Saturday 29th November 2014 Kick Off: 15:00

Winsford United

Dave McCann Says Good afternoon and welcome to The Royal British Le-

gion Stadium for today’s MEN United Cup 3rd round

fixture. First of all may I welcome all associated with

our opponents today, Winsford Utd, I hope you feel

welcomed and have a safe journey home.

Overall, November has been a really busy but positive

month for all at the club and today will hopefully conclude a successful end to it.

This will be our 8th fixture of the month compared to the 4 we played in October.

This is a major contrast but one which the players have handled admirably and for

the vast majority of games have performed well and finished games with positive

results. Injuries have started to take there toll on the squad but I feel that whoever

has found themselves playing have stepped up to the mark and performed as we

had hoped. We don’t have a large squad but we have a close knit squad and I feel

that the togetherness and spirit that they have shown has played a major part in

the successful form we have demonstrated of late. We know that there are plenty

of tough games ahead of us and there is still a long way to go before the end of the

season but I’m confident that the relegation battles that club has been involved in

over the past few seasons won’t be occurring this season. The squad has demon-

strated that they can play well and gain positive results in a lot of games they have

played and I hope this continues.

Today’s fixture is a good opportunity to continue our good form whilst progressing

further in the competition. There’s not many teams left in this cup so both teams

have a good chance of making the quarter or even semi finals. We obviously hope

that will be us but realise that Winsford will be making it very hard for us today and

will be hoping for a victory themselves. We will need to be clinical at both ends of

the pitch today if we are to be successful.

I hope you enjoy the game and come and see us again in our next home fixture….

up the Gate!!

Squires Gate 0-0 Colne

Royal British Legion

Attendance:

Tuesday 18th November 2014

Squires Gate hosted Colne Fc on Tuesday night looking to continue

there good form shown on Saturday night after there 1-0 win over Boo-

tle. Gate sat 11th coming into this game with visitors Colne in 7th.

It was a very tight and nervy first half with both sides having chances.

Gate could have been ahead after 10 minutes But the Colne keeper got

down well to keep outHarry Dunn. Colne replied and could have gone

ahead but Danny Penswick was back on the line to save what would

have been a sure goal. Gets last real chance of the half fell to Alex Mur-

phy but his drive from the edge if the box could only find the post. Gate

finished the half showing a and impressive defensive display to see the

and through to half time.

Gate started the second half on top and had Chances to go ahead

through Murphy and Penswick but neither could finish. It was down the

other end where Gate will be counting there blessings Colne coming

inches from scoring but no one could react quick enough as the ball

trickled along the line and was cleared. The next 10 minutes saw Gate

keeper Ben Fletcher pull off a string of fabulous saves as Colne piled on

the pressure. Fletcher well and truly keeping Gate in the game. After

Gate had soaked up the Colne pressure they had another chance to go

ahead but the Colne defender just got his head on the cross to put the

ball out for a corner. Unfortunately Gate couldn't capitalise from the cor-

ner. Substitute Sean Holmes had a chance to win the game late in but

his shot roll straight into the gloves of the Colne goal keeper.

Gate next play away to Maine Road on Saturday, kick off 3pm.

Reported by Mark Ashmore

Gate 0-0 Colne

Today’s Fixtures

Saturday 29th November 2014

MEN United Cup Round 3

1874 Northwich v Colne

Abby Hey v Atherton Collieries

Alsager Town v AFC Liverpool

Bootle v AFC Darwen

Glossop North End v Widnes

Runcorn Town v Cammell Laird 1907

Squires Gate v Winsford United

West Didsbury and Chorlton v Rochdale Town

Premier Division

Barnoldswick Town v Ashton Athletic

Congleton Town v AFC Blackpool

Nelson v Runcorn Linnets

Silsden v Maine Road

St Helens Town v Bacup & Rossendale Borough

A round up of Todays games:

Today we have quite a few games, from the Premier Division and the

NWCFL Premier Division. A top of the table clash in the cup, as 1874

Northwich take on Colne, and a tough fixture for Glossop North End as

they play at home to Widnes. In the league, bottom of the league Bacup

& Rossendale are away to St Helens Town in a tough fixture at the bot-

tom end of the league. After beating AFC Blackpool, AFC Darwen play

away to Bootle.

Winsford United Football Club

Nickname: “The Blues”

Founded: 1883

Capacity: 3,000

Ground: Barton Stadium

Kit Colours:

Winsford United have a long and proud history, having been formed way back in 1883. In

those early days, the club was called. United became a Limited company and the

1950’s saw the glory days on Non-League football when crowds of over 3000 were the

norm. In 1959 Winsford won the Cheshire Senior Cup against Ellesmere Port Town in front

of a 12,000 crowd at Gresty Road. . In 1974 they reached the Senior Cup final again, this

time against the then-mighty Macclesfield Town. The final was an epic with three replays

and the Silkmen only clinching it after extra time in the fourth match. All the ties were

played in front of crowds of over 3,500.

The Blues won the Cheshire Senior Cup again in 1980 with a 4-1 victory over local rivals

Witton Albion. The goalkeeper in that final was Neville Southall who was then was sold to

Bury for£6,000. A sell on clause later netted United a club record figure of around £30,000

when he moved to Goodison Park.

The club was given a boost during the summer of 1996 when they received nearly

£90,000 from the sale of Wayne Collins to Sheffield Wednesday from Crewe Alexandra.

Three seasons later under the management of Dalton Steele, The club received another

tremendous boost early in 1999 when goalkeeper Andy Oakes who had signed for Hull

City for a modest fee but with a 25% sell-on clause was signed by Derby County for

£480,000 giving Winsford a record amount for a Non-League sell-on clause. The board of

directors were determined that this money was to be spent sensibly on improving the in-

frastructure of the club, the first move being to install Football League standard flood-

lights.The Club appointed former Flixton Manager Lloyd Morrison with Kevin Bircumshaw

remaining as his Assistant. E.ON adopted the club for their 2013 Community Project and

carried out a great refurbishment of the facilities including a new toilet block, a first aid

suite and help in restoring the floodlights. However, with everything in place for a serious

assault on the league title and over £20,000 spent on improving the facilities and pitch,

the club was rocked when two weeks before the start of the season Lloyd Morrison an-

nounced he was going to Mossley AFC as Joint Manager and not only that, he expected

to take sixteen registered players with him. This led to an acrimonious situation between

the two clubs with Mossley unable to register the players and Winsford refusing to allow

their dual registration. Eventually an agreement was reached on Winsford’s terms.

The board acted quickly to appoint Eddy Haslam as Manager with Rob Byrne as his Assis-

tant and Kevin Bircumshaw remaining as coach.

Maine Road 2-3 Squires Gate

Barntingham Road

Attendance: 60

Saturday 15th November 2014

Squires Gate travelled to Maine Road on Saturday looking to continue their impressive run which

has seen them lose just once in the last nine games. Gate made two changes to the team that

drew with Colne. Josh Westwood came back into the starting 11 in the place of Alex Colquhoun

who dropped to the bench, Jake Forshaw was unavailable due to injury so was replaced with Brett

Ferguson. Gate sat 9th coming into this game with their hosts 11th but level on points. Maine

Road came into the game after winning 3-1 against Stockport Sports, whilst Gate drew 0-0 with

Colne on Tuesday.Gate started the better of the two sides and could have been ahead after just 5

minutes but Alex Murphy's strike was always rising. Harry Dunn was next to take aim but Maine

Road's keeper got well behind the ball. It took the home side near 10 minutes for them to have a

real chance but their left back's shot from outside the area was tipped over by the ever impressive

Ben Fletcher. The opening goal to the game came in favour of Squires Gate. The ball falling

to Mark Buchan in the area and with the Maine keeper in no man's land Buchan had an empty net

and couldn't really miss. That makes it 2 goals in 3 games for the Scot as he looks to cement his

place and continue to make an impact. Soon after Harry Dunn had the chance to put Gate further

in front but his shot flew straight across goal. Maine Road started to improve as the first half went

on and equalised on 33 minutes. Gate struggled to defend from the free kick and Rory Breslin

scored directly from the free kick to make it all level going into the second half.Into the second

half and it started much like the first, both teams clearly getting a telling off from their managers

at half time as both appeared early and fired up. Both teams looked alot more attacking in the sec-

ond half with both having several chances early into the half. But it was Gate who made the chanc-

es count first Alex Murphy beat the last man easily slot past the goal keeper on 50 minutes. Then

just 3 minutes later Murphy struck again, slick movement in the box to create space from himself

allowed him to smash the ball into the bottom corner to make it 3-1 to Squires Gate. Gate looked

to hold onto their lead and for large periods of the second half had alot of possession in their own

half. Maine Road came at Gate more and more but Gate held on and looked resiliant. Unfortu-

nately for Gate they couldn't hold out and the home side got there second goal late on. That

wouldn't matter for Gate who stood firm to see out the 3-2 win. The win moves them up to 8th in

the table and makes it just 1 loss in 10 games.After the game Gate manager Dave McCann said:

Today wasn't our most convincing performance but we did well enough to earn the win. We never

got going in the 1st half but were better for the vast majority of the 2nd half. It's been a tough

month of league fixtures but the lads have done really well in all but 1 game. I'm really pleased for

them as the character and togetherness they have shown has been 1st class.Gate next game

comes in the MEN United cup on Saturday when they host Winsford United.

Reported By Mark Ashmore

Maine Road 2-3Gate

Gate 2-2 Winsford United

Last Time Out

Squires Gate hosted Winsford United on Saturday at

the Royal British Legion Stadium, looking to improve on

their 0-0 draw with St Helens last Saturday. Gate made

three changes from Saturday’s draw, Mark Buchan

dropped to the bench with Ryan Riley coming in, Alex

Colquhoun came in for Jack Cook and Hothersall came

in for Jake Forshaw. It was a fairly even start to the

game with both games looking even in the opening 20.

Gate's real first chance came when Chris Anderson

played a clever ball down the line to Jack Sowerby. Sowerby knocked the ball back to

the on-rushing Harry Dunn but his shot was saved well and Gate couldn't capitalise

from the corner. Gate could have had a penalty on the 35th minute, the ball swung in

the penalty area was punched by Winsford's keeper who seemed to get more of Josh

Westwood's head than the ball but the ref awarded a free kick to Winsford. Gate

opened the scoring on the 44th minute Jack Sowerby picking the ball up on the edge

of the area after a loose pass from the Winsford goalkeeper, after beating two defend-

ers Sowerby slot the ball into the back of the net with great confidence.

Into the second half and it didn't take Gate long to double their lead. Straight from kick

off Harry Dunn attacked into Winsford half and passed the ball to Sowerby, he man-

aged to control the ball in the box and side foot the ball to score his and Gates second

goal. It would be fair to say that between the 44th minute and the 48th minute were the

most entertaining of the game. As Winsford took the kick off after Sowerby's second of

the game they managed to get themselves back into the game. The long ball up to the

Winsford winger who nodded down for Ryan Mathews to get one back on the 47th mi-

nute for Winsford.

Winsford could have had a second in quick succession had it not been for the quick,

cat like reflexes of Ben Fletcher who saved well with his legs. Josh Westwood had the

chance to make Gate's lead comfortable but his header from the corner was cleared of

the line by Winsford. Gate were made to pay in the 66th minute the ball clipped in to

defender Alex Bryne at the back post who finished well to equalise for Winsford. After

the game Gate manager Dave McCann said: It was a very entertaining game but one

that provided us with lessons that we must learn from. From being in a position of

thinking 3 points a near certainty we were grateful with 1 come the end of the game.

We know what we didn't do to secure the 3 points, we were disappointed at the end of

the game but we move forward and will be aiming to improve in our next game.

Gate Fixtures in Full Sat 2nd Aug Bootle A 1-1 109 6th League

Tue 5th Aug Nelson H 3-0 102 6th League

Sat 9th Aug Maine Road H 3-1 72 6th League

Wed 13 Aug Slisden A 0-0 98 8th League

Sat 16th Aug AFC Liverpool A 0-3 172 N/A Cup R1Q

Sat 23th Aug Congleton Town A 0-0 108 11th League

Tue 26th Aug Ashton Athletic H 1-2 105 15th League

Sat 30th Aug New Mills AFC A 2-3 101 N/A Cup R2Q

Tue 9th Sep Barnoldswick Town H 0-0 65 15th League

Sat 13th Sep Bamber Bridge A 2-2 264 N/A Cup R3Q

Tue 16th Sep Bamber Bridge H 2-3* 155 N/A Cup R3QR

Sat 20th Sep Alsager Town H 7-2 55 13th League

Tue 23rd Sep Colne A 3-0 151 16th League

Sat 27th Sep Bacup & Rossendale A 3-4 45 15th League

Sat 4th Oct Glossop North End A 3-2 273 16th League

Sat 11th Oct St Helens Town A 0-0 56 16th League

Sat 18th Oct Winsford United H 2-2 65 16th League

Sat 25th Oct Nelson A 1-3 66 N/A MUCupR2

Sat 1st Nov Stockport Sports H 3-2 51 14th League

Tue 4th Nov Barnoldswick Town A 1-3 94 14th League

Sat 8th Nov Runcorn Town A 2-7 97 12th League

Tue 11th Nov Ashton Athletic A 4-0 56 12th League

Sat 15th Nov Bootle H 1-0 85 11th League

Tue 18th Nov Colne H 0-0 82 9th League

Sat 22th Nov Maine Road A 2-3 60 8th League

Sat 29th Nov Winsford United H N/A MUCupR3

Sat 6th Dec Silsden H League

Tue 9th Dec Glossop North End H League

Sat 13th Dec Winsford United A League

Sat 20th Dec Abbey Hey H League

Fri 26th Dec AFC Blackpool H League

Sat 3rd Jan Nelson A League

Sat 17th Jan St Helens Town H League

Sat 24th Jan AFC Liverpool A League

Sat 7th Feb Bacup & Rossendale Borough H League

Sat 14th Feb Runcorn Linnets H League

Sat 21th Feb Stockport Sports A League

Sat 28th Feb West Didsbury & Chorlton A League

Sat 7th Mar West Didsbury & Chorlton H League

Sat 14th Mar AFC Liverpool H League

Sat 21th Mar 1874 Northwich A League

Sat 28th Mar Abbey Hey A League

Sat 4th Apr Runcorn Town H League

Mon 6th Apr AFC Blackpool A League

Sat 11th Apr 1874 Northwich H League

Sat 18th Apr Congleton Town H League

Sat 25th Apr Alsager Town A League

P W D L F A GD PTS

1 Runcorn Linnets 24 19 5 0 62 19 43 62

2 Glossop North End 21 17 2 2 63 9 54 53

3 1874 Northwich 19 14 4 1 37 10 27 46

4 Ashton Athletic 24 12 8 4 37 22 15 44

5 AFC Liverpool 23 13 3 7 56 35 21 42

6 Nelson 21 11 4 6 44 32 12 37

7 Colne 20 11 3 6 40 25 15 36

8 Squires Gate 20 9 7 4 40 28 12 34

9 Congleton Town 21 8 8 5 37 28 9 32

10 Slisden 19 9 4 6 34 31 3 31

11 Alsager Town 25 9 4 12 43 50 -7 31

12 Maine Road 21 9 4 12 40 47 -7 31

13 Winsford United 21 8 5 8 41 39 2 29

14 Bootle 21 8 4 9 33 30 3 28

15 West Didsbury & Chorlton 21 8 2 11 31 43 -12 26

16 Runcorn Town 18 7 3 8 42 36 6 24

17 Abbey Hey 23 6 2 15 29 55 -26 20

18 St Helens Town 22 6 2 14 30 63 -33 20

19 Barnoldswick Town 23 4 4 15 30 51 -21 16

20 Stockport Sports 23 3 5 15 34 78 -44 14

21 AFC Blackpool 25 2 6 17 19 54 -35 12

22 Bacup & Rossendale Borough 21 1 9 17 18 55 -37 6

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TOP SCORERS Record vs Top Half

Record vs Bottom Half

W D L

8 0 3

W D L

4 4 0

W D L

1 2 3

W D L

3 1 4

Record when scoring first

W D L

5 2 1

W D L

3 1 0

GAMES SINCE

0 Win 2

2 Home Win 2

0 Away Win 0

3 Defeat 3

8 Home Defeat 2

1 Away Defeat 1

7 Score Draw 0

7 No Score Draw 24

0 Conceding 1+ 0

0 Scoring 1+ 0

1 Clean Sheet 1

4 Back To Back Wins 15

1 Gaining A Point 0

2 Losing A Point 2

Alex Murphy 10

Jake Forshaw 6

Harry Dunn 4

Brain Matthews 8

Kylie Riley 8

Alex Byrne 7

Head To Head Records

10 SEASON RECORD

Home W D W W W D

Away D W W W L W

Collated W W L W D W

Squires Gate - last 6 matches until 28/11/14

All Competitions

Winsford United - last 6 matches until 28/11/14

Facts And Stats

Home W L D W L D

Away L L D W L W

Collated W W L L W D

All Competitions

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Match Preview Good afternoon and welcome to the Royal British Legion Stadium, for this MEN

United Cup 3rd round fixture with Winsford United. It is the second time the two

sides have met this season, after the first fixture ended in a 2-2 draw back in

October. Back in that fixture, Squires Gate took a 2-0 lead through Jack Sower-

by, however Winsford United pulled it back to get a draw.

Since the last game here against Colne, where Gate picked up an impressive

point. Gate travelled to Manchester to face Maine Road, and after just 12

minutes Mark Buchan put us ahead, Alex Murphy then added to his tally for this

season scoring twice, which was then cancelled out by a late Maine Road con-

solation goal. A well fought win, has now put Gate up to 8th in the league after

20 games!

Our last game in the MEN United Cup, where we played away at Nelson, run-

ning out 3-1 victors. Winsford United beat Irlam 2-1 to get into today’s game.

Squires Gate have an impressive home form, having only lost one game in the

league at the Royal British Legion whereas Winsford have lost 3 of their last 6

away games. We all know what cup games are like though, the upset of MK

Dons putting 4 past Man United, so form means nothing going into today’s

match.

Having lost top scorer Jack Sowerby to Fleetwood Town a few weeks ago, eve-

ryone thought Gate’s form would start to slip, however Alex Murphy has now

stepped up to take his role and will hopefully carry on his great run of form.

We would like to thank everyone for their continued support and for attending

today’s game. Feel free to come in the clubhouse and treat yourself to one of

our delicious meat and potato pies and a hot drink!

Enjooooooy the game!

By Daniel Hayden. Programme Editor.

Results

Tuesday 18th November 2014

Ashton Athletic 0-0 Runcorn Town

Bootle 0-5 Glossop North End

Squires Gate 0-0 Colne

Winsford United 3-3 Stockport Sports

Saturday 22nd November 2014

AFC Blackpool 1-3 Runcorn Linnets

Barnoldswick Town 2-1 Alsager Town

Bootle P-P Abbey Hey

Colne 2-0 AFC Liverpool

Maine Road 2-3 Squires Gate

Nelson 2-2 West Didsbury & Chorlton

Stockport Sports 1-3 Silsden

Winsford United P-P Bacup & Rossendale Borough

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twitter page.

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Season In Numbers...

Runcorn Linnets have now been unbeaten

in 24 league games this season, yet to lose

a game! 24 Atherton Colleries are now unbeaten in 13

games in the 1st division, a new record for

the club. 13

Ryan Cox of AFC Liverpool has bagged 27

goals so far this season, netting 19 times in the

league and 8 times in the cup. 27 Squires Gate have only lost 4 games so far this

season, Last season, Gate had lost the same

amount after the first month. 4 Bacup & Rossendale have played 21 games

this season, but have only won once! 1 Squires Gate had a record attendance of 155

when they played Bamber Bridge in the FA

Cup qualifying round. 155

For those of you who like Premier League football, why not have a go

at predicting some scores for this weekend’s games? Award yourself 1

point for correct result and 2 points for a correct score.

Score to beat: 9 Your score: _____

Prediction Corner

West Brom - Arsenal 1-3

Burnley - Aston Villa 2-2

Liverpool - Stoke 0-2

Man United - Hull 3-0

QPR - Leicester 1-1

Swansea - Crystal Palace 2-0

West Ham - Newcastle 1-2

Sunderland - Chelsea 0-4

Club Information

Chairman

Stuart Hopwood

Secretary

John Maguire

Treasurer

John Stokes

Manager

Dave McCann

Assistant Managers

Richard Thomas

Mark Shaw

Groundsman

Brian Addison

Micky Farrar

Peter Bryant

Steve Bellamy

Bar & Hospitality

Denise Gibson

Emma Hopwood

Christine Walsh

Media

Steve McLellan

Albert Cooper

Danny Braid

Mark Ashmore

Programme Editors

Daniel Hayden

Jay Hayden

Twitter

@squiresgatefc

Ben FLECTHER

Andrew RICHARDS

Chris ANDERSON

Jack COOK

Joshua WESTWOOD

Jonathan HOTHERSHALL

Alexander MURPHY

Steven EYANGA-BWANGA

Daniel PENSWICK (C)

Harry DUNN

Brett FERGUSON

Alexander MCKENDRICK

Ryan RILEY

Jake FORSHAW

Mark BUCHAN

Alex COLQUGHOUN

Shaun HOLMES

Match Officials

Referee: Steve Rudd

Assistants: Kieron Jones, James Sheppard

Andrew JONES

Alex BYRNE

Paul MCGURE

Jon JONES

Jamie WALKER

Matthew TURNER

Marly GOUGH

Danny EGAN

Kyle RILEY (C)

Harry NOON

Tom WILLIAMS

Liam BAKER

Daryl WESTON

Sam MARSHALL

Tom CLARKE

Jordan RUTTER