Official Matchday Programme

Nottinghamshire Senior League

Senior Cup Semi-Final

23 March 2016

7.30pm

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Latest News

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Nottinghamshire Senior

League Committee

President Mr G Birtles

Chairman Mr I Kirk

Vice Chairman Mr R Durrant

Secretary Miss T Witton

Registrar Mr R Hornby

Referees Secretary Mr D Parkes

Fixture Secretary Mr C Cliff

Assistant Secretary Mr F Hunt

Press Officer Mr R Griffiths

Ground Grading Mr M Bradley

Referees’ Rep Mr I Smith

Committee Members

Mr K Buxton

Mr S Hobster

Miss K Scott

For all the latest news from the Precision

Nottinghamshire Senior League check out the

website: nottsseniorleague.weebly.com

Or follow on Twitter: @NottsSeniorLge

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Welcome

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Groundhop

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and

welcome to Woodview for this evening’s Senior

Cup semi-final between Clifton All Whites and

Real United.

Tonight’s winners will progress to the final on

Saturday 14 May at the Ron Steel Sports Ground

and meet the victors in the other semi-final

between Awsworth Villa and Newark Flowserve.

The Nottinghamshire Senior League would like to

thank Cotgrave for the kind use of their ground

and facilities this evening.

I hope everyone enjoys the game and has a safe

journey home.

Ian KirkNSL Chairman

The fourth annual, and final, Nottinghamshire Senior

League Groundhop will be held on the last weekend in

April:

Friday 29 April

Attenborough v Awsworth Villa

6.30pm – The Strand

Saturday 30 April

Beeston v Underwood Villa

10.05am – Hetley Pearson Recreation Ground

Bilborough United v Ashland Rovers

12.45pm – Basil Russell Park

Nottinghamshire v Gedling Southbank

3.15pm – Grassington Road

Real United v Unity

6.15pm – Inspire Stadium

Advanced tickets are £15 each, which includes entry to all

five games and a pack of five programmes.

Please contact Rob Hornby on 01623 486678 or 07973

517603 or e-mail hornby60uk@yahoo.co.uk for more

information.

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Club History

Clifton All Whites FC is probably amongst the most

recognisable amateur football clubs in the county due to

some of its more famous past youth team players going

on to play at the higher levels of football in this country,

and for the infamous ‘All White’ nickname which caused

controversy amongst some quarters in the midnineties

leading to the ‘official’ scrapping of that tag. Players such

as Garry Birtles, Jermaine Pennent, Darren Huckerby,

Jermaine Jenas, Michael Johnson to name a few have all

come through the club’s youth structure in the past.

Clifton FC have also been successful on the pitch,

formerly playing in the Midlands League and Notts

Alliance the club also reached the third round of the FA

Vase in 1975/76. Winning the NSL Senior Cup in 2006, a

year later the Reserves won their first NSL honour gaining

the First Division championship under the guidance of

James Turner & Chris Driffill and in 2010 the same

management team took the club’s first team to deliver the

Senior Division title for the first time in the club’s history.

On the back of this success and the development of the

Green Lane facility the club decided to make the move to

the CML but with the NSL now a full Step 7 league Clifton

are back for another shot at the title.

Clifton All Whites

INSIDE PRISON!

In December 2011, I set about watching a match inside Feltham Prison

in Middlesex.

This featured a team called Phoenix FC, who had to play all their

fixtures at home (for obvious reasons!) as inmates of the Young

Offender Institution at Feltham.

I received special permission by email to attend a fixture, but I was told

not to bring a phone or a camera with me. I was instructed to arrive in

the main car park along with the match referee and the visiting players

from Hanworth Villa Vets.

We were met by members of the prison staff who escorted us all in

together…via an airport-style metal detector, a body search, numerous

locked gates and along a path to the changing rooms.

This process took 45 minutes. After the players and ref got changed, we

were then accompanied through more locked gates out to the playing

area.

A high mesh fence with barbed wire on top surrounded the football

pitch. There were dug-outs along one touchline and I watched the

match from there as the only spectator.

THE FUTURE

By going to FC United, I re-completed visits to the top 16 divisions of

English football down to Non-League step 4. Then at step 5 I need 26

grounds and another 76 at step 6.

There are endless possibilities at step 7 and below. Also, I’ve been to

35 European countries plus the USA for football – so it would be nice to

visit more countries.

Follow Tony Incenzo on Twitter @TonyIncenzo

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Club History

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My Love of

Non-League Football

Real United Football Club were formed in 2008 by Roger

Henry to help bridge the gap between gang culture in

Nottingham and to enhance the health, aspirations and

quality of life for young people in the city, in particular

those living in urban areas.

In the club’s debut season they won the Notts Amateur

Alliance Division Three championship and jumped two

divisions winning the Division One title in 2009/10. After a

year in the Premier League of the NAA, Real then joined

the Central Midlands League where they played for four

years in the South Division.

In 2015/16 Real joined the Precision Nottinghamshire

Senior League as they look to climb ambitiously up the

football pyramid.

The club play their games at the Inspire Community

Stadium in Stoke Bardolph (once home to Gedling Town)

and offer mentorship, education and support programmes

to youths living in and around Nottingham.

Real Unitedby Tony Incenzo of talkSPORT Radio

IN THE BEGINNING

I’ve been watching Non-League football on a regular basis since I was

10 years old. What I like most is that the players, club officials and

supporters are there for the love of the game. The true spirit of football

exists at Non-League level.

I grew up in North-West London and I was taken by my family to see my

local club QPR as a child in the 1970’s.

I’ve always supported the R’s, but when they were playing away from

home I started going to see my local Non-League clubs – Hendon

primarily, but also Finchley, Barnet and Edgware Town.

GROUNDHOPPER

From there, I decided to visit every Non-League club in London as my

groundhopping bug began. By the time I was 17, I had visited all 92

Football League grounds and I visited all the Scottish League grounds

whilst still a teenager.

Since then, I’ve continued travelling all around the country to visit Non-

League clubs. Earlier this season, I chalked up my 2,000th ground at

FC United of Manchester.

WORLD RECORD

One of the best groundhops was being part of a world record in March

2004. I joined 250 other groundhoppers to watch five matches at five

different football grounds in one day in the Central Midlands League.

This is listed in the Guinness Book of Records and we received

certificates confirming the world record at the end of the fifth game.

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Premier Division Table

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Senior Cup Winners

P W D L F A Pts

West Bridgford 29 20 4 5 91 35 64

Ruddington Village 23 18 3 2 74 35 57

Clifton All Whites 28 15 8 5 85 41 53

Real United 24 16 3 5 96 30 51

Wollaton 22 16 3 3 54 25 51

Awsworth Villa 23 15 3 5 62 34 48

Unity 22 13 5 4 87 38 43

Burton Joyce 23 10 4 9 45 65 34

AFC Dunkirk 25 8 5 12 55 47 29

Bingham Town 25 7 5 13 46 53 26

Attenborough 23 8 2 13 34 52 26

Bilborough Town 23 6 5 12 43 67 23

FC Cavaliers 26 6 5 15 29 64 23

Beeston 23 6 4 13 33 61 22

Underwood Villa 21 5 3 13 37 58 18

Cotgrave 23 4 6 13 30 57 18

Sandhurst 28 4 3 21 36 122 15

Newark Flowserve 23 3 3 17 26 79 12

Correct as of 14 March 2016

2004/05 - Wollaton

2005/06 - Clifton

2006/07 - FC Cavaliers

2007/08 - FC Cavaliers

2008/09 - Wollaton

2009/10 - FC Cavaliers

2010/11 - Boots Athletic

2011/12 - Bulwell

2012/13 - Bulwell

2013/14 - Hucknall Rolls Leisure

2014/15 - Wollaton

Route to the Semi-Final

Round 1

Real United 5-0 Ashland Rovers

Jamie Spiers (2), Tim Hopkinson,

Kuwesi Ofushine, Austin Wallace

Round 2

Real United 3-1 West Bridgford

Lewis Chambers (2), Tim Hopkinson Jurgen Charlesworth

Quarter-Final

Bilborough Town 1-1 Real United

Tony Law Pens: 4-6 Theo Smith

Clifton All Whites

Real United

Round 1

Attenborough 1-6 Clifton All Whites

James Knight Scott Litchfield (3), Connor Hardy (2),

Ben Clark

Round 2

Sandhurst 2-3 Clifton All Whites

Wesley Kitchen, Lee Shaw Daniel Blanchard, Jack Cole, Neil

Thompson

Quarter-Final

Clifton All Whites H-W Wollaton

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Tonight’s Squads

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Stephen Sears

Matt Picker & Lewis Quayle

Name

Jake Want

Jake Richardson

Ben Richardson

Ben Clark

Robbie McNicholas

Connor Hardy

Francis Green

Brett Peel

Martin Ball

Jack Cole

Robert Gill

Alex Haughton

Myron Duffy

Tom Berridge

Craig Meakin

James Price

Jack Reid

Joe Palmer

Jack Cairns

Kyle O’Brian

Martin Kearney

Tris Whitman

Ashley Way

Barry Turner

David Hawkes

Clifton All Whites Real United

Name

Nathan Burrows

George Paling

Grant Walton

Theo Brown

Anthony Newton

Kuwesi Ofushine

Jamie Spiers ©

Chris Rhodes

Austin Wallace

Tim Hopkinson

Ryan Bowen

Lewis Chambers

Ryan Tittensor

Aaron Large

Ashleigh Dyce

Theo Smith

Tyrell Shannon-Lewis

Luke Tozer

Blair Anderson

Manager:

James

Turner

Assistant:

Steve Hardie

Manager:

Gary

Hayward

Assistant:

Chris Galley