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Post by Andy K on Jan 10, 2022 13:30:13 GMT
After posting the "Happy Coventry Day" I thought I'd try out a sticky thread where we can post stuff that happened on this day (hence the title of thread!). I should have obviously done this yesterday where we could have said "Middlesbrough" (Or if you read the programme Middlesborough!)
In the meantime...
Jan 10th
10 years ago today, a 2-2 draw at home to Hampton in the Conference South, with both of our goals coming from Joel Legister.
Our side contained a number of well remembered names such as of course Dundo, Kevin Scriven, Harry, Leroy Griffiths, Sam Page and Craig Watkins, but also a few that I'm sure we'd forgotten about like Neil Jenkins, Osa Obamwonyi and Romone McCrae. And one I'd like to have forgotten in the shape of Michael Boateng!
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Post by sallycat on Jan 10, 2022 13:57:09 GMT
Not a great date for us in recent years
On 10 January 2004 we lost 4-0 at Forest Green in the FA Trophy, and on 10 January 2017 lost 1-0 at Braintree in the National League.
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Post by markf on Jan 10, 2022 16:03:47 GMT
Sutton's first match as a senior club on 10th January was in 1914 against Wimbledon in the South Suburban League West.
The match was played at The Find in Grove Road. Sutton used this pitch and another on London Road at that time.
Wimbledon won by 5 2 with Johnson and Moore scoring for Sutton.
A crowd of around 1,000 was in attendance.
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Post by Andy K on Jan 10, 2022 16:21:35 GMT
Sutton's first match as a senior club on 10th January was in 1914 against Wimbledon in the South Suburban League West. The match was played at The Find in Grove Road. Sutton used this pitch and another on London Road at that time. Wimbledon won by 5 2 with Johnson and Moore scoring for Sutton. A crowd of around 1,000 was in attendance. Superb Mark, seems like this was a perfect day to start this thread! Cheers. |
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Post by Jared on Jan 11, 2022 0:07:15 GMT
2014
2-0 win at Chelmsford City with goals from Jamie Slabber and Dale Binns, a result which was the start of a great which saw us finish 2nd in the Conference South that season
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Post by presssec on Jan 11, 2022 15:41:34 GMT
1975. My first Sutton away game. At Wimbledon's old Plough Lane ground in the FA Trophy. We lost 3-1, as we would in a replay at the same stage the following season (I'm a day late for the original 0-0 draw). The previous Saturday Wimbledon had won at Burnley in the FA Cup and two weeks later they would hold Leeds to a 0-0 draw at Elland Road.
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Post by sallycat on Jan 14, 2022 12:52:59 GMT
I'm just doing the ones I've been to as they're easier for me to find!
14 January 1997: our Full Members Cup match at home to Hampton was abandoned at 2-0 due to adverse weather conditions. The rematch on 11 February ended 2-2 and we went through on penalties.
14 January 2006: 1-1 at home in the Conference South v Havant & Waterlooville. Peter Fear scored our goal.
14 January 2012: Same comp, same score, home to Thurrock. Goal from Simon Downer.
14 January 2017: Drew 2-2 at Worthing in the FA Trophy. This game fell between the original date and replay of our FA Cup 3rd round tie v AFC Wimbledon and was an oddly subdued affair as I remember, probably because our minds were elsewhere!
Now who can find a game we played on 14 January that did NOT end in a draw?!
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Post by amberchoc on Jan 14, 2022 14:18:58 GMT
That Hampton game from 1997 that Sarah mentions is the only match I’ve ever attended, in over a thousand, that got abandoned due to a frozen pitch. We’d reached 65 minutes with the mercury steadily falling, and I was just starting to think that we might get away with finishing it when the ref called a halt to proceedings.
As a footnote, after winning the rearranged fixture on penalties, we managed to negotiate two more rounds before succumbing to a disappointing 3-1 semi-final defeat to Maidenhead, who were in the league below. It may be coincidence, but I’ve not been back to York Road since!
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Post by Jared on Jan 14, 2022 14:26:52 GMT
In that game against Havant in 2006, didn’t both teams field a player called Matt Gray? I wonder whatever happened to the Havant one…
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Post by sallycat on Jan 14, 2022 14:43:10 GMT
Yes that's right Jared! We thought that was quite amusing I recall... That Hampton game from 1997 that Sarah mentions is the only match I’ve ever attended, in over a thousand, that got abandoned due to a frozen pitch. We’d reached 65 minutes with the mercury steadily falling, and I was just starting to think that we might get away with finishing it when the ref called a halt to proceedings. As a footnote, after winning the rearranged fixture on penalties, we managed to negotiate two more rounds before succumbing to a disappointing 3-1 semi-final defeat to Maidenhead, who were in the league below. It may be coincidence, but I’ve not been back to York Road since! Ah yes I thought that was the year we got to the semis. I think we were the holders at the time? |
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Post by Andy K on Jan 14, 2022 19:09:45 GMT
I love this thread on so many levels!
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Post by presssec on Jan 14, 2022 20:56:38 GMT
And of course in that game at Worthing one of the home team's goals was scored by one Omar Bugiel.
We had a game at Wycombe abandoned due to frost in 1985, referee David Elleray - I think it was about half an hour in. And the London Senior Cup tie against Leatherhead in 1976 when we were 1-0 up quite early on, and referee Alan Turvey abandoned it before half time. Again because of frost. Neither on January 14 but since frozen pitches were mentioned...
And incase I don't get the chance tomorrow, 15 January 1977. Surrey Senior Cup v Molesey, who were in the Athenian League at the time and had recently seen a striker called Cyrille Regis join Hayes. We were 4-0 up after about an hour, with two spectacular goals from Mike Fillery, who was only 16 at the time and remains as far as we know the youngest player to play first team football for us. Then Molesey scored three times, including I think one from former Sutton favourite Les Peck, and almost forced a replay. A very odd game.
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Post by sallycat on Jan 15, 2022 23:29:15 GMT
On 15 January 2000 we beat Canvey Island 1-0 at home in the FA Trophy in what remains our best run in that competition since reaching the final in 1981. Our goal was scored by Sammy Winston.
15 January 2005, again FA Trophy weekend, we lost 2-0 to Grays Athletic, who that season went on to win the trophy as well as the inaugural Conference South title.
Having already been knocked out of the FAT on 15 January 2011, we drew 1-1 at home to Concord Rangers in the Isthmian League with Bradley Woods-Garness scoring for us - in this instance, of course, it was ourselves who went on to win a title that season.
The last time we played on this day before today, it was a 0-0 draw at Corinthian-Casuals in the 2013 Surrey Senior Cup. We won on penalties and reached the final that season.
It seems whenever we play on 15 January someone in that match will go on to succeed in that competition...and now we can add a very strange 3-3 draw at Stevenage to the list. If we make the playoffs I will consider that a success!
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Post by os on Jan 17, 2022 0:15:24 GMT
15 January 2004, again FA Trophy weekend, we lost 2-0 to Grays Athletic, who that season went on to win the trophy as well as the inaugural Conference South title. I don't think that is right? We lost to Grays I seem to remember around the beginning of January 2004 but that was a league match, we only lost one further game in the entire rest of the season, 3-0 at home to Maidenhead, I think? We ended up runners up in the isthmian to Canvey who ran away with the title, although we beat them at their place with a 3 times retaken penalty by a young Nick Bailey. Grays won the trophy in the following season 04/05 and the next 05/06 I THINK... |
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Post by sallycat on Jan 17, 2022 6:55:11 GMT
My mistake OS, I meant 2005. Typo corrected, thanks!
We did lose 0-6 at home to them later that same month, but you're almost right about 2004. We also lost at Bedford but other than that it was just the Maidenhead game you mentioned.
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