Rob Healy

The club has lost a lot of people and with Scott Savoy leaving in May, I’ll be the ‘last man standing’ from the old Feltham FC committee and due to work commitments, alongside having lived in Dagenham for nearly 10 years, my physical assistance is minimal. I had to give up the match programmes a few months ago but I keep the website and Twitter up to date, as and when I receive information. As I put at the end of my article, Will the last one out please turn off the lights? It’s certainly getting bad 🙄

The draws for the opening two rounds of the Premier Challenge Cup and the 1st Round of the Esoteric Recordings Cup have been made CHERRY RED RECORDS PREMIER CHALLENGE CUP 2020-2021 1ST Round (8 matches) 1. Redhill v Bagshot 2. Sandhurst Town v British Airways 3. Banstead Athletic v Badshot Lea 4. Godalming Town v CB Hounslow United 5. Tooting Bec v Ascot United 6. Abbey Rangers v Cove 7. Frimley Green v Sheerwater 8. Colliers Wood United v Egham 2nd Round (16 matches) 1. Sandhurst Town or British Airways v Raynes Park Vale 2

Bedfont & Feltham FC learned today that former Tudor Park FC player Ron Cobb sadly passed away last week. He had been suffering from ill health for quite a while. Ron played for Tudor Park back in the early days alongside names such as Mick Segger, John Benn and Ron Humprhies. We'd like to send our condolences to Ron's family, including his daugher Debbie, with whom I'd been in touch whilst working on the history and 70th anniversary of the formation of Tudor Park FC. More information about Tudor Park FC can be found here.

The FA has further-announced tonight that all grassroots football is “suspended until further notice.” Click here

At the last (Bedfont & Feltham) club Committee meeting, I asked if it would be acceptable to publish an online-only match programme for midweek matches, and the Committee agreed that this would be ok. The reason for this is mainly due to the tight deadline for the programme printing. I have to email the content over for printing by Sunday night / Monday morning and due to work and family commitments, this is getting more and more difficult. I will, of course follow league rules and publish the online programme on a Monday evening for a Tuesday match. There would be no change

Thanks very much, I hate out of date information! if we had more available people, we might be able to consider taking the printing in-house. I did that 30 years ago when I was the editor at Feltham! As it stands, one of our sponsors office managers prints the pages and they are closed over bank holidays and Christmas. I have lived in Dagenham for the past 10 years and work shifts so make it harder still. It’s just as well we have computers these days!

For completeness, I also produced a small handout for the actual match, with details of the online programme... BFFC v AFC Hayes.pdf

For the record, I’ve had to produce an online-only programme for Bedfont & Feltham for today’s match v AFC Hayes. This is due to bank holiday print deadlines and rather than having a programme printed last Friday without the weekend’s results and latest league table, I have a very up-to-date programme. Click here If we’d been at home on Saturday, I might have done a double issue to cover both matches, but that would have still been out of date by today.

That looks like the copy I printed and sent to my friend in Manchester. I printed it because it contains ‘SideburnBob’ . Chessington & Hook are online only this season 🙂

When Feltham changed their name to Bedfont & Feltham in May 2012, it was too late for season 2012-13 as they’d already entered the FA Vase as Feltham FC so they has to play under that name for one more season. Surely this will be the case for Kensington Borough as all FA competition entries for next season would have already been submitted.

Bedfont & Feltham has a County cup match on 22nd Jan so the League cup match will have to be rearranged.

The Combined Counties League held an EGM prior to their AGM to decide upon a proposal to remove AC London from the proposed constitution for 2018-2019 as the organisation and management of the club had fallen below the standards appropriate to membership of the competition. It is likely that the club will appeal to the FA and they have been included in the cup draws for the time being. If there is no appeal or any such appeal fails, the club(s) against whom they have been drawn will receive a bye into the next round. Other matters of note were that the issue of paper programmes will be opt

The draws were made for the opening two rounds of the Cherry Red Records Premier Challenge Cup and the Esoteric Recordings Division One Challenge Cup as follows: Cherry Red Records Premier Challenge Cup, 2018-2019 (39 CLUBS) 1st Round (7 matches) (25 clubs receive byes) 1 Camberley Town v Cobham 2 Horley Town v Chertsey Town 3 Badshot Lea v Walton & Hersham 4 FC Deportivo Galicia v Cove 5 Chessington & Hook United v AFC Hayes 6 Farnham Town v Southall 7 Hanworth Villa v Kensington Borough 2nd Round (16 MATCHES) 1 Bedfont & Feltham v Tooting Bec 2 Shee

Aren’t Dorking Wanderers Reserves playing at Meadowbank then?

I’ve added the allocations to our Twitter: https://twitter.com/bedfontfeltham/status/999975963889995777?s=12