The Big Freeze At French School Meadows

Frozen Pitches

The Big Freeze

The Wycombe Junior Cup tie for our Reserves against Hazlemere and the League Cup tie for our A-Team against Titans on Saturday and also the Youth Team League fixture against APBS Youth on Sunday have all fallen victim to the elements due to the two pitches being frozen solid.

The Hellenic League has called off the entire programme for tomorrow. This means the away cup tie for our First Team at Tytherington Rocks FC has also fallen victim to the frost.

World Cup Player plays for Penn & Tylers Green FC

Full international plays for Penn & Tylers Green FC

This is a first for Penn & Tylers Green FC: James Williams-Richardson is the first full international player to wear the blue & white stripes. It is a great honour for our club to have a player on our books who played two full World Cup Qualifying games for Anguilla against San Salvador on 6th February 2008 with the return leg played in Washington DC on 26th March 2008.

Anguilla with James kneeling on the right

Says James before today’s game against Rayners Lane “the return leg was a bit one sided (as the result showed) but the experience to play for the country of my Grandfather in front of a large crowd was fantastic”.

We are certainly very proud to have James involved here at French School Meadows, Penn & Tylers Green Football Club’s first full international.

Andreas Latta (Secretary)

How unnecessary was that?

Rayners Lane 3 – Penn & Tylers Green FC 1

During the Middle Ages the Rayners Lane road was used for transporting grain to the mill on Pinner Green. Well at present times there was evidence of tons of sand being transported during the week to make the pitch playable. To be fair the men at Rayners Lane worked very hard to get the game on but the playing surface is definitely suffering.

Grimmo fires them up

On a very windy afternoon Penn & Tylers Green FC went to The Tithe Farm Social Club with reasonable optimism after the last two good performances in the league. The game started off with the boys in blue and white pressing forward slightly having more of the game. Debut boy James Williams-Richardson and Owen Hunte-Millington causing a few problems for Rayners Lane’s defence early on. Continue reading…

The First Team played well at the Valley of the Race Horse

Lambourn Sports 1 – Penn & Tylers Green FC 1

The village of Lambourn is located near the source of the river Lambourn on the beautiful chalk downlands of England. The village is famous for its association with the training of the world’s finest race horses.

Skipper leads out the team

There are over 2000 horses in training in the Lambourn valley with over 50 Racing Yards. The boys were not really interested in this as there was a football match to be contested. The pitch played well despite the frosty conditions. Lambourn Sports were excellent and very welcoming hosts. Continue reading…

It was not to be!!!

Penn & Tylers Green FC 0 – Thatcham Town Reserves 0

On a bright and fresh afternoon on an excellent pitch Penn & Tylers Green FC and Thatcham Town Reserves, incidentally the only two teams to beat Newbury this season, played out an exciting 0:0 draw.

Action at French School Meadows

Our visitors from The Colthrop Board Mills (closed down in 2000), where paper had been produced for over 200 years played in their Red, black and yellow away kit today. They normally play in the same colours as Penn & Tylers Green FC.

The first half saw a slight territorial advantage for our visitors from Thatcham but this was not turned into anything tangible with Matt Cannings having to save only once from close range. Penn & Tylers Green FC were a little bit too passive and despite creating a few openings with Rino Sepede working hard as the lone striker today, there was just not enough agility in midfield for the majority of the first half. Continue reading…

Frustration at Chinnor

Chinnor 3 – Penn & Tylers Green FC 2

An early dangerous free kick from Aiden Taylor, which is well saved, is followed by the 1:0 to Chinnor after three minutes due to poor defending. The cross came from the right side and a header from six yards caused the damage. Not a good start.

Not our day today

Game did not settled early on with Chinnor breaking up play well. After a free kick to Chinnor in a dangerous position Matt Cannings holds on to the ball well. Now Penn & Tylers Green FC started to dominate the game.

Good work down the right for Penn & Tylers Green FC, Chris Hurst’s header across goal just goes wide. In the next attack Gary Crick gets in behind the Chinnor defence to the by line but the ball goes all the way across goal. It is all Penn & Tylers Green FC. Frustratingly the boys just cannot convert their many chances into goals playing against a strong wind. Continue reading…

Paradise (nearly) lost but then Paradise regained

Milton United 2 – Penn & Tylers Green FC 4

On the Milton theme again, what better headline than the two of John Milton’s many works quoted above. Paradise seemed definitely lost after 20 minutes when Milton (the opposition of today – not the poet and politician) were winning the game two nil.

Skipper Sepede leads out the team

The contents of the hipflask provided by our Chairman did not seem to make any difference to the mood of our supporters up till then. We do not know why but our boys, playing in red socks today, did not turn up for the beginning of the first half. They might as well have stayed in the changing rooms for 20 minutes, summed up as follows: Continue reading…

Another Unnecessary Defeat!

Penn & Tylers Green FC 1 – Rayners Lane FC 2

On a mild afternoon a day after Boxing Day Penn & Tylers Green FC entertained Rayners Lane, our friends from Middlesex. Before this afternoon’s game only one point and one place in the table separated both teams from each other.

On top early on

A good festive crowd of 57 including a few supporters from Rayners Lane provided the right atmosphere in this closely fought but fair encounter, which was refereed excellently by the match official Neil Morrison.

Penn & Tylers Green FC had the better start playing up the slope and taking the lead after 15 minutes when Jamie Hunt’s header from Aiden Taylor’s corner beat the Rayners Lane defence and goal keeper. In the first 30 to 35 minutes Rayners Lane had a couple of chances with Matt Cannings making a good saves but overall their passing and shooting was not troubling the boys in blue & white a great deal. In that period Penn & Tylers Green FC should have extended the league but attempts from Rino Sepede and Owen Hunte-Millington only just missed the target.

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Let Win slip at Letcombe

Letcombe FC 2 – Penn & Tylers Green FC 1

Another disappointment on the road on a frosty but sunny afternoon in Letcombe Bassett, a pretty little village, arranged around a

Warm up before the game

steep-sided Oxfordshire valley that is the source of the Letcombe Brook, home of a very friendly Letcombe Football Club.

Understrength Penn & Tylers Green FC including a few walking wounded struggled to get into the game and ended up losing by the odd goal in three. The usual supporters were there but this did not help today. Continue reading…

Back Down to Earth

A Christmas Carol

Penn & Tylers Green FC 1 – Newbury Town FC 3

Dean Munday - Man of the Match again

This is our 2nd league defeat in a row. Against a strong but not unbeatable Newbury Town FC side we played Father Christmas today by gifting three goals to the opposition today. To be fair to them they took their chances and we did not and thus they deserved to win the game. They are a good side.

Newbury Goal Mouth Action

On a cold frosty afternoon with the frost never disappearing from the hedge end of the ground the pitch still played well and the spectators saw a good competitive game. Just to say thing straight at the beginning: There was an assessor there today but it did not influence the official a single bit, Steve Dolton had an excellent game.

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