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A feeling of confidence was felt throughout the
DaC-Wembley dressing room as they opened the 2007 – 8
Combined Conference season with what should have been a
fairly easy home game against last season’s mid-table flops,
Sandhurst Town. But it was the same story as last season – DaC’s
Wembley Lions football skills left Sandhurst standing, but when
it came down to it, if you don’t take advantage of your
superiority then you won’t win matches – and that’s what
happened. Sandhurst – hardly in the game – went away delighted
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DaC-Wembley Dumped Out of the FA Cup?
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Although once again Wembley’s one-touch football made even
hard-nosed reporters gasp in admiration and Bradley Scott’s
equaliser following Ware’s early Paul Burton goal left
supporters wondering whether this would be the game to
kick-start the season, it was Ware who showed that the Ryman
League is deservedly higher than the Combined Counties with 3
second half goals to take a 4 - 1 victory away with them. So
Wembley’s FA Cup dream ends for another season. Several days later and it was a trip to Bookham. You could see the team were still reeling from the Ware game – and it showed in a 5 – 0 thrashing. "If you don’t want to play for Wembley, leave now," was Captain Ian Bates comment to his players after the game, "because we don’t want anyone here who doesn’t turn up mentally and physically!" However, the next match was the first round of the League Cup against Horley Town and Ian’s message must have hit home because the team found their lost style and turned in a superb performance giving Horley a real |
lesson in how football should be played, walking away with a 3 –
0 victory, Paul Shelton scoring a brace and Shane Sinclair
adding the third. "More like it," said Ian Bates, "but that’s how we need to play in every match, not just occasionally." Sure enough, their next match – away to Raynes Park Vale – continued the good work when Bradley Scott and Shane Sinclair gave DaC’s boys a 2 -1 win. "A tough opening month for us," Lee Pearce told Call Sign. "We know we’re good, but something occasionally goes wrong – but we’ll get it right and hopefully pick up that promotion spot to the Ryman League." It was even tougher for Lee as he picked up a painful groin strain during the month and had to play through it with some help not from a physiotherapist, but some Ibuprofen! But October will still have a great payoff for DaC-Wembley’s goalkeeper, when his partner Becky gives birth later this month. It won’t mean missing any games, but the family consider it fortunate that his groin strain came in September and not earlier! |
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Jack
Russell with Brian Rice at Call
Sign's former Chairmen presentation
in 2000 |
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