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ISSUE 3 – SUNDAY 24 JULY 2011
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MEMBERSHIP FORMS AND FEES DUE IN NOW PLEASE
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FORTUNETELLER
News, views and everything TFFC by Nigel Kyte Welcome to issue 3 of the newsletter The shock death of Amy Winehouse yesterday was extremely sad indeed and words cannot express the utter despair that her parents and family must be feeling. Amy's father, Mitchell, played competitively for Marshside in the MSFL for many seasons and I refereed him and his team on numerous occasions. A nice guy with a great sense of humour is how I remember him. This was quite a few years ago when Amy would have been growing up and her musical talents were relatively unknown at the time. I am certain that everyone associated with the MSFL who knew Mitchell Winehouse through his involvement in Maccabi football will be sparing heart-felt thoughts for him and his family at this dreadfully sad time. TRAINING: CLUB'S LONGEST SERVING PLAYER LEADS THE WAY The third session at Mill Hill Park attracted another good attendance, drawing around 20 players under the hot summer sun. Another decent workout was held, followed by a 25-minutes each way match which the Orange Bibs won 6-1. For me, one of the star performers during the session was a player who is old enough to be a father to most guys present! Co-Founder PETER KYTE, who is fast approaching an incredible 700 appearances for the Club, showed the type of commitment which sets an excellent example to all those intending to pull on the traditional yellow and red shirt, comfortably fitting in with his younger counterparts. Well done, brother... 55 years young and still a shining light for Temple Fortune FC – a true yellow and red Legend! And wasn't that rarely-seen 'chevrons' retro Arsenal shirt a treat to view! Classic! Next week's session starts at 10am so please get there on time. THE 7TH TFN FANTASY LEAGUE, 2011/12E We are running a new season of TFN FANTASY LEAGUE for the 2011/12 season, which will be our SEVENTH annual competition. The competition will be under the banner of THE FORTUNE NEWS (TFN) – the official newsletter of the Temple Fortune Football Club – and is open to all Club Members or other invited individuals who were on last season's official Club email directory, plus any newcomers who have joined the Club or will join before the beginning of the season. It's easy to enter on the fantasy.premierleague.com website. Please choose a suitable name fitting for the competition. Do not slur other professional teams, such as 'Arsenal Scum' – you will be disqualified! Do not slur other participants, such as 'Blindman Ref Kyte' – you will be disqualified! And nothing rude! You MUST use Upper and Lower case for both YOUR name (as manager) and the TEAM name – 'Super Stars' is correct, 'super stars' or 'SUPER STARS' is wrong. Any manager or team name which does not follow this will be deleted. Once you have formed your team and chosen the squad, go to LEAGUES, click on 'Join a league', then 'Private league' and enter the following Private League code: 57173-21943. This will enter your team into the TFN Fantasy League for the new season! You can follow your fantasy team's progress each week via the fantasy.premierleague.com website. There willl be a trophy at the end of the season and all-time listing on the Club' website as a CHAMPION! Last season we had a record entry of 37 people so come on, give it a go! COMPOSITION OF DIVISIONS, 2011/12 Here are the teams making up Temple Fortune's divisions in both the MSFL and MMFL, correct at the time of inclusion. MSFL DIVISION ONE: Brixton Old Boys A, Chigwell Athletic, Montana Boca United A, Norstar A, North West Neasden B, Oakwood, Redbridge Jewish Care B, Southgate Harmen B, Temple Fortune A, Woodford Wanderers. MSFL DIVISION FOUR: Athletic Bilbaum, Athletico Finchley, Boca Jewniors, Brady Maccabi B, Brixton Old Boys B, FC Team C, Hendon United Sports C, Jewventus, North London Raiders C, SPEC, Temple Fortune B. MASTER LEAGUE DIVISION TWO: Ashlodge, Brady Maccabi B, Clayhall Park Casuals, EDRS Stonegrove, Glenthorne United B & C, Hendon Harriers, London Maccabi Lions, Marshside, Temple Fortune Old Boys. MEMBERSHIP FORMS AND FEES NOW DUE The Club operates as a non-profit-making organisation and is expecting an expenditure of over £10,000 during the 2011/12 season. To cover all running costs, each player joining is required to pay a membership fee, in addition to a weekly match subscription (match subs) paid prior to each match participated in. A full list of membership fees and match subs for the 2011/12 season can be found here. Payment methods: Membership fees can be paid by cheque (made payable to TFFC), by cash (hand-delivery only, never send cash via the post) or by bank transfer. If you would like to pay via bank transfer, see the Club's banking details under the 'Order Your Training Top' item below. If you pay by bank transfer, please tick the appropriate box on your membership form that you have done this. Registration forms: There are TWO registration forms available so make sure you use the correct one! M(S)FL: If you are joining to play in the Maccabi (Southern) Football League, use the MSFL-RegForm1112 document only (available in Word or PDF format). MMFL: If you are joining to play in the Maccabi Masters Football League (for 42 year olds and over), use the MMFL-RegForm1112 document only (available in Excel or PDF format). Please note that there are eligibility restrictions with Masters football, so it is well worth checking with the Club first before proceding. Full details of the Club Forms page are available here.  TWITTER AWAY WITH TFFC! For regularly updated news on anything 'official' about the TFFC worth sharing with Club Members, you will now find the Club 'tweeting' on http://twitter.com/YellowsAndReds! Please connect with TFFC because next season this is where you will find access to breaking Club news, such as fixtures, results and anything else going on. Continued next column >>> |
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WELCOME TO JOEY KOLIRIN AND JASON MILLER A warm welcome to JOEY KOLIRIN and JASON MILLER who have joined us from L'Equipe. We hope both will enjoy their association with the Club this season and for many more to come. Good luck and a speedy recovery to Joey who is having surgery on an injury and will be out for a while. PAUL WALKER GETS ENGAGED The First Team's new captain PAUL WALKER has recently become engaged to girlfriend Jo Miller and our heartiest congratulations go to the pair for their future happiness together. TFFC'S DEBUT IN THE MSFL PREMIER, 30 YEARS AGO! To mark the 30th anniversary of Temple Fortune's first season in the MSFL Premier Division, I have included a feature covering the 1981/82 season at the bottom of this column. Please read it and share in a sense of TFFC history! LAST FEW DAYS TO ORDER YOUR TRAINING TOP Time is fast running out to order a new TRAINING TOP. I will be placing the order next week – if you want one, please order TODAY. The training top is navy with white piping, carrying a TFFC emblem on the front in colour and TFFC white lettering on the reverse. Below you can see Lee modeling one. The price is £19. If you want one, please send me a cheque for £19 (made payable to TFFC) to 80 Hale Drive, NW7 3ED. Or you can pay online: Account name: Temple Fortune FC; Account No: 42442812; Sort Code:09-06-66. Ensure your name and 'TOP' are included in the payment reference. The deadline has been extended for a few more days. Order NOW and have an excellent TFFC top for the new season.. Click here to see Lee Fegan modeling one! The last few days so hurry! NEW DISCIPLINARY PAGE ON WEBSITE At the bottom of 'FortuneTeller' you can read all about the new Match-Based Disciplinary procedure brought in by the FA. In short, suspensions will no longer be imposed by weeks, but now by matches. So gone are the 14 days, 21 days and 35 days suspensions for sending offs and in come 1, 2 or 3-match bans. To maintain a record of suspensions, I have introduced a new feature on the website which is as clear-cut to follow as anything. The disciplinary table will show each player sent off and suspended alongside a week-by-week calendar, with suspensions clearly marked in addition to fines, yellow cards, payments received or outstanding. And Club fines will be logged as well. The table provides a very useful reference for Team Secretaries monitoring a player's availability when suspended. To get to the page, click on any of the Team Page links shown above in the 'Fortune Pre-Seasons' panel, and then click on 'DISCIPLINARY TABLE'. FIRST TEAM SHIRTS AVALAIBLE I am still taking orders for more First Team shirts which can be bought outright by players to use at matches or casually. Each will have a squad number and come with red shorts. The cost will be between £35 and £40 depending on how many are ordered. (The more we get, the cheaper they are). Email me if you want one by 21st July. LIST OF OFFICERS EMAIL ADDRESSES For a list of all Management Committee Officers' email addresses, scroll to the bottom of this newsletter. NEWSLETTER BACK ISSUES Issue 1 • Issue 2 Regards, Nigel
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| FLASHBACK TO 30 YEARS AGO: TEMPLE FORTUNE'S FIRST SEASON IN THE MSFL PREMIER DIVISION The 1981/82 season was notable for two major achievements for Temple Fortune. Firstly, it marked the First Xl's debut in the MSFL Premier Division. Secondly, the Club enjoyed its most successful season to date in cup football, reaching the Southern Area Final of the Peter Morrison Trophy. Realistically, success for Temple Fortune during season 1981/82 would simply be survival. Too many good Premier teams, like Athletico Neasden, Brixton, Huntsman and Marshside, were thought to be superior opposition on paper. So, for Fortune to achieve both survival and a Cup Final appearance meant that this particular season must rank as one of the Club's best. Not that anyone could have predicted either feat being accomplished by the beginning of December. By that time, Temple Fortune had a Premier Division record of played 9, won 1, drawn 0 and lost 8, with only two points. Rock bottom and surely hopelessly heading for a quick return to Division One. The season had begun with an unlucky defeat against Marshside in Fortune's inaugural Premier Division fixture. Gary Hyams scored the Club's opening goal in the top notch for a 1-0 half-time lead but an equaliser and late winner robbed the Firsts of a deserved point. Successive defeats soon followed, including a forfeited match against Brixton when the League's Management Committee denied Temple Fortune a postponement requested well before the season began due to a player's wedding. However, Temple Fortune did break the losing sequence in a cup tie against Gants Hill Ivri Maccabi. Due to finishing in a high position in Division One the season before, the Club were invited to compete in the prestigious AJY-MSFL Invitation Trophy, a competition run jointly by both leagues involving their top eight teams, making a total entry of 16. A week after losing to Gants Hill in an abandoned league match - erroneously stopped short by an over-reacting referee due to alleged misconduct which was not proven at a subsequent hearing - Temple Fortune exacted ample revenge with a thrilling 5-4 victory in extra time. Gary Hyams scored a hat-trick and the result was considered a major shock in Maccabi football, though not to be the only one produced by Temple Fortune in 1981/82! The worst Premier Division defeat came in the very next game against struggling Bar Kochba at Kitchener Road, Walthamstow. Carrying on the good football from the Gant Hill tie, the First Xl looked to be finally heading to their first league win by leading 4-1 at half-time; amazingly and rather inexplicably, Temple Fortune collapsed to a really morale-sapping 4-7 defeat. Thankfully, a victory soon was achieved in league match number seven. Huntsman were beaten 4-3 in a see-saw battle at West Hendon Playing Fields. But the satisfaction was short-lived as Ashlodge, by no means one of the better sides in the Premier, thumped Fortune 9-1. So December came with Temple Fortune still firmly rooted to the bottom and looking like relegation certainties. Apart from the gloomy league situation, the Club faced more controversy by being thrown out of the AJY-MSFL Invitation Trophy. Drawn against AJY side Radom in the quarter-final, Temple Fortune refused to play the tie in the afternoon. Radom were given the choice of kick-off time as the home team and after much deliberation won the game by default. After a spell of bad weather, the season resumed with much better luck and improved performances. A draw against Athletico Neasden was followed by a splendid 5-3 revenge win over Ashlodge. Then, having jumped above Regents Park Rangers (the team that had inflicted Temple Fortune's only league defeat in 1980/81), the First Xl beat them twice in a crucial double-header at Hampstead Heath, the excellent Gary Hyams shining decisively. The amazing revival continued with two more wins, making it five Premier games in succession. The earlier losses against both Bar Kochba and Marshside were avenged, 2-1 and 2-0 respectively. The success over BK was particularly impressive because Temple Fortune were forced to field several Second Team players due to unavailability. The remainder of the season was mainly filled by cup ties but by the time Gants Hill won the final league fixture in April, Temple Fortune had completed a remarkable recovery, and with it survival in the Premier Division for another season. The second half of the First Team's epic '81/82 story brought excellent runs in both cup competitions. Having reached the Peter Morrison Trophy semi-final a year earlier, narrowly losing to eventual winners MAL, Temple Fortune went one better in dramatic style. After seeing off lower opposition in Grasshoppers Hendon and Shirehall, Fortune again met AJY Clayhall Alandra who must have relished the chance of revenge after being knocked out in the same quarter-final stage during season 1980-81. In a very even encounter, the First Xl led 1-0 before conceding a goal just before the end of normal time. The Clayhall goalkeeper, limping badly from injury, joined the mass of players inside Fortune's penalty area for a corner in the last minute. He dramatically headed the equaliser and the match finished 1-1! Extra time did not resolve the tie but, thanks to the superb goalkeeping of Paul Squires, Temple Fortune eventually won on penalties. In the semi-final, Temple Fortune were drawn to play Kenton of the Hendon & District League, just like MAL a year before. Holders MAL themselves had to play Marshside in the other semi, and the Jewish Chronicle confidently predicted a Kenton v MAL Final in their preview. Given absolutely no chance, Temple Fortune defied all the odds by beating 'mighty' Kenton 2-1 which Chairman Nigel Kyte described at the time as "like Lincoln beating Liverpool in the FA Cup." It was a phenomenal result, arguably Temple Fortune's finest hour since formation! Gary Hyams scored the two vital goals and the First Xl defended superbly to keep out the opposition, growing more and more desperate as the minutes ticked by. Every Kenton attack looked like being the breakthrough they strived for, followed by the inevitable glut of goals. A match like that - a quality Hendon & District League side versus a struggling MSFL Premier team – should have been a formality of say, three or four nil. But the Temple Fortune team of 1981/82, excellently captained by Steve Bourne, pulled out all the stops to produce an astonishing giantkilling result. Sadly, Temple Fortune were unable to match that great performance in the Southern Area Final, surprisingly against Marshside, who also produced a big shock by beating MAL. So much for the JC's prediction! On the day, Fortune just could not get going; it was as if every player had given absolutely everything in the semi and there was nothing left for the Final. Marshside scored early on and, rarely threatened for the remainder of the game, cruised to a comfortable 4-0 win. Even the great Gary Hyams, one of the best ever players for TF and the main match-winner during 1981/82, looked completely subdued. After so much expectancy, the PMT Southern Area Final was a massive let-down and looking back it was a great shame that Temple Fortune failed to perform on the day. In the Cyril Anekstein Cup, Temple Fortune reached the quarter-final where they again met Marshside. Played at Hackney Marshes, Fortune were leading 2-1 with fifteen minutes to go before the referee gave a very controversial penalty decision which was dubious to say the least. Marshside's slice of luck was accepted and they went on to win 3-2 late on, a crushing blow to a Temple Fortune side which deserved to reach the last four of the CA Cup for the first time. Gary Hyams was named MSFL Footballer of the Year, the League's top individual award, and took the Club's Player of the Year title too. Just for good measure, Gary finished leading goalscorer, collecting his third trophy for the season. He also won League representative honours. What an evenful season 1981/82 had been! A Cup Final, two quarter-finals, survival in the Premier Division and the League's outstanding player! |
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Management Committee, 2011/12
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Chairman: Nigel Kyte – mobile: 0777 323 0477
Email: info@tffc.co.uk Vice Chairman: Nicholas Waitsman Email: nicholas@timezoneseurope.co.uk General Secretary: Nigel Kyte Email: info@tffc.co.uk Treasurer: Peter Kyte Email: pdk@enablinguk.com First Team Secretary: Lee Fegan Email: lee.fegan@googlemail.com |
First Team Administration Secretary: Jack Morris
Email: jack.morris@dynamiclinks.co.uk Second Team Secretary: Terry Jeffries Email: terry@kingsland-lettings.com Second Team Administration Secretary: Adam Glekin Email: adamglekin@hotmail.com Old Boys Team Secretary: David Goldberg Email: David_Goldberg@eu.omron.com Old Boys Team Administration Secretary: Hilton Teper Email: hteper@ymail.com |
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