1986–87 England Hockey League Season
The 1986–87 English Hockey League season took place from September 1986 until May 1987. The season culminated in the National Inter League Championship for men which brought together the winners of their respective regions. The Men's championship was won by Slough The Men's Hockey Association Cup was won by Southgate and the Women's Cup (National Club Championship finals) was won by Ealing. Men's National Inter League Championship finals (Held at Prescot, Merseyside, May 2–3) Group A Group B Semi-finals & Final Slough Jon Clark (Paul Loudon ''sub''), Paul Barber, Kartar Davatwal, Manjit Flora, Kalli Saini, Ken Partington, Sutinder (Suti) Khehar (capt), Bhaji Flora, Chris Maskery, Sheikh Imtiaz (S Ali ''sub''), Steve Partington (R Charlesworth) Old Loughtonians C Greenwood, K Hansen (N Thompson ''sub''), M Donnelly, P Anderson, Chris Gladman, P Morris, S Ashton, Nick Thompson (M Hickling ''sub''), D Camilleri (capt), Julian Halls, J Barber Men's Cup (En- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Men's England Hockey League
The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organized by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of twelve teams. Below this is tier two, which consists of two ten-team Division One regional teams (North and South). The third tier consists of three regional conferences North, West, and East, all consisting of ten teams. The teams play each other home and away during an 18 week season from September to April. The league has a winter break between December and February. The winners of the Premier Division regular season automatically qualify to play in the Euro Hockey League. League Finals Weekend The top four Premier Division teams from the regular season qualify for the League Finals Weekend. The team that wins this tournament will be overall champions of the Men's England Hockey League and will qualify to play in the Euro Hockey League. I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neston Hockey Club
Neston Hockey Club is a field hockey club that is based at Parkgate in South Wirral, Cheshire. Founded in 1963 the team became National Champions of England in 1984. Major National honours * 1978–79 Men's Cup Runner-up * 1982–83 Men's Cup winners * 1983–84 Men's League champions * England Hockey Ladies Hockey Team of the Year 2014 Teams The club runs eight men's teams and five women's teams and the Mens 1s and Ladies 1s compete in the North Premier Hockey League, as of 2020/21 season. The Facilities The club also offers 12 tennis courts, two cricket pitches and three squash courts. Three function rooms each with its own bar, the club has a very busy events side to it, The Parkgate Clubhouse hosts weddings, conferences, parties and other events. International players *Bobby Crutchley Robert 'Bobby' Crutchley (born 24 May 1970 on the Wirral Peninsula) is a performance coach developer at British Gymnastics and former male English field hockey coach & player. Ho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1986 In English Sport
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1987 In English Sport
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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England Hockey League Seasons
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English lawâ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ipswich Hockey Club
Ipswich Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at the Ipswich Sports Club in Henley Road, Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ..., Suffolk with matchday fixtures held at Tuddenham Road. The club runs five women's teams, four men's teams and a number of junior teams. The women's first X1 play in the East Women's League and the men's first X1 play in the East Men's League The women's team has gained significant honours - * 1992-93 National League Champions * Seven times National League Runner-up * 1984-85 Cup Champions * 1995-96 Cup Champions * 2001-02 Cup Champions Notable players Women's internationals References {{reflist Field hockey clubs in England ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sean Kerly
Sean Robin Kerly (born 29 January 1960) is an English former field hockey player. Biography Kerly was born in Whitstable and was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate. He has played club hockey for Canterbury, Southgate and Herne Bay. In 1981, he made his England senior international debut. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he helped Great Britain secure the bronze medal. Kerly scored the winning goal in the bronze medal match in LA against Australia (3-2). The success is attributed as having revived interest in hockey in Britain. Two years later, at the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup, Britain won the silver medal on home ground in London, with Kerly scoring four goals in the tournament. After scoring a hat-trick against Pakistan in the 1987 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy and eight goals in one game during the 1987 European Club Cup he entered the 1988 Olympics as a well known name in Britain. In 1988, he was a member of the gold medal winning Great Brita ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stephen Batchelor (field Hockey)
Stephen James "Steve" Batchelor (born 22 June 1961) is an English former field hockey player. International career Batchelor was a gold medal winning Great Britain squad member in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, setting up Imran Sherwani in the final against West-Germany. Four years earlier he won Bronze at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He also won silver with the England squad at the 1986 Hockey World Cup. Batchelor played international hockey for twelve years before retiring after the 1992 Summer Olympics. Club career Batchelor has played club hockey for Southgate Hockey Club and East Grinstead. Personal life Batchelor was born in Beare Green, Surrey. He is head of admissions at Cranleigh School Cranleigh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. History It was opened on 29 September 1865 as a boys' school 'to provide a sound and plain education, on the principles o ..., and coaches the U14 b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Shaw (field Hockey)
John David Shaw (born 24 April 1962) is an English former field hockey player. Shaw represented Great Britain in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver medal with England at the 1986 World Cup. He also won an Olympic gold medal in Seoul. Shaw was born in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. He is working as a Hockey Coach at Bradfield College, and also coaches at Gerrards Cross Hockey Club. He has previously worked as a coach for Southgate Hockey Club Southgate Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at Southgate Hockey Centre in Trent Park, near Oakwood in London. The men's 1st XI play in the Men's England Hockey League. The club has 9 men's sides, 5 ladies' sides and a large junior sectio ... Men's 1st XI and for Oxford University Hockey Club. References External links * * 1962 births Living people Malaysian people of Indian descent British male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Richard Dodds
Richard David Allan Dodds OBE (born 23 February 1959) is an English former field hockey player. He was captain of the gold medal-winning Great Britain squad in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years earlier, he won Bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He also captained the England squad who won Silver at the 1986 Hockey World Cup. He was awarded the OBE for services to hockey. Dodds was born in the English city of York, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He currently works as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, England. Dodds has played club hockey for Reading and Southgate hockey clubs. He has played veterans hockey with Reading alongside other former Olympians Don Williams Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chigwell
Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is part of the urban and metropolitan area of London, and is adjacent to the northern boundary of Greater London. It is on the Central line of the London Underground. History Toponymy According to P. H. Reaney's ''Place-Names of Essex'' the name means 'Cicca's well', Cicca being an Anglo-Saxon personal name. In medieval sources the name appears with a variety of spellings including "Cinghe uuella" and Chikewelle". Folk etymology has sought to derive the name from a lost "king's well", supposed to have been to the south-east of the parish near the border of what is now the London Borough of Redbridge. There were several medicinal springs in Chigwell Row documented by Miller Christy in his book ''History of the mineral waters and medicinal springs of the county of Essex'', published in 1910. The 18th-century historian Nathaniel Salmon stated that the "-well" element in the name derives from A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Teddington Hockey Club
Teddington Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at Teddington School, Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The club is one of the oldest in the world after being formed in 1871; the club advertise that they are the oldest in the world but the claim is disputed by the Blackheath Hockey Club. Teddington runs a large number of teams including eight men's team and seven women's teams. The Men's first X1 play in the Men's England Hockey League Division One South. The men's team have been champions of England on one occasion (1994–95). National Honours The club has gained significant honours - * 1994-95 National League Champions * 1996-97 National League Runner-up * 1993-94 Cup winners * 1996-97 Cup winners Men's International players past and present * Ali Wilson - England & GB (Beijing 2008, London 2012) * Matt Daly - England & GB (Beijing 2008, London 2012) * Jason Laslett - England & GB (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996) *Calum Giles - England & GB ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |