FA Vase Second Qualifying Round Sholing v United Services Portsmouth Friday 2nd October 7:45pm kick off £4 for Saints season ticket holders (show card at turnstile) £5 Adults £3 Over 65's £3 Students (show student card) £2 U16's U12's FREE (with fee paying adult) Bar & Hot Food available. Plenty of Free Parking Silverlake Arena (VT Sportsground), Portsmouth Road, Sholing, Southampton, SO19 9PW please log in to view this image
Cheers, I think i'll pop along to this one, love to see any Pompey team get beaten! Sholing are doing ok now after a dodgy start, do you reckon they as good as the team that won it two years ago?
That team from 2 years ago had mostly been together for 3 or 4 seasons & had some experienced non league players. There are 6 players from that team still playing for us, so its still a strong core with some promising younger players added. But it's always a lottery to win a cup competition, its impossible to "target it" as some would suggest. I imagine Hereford will be favourites, plus Salisbury and the Northern League clubs are always very strong.
Indeed. Someone remind me why Sholing FC are called The Boatmen..? Is it a connection with Vospers Thornycroft.?
You've got it TSS, they were renamed after VT closed I think...I follow them because My Dad and Brothers worked there and it is the nearest Club to where I grew up after moving to the area from Devon.
I was born in Newton Abbott hospital, but lived just down the road in a picturesque little seaside town called Teignmouth. My father was a Boatbuilder by trade and was forced to look for work elsewhere when I was 7 years old. I've had many cheap holidays over the years, staying with relatives , and Torbay is just a short journey from Teignmouth. Teignmouth's claim to fame is that Muse originate from there and Norman Wisdom's film, Press For Time was filmed in the town.
The one near the front?, Cantonese House I think it's called, my Dad grew up a stone's throw from there.
That's the one. I had a few days in a B&B on the front a few years back and that was the best place to eat in walking distance. It seemed to be staffed by several generations of the same Cantonese family who had been teleported into South Devon. The food was superb as I recall.
Sorry not to have followed up my enquiry, SA. Newton Abbott eh.? The funny thing is that I've never been back to that area until just last year, although I really like the place. It tends to come second to Cornwall though, so it never got a visit, just keeping it to the south on my way west. Apart from one other time - I have a wee story to tell... I used to go to Wimpson Junior School in Southampton [when it was a great school and still existed - now torn down and replaced by a green housing estate] and played for every football side from Year 2 onwards. During that time we did a few tours [we were actually pretty good, winning the schools league occasionally or coming 2nd]. One of the tours was to Newton Abbott and I can remember taking the train with my school mates. The train got down to Dawlish and Teignmouth before coming inland to Newton Abbott, so I got that famous view from the rail carriage. We played 3 games against local schools and won them all, IIRC [I said we were pretty good]. We were there for a week, all told, and were looked after by families in the area. The people who took me in were very kind indeed, but I was homesick half the time. After all, I was about 9/10, but it was character building. I went from parochial Southampton kid to quite the little adventurer in a week. Respect to your boatbuilder father. That's a skill. I shall have a view of Norman.
