23rd May - Premier League Envelope Draw Winners
Gary Thorpe, Charlotte Hook, Bruce Johnston, Robert Horspool, Matthew Giles, Vernon Giles, Booker Woodford, Lee Hayward, Pete Spong, Adam Shepherd, Emily Hodgkinson, Paul Ford, Lee Wilson, Beth Kelloway, Simon Jones.
Thanks to all who entered it has provided much needed funds for Third team and Girls football.
Paul King

10th May - End of season awards.

The end of season awards took place at The Bustard Club on Saturday.
The awards were as follows:
1st Team:
Top Scorer and Supporters Player of the Year - Matt Minnis
Managers Player of the Year - Toby Dawson
Player's player of the Year - Lewis Porter
2nd Team:
Top Scorer - Robbie Simmonds
Manager Player of the Year - Daniel Crease
Players Player of the Year - Daniel Crease
Most Improved - Stuart Greener
3rd Team:
Top Scorer - Lee Hayward
Managers Player of the Year - Steve Fox
Players Player of the Year - Matthew Hall
Supporters Player of the Year - Ross Pike

28th October - The Missing Peregrinator Journey is Here.

The match programme for 27th October unfortunately carried the same Peregrinator as the previous week. Andrew, our famous programme editor (or should I say infamous?) apologises for this error and has promised that he will try to print the programme whilst he is not asleep in future. So that regular readers don't miss their fix of Peregrinators' Prowess, here is the missing article.

BRAVERY, COMMITMENT, HUNGER.
I have seen this headline somewhere in the past couple of weeks. English sportsmen have slipped up recently. England’s shocking defeat in Moscow certainly filled some column inches in the newspapers. Certainly true to say that, our players lacked bravery, commitment, and hunger. I hope that Scotland get through so that I have a team to follow. Our rugby team did well to reach the final – pity about the try that wasn’t! It probably swung the game. Finally, on the following day, Lewis Hamilton, , in only his first season, was pipped at the final hurdle in Brazil. His day will come I am sure.
We won easily at Banbury last Saturday – though our supporters were grumbling at half time. Probably not a case of lacking commitment – more about being dragged down to the oppositions’ level with a lacklustre display. “They need someone out there to gee them up” was a common cry. Not nice to watch – but a different game in the second half when young Hunt came on as sub and with his first touch (his head actually) put us level. He is undoubtedly our Peter Crouch. The news I, and many others, feared/expected finally came last night. Martin Jol’s departure. Clearly, something is wrong at White Hart Lane. The same players as last season, almost £40 millions spent on the summer influx. A lack of commitment by players? Too many cooks? Lack of a midfield general/playmaker? Jol deserves full credit for what he has achieved over the last three years – he will not be going away empty handed as his pay off would keep many of us here today in comfort for the rest of our lives! Maybe he had taken the team as far as he could. In my working career, I recruited people to help move the organisation forward. When we got over the hurdles and changed direction some were unable to cope with the challenge. I think you see that in football management but with an important difference-, almost half the managers/coaches are doomed to failure by the law of averages.
I read an interesting article in The Times this week – ‘Celebrity wares, the price of fame’. Apparently, auction sites such as eBay are encouraging obsession with celebrity. This article, quite rightly in my opinion, condemns this obsession. One of David Beckham’s old cars (a BMW convertible with thousands of miles on the clock worth £15000) sold for £90,000. Michael Jordan’s half smoked cigar fetched £400. Pete Rose, former Cincinnati Reds baseball player who beat Ty Cobb’s record for career hits in 1995 was alleged in court to have sold his ‘record beating bat’ to a string of collectors. There is a serious side, however. Brazil 1950 World Cup medal made just £85 and a Rocky Marciano punch bag made £150,000 plus. The writer Matthew Syed reckoned Joe DiMaggio’s passport ‘an absolute’ gem at $4,800. Now all this has given me an idea to get some money in for the club. What about an old pair of boots worn by manager Paul Shanley? A jock strap worn by our striker and leading appearance/goal scorer David Percival? Or perhaps an old pair of shoes/toothbrush from Chairman Fitchen? The possibilities are endless – I shall ask Eileen to follow this up. Am I being serious? You bet!
Their driver won the £30 raffle prize at the Chisledon Blueprint game. Therefore, that was some consolation for our visitors. Maybe it will be YOUR turn today. Eileen and her team will be at the table as usual! Eileen has a supply of blue bags, which she wants to give away. All she asks in return is that you fill them with clothes, toys that will then be passed on raising money for our club.
My son Aidan, who lives in Sheffield has been telling me of the celebrations for Sheffield FC (they play in the Northern Premier League Division One South), oldest football club in the world. These were held in the Cathedral with the FIFA president present. A match against Inter Milan is being arranged at Bramall Lane.

29th September 2007

Loyal supporters Gary & his Dad before the Tytherington Match.
Gary now lives in Bristol but still attends our matches home & away.
He always seems to notice if I get the kick off time wrong on the web site - thanks Gary!

26th June 07 - Eileen needs your clothes!!!

Many of you will be aware that Eileen Harding is gathering unwanted clothes, toys etc ant these are being collected by an organisation that will then give us money for club funds. She needs contributions by early Friday morning at the latest. Her address for delivery is 16 Orchard Drive Southwick and telephone no is 01225 763951. Please help if you can.