Hexham Football Club
Archive 1
Congratulations to Ashington born Michael Oliver, he became the youngest Premier League official ever when he took charge of Birmingham City v Blackburn Rovers at St Andrews (21/08/10). Michael made the national list in 2007 and to date his biggest match was the 2007 Conference play off final at Wembley between Exeter and Morecambe. The club know Michael as he works with the Northumberland FA assisting the development of referees in the county. His Premier League Debut resulted in a 2-1 victory for Birmingham with Michael producing five yellow cards and giving a stone wall penalty. The game had been pretty dour until the penalty award and at that stage BBC reporter Les Roopanarine reported in his match report
“The obvious contender for man of the match at that stage was Oliver, who at 25 years and 182 days old was making an assured Premier League debut.”
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24th August 2010
Newcastle United’s Hexham born goalkeeper Fraser Foster has joined Celtic on a yearlong loan. The twenty two year old spent last year on loan at Norwich City, where he helped the canneries to the First Division Championship with some rave reviews. With competition hot at Newcastle Fraser will gain valuable experience in the Scottish Premier League.
National non league day (04/09/10)
Don’t let the senior team tell you that it was due to international call ups that caused Hexham not to have a game on Saturday (4th Sept). It was due to the fact that there is seventeen teams in our division and it was our turn to miss out. So we decided to support “National non league day” and go and support one of ex juniors Shaun Vipond who is on the books of Workington Town who play in the Blue Square Conference North. Solihull Moors were the visitors to Borough Park and they were sitting in sixth place in the league four points and three places below the “Reds”. Shaun took his place in midfield in a disappointing first half for the home side going into the break a goal down after a Beswick penalty. The second half was much improved with Workington much the better team ,but it was not until the 88th minute when Midworth deflected the cross past his own keeper. By this time Shaun was limping after challenging for a loose ball but could not be replaced as Workington had used all their permitted substitutions and having been given the captains armband earlier he had to stop on. He was noticeably in pain but that was eased greatly when teammate Gareth Armison scored the winner deep into injury time. With the referee looking at his watch Shaun was forced twice to hook the ball away from danger as the ball seemed to be seeking him out just to test his injury. Six hundred and forty eight spectators were at the game and with these three late points won Workington are now two points clear in second place and hot on the heels of leaders Alfreton Town. It was a good day out and great to see one of our ex juniors in a higher level of football
Congratulations to Ryan Gardner who play's for our under 12's who has been offered a trial extension at Carlisle United. He is currently on a 6 week academy trial with the club.
This does however mean he will be unavailable for our Sunday matches over this period, but hopefully will be available for our midweek games at the start of the season.
I'm sure this will be the first of many opportunities for our players to experience playing at a professional club. author JW
Without the help of all the local schools and council/North Country Leisure run facilities the club would not have been able to exist. But many years of negotiations with the then Tynedale Council and help again from North Country Leisure a site was found by means of a partnership with Kingswood Activity Centre. The cost of the project was around £850,000 so after a generous grant from the Football Foundation and serious backing from Tynedale Council the target was within reach. The club was tasked with raising £30,000 and this was achieved by the all the teams fundraising with fantastic help from local businesses and councillors. To thank some of these people and all the parents they were all invited to a pre opening view of the facilities over the past two weekends. The official County Council opening is coming up in the next few weeks but the club felt they should invite some of the unsung heroes who have all played their part. Some parents and coaches whose kids have out grown the club all played a big part in fundraising so they were all invite to see these fantastic facilities.
The club will still need all the other sites as well as Dukeshouse. With sixteen teams in the club everyone will get a turn to play but it will be impossible for everyone to fit a match in every weekend. The club will be operating a rota so every team will get a fair chance to use the facility. For the first time ever we will be able to serve tea and coffee from proper clubhouse not just out the back of a car or in a tent to our visitors and home supporters. This will be a clubhouse the entire club will be proud of, a base which they have never had.
Exciting times ahead for Hexham FC (Oct 2010)
The future looks exciting for the junior section of Hexham Football Club with the opening very soon of the Hexham Football Centre at Dukeshose wood. Over the years the club have been struggling to find grass for all their junior teams to play on.
Some local referees and NFA officials were also invited with sponsors to the day’s events and the club were delighted to see Councillor Derek Kennedy who played a major role in securing the floodlit area which will be used for mid week training and mini soccer. Councillors Ingrid Whale and Terry Robson were unavailable to attend but the club looks forward to seeing them at a later date. Waitrose have been a great supporter to the club and sent representatives to view how they have helped the project. The Club have been in touch with Egger who were also unable to attend but in the very near future we hope to meet them so some promotional photos can be taken as a thank you to the company
Over the two days the parents were shown around all the facilities and a power point presentation was shown describing how it all came about with stage by stage photos of the build. Everyone was impressed with the quality of the build and the finish which undoubtedly down to the architect Graeme Wakefield of Crawford Higgins Associates and his management of the project.
Part of the presentation of how the club would to develop over the coming seasons and the major development will be applying for the very highest award the club can achieve. The goal is moving from a Charter Standard development club to the lofty premiership heights of “FA Community Club” status.
This will take a lot of effort from the club officials but with a restructure of the management to spread the load and the help of the development team at the Northumberland FA it can and will be done. Northumberland County Council will very soon be having the official opening but the club wanted to beat the linesman flag and went early and it proved a very worthwhile exercise
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