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TB&G

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Originally Posted By: onebreast
i thought pegasus was a horse ??


Actually the most well known Pegasus was a combined Cambridge/Oxford University team who played at top amateur level in the 40s and 50s I believe and also played in won the FA Amateur cup at least once if my memory serves me correctly.
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They played in the ESL for one season...71-2. Then played one game the following season, losing 11-1 against Tiptree and promptly resigned from the League.
They had ground trouble and tried to get Melbourne Park at Chelmsford, but that all went tits up.
No idea if they still exist now.
Well that's what it says here anyway smile
Is that stupid enough for you.... grin


Pegasus Athletic FC played at the Greyhound Stadium in Southend,and had some ex-Southend United professionals including Derek Woodley and John McKinven and were managed by the ex Southend United manager Ernie Shepherd and were an off shoot of successful Corringham based Pegasus which won the Essex Intermediate Cup in 69/70. They folded as you say just after the start of the 72/3 season and never came back.
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Originally Posted By: kattyann
I actually knew the answer and did not need to goole or ring anyone so there tongue

Must admit coup thought the spelling was wrong! smile


No Katty, Goole were the team we lost to in the FA Trophy in '75...A proper tear up with some Leeds fans on Goole station.. smile
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Originally Posted By: Beeswax
Originally Posted By: coupwotcoup
They played in the ESL for one season...71-2. Then played one game the following season, losing 11-1 against Tiptree and promptly resigned from the League.
They had ground trouble and tried to get Melbourne Park at Chelmsford, but that all went tits up.
No idea if they still exist now.
Well that's what it says here anyway smile
Is that stupid enough for you.... grin

Pegasus Athletic FC played at the Greyhound Stadium in Southend,and had some ex-Southend United professionals including Derek Woodley and John McKinven and were managed by the ex Southend United manager Ernie Shepherd and were an off shoot of successful Corringham based Pegasus which won the Essex Intermediate Cup in 69/70. They folded as you say just after the start of the 72/3 season and never came back.


Further to the excellent responses from Messrs Coup and Beeswax, I detail an excerpt from the new History of the League that is presently being put together for us by Keith Roe making a reference by myself to Pegasus , which I hope will clear up any queries on the club re their Coryton connection and home ground. I have one match programme which cost me a fiver about fifteen years ago and I thought at the time this was an extortinate price but now realise that copies are extremely rare so it turned out to be a bit of a bargain on hindsight !

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FORMATION OF THE LEAGUE IN 1971

The Essex Senior Football League was formed in 1971. The first formal meeting was held at the Shire Hall in Chelmsford on Monday, February 8th,1971 and representatives of the following clubs were present:- Basildon United, Billericay Town, Coggeshall Town, Collier Row Motor Gear, Heybridge Swifts, Pegasus [Coryton], Saffron Walden Town, Stansted, Tiptree United and Witham Town.

The Chairman, Mr. B. R. Baker, stated that since a preliminary meeting all the above clubs had expressed a willingness to join the new League and it was resolved by 9-0 [with one abstaining] that “A Senior League be formed provided that there are at least eight clubs approved for Senior Status by the E.C.F.A. and the ten applicants above be founder members of the competition.” The League would be known as the ESSEX SENIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE and that it be confined to Essex Clubs. Permit players [ex-professionals] would be allowed to play but not fully professional players. Entry fee was £5.00[!]. Interest was shown, initially, for a Reserve Section but this was put on ice for a year.

During the next few months, as Rules and Officers were formulated, two clubs backed out of the scenario, they were Coggeshall Town [just for one season] and Collier Row Motor Gear, but another joined and that was Southend United ‘A.’

Pegasus of Coryton were re-named Pegasus Athletic and managed to organise a new ground, at the Greyhound Stadium in Grainger Road, Southend-on-Sea, and attained Senior status. They came under the helpful hand of Ernie Shepherd, so well known to Southend United.

SEASON 1971-1972

The season started on 14th August, 1971 with one of the games being Billericay Town v. Stansted, though a common mistake was made at the time, calling them "Stanstead." Billericay Town won 3-1 with goals from Wallace (2) and Coughlan. The first player “sent off” was Kenny Shields of Basildon United. Such was the impact of the League that, even by October, Maldon Town were applying for season 1972-73. The serious side of the League was shown when Pegasus tried to get a game postponed due to “Southend United playing Aston Villa.” - it was declined. The first “honour” for the League came in the form of a certain young player named Gordon Hill of Southend United ‘A’ [later of Manchester United fame] who, their secretary, Keith Holmes advised a meeting in December, had been “picked for England thanks to his form in the Essex Senior League!” ....................
During that initial season, Southend United ‘A’ played at Roots Hall whilst just around the corner were Pegasus Athletic, a team formed to fill a gap in Southend caused by a lack of a Senior non-League team. They played at the Stadium in Grainger Road, also let to the Greyhounds and up to 1954 the home of Southend United. It is now, alas, a shopping park and bingo centre.

SEASON 1972-1973

Although winning the Essex Intermediate Cup in 1971-72, Pegasus Athletic only lasted one month into the new season, were unsuccessful in securing Melbourne Park, Chelmsford as a home ground, lost 1-11 at Tiptree in their only League game and 2-15 to Barkingside in the F. A. Amateur Cup on 9th September. They then disbanded. Saffron Walden received a bye in the League Cup because of this.

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The League Cup final venue will be announced to the League at the next meeting on 21st March . Final is on Monday 7th May at 3pm.

and what the teams involved in the final are gonna do from the 21st april to the 7th may?off to the Caribbeans for 2 weeks! alk
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