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Dial-a-Cab driver Lee Pearce (J71 is the
goalkeeper for Combined Counties football team Wembley FC,
whose track suit tops look remarkably like DaC fleece tops – not
that strange really because they are our fleece tops! DaC Chairman
Brian Rice donated them to the team after finding a batch
that had been left over from driver’s Xmas gifts. After a meeting with Wembley FC Chairman Brian Gunn, Call Sign decided to go one step further and put the sponsorship money we used to use for Donna Merry’s shooting into helping Wembley. That involved Call Sign buying the team’s new home and away kits and putting up Dial-a-Cab banners around the ground. That paid off in bucket loads of publicity when the BBC and Sky TV covered Wembley’s FA extra preliminary cup match, which kicked off this year’s road to either Wembley or Cardiff. Every time there was a goal, there was a DaC banner in full view on the TV screens! The Sun also did a photo shoot and there again was a DaC banner in full view. Call Sign’s money was well spent because in addition to far more publicity than we could have dared hope for, we also have our own team to cheer on. Sadly, DaC Wembley were knocked out of the FA Cup in the second preliminary round, but as Lee told us: "We hardly expected to win it, but all that |
CALL SIGN ON THE DAC WEMBLEY TRAIL…
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publicity at the beginning was great. The team that beat us in the
second round (Redbridge) had none of it!" So it’s back to the bump and grind of getting out of the Combined Counties Premier Division and into the Ryman League, through their various channels and eventually into the Conference – just one step away from the Football League itself! The season started well with DaC Wembley winning all their first four games, but coming back down to earth in the fifth with a 5 – 1 home drubbing by Sandhurst Town. "Dunno what happened," said Lee after the match, "we were awful. And then we just couldn’t shake off that feeling and then had that disappointing game against Redbridge, losing 3 – 0 – albeit with several key players out." Player/Manager Ian Bates banged a few heads together. "You are going to see a |
different Wembley next time," he told Call Sign, "we’re a far better team than the way we are currently playing." That next game on 5 September against Camberley may have been a no score draw, but the difference was there to be seen. Four days later the team got back to winning ways with a 1 – 0 win over Staines Lammas followed by a 6 – 0 drubbing of Guildford City, which also included the first DaC Wembley hat trick of the season from Paul Shelton taking his total up to 7 for the season and also a brace for Andrew Walker – his first goals of the season. Guildford included ex Spurs player David Howells in their line-up "In addition to playing so well," said Lee, "the Guildford match made it three clean sheets on the trot, and if you don’t let any goals in, you won’t lose!" You can follow DaC Wembley’s hopeful march into the Ryman league only in Call Sign… |
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Combined Counties Premier Division (top 10)
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| Chipstead | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 18 | 24 |
| Ash Utd | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 17 |
| DaC-Wembley | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 16 |
| Egham Town | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 16 |
| Sandhurst Town | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 16 |
| Merstham | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 16 |
| Raynes Pk Vale | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 12 |
| Camberley Town | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 12 |
| Nth Greenford | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 11 |
| Chertsey Town | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
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THIRD GRANDCHILD FOR DAVID LESSMAN |
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David Lessman, the
Dial-a-Cab driver with the most famous call sign of all – D19 from
the late Jack Taylor* – is celebrating together with wife Sandra on
the birth of their third grandchild. Sadie Sydney Lessman is the
first-born of their son and daughter-in-law, Darren and Ruth and all
are doing well! David, current Chairman of the London Taxidrivers Fund for Underprivileged Children, told Call Sign: "It looks like I may soon become my own night man - being a papa is an expensive business!" |
 Sandra
and David with latest grand-child Sadie
*Jack Taylor was a former Chairman and Board member of DaC as well as being Chairman of the LTFUC… |
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