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New Addington Little League Football |
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05/05/08 Our local professional football club Crystal Palace has reached a play-off situation which might result in their being promoted to the Premier division. Some of our managers, players and their parents are strong supporters of the ‘Palace’ and want to see their first match on Saturday 10th May which meant that a decision had to be quickly taken about our own Premier and Academy league play-off games also scheduled to take place that day. It has been decided that to avoid any conflict of interest our Premier and Academy matches will now both kick off at about 9.30 am on the 10th May, this will enable our ‘Palace’ supporters to attend both events. 23/04/08 With the playing season now drawing to a close visitors may wish to note the following dates and events: Saturday 26th April - Week 20 Premier and Academy league matches as shown on the respective pages Saturday 3rd May - Super-Cup Saturday with Premier and Academy games both kicking off at 09.30 am Saturday 10th May - League play-off with Academy kick off at 10.00 and Premier at 11.00 am Saturday 17th May - Academy and Premier Cup Finals - times to be announced later Saturday 24th May - Premier teams 6-a-side, kick of at 10.00 am. Players to attend no later than 09.30 am. Saturdays 31st May & 7th June - Trials am. Tuesdays 3rd & 10th June - Trials in the evening. Saturday 14th June - Our u/10s National Squad will be competing at Goals Soccer Centre, Sutton - start at Noon, finish at 6.00 pm NOTE: The date for this year’s Presentation has yet to be fixed but expect it to be in June, probably the 28th. 11/03/08 At 11.00 am on Saturday 15th March the draw will be held to decide team places in the Super Cup Saturday event. The date for Super Cup Saturday has not yet been fixed because the recent bad pitch conditions have meant we are somewhat behind with our league programme. There will not be any football matches on Easter Saturday, 22nd March because it is thought that some managers might be unable to field a full team. Matches will resume on Saturday 6th April. 08/01/08 It is hoped all visitors to this site will have enjoyed a very happy Christmas and New Year; we can now look forward to some more exciting and competitive football matches which, if weather and pitch conditions permit, will recommence at week 11 on Saturday 12th January. Fixtures and kick-off times will be as shown on the relative Academy and Premier pages. 15/12/07 The first half season has now been completed with all Academy matches played but with the managers of Arrows and Kestrels having decided not to play their postponed week six fixture. The winners of the Academy division are Terriers with Eagles coming out on top in the Premier division, both teams by the narrow margin of just three points. The players and managers will now hopefully enjoy a well earned Christmas break and matches in the second half season are scheduled to start on the 12th January. 01/11/07 SPONSORSHIP It is with great pleasure that we can report that two of our former managers have recently agreed to sponsor the league by providing rain jackets for all match substitutes to wear when ‘on the bench’. Barrie and Gladys Semark were with us as managers in the 1970s and attended the 30 year celebrations we held in June this year. The photograph below shows some of our players displaying the jackets, Barrie & Gladys are standing between Dave Sanford and Dave Russell on the right of the back row. Also in the picture are Les David, Mgr. Kestrels on the extreme left and Lyn Green on the extreme right. The wording on the back of the jackets is ‘Barrie’s Mobility Services’, a local company owned by Barrie. The jackets, with the exception of Kestrels/Terriers are all in the team colours. (It was not possible to obtain maroon jackets so Kestrels/Terriers were issued with the colour ‘anthracite’).
18/09/07 On Saturday 22nd September we had our regular pre-season friendly matches where new players get accustomed to proper match conditions after training during the summer months. It was a very good day and we were visited by David Berman, a freelance photographer who often works for the Croydon Advertiser. We have been advised that a report on this day’s event will appear in the Croydon Advertiser on Friday 28th September but for those with access to the internet a visit to David Berman’s personal website is most rewarding with a fine display of some excellent photographs, the website is www.sitbonzo.com. On Saturday 29th September our Charity Shield type of event for Academy and Premier teams. The Academy matches will kick-off at 9.30 am and this year three teams will be competing for the trophy, this is because last season’s Cup Competition resulted in a draw between Terriers and Tigers (aet) so both of these teams will be playing against each other and against Cubs who were League Champions. The Premier match will be between Cup winners Eagles and League Champions Lions, this match is scheduled to kick-off at 11.00 am. Founder member Cllr. Brenda Kirby has agreed to present the all five teams with the trophies and individual medals after the final whistle in the Premier match, she will also be presenting the September ‘Jack Petchey Award’ to Josh Peterson who was the only player last year to have completed five seasons in the league without missing a single match. The league season for both Academy and Premier teams will commence on Saturday 29th September, the Bantams and Wildcats games are also due to start on this date. 27/07/07 The new ‘Jack Petchey’ page has now been added to this site and hopefully you will find it interesting. The next item to be added is news of the 30th Anniversary Celebrations and here again this will probably be a ‘new’ page so keep watching this space. 25/07/07 Kestrels and Terriers will be receiving a replacement kit for 2007/08 and have decided to revert to their original colours of maroon/sky blue. This means that all references to those teams in the tables on this web site will have to be re-coloured from yellow/blue to the new colours for the start of the 2007/08 season. Our league has been accepted into the Jack Petchey Foundation Award Scheme which covers young people aged from 11 to 25 years of age and provided we comply with the requirements of that scheme we hope to receive quarterly grants. Further details will shortly be placed on a new ‘Jack Petchey’ page. 16/05/07 Apologies to all visitors - because of a technical problem it has not been possible to update this site for quite a few days. The problem has, we hope, been permanently solved and future updates will made more speedily but it will be a few more days before the backlog is cleared - today it has only been possible to show the results of the group matches played on Super Cup Saturday - 12th June. The Finals take place on Saturday 19th June - weather and pitch conditions permitting. 21/02/07 30th Anniversary Social Evening - Saturday 2nd June 2007 The League was formed in June 1977 so this year we will have been providing regular and organised football for local children for 30 years. To mark this anniversary we are arranging for committee members, past and present, to meet on the 2nd June for a social evening at the Addington Community Centre in Central Parade. Although we have managed to contact a large number of former members there are still many for whom we have no address or telephone number. These people are listed below with the year that they were first appointed to our management committee and it is hoped that readers of this page will be able to help us get in touch with them in order that they also can be invited to the social event. If you have any information about anybody on the list please contact our Social Secretary Mrs Lyn Green on 020.8409.0575 or our Secretary, Jim Browne on 020.8657.2659
The Bantams now have their own page on this site with action photographs. Under the direction of Dave Russell the Bantams have now been functioning for a year and are continuing to thrive and this has made us think about the titles of the two other divisions in our league i.e. the Main league and the Mini-soccer league. We feel that while the Bantams are taught the basics, the Mini-soccer teams improve on the football skills before progressing to full sided matches in the Main league. It has therefore been decided to change the latter two titles and the 7-a-side players will in future be in ‘Academy’ teams while their 11-a-side colleagues will be playing in the ‘Premier’ league. The titles used in this site will be amended as and when time permits. 2006 / 07 Because heavy rain rendered the pitches unplayable on Saturday 25th November the matches scheduled for that day will now be played, pitch conditions permitting, on Saturday 2nd December. Please note that on this day the 1st and 3rd Academy games have been switched and will be played as shown on the Academy Fixtures page. 31st October
Our Chairman Rob Jeal has recently started a separate training and football session specifically for girls in school years 4, 5 and 6. If you know of any girls in these school years who would enjoy taking part in these sessions get them to come along to Little League at 12.30 pm on Saturdays when Rob will put them through their paces, they will need to have their own playing kit including shin pads. Some of the girls who came along to the first session have decided that they would like to be known as the Wildcats, hence the title above. 19th October ‘06 This Saturday the 21st October we are holding our annual sponsored walk at Rowdown School in order to raise some much needed funds. We have asked all walkers to report between 9.30 to 10.30 am and it is hoped that all players will give us their support. If the weather is really bad the walk will be postponed to take place on the following Saturday 28th October. Visitors interested in our Nostalgia pages may wish to have a look at two recently received photo’s - Arrows/Wasps and Colts/Comets - taken in 1992, two of the managers are still with us - Lyn Green has continued throughout with the Colts team while Dave Russell is now with Terriers. 9th Sept. ‘06 The league season is on track to start on Saturday 16th September but the kick-off times of two of the scheduled Premier matches have been switched because the managers Lions would have been unable to be with their team at 12.00 Noon. The Premier matches on this day will now now be match one at 10.00 am - Lions v. Eagles, match two at 11.00 am - Kestrels v. Rangers (unchanged) and match three at Noon - Arrows v. Colts. The Academy games are not affected and will take place as originally scheduled. Programmes for the forthcoming season have now been received and will be distributed to managers on the 16th September. Today’s Anniversary matches saw a very close and exciting Academy match which Hawks won by 4 goals to 2 after Cubs twice took the lead, this was followed by another great game where Rangers edged ahead of Eagles by 3 goals to 1. A fuller match report and some photographs will be placed on the Anniversary Matches page as soon as possible. August 2006 The 2006/07 season is just about to start and in order that new players in the Academy league and those players who have moved up to the Premier league can gain some experience we are having a ‘friendlies’ day on Saturday 2nd September. All six teams in each league will be taking part and each team will play a short match against all the other five teams in their own league but with no prizes for the team coming out on top. Our aim is that all teams in the Premier league will have a minimum of one hour of football while those in the Academy league will have 50 minutes in total (five games x 5 minutes each way). It will be necessary for the Premier league matches to kick-off no later than 9.00 am and the Academy league at 9.30 am - these times are provisional so keep referring to this page for any changes that might be made. On the following Saturday - the 9th September - we will have the two Anniversary games with Hawks taking on Cubs at 10.00 in the Academy match and Rangers taking on Eagles in the Premier match at 11.00 am. These two matches will be followed by a game between managers and those players who left the league at the end of last season. The league season proper will commence on Saturday 16th September and details of all league fixtures are shown on the respective pages on this website Freeware If you are interested in maintaining your own record of a football league, be it Little League, a Sunday League or even one of the major leagues the freeware programme ‘Ltrack’ is thoroughly recommended. The author is Nigel Thomas and the Ltrack programme can be downloaded from his website www.ngthomas.co.uk. It’s well worth having a look at and we use it to keep our Little League records up to date.
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