Dunstable Town

[Rhodes]

It's surprising that Dunstable Town's FA Vase record is fairly brief whereas their FA Cup record is as long as your arm, starting in 1950/51. The Club were unfortunate to draw Whitley Bay in the Fifth Round in 2010/11 as no doubt they would have reached Wembley had they avoided the three time successive winners, in 2012/13 they surprisingly lost a Third Round tie at Essex Senior League Enfield considering it was their 'invincibles' season with Enfield duly losing 3-0 at Ampthill Town in the following Round without laying a glove on Craig Bicknell's men: 

F.A. VASE

2000-01   1Q    ST MARGARETSBURY                    A    2-2
          1Qr   ST MARGARETSBURY                    H    4-1
          2Q    WELLINGBOROUGH TOWN                 A    1-0
          1     HARWICH & PARKESTON                 A    4-3
          2     WELWYN GARDEN CITY                  A    3-1
          3     TOOTING & MITCHAM UNITED            A    0-1
2001-02   1Q    WARE                                H    2-1
          2Q    HARWICH & PARKESTON                 A    2-0
          1     LEYTON PENNANT                      A    1-6
2002-03   2Q    HALSTEAD TOWN                       H    2-3
2009-10   1     HALSTEAD TOWN                       A    0-3
2010-11   1Q    HANWELL TOWN                        H    4-2
          2Q    CRANFIELD UNITED                    H    2-1
          1     A F C WALLINGFORD                   H    5-0
          2     CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE          H    2-1
          3     TRING ATHLETIC                      A    6-1
          4     WILLAND ROVERS                      H    2-0
          5     WHITLEY BAY                         A    1-5
2011-12   2     LONG BUCKBY                         A    2-4
2012-13   1     BARKING                             A    3-0
          2     PETERBOROUGH NORTHERN STAR          A    3-1
          3     ENFIELD                             A    0-1
2019-20   1Q    A F C HAYES                         A    1-3
2020-21   1Q    AMPTHILL TOWN                       A    1-4

[Rhodes]

The match programme cover and some photographs from Dunstable Town's 2010/11 FA Vase Fourth Round tie against Western League Premier Division Willand Rovers at Creasey Park which they won 2-0 with goals from Graeme Buchanan and Jonathan Cooper, 158 were in attendance:

Half Time Orange??: Dunstable Town 2 Willand Rovers 0

Edited March 16, 2021 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

An interesting programme from when the Club were known as just Dunstable and a 1990/91 Southern League South Division fixture against Burnham, at Creasey Park on Saturday 6 April 1991: 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Dunstable Town are one of eleven SSML Club's to have entered the Gladwish SSML Spring Cup competition to compensate for the early curtailment of the 2020/21 campaign, here are their Group A fixtures, Gareth Jackson's men will be confident of qualifying for the Semi Finals either as group winners or runners up:

[agamemnon3]

'will be confident of qualifying for the Semi Finals...'

What makes you think this, Rhodes ?  I don't know about Aylesbury, but I have seen all of the other five in this group this season and have no doubt that Dunstable are the poorest of the five.  Biggleswade, Newport Pagnell and Baldock are all comfortably better than Dunstable, and even though Shefford are Step 6, I expect them to be more than a handful for them.  In my humble opinion, Dunstable will do well to finish any higher than fifth, and could easily finish bottom.

Should there be any further easing of lockdown over the next few weeks, (and as long as the weather holds up), I may well try to get to Dunstable on the 17th, or possibly Newport Pagnell on the 24th.  

 

[Rhodes]

A bit after the Lord Mayors Show but a team sheet from Dunstable Town v Barry Town in a 1969/70 Southern League Division One fixture, at Creasey Park on Saturday 21 March 1970, Dunstable Town won 2-0 under then boss Brendan McNally who departed at the end of that season with Mick Collins taking over. It was a lean period for the Club however they did beat then Spartan League Leighton Town in the FA Cup Second Qualifying Round, 3-1 at Creasey Park, losing 4-0 at Wealdstone in the next round: 

[Rhodes]

Former Ampthill Town boss Ant Christophi has joined Dunstable Town as Assistant Manager to Gareth Jackson, the Cub seem delighted to have secured Ant's services and rightly so:

Christophi Joins The Blues (dunstabletownfc.co.uk)

[Rhodes]

Here is a youthful looking Barry Fry who I see was born and bred in Bedford hence, presumably, his close connection with Dunstable Town, playing for them and Managing them in the early to mid 70's:

[Rhodes]

Dunstable Town were a Metropolitan League Division One outfit in the 1964/65 campaign and locked horns with Gillingham Reserves in a League fixture at the Priestfield Stadium on Saturday 31 October 1964, Seamus Dunne was the Manager at the time. Not sure of the result, I gather a number of the players have sadly passed away including Dunstable born and bred Alan Moulster who oozed class:

[Rhodes]

I see that Dunstable Town lifted the 2021 Grassroots Club of the year, awarded by the Bedfordshire FA, a huge achievement:

We are very pleased to share the fantastic news that Dunstable Town Football Club have been awarded the Grassroots Club of the Year for 2021 by Bedfordshire FA. This award is given to clubs that unite everyone in a fun atmosphere of respect, inclusivity and excellence. We have been chosen as the club that goes above and beyond to provide great football for all.

Speaking on the winning of the award, club Chairman, Andrew Madaras said:

The Club is very honoured to have received this accolade. We are no different to any other organisation that recognises its greatest asset are the people who work for it. We are incredibly fortunate to have a very dedicated and devoted team behind the scenes working hard to deliver the values the Club stands for. This achievement is a credit to the team of hard-working individuals that we have at Dunstable Town Football Club in the form of committee members and volunteers.

[Rhodes]

Dunstable Town's fixtures for the forthcoming 2021/22 campaign. I see that the Club renew acquaintances already with North Greenford United in the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round on 7 August at Creasey Park despite North Greenford United's 'defection' to the Combined Counties League:

[Rhodes]

What a picture, what a photograph, no not Tommy Steele, Dunstable Town players training on Dunstable Downs in the 1950's with Tring Road at the bottom and the view in the direction of Wellhead, Church End, Totternhoe, Moor End and Eaton Bray, it's such a shame time couldn't stand still:

[Rhodes]

Many congratulations to Dunstable Town for lifting the SSML Sportsmanship Award this season, as voted by Match Officials, presumably PetetheGreek voted for them then and not New Salamis:

[Rhodes]

A team sheet from then Southern League Division One DunstabIe Town v Isthmian League Wycombe Wanderers in a FA Cup Third QuaIifying Round tie, at Creasey Park on Saturday 24 October 1970, with the visitors winning 4-0. Wycombe Wanderers reached the First Round proper that season Iosing a repIay to SIough Town and won the Isthmian League Championship by a point from Sutton United:

Edited June 5, 2022 by Rhodes

[petethegreek]

On 24/05/2022 at 18:21, Rhodes said:

Many congratulations to Dunstable Town for lifting the SSML Sportsmanship Award this season, as voted by Match Officials, presumably PetetheGreek voted for them then and not New Salamis:

I didn't vote for any Club.

 

[Rhodes]

On 05/06/2022 at 11:06, petethegreek said:

I didn't vote for any Club

Isn't it compuIsory for every OfficiaI to vote, who wouId you have voted for then out of interest, presumabIy New SaIamis.

[petethegreek]

17 hours ago, Rhodes said:

Isn't it compuIsory for every OfficiaI to vote, who wouId you have voted for then out of interest, presumabIy New SaIamis.

Referees mark the Clubs after each game so I am guessing the Club with the highest average at the end of the season wins.


 

[Rhodes]

On 29/05/2022 at 19:50, Rhodes said:

A team sheet from then Southern League Division One DunstabIe Town v Isthmian League Wycombe Wanderers in a FA Cup Third QuaIifying Round tie, at Creasey Park on Saturday 24 October 1970, with the visitors winning 4-0. Wycombe Wanderers reached the First Round proper that season Iosing a repIay to SIough Town and won the Isthmian League Championship by a point from Sutton United:

Here is the photograph again as it has mysteriousIy disappeared:

[Rhodes]

WeII after the Lord Mayors Show but a team sheet from the 1956/57 Bedfordshire County Senior Cup FinaI between then MetropoIitan & District League DunstabIe Town and then South MidIands League Premier Division AC DeIco (Luton), pIayed at the oId WaterIow FC Ground in DunstabIe on Wednesday 8 May 1957:

[Rhodes]

DunstabIe Town's fixtures for the forthcoming 2022/23 campaign, Joe Deeney's men entertain Step 4 Great Wakering Rovers in the FA Cup on Saturday 6 August and host SSML 'bedfeIIows' CrawIey Green in the FA Vase on Saturday 27 August: