Wingate & Finchley V Enfield Town - Match Preview
Kick Off 3pm (7/11/2009)
Enfield Town get back to the bread and butter of Ryman League action this weekend when we visit Wingate and Finchley whose manager David 'Stormin' Norman has a good start to his first season in charge of The Blues. Norman has previously been in charge of Oswestry Town in the Welsh Premier League before the club merged with TNS Llansantffraid to form The New Saints.
He had an excellent playing career in Wales playing for Rhyl, Bangor City, Welshpool Town, Caernarfon Town and Barry Town amongst others. Whislt with Barry he was part of the side that played in the Uefa Cup first round. He has also been a youth team coach at Arsenal.
They are level on 21 points in the league with Town but we have a game in hand so it's all to play for. Their league form from the start of the season reads - DWDWDWLLWLWWL. They were knocked out of the FA Cup by SSMFL Aylesbury FC and the FA Trophy by Gary Abbott's Sittingbourne, Both exits were after replays.
Last weekend they took the long trip to Suffolk to play FA Cup heroes Lowestoft Town and went down narrowly in a 2-1 loss. This shows they are a good team and it will not be easy for Town to take the three points away.
Leon Smith heads the top-scorers list with 9 goals in league and cup.
Town will be looking to turn a different corner to last season's game on the 13th January (just after last christmas) when we lost 3-2 and in the season before that a 3-0 reverse when Simon Tickner was red-carded. Two goals that day came from ex-town player Daniel Clarke.
Steve and Del have a good squad of players to choose from and it'll be interesting to see if midweek goal heroes Ben Hammond or Liam Hope make an appearance.
So it'll be battlestations as Town look to build on their 3-1 midweek win and get back to winning ways in the league. Lets hope W&F give us the freedom to play some nice football. The cold end has faith that the blue and white (or will be be red and yellow) army can win. There is a welcoming bar at the ground but as at all bar and public house facilities it's not club tropicana and the drinks aren't free...
Finchley is the birth place of many famous people none more so than Gerald Norman Springer (aka Jerry) who was born on one of the underground stations during the second world war. English comic actor Terry Thomas, Harry Beck the artist who created the modern day tube map and spice girl turned radio presenter Emma Bunton. A world famous singer was also born in the area and his parents owned a shop locally when he was growing up. He was christened Georgios-Kuricos Panayiotou but is now known as a different name.........There are obvious clues above??
COME ON TOWN!!!
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