The Isthmian League ran this tournament for two years, as far as I know, and this was the first. The tournament took place on Thursday 29th November 1979.
16 teams competed: Barking, Billericay Town, Bromley, Carshalton Athletic, Croydon Town, Dagenham, Dulwich Hamlet, Enfield, Harrow Borough, Hendon, Slough Town, Sutton United, Tooting & Mitcham, Walthamstow Avenue, Woking, Wycombe Wanderers.
Walthamstow Avenue beat Woking 3-2 in the first round, but went down 1-0 to Enfield in the next round (the quarter-finals). The final was between Bromley and Wycombe Wanderers. Unfortunately, I don’t know the score.
1979 Isthmian Five-a-Side Tournament Programme Cover
The Walthamstow Avenue squad page in the programme
July 20, 2009 at 5:07 am |
Wow, what memories… the first team I ever watched in the light and dark hoops. Davie Crown, Bobby Tappin, Webbers, Drapes, Dick Sedgwick, Ray Jarman…
Those were the days!
September 22, 2009 at 2:43 pm |
Mike’s right, great memoirs indeed.
I played that night for Walthamstowe; webbers was one of the names I would be called by supports and players.
I remenber that night, all the players mentioned above, plus Alan Hunter – great player, great time, and a grerat site you have.
Cheers.
john/ webbs/webbers and a few others names I can’t mention.
September 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
hello john
your right you were called by other names especially by the lovable late ken davey,i remember well the names he called you after you had gone down for about the 3rd time and waited till ken got 2 thirds of the way across the pitch when you suddley jumped up and signalled you were ok,when he got back out of breath he would say to me and tom{feary) next time one of you two had better go cause im not.great days john glad to see your keeping well
jacko
September 23, 2009 at 10:20 pm |
I was about 13 years old and followed Harlow town at the time. We played Avenue at Green Pond Road early in the 1979/80 season. All of the above mentioned players were playing and they just blew me away…they were terrific especially Dave Crown what a player. I also thought Green pond road was a fantastic stadium for non league football. It’s a tragedy that it has now gone like so many other great arena’s…the place had an aura about it.