4-1 win after the teams
were level at half time. Huckle and

Stevens were
on the bench for this game and should have been ahead after 7 minutes when
Rogers blazed over. Dave

Hyatt 350th appearance say papers but it was actually 347.
Ashford led soon after Rogers miss, but Epsom were back

level soon
after when Rogers drilled home from the edge of the area. However, they were
behind again and then got

caught on the
break with Hall conceding an own goal before a late penalty sent the visitors
through.

Mark Freeborough and Kevin Webb had also been rested for
this game, but apart from Adam Stones, the replacements

were all
regulars. Adrian Hill is unhappy with the performance despite sending out a
weakened side and felt they lost

their
discipline.

2/11/02
Substitute Richard Ingham (19) took the plaudits with a second half winner
after coming off the bench to defeat

Staines Town
at Egham's Tempest Road ground. It was deserved and Staines should have had a
player sent off in the

opening minute as Barry Stevens was through on goal but
was tripped from behind, but the referee decided that a yellow

card was
sufficient. Poor. Staines then went ahead after 51 minutes and former Epsom
player Paul Sears cleared the

danger as
Epsom pressed. After 59 minutes though Hall powered in a fine header from a
corner and Toppin's header

found Ingham
who controlled and struck a fierce shot for the winner after 66 minutes. He
had only been on the field

for three
minutes. Staines nearly equalised right at the end, but Epsom held on and the
draw for the next round was

kind, sending
Epsom to play Newport County at Spytty Park in Wales, at the time the third
longest journey at 137

miles in the
club's history.

Nov 02 future
player Tommy Moorhouse is released by Molesey.

Nov 02 former player Nigel Webb is released by Carshalton
Athletic. He joins brother Tony at Tooting & Mitcham United.

Nov 02 M.Otite
leaves for Fisher

Nov 02
R.Rockfeller joins Beaconsfield from Maidenhead

5/11/02 Dull
goalless draw at Stompond Lane only enlivened by the fireworks surrounding
the ground. Ingham came in

for the
injured Stevens (hamstring) but the game was one of few chances although Hall
was just over with a header in

the first
minute. Rogers had a goal disallowed near the end but in injury time a Walton
player was clean through but

scuffed his
shot horribly wide. We would not be so fortunate on our next visit in 2003.

9/11/02 The
great escape. Epsom trailed at Whyteleafe after 39 minutes, and Hall hit the
bar after 55 minutes before

scoring a
second goal on 90 minutes. The keeper turned to us behind the goal and said
"game over", but in injury time

Epsom scored twice to secure a point. Firstly Webb scored
after Huckle's shot had been well saved, and then Webb hit

the post and the ball came back out to Tim Smith who
smashed the ball in after four minutes of injury time. The referee

blew the
whistle for full time straight afterwards.

Nov 02 former
player Warren Burton transfers from Hampton & Richmond Borough to Lewes.

12/11/02
Epsom lose 4-3 at Windsor & Eton in midweek with two late goals at the
end of the game for the second

straight
match, but they are well beaten. Jefferson Curtis makes his debut in goal for
the injured Hyatt, but despite

making a good
save after 10 minutes the loose ball was turned in for the opening goal.
Epsom equalised after 19

through Rogers who finished off a clever Ingham pass.
However Windsor went ahead again on 31 and then further ahead

after 58 and
61 but the Blues fought back and Webb scored with a great 20 yard free kick
right into the top corner at

pace and
after having shouts for a penalty denied near the end, we earned one in
injury time after a foul on Rogers,

which Bunter
scored, but the final whistle came straight after an Epsom goal for the
second game in a row. Toppin

booked for kicking the ball away and will now serve a one
game suspension against Dulwich Hamlet for his fifth booking.

16/11/02
Lewes had just beaten Chertsey 7-0 and did the same to end Epsom's unbeaten
home record with a crash.

There was also some desperately bad refereeing, which
bordered on bias. Epsom were only 2-0 down at half time, but in

the second
half it went really bad. Kevin Webb was suspended but Barry Stevens had
returned after a hamstring injury.

Lee Dooley
was sent off for two bookable offences and there was a particular moment when
we had a free kick which

our player
moved about a yard towards his team mate for him to take it. As the player
picked it up to position it for the

free kick, the
referee blew for handball! Very bizarre decision. Six different scorers plus
a Tim Smith o.g.

Nov 02
Following the Lewes game Adrian Hill reminds his team about losing their
discipline, bearing in mind the earlier

match at
Carshalton.

23/11/02
Epsom have to settle for a point at Ashford Town (Mx) largely due to an easy
miss from Simon Huckle when

he rolled a
chance wide of an open goal from twelve yards when we were a goal up. Ashford
had been beaten 8-0 the

week before
by Bognor. Kevin Espinosa replaced Jeff Curtis in goal while Webb had
completed his one match ban and

returned to
the team. Epsom led after 20 from a thundering James Hall header and there
were chances at both ends,

but after
Huckle's miss on 85 minutes Ashford equalised almost straight from their free
kick through former Sheffield

United player
Davidson.

Nov 02 Chris
Barnes and Craig Dunne leave for Dorking. Barnes would return one day.

26/11/02
Pulsating game at Merland Rise as Dulwich Hamlet led 2-0 and 3-1 but Epsom
recovered to draw 3-3.

Nigel Bennett
had come in for injured Mark Freeborough while Andy Nimmo replaced Lee Dooley
and Jamie Buckley

returned from injury in place of suspended Adrian Toppin.
However a poor Bennett clearance let the visitors in for the first

goal on 5
minutes and it was 2-0 after 18 from a corner that we flicked on ourselves!
We pulled one back after 37 with

another
header by James Hall from a corner, but on 43 minutes the Dulwich substitute
scored from 25 yards. Buckley

then found Stevens after 63 minutes and his pass was
converted by Huckle and three minutes later we were level when

Webb headed
home a Stevens cross and as Hill went for the win Ingham came on for Rogers
but we couldn't take the

half chances
that came our way and had to settle for the point despite finishing the
stronger of the sides.

30/11/02
Epsom's game at Tooting & Mitcham is p-p for the FA Trophy tie.
Rearranged for 7/1/03.

30/11/02
Epsom travelled to Wales for the first ever time and were unlucky to lose 2-1
to a goal two minutes from time

in the
streaming rain at Spytty Park, Newport County's new ground after Somerton
Park the old League venue was

demolished. Epsom deserved a replay despite missing Lee
Dooley who started a two match suspension and Dave Hyatt

remained out
with his hip injury and Mark Freeborough's knee was not up to the task.
Newport went ahead after 19

with a good low curling strike and they created most of
the chances before Epsom equalised on 41 when Barry Stevens

tucked the ball away at the far post from Huckle's ball
in. Ingham replaced Rogers and we began to look the better of the

sides before
a header was looped over Espinosa. Very harsh. Newport were the division
above us at the time in the

Southern
League and their Manager was Peter Nicholas the former Palace and Arsenal
player who was a Welsh

International
born in Newport. Clean game with no bookings despite the weather.

Nov 02 Adrian
Hill still says that staying up is the only priority. Just as well as Epsom
are now out of all cups.

Dec 02 former
player Warren Burton is released by Lewes. He joins Molesey.

Dec 02 Robbie
Burns joins AFC Wimbledon from Walton Casuals

Dec 02 Nick
Ktorou joins from Walton Casuals

Dec 02 Micky
Hudson joins from Cor Cas

Dec 02 P.Doyle
joins from Cor Cas

Dec 02 Jamie
Reive joins Walton Casuals from Chipstead

7/12/02 Lee
Dooley and Tim Smith are missing as Bromley win 2-1 at Merland Rise with a
winner six minutes from

time. Mark
Freeborough returned to the defence with Bennett moving into Smith's right
back slot. Bromley were ahead

after 24
minutes but equalised through Rogers who converted Stevens cross after 70
minutes before the sad ending.

Hall had also
had a goal disallowed after 49 for an alleged foul on the keeper.

10/12/02 Egham
(H) is p-p.

14/12/02 First win in nine matches for Epsom as they
completed a double over Met Police by 1-0 again as was the case

back in
August. However, they should have won by more. Former player Aaron Phillips
played for Met Police. Finally

Epsom took
the lead after 71 minutes when Tim Smith sent Stevens off down the right. He
beat two players and his

curling cross was rammed in at the far post by Huckle.
Stevens nearly scored a few minutes later. Lee Dooley came on

as substitute
after his suspension had ended.

Dec 02 Simon
Hatton transfers from Epsom to Dorking.

Dec 02 future
player Matt Fowler is with Sutton United this season.

21/12/02 Staines Town (A) is p-p at Egham. The winter
weather ensures that we will play at Staines' redeveloped ground in March .

26/12/02
Banstead Ath (H) is p-p. Rearranged for 14/01/03. Same programme issued for
the rearranged match with

an insert.

28/12/02
Bracknell Town (A) is p-p.

1/1/03 Molesey
(A) is p-p.

4/1/03
Worthing (H) is p-p due to flooding following a thaw. Programme not produced.

7/1/03
Tooting & M (A) was p-p for a frozen pitch. Prog Y. Everyone travelled
over despite the chances of play being nil.

Jan 03 Marcus
Kempster is released by Carshalton Athletic. He rejoins Epsom & Ewell.

Jan 03 future
player Barry Seal is released by Carshalton Athletic.

Jan 03 former
player Danny Arkwright transfers from Whyteleafe to Corinthian Casuals.

Jan 03 Jamie
Reeve joins Walton Casuals from Chipstead

Jan 03 former
player Warren Burton returns to Lewes from Molesey.

11/1/03
Corinthian Casuals (H) is p-p. Prog was not produced.

Jan 03
currently training at Court Rec in Epsom.

Jan 03 Adrian
Hill is hoping to get Richard Sell back from a knee injury within a month.
"It would be like getting a

new
player" says Hill.

14/1/03
Banstead beat Epsom for the first time since 1975 with a 3-1 victory in
Epsom's home game. It was Epsom's

first game
since 14/12/02 and Banstead were worthy winners, leading after 12 minutes on
a windy day.

However,
Epsom equalised midway through the first half with a Barry Stevens effort
from 25 yards which was scuffed

and
embarrassed the keeper by going in. Banstead retook the lead on 51 with a
shot from distance into the top corner

and scored a
third in the last couple of minutes. By this time Epsom were down to ten men
after a horrible challenge

from Lee Dooley on the keeper earned a straight red card.
Huckle was also booked and this was his fifth card so will be

suspended for
the game at Bracknell on 28/1/03. See programme comments about postponed game
on 26/12/02.

Jan 03
Following the Banstead game Epsom cancel the contract with Lee Dooley and
release him from the club. It was

his third
sending off of the season and it was a nasty one too, I recall, two-footed on
the keeper for no real reason.

18/1/03 An
improved performance at high flying Bognor Regis, but Bognor broke through
from a 67th minute penalty,

and Epsom conceded twice more to lose 3-0. Dave Hyatt
returned from injury, while Tim Smith came in for the departed

Dooley and
Ray Power returned to the line up ahead of Buckley. Richard Ingham replaced
Joel Rogers up front.

Freeborough
limped off after 47 with Andy Nimmo coming on at right back and Tim Smith
moving to the unfamiliar

centre half
position which didn't help. Hall conceded the penalty though. After 72 Epsom
thought they had scored after

Buckley's
free kick went in from over fifty yards, but it was from an indirect free
kick so was disallowed! Further goals

followed on 77
and 85 to leave a flattering score line.

21/1/03
Friendly at Hailsham p-p.

Jan 03 Adrian
Hill not concerned about Epsom's away form.

25/1/03 A
third minute goal from Adrian Toppin was all that was required for Epsom to
defeat Croydon Athletic at

Merland Rise
with his shot going in via a defender's foot and the post. Former player Tony
Quinton played for Croydon

Athletic but
was injured midway through the game and had to be substituted. Matt Sinclair
came in for Mark

Freeborough
and played well. Marcus Kempster returned from Carshalton and came on as a
substitute.

Jan 03
Isthmian League negotiated a three year extension to its deal with Ryman
worth £400k.

28/1/03 Epsom
always win at Bracknell, and won 3-0 at Larges Lane for their fourth straight
win there. Club says

Graham Morris
made his 600th appearance. They are right. No one else in club history had
ever reached this figure.

Freeborough,
T.Smith, and Huckle were all missing so Marcus Kempster came in. and we led
after 83 seconds when

Hall headed
in Webb's free kick. Then Toppin headed in Buckley's deep cross from an acute
angle not long after.

Bracknell hit
woodwork four times in first half injury time! Webb was felled in the box on
76 and Nimmo scored

from the spot.
Hyatt played really well and made a number of saves. First away win in nine
games.

Kempster has
returned from a spell at Carshalton. Luke Jones has joined Redhill. Barry
Stevens and Kevin Webb

struggling
with injury and could do with the Egham game being off.

Jan 03 former player Robin Lewis resigns coaching position
at Hampton & Richmond Borrough due to work commitments.

1/2/03 Egham
(A) is p-p. Weather related. Rearranged to 15th April.

Feb 03
Freeborough out with injury but Adrian Hill says that Matt Sinclair is
playing well.

Feb 03 future
keeper Paul Borg moves temporarily to Banstead Athletic from Carshalton
Athletic.

Feb 03 former
player Warren Burton transfers once again from Lewes to Molesey.

Feb 03 C.Dunne
joins W & H

Feb 03 Andy
Davidson joins from Corinthian Casuals

4/2/03 Epsom win away again, this time 1-0 at Molesey to
complete a League double. Kevin Webb scored the only goal

Epsom scored
after 17 minutes from an Ingham cross reached Huckle whose shot was blocked
but Webb finished off

the loose
ball. Hall hit the post on 81 but Epsom still won comfortably. It was our
first ever League win at Walton Road.

Webb was
involved in a serious car accident with an alleged drunk driver half way up
Walton Road on the way

home. He needed to be cut out of his car after a van
toppled onto his bonnet but still wanted to play on Saturday, which

he would. New
Manager syndrome does not work this time as this was Ian Hazel's first game
in charge of Molesey.

8/2/03 An
entertaining game but Carshalton win easily 4-1 at Merland Rise. We went
behind after 23 minutes and

extended
their lead on the hour and it was 3-0 after 76. Hall headed in from a free
kick soon after but a free kick in

injury time
restored the three goal advantage.

Feb 03 former player Martyn Spong is referred to as a
former Brentford and Staines player and is now helping to run the
Staines

academy.

Feb 03 former
Epsom Reserve played Craig Dunne is released by Dorking.

Feb 03 future
keeper Matt Sargeant is released by Kingstonian.

11/2/03 Egham
(H) is p-p. Waterlogged. No programme produced.

15/2/03 Epsom
secure a hard earned point at Fetcham Grove. We conceded after 12 minutes
from a poor Hyatt

clearance and they hit the bar not long afterwards. Alex
Inglethorpe the former and future professional mispen (WIDE) on

28 minutes
after he hit the bar not long afterwards. We equalised on 34 from Ray Power's
cross to Barry Stevens

whose shot
beat former Camberley keeper Justin Gray. After 71 Hyatt retaliated to
receiving an elbow but the referee

only saw the retaliation and awarded the penalty, booking
Hyatt in the process. This time Ali Chabaan took the penalty

which was
(SAVED) by Hyatt and Inglethorpe hit the bar again near the end. Not a great
Epsom performance.

Future player
Alex McKay was the Leatherhead scorer.

17/2/03 Epsom lose friendly at Hampton & Richmond
Borough 2-1 after leading through Kevin Webb after 7 minutes. Their
goals

were after 23
and 85 following defensive mistakes.

22/2/03
Walton are defeated 1-0 thanks to Huckle's eighth goal of the season. Few
clear cut chances but Epsom were

more positive
and deserved the win which arrived following the goal in the 63rd minute. A
scramble resulted in the loose

ball going to
Graham Morris who found Huckle who scored with a low drive and his close
range header was kept

out in the
final minutes.

Feb 03 future
player Mazin Ahmad is released by Molesey.

Feb 03 Adrian
Hill's team have some tough games coming up against Lewes, Horsham, Tooting
& Mitcham and

Staines and warns that if
teams take his side lightly they will come unstuck. He sets a target
of four points from these

games which as
it turns out is what they will get.

Feb 03 James Hall and Tim Smith suspended for Tooting
& M. Smith misses one game while Hall misses three games.

Feb 03 former
keeper Trevor Jones transfers from Corinthian Casuals to Kingstonian.

Feb 03 future
player Adam Broomhead is currently with Dorking.

Mar 03
R.Rockfeller joins Brook House from Beaconsfield

1/3/03 Epsom
lose 2-1 at Horsham to a last minute winner. Epsom were the better side
throughout the second half.

We went
behind when James Hall scored an own goal with his head after 28 minutes but
he scored at the other end

just before
half time as he lashed the ball home after Joel Rogers shot was blocked.
Freeborough still injured and

Sinclair had
flu. Webb had a goal disallowed in the second half while Kempster and Toppin
were both wide with shots.

4/3/03 Epsom
bounce back to win 4-3 in a wild game in their first visit to Tooting &
Mitcham's new Imperial Fields

ground. A Richard Ingham goal in the final minute clinched
the points after we had conceded three times from distance.

The hosts led
after 14 but equalised after 20 when Kevin Webb smashed a loose ball past
former Epsom keeper Tony

Webb. We went
behind again on 30 with a free kick that went through our wall but we were
level again after 40 when

Buckley's
cross was driven home by Webb again at the far post. We then led right on
half time as Ingham's shot was

half saved
but Rogers scored from the rebound. We were pulled back again after 66
minutes but then with four minutes

remaining Webb
was sent off for retaliation. Ingham's winner came after Huckle's shot was
blocked.

I believe
Webb received a second yellow card as opposed to a straight red. Future Epsom
player Steve Symes played

for Tooting
& Mitcham. Kevin Webb 200th appearance.

8/3/03 Epsom lose a close match 1-0 at Lewes in a scrappy
game. Lewes secured their first win in nine matches, a run

which
ultimately ensured that they would miss out on promotion on goal difference.
Tim Smith came in for the injured

Andy Nimmo
and Lewes had a goal disallowed after just 3 minutes for offside. Stevens was
narrowly wide but we

conceded
after 18 as the ball was bundled in from a free kick. Erratic refereeing
display and Webb and Huckle were

both
cautioned for dissent. Nigel Bennett nearly scored an own goal when his
clearance was sliced onto a post.

Mar 03 Chris
Barnes returns to the club from Dorking.

Mar 03 future
player Tommy Moorhouse transfers from Molesey to Walton & Hersham.

11/3/03 Epsom
are the first midweek opponents for Staines Town at their newly created
ground at Wheatsheaf Lane. It

had been completely modernised with the construction of an
enormous health club on the side of the original grandstand

which was
removed and replaced with a newer version. Over a thousand had been present
for their first game against

Carshalton
but only 186 were present here.  An
impressive second half display ensured that we took a 2-2 draw out of

the match. We
were unchanged from the Lewes game but conceded with Staines' first attack
after 13 minutes. In the

second half
Mat Sinclair had a point blank header saved but we finally equalised after 71
minutes when Tim Smith

scored with a swerving drive from 30 yards. Immediately
though we conceded again but Rogers earned a point when he

spotted the
keeper off his line and lobbed him from 25 yards.. Huckle then grazed a post
near the end.

March 03
James Hall returns from his suspension but Freeborough, Power and Nimmo are
all injured. Adrian Hill is

happy to try
out youngsters like Marcus Kempster, Richard Ingham and Nick Williams to see
how good they are.

15/3/03 After
playing well against some of the better sides recently we slipped up 3-1 at
home to Whyteleafe as they

scored two
goals in the last four minutes. James Hall returned but this was the only
change from the Tuesday draw at

Staines. We
led after 55 when Hall headed home his tenth goal of the season from a
curling Webb free kick.

Whyteleafe
were level eight minutes later though after a Hyatt handling error. Richard
Sell came on for his first game in

almost exactly
a year and Toppin and Rogers missed chances before the late Whyteleafe goals.

18/3/03 Epsom
reach Adrian Hill's target figure of 50 points with a goalless draw at home
to Corinthian Casuals. Ada

now sets a
new target to enjoy it and try to reach 60 points. We will eventually reach
69! Richard Sell played the full

90 minutes
but Andy Nimmo is out with a chipped bone and Freeborough and Buckley will
remain out. Kevin Webb is

suspended for
three games. The Casuals game was a dull one with little incident.

22/3/03 Epsom
are still unable to win at Dulwich for the first time since 1931 and concede
a second minute goal.

Stevens had a
shot blocked onto the bar while Toppin headed wide. Unfortunately Sell limped
off at half time to be

replaced by
Buckley. We went further behind on 62 but Rogers headed the ball through to
Huckle who was then

dragged back
by a defender. Morris scored the penalty after 77 but the defender should
have been sent off and we

conceded again
two minutes later.

Mar 03 Sell
is out again while Tim Smith and Joel Rogers also miss out but Freeborough is
back in contention after

coming through
a training session.

29/3/03 "Four-Midtable" performance say papers
as Epsom win first game in six by four clear goals over Windsor & Eton

at Merland
Rise. Huckle and Toppin hit the woodwork with a shot early on and it was no
surprise when we went ahead

on 29 after a great run and shot from Stevens. Rogers
extended the lead within ten seconds of the restart from Stevens'

cross and we went further ahead on 50 when Rogers sent
Toppin clear and he finished with a neat flick over the keeper.

It was 4-0
after 61 when Stevens ran at goal but was robbed just outside the box. The
loose ball fell to Toppin whose

shot cannoned
off the post and straight back to him to finish off! He then hit the bar with
another header. Total

domination.
Windsor had reached the last 16 of the FA Trophy in February.

1/4/03 A
Marcus Kempster goal is enough for Epsom to defeat Egham and we are
mathematically safe, although it

hadn't really
been an issue for a while. He scored in the second half.

5/4/03 Webb returns from suspension but is only on the
bench as Hill sticks with a winning team and they respond with

a 4-0 win
over Croydon at Merland Rise. We led after 28 when Kempster headed in a Barry
Stevens cross and

dominated the
rest of the game. Hall had an effort disallowed for handball when he met the
ball at the far post with his

chest and
definitely NOT his hand which the linesman flagged for. However we extended
the lead on 36 when Huckle's

shot was
blocked to Kempster who scored again. Huckle created the third after 59 for
Adrian Toppin and Buckley

drove in a
free kick after 68. Game ended on a sad note as a Croydon player required an
ambulance for

suspected
broken ribs. As it turned out they were just bruised.

8/4/03 Kevin
Webb, Freeborough and Rogers all came back into the side and we started
sluggishly, falling behind after

14 minutes
and were two down soon afterwards. After 42 minutes Hyatt collapsed after
taking a goal kick and had to

be replaced
but with no sub keeper Huckle came on and Webb went in goal. Two goals in
quick succession ten

minutes into
the second half put the game well out of reach although Morris smashed home a
penalty after Kempster

had been
fouled but the visitors scored a fifth near the end.

After the game it transpires that Hyatt's injury was a
piece of floating bone that had become detached. Keyhole surgery will solve
it.

Adrian Hill
announces his intention to retire following this game. He was originally
leaving at the end of the

season, but
as the club are doing well he chooses to go early and he is replaced by Barry
Barnes with

Mick Stratford
as Assistant

OFFICIAL PRESS
RELEASE:

Manager Adrian Hill has informed Epsom & Ewell F.C. of
his intention to retire from the manager's position. With the

club gaining promotion to Division One South last season
and consolidating their position this term, Hill has decided to

step down at
the end of the season.

Hill informed the Epsom players of his decision after the
Worthing game tonight (Tuesday) at the same time informing

them that his replacement would be Barry Barnes, Epsom's
coach for the past three seasons. Barnes has brought in

former Epsom player Mick Stratford as his
coach.

Hill (57) has been in charge since Ricky Kidd's departure
in March 1990, having previously been in charge from

1982-1985, during which time he steered Epsom into the
Premier Division, as well as making 136 1st XI appearances for

Epsom earlier
in his career.

Epsom & Ewell F.C. wish to officially place on record
their immense thanks to Adrian, for his sterling work over the

years, a highly respected and popular figure at the club,
he fully intends to remain with the club, to assist in any

capacity that
is required.

12/4/03 Epsom
travel to relegated Chertsey and complete a double with their second 3-0 win
of the season against

them. Epsom
never gave them time to settle and led after 30 when Toppin volleyed home
Buckley's free kick and

Kempster got on the end of a Toppin pass to score after
42. Espinosa made a point blank save early in the second half

and Bennett
headed the ball off the line but we scored a third after 64 through Hall
whose looping header was his

eleventh of the season and he nearly got another near the
end as one header was saved and another headed off the line.

Espinosa was
in for the injured Hyatt and Rogers is now out for the season too.

15/4/03 Egham
had not lost at home for two months but Epsom win 3-0. After a slow first
twenty minutes we led after

42 through
Kempster and Huckle hit an unstoppable shot into the net on 53 before Webb
made another

good finish
after 78. We were missing Sinclair due to work, Ingham, Rogers and Hyatt to
injury. Nick

Ktorou debut
(19). Joined from Walton Casuals.

19/4/03 An 88th minute goal from Huckle was enough to give
Epsom the points against Staines at Merland Rise. It was

our third
match against them this season and we had two wins and a draw. A windy day
didn't help Matt Sinclair and

Kevin Webb
came back into the side and we made most of the running in the first half but
it was looking like it

would finish
as a draw before Huckle headed in Webb's free kick. It would be our last win
of the season.

21/4/03
Regular supporter and brother of Chairman, Dave Lumm passed away following a
heart attack. He was 51.

21/4/03 Easter Monday game with Banstead started badly and
got worse. We conceded in the first minute before Hall's

header was
kept out by Paul Borg, future Epsom keeper. Banstead had one chalked off for
offside after 11 but we were

undone by a
long throw after 22. Morris hit the Banstead bar from 30 yards soon after but
we conceded a third on 47

and a free
kick after 49 completed the scoring. Towards the end Borg saved from Webb and
Buckley free kicks.

Apr 03 Dave
Hyatt requires keyhole surgery which discovers a two inch piece of bone that
was floating around and had

caused his
ankle to seize up. It is thought that this came off when he took the goal
kick at home to Worthing, and it

is not as
feared, an achilles injury. He was at the Banstead game on crutches and spent
some time behind the goal

with the
supporters. He should be fine for next season say doctors.

26/4/03
Minute's silence held for Dave Lumm, brother of Chairman Peter who had been
coming to more games that

season after a
few years away. He died on Monday 21st April.

26/4/03 Epsom
miss a hatful of chances, as we are pegged back twice for a 2-2 draw with
Tooting

&
Mitcham. We led after just 8 minutes when Huckle put Kempster clear but he
was fouled just outside the box, but

Webb curled
the free kick past former Epsom keeper Tony Webb. However, within a minute
Webb had conceded a

penalty and
the scores were level. We led again after 27 when a Chris Barnes shot
deflected to Toppin who had an

easy finish.
The visitors hit the post and bar joint on 58 and equalised with a good
strike after 83. Nigel Bennett had a

late chance
but headed Morris's cross wide. Barry Stevens absence was missed and Tim
Smith was unavailable.

The point
earned guarantees Epsom a ninth place finish with one game remaining.

3/5/03 Epsom create the better chances but are defeated
with a second half goal at their bogey ground, Bromley. Kevin

Webb was sent
off again late in the game. We conceded after 55 and Webb went on 65. Rogers
was back in the team

after
originally being thought to be out for the season. Came on near the end.

May 03
Clarkson Hyde move from bottom of the Redhill & District League last
season to Champions This is largely

due to Andy
Boxall former Epsom player scoring 34 goals. Another long serving player Tony
Boorman also plays,

despite being
about 41 by now.

10/5/03 Awards Evening at Cuddington Golf Club Barry
Barnes did the presentations and Adrian Hill did the introductions.

First Team
Player of the Year: Barry Stevens (picked up by James Hall as he was absent)

Players Player
of the Year: Dave Hyatt

Second Team
Player of the Year: Nick Williams

Players Player
of the Year: Adam Stones

Most Improved
Player: Nick Ktorou

Youth Team
Player of the Year: Mark Smith

Clubman of the
Year / Nigel Anstis award: Adrian Hill

In addition the players presented Hill with a framed
players signed shirt while Pete Lumm presented a decanter and glasses

following
Hill's retirement.

17/5/03 Long
serving supporter Danny Dunwoody died in his sleep. He was the brother of
Steve who scored our two

goals in the 1960 Memorial Shield Final. Had
been living in retirement in Norfolk.

Reserves:   Suburban League South Division

Position  7th out of 18

SLC

1st

Leighton Town

0-2

SPC

1st

Corinthian Casuals

0-2

27/7/02
Horsham YMCA are defeated 7-1 in a friendly. Luke Jones gets two, Matt
Dennis, Lee Purvis, Fabio Carpene,

and Marcus
Kempster are six of the scorers with the other advised as
"A.Triallist". HT unk but times of our scorers

are in the
first programme of the season v Molesey..

3/8/02 Reserves defeat Three Bridges 2-1 after going
behind in the first twenty minutes. Luke Jones equalised after 24 and
the

winner came
from Jason Hannington with 15 minutes remaining.

5/8/02 Joe
Loyza HT v Uxbridge in a friendly 5-2 win. Epsom led 2-0 but 2-2 at HT before
Nick Williams put us back

ahead after
51. At 3-2 Uxbridge mis pen (?) and Loyza scored on 88 and 89 for his HT.
Warren Coborne had scored

our second
goal with a great overhead kick.

10/8/02 Epsom
defeat Bedfont 3-0 with goals from Jason Hannington, Ian Holm and Marcus
Kempster.

31/8/02 Epsom
remain unbeaten after a 2-2 draw at Walton Casuals with Luke Jones and Joe
Loyza scoring. Andy

Baptiste debut
after receiving International clearance during the week.

21/8/02, 24/8/02 and 31/8/02 I have calculated the teams
for these games from the match programme. However, there are

eight players
who played in one or two of the three matches and I don't know which one.
They are:

Nick Williams
(2), Matt Dennis (2), Stuart Robins (2), Jeff Curtis and Simon Boyd.

There are also eight subs who came on in one or more of
these games. Luke Jones was a sub in all three and Andy Baptiste was a

sub in the
third one, leaving four others: Simon Boyd, Michael Branch and Craig Dunne
(2).

There is a slight discrepance in the programmes for Cor
Casuals and Chertsey. The reserves were down as played three, but there

were variations. I believe this is Dave Wilson correcting
an early inaccuracy and the Chertsey programme figures are the ones I have

gone with.

2/9/02
Reserves draw 1-1 with Tooting & Mitcham at Merland Rise. Joe Loyza gets
his fifth goal

of the season.

7/9/02
Reserves remain unbeaten after a 0-0 draw with Chertsey Town

9/9/02
Tonbridge Angels are beaten 2-0 in Suburban League.

14/9/02
Reserves have a home Saturday match but lose in Suburban League Cup to
Leighton Town by two goals

to nil. Both
sides could have scored  in the opening
minute but we conceded after 14 and 45.

2/9/02, 7/9/02, 9/9/02 and 14/9/02 I have calculated the
teams for these games from the match programme. However, there are

many players
who played in one, two or three of the four matches and I don't know which
one. They are:

Simon Boyd (3), Joe Loyza (3), Jeff Curtis (3), Michael
Branch (2), Matt Sinclair (2), Adam Stones, Joe Simons, Mapo Otite,

Richard
Ingham, Malcolm Edwards, Kenny Dye and Matt Dennis.

There are also seven subs who came on in one or more of
these games. They are: Andy Baptiste, Simon Boyd, Michael Branch,

Craig Dunne
(3) and Richard Ingham.

23/9/02 Joe Loyza and Nick Williams were on target in
Epsom's 2-2 draw with Chipstead. We went ahead after 15 when Nick

Williams scored from thirty yards but they equalised after
34 when we failed to clear the ball. Ray Purvis thumped a header off

the bar just before HT and Chipstead mispen (SAVE) early
in second half and they then hit the post before Matt Sinclair hit the

bar. Then after 69 Joe Loyza also hit the bar but was able
to follow up to put us ahead. Their Manager was sent off before they

scored a
second after 83 minutes and Jason Hannington was sent off for dissent near
the end.

28/9/02 Nick
Williams scores a hat trick as Epsom win 3-0 at Croydon.

3/10/02 Epsom
lose Surrey Premier Cup first round tie at Corinthian Casuals 2-0.

5/10/02 Epsom
are defeated 5-0 by Wealdstone in a match played at Kingsbury Town's Silver
Jubilee Park.

3/10/02 and 5/10/02 I have calculated the teams for these
two games from the match programme. However, there are four

players who played in one of the two matches and I don't
know which one. They are Adam Stones, Matt Sinclair, Ray Purvis and

Paul Bunter.

There are also four subs who came on in one or other of
these two games. Richard Ingham came on in both, but the other two

could have
come on in either. They are: Warren Coborne and Michael Branch.

7/10/02 Ashford's first defeat as Epsom win 2-0 at Merland
Rise. We started well but had to wait until the 50th minute before

Luke Jones scored from wide out. Chris Barnes hit the bar
from 30 yards and we extended the lead through Richard Ingham

after 67.
Deserved winners.

14/10/02
Convincing 6-2 win over Fleet Town with a hat trick for young striker Richard
Ingham, while Luke Jones got

two and an own goal completed the scorers. The bizarre own
goal opened the scoring after just 7 minutes when a Fleet

defender inexplicably sliced the ball into his own net.
They levelled it up after 15 and went ahead after 23 but we equalised
after

25 after good work from Jones left Ingham to finish the
chance off and he scored again just before the interval when he chipped

over the stranded keeper. Ingham hit the post early in the
second half and Ingham completed his hat trick after 66 when his

cross came back to him and he scored with a swerving shot.
Fleet lost a player to injury after 66 and were down to ten men for

a while until another player appeared after 75! Then Jones
scored from a Williams pass. Jones then hit the post before he

scored in the
87th minute from a Craig Dunne pass.

26/10/02 Epsom
win 2-1 at Godalming & Guildford with goals from Richard Ingham and Luke
Jones.

28/10/02 They
follow this up with a 5-2 win over Molesey at Merland Rise.

26/10/02 line
up I have only showed ten players and two subs although it is unknown who
they came on for.

I have calculated the team for 28/10/02 from the programme
and this tells me that Nick Williams was the missing player that day.

2/11/02 Epsom
win 6-3 at Chipstead with a hat trick for Luke Jones.

5/11/02 Epsom
lose 3-1 at Tonbridge Angels with Warren Coborne the scorer.

11/11/02 Simon
Hatton scores in a 1-1 home draw with Fisher Athletic.

2/11/02 and 5/11/02 and 11/11/02 I have calculated the
teams for these games from the match programme. However, there are many

players who
played in one or two of the three matches and I don't know which one. They
are:

Chris Barnes (2), Adam Stones (2), Matt Dennis (2), Jamie
Buckley (2), Matt Sinclair (2) (but I know where 1 is), Malcolm Edwards

(2), Nick
Williams (2), Craig Dunne, Simon Boyd, Matt Smith and Ray Purvis

There are also seven subs who came on in one or more of
these games. They are: Chris Barnes, Simon Boyd, Michael Branch,

Matt Dennis,
Malcolm Edwards, and Matt Smith (2).

Matt Smith is listed with three sub apps and one start for
these three matches but it was just Dave Wilson adding a sub he had

missed v
Godalming & Guildford.

18/11/02
Epsom trail 2-0 but defeat Bracknell 3-2 at Merland Rise with goals from Andy
Nimmo, Adam Stones and

Warren Coborne. Both Ray Purvis and his assistant Malcolm
Edwards had to play but we conceded after 24 and 37 but Adam

Stones found the net just before the break after a bit of
a scramble and then Nimmo scored after 54. Nick Ktorou came on for

his debut on
66 but Simon Hatton found Warren Coborne who cut in and scored the winner
after 89.

Nov 02 Craig
Dunne is released by the club.

25/11/02 Epsom went up to 4th after this comfortable 3-2
home win over Camberley. We conceded a 19th minute penalty but

almost equalised
immediately when pressure was shot wide by Jones. We equalised after 27 when
Jones hit the target from a

Ray Power free kick and were ahead two minutes later when
Power finished off a loose ball.. Jones increased our lead after 49

and they
scored a consolation after 86.

9/12/02 Paul Doyle debut after signing from Corinthian
Casuals. Now a postman in 2011. His debut lasted four minutes before

a clash of heads forced him off. Micky Hudson who had also
returned from Casuals then hit the post and we scored just before

the break when a Gary Knowelden cross was headed out to
Jason Hannington who scored with a low drive. Whyteleafe

equalised
after 49 and led after 55 but Hudson made it 2-2 after 57 and that's the way
it finished. A fair result.

21/12/02 Nasty game at the Surrey Docks Stadium as Fisher
defeated Epsom 3-1 in a League match. They led after 23 but

Nick Williams equalised after 40. However, goals after 63
and right at the end finished off the Epsom resistance. A number of

Fisher players
were booked and a Fisher player was sent off for an assault at the end of the
game.

4/1/03 Windsor
& Eton (A) is p-p.

11/1/03
Whyteleafe (A) is p-p.

27/1/03 After over a month's break Epsom defeat Windsor
& Eton 2-1 at Merland Rise with goals from Knowelden and Hudson.

3/2/03 Croydon are defeated 3-0 at the Rise this evening.
Knowelden and Hudson score for the seecond week in a row, and Warren

Coborne is the
other scorer.

27/1/03 and
3/2/03 I have calculated the teams for these games from the match programme.
However, there are eight

players who played in one of the two matches and I don't
know which one. They are Jeff Curtis and Kevin Espinosa, Ray Power,

Nick Williams, Joe Loyza, Simon Huckle, Paul Doyle and
Micky Hudson. From looking at first team matches, I am happy that

Simon Huckle
and Joe Loyza are listed in the right line up, but the other six remain
unconfirmed.

There are also four subs who came on in one or other of
these two games. They are: James Daley, Micky Hudson, Paul Doyle

and Matt Smith

8/2/03 Epsom
are edged out 3-2 at Ashford Town (Middx).

11/2/03
Croydon Athletic (A) is p-p. Waterlogged.

15/2/03
Camberley Town (A) is p-p. Frozen pitch.

17/2/03
Wealdstone (H) is p-p at 7.15pm as the pitch was deemed too icy and dangerous
by the referee.

22/2/03 Dave
Wilson writes to Suburban League to request a week off as many players are
away. It is not agreed,

and the
Reserves lose 6-0 at Whyteleafe. Former Carshalton first teamer Conrad Kane
played for them.

1/3/03 Goals from Richard Ingham, Andy Nimmo and Micky
Hudson enabled Epsom to win 3-2 on their first visit to Imperial Fields,

the new home
of Tooting & Mitcham. The first team would make their first visit three
days later.

22/2/03 and
1/3/03 I have calculated the teams for these games from the match programme.
However, there are four

players who played in one of the two matches and I don't
know which one. They are Simon Boyd, Matt Dennis, Jeff Curtis and Kevin

Espinosa.

There are also five subs who came on in one or other of
these two games. They are: James Daley, Matt Dennis, Nick Williams,

Malcolm
Edwards and Daniel Green.

Mar 03 Jason
Hannington is released by the club.

10/3/03 Richard Sell made his first start of the season
and scored the opener with a chest down and volley after just 90 seconds of

this match at home to Walton Casuals. They equalised after
25 but we went ahead again after 39 when Adam Stones hit the post

but Marcus Kempster was on hand for the loose ball. We
gifted another goal after 54 but finally went ahead for good after 76
when

a Matt Smith
corner was dropped and Andy Davidson scored with a low header.

15/3/03 Andy Davidson and Adam Stones scored but otherwise
it was a bad day in Berkshire as the Reserves lost 4-2 at Windsor

& Eton.

18/3/03
Reserves lose again, this time 2-0 at Croydon Athletic's Mayfields ground.

31/03/03
Epsom were due to play Croydon Ath (H) but Banstead had to rearrange a match
with Tooting for that date.

Game was moved
mutually to 1/5/03.

7/4/03 Kevin
Espinosa scores v Wealdstone at Merland Rise. It was an injury time equaliser
in a 2-2 draw. He met a

Nick Williams free kick with a glancing header. He had
been playing on the pitch occasionally but this time he was playing as a

keeper. Stuart Channon had put us ahead after 47 seconds
after a three week break but Wealdstone hit the bar and then equalised

after 48,
scoring again after 75 before the late drama.

12/4/03 Adam Stones gets the only goal in a 1-0 win over
Camberley at Krooner Park in front of Ray Purvis and Malcolm Edwards.

14/4/03 James Daley opened the scoring at Merland Rise
against Godalming & Guildford but the visitors scored twice in quick

succession midway through the first half. Chris Barnes
surprised everyone with an attempted cross that went in and John Holman

scored the
winner with twenty minutes remaining with a header.

1/5/03 Epsom
round off season with a 1-1 home draw with Croydon Athletic. John Holman
scored. We went

behind after 25
minutes but got the equaliser on the hour.

Youth Team
reformed. Southern Youth League South Division.

Position  7th out of 10

Manager: Tony
Coombe               Coach: Andy Dunne

SYLC

1st

Tooting & Mitcham Utd

2-2*

lost 5-6 pens

SYS

2nd

Whyteleafe

withdrawn

SYL AGM
6/6/02 at Gander Green Lane - Epsom are accepted back into Southern Youth
League. Papers say it was

the first time
since 1993 but it was 1994 as we played a season away from home.

25/7/02 First
Youth friendly 5-3 against Carshalton Athletic at the Old Cranleighans Sports
Ground, Weston Green.

HT unk but our
goal times are in Molesey programme and in match report archive.

28/8/02 Epsom open up their first season in the Southern
Youth League for nearly a decade with an 0-3 loss at home to Tonbridge

Angels. It was
even until they scored twice in first half stoppage time and got a third
after 74.

4/9/02 First
point of the new season in a 1-1 draw with Broadbridge Heath. Daragh Corrigan
scored.

11/9/02 First
win of the new season (and therefore for 8 years) 2-1 at Three Bridges. James
Daley and Terry Holmes

scored.

18/9/02 Epsom
lose 2-1 at home to Cobham despite a goal from Craig Dunne.

23/9/02 Mark Smith and Barry Hurley scored in a 2-2 draw
at Tooting & Mitcham in Southern Youth Cup but lose 6-5 on

penalties
after extra time.

16/10/02 Terry Holmes and an own goal enabled Epsom to
draw 2-2 with East Grinstead Town at Merland Rise. However, we held a

2-0 lead. The first goal came after 4 minutes when a
defender lost the ball in the lights and headed it past his own keeper.
Holmes

scored after 14 minutes in fine style. They got a goal
back after 44 and the second half was poor with the equaliser after 76.
Poor

refereeing saw
three Epsom players booked, but one was very harsh and one was mistaken
identity!

20/10/02 Epsom
receive walk over in Surrey Youth Shield First round at home to Banstead
Athletic.

23/10/02 Leatherhead (H) is p-p as Epsom have a first team
Surrey Senior Cup match against Walton Casuals at Merland Rise.

Oct 02 Adam Glaied, Chris Barnes and Craig Dune are all
selected by Surrey v Norfolk in the 2nd round of the County Youth Cup

at Dereham
Town FC on 26th Oct. If they win they will be away to Liverpool or Isle of
Man in the third round.

30/10/02 Epsom
lose 3-2 at Cobham.

17/11/02 due
to be at home to Whyteleafe in SYS 2 but we withdrew. Not sure why.

27/11/02
Merstham (A) is not played.

4/12/03
Chessington & Hook (A) is p-p.

11/12/03
Leatherhead win 2-0 at Merland Rise. Youths hadn't played for five weeks.

15/1/03 Epsom drew 2-2 with Three Bridges at Merland Rise
with goals from Daniel Green and Elio Escoffery. It was only our

second game since the end of October and they had reached
the second round of the Youth Cup losing narrowly 3-1 at Cardiff City.

They hit the bar early but we scored with a soft goal
after 9 minutes when the keeper dropped the ball. They were level after 16
and

Daley hit the post after 30 but Escoffery scored from the
edge of the area after 33. They equalised after 50 and a visiting player
was

sent off near
the end for a second yellow card, seconds after picking up a yellow card for
a similar offence.

22/1/03
Merstham (H) is not played.

Jan 03
Russell Coombe and Elio Escoffery selected for Surrey Under 16's v Sussex on
29/01/03 @ Redhill in Home

Counties Youth
Cup

23/1/03 Epsom
trail 3-0 but recover to win 8-3 at Broadbridge Heath. Craig Dunne HT, Elio
Escoffery (2).

6/2/03 Epsom win 3-0 at East Grinstead who finish with ten
men due to a late sending off. We only took eleven players ourselves.

We were also a little late and had a minimal warm up. Kiel
Ramjohn debut after joining from Cobham and he scored after 11 minutes

with a low shot. We dominated the second half and Corrigan
slipped the ball to Barry Hurley who scored the second from a wide

angle with 65 minutes on the clock. They hit the post for
a second time but we added a third after 76 when Darren Stones curled
the

ball in from
the edge of the box after a corner was half cleared. East Grinstead had a
player sent off in the last minute.

12/2/03
Chessington & Hook United (H) is p-p. Waterlogged.

26/2/03
Merstham (A) is p-p as the pitch is unavailable. Rearranged for 11/3/03.

Also
rearranged is Chessington & Hook (H) for 19/3/03.

5/3/03 Epsom defeated Merstham 4-1 at Merland Rise,
leading after 11 minutes when a defender put an Escoffery cross past his

own keeper and our man hit the bar soon after before
Russell Coombe scored with a screamer after 25 yards. Escoffery again
hit

the woodwork before Merstham got one back in the opening
minutes of the second half, but finally scored after 62 when he headed

in a Nick
Johnson cross and his second went in direct from a corner after 82.

11/3/03
Merstham (A) is p-p. Waterlogged. Rearranged for 28/4/03.

19/3/03 Impressive 2-1 win over Chessington & Hook at
Merland Rise. Escoffery scored his sixth goal in six games. The first half
was

goalless and
Escoffery volleyed the ball in midway through the second half and increased
the lead after 88 when James Daley

finished off Chris Barnes' pinpoint cross with a
thundering header. Nearly nine minutes of injury time was played and the
visitors got

a consolation
but Epsom hung on.

27/3/03
Youths get a good 3-3 draw at Crawley Town with two more from Escoffery.
Daley gets the other one.

Game played at Broadfield Stadium. Led 2-0 and then 3-1
but had to settle for a point although Epsom are now unbeaten in six

games. We led after 8 minutes after a long pass from
Barnes found Escoffery who cut inside and curled one into the top corner.
We

scored a second after 28 when Ramjohn sent Escoffery clear
and he finished calmly and clinically. Crawley got one back after 42 but

we were 3-1 up within a minute of the restart when Daley
got in front of a defender to finish off a Mark Smith cross. Crawley got
one

back on 70 and
equalised after 73. We did well to hold on for a draw under pressure.

3/4/03 15 year old Jake Hopper made a promising debut in
goal but we were defeated 3-2 at Tonbridge this evening. We led after
just

3 minutes when Escoffery scored again from a Mark Smith
pass but Tonbridge equalised after 23 from the penalty spot.

went ahead after 66 from another penalty and although
Green flicked on a Barnes free kick for Corrigan to head in after 72 via
bar

and defender,
we conceded again after 77 after Hopper had made a great save but the loose
ball was tucked away.

17/4/03 Epsom are unable to hold Crawley this time who
stroll to a 3-0 win at Merland Rise, opening the scoring after 5 minutes

and extending
it after 35 and 39. A bit of an end of season performance.

23/4/03 Despite a strong finish we were defeated 1-0 at
Chessington who scored after 40 minutes. Epsom had a penalty awarded

after 44 but after consultation it was changed to a free
kick just outside the box. Near the end a Chessington back pass landed

on top of
their own bar!

17/4/03 and 23/4/03 I have calculated the teams from the
programme stats. However, not clear which games Andy Wylde, Chris

Barnes, Russell Coombe and Darren Stones played but they
all played one of these. I have put in the likely lineups. Also Darren

Stones and
Gareth Stevens both made one sub appearance but not sure which of the two
games they were in.

28/4/03 Epsom
win 6-3 at Merstham We led midway through the first half but were pulled back
before scoring twice to

lead 3-1 at
the half. Merstham pulled one back soon after the restart but goals on 60, 65
and 69 finished the contest

and Merstham
got a consolation after 70.

30/4/03 Epsom
fall away to lose 3-0 at Leatherhead in the last match of the season. The
first was slotted in after the

original effort had come back off a post after 21 and two
more on 65 and 68 sealed the match. We finished with ten men after both

subs were used
and Andy Wylde limped off with twenty minutes remaining.

28/4/03 and 30/4/03 I have calculated the teams from the
programme stats. However, not clear which game Kiel Ramjohn and Elio

Escoffery
played in as they both only started one of the two. Ramjohn almost certainly
played in the first one as

Ramjohn was a sub in one of the games as was Gareth
Stevens. This probably means they were the two subs in the game with

Leatherhead
that are referred to in the match report as no other subs are listed, so I
will mark this accordingly.

Friendlies

H/A

Score

HT

Prog?

23/07/2002

Chessington & Hook Utd

A

2-1

2-0

Huckle, Hatton (pen)

25/07/2002

Carshalton Ath

A

3-5

YTH

Terry Holmes, Michael Lawson,

Richard Smith

27/07/2002

Horsham YMCA

A

1-1

0-0

Stevens

27/07/2002

Horsham YMCA

A

7-1

RES

Jones (2), Kempster, L.Purvis

M.Dennis, Carpene, + AN Other

03/08/2002

Three Bridges

A

0-3

0-0

03/08/2002

Three Bridges

A

2-1

1-1

RES

Jones, Hannington

05/08/2002

Uxbridge

A

5-2

2-2

RES

Loyza (3), Coborne, Williams

10/08/2002

Bedfont

A

5-1

1-0

Hatton (2, 1pen), Carpene,

Webb, Rogers

10/08/2002

Bedfont

A

3-0

1-0

RES

Hannington,
Ian Holm, Kempster

13/08/2002

Dorking

A

2-0

1-0

Hall, o.g.

28/09/2002

Farnham Town

A

5-0

Webb
(2), Nimmo, Stevens, Huckle

17/02/2003

Hampton & Richmond Boro

A

1-2

1-1

Webb