Match Reports

Tuesday 9th March 2010
Ryman Football League Div 1 Nth
Romford FC  3 Concord Rangers 2

After 20 minutes some poor defending by Concord allowed
Romford's Kurt Smith to give them the lead.

Concord went two nil down when Romford's substitute
Toran Sengayore scored after Concord's Keeper Dale Brightly
had made two good saves but could not keep out the third effort.

Concord's Steve King pulled a goal back on the hour and then
Romford had James Gammons sent off after 64 minutes for a
foul on Michael Begg who had to be taken off with the injury
sustained in the high challenge by Gammons.

Romford went 3 - 1 in front after Dale Brightly brought down
Kurt Smith in the area, Smith got up and struck home the
penalty.

Concord made it an exciting finish when Joao Carlos who had
come on for Liam Hopkins earlier in the half scored Concord's
second but they could not add to the score.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Liam Hopkins 3 Danny Glozier
4 Lee Williams 5 John Easterford 6 Steve King 7 Ashley Miller
8 Paul Shave 9 Kayan Kalipha 10 Danny Heale 11 Dave Collins
12 Joao Carlos 14 Michael Begg 15 Leon Fisher. Subs not used
Danny Scopes and Jack Buckfield.
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Saturday 6th March 2010
Ryman Football League Div 1 Nth
Tilbury FC 1   Concord Rangers   1

We turned up at Tilbury FC and the pitch resembled a ploughed
field where the Tilbury Chairman had run the tractor across the pitch
and created tractor marks and mud divots to about 80% of the
playing surface and making it impossible to play any quality football.

In the 23rd minute Paul Shave who had recently transfered from
Tilbury ran through the Tilbury defence and played a good ball to
Kayan Kalipha who received the ball swivelled and placed a good
shot round Andy Hall in the Tilbury Goal to put Concord one nil up.

After 63 minutes the Referee Neil Baker gave Tilbury a corner when
clearly it should have been a goalkick as the ball was headed out by
Tilbury's Glen Golby and from the corner the ball fell to Paul Shave
who tried to clear but the ball hit Concord's Liam Hopkins and bounced
of his leg into the net for an own goal for Tilbury's equaliser.

It was a disappointing afternoon as the Concord lads worked very hard
on the terrible pitch but were not able to produce the football that has been acheived lately.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier 4 Paul Shave
5 John Easterford 6 Steve King 7 Michael Begg 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Kayan Kalipha 10 Danny Heale 11 Dave Collins 12 Liam Hopkins
15 Lee Williams 16 Joao Carlos. Subs not used Taylor Sinfield
and Jack Buckfield.
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Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Ryman Football League Div 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 5 Lowestoft Town 0

A first half hat-trick from Concord's Dave Collins sent Lowestoft
to their first away defeat of the season. Collins scored his first ever
hat-trick at senior level with his goals coming in the 2nd, 31st and
35th minute.

Concord playing some great football against a Lowestoft side who
have been favourites to win the league almost since the season
started.

After losing to Lowestoft 5 - 0 way back in August it was sweet
revenge as Concord hit home two more goals through Paul Shave
and Lyle Taylor to go level on points at the top of the League with Lowestoft.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier 4 Paul Shave
5 John Easterford 6 Steve King 7 Michael Begg 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Dave Collins 14 Liam Hopkins
15 Joao Carlos 16 Kayan Kalipha Subs not used: Taylor Sinfield
and Jack Buckfield.
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Saturday 27th February 2010
Ryman Football League Div 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 2   Brentwood Town 0

In an evenly matched first half Concord finally got the breakthrough
in the 38th Minute when Michael Begg hit the ball over his head and
Paul Shave making his debut ran through to head his first goal for the club.

Just after half time Lyle Taylor latched onto a ball eight yards out and
fired home for Concords 2nd goal.

In the 75th minute Concords, Dave Collins was unfortunate to be sent off when it looked like he accidently caught a Brentwood player with his arm when clearing, Referee Adam Crysell sent him off for elbowing the Brentwood player after consuting his assistant Anthony Pope.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier 4 Paul Shave
5 John Easterford 6 Steve King 7 Michael Begg 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Dave Collins 14 Liam Hopkins
15 Kayan Kalipha 16 Joao Carlos Subs not used: Taylor Sinfield
and Jack Buckfield
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Saturday 20th February 2010
Ryman Football League Div 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 3 Thamesmead Town 1

Both teams were on 57points going into this game and placed
2nd and 3rd in the League, Concord went in front with a brilliantly
taken effort by Lyle Taylor when he fired in a great shot in the 36th
minute, the shot flew into the top left hand corner of the net giving
Steve Northwood in the Thamesmead goal no chance.

Thamesmead came out in the second half fired up and they soon
scored when Andy Constable picked up a through ball and rounded
Dale Brightly Concords Keeper to score the equaliser.

Skipper Nicky Cowley coming back into Concords side after missing
two matches with flu scored the second goal for Concord after 52 minutes tapping home at the far post.

In the 59th minute the Referee, Jake Hillier who had an excellent game
gave Concord a penalty for a trip on Danny Heale, Danny Glozier hit
home the penalty to score Concords third.

Lyle Taylor was sent off in the 65th minute when the Referee judged
the tackle by Lyle to be over the ball and into Junior Bakers shin and he
received a straight red card. Lyle will miss games against Tilbury, Romford and Enfield Town.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier 4 Lee Williams
5 John Easterford 6 Taylor Sinfield 7 Liam Hopkins 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11. Joao Carlos 12 Michael Begg
14 Kayan Kalipha Subs not used: Leon Fisher and Jack Buckfield.

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Monday 15th February 2010
Ryman Football League Div1 Nth
Ilford FC 1   Concord Rangers 2

Concord had four key players missing for this important game,
Nick Skelton, John Easterford and Danny Glozier were all injured
and Skipper Nicky Cowley was suffering from flu and unable to play.

In the 8th minute Concord took the lead when Dave Collins placed
a perfect free kick onto the head of Steve King who headed down
to Kayan Kalipha who fired home an excellent shot from 18 yards
out .

Just on the brink of half time the referee, Peter Georgiou gave a
Ilford a free kick which few people at the game could not understand
why and from the kick Ilford's Anthony Trice headed home the equaliser.

On a pitch which was not ideal for good football Concord struggled to
find any consistency on the night and due to the conditions it was one
of Concords worst performances of the season but when all thought it was going to be a draw and two minutes into added time, Lee Williams fired home the winner for Concord to take them into 2nd spot in the League.

Undoubtedly the hero on the night was Steve King who battled on
for over an hour with a nasty leg injury.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Dave Collins 4 Lee Williams
5 Steve King 6 Taylor Sinfield 7 Michael Begg  8 Liam Hopkins
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Kayan Kalipha 12 Leon Fisher
14 Joao Carlos 15 Danny Scopes Sub not used: Grant Morris _______________________________________________________
Saturday 13th February 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Leyton FC 0   Concord Rangers 4

Concord lost Nick Skelton in the 23rd minute when he limped off
with a knee injury, lets hope it is not to serious as we have some
important games coming up in the next few weeks.

After a foul in the Leyton penalty area on Lyle Taylor, Danny Glozier
stepped up and fired home an excellent penalty kick to put Concord
1 - 0 up.

Leyton had their big centre forward, Lheureux Menga sent off for foul
and abusive language on his debut just before half time.

Concord won another penalty in the 68th minute after a foul on Danny Heale, Danny Glozier fired home his second penalty of the game.

Kayan Kalipha came off the subs bench to score two wll taken goals
in the 72nd and 87th minute.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly   2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier 4 Steve King
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Liam Hopkins 8 Taylor Sinfield
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Joao Carlos 12 Michael Begg
14 Leon Fisher 15 Kayan Kalipha. Subs not used: Jack Buckfield
Danny Scopes.
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Tuesday 9th February 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 2   Maldon Town 0

Playing against a good hard working Maldon Team it took
a long time for Concord to break down their defence, it was not
until the 80th minute that Lyle Taylor played a short sharp ball
inside the six yard box to Kayan Kalipha who had replaced
Joao Carlos to fire home.

Concord's second was a well judged header by Steve King from
Man of the Match, Lyle Taylor's corner. Concord have now gone
into 2nd spot in the League.

Team:  1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller   3 Danny Glozier   4 Steve King
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Leon Fisher   8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Joao Carlos   12 Liam Hopkins
14 Kayan Kalipha 15 Taylor Sinfield.
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Saturday 6th February 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 2   Potters Bar Town 1

Playing Potters Bar twice in four days worked well for Concord
against a good Potters Bar team with Concord winning both games.
Concord have now moved up to 4th in the League. Concords
goals came from Lyle Taylor and Leon Fisher.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller   3 Danny Glozier
4 Dave Collins5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton   7 Joao Carlos
8 Nicky Cowley 9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale   11 Tony Boot
12 Taylor Sinfield 15 Michael Begg 16 Leon Fisher
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Thursday 4th February 2010
Ryman League Cup 3rd Round
Concord Rangers 2   Billericay Town 0

Both Teams put out squad sides which included players on the
fringe of their first teams plus quite a few youth team players.
Concords goals came from new signing Leon Fisher and an
own goal.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly   2 Grant Morris   3 Danny Scopes
4 Lee Williams 5 Taylor Sinfield   6 Paul Kear   7 Jamie Salmon
8 Alfred Kamara 9 Michael Begg   10 Dan Barrington
11 Leon Fisher   12 Ben Britnell   14 Max Kent   15 Elliot Wells
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Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Potters Bar Town 0 Concord Rangers 2

Goals by Ashley Miller and Nick Skelton saw Concord
to victory and keep us in contention for a play-off place.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly   2 Ashley Miller 3 Danny Glozier
4 Lee Williams 5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Joao Carlos
8 Nicky Cowley 9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Dave Collins
12 Taylor Sinfield 14 Michael Begg 15 Paul Kear    _______________________________________________________
Tuesday 26th January 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Ware FC 0 Concord Rangers 3

On a very cold evening and playing on a frosty pitch
Concord notched up a fine win against an ever improving
Ware side.

Ware had their No 10 Ryan Wade sent off after a foul against
Concords Man of the Match John Easterford as early as the
15th minute.

Concord scored their first goal in the 51st minute when
Steve King rose to head in from a Dave Collins free kick.

Ashley Miller scored his first goal for Concord when he run
onto beat Ware's offside trap and took his goal in splendid
fashion when he blasted the ball into the net for Concord's
second.

Lyle Taylor scored a strange third goal when a Ware defender tried
to clear but the ball hit Lyles boot and found it's way into the
Ware net. This win put Concord back into a play-off position.
Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Dave Collins 4 Nicky Cowley
5 John Easterford 6 Steve King 7 Michael Begg 8 Lee Williams
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Liam Hopkins 12 Taylor Sinfield
15 Kayan Kalipha 16 Paul Kear. Subs not used: Clydie Roberts and
Jack Buckfield.
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Saturday 23rd January 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 1 Northwood FC 4

Concord hit the bar twice in the first 15 minutes but
gave one of their worst performances of the season
for the rest of the game.

Northwood opened the scoring two minutes before
half time when Leon Osei hit a stunning shot which flew
into the top right corner of the net leaving Dale Brightly
in the Concord goal no chance.

There was further Northwood goals in the second half
from John Christian, Scott Orphanou and a penalty from
Aaron Cato before Lyle Taylor scored a consolation goal
in the 82nd minute.
Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Liam Hopkins 3 Dave Collins
4 Steve King 5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton
7 Michael Begg 8 Nicky Cowley 9 Kayan Kalipha
10 Danny Heale 11 Lyle Taylor 12 Lee Williams
15 Clydie Roberts 16 Ashley Miller. Subs not used:
Taylor Sinfield and Jack Buckfield.
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Tuesday 19th January 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Brentwood Town 2   Concord Rangers 2

For the first fifteen minutes Concord played very well and
took the lead in the 7th minute through Lyle Taylor when
he latched onto a headed flick on by Danny Heale.

Taylor Sinfield came off the subs bench as early as the
15th minute when Sam Taylor injured his knee making a
tackle and it took a while for Concord to settle after this,
during this time Brentwood equalised in the 34th minute
from a Darren Blewitt header.

13 minutes into the second half Steve King scored against
his former club when he rose to head home a Dave Collins
free kick to put Concord back in front.

Concord seemed to have secured the three points but
Brentwood scored in the 2nd minute of added time to share
the points.
Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Sam Taylor 3 Dave Collins
4 Steve King 5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton
7 Michael Begg 8 Nicky Cowley 9 Lyle Taylor
10 Danny Heale 11 Lee Williams 12 Taylor Sinfield
14 Kayan Kalipha 15 Clydie Roberts.
Subs not used: Jack Buckfield and Danny Scopes.
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Saturday 2nd January 2010
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Great Wakering Rovers 0   Concord Rangers 3

With two wins on consecutive Saturdays over Great Wakering
during the Christmas period Concord leapfrogged Wakering
in the League to get themselves into a play-off position.

It took Concord 29 minutes to score their first goal when Lyle Taylor took
a corner, the ball bobbled around the Wakering six yard box and
Michael Begg took advantage of the situation and fired home.

Michael Begg scored the second Concord goal when again following a
corner he fired in a left shot leaving Louis Godwin-Green no chance in the
Wakering goal.

In the 61st minute Steve King scored the third Concord goal, Dave Collins
sent in an inch perfect cross from the left which Steve King made no
mistake from just three yards out, this was Kings fourth goal in as many
games since joining Concord.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Dave Collins 4 Lee Williams
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Steve King (1) 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Michael Begg (2) 12 Liam Hopkins
15 Ross Wall 16 Kayan Kalipha. Subs not used: Sam Taylor and
Jack Buckfield.

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Saturday 26th December 2009
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 3    Great Wakering Rovers 1

In this Boxing Day fixture against Local rivals Great Wakering,
Concord were the better side for most of the match and after squandering
some chances early on, John Easterford headed home Concord's first
goal latching onto Dave Collins acurately placed corner in the 38th minute.

Just three minutes later Concord increased their lead when Ross Wall
fired home from eight yards to make it 2 - 0 going into the half time break.

In the 48th minute Wakering pulled a goal back when Neil Richmond sent in
a cross after collecting the ball from a poor Concord clearence for
Ben Hudson to tap home.

In the 74th minute Dave Collins sent in a great free kick for Steve King to
head home the third goal, this was Steve's third goal in three games,

Team: 1 Dale Brightly   2 Ashley Miller   3 Dave Collins   4 Lee Williams
5 John Easterford(1) 6 Nick Skelton   7 Michael Begg   8 Steve King(1)
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Ross Wall (1) 12 Liam Hopkins
14 Taylor Sinfield 16 Gary Ogilvie.
Subs not used: Sam Taylor and Jack Buckfield.    ___________________________________________________________
Tuesday 15th December 2009
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Thamesmead Town 2   Concord Rangers 1

Concord expected a tough game against Thamesmead Town lying 2nd in
the league and that is exactly how it turned out.

Thamesmead always looked dangerous on the break with front runners Constable and Cable looking liable to score once they approached
Concords 18 yard box, but it was Concord who was contributing
themselves to a good game of football who scored right on half time when
Steve King rose above all around him to head Dave Collins corner into the net.

Going into the second half Concord started to look the better side and could have gone further ahead but for a strange referee's decision to disallow
what looked a perfect goal by Kayan Kalipha making his return to Concord.
This was the turning point because shortly after Thamesmead scored the equaliser through Lea Dawson in the 70th minute.

With just a minute left on the watch a harmless looking cross went through
the Concord defenders and Ricky Cable left on his own at the far post only
had to tap the ball into the goal for Thamesmead's winner.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Ashley Miller 3 Dave Collins 4 Steve King (1)
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Liam Hopkins 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Kayan Kalipha 10 Danny Heale 11 Lyle Taylor 12 Michael Begg
15 Taylor Sinfield 16 Ross Wall Subs not used: Nikki Beale Jack Buckfield
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Saturday 12th December 2009
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Concord Rangers 3 Wingate & Finchley 2

Having lost recent signing Clydie Roberts in the warm up through a knee injury, another new signing Ashley Miller was drafted in and it was Ashley who set up Concord's first goal when he went round two Wingate defenders and then crossed for Michael Begg to score low into the corner of the net after 25 minutes.

Four minutes later Wingate's bustling front runner Leon Smith latched onto
a through pass and cooly shot past Concord keeper, Dale Brightly for the
equaliser.

Three minutes into the second half top scorer Lyle Taylor collected a pass outwide on the left and powered onto the edge of Wingate's box and
hammered a shot past Wingate keeper Gavin King to restore Concord's lead.

In the 71st minute Wingate were awarded a penalty after Concord defender
Nick Skelton had been judged to have brought down a Wingate forward by Referee Tom Ramsey, Wingate's No 4 Jordan Fowler stepped up and scored from the spot.

We all thought the game was heading for a draw when in the second minute
of added time, Taylor Sinfield who had come off the subs bench won an important tackle, the ball went to Lyle Taylor to cross to Michael Begg and
his headed pass went to Danny Heale to head home the winner.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Liam Hopkins 3 Sam Taylor 4 Ashley Miller
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton 7 Michael Begg (1) 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor (1) 10 Danny Heale (1) 11 Dave Collins 12 Ross Wall.
15 Taylor Sinfield. Subs not used: Nikki Beale Clydie Roberts and
Jack Buckfield.      ___________________________________________________________
Saturday 5th December 2009
Ryman Football League Division 1 Nth
Cheshunt FC 1   Concord Rangers 2

A hard fought victory for Concord against a Cheshunt side who played well
and who looked like they would pull off a win against us after Iain Salt had
scored for Cheshunt in the 59th minute.

Steve King making his debut for Concord equalised with a free kick in
the 78th minute and the odds were stacked against Concord when Skipper
Nicky Cowley was sent off for an offence when challenging Luke Dodd the Cheshunt Keeper which Referee Simon Leaf warranted a second yellow.

It was in added time that following a pinpoint Dave Collins free kick that
Nick Skelton managed to get his head to the ball and put in great header
to score the winning goal.

Team: 1 Dale Brightly 2 Steve King (1) 3 Dave Collins 4 Lee Williams
5 John Easterford 6 Nick Skelton (1) 7 Liam Hopkins 8 Nicky Cowley
9 Lyle Taylor 10 Danny Heale 11 Ross Wall 12 Michael Begg
15 Clydie Roberts. Subs not used: Jack Buckfield Nikki Beale and
Taylor Sinfield
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Tuesday 1st December 2009
Essex Senior Cup 4th Round
Concord Rangers 1   Maldon Town   2

After reaching the final last season it was disappointing for us to lose in our second game of the competition.

We gave a very simple goal away, which has become a bit of a habit lately,
James Abbo Maldon's number 8 took full advantage of a poor clearence
to score from 30 yards out and put Maldon 1 - 0 in front.

Although Concord hit the woodwork a few times during the game it was
Maldon who went further ahead when they scored a second goal in the
64th minute.

Lyle Taylor who had come off the bench to replace John Easterford scored
Concord's goal in the 81st minute. Concord went close in the final minutes
but could not get the all important equaliser to take the game into extra time.

Team: 1. Jack Buckfield 2. Kevin Watson 3. Dave Collins 4. Taylor Sinfield
5. Nikki Beale 6. Nick Skelton 7. Ashley - Paul Robinson
8. John Easterford 9. Michael Begg 10. Danny Heale 11. Danny Hayzelden
12. Lyle Taylor 14. Ross Wall 16. Lee Williams.
Subs not used: Dale Brightly and Sam Taylor

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