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Tiverton Town F.C.
Tiverton Town Football Club are an English football club based in Tiverton, Devon. The club are currently members of the and play at The Ian Moorcroft Stadium, previously known as Ladysmead. History The club was established in 1913 as Tiverton Athletic, and initially played at the Athletic Ground. They joined the East Devon League, winning the Senior Division in 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27 and 1927–28. They then joined the North Devon League, winning it in 1931–32, after which they transferred to the Exeter & District League, which they won in 1933–34. In 1951–52 the club won the league's Senior Division, and in 1956 won the Devon Senior Cup for the first time. They won the league again in 1964–65 and 1965–66, a season in which they also won the Senior Cup for a second time. In 1973 the club joined the Western League. They were relegated to Division One at the end of the 1980–81 season after finishing bottom of the league. After finishing as runners-up i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiverton, Devon
Tiverton ( ) is a town and civil parish in Devon, England, and the commercial and administrative centre of the Mid Devon district. The population in 2019 was 20,587. History Early history The town's name is conjectured to derive from "Twy-ford-ton" or "Twyverton", meaning "the town on two fords", and was historically referred to as "Twyford". The town stands at the confluence of the rivers River Exe, Exe and Lowman. Human occupation in the area dates back to the Stone Age, with many flint tools found in the area. An Iron Age hill fort, Cranmore Castle, stands at the top of Exeter Hill above the town, and a Roman Empire, Roman fort or marching camp was discovered on the hillside below Knightshayes Court near Bolham, Devon, Bolham, just to the north of the town. Tiverton formed part of the inheritance of Aethelweard (son of Alfred), Aethelweard, youngest son of King Alfred. Gytha of Wessex, Countess Gytha of Wessex controlled the town in 1066 and the Domesday Book indicates that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Curran (footballer Born September 1971)
Christopher Curran (born 17 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer. Curran was born in Birmingham and began his career as a trainee with Torquay United, making his debut during the 1989–90 season whilst still a trainee. He turned professional on 13 July 1990 and went on to make 152 appearances for the Gulls, scoring 4 goals. On 22 December 1995 he was, surprisingly, sold to local rivals Plymouth Argyle for £40,000, but failed to settle at Home Park, moving to Exeter City on 31 July 1997 for £20,000. This move made him one of only a handful of players to have played for all three of the Football League sides in Devon. He made an impressive start to his career at Exeter, but in September 1997 picked up a serious knee ligament injury which ruled him out for the remainder of the season. He returned to the side and a regular place in the team, so much so that he was one of only a handful of players not released or transfer listed by manager Noel Blake in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Villis
Matthew Villis (born 13 April 1984) is an English footballer who played for Taunton Town as a centre back, having previously played for Bridgwater Town, Plymouth Argyle, Torquay United, Weston-Super-Mare, Tiverton Town, Bideford and Yate Town Career Villis began his career as a junior with Bridgwater Town before signing as a trainee with Plymouth Argyle, turning professional in July 2003. He then joined Torquay United on a season-long loan deal in July 2004, making his league debut as an early substitute for Lee Canoville in a 4–2 defeat at home to Sheffield Wednesday. He went on to play 22 times that season as Torquay unsuccessfully battled against relegation from Division Two. He was released by Plymouth at the end of the season and joined Torquay on a free transfer in June 2005. Despite beginning the season as a regular squad member, he lost his place after Torquay's FA Cup draw against non-league Harrogate Town and was linked with a move to ambitious non-league si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Collis
Stephen Philip Collis (born 18 March 1981) is an English former professional footballer who is currently the goalkeeping coach at English League Two club Notts County. Club career Barnet & Nottingham Forest Collis began his career in the youth team at Watford before moving to Barnet and then signing for Nottingham Forest in 2000. Yeovil Town After failing to break into the first team at Nottingham Forest, Collis was invited down by Gary Johnson for a trial match at Yeovil Town and signed the same month on a free transfer. Collis went on to make over forty appearances for the South West outfit. During his stay at Yeovil, Collis spent short loan spells at Tiverton Town and Aldershot Town with failed talks also from Exeter City. Throughout his spell with Yeovil Collis acted as back-up to Chris Weale who was much in favour at the time. Southend After leaving Yeovil, Collis signed a two-year contract in 2006 to become Southend's first signing ahead of the new season in The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Canham
Sean Thomas Canham (born 26 September 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Gwelup Croatia. Career After an unsuccessful trial with Charlton Athletic, Canham signed for Notts County in early August 2008, for the start of the 2008–09 season. Canham made his debut for Notts County on 9 August 2008, in the 2–1 away defeat to Bradford City. On 1 September 2009, Canham went on loan to Hayes & Yeading United. After making only one substitute appearance for the Magpies during the 2009/10 season, it was announced that he had been released by Notts County along with 7 other players. Canham signed for Hereford United in July 2010 on a two-year deal. During the season he joined Kidderminster Harriers on loan in February 2011 for an initial one-month period after finding first team opportunities limited. This was later extended until the end of the season, but he was recalled to Hereford on 27 April 2011. Canham joined Bath City on loan for two months on 30 September 2011. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Buckle
Paul John Buckle (born 16 December 1970) is an English football manager and former player. He has previously been the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the manager of Torquay United, Bristol Rovers, Luton Town, Cheltenham Town and Sacramento Republic. An apprentice at Brentford, Buckle turned professional in 1989, was loaned to Wycombe Wanderers and then joined Torquay United, before moving to Exeter City. Due to Exeter's financial problems, Buckle left and joined Northampton Town, but failed to make their first team. In 1996 Buckle returned to Wycombe on non-contract terms, then moved to Colchester United. He returned to Exeter on a free transfer in 1999, signing a two-year contract. He then moved into non-League football with Aldershot Town and Weymouth, before returning to Exeter as player-coach in 2005, first under manager Alex Inglethorpe then his successor Paul Tisdale. He continued to play and later became the club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bryant (footballer)
Simon Christopher Bryant (born 22 November 1982) is an English former professional footballer, who spent five years (1999–2004) in The Football League with Bristol Rovers. Bryant began his career as a trainee with Bristol Rovers and after being promoted to the professional ranks at the club in 1999, he remained at the club as a player until 2004. During this spell he went on loan to Tiverton Town during the Christmas and new year period in 2003/2004. He signed for Mangotsfield United in the summer of 2008, but left the club after less than a month, citing work commitments, without having played a single competitive match. He joined Cadbury Heath Cadbury Heath is a residential suburb in South Gloucestershire, England. It is in Oldland parish in the eastern fringe of the Bristol Built-up Area, east of Bristol city centre, and borders the neighbourhoods of Longwell Green, Oldland Com ... in August that year. He moved to Oldland Abbotonians a year later, where he made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Book
Steven Kim Book (born 7 July 1969) is an English former professional football goalkeeper who is employed as the goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town. Book represented a number of clubs in the English football league system during a career which began in 1988 at Welton Rovers and concluded with a two-year stint as player-goalkeeping coach at Cheltenham Town between 2010 and 2012. He then retired from playing to focus on coaching at Cheltenham Town. Career Early career The son of former professional goalkeeper Kim Book and nephew of the former Manchester City manager Tony Book, Book began his career on the South-West non-league circuit with clubs such as Paulton Rovers, Welton Rovers, Frome Town and Weston-super-Mare. He moved on to Bath City and spent the initial part of the 1993–94 at Brighton without breaking into the first team though he did make a couple of appearances for Slough Town whilst on loan there. A change of management saw him return to the non-league scen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Benyon
Elliot Paul Benyon (born 29 August 1987) is an English footballer who plays for Hanwell Town as a striker. Career Benyon began his career as a trainee at Bristol City after being spotted playing local football in High Wycombe. Despite making no first team appearances for the club, impressive loan spells to National Conference sides St Albans City and Crawley Town in the 2006–07 season caught the eye of Paul Buckle, who signed Benyon in June 2007 to play for Torquay United, who had themselves just been relegated from the Football League. Despite struggling to gain a regular starting place in his first season with the Gulls, Benyon still managed a total of 22 appearances, scoring five times in the 2007–08 season and also made a second-half substitute appearance at Wembley in Torquay's 1–0 defeat to Ebbsfleet United in the 2008 FA Trophy final. Benyon found more regular places in the starting line-up for Torquay in the 2008–09 season, making a total of 36 league app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Banks (footballer)
Alan Banks (born 5 October 1938) is an English former professional footballer who played for Liverpool, Cambridge City, Exeter City Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third level of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ..., Plymouth Argyle and Poole Town. Banks began his career at Liverpool as an amateur, signing professionally in May 1958 and making his debut as a nineteen-year-old against Brighton and Hove Albion in September that year, scoring his first goal for the club in the same game. He failed to make the grade at Anfield, however, and moved to Cambridge City. Exeter City paid out a club record fee to obtain his transfer from Cambridge in November 1963. He went on to score 109 goals in 285 games for Exeter, across two spells. After a season at Poole Town and three years with Tiverton Town, Banks retired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwame Ampadu
Patrick Kwame Ampadu (born 20 December 1970) is an Irish football coach and former player who is an assistant coach for Columbus Crew under Wilfried Nancy. He previously was an assistant coach for Monaco. A midfielder, Ampadu featured for clubs Arsenal, Swansea City, Leyton Orient and Exeter City in his playing career. He also played for the Republic of Ireland U21 national team. Early life Ampadu was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, to an Irish mother and Ghanaian father. Ampadu subsequently moved with his parents to Dublin, Ireland, where he was raised. He undertook his primary and secondary education at O'Connell's School in Dublin where his schoolmates included future footballer Jeff Kenna. At a young age he took up the sport of hurling but thereafter found himself to be quite proficient at football as well. Playing career Ampadu first played in Irish youth football for Sherrard United and Belvedere before joining Arsenal in July 1988. His debut came i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
