2000/01

 

 

 

IT ALL STARTED BACK IN 1999 WHEN ALAN SOUTHWICK (POE) DECIDED TO SET UP HIS OWN FOOTBALL SIDE TO COMPETE IN THE SUNDAY WORCESTER AND DISTRICT FOOTBALL LEAGUE. POE HAD FOUND A FOOTBALL GROUND TO PLAY FROM BY 2000 OUT IN HEREFORDSHIRE AND ALREADY HAD PLAYERS LIKE HIS BROTHER WILL STALEY HIS FRIEND MARK MUNDEN, LYLE DUFFY, RICH DAVIS (PAXO) AND A FEW OTHERS BUT NEEDED MORE TO BOOST HIS SQUAD FOR THE FIRST SEASON, SO HE PUT AN ADVERT IN THE LOCAL NEWS PAPER (WORCESTER NEWS) FOR PLAYERS TO WHICH I HAD SEEN (DARREN THE BISH BISHOP) AND AGREED TO GO ALONG TO TRAINING, THIS IS WHERE FOR THE FIRST TIME I MET THE GAFFER AND OWNER POE AND THE LIKES OF LEE SKIPP (SKIPPY), THE GAY SCHMICHAEL PHIL COX, ANDY RYDER (RYDAL) THE DUGDALES WITH SIDEKICKS STUEY WATTS AND MATHEW HODGES AND A MICHAEL BOLTON LOOK A LIKE ANDREW WILSON, THIS WAS BRINGSTY SPORTS FC.

 

THAT SUMMER WE HAD TRAINED ALL THROUGH GETTING READY FOR THE SEASON, ALONG THE WAY HAVING PLAYERS COME AND GO, WE ALSO HAD OUR FIRST EVER GAME IN A BRINGSTY SHIRT PLAYING A FRIENDLY OUT IN DROITWICH TO WHERE WE WON BY A RUGBY SCORE LINE OF 12-10 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BY THIS POINT WE HAD`NT SEEN OR BEEN TO OUR HOME GROUND YET ALL WE NEW THAT IT WAS OUT AT BRINGSTY COMMON, AND WHEN THE DAY HAD ARRIVED I COULD`NT BELIVE MY EYES, THE PITCH WAS SURROUNDED BY FERNS, THE PITCH ITSELF COVERED IN MOLE HILLS AND A RICKETIE OLD SHED AT THE TOP OF THE SLOPE FOR A CHANGING ROOM, IT WAS BRINGSTY COMMON, OUR HOME, THE FORTRESS.

 

DURING THAT FIRST YEAR WITH BRINGSTY WAS TOUGH BECAUSE NONE OF THE PLAYERS DID`NT KNOW EACH OTHER AND THE TEAM HAD`NT GELLED, THERE WERE A FEW PLAYERS WHO STOOD OUT LIKE SKIPPY AND WILSON WHO ROCKED UP TO GAMES IN A BLACK BMW BANGING OUT DRE AND SNOOP TUNES WHO ON THERE DAY WERE QUALITY PLAYERS IF IN ANY FIT STATE, THE FIRST EVER SKIPPER ANDY COOMBES (DR EVIL) TALL AND STRONG AT THE BACK, ANDY BOTTOM (BEETLEJUICE) WHO WAS VERY FAST WITH HIS STRANGE SMALL HEAD, PLAYBOY LIAM COURTNEY WHO HAD GREAT SCORING ABILITY WHEN HE WAS`NT LOOKING IN THE MIRROR OR FIXING HIS HAIR AND WILL STALEY WHO HAD A UNIQUE SPEED SETTING, SLOW AND STOP, THERE WERE THE DUGDALES (MATTHEW AND SIMON) WHO WERE GOOD BUT THOUGHT THEY WERE AMAZING ALONG WITH HODGEY WHO WAS A BIG BUILT STRIKER WITH A EYE FOR GOAL AND THEN THE NOT SO GOOD PLAYERS LIKE MR NICE GUY NICK PERKINGS (PERKY) WHO WAS SCARRED OF HIS OWN SHADOW AND STEVE LAYTON MR TWICE AS NICE WHO WOULD OF BEEN BETTER OFF JOINING A KNITTING CLUB AND THEN THERE WAS ANDY RYDER (RYDAL) A KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS FAN WHO WAS THE WORST GOALKEEPER IN BRINGSTY HISTORY AND THERE WERE A FEW. BUT OVERALL IT WAS A FUN FIRST SEASON WITH A FEW WINS AND A FEW MORE LOSSES FINISHING ABOUT FOURTH FROM BOTTOM BUT HAD SOMETHING TO BUILD ON.

 

POE ROUNDED THE SEASON OFF WITH A PRESENTAION AT THE ARCHDALES CLUB BOOKING THERE 250 SEAT FUNCTION ROOM FOR OUR SQUAD OF 30 WHERE COURTNEY AND SKIPPY ENDED THE NIGHT JOINT TOP GOALSCORERS AND I ENDED UP BEING DRAGGED ROUND THE DANCE FLOOR BY MY FEET FROM KEITH WATSON (CHEGGERS) COVERED IN SICK.

 

 

 

2001/02 

 

 

THE SECOND SEASON GOT UNDERWAY AT THE COMMON WITH NEW SIGNINGS ADAM NEWTON SMITH, DEAN PALMER, JAY CLAYDON, LEE HARPER AND ANDY MARTIN JOINING THE FRAY WITH BRINGSTY ORIGINALS THE DUGDALES, MATTY HODGES, STUEY WATTS, STEVE LAYTON, ANDY RYDER AND NICK PERKINS ALL LEAVING THE CLUB NEVER TO BE SEEN AT THE COMMON AGAIN. THIS MENT THERE WOULD BE A NEW SHAPE TO THE TEAM WHICH WOULD SOON GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SHAPE OF ALL OVER THE SHOP BUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENED BRINGSTY DID PROGRESS AS A BETTER SIDE WITH SKILLFULL DEAN PALMER AND QUALITY LEFT BACK LEE HARPER WHO COULD ACTUALLY KICK A BALL AND ALSO WITH OVER 20 GOALS FROM JAY CLAYDON, DOUBLE TO WHAT OUR TOP GOALSCORERS FINISHED ON THE FIRST YEAR MENT THERE WAS IMPROVEMENT.

 

POE CONTINUED TO PLAY EVERY SECOND OF EVERY MATCH THAT SEASON EVEN IF INJURED AND NOT LONG INTO THE SEASON WE WERE BROUGHT BACK DOWN TO EARTH IN A CRUSHING DEFEAT IN THE CUP LOSING 8 - 1 WITH ANDY MARTIN SCORING THE ONLY GOAL FOR US CELEBRATING LIKE HE`D JUST WON US THE CUP, THIS WAS THE SEASON WERE POE HAD GRASSED UP A FELLOW TEAM FOR PLAYING ENLIGBLE PLAYERS TO WHERE HE GAVE MY NAME AS A WITNESS WHERE I HAD TO GO INFRONT OF THE LEAGUE OFFICALS TO CONFIRM POE`S STORY, ON LEAVING POE HAD DEATH THREATS FROM THE TEAMS PLAYERS AND THEY HAD A £250 FINE AND POINTS DEDUCTED.

 

WE FINISHED THAT SECOND SEASON IN ABOUT THE SAME PLACE AS THE FIRST BUT STILL BELIVED THE TEAM WERE BETTER THAN THE MATCH RESULTS WE HAD, WE ENDED WITH A PRESENTAION AT ST JOHNS BOWLING WHERE DRINKS GOT SPILLED ALL OVER THE BOWLING LANES AND ME AND ANDY MARTIN HAVING THE PISS TOOK OUT OF US FOR TURNING UP IN THE SAME SHIRT AND LEE HARPER GETTING PUNCHED IN THE CAR ON THE WAY HOME BY THE GAY SCHMICHAEL PHIL COX.

 

2002/03

 

 

 

 

 

THE THIRD YEAR AT THE COMMON AND THE TEAM STARTED TO LOOK STRONGER, WE HAD FINALLY LOST BRINGSTY ORIGINALS LEE SKIPP AND ANDREW WILSON WHO WOULD BE MISSED BUT WE HAD TO MOVE ON AS A TEAM AND CONTINUED TO HAVE A FEW GOOD RESULTS AND A LOT MORE POOR ONES. OUR MIDFIELD STARTED TO LOOK STRONG WITH NEW SIGNING NEIL BROCKALHURST AND BRINGSTY ORIGINAL LIAM PLAYBOY COURTNEY IN THE MIDDLE WHO HAD DROPPED BACK FROM STRIKER BECAUSE OLD AGE WAS KICKING IN AND HE DIDNT HAVE THE PACE AGAINST THE YOUNGER DEFENDERS.

 

THE SEASON CONTIUED TO GO THE WAY AS PREVIOUS SEASONS, HAVING WON SOME GAMES AGAINST STRONG TEAMS BUT THROWING AWAY POINTS AT TEAMS WHO WERE TERRIBLE, WE HAD BETTER PLAYERS BY THIS POINT ADDING CHRIS MCMANUS (MACCA) TO THE FOLD BUT AFTER YET ANOTHER UP AND DOWN YEAR WE FINISHED ROUND THE SAME PLACE IN THE TABLE.

 

FOR THIS SEASON PRESENTAION POE BOOKED A COACH TO TAKE THE TEAM TO THE TEAM LOCAL THE LIVE AND LET LIVE AT BRINGSTY AND HAD PUT A £100 BEHIND THE BAR FOR THE PLAYERS. IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT UNTILL POE KICKED OFF WHEN GOING TO PAY THE £100 BAR TAB THE BAR MAID SAID IT WAS OVER £300 AND TWO OF THE SQUAD HAD BEEN ADDING TO IT, MACCA AND JAY CLAYDON HAD DOZENS OF TRIPLE VODKA RED BULLS AND ABOUT 8 PACKS OF 20 FAGS AND THEY DID`NT EVEN SMOKE, SO UP ROAR ACCURED AND THEY WERE MADE TO FIND THERE OWN WAY BACK FROM HEREFORDSHIRE, SEASON THREE WAS OVER.

 

2003/04