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The One And Only | Official Matchday Programme of Preston North End | Issue 02 Preston North End vs Rotherham United | Sky Bet Championship Tuesday 16th August, 2022 | KO 7.45pm | Deepdale

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THE ONE<br />

AND ONLY<br />

issue 02 » £3.50<br />

Storey<br />

Jordan<br />

# 14<br />

<strong>vs</strong> rotherham united<br />

tuesday 16th August, 2022<br />

kick-off 7.45pm


The one and only » 3<br />

in today’s edition...<br />

4 9 18 26<br />

36 39 42 54<br />

CLUB DIRECTORY<br />

LIFE VICE PRESIDENT<br />

Bryan Gray<br />

PRESTON NORTH END<br />

LIMITED DIRECTORS<br />

CHAIRMAN Craig Hemmings<br />

DIRECTOR Peter Ridsdale<br />

FINANCE DIRECTOR Kevin Abbott<br />

DIRECTOR, PEOPLE AND CULTURE<br />

Zoë Hall<br />

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS<br />

David Robinson, David Taylor<br />

FOOTBALL<br />

MANAGER Ryan Lowe<br />

FIRST TEAM COACHES Paul Gallagher,<br />

Mike Marsh<br />

GOALKEEPING COACH Mike Pollitt<br />

HEAD PHYSIO Matthew Jackson<br />

ASSISTANT PHYSIO Tim Horn<br />

FITNESS COACH John Lucas<br />

SPORTS THERAPISTS Colin Ashcroft,<br />

Ethan Seel<br />

SPORTS SCIENCE Luke Hemmings<br />

CLUB DOCTOR Dr Dominic Lakeland<br />

KIT MEN Paul Huddy, Michael Hawke<br />

HEAD GROUNDSMAN Peter Ashworth<br />

ADMINISTRATION<br />

CLUB SECRETARY Ben Rhodes<br />

CEO OF COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION<br />

TRUST Tom Drake<br />

STADIUM AND FACILITIES MANAGER<br />

Jonathan Caunce<br />

TICKET OFFICE MANAGER, SLO, DLO<br />

Hannah Woodburn<br />

HEAD OF MEDIA Hannah Broadley<br />

ACADEMY<br />

ACADEMY MANAGER Nick Harrison<br />

PDP COACH (U18) Andy Fensome<br />

HEAD OF COACHING Michael Stringfellow<br />

PHYSIO Paul Morgan<br />

YDP COACH (U12 TO U16) John Welsh<br />

YDP COACH (U9 TO U11) Melissa Brown<br />

GOALKEEPING COACH Dave Rogerson<br />

HEAD OF RECRUITMENT Andy Livingstone<br />

HEAD OF EDUCATION Phil Brown<br />

YOUTH ADMINISTRATOR Ruth Fensome<br />

ROLL OF HONOUR<br />

FOUNDED 1880<br />

FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE<br />

FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1888<br />

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 1889, 1890<br />

FA CUP WINNERS 1889, 1938<br />

WAR CUP WINNERS 1941<br />

FA CUP FINALISTS 1888, 1922, 1937,<br />

1954, 1964<br />

LANCASHIRE CHALLENGE CUP WINNERS<br />

1887, 1893, 1895, 1900, 1996<br />

FIRST DIVISION RUNNER-UP 1891, 1892,<br />

1893, 1906, 1953, 1958<br />

SECOND TIER CHAMPIONS 1904, 1913, 1951<br />

THIRD TIER CHAMPIONS 1971, 2000<br />

FOURTH TIER CHAMPIONS 1996<br />

THIRD TIER THIRD PLACE PROMOTION 1978<br />

LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFF WINNER 2015<br />

FOURTH TIER RUNNER-UP 1987<br />

THE ONE AND ONLY<br />

MANAGING EDITOR Ben Rhodes<br />

EDITOR Tom Rawcliffe<br />

CONTRIBUTORS Martin Atherton,<br />

Daniel Baldwin, Matthew Brown,<br />

Alex McMonnies, Mike Payne, Ryan<br />

Richardson, Ian Rigby<br />

PHOTOGRAPHY Ian Robinson, Rex<br />

Features, Lancashire Post, Alamy<br />

DESIGN James Ginieres,<br />

Ignition Sports Media


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The one and only » 5<br />

FROM THE NOTEBOOK...<br />

THE GAFFER<br />

Good evening and welcome back to Deepdale for our first home<br />

game of the season under the lights.<br />

Last time we were here, on the opening<br />

day of the campaign against Hull City,<br />

your support was fantastic and the<br />

atmosphere inside the stadium was brilliant.<br />

It was great to see all the flags for the<br />

first time and I look forward to seeing that<br />

throughout the season.<br />

We’ve definitely already felt the benefit of<br />

the extra season cards sold. Seeing the Town<br />

<strong>End</strong> packed to the rafters was brilliant, and<br />

obviously the Kop will be open for the next<br />

two at home as well.<br />

We now just need to put the ball in the back<br />

of the net to give the fans behind each goal<br />

something to cheer about.<br />

I thought that was the only thing missing<br />

from the Hull game really. We were really<br />

unfortunate to not get on the scoresheet, but<br />

it was fantastic to score four at Huddersfield<br />

last week.<br />

It was really pleasing to see the attitude<br />

and application of the boys who came in for<br />

the game, stepping in and doing a fantastic<br />

job, and showing how important it will be<br />

throughout the season to have that strength<br />

in depth.<br />

This evening, we welcome Paul Warne, his<br />

staff and his team to Deepdale. Paul’s a<br />

fantastic bloke who has done an unbelievable<br />

job at <strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong>, getting them in to<br />

the Championship on multiple occasions now<br />

within a tight budget.<br />

“IT WAS REALLY<br />

PLEASING TO SEE<br />

THE ATTITUDE AND<br />

APPLICATION OF<br />

THE BOYS WHO<br />

CAME IN FOR THE<br />

GAME, STEPPING<br />

IN AND DOING A<br />

FANTASTIC JOB.”<br />

His assistant Richie Barker is someone I’ve<br />

known for many years too, and he actually<br />

turned out to be our manager the year we got<br />

promoted at Bury.<br />

We know we will be in for a tough encounter<br />

this evening against a <strong>Rotherham</strong> team who<br />

will be hard to beat, but hopefully we can<br />

excite you with our football on the pitch.<br />

Please continue to get behind the boys and<br />

enjoy the game.<br />

Ryan


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SATURDAY 20TH AUGUST,<br />

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Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£32 £24 £24 £12 £5<br />

INVINCIBLES PAVILION (BLOCKS B/C/G/H)<br />

Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£30 £22 £22 £10 £5<br />

SIR TOM FINNEY STAND (BLOCKS G/H/J)<br />

Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£30 £22 £22 £10 £5<br />

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SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER,<br />

3PM<br />

FAMILY ZONE SIR TOM FINNEY STAND (BLOCKS A/B/C)<br />

Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£28 £20 £20 £7 £5<br />

ALAN KELLY TOWN END (AB-AH)<br />

Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£28 £20 £20 £10 £5<br />

BURNLEY<br />

TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER,<br />

8PM<br />

BILL SHANKLY KOP (K-M)<br />

Adult 65 and over 19 to 24 11 to 18 U11<br />

£28 £20 £20 £10 £5<br />

Disabled (wheelchair and ambulant) prices are as per relevant age bracket/stand.<br />

* Blocks D, E and F of the Sir Tom Finney Stand and Invincibles Pavilion are premium seating<br />

** Blocks A, B and C of the Sir Tom Finney Stand are Family Zone seating<br />

SHEFFIELD UNITED<br />

SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER,<br />

3PM<br />

TICKET OFFICE<br />

OPENING HOURS<br />

WEEK OF HOME MATCHES<br />

Monday to Friday: 9am until 5pm*<br />

Saturday: 9am to half-time<br />

Evening matchday: 9am until half-time<br />

Sunday: closed<br />

* Fridays before a home game, close is 6pm<br />

HOW TO BUY<br />

PHONE: 0344 856 1966<br />

Open during ticket office opening hours<br />

IN PERSON: Visit the Sir Tom Finney<br />

Stand ticket office<br />

ONLINE: Log on to: MyPNE.Com 24/7


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on’t mooch...<br />

CARDIFF CITY<br />

CARDIFF CITY STADIUM<br />

SATURDAY 27TH AUGUST |<br />

3PM<br />

Allocation: 1,662 - Of this, 266 are<br />

allocated seating and the rest are<br />

safe standing.<br />

Sales period: Tickets went on<br />

general sale on Monday 15th August.<br />

Ticket prices: Adults £19, Seniors<br />

(over 60s) £16, 16 to 21-year-olds<br />

£10, U16s £8.<br />

Disabled supporters: Ambulant<br />

disabled supporters will be charged<br />

at the general area ticket price, with<br />

a personal assistant free of charge if<br />

required. There are 12 wheelchair bays<br />

available, plus room for a free personal<br />

Cardiff City manager Steve Morison<br />

assistant, these are priced as follows:<br />

Adults £17, seniors (over 60s) £13, 16 to<br />

21-year-olds £10, U16s £7.<br />

Coach travel: Coach travel is available<br />

from both Deepdale and Leyland, priced<br />

£28 for Ambassadors and £30 for nonambassadors.<br />

Coaches will leave both<br />

locations at 7.30am.<br />

Car parking: Cardiff City will make<br />

12 visitor accessible parking bays<br />

available, which are free of charge,<br />

these are issued on a first come, first<br />

served basis. For further details please<br />

contact the Bluebirds’ disabled access o<br />

fficer, Ben Jones via ben.jones@<br />

cardiffcityfc.co.uk.<br />

PROTECT THE GAME!<br />

NEW TEXT SERVICE AVAILABLE<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> are launching a new text service on matchdays for supporters to report<br />

any form of abuse, discrimination or anti-social behaviour at Deepdale.<br />

The club prides itself on providing an inclusive and family-friendly atmosphere at the<br />

ground, while also encouraging passionate support from the fans.<br />

How to report an incident:<br />

1. Via mobile phone – supporters can<br />

use the text service by sending a text to<br />

‘66777’. All texts must start with the letters<br />

PNE followed by your stand, row and seat<br />

number and also identify the location of<br />

the anti-social behaviour, being as precise<br />

as possible. For example, text ‘PNE I’m in<br />

the Alan Kelly Town <strong>End</strong>, row 10, seat 34.<br />

Male sitting directly in front of me shouting<br />

racist abuse,’ to 66777. The club will then<br />

make every effort to deal with the problem<br />

as quickly as possible and you will not be<br />

identified at any time;<br />

2. Speak to the nearest matchday steward;<br />

3. Report it via the Kick it Out App;<br />

4. Email the club: enquiries@pne.com;<br />

5. Write to the club at: <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong><br />

first team training ground, c/o Zoë Hall,<br />

Euxton Lane, Euxton, Chorley, PR7 6FA.<br />

(Please note, if you do choose to report an<br />

incident via options 3, 4 & 5, we will not be<br />

able to deal with the incident whilst it is<br />

happening, for an immediate response use<br />

options 1 and 2).<br />

Thank you for your continued support.<br />

TEXT<br />

66777


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DATE: 30.07.22<br />

VENUE: DW STADIUM<br />

ATTENDANCE: 15,429 (4,729 AWAY)<br />

COMPETITION: EFL CHAMPIONSIP<br />

REFEREE: MR R MADLEY<br />

WIGAN<br />

ATHLETIC<br />

0<br />

0<br />

PRESTON<br />

NORTH END<br />

STARTING XI<br />

AMOS 12<br />

NAYLOR 4<br />

WHATMOUGH (KERR, 38) 5<br />

POWER 8<br />

KEANE 10<br />

MCCLEAN 11<br />

TILT 16<br />

LANG 19<br />

BENNETT (PEARCE, 90) 21<br />

DARIKWA (C) 27<br />

MAGENNIS (HUMPHRYS, 78) 28<br />

STARTING XI<br />

1 WOODMAN<br />

4 WHITEMAN<br />

6 LINDSAY<br />

8 BROWNE (C)<br />

10 JOHNSON (LEDSON, 86)<br />

11 BRADY (FERNÁNDEZ, 72)<br />

14 STOREY<br />

15 PARROTT (EVANS, 72 )<br />

16 HUGHES<br />

19 RIIS<br />

44 POTTS (WOODBURN, 66 )<br />

SUBS NOT USED:<br />

JONES 1<br />

MCGRATH 17<br />

SHINNIE 18<br />

AASGAARD 30<br />

SUBS NOT USED:<br />

25 CORNELL<br />

5 BAUER<br />

13 MCCANN<br />

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DATE: 06.08.22<br />

VENUE: DEEPDALE<br />

ATTENDANCE: 15,816 (1,529 HULL CITY FANS)<br />

COMPETITION: EFL CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

REFEREE: MR J SIMPSON<br />

PRESTON<br />

NORTH END<br />

0<br />

0<br />

HULL<br />

CITY<br />

STARTING XI<br />

WOODMAN 1<br />

WHITEMAN 4<br />

LINDSAY 6<br />

BROWNE 8<br />

JOHNSON (C) (WOODBURN, 79) 10<br />

BRADY 11<br />

STOREY 14<br />

PARROTT 15<br />

HUGHES 16<br />

RIIS 19<br />

POTTS (FERNÁNDEZ, 66) 44<br />

STARTING XI<br />

1 INGRAM<br />

2 COYLE (C)<br />

4 GREAVES<br />

5 JONES<br />

6 FIGUEIREDO<br />

7 TUFAN (CANNON, 81)<br />

9 SAYYADMANESH<br />

19 ESTUPIÑÁN (COVIL, 59)<br />

24 SERI (WILLIAMS, 85)<br />

27 SLATER<br />

30 TETTEH (ELDER, 59)<br />

SUBS NOT USED:<br />

CORNELL 25<br />

BAUER 5<br />

MCCANN 13<br />

LEDSON 18<br />

O’NEILL 39<br />

SUBS NOT USED:<br />

37 ROBSON<br />

17 MCLOUGHLIN<br />

30 WILKS<br />

63<br />

20<br />

6<br />

4<br />

POSSESSION<br />

SHOTS<br />

SHOTS ON TARGET<br />

CORNERS<br />

13 FOULS<br />

10<br />

37<br />

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Daniel Johnson became the 28th<br />

man to make 300 appearances for<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> earlier this<br />

month against Hull City!


18 « The one and only


Jordan<br />

THE MAIN<br />

INTERVIEW<br />

Storey<br />

The one and only » 19<br />

Jordan Storey is enjoying life back at PNE, but he’s not happy to just coast<br />

through life at Deepdale. He’s fully focused on being successful.<br />

The central defender, who joined the club in<br />

2018, spent the second half of last season<br />

on loan with League One side Sheffield<br />

Wednesday, and has since pushed his way back<br />

in to the first team with <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>.<br />

He recently reached an impressive milestone<br />

for the Lilywhites, making his 100th appearance<br />

for the club in the recent home draw against<br />

Hull City, a game he also ended by being named<br />

the EPIC Risk Management man of the match.<br />

“It’s a good achievement at any club,”<br />

Jordan told The One And Only. “It was nice<br />

to finally reach that milestone and now it’s<br />

about looking on to the next games.<br />

“It was nice to top the day off with the award,<br />

it was sort of a fitting occasion really.<br />

“Not only because it was my 100th appearance,<br />

but one of my best mates actually got married<br />

that weekend and I couldn’t make it, so a shoutout<br />

to Nathaniel and Megan on their special day!”<br />

Jordan certainly appreciated the magnitude<br />

of his achievement, given that in the modern<br />

game it’s very few players who get the<br />

opportunity to reach that landmark for a club.<br />

The 24-year-old is already looking ahead<br />

to the next milestone, and while that will<br />

be another memorable moment when it<br />

does come, Jordan is desperate for it to<br />

come hand in hand with success.<br />

He said: “Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good thing,<br />

but it’s also about actually achieving something<br />

with the team as well, I think more than ever.<br />

“We’ve been in this league for a while<br />

now and it’d be nice to really have a<br />

good go for the Play-Off places.<br />

“I think the club’s definitely heading in the right<br />

direction; you can tell that with our style of play.<br />

“We were missing that final touch in<br />

the Wigan and Hull games, but once we<br />

score we look like the real deal.”<br />

Yeovil-born Jordan has been part of the<br />

team to have kept two clean sheets in<br />

the opening two games of the season,<br />

occupying that right-hand spot in the<br />

defensive three, which he appears to have<br />

made his own.<br />

It’s not been a straightforward 12 months for<br />

the former Exeter City man, though.


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In September, he extended his stay at Deepdale<br />

until 2025 and at that point was regularly<br />

featuring for the Lilywhites in the Championship,<br />

however, things changed in December.<br />

Ryan Lowe was appointed manager and<br />

challenged the defender to go out to League<br />

One, with Sheffield Wednesday, to go and get<br />

some valuable minutes, and to prove himself<br />

as one of the best players in the division.<br />

He did just that, playing a crucial role in<br />

the Owls’ push for a Play-Off place, albeit<br />

they fell short at the semi-final stage.<br />

Jordan added: “I definitely didn’t think I had my<br />

place nailed down here, but it was a bit of a shock.<br />

“I think it brought out the best in me though<br />

because I was maybe a little bit annoyed,<br />

but at the same time I was determined to<br />

go and come back knocking on the door.<br />

“I think the manager just wanted me to go out and<br />

establish myself somewhere and play consistently,<br />

and I managed to do that at Sheffield Wednesday.<br />

“It’s benefitted me massively going there<br />

and wanting to get that fight, being<br />

determined to get back in the team here and<br />

do well, so it’s benefitted me hugely.”<br />

Jordan in action for Sheffield Wednesday in League One.<br />

On his return to Euxton, he came back<br />

to a squad which looked quite a bit<br />

different to the one he left behind.<br />

There were many departures in the summer<br />

with players out of contract, including<br />

the likes of Mathew Hudson and Josh Earl<br />

who were close friends of Jordan.<br />

Despite that, there are still plenty who<br />

have been at the club throughout the<br />

defender’s stay, so it’s certainly not like<br />

walking in to a new changing room.<br />

Jordan said: “Obviously there’s a lot of faces<br />

that have left and moved on, but there’s still<br />

that good core of players that have been here<br />

for a while.<br />

“I think all the new lads have settled in<br />

really well already too, it’s a good bunch<br />

of lads in there and as I said it feels like<br />

we’re heading in the right direction.<br />

“The way we’re playing now is different to<br />

the managers I’ve worked with previously,<br />

too. We play a lot more now.<br />

“I think our style as a team has been good.<br />

If you look at the Hull game in particular,<br />

we had something silly like 500 passes.<br />

“We had so much of the ball in possession,<br />

and I think in previous seasons that’s<br />

not been what we’ve been about.


The one and only » 21<br />

“IT’D BE NICE TO<br />

REALLY HAVE A<br />

GOOD GO FOR THEM<br />

PLAY-OFF PLACES.”


ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE PITCH WITHOUT<br />

PERMISSION AND THOSE CARRYING OR USING<br />

SMOKE BOMBS OR PYROS WILL NOW RECEIVE<br />

AN AUTOMATIC CLUB BAN.<br />

‘LOVE FOOTBALL. PROTECT THE GAME’<br />

A message about anti-social and criminal behaviour<br />

To mark the new season, we want to<br />

make you aware of new measures<br />

being taken across all of football<br />

to ensure everyone can have a safe<br />

and enjoyable experience. We are<br />

supporting strong action from the<br />

FA, Premier League and EFL to tackle<br />

anti-social and criminal behaviours<br />

that put all of us at risk.<br />

This reflects the seriousness of<br />

the risks to fans and staff – pyros<br />

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#LoveFootball #ProtectTheGame


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“We’ve almost been about letting the opposition<br />

have the ball, so it’s good what we’re doing<br />

here and what we’re trying to achieve.”<br />

That style of football which Ryan Lowe is<br />

looking to adopt is something which Jordan<br />

feels he’s really settled in to, helped by that<br />

aforementioned loan to League One.<br />

He said: “I’ve been getting on the ball a lot<br />

more in the new system, and that’s one of the<br />

ways being at Sheffield Wednesday helped<br />

me, because they played that way a lot more<br />

than what I’d previously played here.<br />

“I think football’s always going to evolve. As<br />

players we have to adapt to certain situations<br />

and systems that a manager wants to play.”<br />

“I WAS DETERMINED<br />

TO GO AND COME BACK<br />

KNOCKING ON THE<br />

DOOR.”<br />

This afternoon’s game against <strong>Rotherham</strong><br />

<strong>United</strong> is the first of a double header at<br />

Deepdale, with Watford to come on Saturday.<br />

The support in the opening home game of the<br />

season against Hull City was nothing short<br />

of spectacular, with over 14,000 PNE fans in<br />

attendance, and everyone at the club is keen<br />

to take advantage of the home support.<br />

Jordan disclosed: “All the boys have said that<br />

we want to make Deepdale a fortress this<br />

year, and I think it’ll be important to take<br />

positive results both today and on Saturday.<br />

“It’s a big chance for us to take advantage of<br />

that support. We’ll go in there expecting to take<br />

three points, that has to be our attitude.”


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WELCOME<br />

TO DEEPDALE...<br />

rotherham<br />

united<br />

» The lowdown «<br />

<strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong> will be looking to make their mark back in the<br />

Championship this season, following their automatic promotion from<br />

League One last term. The Millers more than warranted their secondplaced<br />

finish with 90 points, therefore avoiding the tough test of the<br />

Play-Offs. Manager Paul Warne will be aware of the difficulty in avoiding<br />

the drop zone though, as the club have been relegated in their three<br />

most recent Championship seasons, but each time bounced straight back<br />

up. Some shrewd business over the summer has seen the arrivals of<br />

experienced defender Lee Peltier and striker Tom Eaves – both for free.<br />

Making a combined 364 appearances in England’s second tier, there is no<br />

shortage of experience provided from the two new recruits.


The one and only » 25<br />

last 5...<br />

...at home<br />

...at deepdale<br />

6TH FEBRUARY 2021 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

1 - 2<br />

27TH OCTOBER 2018 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

1 - 1<br />

7TH NOVEMBER 2020 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

2 - 1<br />

1ST JANUARY 2019 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

2 - 1<br />

5TH NOVEMBER 2016 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

1 - 3<br />

29TH APRIL 2017 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

1 - 1<br />

2ND JANUARY 2016 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

2 - 1<br />

10TH MAY 2014 / LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFFS (SFL1)<br />

1 - 1<br />

18TH AUGUST 2015 / CHAMPIONSHIP<br />

0 - 0<br />

15TH MAY 2014 / LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFFS<br />

3 - 1


26 « The one and only<br />

ones to watch...<br />

the shot-stopper «<br />

the captain «<br />

#1<br />

Viktor Johansson<br />

23-years-old<br />

Goalkeeper<br />

Previous clubs:<br />

Hammarby Fotboll Academy, Aston Villa, Alfreton<br />

Town (loan), Leicester City.<br />

#6<br />

Richard Wood<br />

37-years-old<br />

Centre Back<br />

Previous clubs: Sheffield Wednesday,<br />

Coventry City (loan), Coventry City, Charlton<br />

Athletic, Crawley Town (loan), Fleetwood Town<br />

(loan), Chesterfield (loan).<br />

The young Swedish goalkeeper first generated<br />

attention back in his homeland, with boyhood<br />

club Hammarby. Upon some fine displays,<br />

Aston Villa swooped for his services, where<br />

he stayed for four years before switching to<br />

Leicester City. Capped internationally for the<br />

U21s, Johansson signed for <strong>Rotherham</strong> in 2020,<br />

following the expiration of his contract with<br />

the Foxes. Since then, the shot-stopper has<br />

become quite the hero to Millers’ supporters.<br />

Johansson was responsible for a club-record<br />

27 clean sheets throughout the 2021/22<br />

campaign. During this time, he would not only<br />

win automatic promotion to the Championship,<br />

but he lifted the Papa Johns Trophy too.<br />

Age does not stop skipper Richard Wood from<br />

performing at this high level, as the 37-year-old<br />

is ready for his ninth campaign in a <strong>Rotherham</strong><br />

<strong>United</strong> shirt. Starting as a youngster at Sheffield<br />

Wednesday, the centre back secured moves to<br />

both Coventry City and Charlton Athletic - where<br />

he would make 100 appearances for the former<br />

and reach the FA Cup quarter-final with the<br />

latter. Despite signing for the Millers in 2014,<br />

one of his most famous moments came in the<br />

2017/18 League One Play-Off Final. The captain<br />

netted a brace over 120 minutes to defeat<br />

Shrewsbury Town 2-1 at Wembley and secure<br />

promotion back to the Championship once again.


The one and only » 27<br />

the youngster «<br />

the threat «<br />

#8<br />

Ben Wiles<br />

23-years-old<br />

Central Midfielder<br />

Previous clubs:<br />

Frickley Athletic (loan).<br />

#11<br />

Chiedozie Ogbene<br />

25-years-old<br />

Attacker<br />

Previous clubs:<br />

Cork City, Limerick, Brentford, Exeter City (loan).<br />

Academy graduate Ben Wiles will be a youngster<br />

to look out for during <strong>Rotherham</strong>’s Championship<br />

campaign. Despite plenty of transfer interest this<br />

summer, manager Paul Warne insists he would<br />

require a hefty fee to part with the midfielder.<br />

After impressing in the youth set-up, Wiles was<br />

rewarded with a professional contract in 2017<br />

and his Championship debut in August 2018.<br />

Making a grand total of 53 appearances across all<br />

competitions last season, including a career-best<br />

of ten goals, the 23-year-old’s efforts resulted in<br />

lifting the Papa Johns Trophy and promotion to the<br />

second tier of English football. Operating in the<br />

heart of the midfield, Wiles is not afraid to burst<br />

up and get involved at the top end of the pitch.<br />

The pacey winger, who can also operate as a<br />

centre forward, was recruited by the Millers in<br />

August 2019. Born in Nigeria, Ogbene moved to<br />

Ireland when he was eight, going on to become<br />

the first African-born Irish international player<br />

in June 2021. After originally shining for Cork City<br />

and Limerick FC, Brentford came in with an offer<br />

he and the club couldn’t refuse, and swiftly joined<br />

them in early 2018. Ogbene struggled to reach the<br />

Bees’ first team, though, and spent time out on<br />

loan with Exeter City, before making <strong>Rotherham</strong><br />

his permanent home on a three-year deal.<br />

Known as a very agile dribbler, he kick-started<br />

the new campaign with a goal against Swansea<br />

City, helping his side take a point at home.


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The one and only » 29<br />

first, best, last...<br />

We look at our first ever win over today’s visitors to Deepdale,<br />

our biggest ever win and our last win against them.<br />

FIRST<br />

PNE 2<br />

ROTHERHAM UNITED 0,<br />

DEEPDALE<br />

17TH MARCH 1962<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> had never met <strong>Rotherham</strong><br />

<strong>United</strong> before the 1961/62 season and<br />

then suddenly we met four times in<br />

one campaign! Having met them twice<br />

in the fourth round of the league<br />

cup, losing 3-0 on a replay, just after<br />

meeting in the league for the first time<br />

– a game that ended 2-2 at Millmoor,<br />

we grabbed the two points with a win<br />

at Deepdale in March.<br />

It was a 2-0 home win, with a brace<br />

of goals from Alfie Biggs – who ended<br />

the season as top scorer, with 22 in all<br />

competitions.<br />

The win was a good response in<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>’s first (of what has been<br />

61 years) out of the top flight, having<br />

lost a tight FA Cup quarter-final<br />

replay to Manchester <strong>United</strong> at Old<br />

Trafford just three days earlier. At<br />

the end of the season <strong>Rotherham</strong><br />

would finish one place and one point<br />

above the Lilywhites in ninth and tenth<br />

respectively in a second tier won by<br />

Liverpool – their last season outside<br />

the top flight!<br />

PNE line-up: Kelly, R Wilson, Ross, Wylie,<br />

Smith, Barber, D Wilson, Biggs, Alston,<br />

Spavin, Thompson.<br />

BEST<br />

PNE 5<br />

ROTHERHAM UNITED 2,<br />

DEEPDALE<br />

27TH MARCH 1993<br />

In a relegation season, ending on<br />

an emotional afternoon at Bolton<br />

Wanderers’ Burnden Park, there<br />

weren’t too many highlights… of course<br />

all those of a certain age remember<br />

Tony Ellis’ hat-trick at Bloomfield Road<br />

in October of that season, but it wasn’t<br />

his only treble of the campaign.<br />

That one came after getting up from<br />

being knocked unconscious by Gary<br />

Briggs… these days he would have<br />

been swapped by a concussion<br />

substitute, but the one at Deepdale<br />

against the Millers was a little less<br />

dramatic.<br />

John Beck was manager by the time<br />

<strong>Rotherham</strong> came to Deepdale at the<br />

end of March, but results were up and<br />

down.<br />

Having lost at the Hawthorns in<br />

midweek, the team bounced back as<br />

a brace from Mickey Norbury and<br />

Ellis’ three putting the South Yorkshire<br />

visitors to the sword in front of just<br />

under 5,000 on the plastic at Deepdale.<br />

PNE line-up: Farnworth, Ainsworth, Lucas,<br />

Whalley, Kidd, Greenall, Cartwright, Burton,<br />

Norbury, Ellis, Ashcroft. Subs not used: L<br />

Fowler, J Fowler.<br />

LAST<br />

<strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong> 1<br />

PNE 3<br />

New York Stadium<br />

5th November 2106<br />

Our last win over the Millers came as<br />

the Lilywhites set an early light to the<br />

fireworks on 5th November 2016, as<br />

Aiden McGeady proved the spark at the<br />

New York Stadium.<br />

The home side’s winless run was<br />

extended to 12 games as first half<br />

goals from Jordan Hugill and Callum<br />

Robinson helped PNE to a comfortable<br />

win.<br />

Robinson spurned a great chance<br />

before Hugill headed in off the post<br />

from Greg Cunningham’s cross to open<br />

the scoring.<br />

It was 2-0 when Aiden McGeady teed<br />

up Robinson for a tap-in from close<br />

range.<br />

Substitute Peter Odemwingie crossed<br />

for Richard Wood to halve the deficit<br />

with a header, but Marnick Vermijl<br />

tapped in to seal the win on the<br />

counter-attack.<br />

PNE line-up: Maxwell, Baptiste, Clarke (c),<br />

Wright, Cunningham, McGeady (Beckford,<br />

89), Gallagher, Johnson, Pringle (Vermijl,<br />

77), Robinson, Hugill (Makienok, 55). Subs<br />

not used: Lindegaard, Doyle, Grimshaw,<br />

Huntington.


30 « The one and only<br />

the journey of...<br />

Conor Washington<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>hern Irish<br />

Number 14<br />

30-years-old<br />

Centre Forward<br />

Former clubs:<br />

St. Ives Town, Newport County, Peterborough<br />

<strong>United</strong>, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield <strong>United</strong>,<br />

Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic.<br />

Born in Kent, Washington qualifies to play for<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>hern Ireland through his grandmother.<br />

Starting his career with St. Ives Town in 2009, he<br />

transferred to Newport County just three years<br />

later for £5k. With the Welsh side, Washington<br />

helped the club earn promotion to the EFL for<br />

the first time in 25 years, via the Play-Offs.<br />

This caught the eye of Peterborough <strong>United</strong> in<br />

League One, who promptly signed the forward<br />

in January 2014 for over £500k. He would make<br />

just under 100 appearances at the Weston<br />

Homes Stadium, registering 32 goals and 11<br />

assists, to mark a successful time at the club.<br />

Queens Park Rangers were next to acquire his<br />

services in January 2016, paying a multi-millionpound<br />

fee, but he was unable to hit the same<br />

numbers. Spells at Sheffield <strong>United</strong>, Heart of<br />

Midlothian and Charlton Athletic soon followed<br />

over four years – up until <strong>Rotherham</strong> boss Paul<br />

Warne made the 30-year-old his first signing<br />

of the 2022/23 campaign on a free transfer.<br />

club path...<br />

» » » » » » »


The one and only » 31<br />

in the dugout...<br />

Paul Warne<br />

English<br />

49-years-old<br />

<strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong><br />

After a senior career of over 250 appearances<br />

for <strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong> and 31 goals, the midfielder<br />

hung up his boots in 2012. This wasn’t the end of<br />

his time at the Millers though, as he soon joined<br />

the coaching staff in May of that same year.<br />

Just six months later, Warne would be granted a<br />

testimonial by the club for all his years of service<br />

including as a player, coach and caretaker<br />

manager. 2016 came around and boss Kenny<br />

Jackett had just resigned, which meant it was<br />

Warne’s time to step up as caretaker manager<br />

of <strong>Rotherham</strong> <strong>United</strong>. The club were sat bottom<br />

of the Championship table, 12 points adrift of<br />

safety at the time, but Warne was appointed<br />

permanent manager in April 2017 once relegation<br />

was confirmed. Despite the difficult times, he<br />

has won the Millers promotion back to the<br />

Championship on three separate occasions, while<br />

also claiming the Papa Johns Trophy last season<br />

too. He’s very much a fan favourite at the New<br />

York Stadium, and respected even more so for<br />

his honesty in media interviews. <strong>Rotherham</strong> fans<br />

have also been able to gain a fascinating insight<br />

into how he operates behind the scenes as a<br />

manager too, with Warne featuring on BBC Radio<br />

Five Live’s new podcast, Moment of Truth, which<br />

follows all the drama at the end of last season.<br />

MAnagerial Record:<br />

GAMES MANAGED <strong>vs</strong> pne 5<br />

WON 3<br />

LoST 2<br />

DRAW 0


32 « The one and only<br />

let’s get<br />

quizzical<br />

WORDSEARCH<br />

CAN YOU FIND<br />

THESE WORDS IN THE<br />

WORDSEARCH OPPOSITE?!<br />

ALVÁRO<br />

DEFENDER<br />

MADRID<br />

SPAIN<br />

UNITED<br />

G G I W Y N Z S U N I T E D U<br />

N W X F K T G O D Y H Q S Q N<br />

C O E S M O Z N T E X F H B W<br />

X C E Y Y Q R N I B Q M L G N<br />

J Q W T V U X A P A G Y B Q N<br />

O U D I R D A M V X P C Y O M<br />

U O H W L C E Q S L Y S A Z R<br />

U E J P F K A F A P A I N Z R<br />

K J F A U X P J E A T A P S X<br />

J D E A B F U F X N D R Z W S<br />

C H I R X F D Q L G D Q G N B<br />

K G P Z E S C M I Q H E M P R<br />

I L K N V N N O E M H O R N G<br />

T S L B F F H I I F X I K I V<br />

N Z A E C L R Z U M F K S M V<br />

SPOT-KICK<br />

QUESTION<br />

OTHER THAN REAL MADRID,<br />

WHICH LA LIGA YOUTH SIDE DID<br />

ALVÁRO REPRESENT?<br />

ATLETICO MADRID<br />

DEPORTIVO LA CORUÑA<br />

VALENCIA


SPOT THE DIFFERENCE<br />

The one and only » 33<br />

CAN YOU FIND THE FIVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE IMAGES BELOW?<br />

SQUAD GAMES<br />

WHO CHANGED THEIR SQUAD NUMBER TO NO.10,<br />

HAVING HELD THE NO.11 FOR SEVERAL YEARS,<br />

THIS SUMMER?<br />

DANIEL JOHNSON<br />

ALAN BROWNE<br />

SEAN MAGUIRE<br />

10<br />

PLAYER PATHWAYS<br />

MATCH THE THREE PNE PLAYERS WITH ONE OF THEIR FORMER CLUBS<br />

ANSWERS: Spot-kick Question - Deportivo la Coruña; Spot The Difference - 1. Nike swoosh on the boot of the Wigan player has changed colour. 2. ‘PAR’ has been removed in Álvaro’s<br />

shirt logo. 3. The writing on the LED board has changed. 4. The PUMA logo has been removed from the Wigan player’s sock. 5. The logo on the purple background on the right has been<br />

removed.. Player Pathways - Sean Maguire – Accrington Stanley, Greg Cunningham – Bristol City, Ben Whiteman – Doncaster Rovers.


White Hot<br />

Deepdale<br />

An incredible sight on the opening<br />

home game of the season as those<br />

on the Town <strong>End</strong> proudly waved the<br />

hundreds of new flags!


36 « The one and only<br />

This or That?<br />

Dai Cornell<br />

TV or movie<br />

Movie - My favourite at the moment<br />

is The Hunger Games<br />

Night in or night out<br />

Night in<br />

Home or away game<br />

Home<br />

Restaurant or takeaway<br />

Restaurant<br />

Music or podcast<br />

Podcast - I listen to the High<br />

Performance podcast quite a lot.<br />

Action or comedy<br />

Action<br />

Cats or dogs<br />

Dogs<br />

Text or call<br />

Text


The one and only » 37<br />

Automatic promotion<br />

or Play-Off final win<br />

Automatic promotion - I’ve done the<br />

Play-Offs already with Swansea and<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>hampton!<br />

Batman or Spider-Man<br />

Batman<br />

Toes as fingers or fingers as toes<br />

Fingers as toes<br />

Clean sheet or<br />

penalty shootout hero<br />

Clean sheet<br />

Pizza or pasta<br />

Pasta<br />

Netflix or cinema<br />

Netflix<br />

Chart music or old music<br />

Old music<br />

Time machine or teleporter<br />

Teleporter<br />

Fly or be invisible<br />

Fly<br />

Staycation or abroad<br />

Abroad


THEY WORE THE SHIRT...<br />

The one and only » 39<br />

100 YEARS AGO<br />

with Ian Rigby<br />

For this season’s historical page, I thought it might be an ideal opportunity to<br />

highlight the players who represented <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> exactly one hundred<br />

years ago during the 1922/23 season. The country was still recovering from<br />

the effects of World War One, but was slowly getting back on track.<br />

Tommy Roberts, an England<br />

schoolboy international,<br />

was born very close to West<br />

Bromwich Albion’s ground, the club<br />

that rejected him after a trial as a<br />

16-year-old.<br />

However, he signed for Leicester<br />

Fosse having played locally around the<br />

Midlands area. The First World War<br />

robbed the youngster of his chance<br />

of league football, but he guested<br />

numerous times for Southport Vulcan<br />

during the war period. His goalscoring<br />

exploits attracted much attention, but<br />

it was <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> that were<br />

successful in obtaining his signature,<br />

although they had to pay Leicester<br />

Fosse £400 for the privilege as they<br />

still held his league registration. During<br />

his first season with <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>, Tommy<br />

amassed 29 goals, including a brace<br />

when knocking Blackpool out of the FA<br />

Cup in January 1920. He was quickly<br />

into his stride as a striker, scoring a<br />

few hat-tricks along the way, the most<br />

satisfying being his first league treble,<br />

away at West Brom, the club that had<br />

rejected him as a youngster. During<br />

May 1921, <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> played in<br />

six benefit and charity games, all away<br />

from Deepdale, and his personal tally<br />

in those games was 15 goals with hattricks<br />

against Blackpool and Blackburn<br />

Rovers on consecutive evenings.<br />

Having lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the<br />

1921 FA Cup semi-final, the club went<br />

one better the following season, only<br />

going on to lose the Final itself 1-0 to<br />

Huddersfield Town with a controversial<br />

penalty proving the difference. The<br />

1922/23 season was a good season for<br />

him as he set up a new club record<br />

by scoring 28 league goals. Due to his<br />

fine form he was selected to play for<br />

the Football League, a game in which<br />

he scored another two goals. Needless<br />

to say he was chosen to make his<br />

full international debut the following<br />

season. He was selected twice, against<br />

Wales and Belgium, and he scored<br />

in both games. Unbelievably, in 1924,<br />

he was transferred to Burnley for<br />

more than £4,000 and he, amazingly,<br />

was only earning £8 per week! Two<br />

seasons later he was brought back<br />

to Deepdale for a bargain £1,500 fee<br />

and he brought his shooting boots<br />

with him. He grabbed eight goals in<br />

his first five games and was leading<br />

goalscorer once again, with 30 league<br />

and cup goals. It was the sixth season<br />

he had been <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>’s leading<br />

marksman. In 1928, a £1,000 fee took<br />

him to Tottenham Hotspur for a very<br />

short spell before semi-retiring from<br />

football, settling in <strong>Preston</strong> as mine<br />

host of the Stephenson’s Arms in the<br />

Deepdale area of town and playing<br />

locally for Dick, Kerr’s and Chorley.<br />

Jack Barton (trainer), Gilchrist, Hamilton, Branston, Yates,<br />

Marshall, Crawford, Rawlings, Woodhouse, Roberts, Laird, Quantrill<br />

Tommy Roberts<br />

LGE<br />

APPS<br />

LGE<br />

GLS<br />

FAC<br />

APPS<br />

FAC<br />

GLS<br />

1922/23 39 28 2 1<br />

PNE CAREER TOTAL 254 157 23 22


40 « The one and only<br />

FOR<br />

RECORD<br />

with Mike Payne<br />

Over the years, many club records have been set by <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h<br />

<strong>End</strong> players, and in this new series of articles we look at some of those<br />

records that have been set, and broken, here at Deepdale. Some are well<br />

known, but others are more obscure, and hopefully fascinating.<br />

When playing in goal, most<br />

goalkeepers love to keep a<br />

clean sheet, mainly because<br />

it usually means they have had a good<br />

game.<br />

In <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>’s case there are 34<br />

goalkeepers who have all kept ten<br />

or more clean sheets in their <strong>Nort</strong>h<br />

<strong>End</strong> careers, that is the cut-off point<br />

for the benefit of this article. It was<br />

sad that Daniel Iversen left us during<br />

the summer as he was steadily<br />

climbing the list with 23 clean sheets,<br />

a testament to his ability having made<br />

just 71 appearances for us. There are<br />

two others on 23 clean sheets on this<br />

list of players, with James Branston<br />

and John Brown all in joint-21st place.<br />

Those three goalkeepers came from<br />

three very different eras, with Jimmy<br />

Branston making 136 appearances for<br />

the club in the 1920s, whilst Brown<br />

was often an understudy to Alan Kelly<br />

Senior in the 1960s and ‘70s. He had 72<br />

games in a <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> shirt.<br />

As you move up the list, some popular<br />

goalkeepers have very respectable<br />

clean sheet totals, like Chris Maxwell,<br />

Thorsten Stuckmann, Peter Litchfield<br />

and John Vaughan. They all managed<br />

to reach the late 20s in total, but<br />

then in the 30s there are some other<br />

famous names. There was a spell when<br />

Alan Kelly Junior and David Brown<br />

shared the goalkeeping duties and<br />

it was strange that Kelly had 38 and<br />

Brown had 37 clean sheets at the end<br />

of their Deepdale days. Who was the<br />

Alan Kelly Senior


The one and only » 41<br />

better ‘keeper of the two? Well, Brown<br />

earned his total in 97 games for us,<br />

whilst Kelly played 164, so you can<br />

make your own decision on that one.<br />

Carlo Nash was another who had a<br />

good record and fails to make the top<br />

ten on this list by just one clean sheet,<br />

as he finished on 40. David Lucas had 41<br />

to his name, but he ended way behind<br />

two players on 56 clean sheets. One of<br />

them, Declan Rudd, was cruelly denied<br />

to improve on his total when retiring<br />

through injury last season. Level with<br />

him was Andy Lonergan, one of our<br />

most popular goalkeepers of recent<br />

years. A 1950s favourite comes next<br />

as the only goalkeeper to end in the<br />

‘60s (62) for clean sheets. His name<br />

was Fred Else and many good judges<br />

reckoned he was so unlucky not to win<br />

at least one England cap, such was his<br />

consistency and talent.<br />

We now reach the top six in this<br />

unique look at our goalkeepers, and<br />

this one is the last of what I call the<br />

Peter McBride<br />

Roy Tunks<br />

modern player. This one is the only<br />

player to end his clean sheet career<br />

for us in the 70s – 75 shut-outs to be<br />

exact – and he was the very popular<br />

Tepi Moilanen. The Finnish goalie made<br />

159 appearances in our first team,<br />

including four from the bench, and he<br />

also won four full caps for his country.<br />

More importantly he played a major<br />

role in our division two championship<br />

win in the 1999/2000 season.<br />

Moving on to the fifth and fourth<br />

players in the list, we find two old<br />

timers in James Trainer (86 clean<br />

sheets) and Harry Holdcroft on 90.<br />

They were both fine ‘keepers, and if<br />

you read all the match reports of their<br />

eras, Trainer (276 games between 1888<br />

and 1898) and Holdcroft (289 games<br />

between 1932 and 1939), the both of<br />

them were top, top goalkeepers who<br />

gave many outstanding performances.<br />

And now I can reveal the top three<br />

goalkeepers in this fascinating list.<br />

In third place we have a former<br />

player with today’s opponents in Roy<br />

Tunks, who had 104 games where he<br />

didn’t let a goal in, and that from 355<br />

appearances in two spells between 1974<br />

and 1989. In second place comes the<br />

ever popular and wonderful Alan Kelly<br />

Senior. He gave so much unstinting<br />

and loyal service to <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> and fully<br />

deserved the naming of the Town <strong>End</strong><br />

stand after him. As a player though, he<br />

was outstanding, and his total of clean<br />

sheets was 145, from 513 appearances.<br />

If he hadn’t received a career-ending<br />

injury in 1973 he would surely have<br />

held the record in this particular list of<br />

players. However, that accolade goes<br />

to the one and only Peter McBride,<br />

who played for us from 1898 to 1912,<br />

amassing 474 appearances with a<br />

clean sheet total of 150. That is now the<br />

target of our new ‘keepers this season<br />

in Freddie Woodman and David Cornell!<br />

Clean sheets are part of a goalkeeper’s<br />

DNA. Finally, and just for the record,<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> have used 112 goalkeepers in<br />

all, before this season.


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ACADEMY MATCH REPORT<br />

PNE U19s 9<br />

OLDHAM ATHLETIC U19s 1<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> U19 started<br />

the season in style as they fired<br />

nine past Oldham Athletic to get<br />

their defence of the Youth Alliance<br />

title off to a flier at Springfields on<br />

6th August.<br />

Finlay Cross-Adair, Kitt Nelson and Kian<br />

Best grabbed a brace apiece, while<br />

Noah Mawene, Dana Amaral and U16<br />

Felipe Rodriguez-Gentile also found the<br />

back of the net in what was a fantastic<br />

victory.<br />

The visitors actually took the lead just<br />

three minutes in, as a corner was<br />

whipped into the far post towards<br />

James Pradic, but he was unable to<br />

keep hold of the ball and Oldham were<br />

ahead.<br />

But it was the Lilywhites who<br />

dominated and they equalised in the<br />

23rd minute. Nelson picked the ball<br />

up outside the box, danced around<br />

the Oldham defenders and finished<br />

brilliantly in the bottom right-hand<br />

corner to level the score.<br />

Just two minutes later they had the<br />

lead. The ball dropped to Amaral on the<br />

edge of the box, and he calmly slotted<br />

the ball past the ‘keeper.<br />

Just like that <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> had a third<br />

goal seven minutes later. This time<br />

Cross-Adair was played in on goal and<br />

fired a ferocious shot into the left-hand<br />

side of the net.<br />

Oldham had no answer for the boys in<br />

white, Best ventured forward from the<br />

back and fired a thunderbolt past the<br />

‘keeper and into the bottom right-hand<br />

corner to make it four.<br />

As the game approached half-time,<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> weren’t finished, Nelson got<br />

his second and PNE’s fifth as he rose<br />

highest to guide his header into the top<br />

right-hand corner.<br />

The Lilywhites didn’t slow down in the<br />

second half, as Mawene made it six just<br />

ten minutes in and it was great work<br />

from Cross-Adair to find Mawene free<br />

in the box for him to slot home.<br />

Just three minutes after coming on,<br />

substitute Rodriguez-Gentile made<br />

it seven. The ball dropped out to the<br />

young forward on the edge of the area<br />

and he volleyed a great effort past the<br />

‘keeper.<br />

The relentless Lilywhites still wanted<br />

more, and they got more with Cross-<br />

Adair adding an eighth. It was smart<br />

thinking from Cross-Adair to take a<br />

quick free-kick, he found Rodriguez-<br />

Gentile who played a lovely pass back<br />

to Cross-Adair and he fired the ball<br />

past the ‘keeper for his second of the<br />

game.<br />

As the game was drawing to a close,<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> found time to add one more.<br />

Once again Best ventured forward<br />

from the back and unleashed a wicked<br />

effort to once again find the bottom<br />

right-hand corner to complete the<br />

scoring.<br />

Manager Nick Harrison was extremely<br />

pleased with his team’s performance,<br />

he said: “It was an incredible<br />

performance and obviously a great<br />

result. It’s good for us to get off to a<br />

good start in the league, it really was a<br />

great performance.<br />

“The way the team passed the ball,<br />

created chances and played together<br />

as a team was outstanding and really<br />

good to see.”


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ACADEMY INTERVIEW<br />

CROSS-ADAIR:<br />

“NO BETTER<br />

START”<br />

Finlay Cross-Adair felt there was no better way to start the new season as PNE U19<br />

thrashed Oldham Athletic 9-1.<br />

It was the perfect way to start<br />

the season for <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> as they<br />

began their title defence and<br />

Cross-Adair was pleased to start the<br />

campaign on a high.<br />

“I don’t think you can start the season<br />

better than that,” said the 17-year-old.<br />

“It was a brilliant performance, I<br />

thought we did really well as a team all<br />

game, especially to bounce back from<br />

conceding that early goal. A great start<br />

to the season!”<br />

As well as two goals, the forward also<br />

grabbed an assist, and he is looking to<br />

continue his goalscoring form which<br />

he started at the end of last season.<br />

“I think I had a good performance.<br />

Scoring two goals is always good and<br />

to get an assist as well is great.<br />

“I still think I could have been better<br />

which might be a little harsh on myself,<br />

but there is always room to improve.”<br />

It was such an impressive season last<br />

time out for PNE U19, winning multiple<br />

trophies including the division, and the<br />

lifelong PNE fan wants to build on last<br />

season and just continue winning.<br />

He said: “After such a strong season<br />

last time out it’s just about trying to<br />

build on from that.<br />

“We want to win as many<br />

things as we can win, but<br />

most importantly we want<br />

to improve as a group.<br />

“As for myself I just want<br />

to keep getting better,<br />

keep improving that is<br />

always the aim.”<br />

“IT WAS A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE,<br />

I THOUGHT WE DID REALLY WELL AS A<br />

TEAM ALL GAME, ESPECIALLY TO BOUNCE<br />

BACK FROM CONCEDING THAT EARLY<br />

GOAL. A GREAT START TO THE SEASON!”


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FIXTURES+RESULTS 2022/23<br />

DATE KO/F-A H/A OPPOSITION STARTING XI<br />

AUGUST 2022<br />

SAT 6 9-1 H OLDHAM ATHLETIC PRADIC WALLBANK SLATER LEIGH NEVIN BEST 2<br />

SAT 13 10:30 A STOCKPORT COUNTY<br />

SAT 20 11:00 H HARTLEPOOL UNITED (YAC)<br />

SAT 27 11:00 H CARLISLE UNITED<br />

SEPTEMBER 2023<br />

SAT 3 11:00 A GRIMSBY TOWN (YAC)<br />

SAT 10 11:00 A SALFORD CITY<br />

SAT 17 10:30 A BOLTON WANDERERS<br />

SAT 24 11:00 H WALSALL<br />

OCTOBER 2022<br />

SAT 1 11:00 A ACCRINGTON STANLEY<br />

SAT 15 10:30 A BOLTON WANDERERS (YAC)<br />

SAT 22 10:30 H MORECAMBE<br />

SAT 29 11:00 A PORT VALE<br />

NOVEMBER 2022<br />

SAT 5 11:00 (YAC)<br />

SAT 12 11:00 A ROCHDALE<br />

SAT 19 10:30 H FLEETWOOD TOWN<br />

SAT 26 10:30 H BLACKPOOL<br />

DECEMBER 2022<br />

SAT 3 11:00 A SHREWSBURY TOWN<br />

SAT 10 11:00 H FLEETWOOD TOWN (YAC)<br />

SAT 17 10:30 H ACCRINGTON STANLEY<br />

JANUARY 2023<br />

SAT 7 10:30 A MORECAMBE<br />

SAT 21 11:00 H PORT VALE<br />

FEBRUARY 2023<br />

SAT 4 11:00 H ROCHDALE<br />

SAT 11 10:30 A OLDHAM ATHLETIC<br />

SAT 18 11:00 A WALSALL<br />

SAT 25 11:00 (CUP ASF)<br />

MARCH 2023<br />

SAT 4 10:30 H SALFORD CITY<br />

SAT 18 11:00 A CARLISLE UNITED<br />

SAT 25 11:00 (CUP AF)<br />

APRIL 2023<br />

SAT 1 10:30 H BOLTON WANDERERS<br />

SAT 8 10:30 A FLEETWOOD TOWN<br />

SAT 15 11:00 H STOCKPORT COUNTY<br />

WED 26 11:00 (CUP NF)<br />

SAT 29 11:00 H SHREWSBURY TOWN<br />

MAY 2023<br />

SAT 6 11:00 A BLACKPOOL<br />

ALL FIXTURES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.<br />

Find out more about<br />

our U19s on PNE.com


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SUBSTITUTES<br />

REFEREE<br />

PEMBERTON AMARAL 1 CROSS-ADAIR 2 MAWENE 1 NELSON 2 DAVIS, MCGHEE (60), HORAN (60), KAMARA (74), RODRIGUEZ-GENTILE 1 (55) E MURRAY<br />

KEY: GOALSCORER 1 FIRST SUB SECOND SUB THIRD SUB FOURTH SUB FIFTH SUB † OWN GOAL YELLOW CARD RED CARD<br />

YOUTH ALLIANCE NORTH WEST CONFERENCE<br />

# TEAM PL W D L F A +/- PTS FORM GUIDE<br />

1 PRESTON NORTH END 1 1 0 0 9 1 +8 3<br />

2 CARLISLE UNITED 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3<br />

3 MORECAMBE 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 3<br />

4 FLEETWOOD TOWN 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3<br />

5 ACCRINGTON STANLEY 1 0 1 0 1 1 +0 1<br />

6 STOCKPORT COUNTY 1 0 1 0 1 1 +0 1<br />

7 BLACKPOOL 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0<br />

8 BOLTON WANDERERS 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0<br />

9 SALFORD CITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0<br />

10 SHREWSBURY TOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0<br />

11 ROCHDALE 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0<br />

12 PORT VALE 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0<br />

13 WALSALL 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0<br />

14 OLDHAM ATHLETIC 1 0 0 1 1 9 -8 0<br />

WIN DRAW LOSS


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FIXTURES+RESULTS 2022/23<br />

DATE KO/F-A H/A OPPOSITION ATT. AWAY STARTING XI<br />

AUGUST 2022<br />

TUE 23 14:00 H FLEETWOOD TOWN<br />

SEPTEMBER 2022<br />

TUE 6 14:00 H STOKE CITY (CUP)<br />

TUE 20 13:00 A WREXHAM (CUP)<br />

TUE 27 14:00 H BLACKPOOL<br />

OCTOBER 2022<br />

TUE 11 13:00 H WREXHAM<br />

TUE 25 13:00 A FLEETWOOD TOWN<br />

NOVEMBER 2022<br />

WED 2 13:00 A BOLTON WANDERERS<br />

TUE 15 13:00 A WIGAN ATHLETIC (CUP)<br />

TUE 22 13:00 H HUDDERSFIELD TOWN<br />

DECEMBER 2022<br />

TUE 6 13:00 A ACCRINGTON STANLEY<br />

JANUARY 2023<br />

TUE 10 13:00 A WREXHAM<br />

TUE 24 13:00 A BLACKPOOL<br />

FEBRUARY 2023<br />

TUE 14 13:00 H BOLTON WANDERERS<br />

MARCH 2023<br />

WED 29 13:00 A HUDDERSFIELD TOWN<br />

APRIL 2023<br />

TUE 18 14:00 H ACCRINGTON STANLEY<br />

ALL FIXTURES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. ALL 2022/23 HOME FIXTURES WILL BE PLAYED AT THE SPRINGFIELDS TRAINING GROUND UNLESS OTHERWISE ADVERTISED ON THE CLUB’S MEDIA CHANNELS.


The one and only » 49<br />

SUBSTITUTES<br />

REFEREE<br />

KEY: GOALSCORER 1 FIRST SUB SECOND SUB THIRD SUB FOURTH SUB FIFTH SUB † OWN GOAL YELLOW CARD RED CARD


50 « The one and only<br />

FIXTURES+RESULTS 2022/23<br />

DATE KO/F-A H/A OPPOSITION ATT. AWAY STARTING XI<br />

JULY 2022<br />

SAT 30 0-0 A WIGAN ATHLETIC 15,429 4,729 WOODMAN STOREY LINDSAY HUGHES POTTS WHITEMAN BROWNE<br />

AUGUST 2022<br />

SAT 06 0-0 H HULL CITY 15,816 1,529 WOODMAN STOREY LINDSAY HUGHES POTTS BRADY WHITEMAN<br />

TUE 09 4-1 A HUDDERSFIELD TOWN (CC1) 5,550 1,065 WOODMAN STOREY BAUER CUNNINGHAM POTTS 1 FERNÁNDEZ WHITEMAN<br />

SAT 13 15:00 A LUTON TOWN<br />

TUE 16 19:45 H ROTHERHAM UNITED<br />

SAT 20 15:00 H WATFORD<br />

TUE 23 19:45 A WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS (CC2)<br />

SAT 27 15:00 A CARDIFF CITY<br />

WED 31 19:45 A COVENTRY CITY<br />

SEPTEMBER 2022<br />

SAT 03 15:00 H BIRMINGHAM CITY<br />

SAT 10 15:00 A BRISTOL CITY<br />

TUE 13 20:00 H BURNLEY<br />

SAT 17 15:00 H SHEFFIELD UNITED<br />

OCTOBER 2022<br />

SAT 01 15:00 A SUNDERLAND<br />

WED 05 19:45 H WEST BROMWICH ALBION<br />

SAT 08 15:00 A NORWICH CITY<br />

SAT 15 15:00 H STOKE CITY<br />

TUE 18 19:45 A HUDDERSFIELD TOWN<br />

SAT 22 15:00 A BLACKPOOL<br />

SAT 29 15:00 H MIDDLESBROUGH<br />

NOVEMBER 2022<br />

TUE 01 19:45 H SWANSEA CITY<br />

SAT 05 15:00 A READING<br />

SAT 12 15:00 H MILLWALL<br />

DECEMBER 2022<br />

SAT 10 15:00 A BLACKBURN ROVERS<br />

SAT 17 15:00 H QUEENS PARK RANGERS<br />

MON 26 15:00 H HUDDERSFIELD TOWN<br />

THU 29 20:00 A WEST BROMWICH ALBION<br />

JANUARY 2023<br />

SUN 01 15:00 A STOKE CITY<br />

SAT 14 15:00 H NORWICH CITY<br />

SAT 21 15:00 A BIRMINGHAM CITY<br />

SAT 28 15:00 H COVENTRY CITY<br />

FEBRUARY 2023<br />

SAT 04 15:00 H BRISTOL CITY<br />

SAT 11 15:00 A BURNLEY<br />

WED 15 19:45 H LUTON TOWN<br />

SAT 18 15:00 A HULL CITY<br />

SAT 25 15:00 H WIGAN ATHLETIC<br />

MARCH 2023<br />

SAT 04 15:00 A WATFORD<br />

SAT 11 15:00 H CARDIFF CITY<br />

TUE 14 19:45 A ROTHERHAM UNITED<br />

SAT 18 15:00 A MIDDLESBROUGH<br />

APRIL 2023<br />

SAT 01 15:00 H BLACKPOOL<br />

FRI 07 15:00 A QUEENS PARK RANGERS<br />

MON 10 15:00 H READING<br />

SAT 15 15:00 A MILLWALL<br />

WED 19 19:45 A SWANSEA CITY<br />

SAT 22 15:00 H BLACKBURN ROVERS<br />

SAT 29 15:00 A SHEFFIELD UNITED<br />

MAY 2023<br />

SAT 06 15:00 H SUNDERLAND<br />

ALL FIXTURES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.


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SUBSTITUTES<br />

REFEREE<br />

JOHNSON BRADY RIIS PARROTT CORNELL, FERNÁNDEZ (72), BAUER, EVANS (72) , MCCANN, LEDSON (85), WOODBURN (66) R MADLEY<br />

BROWNE JOHNSON RIIS PARROTT CORNELL, FERNÁNDEZ (66), BAUER, MCCANN, LEDSON, WOODBURN (79), O’NEILL MR J SIMPSON<br />

LEDSON MCCANN 2 WOODBURN PARROTT 1 CORNELL, JOHNSON (46), HUGHES, RIIS (60), OLOSUNDE, AMARAL, SLATER (84), LEIGH (88), O’NEILL (84) MR R JOYCE<br />

KEY: GOALSCORER 1 FIRST SUB SECOND SUB THIRD SUB FOURTH SUB FIFTH SUB † OWN GOAL YELLOW CARD RED CARD


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PLAYER STATISTICS 2022/23<br />

PLAYER APPEARANCES<br />

2022/23 TOTAL CARDS CAREER PNE ALL CLUBS<br />

# PLAYER GAMES GOALS YELLOW RED GAMES GOALS GAMES GOALS<br />

1 FREDDIE WOODMAN 3 0 0 0 3 0 120 0<br />

2 ALVARO FERNANDEZ 3 0 0 0 3 0 3 0<br />

3 GREG CUNNINGHAM 1 0 0 0 149 5 326 10<br />

4 BEN WHITEMAN 3 0 0 0 74 5 268 37<br />

5 PATRICK BAUER 1 0 0 0 94 7 229 16<br />

6 LIAM LINDSAY 2 0 0 0 32 2 240 15<br />

8 ALAN BROWNE 2 0 2 0 334 40 334 40<br />

9 CHED EVANS 1 0 0 1 46 7 354 110<br />

10 DANIEL JOHNSON 3 0 0 0 301 57 326 60<br />

11 ROBBIE BRADY 2 0 0 0 2 0 283 27<br />

13 ALI MCCANN 1 2 0 0 31 1 140 10<br />

14 JORDAN STOREY 3 0 0 0 101 2 140 6<br />

15 TROY PARROTT 3 1 0 0 3 0 86 13<br />

16 ANDREW HUGHES 2 0 1 0 144 5 322 12<br />

18 RYAN LEDSON 3 0 0 0 3 0 284 27<br />

19 EMIL RIIS 3 0 0 0 91 23 91 23<br />

20 BEN WOODBURN 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 0<br />

22 MATTHEW OLOSUNDE 0 0 0 0 2 0 74 1<br />

23 BAMBO DIABY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />

24 SEAN MAGUIRE 0 0 0 0 160 24 193 31<br />

25 DAI CORNELL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />

30 DANA AMARAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />

31 JACOB SLATER 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0<br />

32 LEWIS LEIGH 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0<br />

34 LEWIS COULTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />

38 JAMES PRADIC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />

39 MIKEY O’NEILL 1 0 0 0 4 0 4 0<br />

44 BRAD POTTS 3 1 0 0 133 8 416 49<br />

LEAGUE TABLE<br />

The one and only » 53<br />

100<br />

JORDAN STOREY REACHED A<br />

CENTURY OF APPEARANCES<br />

IN A LILYWHITE SHIRT WITH<br />

HIS MAN OF THE MATCH<br />

PERFORMANCE AGAINST<br />

HULL CITY LAST TIME OUT AT<br />

DEEPDALE.<br />

# CLUB P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS FORM GUIDE<br />

1 BLACKBURN ROVERS 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 +4 6<br />

2 SUNDERLAND 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 4<br />

3 BURNLEY 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 +1 4<br />

4 WATFORD 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 4<br />

5 BIRMINGHAM CITY 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 +1 4<br />

6 HULL CITY 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 +1 4<br />

7 SHEFFIELD UNITED 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 +1 3<br />

8 QUEENS PARK RANGERS 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 3<br />

9 MILLWALL 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 3<br />

10 READING 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3<br />

11 CARDIFF CITY 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3<br />

12 STOKE CITY 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3<br />

13 BLACKPOOL 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3<br />

14 WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2<br />

15 LUTON TOWN 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2<br />

16 WIGAN ATHLETIC 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2<br />

17 PRESTON NORTH END 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2<br />

18 COVENTRY CITY 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1<br />

19 ROTHERHAM UNITED 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1<br />

20 MIDDLESBROUGH 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1<br />

21 NORWICH CITY 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1<br />

22 SWANSEA CITY 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 -3 1<br />

23 BRISTOL CITY 2 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0<br />

24 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0<br />

WIN DRAW LOSS


54 « The one and only<br />

NEW SIGNING<br />

BALL INTENT ON<br />

GOALSCORING<br />

RETURN<br />

New signing Samantha Ball has had an immediate impact on the <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> Women’s<br />

squad in pre-season following her return to the game<br />

Ball – formerly of last season’s<br />

champions in PNE’s division,<br />

Blackburn Community Sports<br />

Club – has just come back into playing<br />

football after having taken some time<br />

out from the game after having her<br />

baby girl, giving birth to her daughter<br />

Lilly last September.<br />

She has been involved throughout<br />

pre-season, featuring – at the time<br />

of writing – in friendlies against<br />

Haslingden Ladies and Girls, Atherton<br />

Labernum Rovers Ladies and most<br />

recently Fleetwood Town Wrens Ladies.<br />

All three games ended in draws and<br />

Sam was among the scorers against<br />

Atherton, who <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> have also<br />

coincidentally been drawn to face in the


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“THERE IS SO MUCH<br />

TALENT AT THE CLUB.<br />

WE JUST NEED TO<br />

SHOW THAT ON THE<br />

PITCH WEEK IN,<br />

WEEK OUT, AND GET<br />

THE POINTS ON THE<br />

BOARD.”<br />

Women’s FA Cup first qualifying round<br />

next month.<br />

Sam is aiming to use the pre-season<br />

period first and foremost to get<br />

back to full fitness, but also to build<br />

up momentum ahead of the league<br />

campaign starting on Sunday 21st August<br />

– away to Accrington Stanley – and she<br />

has high expectations for the season.<br />

She said: “My aims for this season are<br />

to get back on the scoresheet as much<br />

as I can to contribute to us hopefully<br />

winning the league this season.<br />

“It was nice to get on the score sheet<br />

against Atherton. It definitely gives me<br />

more confidence going forward as I<br />

would like to get a few more goals to my<br />

name in the coming season.<br />

“There is so much talent at the club. We<br />

just need to show that on the pitch week<br />

in, week out, and get the points on the<br />

board.”<br />

This season, Ball has advanced forward<br />

from her usual defensive midfield role<br />

to taking on the mantle at No.10, and<br />

with it, additional responsibilities from<br />

set pieces.<br />

She is pleased to be enjoying her football<br />

again, particularly having returned to<br />

PNE – a club she has supported all her<br />

life – after representing the junior<br />

teams as a teenager before moving on<br />

to Bolton Wanderers.<br />

Sam continued: “I started going on to<br />

watch <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> when I was four-yearsold<br />

and I have had a season ticket with<br />

my dad, in the same seats [in the Alan<br />

Kelly Town <strong>End</strong>], ever since.<br />

“When I was eight, I started going to<br />

training with PNEWFC, and I have been<br />

playing football ever since.<br />

“It’s fantastic now to be playing at such<br />

a great club.”<br />

Sam will hope she can remain involved<br />

and in a positive frame of mind heading<br />

into the league campaign when that<br />

opener against Accrington comes<br />

around this Sunday.<br />

That is one of four league fixtures<br />

in the <strong>Nort</strong>h West Women’s Regional<br />

League Division One <strong>Nort</strong>h to have been<br />

announced for <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>.<br />

Blackpool are the visitors in the<br />

Lilywhites’ first home match of the<br />

season, on Wednesday 24th August, with<br />

a 6.45pm kick-off, before a trip to face<br />

Morecambe the following Wednesday<br />

31th August at the same kick-off time.<br />

There is then the visit of Haslingden<br />

Ladies and Girls on Sunday 4th<br />

September, before the opening FA Cup<br />

game at home to Atherton Labernum the<br />

following, Sunday 11th September,<br />

The girls are still to learn of their<br />

schedule for the remainder of the<br />

season with updates to be confirmed on<br />

PNE.Com/PNEWFC as soon as they are<br />

available.<br />

All women’s team fixtures are held at<br />

UCLan Sports Arena, and are played on<br />

the pitches on the right-hand side upon<br />

entry to the complex. All home fixtures<br />

are free to attend and games that are<br />

played on a Sunday kick-off at 2pm<br />

unless stated otherwise.<br />

“IT’S THE BEST DAY OF MY<br />

LIFE BY FAR! I DON’T KNOW<br />

HOW I MANAGED TO GET<br />

A TICKET, BUT I DID. I’VE<br />

FOLLOWED IT AND WENT<br />

TO THE SEMI-FINALS AS<br />

WELL AND LUCKILY GOT A<br />

TICKET FOR THE FINAL. THE<br />

ATMOSPHERE WAS ELECTRIC,<br />

THE TEAM WERE AMAZING<br />

– YOU CAN’T ASK FOR MUCH<br />

MORE.”<br />

Defender Georgia Parkinson tells BBC<br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h West Tonight about watching<br />

the England Lionessess win Euro<br />

2022 at Wembley.<br />

OUR SIX NEW SIGNINGS<br />

SO FAR THIS SUMMER.<br />

Natalie Jaques<br />

Emma Foster<br />

Samantha Ball<br />

Maddison Hadley<br />

Justine Elliott<br />

Eleanor Collins


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ZANZIBAR:<br />

APRIL 2023!<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> Community and Education Trust is coordinating<br />

a trip for a team of more than 20 volunteers to<br />

visit Zanzibar in April 2023 to leave a positive lasting legacy<br />

of <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> on the African island.


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The One And Only is catching up<br />

with all the volunteers heading to<br />

Zanzibar with PNECET throughout<br />

the season – the latest being PNECET’s<br />

Graphic Designer Sue Devaney.<br />

Sue will be one of our construction<br />

and renovation volunteers in Zanzibar,<br />

working to renovate and construct both<br />

new and existing classrooms and school<br />

facilities.<br />

Why did you sign up to volunteer in<br />

Zanzibar?<br />

I knew this trip had my name on it, I<br />

wanted to be involved and chances like<br />

this don’t come around very often. It felt<br />

like a once in a lifetime opportunity.<br />

What do you hope to gain from<br />

volunteering as part of a team in<br />

Zanzibar?<br />

It’s more that I really want to give<br />

something back and make a difference.<br />

I’ve signed myself up for renovations,<br />

maybe I will learn some new skills. I’m<br />

sure it’s going to be hard work, but<br />

incredibly rewarding.<br />

What are you looking forward to<br />

most on the trip?<br />

I am looking forward to every aspect<br />

of the trip. It’s a country that I’ve never<br />

been to, never thought I’d ever visit, and<br />

know very little about. I’m also looking<br />

forward to meeting and spending time<br />

with the children whose lives we will be<br />

improving.<br />

Why do you believe it is important<br />

that PNECET facilitate trips like this<br />

for volunteers to take part in?<br />

Individually it is hard to find available<br />

opportunities like this, so having PNECET<br />

backing a group project like this really<br />

helps. I wouldn’t have heard about this<br />

without PNECET.<br />

What impact do you think we<br />

will have on the individuals and<br />

community whilst on our trip?<br />

I’m hoping that we can make an<br />

impression on the building projects<br />

already taking place so that more<br />

children can benefit from the improved<br />

facilities in the future.<br />

Tell us a fun fact about yourself?<br />

I love a bit of DIY and can’t get enough of<br />

home renovation shows!<br />

Have you done anything similar to<br />

this trip previously or any other<br />

charitable work?<br />

I have never done anything like this<br />

before, only a sponsored swim for<br />

Macmillan Cancer Support and two<br />

twilight walks for East Lancashire<br />

Hospice which are eight-mile walks<br />

around Blackburn.<br />

What would you say to fellow <strong>Nort</strong>h<br />

<strong>End</strong> fans who might be interested in<br />

going on future trips?<br />

I’d say just go for it and try something<br />

new!


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62 YOUNG PEOPLE<br />

COMPLETE NCS<br />

PROGRAMME<br />

Sixty-two young people completed <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> Community and Education Trust’s<br />

[PNECET] National Citizen Service [NCS] programme earlier this month!<br />

The NCS programme is designed<br />

to get 15 to 17-year-olds outside<br />

of their comfort zone and<br />

develop their life skills with a twoweek<br />

programme which comprises<br />

a five-day residential, adventurous<br />

outdoor activities and planning and<br />

implementing a social action project.<br />

Young people on our most recent<br />

summer programme spent time in<br />

Chester on their residential and took on<br />

activities including rock climbing and<br />

abseiling in Llangollen, Wales.<br />

Back at Deepdale in week two,<br />

participants were split into four groups<br />

as their social action projects raised<br />

more than £700 combined for four<br />

different charities – Young Minds, Age<br />

UK Lancashire, Hearbeat north west and<br />

the Salvation Army.<br />

They are now being invited back to<br />

Deepdale next month to celebrate their<br />

graduation.<br />

One participant, Nama, said: “We were<br />

treated with maturity and respect so<br />

we had opportunities to gain our own<br />

independence. In the second week<br />

when we did our social action project,<br />

we came up with ideas on our own and<br />

tried to plan everything on our own.<br />

I’ve gained independence, planning and<br />

teamwork skills from that.<br />

“We had our residential so we went<br />

on hikes and spent a whole day<br />

rockclimbing and abseiling which took a<br />

lot of confidence. We had a lot of fun.<br />

“In the second week we raised £440 for<br />

the Salvation Army in <strong>Preston</strong>. We also<br />

brought food, clothes and baby products<br />

and were able to donate that as well. It<br />

was nice to help the community with our<br />

social action project.”<br />

Fellow participant, Angel, added: “We did<br />

activities like hiking and abseiling, which<br />

was really fun and interesting because<br />

many of us have not done something<br />

like that and it really improved our<br />

confidence and bravery.<br />

“I’ve really enjoyed meeting new<br />

people and finding people with common<br />

interests. I really enjoyed doing the<br />

fundraiser for a great cause and you<br />

could tell at the end it was going to<br />

really help people.”<br />

For more information about NCS please email<br />

brad@pne.com.


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PNECET IN REVIEW...<br />

THE LATEST FROM PNECET<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> Community and<br />

Education Trust [PNECET] is one of 12<br />

providers in <strong>Preston</strong> currently delivering<br />

the Get Stuck In programme during<br />

August.<br />

The Get Stuck In programme supports<br />

children with the provision of daily<br />

free school meals and exciting physical<br />

activity and educational sessions over the<br />

summer holidays to help them maintain<br />

their educational attainment over the<br />

summer period.<br />

We are providing four days’ weekly delivery at<br />

Deepdale, Tanterton Village Centre and PlayFootball <strong>Preston</strong>, supporting<br />

hundreds of primary school children who are eligible for free school meals<br />

outside of term time.<br />

Meanwhile, our Soccer School and Activity Zone provision is also seeing<br />

hundreds of children involved, with limited places available for £12 a day<br />

on weekdays up until Tuesday 30th August.Places are available by visiting<br />

PNE.Com/SoccerSchoolBooking or calling 01772 693309.<br />

QUOTE OF THE WEEK!<br />

“WITH THE EMERGING<br />

TALENT CENTRE<br />

BEING GIVEN TO 60<br />

CLUBS, THAT CAN ONLY<br />

PROGRESS TALENT<br />

FURTHER. IT WILL MEAN<br />

THAT LOCAL GIRLS ARE<br />

ABLE TO SEE A PATHWAY<br />

THAT MAY NOT HAVE<br />

BEEN THERE BEFORE<br />

AND THAT THERE IS<br />

AN OPPORTUNITY TO<br />

DEVELOP.”<br />

Head of Health and Wellbeing<br />

Jessica Riley tells BBC Radio<br />

Lancashire about the potential<br />

impact of our imminent girls’<br />

football Emerging Talent Centre.<br />

HAPPY<br />

BIRTHDAY<br />

Happy birthday to Jesse Kirby<br />

who is celebrating his eighth<br />

birthday with a birthday party at<br />

Deepdale today!<br />

Jesse’s favourite players are<br />

Patrick Bauer, Alan Browne,<br />

Daniel Johnson and Brad Potts.<br />

Have a great day, Jesse!<br />

FOLLOW US<br />

ON SOCIAL<br />

MEDIA!<br />

Make sure you are following<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> Community<br />

and Education Trust on social<br />

media!<br />

Twitter: @pnecommunity<br />

Facebook: @PNECET<br />

Instagram: @PNECET


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PNE WELCOMES THE EPIC<br />

RISK MANAGEMENT MAN<br />

OF THE MATCH<br />

<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> were delighted to announce EPIC Risk<br />

Management as the club’s new man of the match sponsor<br />

ahead of the opening home game of the season.<br />

In a new twist on a popular concept, for every competitive<br />

first team home fixture in the 2022/23 season, <strong>Preston</strong><br />

<strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong>’s star man – as chosen by the match sponsor or<br />

our new award sponsors – will be winning the accolade on<br />

behalf of a cause close to their heart, as our new partners<br />

pledge to donate £500 to the player’s nominated charity.<br />

EPIC Risk Management – who are a Lancashire firm,<br />

based in Appley Bridge, but working in 27 countries – are<br />

globally-leading specialists in gambling harm minimisation,<br />

preventing gambling from harming people and organisations<br />

through education, training, advice and consultancy.<br />

The company enjoys plenty of connections with PNE, having<br />

been executive box holders and player sponsors in recent<br />

seasons thanks to CEO Paul Buck’s lifelong support for<br />

the club, while their marketing communications manager,<br />

Adrian Ward, job shares the stadium announcer’s role on<br />

matchdays at Deepdale.<br />

Reacting to the new arrangement, Ward explained: “It’s<br />

a pleasure for EPIC Risk Management to increase our<br />

involvement with <strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> and become the new<br />

Man of the Match sponsor, furthering a long-standing<br />

connection with the club and supporting some very worthy<br />

causes in the process.<br />

“It’s in keeping with our company ethos to be benevolent<br />

wherever we can. We’re currently part of the B1G1<br />

movement, which sees us donate to global causes on a<br />

sliding scale every time we enjoy a business success, and<br />

we’ve also been sponsors of other professional, grassroots<br />

and charitable sports and events.<br />

“<strong>Preston</strong> <strong>Nort</strong>h <strong>End</strong> are one of the many sports clubs that<br />

we already work with. Every year for the past four seasons,<br />

we’ve delivered our education programme to various groups<br />

within the club, by staff who have lived through serious<br />

gambling disorders, and will be back working with the club’s<br />

first team squad again this season.<br />

“We do that for every club within the EFL, as well as elite<br />

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“On a personal note, this is the ideal arrangement for me,<br />

given that I work full-time for EPIC whilst also sharing the<br />

stadium announcer’s role at Deepdale on matchdays, so I<br />

look forward to announcing all the man of the match winners<br />

and their chosen charities this season.”<br />

At the opening game of the season, the award went to Jordan<br />

Storey, who selected local children’s charity Rainbow Hub as<br />

his beneficiary, he can be seen above receiving his cheque<br />

from EPIC’s research manager Anca-Maria Gherghel.<br />

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What’s Coming Up?<br />

first team<br />

August<br />

20<br />

Saturday 20th August<br />

Watford (H)<br />

3pm<br />

Sky Bet Championship<br />

CENTRAL LEAGUE<br />

August<br />

23<br />

Tuesday 23rd August<br />

Fleetwood Town (H)<br />

2pm<br />

Central League<br />

August<br />

23<br />

youth team<br />

August<br />

20<br />

August<br />

20<br />

general<br />

tuesday 23rd August<br />

w’hampton wanderers (A)<br />

7.45pm<br />

carabao cup SECOnd round<br />

Saturday 20th August<br />

Hartlepool <strong>United</strong> (H)<br />

11am<br />

Youth Alliance Cup<br />

Saturday 27th August<br />

Carlisle <strong>United</strong> (H)<br />

11am<br />

Youth Alliance League<br />

september<br />

6<br />

birthdays<br />

Tuesday 6th September<br />

Stoke City (H)<br />

2pm<br />

Central League Cup<br />

Women’s team<br />

August<br />

21<br />

August<br />

24<br />

Sunday 21st August<br />

Accrington Stanley (A)<br />

2pm<br />

Division One <strong>Nort</strong>h<br />

Wednesday 24th August<br />

Blackpool (H)<br />

6.45pm<br />

Division One <strong>Nort</strong>h<br />

August<br />

23<br />

Tuesday 23rd August<br />

Third kit available in-store<br />

and online<br />

August<br />

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Friday 19th August<br />

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(25)<br />

september<br />

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Friday 2nd September<br />

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(25)


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ÁLVARO Fernández 2<br />

GREG CUNNINGHAM 3<br />

BEN WHITEMAN 4<br />

PATRICK BAUER 5<br />

LIAM LINDSAY 6<br />

ALAN BROWNE 8<br />

CHED EVANS 9<br />

DANIEL JOHNSON 10<br />

ROBBIE BRADY 11<br />

ALI McCANN 13<br />

JORDAN STOREY 14<br />

TROY Parrott 15<br />

ANDREW HUGHES 16<br />

RYAN LEDSON 18<br />

EMIL RIIS 19<br />

BEN WOODburn 20<br />

MATTHEW OLOSUNDE 22<br />

BAMBO DIABY 23<br />

SEAN MAGUIRE 24<br />

DAI CORNELL 25<br />

DANA AMARAL 30<br />

JACOB slater 31<br />

LEWIS leigh 32<br />

JAMES PRADIC 38<br />

MIKEY O’NEILL 39<br />

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1 VIKTOR JOHANSSON<br />

2 WES HARDING<br />

3 COHEN BRAMALL<br />

4 DANIEL BARLASER<br />

5 JAMIE MCCART<br />

6 RICHARD WOOD<br />

7 SCOTT HIGH<br />

8 BEN WILES<br />

9 TOM EAVES<br />

11 CHIEDOZIE OGBENE<br />

12 GEORGIE KELLY<br />

14 CONOR WASHINGTON<br />

15 TOLAJI BOLA<br />

16 JAMIE LINDSAY<br />

17 SHANE FERGUSON<br />

18 OLIVER RATHBONE<br />

19 JOSHUA KAYODE<br />

20 GRANT HALL<br />

21 LEE PELTIER<br />

22 HAKEEM ODOFFIN<br />

24 CAMERON HUMPHREYS<br />

25 JAKE HULL<br />

26 JOSHUA CHAPMAN<br />

30 PETER KIOSO<br />

31 JOSH VICKERS<br />

32 MACK WARNE<br />

33 CIARAN MCGUCKIN<br />

34 CURTIS DUROSE<br />

REFEREE Mr O Langford » ASSISTANT REFEREE Mr R Wild » ASSISTANT REFEREE Mr G Liddle » FOURTH OFFICIAL Mr S Stockbridge<br />

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