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On This Day

12th September

1908
Woking 4 Farncombe 3, Monk, Shoesmith, Hutton and Buck.
1936
Woking 2 Oxford City 0. A crowd of a thousand see W Finlay score a brace for Woking.
1978
Woking 0 Slough Town 0 attn: 1,120.

11th September

1909
Woking 4 Farncombe 2 in the West Surrey League, Shoesmith, Salisbury (2) and an OG.
1948
Romford 4 Woking 6, Braithwaite, Boxall, Smith, Wiles and Ballerino (2).
1954
Dover 2 Woking 1 at Crabble attn: 3,000. John Mortimore scored for Woking in the 1st Preliminary Round of the FA Cup.
1993
Woking 3 Macclesfield Town 0, Clive Walker (2) and Lennie Dennis attn: 1,566.
2001
Woking played 6th placed Margate in the Conference on the day of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Gate beat the Cards 1-0 and the result left Woking struggling in 19th place in the table.

10th September

1904
Evelyn Henry Lintott scores eight of Woking's nine goals in a friendly fixture against The City of Westminster at Pembroke Road.
1985
A crowd of 68 watch Woking go down 4-2 at Banstead Athletic in Isthmian League Division 2 South. Clive Youlton scored both of Woking's goals.
1996
Beaten 2-0 by Farnborough Town at "Fortress" Kingfield, ending a run of thirty-two home games and 2,898 minutes of unbeaten football.
2011
Woking 3 Eastbourne Borough 1 in the BSS. Paris Cowan-Hall, Moses Ademola and Jack King for Woking, attendance: 1,203.

9th September

1911
Woking play their first ever Isthmian League match, a 1-1 draw, away at London Caledonians.
2006
Woking 2 Dagenham and Redbridge 2, in the Nationwide Conference.
2014
Aldershot Town 0 Woking 1, Sole with a stunning 30 yard free kick.

8th September

1900
Woking 1 Staines Albany 2 in a friendly fixture at Pembroke Road. Staines Albany evolved into what we know as Staines Town today.
1945
Woking 8 Epsom 1, first FA Cup tie after WWII.
1973
Corinthian-Casuals 0 Woking 3, Oram, Edwards and Chapple for the Cards at Sandy Lane Tooting.
1984
Manager Bill Dodgin gives 17 year-old Lloyd Wye his opportunity in the 1st team against Hertford Town. Dodgin resigned the following week after the Cards were knocked out of the FA Cup by Sussex County League side Haywards Heath. Despite a disastrous succession of straight defeats, manager Dodgin said of the Hertford game; "There were positive signs out there today, the young Wye at right back looked our best player, giving us something to build on for the future". Woking legend Alan Morton turned out at centre back in the same game.
2012
Woking 6 Nuneaton Town 1, Bradley Bubb (4), Sawyer and McCallum

7th September

1912
Tunbridge Wells 0 Woking 1, Sidney Love for the Cards in the Isthmian League.
1938
Woking 1 Kingstonian 3 at Kingfield in the Isthmian League. Bob Reeves scoring for Woking.
1991
Wokingham 0 Woking 3. George Friel, Steve Milton and Andy Parr for Woking attendance: 1,080.

6th September

1919
Leytonstone 2 Woking 2. The Cards start with a draw with their first Isthmian League game after the Great War.
1930
Ilford 4 Woking 5, Bill Warnes (3) GL Moseley and D Bateman in the Isthmian League.
1947
Ilford 2 Woking 2 in the Isthmian League.
1958
Woking 7 Leytonstone 0, Charlie Mortimore (5) and Mike Jacob (2) in front of 2,400 at Kingfield.
1980
Woking 3 Dagenham 1, Field, Morton and Booth for the Cardinals.
1988
Southwick 0 Woking 2. A brace from former Kingfield ball-boy Terry Worsfold in Isthmian League Division One.
2014
Woking 3 Lincoln City 1, Dean Morgan (2) and Josh Payne.
Thank you to Mark Doyle for compiling this feature

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