Fan Zone 07/11/2025
- TUST
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FAN ZONE
By Nick Brodrick, TUST's Chair and TUFC board member.
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DENNIS THE MENACE LIGHTS UP UNITED’S AWAY FORM
ROCKET START BLOWS FARNBOROUGH AWAY AFTER HORNCHURCH DISAPPOINTMENT
MAIDENHEAD’S DEVONSHIRE THE CREAM OF BERKSHIRE 800 UP
‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’, so goes the rhyme about Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators trying to blow up Parliament back in 1605. In 2025 November 5th will be remembered as the night United put together a decent winning away performance.
Thanks to two opportunist Louis Dennis goals United were 2-0 ahead inside the first ten minutes and what a blow that later, well before half-time, he pulled up with yet another hamstring issue. Before going off he was the standout performer streets ahead of any other player on the pitch.
Spencer Day, Farnborough manager, was pretty honest in his after- match interview, praising United and berating his own side. It was interesting that twice in his interview he said, “I’m really quite pleased for Wotts, maybe they’ll get off his back for a bit”, an obvious reference to a number criticising Paul Wotton for the club’s start to the season.
Football fans all over want their team to be flying and the Yellow Army are no different. On Wednesday night the same team which had lost to Hornchurch came out of the starting blocks at pace and how by the end it wasn’t six or seven as Day said, is the only disappointment.
We all know how important goal difference can be after last season.
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The Yellow Army are not the only fans concerned about their team’s away form. Newcastle have now entered their seventh month since winning away in the Premier League, eight games played, four goals scored, four draws and four defeats.
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The fixtures this week haven’t done United any favours as there has been little recovery time before the players have to jump on a coach tomorrow morning to get to Maidenhead and their sloping pitch.
Maidenhead’s York Road ground is the world’s oldest senior football ground with the first match having been played there in February 1871 and if the football is dire, you can always watch the trains whistling past.
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Last Saturday’s defeat to the current league leaders in front of 3,492 saw United lose their unbeaten home record but for a neutral it was a top, entertaining game with Hornchurch being the best side to visit Plainmoor for some time.
On Tuesday night the Urchins struggled at home to Chesham, missing a late first half penalty and then going behind, salvaging a draw to record their eighteenth game without defeat.
So, after that victory at Torquay how many turned up to watch their mid-week home game? 604.
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The BBC have announced which FA Cup Round Two matches they will cover and two include non-league teams Sutton United (home to Shrewsbury Town) and Newport County’s visit to Boreham Wood and just to underline how important a cup run can be, each club involved in a live television game receives £60,000.
Last Sunday’s Women’s match against Forest Green due to be played at Newton Abbot Rec was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.
Non-League Crowd Watch: FA Cup: South Shields 3,570, Chelmsford 3,502, Tamworth 2,820, Gainsborough Trinity 2,612, Weston-s-Mare 2,557, Eastleigh 2,389, Spennymoor 2,283.
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Tomorrow, it’s Maidenhead away managed by ex-West Ham and England mid-fielder Alan Devonshire whose international career was cut short through a knee injury.
In an interview in a national newspaper this week ‘Dev’ talked about his career: at age 20 West Ham paid Southall £5,000 for whom he had been playing whilst earning £80 per week at Perivale’s Hoover factory.
He has managed in non-league football for 31 years, taking charge of 1,500 games including, in two spells, 800 at Maidenhead. “I come from Non-League and I find it better. It’s where I started and it’s where I learned more than any coach could ever teach me.”
What does he miss from his playing days? The art of dribbling. “I want to see dribbling but it’s a dying art.”
Let’s see what happens tomorrow.
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