Old Thorntonians F.C.

**BREAKING NEWS** Congratulations - Old Thorns Secure Runners Up position and automatic promotion!!! **BREAKING NEWS** Latest Result - 12th April: Old Thorns III 1 - 4 Economicals III (A) A.Marshall

Congratulations As Old Thorntonians 3rd's Finish As League Runners Up 06/07

The blood, the sweat, the tears and the tantrums! Was it all worth it? Of course it was. What a season we’ve had.

We saw new faces not only enter the fold but clearly establish themselves as major players. Keepers Cook and Minshaw were both brilliant and didn’t complain once despite having to rotate the green jersey. Leach, Boro and Gardiner all out preformed all expectations and new boys McClure and N’Gassa both doing well.

Old faces were back and did equally as well. Phil Cook bagging top scoring once again, Powell did a splendid job as my shadow and so did little voice, his first season as skipper. Even Sam Beard had a great season!

Performances along the way were, as a whole, very good. The highlight I think was the 8-0 thumping we gave eventual league champions Old Meads at the start of the season. However, there were lows. Losing to Meads at home in the dying seconds and giving away another late goal to City of London perhaps cost us the title.

Players left the squad. Sam Becks went back to middle earth. We lost the Face Man to the lights and glamour of the West End stage and Loz Upton’s only contribution this season was via email.

Injuries also played a massive part. Phil Cook missed a load of games with a broken heal, Face Man broke his hand, Steve Francis had a broken ankle then had problems with his thigh and I had a lengthy time out of the squad with torn bits in my knee. Even new boys Alistair McClure and Herbert N’Gassa had their problems.

There were some comedy highs; Chris '50p Head' Miles scoring a header. And there were some comedy lows; me missing a goal from 2 yards.

No yellow cards, despite Zee trying his best to get booked every game. But we had one red card – Dan Leach for his superman-like save on the goal line.

Our skipper was poisoned, Dom Shillingford got lost and Tony Powell hit the cross bar over and over again. We also managed to secure new sponsorship and bought a new away kit.

We had our annual Christmas party at Lucky Voice karaoke in Leicester Square, where Oleg Murphy wouldn’t let go of the microphone despite only knowing the words to one song -‘Mother Russia We Love You’. Some of us went to Estonia where some of us made friends with the local girls…Beard?! And we had many other nights out on the lash…including drinking beers at the Odeon Wimbledon watching Hot Fuzz.

Our End of Season Awards night came and went with huge success.
Dan Leach picked up Players Player of the Year. Charlie Lloyd scooped Managers Player of the Year. Phil Cook took the Golden Boot Award. Greg Gardiner was handed Club Man of the Year and John Murphy was handed his Outstanding Contribution Award on perhaps his last outing with the Old Thorns.
More importantly however, were the ‘Other Awards’. The Jonathan Smith Award for the clubs campest player went to Face Man. The Squads Big Issue Award for the Poorest Player went to Mark Boro. Dan Leach was awarded the ‘Keano Keano’ Award for the hardest player, whilst the 'I've just won a tenner on the horses so I've bought myself another crap t-shirt' award for the worst dressed player went to Robbo. The ‘Bambi on Ice’ Award for the worst dive or fall in a season was of course handed to Tony Powell who loved the face he had to stand up all night whilst wearing swimming goggles.

Overall lads the season was great fun and a huge success. 2nd place and promotion is the highest we have finished the league in a good few years.

No.	Player	App	Sub	Gls	Red	Yel	POM	Ave
1	Jonathon Cook	12	1	0	0	0	1	6.6
2	James Clarke	17	8	0	0	0	0	6.3
3	Charlie Lloyd (Skipper)	22	0	1	0	0	3	7.0
4	Zaheer Variawa	17	2	2	0	0	0	7.1
5	Sam Beard	20	3	3	0	0	1	6.9
6	Dan Leach	17	0	2	1	0	4	7.4
7	Tony Powell (Assistant)	22	0	10	0	0	2	7
8	Nathan Gilligan	13	3	2	0	0	0	6.7
9	Phil Cook	12	0	20	0	0	2	8.0
10	Oleg Murphy	15	2	6	0	0	0	6.3
11	Chris Miles	21	2	10	0	0	2	7.0
13	Andrew Minshaw	13	1	0	0	0	0	6.8
14	John Murphy	8	3	0	0	0	1	7
15	Alistair McClure	4	0	0	0	0	0	7.2
16	Mark Middlesborough	19	0	4	0	0	1	7.6
17	Greg Gardiner	18	0	3	0	0	5	7.4
18	John Maduka	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
19	Loz Upton	2	2	0	0	0	0	6
21	Stephen Francis	7	2	3	0	0	1	6.1
23	Herbert N'Gassa	8	5	3	0	0	1	6.6
23	Stephen Morris	3	1	0	0	0	0	6.3
25	Thomas Spencer-Wortley	7	1	2	0	0	0	7
26	Dom Shillingford	11	4	5	0	0	0	7
28	Dan Wainwright	2	0	0	0	0	0	6
29	Dave Fry	4	2	3	0	0	0	6.5
30	Joquim	1	0	1	0	0	0	7
31	Joe Fletcher	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
32	Chris Lang	1	1	0	0	0	0	5
33	Oliver Spencer-Worley	1	0	0	0	0	0	8
34	Bobby The Post Man	4	3	0	0	0	0	5.7
35	Guest 2	2	1	0	0	0	0	6

Date	Opponents	Venue	F	A
September 2006
Sat 02	FULHAM COMPTON OLD BOYS IV (Friendly)	A	4	0
Sat 09	WANDSWORTH BOROUGH III (Friendly)	A	6	1
Sat 16	OLD MEADONIANS VII (Friendly)	A	3	4
Sat 23	Albanian FC IV (County Cup)	A	2	4
Sat 30	Wokingians V	H	3	0
October 2006
Sat 07	Meadonians VIII	A	8	0
Sat 14	Sedcopians III	H	5	0
Sat 21	Suttonians VII	A	3	0
November 2006
Sat 04	City of London II	H	6	4
Sat 11	Guildfordians III	H	1	2
Sat 18	Sinjuns Grams VI (2nd XII Fixture in League 6)	H	3	0
December 2006
Sat 16	Old Sedcopians IV (League Cup)	A	2	4
January 2007
Sat 06	Bromleians II	H
Sat 13	Wokingians V	A	2	3
Sat 27	Sedcopians III	A	5	0
February 2007
Sat 03	Bromleians II	H	3	1
Sat 17	Guildfordians III	A	5	1
Sat 24	Suttonians VII	H	1	2
March 2007
Sat 03	Bromleians II	A	1	2
Sat 10	City of London II	A	0	0
Sat 24	Meadonians VIII	H	1	2
Sat 31	BBC II	H	5	1
Sat 31	BBC II	A	2	0
April 2007
Sat 14	Centymca III	H	3	0
Sat 28	Centymca III	A	9	0

AFC South Div Eight

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Meadonians VIII	18	13	2	3	58	32	26	41
Thorntonians III	18	12	1	5	63	18	45	37
City of London II	18	10	3	5	41	27	14	33
Bromleians II	18	10	3	5	42	34	8	33
Suttonians VII	18	8	3	7	44	47	-3	24
Centymca III	18	7	2	9	49	42	7	23
Wokingians V	18	7	2	9	28	43	-15	23
Guildfordians III	18	6	3	9	42	51	-9	21
BBC II	18	4	0	14	30	76	-46	12
Sedcopians III	18	3	1	14	26	53	-27	10