Forthcoming Events

23rd April – Racing at Sandown Park, followed by a night out in Esher (but probably not The Bear after last year)

18th or 25th July – Michael Brown Memorial Cup Match at Weston Green Sports Club, featuring special guest appearance by Richard Westney

3rd September – Broomfield Start of Season Dinner

New Decade, New Broomfiled

After seven months of, er, not very much, the Broomfield blog is back in business. To celebrate the relaunch of the website (which was nominated in four categories at the 2009 Broomfield Website Awards), players old, new and some who never played for us gathered at the Prince of Wales in Hampton Court to compare drugs, milk formula, surgical stockings and pacemakers.

Early fears that Richard Condon would seek revenge for Cab's vicious assault on his brother Dominic at The Cricketers in the late '80s were quickly dispelled when Richard failed to recognise him due to the lack of any hair or a bumfluff moustache.

Lord Flagshorts failed to bring Luke with him (no surprise) and also failed to put 200 quid behind the bar (even more no surprise). He was also forced to walk to the pub after generously giving his driver the night off.

The new Youth Team continued to impress by getting drunk, nipping round the corner for a 'smoke' and then getting thrown out. This is in addition to Lloyd Harle's six-week suspension back in November for calling a referee a cunt. A fine prospect.

There was very little violence, except a few scuffles between Andy, Nigel and Richard as to who was going to buy the next round.

The evening rounded off with the traditional sighting of Spike in The Albion and some nutritional sustenance from Sam's Kebabs.

In attendance were:

Jason Amendt, Simon Bowell, Richard Condon, Nicko Coode, Phil Culshaw, Andy Gardner, Nigel Gardner, Lloyd Harle, Nich Hills, David Preston, Howard Pryce, Jon Pryce, Tom Pryce, Stuart Ramsey, Jim Reynolds, Phil Stephenson, Will Stephenson, his mate George (we'll sign him once we know what his surname is) and Mark Webster.

Apologies for non-attendance were received from Steve Adams, Richard Kane, Rob Matthews, Glenn Moore, Dave Palmer and possibly Jock.

New Addition

Congratulations to Howard and Kate for this new addition to the youth team, Isabella Jennifer Rose Pryce, who was born just before Christmas. And before anyone says she can't play for Broomfield, I will remind you that we've had plenty of old women play for us in the past. H has taken to the role of fatherhood like a duck to treacle and now spends much of his time popping round the corner to buy nappies (roughly translated as spending the evening in the Surbiton Flyer with Bert, drinking gay lager and watching Arsenal not win).

Broomfield Wags No. 72

Janet and Sarah Wheeler are pictured quaffing the champagne presented to brother Tim at the Memorial Cup game back in June.

The bubbly was given to Tim in recognition of him scoring thirteen goals and being sent off three times in the same game. An even more remarkable achievement considering he had a broken leg and was on holiday in Majorca at the time.

A bottle was also sent to Nick Wing.