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A S C O T U N I T E D F C<br />
#WeAre<strong>Ascot</strong><br />
shooting-stars.co.uk<br />
keaton AUGUST<br />
ASCOT UNITED vs. WINDSOR<br />
Tue 21 Sep 2021<br />
Berks and Bucks Senior Trophy 1st Round<br />
Matchday<br />
Programme<br />
Season<br />
2021/22
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www.ascotunited.net<br />
T H E Y E L L A M E N<br />
Yellow and Blue<br />
Sam Gray (GK)<br />
Alex Sykes (GK)<br />
Alex Hall<br />
Calum Ferguson<br />
Chris Ellis<br />
Dan Bailey<br />
Dan Price<br />
Danny Walden<br />
Duarte Surpanu<br />
George Lock<br />
Harry Laflin<br />
Ian Davies<br />
Jonny Denton<br />
Josh Masters<br />
Josh Tarrant<br />
Keaton August<br />
Louis Bouwers<br />
Oliver Graham<br />
Rory Merrick<br />
Sam Evans<br />
Sean McCormack<br />
Taylor Morgan<br />
Tom Scott<br />
T H E R O Y A L I S T S<br />
Red, Green and White<br />
Sam Butcher<br />
Benjamin Smyth<br />
Charlie Jaggers<br />
George Gould<br />
Tom Hennah<br />
Kabir Kareem<br />
Joel Valentin<br />
Jake Hammond<br />
Excellence Muhemba<br />
Charlie Losasso<br />
Eric Sowolona<br />
Anitor Anton Pasandes<br />
Luke Brooks-Smith<br />
Ben Hall<br />
Sebastian Linturn<br />
Jamie Tompkins<br />
Dan Masters<br />
Jamie Ashdown<br />
Bjorn Dunkley<br />
Steve Quelch<br />
Chad Smith<br />
TBC<br />
Manager<br />
Asst. Manager<br />
GK Coach<br />
Coach<br />
Coach<br />
Therapist<br />
Match Officials<br />
TBC<br />
Mark Cooper<br />
TBC<br />
Last Match:<br />
Wembley<br />
H<br />
Sat 18 Sep<br />
A-A*<br />
COCO<br />
Next Match: Tadley Calleva A Sat 25 Sep<br />
FAV 2Q
W E L C O M E T O T H E R O Y A L I S T S<br />
W E L C O M E T O T H E R O Y A L I S T S<br />
ON COURSE!<br />
With Programme Editor Neal Jeffs<br />
Welcome to the players, officials and<br />
supporters of <strong>Windsor</strong> for this Berks and<br />
Bucks Senior Trophy match.<br />
Happy<br />
reading, and<br />
enjoy the<br />
game! Neal<br />
Good evening everyone and welcome to our near neighbours <strong>Windsor</strong> FC for a<br />
cup derby under the lights. This programme is a ‘light touch’ insofar as Jamie,<br />
Simon and Dan have all been given the week off from contributing given<br />
everyone’s busy schedules right now. After Saturday’s drama hopefully tonight is<br />
a more routine affair! Last weekend, <strong>Windsor</strong> went down 2-0 at Spelthorne Sports<br />
in the league although they are well placed in 7th and like us have an away FA<br />
Vase match to look forward to this weekend when they travel to Wellingborough<br />
Whitworths. Last Sunday also saw a great win on the road for our Ladies where<br />
Sarah Leonard scored four goals in a 5-2 win at Oxford City Ladies. As for the<br />
Berks and Bucks Cup, there are twelve first round matches (below) and without<br />
the 12 winners join 4 seeded teams in the last 16 and without checking I would<br />
guess they are Reading, MK Dons, Maidenhead and Slough. Anyway that's it for<br />
this week, enjoy the game! Neal<br />
Click on the image to watch<br />
highlights of the last Berks and<br />
Bucks Cup Final when Reading U23s<br />
played Slough Town in 2019 (YouTube<br />
via Berks and Bucks website).
RESULTS AND FIXTURES 21/22<br />
Date Opposition<br />
H/A Comp Result Att<br />
06-Aug Holyport<br />
H FAC XP 3-0 450<br />
14-Aug Southall<br />
A COCO 0-5 50<br />
17-Aug Tadley Calleva<br />
A COCO 5-1 n/k<br />
21-Aug Risborough Rangers A FAC P 1-1 175<br />
24-Aug Risborough Rangers H FAC P R 3-2 277<br />
28-Aug Reading City<br />
H COCO 2-2<br />
31-Aug Wokingham/Emmbrook A COCO 2-1<br />
04-Sep Hythe Town<br />
A FAC 1Q 0-1 278<br />
11-Sep Hengrove Athletic<br />
A FAV 1Q 2-0<br />
18-Sep Wembley<br />
H COCO A-A*<br />
21-Sep <strong>Windsor</strong><br />
H BBT<br />
25-Sep Tadley Calleva<br />
A FAV 2Q<br />
28-Sep Burnham<br />
H COCO<br />
02-Oct Edgware Town<br />
A COCO<br />
09-Oct North Greenford United H COCO<br />
16-Oct <strong>Windsor</strong><br />
A COCO<br />
06-Nov Spelthorne Sports<br />
H COCO<br />
13-Nov Hanworth Villa<br />
A COCO<br />
20-Nov St Panteleimon<br />
H COCO<br />
27-Nov CB Hounslow<br />
A COCO<br />
04-Dec Southall<br />
H COCO<br />
11-Dec Virginia Water<br />
A COCO<br />
18-Dec Reading City<br />
A COCO<br />
27-Dec Wokingham/Emmbrook H COCO<br />
08-Jan <strong>Windsor</strong><br />
H COCO<br />
15-Jan Wembley<br />
A COCO<br />
22-Jan Edgware Town<br />
H COCO<br />
29-Jan Spelthorne Sports<br />
A COCO<br />
05-Feb St Panteleimon<br />
A COCO<br />
12-Feb Holyport<br />
H COCO<br />
19-Feb Abbey Rangers<br />
A COCO<br />
26-Feb Burnham<br />
A COCO<br />
05-Mar Virginia Water<br />
H COCO<br />
12-Mar Holyport<br />
A COCO<br />
19-Mar CB Hounslow<br />
H COCO<br />
26-Mar Tadley Calleva<br />
H COCO<br />
02-Apr North Greenford United A COCO<br />
05-Apr Hanworth Villa<br />
H COCO<br />
18-Apr Abbey Rangers<br />
H COCO<br />
23-Apr Egham Town<br />
H COCO<br />
Scorers<br />
Laflin, Lock, Surpanu<br />
Laflin 2, Lock, Morgan, Denton<br />
Laflin<br />
Scott, Lock, Evans<br />
Laflin 2<br />
Laflin 2<br />
August, Laflin<br />
Laflin<br />
TBC Egham Town<br />
A COCO<br />
*Abandoned due to serious injury (1-1)<br />
COCO - Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Premier Division North, FAV - Buildbase FA Vase, FAC - The<br />
Emirates FA Cup, BBT - Berks&Bucks Trophy, LC - Cherry Red Records Premier Challenge Cup
SPONSORSHIP<br />
Sponsor a Yellaman! Contact Neil Richards at neil.richards@ascotunited.co.uk.
TODAY'S FIXTURES AND RECENT RESULTS<br />
Weekend results:<br />
Midweek fixtures:<br />
Looking ahead:
LEAGUE TABLES<br />
Premier North:<br />
Premier South::
APPEARANCES AND GOALS<br />
Below are the updated <strong>Ascot</strong> United appearance and scorers' records for<br />
this season's squad.<br />
2021-22 All-time<br />
App Goals App Goals<br />
R Andrady 2 0 20<br />
K August 10 1 10 1<br />
D Bailey 9 0 38 4<br />
L Bouwers 1 0 147 11<br />
I Davies 8 0 67 35<br />
J Denton 9 1 185 20<br />
C Ellis 9 0 66 1<br />
S Evans 3 1 20 1<br />
C Ferguson 4 0 24 1<br />
O Graham 4 0 4<br />
S Gray 10 0 96<br />
A Hall 1 0 1<br />
H Laflin 10 10 119 62<br />
G Lock 10 3 134 8<br />
J Masters 7 0 15<br />
R Merrick 7 0 27<br />
S McCormack 2 0 2<br />
T Morgan 5 1 21 4<br />
J Nice 1 0 3 1<br />
D Price 2 0 46 10<br />
T Scott 8 1 8 1<br />
D Surpanu 10 1 17 3<br />
A Sykes 0 0 1<br />
J Tarrant 1 0 1<br />
D Walden 3 0 3<br />
136 19 1075 163<br />
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MATCH REPORT ROUNDUP<br />
LATE ABANDONMENT THWARTS YELLAMEN<br />
Game ended at one-all following serious injury to Wembley player<br />
Saturday 18th September 2021 - Cherry Red Records Combined Counties<br />
League Premier Division North - <strong>Ascot</strong> United 1-1 Wembley (abandoned)<br />
A serious injury to visiting defender Ethan Tyrer – itself in injury time – forced <strong>Ascot</strong> United’s game home<br />
game with Wembley to be abandoned on Saturday. With the scores level at one-all and Wembley already<br />
down to ten men, the Yellamen were looking to capitalize on what would have been twelve minutes of<br />
stoppage time only for the referee to make a delayed – albeit correct – call to end proceedings<br />
Tyrer was on the end of a clattering to the head and neck from his own ‘keeper Raheem Bellrave after Bellrave<br />
had punched clear, although Tyrer was clearly in a stricken state before players and officials raced to turn<br />
him onto his side before nursing him as he regained consciousness. As for the game itself, <strong>Ascot</strong> manager<br />
Jamie Tompkins named an unusual-looking starting line-up, partly due to a raft of unavailability with Denton,<br />
Davies, Masters, Ferguson and Evans all missing. However, this paved the way for a glut of youngsters in the<br />
squad and one of them – Ollie Graham – would impress in an entertaining first half.<br />
Sam Gray did well to deny Wembley’s Qasim Kahn in the seventh minute and would later gleefully save the<br />
same striker’s weak effort when Yassine Fehmi-Gil had thumped the ball clear for him to race onto, albeit<br />
under pressure from <strong>Ascot</strong>’s Dan Bailey. In between those efforts Harry Laflin should have converted Chris<br />
Ellis’s long throw-in from virtually under the crossbar and a later Ellis throw-in would bounce off the crossbar<br />
for Keaton August, who saw his effort inadvertently blocked by an apologetic Bailey.<br />
Sean McCormack’s deflected effort just before the break brought an unorthodox save from visiting ‘keeper<br />
Bellrave, but his side went up the other end and Jauarn Bernard squeezed his effort in at the second attempt<br />
from a tight angle to give them a one-nil lead. But the drama didn’t end there as Fehmi-Gil was dismissed after<br />
the whistle for his remonstrations with the referee, leaving Wembley a man short for the second half.<br />
Despite only having ten men, Wembley almost doubled their lead in the 63rd minute when Gray’s sensational<br />
low save tipped Bernard’s effort around his right hand-post following another counter-attack. There would be<br />
controversy in the 71st minute when Ellis’s throw-in looked to have been touched before crossing the goalline<br />
only for the assistant referee to make a late call in raising his flag – chalking off what looked like an<br />
equaliser – although The Yellamen finally found a way through when George Lock’s brilliant first touched<br />
opened the door for his own cross-shot that was bundled in at the far post via a combination of woodwork and<br />
Laflin; 7 minutes of regulation time remaining.<br />
Sixteen-year-old striker Alex Hall made his debut after his impressive form in the Under 18 side and even<br />
Louis Bouwers made a return from injury, but after the late injury and having already waited twenty minutes<br />
for an ambulance, enough was enough for the officials.<br />
The two sides will hope for a more serene affair when they do it all again at a later date.<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United: Gray, Lock, Surpanu (Hall), Scott, Bailey, Ellis (Bouwers), McCormack, Graham (Nice), Morgan,<br />
Laflin, August. Subs unused: Thompson, Sykes
PHOTOZONE<br />
A selection of photos from the abandoned game against Wembley last weekend (shootingstars.co.uk).<br />
Clockwise from top left: George Lock sets up Harry Laflin for<br />
the equaliser, Keaton August gets airborne (and centre<br />
left), Sean McCormack strikes, Lock celebrates the goal.
ASCOT UNITED LADIES<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Ladies play in the Southern Region Women's’ Football League – the highest level at<br />
which they have competed. The Ladies’ section starts down at the junior level with a host of teams –<br />
beginning with mixed teams at U7 - rising through girls’ sides from U10 up to a senior Development<br />
(reserve) side playing in the Thames Valley League. The junior sides operate on Saturdays or<br />
Sundays, with the Seniors (First and Development) playing on Sunday afternoon. The first team are<br />
managed by Darrel Evans and coached by Alix Todd. The reserve team is managed by Jon Swallow.<br />
Find out more on our website. Sponsorship packages now available - ask a member of the committee!<br />
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striker Sarah Leonard. The Group have practices in<br />
Basingstoke, Yateley, Church Crookham and Hartley Wintney.<br />
Visit stkittsvet.co.uk
Ian is a Biomechanics coach, supporting players returning from injury and<br />
improving strength and conditioning.
PEN PICS AND SPONSORS - ASCOT UNITED<br />
Sam Gray – goalkeeper<br />
Solid goalkeeper, confident with the ball at<br />
his feet. Established first teamer since 18/19<br />
and was players’ player of the year in 19/20<br />
when he appeared in every league game.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Josh Masters - defence<br />
Established left-back having broken into the<br />
team in 20/21 following a move from local<br />
rivals Holyport. Sponsor:<br />
Alex Sykes – goalkeeper<br />
Goalkeeping coach and reliable backup. Has<br />
International experience having played for<br />
the England Futsal team. Sponsor:<br />
Dan Bailey – defence<br />
Experienced centre back who skippered<br />
Flackwell Heath in 19/20. Previously played<br />
at a higher level with Marlow and has a level<br />
2 coaching qualification. Sponsor:<br />
Louis Bouwers – defence<br />
A physical and dominant centre half who<br />
signed from Faringdon Town in 16/17 and now<br />
well-established as club captain. Made 146<br />
appearances heading into 21/22 but must<br />
wait to add to that tally whilst he recovers<br />
from injury. Sponsor:<br />
Chris Ellis – defence<br />
Signed in 18/19, a strong and dominant<br />
defender. Vastly experienced having played<br />
for Camberley Town, Egham Town and<br />
Chipstead. Looking to re-establish himself in<br />
21/22 following a year out with serious<br />
injury. Sponsor: Novem nine<br />
George Lock – defence<br />
A fearless right back previously with Binfield<br />
and Bracknell. Technically strong and a<br />
consistently high performer. Supporters POY<br />
in 18/19 and has now featured in well over<br />
100 games pushing him into the top 15 on the<br />
all-time appearance list. Sponsor: Dave<br />
Bucktrout<br />
Danny Walden - defence<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United Allied U18 captain who is<br />
expected to feature for the senior side<br />
during 21/22. Sponsor: Cox Green Academy<br />
Jonny Denton – midfield<br />
Former <strong>Ascot</strong> Youth team star who returned<br />
in 17/18 after a scholarship in the U.S. A dead<br />
ball specialist, he has now twice won the<br />
player of the year award. 'JD' starts the 21/22<br />
season having made 176 appearances.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Tom Scott - midfield<br />
Signed for 21/22 having had spells with<br />
Harrow Borough and Beaconsfield. A<br />
tenacious ball winner with great<br />
communication. Sponsor: Lydia Baker<br />
Calum Ferguson – midfield<br />
Signed in 19/20 having previously starred for<br />
a National League youth side. Also had a spell<br />
with Highworth Town. Sponsor:<br />
Sam Evans – midfield<br />
Played for the U16s and U18s in 19/20 before<br />
making his first team debut in the same<br />
season. Sam has been with the club since<br />
his debut for the U8s and is now an<br />
established part of the senior side with<br />
maturity belying his age. Sponsor:
PEN PICS AND SPONSORS - ASCOT UNITED<br />
Dan Price - midfield<br />
Popular attacking midfielder who returns to<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> for 21/22 having been out for two years<br />
with a serious knee injury. Previously<br />
appeared 44 times in 18/19 when he scored<br />
10 goals. Sponsor:<br />
Sean McCormack - forward<br />
Skilful forward signed from Walton and<br />
Hersham for 21/22 having also played for<br />
Maidenhead United and Bracknell Town.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Taylor Morgan - forward<br />
Pacey forward who impressed whilst playing<br />
against us for Fleet Town during pre-season<br />
20/21. Has played at a higher level including<br />
several seasons in the US Major League.<br />
Previous clubs include Toronto, Ostersunds<br />
(Sweden), Falkirk, Airdrie and Whitehawk.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Rory Merrick – forward<br />
Signed for 19/20 and continues to improve.<br />
Looking to re-establish himself after injury in<br />
an already-disjointed previous campaign.<br />
Calm and composed figure on the pitch and<br />
has great technical ability. Sponsor:<br />
Keaton August - forward<br />
Signed from <strong>Windsor</strong> FC for 21/22. Can play<br />
anywhere across the front three and has an<br />
abundance of pace. Has a keen eye for goal<br />
backed up by providing plenty of assists. A<br />
personal trainer, he works hard and is<br />
physically strong. Sponsor:<br />
Ian Davies – forward<br />
Prolific goalscorer who scored 25 goals for<br />
Binfield in 18/19 before top scoring for <strong>Ascot</strong><br />
with 23 goals in the curtailed 19/20<br />
campaign. Netted another 12 from 24 games<br />
in 20/21. Sponsor: Zipcar UK<br />
Harry Laflin – forward<br />
Laffers joined in 18/19 and has become a goalmachine<br />
despite often playing out of<br />
position. Enters the season having scored 52<br />
goals in 109 appearances with an improving<br />
goals-per-game ratio. Has previously won<br />
supporters’ player of the season award.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Oliver Graham<br />
Duarte Surpanu - forward<br />
Skilful winger wit lighting quick feet, signed<br />
midway through in the 20/21 season and has<br />
the potential to cause problems for any<br />
defence. Sponsor: Maidenhead United<br />
Josh Tarrant<br />
Jamie Tompkins – manager<br />
Highly respected throughout the club who<br />
guided the team to league cup glory in 18/19<br />
before taking the team to top of the league<br />
before the 19/20 campaign was curtailed.<br />
Football Development manager at Brentford<br />
FC. Sponsor:<br />
Dan Masters – asst. manager<br />
Dan is in his fourth season with <strong>Ascot</strong> Utd and<br />
is a crucial part of the coaching staff.<br />
Sponsor:<br />
Jamie Ashdown - goalkeeping coach<br />
Needs little introduction, former professional<br />
Jamie began his career with Reading before<br />
making over 100 appearances for Portsmouth<br />
between 2004-2012. A huge asset to the club<br />
where he coaches at all levels. Sponsor:<br />
Chad Smith - Therapist<br />
Sponsor:
CLUB HISTORY - ASCOT UNITED<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United as we know it, was founded in 1965 by a men’s team who played their games at Sunninghill with “after<br />
match meetings” in The Wells in Cheapside village (now Mikado’s). Teams played as long ago as 1928 under the name<br />
<strong>Ascot</strong> United but nothing to link them directly to the current club. In 1965, the club had gained permission from the <strong>Ascot</strong><br />
Racecourse Trustees to convert the land east of coach park 10 into a football pitch. A wooden clubhouse was built and<br />
this team went on to win many prestigious trophies in the years that followed.<br />
Various youth teams represented <strong>Ascot</strong> United over the years up to 1988, and 1992 the East Berks 7-a-side Association<br />
was formed by our then Chairman Keith Wicks introducing small-sided junior games and having disbanded in 1980 the<br />
men’s team also reformed. The club continued to grow, entering into partnership with Charters School and being<br />
awarded FA Charter Standard status in 2004. The men’s senior team enjoyed early success through the East Berks<br />
League gaining continued promotions to the Senior division and winning various Cups including the Fielden Charity Cup<br />
in 1996/7. 2001 saw the 1st team join the Reading Senior League and winning the Evening Post Senior Cup at the<br />
Madejski Stadium in 2006. Promotion to the Hellenic League soon followed in 2007, followed by promotion to the<br />
Hellenic Premier Division in 2009. The club today has grown to become one of the largest Community football clubs in<br />
the UK with over 1000 registered players and over 70 teams playing every weekend embracing all ages and abilities<br />
from 5 year olds through to Vets. A new clubhouse opened in September 2010, together with an improved main pitch,<br />
floodlights and a stand.<br />
The club has enjoyed much success at all levels particularly in the Ladies and Girls Section where they are regularly<br />
winners of leagues and county Cups. Our senior Ladies won promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern Region<br />
Women’s’ Football League in 2017-18 and consolidated their position with a mid-table finish in 2018-19. Meanwhile, 2018-<br />
19 was an outstanding one for our junior Boys’ teams who won an array of county cups at various age groups, a feat<br />
we’ve rarely previously achieved.<br />
The past decade has been hugely successful for our first team; our debut in the FA Cup in 2011 attracted 1,149 people to<br />
the Racecourse on a Friday evening where the famous trophy itself was on display and the match was streamed live on<br />
Facebook. Between 2012-13 and 2015-16 we reached the Quarter Final of the FA Vase twice, enjoyed two top-three<br />
finishes in the Uhlsport Hellenic League Premier Division, and won both the Bluefin Sport Challenge Cup and Perpetua<br />
Press Floodlit Cup. More recently, our players’ development took the spotlight, as a host of Yellamen have enjoyed<br />
success with other local sides and many of our talented development players stepped up into the first team. After<br />
finishing 2017-18 in style, in 2018-19 new manager Jamie Tompkins led his side to the top of the table for long spells,<br />
winning two team-of-the-month awards, and finishing with league cup glory once again by defeating <strong>Windsor</strong> 3-1.<br />
We were transferred into the Combined Counties League for the 2019-20 season, playing on our new 3G pitch facility,<br />
which transformed the club by facilitating more of our teams’ matches and training at The Racecourse. The stronger<br />
platform facilitated further player development, and Jamie’s young side would lead the table for long periods before<br />
establishing what looked like a title-winning margin at the top shortly before the league was aborted due to<br />
Coronavirus. Retaining much of the same squad for 2020-21, Jamie saw his side in and around the challengers before<br />
another pandemic-curtailed season, although they battled through to the league cup final where they were ultimately<br />
beaten on penalties by Redhill.<br />
As <strong>Ascot</strong> enjoy a third season in the Combined Counties League, everyone hopes for a safe and consistent campaign,<br />
and if silverware comes with it then that will surely be a bonus in current times!
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