Source: Journal Live
Mar 16 2010 by Neil Farrington, The Journal
HAVING wiped the tears of joy – and pride – from his eyes since Saturday night, stand-in manager Dickie Ord insists Durham City’s first win of the season signposts a bright long-term future for the so-called crisis club, writes NEIL FARRINGTON.
Having had a “bubble” by himself following his college kids’ famous 2-1 victory over FC United of Manchester at Bury, Ord must now “scrape them off the ceiling” ahead of tonight’s visit of Whitby.
But a first league win since the loss of their main sponsor prompted a player exodus and forced them to turn to the Ord-trained youngsters at Durham Sixth Form College is being hailed as proof that long-term revival will follow the short-term certainty of relegation from the UniBond Premier.
“I’d said for a while that things were looking up, and Saturday proved it,” said Ord, in charge of City’s first team since manager Lee Collings was suspended for fielding an ineligible player.
“We’ve had a meeting with the directors, and me and Lee (Collings) will take charge of the side jointly next year. It means the club – and the group of young lads we have here – will get some continuity.
“We’ll also form a reserve team, to make sure we have a more competitive squad of players as a whole in the First Division.
“So the future is bright, and that’s a massive tribute to the kids who have fought like lions for us week in, week out.”
Goalkeeper Rhys Jobling is Ord’s only injury doubt tonight, and he added: “It would be great to give our home fans – who have been unbelievably loyal – a good show.”
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
FC United of Manchester 1 Durham City 2
Source: Journal Live
Mar 15 2010 by Steve Brown, The Journal
UniBond League Premier Division
HE said it was coming, even predicted the day.
Now, finally, magnificently, heroically and rewardingly it can be said that Durham City are winners once more.
Stripped to their bones by departing sponsors and players and deprived their manager Lee Collings, banned for fielding Josh Home-Jackson under a different name, the Esh Group Stadium outfit had lost 28 out of 28 UniBond Premier games
Then came Saturday. Just six days earlier stand-in boss Dicky Ord told The Journal that his team of college kids, enhanced by the ‘experience’ of the likes of Andrew Stephenson and Dan Sanders, WOULD win this season.
And so it was at Bury’s Gigg Lane, home of FC United of Manchester, in front of 2000, who offered a standing ovation to a side victorious thanks to Stephenson’s 45-yarder and Elliott Cutts’ penalty, and a spot-kick save by Rhys Jobling (Carlos Rocca having already scored for the hosts).
There were nerves and tension, tears and an impromptu sing-song on the bus trip back courtesy of guitarist Paul ‘Ginger Maradona’ Taylor.
“They were absolutely magnificent, I’m so proud of them,” Ord said.
“You couldn’t make it up any better, at a Football League ground in front of 2000. There was a bit of tension before the game because of that but once it started they were brilliant.
“We changed the system to 4-5-1, leaving Elliott Cutts on his own up front, with Andrew Stephenson in behind him and they were outstanding.
“We went a goal down but that’s all they had, we were always in the game. Stevo broke through three times and scored his goal from about 45 yards – he tried it twice last week as well! Elliott held his nerve for his penalty, and young Rhys in goal was superb saving their penalty. What he lacks in height he more than makes up for in being as brave as a lion.
“They’ve got a big scoreboard with the clock ticking down, I was a bag of nerves.
“The scenes after the game were fantastic, I left them to it and went in the shower for a bit bubble. Ian Walker, the chairman, had a lump in his throat too. This is down to everyone at the club and Lee Collings especially.”
DURHAM CITY: Jobling, Stoker, Ayers (Winter), Harbord, Batey, D Sanders, Graham, Stephenson, Cutts (Taylor), Winter, Wren (Sanders). Man of the Match: Cutts.
Mar 15 2010 by Steve Brown, The Journal
UniBond League Premier Division
HE said it was coming, even predicted the day.
Now, finally, magnificently, heroically and rewardingly it can be said that Durham City are winners once more.
Stripped to their bones by departing sponsors and players and deprived their manager Lee Collings, banned for fielding Josh Home-Jackson under a different name, the Esh Group Stadium outfit had lost 28 out of 28 UniBond Premier games
Then came Saturday. Just six days earlier stand-in boss Dicky Ord told The Journal that his team of college kids, enhanced by the ‘experience’ of the likes of Andrew Stephenson and Dan Sanders, WOULD win this season.
And so it was at Bury’s Gigg Lane, home of FC United of Manchester, in front of 2000, who offered a standing ovation to a side victorious thanks to Stephenson’s 45-yarder and Elliott Cutts’ penalty, and a spot-kick save by Rhys Jobling (Carlos Rocca having already scored for the hosts).
There were nerves and tension, tears and an impromptu sing-song on the bus trip back courtesy of guitarist Paul ‘Ginger Maradona’ Taylor.
“They were absolutely magnificent, I’m so proud of them,” Ord said.
“You couldn’t make it up any better, at a Football League ground in front of 2000. There was a bit of tension before the game because of that but once it started they were brilliant.
“We changed the system to 4-5-1, leaving Elliott Cutts on his own up front, with Andrew Stephenson in behind him and they were outstanding.
“We went a goal down but that’s all they had, we were always in the game. Stevo broke through three times and scored his goal from about 45 yards – he tried it twice last week as well! Elliott held his nerve for his penalty, and young Rhys in goal was superb saving their penalty. What he lacks in height he more than makes up for in being as brave as a lion.
“They’ve got a big scoreboard with the clock ticking down, I was a bag of nerves.
“The scenes after the game were fantastic, I left them to it and went in the shower for a bit bubble. Ian Walker, the chairman, had a lump in his throat too. This is down to everyone at the club and Lee Collings especially.”
DURHAM CITY: Jobling, Stoker, Ayers (Winter), Harbord, Batey, D Sanders, Graham, Stephenson, Cutts (Taylor), Winter, Wren (Sanders). Man of the Match: Cutts.
Durham City's 28-game losing streak broken at last
Source: Journal Live
Mar 15 2010 by Neil McKay, The Journal
Penalty hero Rhys Jobling of Durham City FC whose save helped his team hang on for their first win of the season. Pictured with from left team mate Paul Taylor, Physio Gary Miller and Dickie Ord Manager
THE heroes of England’s least successful football team were celebrating the season’s first victory yesterday – by watching a re-run on video.
After 28 successive defeats striker Elliot Cutts scored the winning goal and keeper Rhys Jobling saved a penalty to hand Durham City a 2-1 victory away to FC United of Manchester in the Unibond League Premier Division.
It still left them bottom by 26 points. In fact, thanks to a points deduction imposed earlier in the season, Durham still need to find another win to get back to zero points. But that hardly mattered when the final whistle blew.
The oddly-named Manchester team – formed five years ago by Manchester United supporters disillusioned with their club being bought by the American Glazer family – play in front of 2,000 plus crowds at Gigg Lane, Bury.
Durham are lucky to get one tenth of that figure for their home games at New Ferens Park, and would probably appreciate a little bit of help from even the most controversial of millionaires.
Since the majority of the first team squad walked out at the beginning of this season following a cash crisis, Durham have found life extremely tough in the Unibond League Premier Division, which is three divisions below the Football League.
The team, known as the Citizens, is made up primarily of students who before Saturday had played 28 games without a win, leaking 137 goals and scoring just 16.
A catastophic season took a turn for the worse last month when manager Lee Collings was banned for the rest of the season and the team docked six points after Collings, desperate to get out a side, fielded a player under a pseudonym in two games.
It all got a bit much for keeper Rhys, 20. Stand-in boss Dickie Ord admitted one defeat last month had left Rhys in tears. “He’s such an easy-going lad and it is difficult to see that because he’s a good kid,” he said at the time.
“I told all of them it is nobody’s fault that we’re in the position we’re in except the people who let them down before the season. They have worked their socks off and it’s been an experience for them all.”
All that was forgotten on Saturday after the team, which had started to threaten to at least take a point on a couple of occasions, went all the way and grabbed a deserved victory.
A delighted Rhys, who claims the statistics overlook the fact he has “saved more than I have let in,” said the feeling yesterday was “like winning the cup final”.
“We are still on a high. It was a great feeling when the final whistle went. To win in front of more than 2,000 people, the biggest crowd I have played in front of, made it extra special.”
Elliot, also 20, broke off from watching a re-run of his goal scored from an audacious lob over the goalkeeper from near the half way line, to say: “We’ve been getting messages of congratulations from other teams in the league and also from former Durham players.”
Yesterday the club website was inundated with congratulatory messages from officials and fans from other Unibond teams.
One message read: “Congratulations from all at Bradford Park Avenue on your first points of the season. A brilliant result and I’m sure a great journey home for all of you. The biggest cheer of the season rang out in our clubhouse when your result came in, bigger than for our own result on the day!”
Tomorrow evening Durham are at home to Whitby Town – the nearest they have to a local derby – and officials are hoping for a bumper crowd in the wake of Saturday’s win.
The Citizens may have a long way to go – but the only way is up.
Mar 15 2010 by Neil McKay, The Journal
Penalty hero Rhys Jobling of Durham City FC whose save helped his team hang on for their first win of the season. Pictured with from left team mate Paul Taylor, Physio Gary Miller and Dickie Ord Manager
THE heroes of England’s least successful football team were celebrating the season’s first victory yesterday – by watching a re-run on video.
After 28 successive defeats striker Elliot Cutts scored the winning goal and keeper Rhys Jobling saved a penalty to hand Durham City a 2-1 victory away to FC United of Manchester in the Unibond League Premier Division.
It still left them bottom by 26 points. In fact, thanks to a points deduction imposed earlier in the season, Durham still need to find another win to get back to zero points. But that hardly mattered when the final whistle blew.
The oddly-named Manchester team – formed five years ago by Manchester United supporters disillusioned with their club being bought by the American Glazer family – play in front of 2,000 plus crowds at Gigg Lane, Bury.
Durham are lucky to get one tenth of that figure for their home games at New Ferens Park, and would probably appreciate a little bit of help from even the most controversial of millionaires.
Since the majority of the first team squad walked out at the beginning of this season following a cash crisis, Durham have found life extremely tough in the Unibond League Premier Division, which is three divisions below the Football League.
The team, known as the Citizens, is made up primarily of students who before Saturday had played 28 games without a win, leaking 137 goals and scoring just 16.
A catastophic season took a turn for the worse last month when manager Lee Collings was banned for the rest of the season and the team docked six points after Collings, desperate to get out a side, fielded a player under a pseudonym in two games.
It all got a bit much for keeper Rhys, 20. Stand-in boss Dickie Ord admitted one defeat last month had left Rhys in tears. “He’s such an easy-going lad and it is difficult to see that because he’s a good kid,” he said at the time.
“I told all of them it is nobody’s fault that we’re in the position we’re in except the people who let them down before the season. They have worked their socks off and it’s been an experience for them all.”
All that was forgotten on Saturday after the team, which had started to threaten to at least take a point on a couple of occasions, went all the way and grabbed a deserved victory.
A delighted Rhys, who claims the statistics overlook the fact he has “saved more than I have let in,” said the feeling yesterday was “like winning the cup final”.
“We are still on a high. It was a great feeling when the final whistle went. To win in front of more than 2,000 people, the biggest crowd I have played in front of, made it extra special.”
Elliot, also 20, broke off from watching a re-run of his goal scored from an audacious lob over the goalkeeper from near the half way line, to say: “We’ve been getting messages of congratulations from other teams in the league and also from former Durham players.”
Yesterday the club website was inundated with congratulatory messages from officials and fans from other Unibond teams.
One message read: “Congratulations from all at Bradford Park Avenue on your first points of the season. A brilliant result and I’m sure a great journey home for all of you. The biggest cheer of the season rang out in our clubhouse when your result came in, bigger than for our own result on the day!”
Tomorrow evening Durham are at home to Whitby Town – the nearest they have to a local derby – and officials are hoping for a bumper crowd in the wake of Saturday’s win.
The Citizens may have a long way to go – but the only way is up.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Unibond League
Apr 19 2008 by Malcolm Pratt, The Journal
A boost for the Tynesiders is the news that Steve Salvin and Wayne Phillips, who both missed the game at Buxton, return to a full-strength squad.
After claiming 19 points from their last seven games, Newcastle Blue Star are confident they will attract the biggest crowd of the season for today’s UniBond League Division One North game against FC United of Manchester. The visitors are challenging for a play-off place and have by far the best home attendance record. They regularly take more than 1,000 fans to away games and Blue Star are looking for a crowd in excess of 1,500.
Director of football Bob Morton said: “It should be a cracking match. We played really well holding another of the promotion candidates Bradford Park Avenue to a draw on Thursday night and Manchester need the points to be in the promotion shake-up.”
Manchester, unbeaten for several months, will prove tough opponents.
But the Tynesiders are confident despite the fact this will be their fourth game in eight days.
A boost for the Tynesiders is the news that Steve Salvin and Wayne Phillips, who both missed the game at Buxton, return to a full-strength squad.
After claiming 19 points from their last seven games, Newcastle Blue Star are confident they will attract the biggest crowd of the season for today’s UniBond League Division One North game against FC United of Manchester. The visitors are challenging for a play-off place and have by far the best home attendance record. They regularly take more than 1,000 fans to away games and Blue Star are looking for a crowd in excess of 1,500.
Director of football Bob Morton said: “It should be a cracking match. We played really well holding another of the promotion candidates Bradford Park Avenue to a draw on Thursday night and Manchester need the points to be in the promotion shake-up.”
Manchester, unbeaten for several months, will prove tough opponents.
But the Tynesiders are confident despite the fact this will be their fourth game in eight days.
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