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2006 Conference National Play-off Final
The 2005–06 Conference National Playoff Final took place on 20 May 2006 and was contested between Halifax Town and Hereford United. It was held at the Walkers Stadium Leicester for the first time, the previous Playoff Finals having been held at the Britannia Stadium, Stoke. The result promoted Hereford to League Two while Halifax had to remain in the Conference. Over 18,000 spectators attended the match, of which approximately 10,000 were Hereford fans."Hereford United 3–2 Halifax Town"
''The Guardian''. London. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
The match was televised live by and then made available on DVD ...
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2005–06 Football Conference
The 2005–06 season was the 27th season of the Football Conference. Overview This season saw the return of Accrington Stanley (albeit as a reformed club) and Hereford United to the Football League. Accrington replaced Oxford United, who had replaced them when they resigned from the League in 1962. Northwich Victoria, Stafford Rangers and Weymouth returned to the Conference National, the latter for the first time since 1989, whilst St Albans City won promotion to the fifth tier for the first time. As with the previous season, Grays Athletic were the winners of the FA Trophy. Conference National A total of 22 teams contested the division, including 17 sides from last season, two relegated from the Football League Two, two promoted from the Conference North and one promoted from the Conference South. Promotion and relegation Teams promoted from 2004–05 Conference North * Southport * Altrincham Teams promoted from 2004–05 Conference South * Grays Athletic Teams releg ...
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Lewis Killeen
Lewis Keith Killeen (born 23 September 1982 in Peterborough) is a retired ex English professional footballer who has over 400 career appearances to his name at clubs including Sheffield United, Halifax Town and Crawley Town. Career Killeen signed for Sheffield United as a trainee on 1 August 1999. He made his debut against Walsall in front of a crowd of 20,000 in April 2002. In November 2002 he was loaned out to Halifax Town for three months where he scored 6 goals in 14 appearances. After a successful loan period he was granted a release from Bramall Lane and signed for Halifax Town in June 2003 where he remained for five years amounting over 200 appearances and scoring 44 times. He will be remembered for scoring a 25-yard screamer in the 3-2 extra time play off final loss to Hereford in 2006. In May 2008, it was announced that Killeen had signed for Conference National outfit Crawley Town. The player remained at Crawley Town Crawley Town Football Club is a professional as ...
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Dean Whitestone
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Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in: * the Canary Islands * Portugal (including Madeira but not the Azores) * the Faroe Islands The following countries also use the same time zone for their daylight saving time but use a different title: *United Kingdom, which uses British Summer Time (BST) *Ireland, which uses Irish Standard Time (IST) ( (ACÉ)). Also sometimes erroneously referred to as "Irish Summer Time" (). The scheme runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October each year. At both the start and end of the schemes, clock changes take place at 01:00 UTC+00:00. During the winter, Western European Time (WET, GMT+0 or UTC±00:00) is used. The start and end dates of the scheme are asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours: the vernal time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before ...
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Wayne Brown (footballer, Born January 1977)
Wayne Larry Brown (born 14 January 1977) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeping coach at Oxford United. Career Born in Southampton, former bricklayer Brown made a switch from Bashley to Bristol City for £40,000 in December 1992. Between 1993 and 1996 he made only 24 appearances for the Robins due to a number of injuries. Although only one of these was for the first team, a 4–1 win over Peterborough on 8 May 1994, he was awarded Man of the Match. After a brief spell with Weston-super-Mare he joined Chester City in September 1996, initially as cover for Ronnie Sinclair (who had an elbow injury and needed surgery) and then in direct competition with Neil Cutler. In a ten-season stint with the club he made 289 appearances, becoming first-choice keeper in the 1999–2000 season, the first of two seasons in which he did not miss a league match. While at Chester he made seven appearances for the England National Game ...
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Ryan Green
Ryan Green (born 20 October 1980) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a Defender. He earned two international caps for Wales in 1998, breaking Ryan Giggs's record as their youngest player, a record which has since been surpassed. Club career Wolverhampton Wanderers Green began his career as a trainee with Wolverhampton Wanderers turning professional in October 1997. Despite already being a full international, manager Mark McGhee kept him in the reserves. His successor Colin Lee needed a replacement for defender Kevin Muscat on 10 November 1998 and gave Green his debut in a 2–1 First Division victory against Sheffield United at Molineux. He was praised by local newspaper ''Express & Star'' for his performance, and was given an ovation when he was substituted due to injury. During his recuperation, Muscat recovered and regained his place in the team. Green handed in a transfer request in January 2000, when he was not chosen for an FA Cup game against Sheffield Wednesday, an ...
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Stuart Fleetwood
Stuart Keith Wakley Fleetwood (born 23 April 1986) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for Cinderford Town. Early life Fleetwood was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire."Bulls offer Stuart a way back"
''''. Retrieved 27 November 2007
As a youngster Fleetwood was a talented fly-half and was part of the team tha ...
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Graham Turner
Graham John Turner (born 5 October 1947) is an English former footballer who became a manager. His son Mark was also a professional footballer. He is third behind only Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger in terms of most games managed. After a 19-year career as a central defender in the lower divisions, he became manager of Shrewsbury Town. After winning the Third Division, he oversaw five seasons in the Second Division before being appointed manager of Aston Villa. With little success in two years, he was sacked and went to Wolves whom he took from the Fourth Division to the Second Division, winning the Football League Trophy along the way. He left in 1994 and had a year out of football before his arrival at Hereford United. A run to the Division Three play-offs was a false dawn, and a year later the Bulls were relegated to the Conference. Having initially resigned, Turner ended up buying the majority shareholding and becoming chairman in 1998. Five financially troubled seaso ...
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Chris Wilder
Christopher John Wilder (born 23 September 1967) is an English professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as a right-back. He was most recently the manager of club Middlesbrough F.C., Middlesbrough. His extensive professional playing career saw spells at Sheffield United (twice), Rotherham United F.C., Rotherham United, Notts County F.C., Notts County, Bradford City A.F.C., Bradford City, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion and Halifax Town A.F.C., Halifax Town. He also had loan spells at five clubs. After retiring, he became a manager and was in charge of Alfreton Town F.C., Alfreton Town, Halifax Town (their last manager before liquidation), Oxford United F.C., Oxford United and Northampton Town F.C., Northampton Town before his appointment at Sheffield United. He won promotion from the Conference Premier with Oxford via the play-offs in 2010, from EFL League Two, League Two as champions with No ...
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Simon Travis
Simon Travis (born 22 March 1977) is an English former professional footballer. He played on both the right and left sides in a full-back or midfield role, and was capped by the England C national football team under Paul Fairclough. Career Travis started his career in the Football League with a season at Division Three side Torquay United. He then spent two seasons in Division One at Stockport. After leaving Stockport he spent a total of seven seasons in the Conference with Telford United, Forest Green Rovers and Stevenage, combining football with his studies at university. He joined Hereford in February 2004. His signing coincided with the beginning of an 11-game unbeaten run in the Conference although the team missed out on promotion. The following season he was a regular at full-back and scored on the first day of the season. However the summer of 2005 was not a good time for Travis. Hereford went out of the playoffs in the semi-finals and then sustained a serious injury w ...
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Andy Ferrell
Andrew Eric Ferrell (born 9 January 1984) is an English footballer. He played in League Two for Hereford United during the 2006–07 season. Career Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Ferrell began his career as a trainee in the youth system at hometown club Newcastle United, before signing a professional contract on 5 December 2002. He was released at the end of the 2003–04 season without making an appearance for the first team although he had impressed for the reserve team, scoring 11 goals in 21 starts. He signed a one-year contract with Watford on 7 July 2004, where he made two appearances in the League Cup in the 2004–05 season, scoring the winning goal in the first round against Cambridge United. He made no other appearances for Watford and left the club at the end of the season when his contract was not renewed. After trials at Darlington, Forest Green Rovers and Hereford United, Ferrell signed for Conference National outfit Hereford on 9 August 2005. I ...
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Guy Ipoua
Guy Ipoua (born 14 January 1976) is a former Cameroonian footballer who played as a striker. He previously played for a string of British and Continental clubs. His elder brother, Samuel, represented Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup. Career Born in Douala, Cameroon, Ipoua moved to Strasbourg, France, at the age of four. His early football career is unclear but he joined AS Nancy in 1992, and had a spell at Torino where his brother was also on loan from Inter Milan, for six months. He was also on the books of Atlético Madrid, at the time the reigning La Liga champions and cup holders. He has also played for Sevilla, Alicante, Écija Balompié and Novelda. In the summer of 1998, he spent three weeks on trial at Crystal Palace, but failed to secure a contract. He spent a season at Bristol Rovers where he scored 3 goals in 24 league games, before being released the following summer. A trial at Torquay United followed trial in July 1999, but he again failed to secure a contract. He su ...
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