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PAGE 2 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME CONTENTS COVER: MARK DUDLEY CHAIRMANS REPORT 1 PHIL BUXTON - MANAGER 3 AS IT STANDS 5 MEET THE TEAM 6 STAT ATTACK 9 ABOUT THE BULLS 10 OUR VISITORS - ALBION SPORTS 13 2021 - 2022 MATCHFACTS 14-15 PICTURE GALLERY - VS HEMSWORTH MW 16-17 2021-22 STATS 18-19 UPCOMING FIXTURES 20 AFC MANSFIELD U21’s FIXTURES 23 PICTURE COLLAGE HEMSWORTH GAME 27 FAIR PLAY LEAGUE & RESULTS 28 THE NON LEAGUE PAPER 29 TODAYS TEAMS 30 Back page

www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 3 CHAIRMANS NOTES G ood afternoon everyone The Last Man Standing competition and a big welcome to is now down to the last 3 and the the players officials and best of luck to all three of you with supporters from Albion Sports, for the winner walking away with £200. this afternoons Northern Counties East fixture here at the Forest We still have lots of Sponsorship Town Arena. opportunities available from as little as £65, if your interested Last Saturday our draw at in supporting the club in Hemsworth MW saw us bring to anyway please email me at an end 3 consecutive defeats, in [email protected]. a game that we should probably have won had we have had We are always on the lookout for our shooting boots on. This volunteers so if you have got any unfortunately has been our spare time on a Saturday for match problem this season, not scoring days we would love to hear from enough goals and not holding you. on to games where we are in front. Hopefully today we can put Enjoy the Game. things right and get the 3 points. But it wont be easy against an Albion Sports side who will give us a good game, just as they did at there ground when they deservedly beat us. C’MON YOU BULLS!!

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 5 PHIL BUXTON G ood afternoon, I would like to welcome everyone down to the Forest Town Arena for this NCEL fixture against Albion Sports. If I am honest out of all our games so far the away game at Albion has been the only game that we have been beaten by a better side on the day. In saying that we will be trying to reverse that result today. When putting together an almost Cameron Dear making his 95th completely new squad it was inevitable appearance came on for the last that we would have a few ups and 20 minutes and looked good in downs. Our last 2 games have seen possession. us throw away a possible 5 points With both Tom Cropper and Tom and to be fair we have previous for Slone back this week it gives Joe it. Winning 2-0 Vs Knaresborough and myself selection headaches. It we put in an embarrassing 2nd half also gives us no excuse to put in a performance and lost all the points. good display. Against an improving Hemsworth we again had numerous chances to put Albion are having a similar run of the game to bed in both halves. In poor results and both teams will be fairness to Hemsworth they could also looking to get back on track with 3 have taken the points in a very open points today. attacking game. All the best Two returning players put in good The Gaffer performances last week. Liam Marsden, making his 100th appearance for the club started and

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PAGE 10 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Statistics don’t tell everything - but they ATTSATCAKT do say something. AFC’s season 2021-22 in numbers 16 Games played 16 Goals scored 4 Wins 22 Goals conceded 7 Defeats 2-0 Biggest win TOP Lynton Karkach - 4 SCORERS Kian Sketchley - 3 Luke Walker - 3

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 13 ABOUT THE BULLS A FIRST YEAR FULL OF SUCCESS The Bulls got past Hall Road Rangers, Quorn, Dunkirk and Rushall Olympic before being Why the Bull Logo?? AFC Mansfield was formed in 2012 and beaten by National League North side Boston joined the Central Midlands Football League, United in front of over 600 spectators in the Many have asked about the reason signing a 10-year rolling deal to play at the FA Cup Third Qualifying Round. behind The Bull Logo. Forest Town Arena. Mustering 96 points and scoring 110 league Firstly, it is a strong and imposing The newly-formed club - nicknamed ‘the goals, at first glance it would be expected beast but has been an important Bulls’ - began their journey in the 2012/13 that AFC won the NCEL Premier Division symbol in many cultures, farming season, when they fought on four fronts and that season, but they actually finished in third nearly won the lot. behind Pickering Town on goal difference and being one of them. league winners Pontefract who recorded a D​ espite mustering 176 goals and losing just ridiculous 102 points. The site where AFC Mansfield now twice, the Bulls had to settle for a runners- play was formerly part of Crown up place to Dronfield, who dropped just Thanks to a reshuffle in the step above in five points all season to clinch the league the football pyramid, however, the Bulls were Farm and once was open farmland. title. But success would come in the Notts promoted alongside Pontefract and Pickering Intermediate Cup final where they defeated to the NPL East Division. In this industry The Bull is always Beeston AFC, and a Floodlit Cup final victory the top animal and the prized over Newark Town would earn a cup double EXPERIENCING THE NORTHERN asset. for the Bulls in their first ever season as a PREMIER LEAGUE club. Mansfield Colliery was later sunk For the first time in the Bulls’ history, they around 1901 on the farm and later It could have been a hat-trick of cup titles, but found difficulty in adapting to their new league a tiresome nine-man AFC would be beaten in despite a promising start to the 2018/19 became known as Crown Farm injury time by Clifton All Whites in the League campaign. Colliery. Cup final at Alfreton Town. The ray of sunshine in the first half of their The Welfare was built to quench MORE SILVERWARE & A RISE UP THE season was another impressive FA Cup the miner’s thirst and Mansfield LEAGUES run which ended at a much higher side in Colliery FC played their football at Kettering Town, who could only just edge the Welfare pitches as well as the The club entered the FA Vase for the first time past the Bulls with a 2-1 win despite a very in the 2013/14 season, and were eventually nervy ending. Cricket Club on the top pitch. knocked out in a replay by step five side Huntingdon Town. Manager Rudy Funk was sacked in February Mansfield also has strong farming 2019 with the AFC bottom of the pile, and links and held a cattle market But much more success was to come later new boss Mark Ward steered his side to that season, as the Bulls clinched the Central safety by 15 points, but ground grading that we can all remember, where Midlands Football League North Division issues meant that the club would be playing the swimming baths now sit, until title before beating Thorne Colliery in the Step 5 football once more which resulted in around 1983. When a Bull was League Cup final to earn their fourth piece of manager Mark Ward stepping down from silverware in two seasons... Although a treble his role. taken to market it would have eluded them once again with defeat in the caused quite a stir in the town. Floodlit Cup final to Bulwell FC. Ward was then replaced at the start of the 2019/20 season by Matt Chatfield who quickly The Bull has a link to the heritage In their first season in the Northern Counties went to work transforming the club, securing of Mansfield and the symbolic East football League Division One, the Bulls six consecutive home wins in his opening came one game away from an FA Vase season and signing the likes leading goal- strength of the animal is something quarter-final by reaching the fifth round - a scorer Ross Duggan before the Covid-19 we admired hence it is proudly record run - but were knocked out 3-0 by pandemic put a halt to proceedings with the displayed on our badge. Tadcaster Albion. NCEL declaring the season null and void FA CUP GLORY & FURTHER The Bulls once again made a positive start PROMOTIONS to the 20/21 season opening their account with a strong 3-1 FA Cup victory against The next three seasons would be full of Gainsborough Trinity under the lights at further success. In 2015/16, AFC earned the Forest Town Arena with the Bulls only promotion to the NCEL Premier Division with managing to play 9 league games, with a second place finish, and a year later made pandemic in full swing the season ended was club history with an FA Cup run lasting all the declared curtailed. way to the Third Qualifying Round, where they would be knocked out by Stamford in a At the start of the 21/22 season u21 Boss close 2-1 defeat. and club captain Phil Buxton was announced as the new AFC Mansfield Boss after Matt The 2017/18 season was perhaps the best in Chatfield resigned as Boss to take up a new AFC’s bountiful but brief history to date, with role elsewhere. the Bulls matching their FA Cup run from the previous campaign and clinching promotion to the Northern Premier League East Division - step eight in the football pyramid.

PAGE 14 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME TODAYS OPPONENTS: The club was founded in 1974 by Harjit Singh Panesar and Baljit Singh, and joined Division Four of the Bradford Amateur Sunday League, which they won in their first season. After a brief spell in the lower (London). divisions, gaining promotions on Albion Sports have been honoured a regular basis and winning the by receiving three civic receptions Amateur District and Senior cups from the City of Bradford as well as along the way, Albion Sports in winning an award of ‘Ambassadors 1995/96 won the Premier league title of West Yorkshire’ beating the likes of for the first time, this was to prove the Patrick Stewart (Star Trek actor) and catalyst for what was to come. the late Richard Whiteley (Countdown presenter) into 2nd and 3rd place Albion Sports won a further five respectively. league titles, two County Cups, three Albion Sports resigned from Sunday District Cups and seven Senior Cups. football in 2007 in order to progress Other highlights included reaching up through the Football Association the final of the National F.A Umbro pyramid. Sunday Cup on two occasions. In 2007/08 Albion Sports joined the The first in 2000 at the City Ground Telegraph and Argus league and won (Nottingham Forest) Albion Sports promotion in the first season as well as were beaten 1 -0 by Prestige Brighams (Hull). The second in 2005 at Anfield (Liverpool F.C), this time beaten 3 -2 by Gossoms End

www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 15 ALBION SPORTS FC winning the League Cup. (2012/13) by gaining promotion to the Premier division as Champions. Albion Sports F.C were elected to the WRCAFC in 2008, gained promotion in the first season and also won the District Cup. In 2009/10 Albion Sports finished Sports currently ply their trade in runners-up in the Premiership the Premier Division of the Northern and won the Divisional Cup. Counties East Football League (NCEL). In 2010/11 they again finished runners-up and were then successfully elected to join the NCEL 2011/12 season. Albion Sports missed out on promotion by a solitary point in their debut season but quickly rectified this the following season ALBION SPORTS FACTFILE: Year FOUNDED: 1974 League titles: 7 Nickname: THE LIONS Highest level: STEP 5 Chairman: HARJIT SINGH Best FA Cup run: 1ST qual Manager: ISHY HUSSAIN Best FA VASE run: 2Nd QUAL

PAGE 16 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2021 12 34 56 Date Opposition V Competition Att. F-A o.g. Jul-21 Staveley MW A NCELP 237 1-0 White Gibb Rajter Slone Cropper King Sat 31 Aug-21 A FACEP 168 0-2 White King Cropper H NCELP 90 0-0 White King Cropper Sat 07 Handsworth A NCELP 75 2-0 White Gibb Rajter Slone King Cropper H NCELP 73 2-2 White Gibb Rajter Slone King Cropper Wed 11 Eccleshill Utd A NCELP 78 1-2 White Gibb Slone Appiah King Cropper Sat 14 Athersley Rec H NCELP 55 1-1 White Gibb Rajter Slone Slone Cropper Penistone Church Gibb Rajter Slone Tues 17 A NCELP 43 0-2 White Gibb Rajter D'Laryea Rajter Cropper A FAV1Q 63 0-3 Hough D'Laryea Slone Sat 28 Maltby Main H NCELP 105 1-0 Hough Slone H NCELP 72 2-0 White King Slone Tues 31 Emley AFC H NCELP 62 2-2 White King Slone Sep-21 King A NCELP 133 0-2 White Rajter Sat 04 Albion Sports A NCELP 85 1-2 White Gibb Dudley D'Laryea Slone Rajter H NCELP 55 2-3 White Cropper Rajter Sat 11 Dunkirk A NCELP 129 1-1 White Pipes Sketchley Gibb Rajter Tues 21 Handsworth H NCELP Cropper Dudley D'Laryea King Silsden AFC Cropper Dudley D'Laryea King Sat 25 Gibb Dudley D'Laryea Tues 28 Bottesford Town Oct-21 Sat 02 Barton Town Cropper Dudley Mays Gibb Dudley Appiah Tues 05 Thackley Dudley D'Laryea Cropper Dudley D'Laryea Sat 09 Knaresborough Town Marsden Sat 16 Hemsworth MW Sat 23 Albion Sports Nov-21 Goole AFC A NCE Cup 2 Tues 02 Grimsby Borough A NCELP Winterton Rangers H NCELP Sat 06 A NCELP Sat 13 Goole AFC A NCELP Tues 16 Garforth Town H NCELP Sat 20 Staveley MW Sat 27 A NCELP Dec-21 Eccleshill Utd H NCELP Sat 04 Athersley Rec A NCELP Sat 11 Penistone Church H NCELP Sat 18 Sherwood Colliery Tues 28 H NCELP Jan-22 Maltby Main A NCELP Sat 01 Emley AFC H NCELP Sat 08 Albion Sports A NCELP Sat 15 Handsworth H NCELP Sat 22 T hackley Sat 29 A NCELP Feb-22 Bottesford Town H NCELP Sat 05 Barton Town A NCELP Sat 12 H NCELP Sat 19 Knaresborough Town Sat 26 Hemsworth MW A NCELP Mar-22 H NCELP Tues 01 Sherwood Colliery A NCELP Sat 05 Goole AFC H NCELP Sat 12 Silsden AFC A NCELP Sat 19 Sat 26 Grimsby Borough H NCELP Mar-22 Winterton Rangers Sat 02 Garforth Town 1st Sub 2nd Sub 3rd Sub MoM ������������ Goalscorers in BOLD RED CAPTAIN

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PAGE 20 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME TOOLSTATION NCEL PREMIER DIVISION STATS 2021-22 TOP GOALSCORERS NCEL Premier Division TOP GO0A-15 L16-S30 C31-O45 4R6-60E6R1-75S76-90 90+ Lge Cup Total 1 Josh Walker Winterton Rangers 4 3 2 1 0 2 0 7 5 12 2 James Burgess Garforth Town 2 1 3 1 1 3 0 5 6 11 3 Louis Blackwel Botesford Town 1 2 1 4 1 1 0 10 0 10 Ben Grech-Brooksbank Thackley 0 3 3 1 1 2 0 7 3 10 5 Daniel Trot Grimsby Borough 0 2 2 1 3 1 0 8 1 9 6 Joshua Dacre Goole AFC 1 2 0 2 1 205 3 8 George Doyle Emley AFC 1 1 1 2 2 106 2 8 Mitchel Dunne Handsworth 1 3 2 1 0 105 3 8 Talent Ndlovu Eccleshil United 1 0 4 0 1 207 1 8 Mark Simpson Knaresborough Town 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 7 1 8 BEST ATTACK BEST DEFENCE Pld Gls Avg ` Pld Gls Avg 1 Grimsby Borough 14 38 2.71 1 Maltby Main 12 12 1 13 33 2.54 2 Eccleshill United 14 31 2.21 2 AFC Mansfield 14 17 1.21 3 Garforth Town 3 Eccleshill United 13 16 1.23 4 Knaresborough Town 12 24 2.00 4 Garforth Town 14 18 1.29 5 Sherwood Colliery 11 22 2.00 5 Staveley MW 13 17 1.31 6 Handsworth 10 20 2.00 6 Grimsby Borough 14 19 1.36 7 Staveley MW 13 25 1.92 7 Winterton Rangers 11 15 1.36 8 Silsden AFC 13 23 1.77 8 Penistone Church 12 18 1.5 9 Bottesford Town 12 21 1.75 9 Bottesford Town 12 19 1.58 10 Maltby Main 12 21 1.75 10 Albion Sports 13 21 1.62 11 Hemsworth MW 13 22 1.69 12 Emley AFC 12 20 1.67 11 Sherwood Colliery 11 18 1.64 13 Thackley 14 23 1.64 12 Barton Town 14 23 1.64 13 Silsden AFC 13 22 1.69 14 Barton Town 14 23 1.64 14 Handsworth 10 18 1.8 15 Winterton Rangers 11 17 1.55 15 Knaresborough Town 12 23 1.92 16 Goole AFC 13 20 1.54 16 Goole AFC 13 25 1.92 17 Penistone Church 12 17 1.42 17 Thackley 14 28 2 18 Albion Sports 13 16 1.23 18 Emley AFC 12 27 2.25 19 AFC Mansfield 14 16 1.14 19 Athersley Recreation 14 40 2.86 20 Athersley Recreation 14 10 0.71 20 Hemsworth MW 13 46 3.54

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 23 Tuesday 26th October, 2021 UPCOMING LEAGUE & CUP FIXTURES Lincolnshire Senior Trophy First Round Barton Town v Boston Town Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup Second Emley AFC v Hemsworth MW NCEL Division One v Swallownest Rainworth MW Shirebrook Town v Parkgate Wednesday 27th October, 2021 Lincolnshire Senior Trophy First Round Grimsby Borough v Harrowby United West Riding County Cup First Round Armthorpe Welfare v Liversedge Friday 29th October, 2021 NCEL Division One Worsbrough Bridge Ath v Nostell MW Saturday 30th October, 2021 NCEL Premier Division v Winterton Rangers v Handsworth Athersley Recreation v Thackley Barton Town v Garforth Town Bottesford Town v Maltby Main Eccleshill United v Emley AFC Goole AFC v Albion Sports Hemsworth MW v Grimsby Borough Knaresborough Town v Sherwood Colliery Penistone Church Staveley MW v Shirebrook Town NCEL Division One v Teversal Dronfield Town v Brigg Town Glasshoughton Welfare v Hallam Harrogate Railway Ath v Clipstone North Ferriby v Rainworth MW Ollerton Town v Hall Road Rangers Parkgate v Armthorpe Welfare Retford FC v Rossington Main Selby Town Swallownest

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 27 DATE OPPOSITION VENUE F-A SCORERS SEPT ANSTEY NOMADS A 0-2 Kacper Rajter THURS 02 1-3 FA YC PR CHESTERFIELD FC THURS 09 H THURS 16 STAPLEFORD TOWN A 2-3 Tom York & Brad Prosser THURS 23 DERBY COUNTY CTE H 0-2 OCT EASTWOOD CFC A 2-3 Ben Clifford & Jermaine FRI 01 Jatau THURS 21 SHIREBROOK TOWN A 0-3 FRI 29 STAVELEY MW A NOV CHESTERFIELD FC A FRI 12 H THURS 18 STAPLEFORD TOWN DEC EASTWOOD CFC H THURS 02 JAN 22 SHIREBROOK TOWN H THURS 13 THURS 20 STAVELEY MW H TBC DERBY COUNTY CTE A

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 29 DAVID MORRALL FAIR PLAY LEAGUE NCEL Premier Division C S M PP NCEL Division One C S M PP 1 Eccleshill United 80 0 8 1 Dronfield Town 13 0 0 13 2 Garforth Town 90 0 9 13 0 0 13 3 Emley AFC 10 0 0 10 Harrogate Railway Athletic 9 1 0 15 7 1 0 10 3 Clipstone 6 2 0 15 Maltby Main 10 0 0 10 12 1 0 15 Staveley Miners Welfare 10 2 0 13 Retford FC 17 0 0 17 6 Winterton Rangers 10 1 0 16 Shirebrook Town 7 3 0 18 7 Sherwood Colliery 10 1 0 16 6 Armthorpe Welfare 18 1 0 21 9 2 0 17 7 North Ferriby 21 0 0 22 Silsden AFC 11 2 0 21 8 Glasshoughton Welfare 22 0 0 22 9 AFC Mansfield 12 1 1 21 9 Hallam 20 0 0 22 10 Albion Sports 11 2 0 21 Ollerton Town 14 2 0 22 15 1 1 24 Rossington Main 15 0 2 25 Handsworth 18 1 0 24 18 2 0 28 Thackley 12 3 0 27 Teversal 18 4 0 30 13 Barton Town 20 1 0 27 13 Selby Town 20 1 1 30 Knaresborough Town 12 2 1 29 14 Rainworth Miners Welfare 19 2 0 31 15 Bottesford Town 11 5 0 31 15 FC Humber United 16 1 2 32 Grimsby Borough 16 2 1 32 17 4 0 35 17 Penistone Church 21 4 1 38 Parkgate 22 3 0 36 18 Goole AFC 17 Hall Road Rangers 10 3 2 37 19 Hemsworth Miners Welfare 18 Nostell Miners Welfare 20 Athersley Recreation 19 Worsbrough Bridge Athletic 20 Swallownest 21 Brigg Town KEY: C = CAUTION, S = STANDARD SENT OFF, M = MISCONDUCT, PP = PENALTY POINTS Saturday 16th October, 2021 NCEL Premier Division RESULTS Albion Sports 1-2 Bottesford Town Athersley Recreation 0-4 Silsden AFC Barton Town 5-1 Emley AFC Eccleshill United 4-1 Grimsby Borough Tuesday 19th October, 2021 Garforth Town 2-1 Sherwood Colliery West Riding County Cup First Round Hemsworth Miners Welfare 1-1 AFC Mansfield Goole AFC 0-2 Thackley Knaresborough Town 1-2 Maltby Main NCEL Division One Penistone Church 1-1 Goole AFC FC Humber United 5-4 Brigg Town Staveley Miners Welfare 4-2 Winterton Rangers Thackley 0-1 Handsworth Wednesday 20th October, 2021 NCEL Division One NCEL Premier Division Dronfield Town 3-1 Teversal Handsworth 2-1 Penistone Church Glasshoughton Welfare 1-2 Armthorpe Welfare Winterton Rangers 2-0 Hemsworth Miners Welfare Harrogate Railway Athletic 4-1 Rainworth Miners Welfare Friendlies Ollerton Town P-P Hallam Hallam 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday U23s Parkgate 5-0 Nostell Miners Welfare Retford FC 2-0 Rossington Main Selby Town 0-2 North Ferriby Worsbrough Bridge Athletic 3-2 Clipstone

PAGE 30 | BULLSEYE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME THERE’S no greater buzz among Non-League time in the club’s history. supporters than experiencing the magic of the FA Cup. Premier League and Championship big guns lay in wait but Farnborough’s reward was a That thrill of seeing your hometown club pitched depressing 540-mile round trip to League Two against the elite in the world’s greatest cup Darlington in the snow! Talk about a damp squib! competition. There’s simply nothing like it. Incredibly, Graham Westley’s side came through Sadly, though, the FA Cup gods can’t shine down that too, winning 3-2 in arctic conditions to on everyone and it takes a sprinkling of dust from make the hat for round four. Third time lucky, Lady Luck herself at times in order to keep the Premier League champions Arsenal were dream alive. their just rewards and despite a 5-1 defeat to Arsene Wenger’s star-studded Gunners side in Take Horsham FC for example. After celebrating a tie eventually switched to Highbury, the club a famous win over Woking – two levels their enjoyed their finest hour – a day that could never superior – in the fourth qualifying round last be taken away from a support base starved of Saturday, Hornets fans would be have forgiven success for so long. for getting carried away while glued to the televised first-round draw on Sunday lunchtime. The same could also be said for Lincoln City. Non-League football’s best ever FA Cup run Their reward…a trip to Carlisle United – a round to the last eight in 2016-17 saw the National trip of 682 miles for a game which wouldn’t really League Imps come through low-profile trips to over-excite the TV companies ready to potentially Championship duo Ipswich Town and Brighton & place them in the nation’s spotlight. Hove Albion to take their place in the fifth round. Understandably, the Hornets would have looked Again, the giants of English football lie in wait on in awe at fellow Isthmian Leaguers AFC but Lincoln were instead paired with a trip to Sudbury, whose reward for becoming the first Burnley where their run was expected to end with team to beat National League South leaders a whimper and without the fanfare it thoroughly Dartford this season was a mouth-watering home deserved. clash against League Two neighbours Colchester United – a tie which will almost certainly whet the Not so, as Sean Raggett’s 89th-minute header appetite of those either side of the Suffolk/Essex earned Danny Cowley’s side the most famous border. win in their history and an eventual quarter-final clash with Arsenal at the Emirates. The rest, My message to Horsham, however, is fear not. as they say, is history, as far as Lincoln are The magic of the FA Cup has not passed you by concerned. just yet. You see, Horsham may well be cursing their luck As local sports editor, I remember covering right now and wondering if the FA Cup gods will Farnborough Town’s path to the fourth round of ever shine on their plush new Camping World the cup back in 2002-03. After a handsome first- Community Stadium in West Sussex. Hope, round victory over Harrogate, the town was filled though, as Farnborough and Lincoln proved, is with anticipation until they were handed a rather still on the horizon and but there’s still time for underwhelming trip to Southport in round two. the magic of the cup to be conjured. Still, the run went on, however, as Boro came As Del Boy would say in Only Fools and through 3-0 against the 10-man Sandgrounders Horses…“He who dares, wins!” to book their place in the third round for the first

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TODAYS TEAMS AFC MANSFIELD ALBION SPORTS FC (MANAGER) PHIL BUXTON ISHY HUSSAIN (MANAGER) (ASST. MANAGER) JOE KEARNEY DANNY BROWN (MANAGER) (PLAYER/COACH) JON D’LARYEA (GK COACH) (COACH) (PHYSIO) JASON TRUSCOTT (GK COACH) (PHYSIO) (GK) JASON WHITE GEORGE CLARKE(GK) LYNTON KARKACH KIERAN SUDDARDS TOM SLONE MARCUS HARPER LUKE WALKER CAMEN BHANDAL JACK GIBB CAMERON DEAR MICHAEL TUFENKIAN KIAN SKETCHLEY MOHAMED KABA MARK DUDLEY JAMAL STEWART TOM CROPPER BEN PARKES SAM KING (C) SPENCER CANDLIN RAEECE ELLINGTON JERMAINE JATAU DANIEL FACEY SAM PIPES KOFI APPIAH JAYDAN SANDHU LIAM MAYS ROBBIE FOX JON D’LARYEA HASSAN ALI KACPER RAJTER GEORGE SCOTT MUHAMMET TEKTAS LIAM MARSDEN OLIVER RUSSON (GK) DYLAN HOUGH GRAHAM HALL BEN KENDALL FINN DONOVAN CALLUM BROWN SPENCER GORDON OFFICIALS REFEREE: JOE MOSS (W RIDING FA) ASSISTANT: PAUL MATTHEWSON (S&H FA) | ASSISTANT: JAMIE MORTIBOYS (WORCS. FA)