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Post by Dave on Jan 10, 2022 8:55:58 GMT
Match Officials Referee James Gould – Linesmen Matt Redmond – Mark Hickson
4th Official Nathan Beech
Final Score Buckland Athletic 2 Egham Town 1
Attendance 312
Match PreviewI cannot remember the last time I felt so excited about a game of football, I have been looking forward to this fixture since the day the draw for the fourth Round of The FA Vase was announced.
An opportunity to forget all that is going on in the world right now and feel a part of this great club. Big Roy may not be with us anymore sadly in person, but every Buckland fan will know he will be looking down on the game and cheering the lads on.
Before we look at Egham Town FC let us look at how both clubs reached the fourth Round of the FA Vase.
Buckland Athletic knocked out Camelford FC in the first round proper at home on the twenty Third of October winning the game by three goals to nil. In the second round proper on the twentieth of November Buckland were at home again, this time against Falmouth Town AFC and ran out three goals to one winners. On the eleventh of December Buckland Athletic took on Wellington AFC in the third round proper also at home and won the game by two goals to nil a game I covered and can be viewed here
davesworld.proboards.com/thread/958/buckland-athletic-wellington-11th-2021
In the first round proper Egham Town FC were at home against Colliers Wood on the twenty third of October and won the game by four goals to one. The second round proper saw them face Cobham away on the twentieth of November running out three nil winners. In the third round played on the twelfth of December, the first time the club had reached the third round in thirty seven years, they faced another away trip, this time against Berks County, a game they won by two goals to one. So who are Egham Town FCEgham Town FC play in the Combined Counties Premier League which is the same level Buckland Athletic play at. Runnymede Rovers were established in 1877 and reformed as Egham FC in 1905. After the Second World War Egham FC did not reform and it was not until a meeting took place on the 9th December 1963 that the present club came into being.
Sadly the club has suffered a number of arson attacks last year at the ground. On the Bank Holiday Monday in May 2021 mindless local thugs broke down fences and started a fire that destroyed ten seats in the main stand. They returned on the fourth of May and started another fire that completely destroyed the main stand. All the seating was destroyed, the steels and the roof were disfigured and twisted and one floodlight was damaged along with damage to the dressing rooms. The club chairman Patrick Bennett said at the time he could see no immediate conclusion. Two fourteen year old boys were arrested on suspicion of arson. Local resident and friend of the club Bradley Graham set up a go fund me page that raised £8.426 and just one week after the fire with help from local companies and volunteers, work to repair the stand got underway.The official reopening of the ground took place on the sixteenth of October 2021, a home fixture against Virginia Water, a game Egham won by two goals to nil.
Their last two league matches were prosponed due to the weather, but they have only lost one of their last ten league matches, so are in good form coming into this match. Buckland had better hope the game does not go to a penalty shootout. In the first round proper of the FA Vase on the eleventh of September, the game between Egham Town against Crawley Green ended in a one all draw. The game was finally won by Egham Town after a twenty eight goal penalty shootout.
One other sad piece of news is the Egham Town mascot Zac was put to sleep on the twelfth of July 2021. Good news is the new mascot Zebedee made his first appearance for the club against Crawley Green and most certainly brought them luck. Will we see Zebedee at the Heath?Zac Zebedee Prize money of £1.875 and a place in the fifth round awaits the winner of today’s match, the losers will collect £600. On learning Egham would be playing Buckland one of their fans wrote, “Ow i do like to be beside the seaside.... Torquay Torquay here we come” another wrote “Devon cream tea for everyone” note from me, only if it is jam first lads. COYYMatch ReportThe lads did it for 
The Egham team stayed at the Hilton Hotel in Torquay last night and woke up to find their team coach which had to be parked in Torquay coach station over night had been broken into. Thankfully the morons responsible missed a large sum of money that was left on the coach and only got a way with a number of balls and a few other things. The local police would not release the coach to the team and they had to make their way to the Heath in a number of taxis.
Before the kick off a one minutes silence was held for Rose Glanfield who sadly passed away earlier this month. Rose was a big part of the Buckland family who worked tirelessly for the club she loved; she will be missed so much by everyone. Considering the pitch was ruled unplayable last weekend, Simon (Roses son) worked his magic again to produce a quality playing surface for today’s game.
The match referee blew up for the start of the match and the first real shot in anger was from Own Stockman for Buckland from the edge of the Egham box, his effort flew over the crossbar. Up the other end and Danny Campion was played into the Buckland box, but his shot went just wide of the post.
Buckland then took the lead after being awarded a penalty kick. Make no mistake about it there is no way on earth it was a penalty. Josh Webber had been played into the Egham box by his teammate Cieran Bridger. Josh had Sammad Razi for company who clearly won the ball before Josh fell over his outstretched leg. Ben Carter took the spot kick and fired it low into the bottom left hand corner of the goal.
My first thoughts were that I hoped this was not the only goal of the match; I wanted Buckland to win the game in true Buckland fashion, not because of a very poor decision by the match referee. Egham stepped up their game and the Buckland goal lead a charmed life, a number of times the ball looked certain to cross the goal line but Buckland got lucky a number of times. Buckland were at this point struggling to get their own game going, but were working hard and doing their best to contain Egham. Reece Yorke very close in headed the ball onto the right hand post and Danny Campion also came close for Egham, but he only found the side netting.
Buckland were at last getting their own game back on track, How Josh Webber beat his man and got past him out wide of the left deep in the Egham half I will never know. He played the neatest ball inside the last defender for Charlie Johansen to run onto, All Charlie had to do was fire the ball home, it looked a certain goal, but the shot went just wide of the right hand post.Josh played in Charlie again, this time from the right hand side just outside the Egham box, Charlie hit the shot well but the ball crashed against the upright, two very good chances missed that would have given Buckland a comfortable first half lead.
The referee blew up for halftime and at this point I felt mildly confident Buckland would be in the hat for the next round of the FA Vase.
Early in the half my friend Jon who was watching the game with me noticed the Bucks only had ten men on the pitch. We had not seen a red card issued and were a bit puzzled for a short while. It turned out Rob Farking the Bucks captain had been sent to the sin bin. We had to check if the sin bin was inaction in this cup, bearing in mind what happened at Brixham AFC, it seems it is.
Egham once again came close to scoring when a loose ball was pinging around the Buckland goal line; thankfully Andy Collings in goal for the Bucks was able to grab hold of the ball. There then followed one of those handbags moments that quickly petered out, but there was worse to come later.
Charlie Johansen had another good half chance when he burst into the right hand side of the Egham box; he hit his shot across the keeper and only just side of the far post. But them Egham were awarded a penalty kick, Frazer Clarke was jumping high on the air in the Buckland box with his arms up. He took a big knock in his back from one of his own players and as a result the ball hit his hand. Not an intentional hand ball, but to be honest the referee was always going to try and equal things up after giving Buckland one in the first half.
Brenden Mathews took the kick and made no mistake to bring his side back on level terms. Bucks Chieran Bridger fired a great shot from the edge of the Egham box that pulled of a wonderful diving save by Michael Edegbe, in goal for Egham. Out of nowhere came the second and winning goal for Buckland. The ball was at least twenty five yards away from the Egham goal with three defenders moving onto it. Then somehow Ben Carter was there before them and hit a first time shot that flew into the back of the net. It was a goal worthy of winning any match.
Then came the very sad part of the game, a Buckland player was badly fouled right by the dugouts. It did appear he had rolled himself just out of play and rolled back on unseen by the match referee. All hell broke loose and there was so much pushing and shoving. Four young Buckland fans were close by and must have said something the Egham players did not like. One of these fans was clearly punched and I think it was the Egham manager who then tried to get over the fence to get to the young lads, thankfully he failed. A gentleman came and led the lads away to try and calm things down, but as they walked past me one player told them he wanted a fight with them after the game. I found myself shouting to him that he was here to play a game of football.
Buckland won because they rode the storms when they had too, because they never stopped battling and were not prepared to lie down and get run over. As I said Bens goal was worthy of winning any match and in the end Buckland fully deserved to win the match
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Post by Dave on Jan 17, 2022 17:17:41 GMT
Egham Town wrote their own match report and also used mine Out of Vase to dodgy penalty and hopeful punt! Reports from Mark F and Buckland's Dave.
BUILDBASE FA VASE FOURTH ROUND
SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2022
BUCKLAND ATHLETIC 2 (1)
Ben Carter 2 (10 (p), 83)
EGHAM TOWN 1 (0)
Brendan Matthew (68, (p))Egham Town’s first ever competitive visit to Devon will be remembered for quite a few, if not all, of the wrong reasons. Having already set a club record with the number of wins in the FA Vase in one season, defeating five teams to get to the fourth round, the Sarnies were looking for a place in the fifth, nationally drawn, round for the first time. When the draw was made the squad made the decision to travel down on the day before, taking rooms in the Hilton Hotel in Torquay. Who knew that this famous seaside resort town, the jewel in the crown of the English Riviera, was a hotbed of wanton vandalism and theft? Apparently the coach the team hired had to be parked away from the hotel, and as the players slept there were Devonian ne’er-do-wells breaking into the luggage compartment of the coach, damaging some of the windows and stealing some of the equipment the team had brought down for their warm up. The vandals did, though, miss some cash left on the coach, but who leaves cash on a coach? With the local police involved the coach was impounded so the management and players had to be ferried in minibuses and taxis to Newton Abbot, home of Buckland Athletic.
The home side had not had to play five sides to get to the fourth round, thanks to an earlier good run. They sit in 8th place of the Toolstation Western League and I had seen them play at runaway leaders Tavistock Town on 26 December. The home side coasted to a 3-0 win, all the goals coming in the first 24 minutes with Buckland’s defence all over the shop, and they offered nothing up front. That was not the Buckland Athletic side facing Egham Town, unfortunately, in front of a crowd that must have been over 250 strong. A good, vociferous part of the crowd were the “Sarnie Army”, who would have been pleased to see their side starting well despite the night’s travails.
Before the match I was asked by our Chairman Pat Bennett (thankfully back on his feet after a recent dose of Covid) to speak to a local photographer/reporter who writes as davesworld.proboards.com. Dave lives and breathes non-league football in and around the Newton Abbot area. Buckland Athletic, who have a fabulous ground with a wonderful clubhouse, are his favourites. In the tenth minute of the match the first key point of the game came when referee James Gould got it spectacularly wrong when he said Samad Kazi’s brilliantly timed tackle on Josh Webber in the Egham box. Dave wrote this: Buckland then took the lead after being awarded a penalty kick. Make no mistake about it there is no way on earth it was a penalty. The Egham defender was slightly in front of the advancing Buckland player and clearly poked the ball away. Said Buckland player then fell over the out stretched leg. Ben Carter took the spot kick and fired it low into the bottom left hand corner of the goal. Even the spectators around me were laughing at the award. It was a “homer” decision, no doubt. That Egham later scored from the same spot for the equaliser was not, as another home fan predicted, “levelling things up”, but more of that later.
Egham’s early flurry of activity had seen Danny Campion, himself only recently back from a Covid bout, hit the side netting after Kazi had found Trevan Robinson, whose cross was met by Egham’s top scorer. The closest Egham came to a reply in the first half was a Reece Yorke header from Luke Brophy’s corner kick, the skipper seeing his effort bounce off the back post. Egham were on top of any possession stats but the ball was not running their way despite sterling work by Robinson on the right wing and Mo Sharif on the left to support Campion and Brendan Matthew. Athletic were able to clear away any Sarnie half-chances, and from an Egham corner in the 34th minute might have doubled their lead as Webber beat Jordan Goode-Keeley to the ball and advanced to play in a cross for Charlie Johansen, who sliced the ball wide. Brophy was the next Egham man to test home keeper Andy Collings, his curling free kick being clutched under the bar. Johansen then hit the bar, leaving Egham’s keeper Michael Edegbe rooted to the spot with a shot that bent and dipped onto the goalframe in injury time.
The second half lacked the intensity of an entertaining first half, and that looked like suiting Jordan Berry’s men. Unfortunately they were not able to wrestle any advantage from being a man up as home skipper Rob Farkins was sin-binned, Mr Gould presumably having had enough of his lip. A shot by Sharif, off a Dan Brown cross, took a deflection that steered the ball into Collings’ hands, then Robinson was crowded out as he ran on to Matthew’s back header. It seemed appropriate that when did score it was from the spot, and that it was Kazi’s cross that was handled by Frazer Clark. No “levelling up” here, the offence was so clear cut the decision to award a spot kick was mandatory. Matthew found exactly the same spot in the net as Carter. A Brown free kick and Yorke’s header, grabbed on the line by Collings, offered hope but Buckland recovered from being pulled back and Edegbe had to be at his best to save Cieran Bridger’s shot from the edge of the box. Alas, it was not to be for Egham, Carter’s hopeful punt from distance nestling into the bottom left corner of their goal with seven minutes of regulation time remaining. Two minutes into injury time a stiff Egham challenge led to most of both teams, and their benches, take part in a frank exchange of views at very close quarters and at some length. Egham’s Robinson and Buckland’s Johansen will be facing bans sometime soon after being dismissed.
Understandably, Egham’s players felt massively disappointed after this loss. Now the main chance of having something to show for what has been a remarkable season already comes with the League and the League Cup. In the League next come two tough games at Abbey Rangers and at home to North Greenford United over the next two Saturdays, and Redhill visit Runnymede Stadium on 8 February for a League Cup tie. Mr Berry and his team will want to make sure there is no dip in league form after this Vase exit.
EGHAM TOWN: Michael Edegbe, Samad Kazi, Luke Brophy, Dan Brown, Reece Yorke (Captain), Haluna Masembe, Trevan Robinson, Jordan Goode-Keeley, Danny Campion, Brendan Matthew, Mo Sharif. Subs: Adam Humphries, Ryan Parsons, Luke Maguire (Campion, 79), Brendan Trujillo, Sandro Costa (Sharif, 62), Marcelo Graca.
Mine
I left the ground today with mixed emotions, very happy that Buckland had won a very hard fought battle, but saddened by the events I witnessed close to the end of the match, more on that later.
The Egham team stayed at the Hilton Hotel in Torquay last night and woke up to find their team coach which had to be parked in Torquay coach station over night had been broken into. Thankfully the morons responsible missed a large sum of money that was left on the coach and only got a way with a number of balls and a few other things. The local police would not release the coach to the team and they had to make their way to the Heath in a number of taxis.
Before the kick off a one minutes silence was held for Rose Glanfield who sadly passed away earlier this month. Rose was a big part of the Buckland family who worked tirelessly for the club she loved; she will be missed so much by everyone. Considering the pitch was ruled unplayable last weekend, Simon (Roses son) worked his magic again to produce a quality playing surface for today’s game.
The match referee blew up for the start of the match and the first real shot in anger was from Own Stockman for Buckland from the edge of the Egham box, his effort flew over the crossbar. Up the other end and Danny Campion was played into the Buckland box, but his shot went just wide of the post.
Buckland then took the lead after being awarded a penalty kick. Make no mistake about it there is no way on earth it was a penalty. Josh Webber had been played into the Egham box by his teammate Cieran Bridger. Josh had Sammad Razi for company who clearly won the ball before Josh fell over his outstretched leg. Ben Carter took the spot kick and fired it low into the bottom left hand corner of the goal.
My first thoughts were that I hoped this was not the only goal of the match; I wanted Buckland to win the game in true Buckland fashion, not because of a very poor decision by the match referee. Egham stepped up their game and the Buckland goal lead a charmed life, a number of times the ball looked certain to cross the goal line but Buckland got lucky a number of times. Buckland were at this point struggling to get their own game going, but were working hard and doing their best to contain Egham. Reece Yorke very close in headed the ball onto the right hand post and Danny Campion also came close for Egham, but he only found the side netting.
Buckland were at last getting their own game back on track, How Josh Webber beat his man and got past him out wide of the left deep in the Egham half I will never know. He played the neatest ball inside the last defender for Charlie Johansen to run onto, All Charlie had to do was fire the ball home, it looked a certain goal, but the shot went just wide of the right hand post.Josh played in Charlie again, this time from the right hand side just outside the Egham box, Charlie hit the shot well but the ball crashed against the upright, two very good chances missed that would have given Buckland a comfortable first half lead.
The referee blew up for halftime and at this point I felt mildly confident Buckland would be in the hat for the next round of the FA Vase.
Early in the half my friend Jon who was watching the game with me noticed the Bucks only had ten men on the pitch. We had not seen a red card issued and were a bit puzzled for a short while. It turned out Rob Farking the Bucks captain had been sent to the sin bin. We had to check if the sin bin was inaction in this cup, bearing in mind what happened at Brixham AFC, it seems it is.
Egham once again came close to scoring when a loose ball was pinging around the Buckland goal line; thankfully Andy Collings in goal for the Bucks was able to grab hold of the ball. There then followed one of those handbags moments that quickly petered out, but there was worse to come later.
Charlie Johansen had another good half chance when he burst into the right hand side of the Egham box; he hit his shot across the keeper and only just side of the far post. But them Egham were awarded a penalty kick, Frazer Clarke was jumping high on the air in the Buckland box with his arms up. He took a big knock in his back from one of his own players and as a result the ball hit his hand. Not an intentional hand ball, but to be honest the referee was always going to try and equal things up after giving Buckland one in the first half.
Brenden Mathews took the kick and made no mistake to bring his side back on level terms. Bucks Chieran Bridger fired a great shot from the edge of the Egham box that pulled of a wonderful diving save by Michael Edegbe, in goal for Egham. Out of nowhere came the second and winning goal for Buckland. The ball was at least twenty five yards away from the Egham goal with three defenders moving onto it. Then somehow Ben Carter was there before them and hit a first time shot that flew into the back of the net. It was a goal worthy of winning any match.
Then came the very sad part of the game, a Buckland player was badly fouled right by the dugouts. It did appear he had rolled himself just out of play and rolled back on unseen by the match referee. All hell broke loose and there was so much pushing and shoving. Four young Buckland fans were close by and must have said something the Egham players did not like. One of these fans was clearly punched and I think it was the Egham manager who then tried to get over the fence to get to the young lads, thankfully he failed. A gentleman came and led the lads away to try and calm things down, but as they walked past me one player told them he wanted a fight with them after the game. I found myself shouting to him that he was here to play a game of football.
Buckland won because they rode the storms when they had too, because they never stopped battling and were not prepared to lie down and get run over. As I said Bens goal was worthy of winning any match and in the end Buckland fully deserved to win the match |
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