If you like plenty to read in your matchday programme, Tuesday?s issue is a ?must?! Some of the highlights are:
| Page 2 | David Taylor sets out his three priorities as Chairman of the Club, including trying to find a buyer/major investor: ?We are planning for next season on the basis that we will not find such a buyer. However, I will keep going on this until we do, however long it may take.? |
| Page 3 | Phil Gilchrist reflects on Saturday?s performance against Burton Albion: ?We?ve got to produce the same level of performance ? and score goals ? this evening and against Barrow on Saturday, and in the games that follow. We can?t allow Saturday to be a ?one off? performance and sink back to where we were before.? |
| Page 8 | Tom Barnardo recalls our last Kingfield encounter with the Harriers |
| Pages 12-13 | Brian Caffarey interviews Club Chaplain, Ian Nicholson, and discovers, among other things, that he?s been arrested in five different nations! |
| Pages 24-25 | Lewis Hulatt profiles new boy Rob Elvins |
| Page 28 | Sadie Gordon provides some more amusing stories from the mad world of football |
| Page 29 | Neil Bennett continues his brilliantly-written account of the eventful 1996-97 season, focusing on two of the greatest performances by a Geoff Chapple side: the second leg of the FA Trophy semi-final at Stevenage Borough and the replay at Vicarage Road. Neil reflects, among other things, on why he missed the first game: ?I wasn't restricted by girlfriends or career (my risible part-time bar job existed purely to fund a rhythm of utter irresponsibility) yet, despite my life revolving around a reckless and destructive consumption of alcohol and Woking, I know that I simply wasn't there?.. my absence was most likely a conscious decision not to get hurt.? Irresistible! |
| Pages 36- 37 | Robert Greenaway, writing from a beach in sunny Mauritius, reminisces about some great Cardinal Characters of years gone by: ?If it comes to bookings, few can boast a record like Derek Cottrell's. I once heard him described as Fred Callaghan's Nobby Stiles, but with teeth! Derek seemed to clatter his way through games ? clumsy, yes, but never dirty. Like most ?hard? players, it seemed to overshadow his ability to read the game. Every good team needs a player like this.? There are plenty more names to conjure with and some great photos from Mark Doyle. |
| Page 40 | Lewis Hulatt continues his amusing account of the development of football: ?During the debate on the common rules, ?hacking? was a hot topic. Always allowed in football, the kicking of other players, whether or not they had the ball, had been permitted, but when it went to a vote, the ?hackers? were out-numbered and Association Football developed in a less Roy Keane/Chopper Harris-inspired fashion. (The losers of the vote went on to formulate rugby, saying upon departure that ?if you ban hacking, within a week Frenchmen will be able to beat us English at football?!!!)? |
And, of course, the rest of the programme is packed full with superb photos from David Holmes and all the usual reports and previews.
Make sure you get your copy. Only ?2.50. Order a copy from the Club Shop if you can?t make it to the game.
