Re: Please put us out of our misery Steve!

By swanstuff9/6/2020 23:58Tue Jun 9 23:58:00 2020In response to Please put us out of our misery Steve!

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As you wish.

The correct answer - which you got very close to in the end - is that this was a list of all the goalscorers in Staines Town's matches played in the Middlesex Charity Cup. The last time we played in that competition was 2005/6, going down 2-1aet at Bedfont, which is why no-one has scored in it since Robin Shroot on 10.1.2006. It's one of those competitions where we fielded a full 1st Team sometimes (hence some of the "big names", while at other times it was little more than a Reserve selection (hence clusters of players like Jamie Finnan, Glen Nunkoo, and the like, who didn't make that many 1st Team appearances).

By the way, I didn't include scorers in penalty shoot-outs in the list. There have only ever been three in that competition. We won 4-2 at Northwood in 2000, and lost by the same score at Hampton in 1994. However, the first and most famous of them was our penalty shoot out against Brook House (now AFC Hayes) in 1990. Peter Lara saved the first kick of the shoot out, but by the 3rd penalty it was level, and after five each they were the only two failures. So it was on to sudden death, and by the time it got to 9-9, all but one player had taken a kick. As both managers scraped their barrels, Brook House put up a young kid whose 16th birthday was still a week away, and he scored, then up stepped one of Staines' most experienced player - but one who got altitude sickness if he got within 10 yards of the halfway line - Kevin Fidler - and his spot kick was saved, for the visitors to run out 10-9 winners. Brook House played Chelsea in the next round, and The Blues would go on to sign that young kid, whose name was Neil Shipperley.

Apart from one at Merthyr Tydfil in the Russell Grant sponsored Merthyr Middlesex Charity Shield match that pre-season, it was Staines Town's first ever First Team penalty shoot-out, and the first at Wheatsheaf Lane. Oddly, although we won two cup finals on penalties, and the aforementioned Charity Cup tie with Northwood, we would lose all our next three to be held at home (vs Sutton in 2000, Witham in 2003, and Wingate & Finchley in 2004), and it was not until 2007 that we finally won at home - not once but twice. They were the FA Cup ties against Brackley Town and then Stockport County. I think it was worth the wait, don't you? Since then, we've been treated to one win and three defeats in home penalty shoot-outs.

Our 24 penalty shoot-outs have resulted in 11 wins and 13 losses, broken down as follows:

W - L Competition
2 - 1 FA Cup
0 - 1 FA Trophy
5 - 2 Middlesex Senior Cup
0 - 4 Isthmian League Cup / Bryco Cup / Alan Turvey Trophy / Velocity Trophy
1 - 1 Isthmian League Full Members' Cup / Carlsberg Cup
0 - 1 London Senior Cup
1 - 2 Middlesex Charity Cup
1 - 0 Middlesex Super Cup for the George Ruffell Shield
1 - 0 Merthyr-Middlesex Charity Shield
0 - 1 Saft-Nife Shield [Hampton FC Pre-Season Tournament]

All of which is completely irrelevant to the question!

Edited by swanstuff at 00:00:16 on 10th June 2020