2007/8 SEASON

League Postion: 10/13
Behaviour League Position: 1/13
Game Stats
Played: 24
Won: 6 (1 Walk Over)
Drawn: 1
Lost: 17
Goals For: 39 (3 awarded on Walk Over)
Goals Against: 81
Goal Difference: -42

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Committee

Manager: Ian Howard
Coach: Nick Speroni
Captain: John Helm
Team Rep: Andrew Owen
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Player Awards

Player awards made at the splendid presentation evening, venue Tollington Park Baptist Church, on 17 May. Many thanks to all those who put so much effort into making it a great evening.

*Players Player: Daniel Spinola
*Managers Player: David Hambridge
*Committee's Player: Steve Speroni
*Ambassador of Season: Nathanael Field
*Top Scorer: Ferris Lindsay
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Player Stats

On Target: Calvin 5; Dwayne 2; Moses 1; Arsan 1; David 2; Nathanael 3; Ferris 14; Chris 1; Tim 1; Samuel 3; Daniel 3; Eddie 1; OG: 1

Most Yardage Covered: Daniel "Smokey" Spinola
Most Tackles: Ian "Graham Roberts" Howard
Most Blood Given: Steve "Terry Butcher" Speroni
Most Different Positions Played: David "Utility Man" Hambridge (or could it now be John "Paul Madeley" Helm?)
Best Enforcer: Eddie "The Enforcer" Campbell
Best Choir Boy: Chris "Choir Boy" Hawthorne (not sure where that one came from - Ed)
Most Comfortable Duvet: Samuel "It's a game of one half - ie the second half" Balogun
Most Micky Droy Like Player: Ben "Micky Droy" Cordle
Best Statistician: Tim "The Abacus" Collier
Most Requests To Borrow Someone Else's Shin Pads: Femi "Late (and that's not a milky coffee)" Onyreian
Worst Statistician: Tim "Statto" Collier
Best half time team talk: Trevor "Sicknote" Lindsay
Most things headed: John "Kenny Burns" Helm
Goal of the Season: Daniel "35 Yards" Spinola
Most Points For Wigan: Andrew "Two Codes" Owen
Most Years Since Last Played: Ferris "Stanley Matthews" Lindsay
Greatest Howler In Front of Goal: Andrew "Three points for Wigan" Owen
Best Support: Natalie "Flanders" Howard
Best Photographer: Linda
Best Launderer: Mrs Jackie "Dot" Howard
Most Clean Sheets: Steve Maverick Speroni (or should that be Mrs Jackie "Dot" Howard?)
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Game Reports

8 Sept: 2-1 Ecclesia : Oranges Open Account With Win But.....
22 Sept: 1-7 Camberwell : Oranges Squeezed
29 Sept: 0-4 ELT : Oranges Run Dry
06 Oct: 1-2 Walthamstow Parish : Oranges Pipped
20 Oct: 0-3 Blackhorse Road : Oranges Don't Get The Blues
27 Oct: 0-4 ICC Sons : Oranges Don't Get Rub Of the Green
03 Nov: 1-5 London All Stars : Oranges See Red
10 Nov: 0-6 Pembroke: Orange Is The Colour Of Heroes
24 Nov: 1-5 Springfield: Oranges & Lemons....
01 Dec: 7-1 All Nations: Terry's Oranges
08 Dec: 2-3 ELT: Oranges Make Friends
15 Dec: 5-0 Harmony: Harmonious Oranges?
05 Jan: 9-1 Cranbrook: Oranges on the Rampage
12 Jan: 1-5 Ecclesia: Oranges Peeled Apart
26 Jan: 0-2 Camberwell: Oranges and Blacks to the Wall
02 Feb: 0-4 ELT: Oranges in Pictures
09 Feb: 1-1 Walthamstow: TP Win by TKO
23 Feb: 0-9 Blackhorse Road: Oranges Off Colour
01 Mar: 0-4 ICC Sons
08 Mar: 1-7 London All Stars: Oranges At Sixes And Sevens
15 Mar: 3-4 Harmony FC: To Be or Not To Be
29 Mar: 2-4 Springfield FC: Orange not the Favourite Colour Of The Man In Black
19 Apr: 1-2 All Nations Centre: Rouge Bruise Oranges
26 Apr: 3-0 Pembroke House (Walk Over)

__________________________________________________ Who said?

1. "I'll be quite happy with mid table respectability"
2. "I can see everything from here"
3. "My dream has come true"

Answers

1. The Gaffer's upbeat (although privately stated) comments prior to the start of the season. Little did he know what was about to unfold....

2. The ref in our early season constest with Blackhorse Road. The man in black could not be persuaded to wear anything but black so in effect became the Blackhorse Road 12th man. As a self imposed compromise he took himself off to the halfway line on the sideline at half time and then confessed himself happy with his decision with the now infamous remark. Needless to say, although he could see us, we did not see him again for the rest of the season.

3. Two Codes. At the tender age of 28, and his dream of a church based football team fulfilled already, has this man got anything else to live for?
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Christmas Specials

Christmas Meal: Remember The Stuffing?

Christmas Meal

We convened at Deeyar, Palmers Green, for the inaugural TPBCFC Christmas bash, and were right royally treated by our hosts.

The Boss had decided, for managerial reasons one should suppose, to come in fancy dress.

We kicked off the soup starter with the usual 9 men present – sounds familiar! Come the main course, the chef thought he would tackle us with an anything-with-stuffing combination; but we managed to stay on our feet.

Two Codes was the focus of much photographic interest, and eventually there was the semblance of a smile from the big man (well, we did sit him opposite Utility Man). With it being a male only ticket, topics of conversation were the usual safe male preserves, although one of our number confessed his sudden love of everything Dutch (from windmills to tulips to dykes to double decker trains to oil terminals to the language…..). What did become clear was that there are many other annual club nominations up for grabs - please keep those suggestions coming in to the editor.


Special thanks to Ben “Micky Droy” Cordle for coming all the way from The Deep South.

Special special thanks to Nick for the idea and for organising the event.

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