A Merry Christmas and hopefully a Happy New year to you all.
SEASON 2020/21.
TEAMS ARE ADVISED TO ENTER THE J,W,HUNT CUP COMPETITION,
ALTHOUGH DUE TO A DECISION BY THE BIRMINGHAM COUNTY FA, THAT THEY ARE NOT SANCTIONING OUTSIDE COMPETITIONS.ALSO THEY ARE NOT RUNNING THEIR OWN COUNTY COMPETITIONS.
THE COUNTY FA WILL BE REVIEWING THE SITUATION REGULARY. THEY SAID ONCE TEAMS HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH THEIR LEAGUE FIXTURES IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO START
THE HUNT CUP EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR, POSSIBLE REDUCING DOWN TO 16 TEAMS SO WE AT LEAST HAVE A COMPETITION AND RAISE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS FOR OUR LOCAL BLIND--ALEX HAMIL MBE. JW Hunt Cup President.
NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING.
TO BE ARRANGED.
FUND RAISING.
As the County FA are not sanctioning at present our competition we have decided as a fund raiser
to run an Easter raffle with books of ten tickets being distributed to Committee Members and Supporters of the JW Hunt Cup.
Can you help by selling the Raffle tickets which have
been sponsored by Bilston & Willenhall Lions Club through Stuart Richmond.
DON BURLINGHAM
Don long time
supporter of the JW Hunt Cup and ex Final Referee has posted the following article on our FACEBOOK page.
I refereed the Hunt Cup final in 1958 and have the dubious
experience of being the oldest Final referee I enjoyed the experience and the friends made in Wolverhampton before leaving for 1 year in Hereford and line of the Southern League and then in April 1960 being posted to Cyprus ,As the football season in 1960
was almost at an end I only refereed a few RAF Unit games However at the beginning of Season 60/61 the Cyprus Football Association approached the Services with a request for assistance in refereeing their 1st Division games as their Cypriot referees had gone
on strike -have we any Class 1 referees who can assist ,The Cypriots needed 6 referees and 12 assistants every weekend, The Combined Services found they could call on 7 or 8 Class 1 officials and several Class 2 and 3 for Linesmen duties so the services agreed
to give it a try firstly on the pre -season friendly matches and then on the league matches ,As it was I was the only service referee to have limited experience on senior football and then only as a Linesman.So it was my first match was Apoel Nicosia v Benfica
my second Omonia v Dynamo Moscow and my third Moscow Spartan .The matches were all very friendly and easy to handle so it was that I ended up between then and September 62 refereeing 16 1st Division league and cup matches and in June 62 Anorthosis Famagusta
v Olympiakos Nicosia intheCup Final The Cyprus FA were kind enough to write to the English FA about my performance and I was promoted to the Referees list of the Southern League This happened because of my experience in refereeing in the Hunt Cup The Works
League,Amateur League and the help given me by Mr Norman Wixon, Mr Arthur David and the Wolverhampton Referees Association
GILBERT PREECE BEM.
Congratulations to JW Hunt Cup Vice President and ex Referee Gilbert "Gilly" Preece who has been awarded the
British Empire Medal "BEM" in the Queen's New Year Honour's.
Gilly has for many years been involved with Darlaston Town Football Club as well as involvement
in the town with other organisations in a voluntary capacity.
Well done, well deserved Gilly.
JW HUNT CUP ROOM.
Members of the JW Hunt Cup Committee were in attendance at the Beacon Centre today (31/10/19) for the opening of the JW Hunt Cup Room. This was to commemorate the
efforts of the JW Hunt Cup Committee in fund raising for the Centre since 1926.
Photographs at bottom of page.
| | 2019-20 Round One. | | | | |
| 1 |
Sporting Khalsa | 8 | v | 1 | Dudley Town att 92 |
| 2 | Brocton | 1 | v | 3 | Tividale att 56 |
| 3 |
Darlaston Town | 3 | v | 2 | Walsall Swifts |
| 4 | Boldmere St Michaels | 3 |
v | 0 | AFC Bentley att 64 |
| 5 | Atherstone Town | 2 | v | 0 | Willenhall Town att 122 |
| 6 | Old Wulfrunians wn 4-2 on pens | 0 | v |
0 | Paget Rangers att 20 |
| 7 | Wednesfield | 1 | v | 0 |
Highgate United |
| 8 | Lane Head United | 0 | v | 1 | Warstones Wanderers |
| 9 | Heath Hayes 6-5 on pens. | 3 | v | 3 | Continental Star att 66 |
| 10 | FC Darlaston | 0 | v | 1 | AFC Wulfrunians |
| 11 | Wolves Sport Comm 3-1 pen | 2 | v | 2 | Alvechurch |
| 12 | Sikh
Hunters | 3 | v | 1 | Wellington Amateurs |
| 13 | Rushall Olympic | 13 |
v | 0 | Hawkins Sports |
| 14 | Wrens Nest United | 4 | v | 3 |
AFC Bridgnorth |
| 15 | Lichfield City | 7 | v | 0 | Dudley Sports |
| 16 | Bustleholme | 2 | v | 3 | Coleshill Town |
| 2019/20 Round Two | | | | |
| Boldmere St Mich | 11 | v | 0 | Warstones
Wanderers |
| Coleshill | 6 | v | 0 | Darlaston Town |
| AFC
Wulfrunians | 4 | v | 0 | Heath Hayes att64 |
| Wolves Sporting Comm | 0 | v | 3 | Rushall Olympic |
| Sporting
Khalsa | | v | | Wednesfield |
| Wrens Nest Utd | |
v | | Old Wulfs |
| Atherstone Town | 0 | v | 1 |
Lichfield City |
| Sikh Hunters | 0 | v | 1 | Tividale |
OFFICERS 2019/20.
Chairman; Billy
Owen.
Vice Chairman; Pete Darby.
Secretary; Alan Ryder.
Assistant Secretary; Kevin Hyde.
Joint Referee Appointments Secretary; Brian Rowley and Adrian Hall.
Treasurer; Tony Duncombe.
2018/19 REPORT.
The 93rd JW HUNT CUP FINAL was held at the Molineux on Monday 13th May 2019.
SPORTING KHALSA beat HIGHGATE UNITED 4-1 in a fine game of attacking football on a beautiful evening.
The
Referee for the final was Andy Ellis son of Wilf Ellis who refereed the JW Hunt Cup Final in 1983.They follow Bill Castle in 1961 and Steve Castle in 2008 as the only other father and son pair to Referee the JW Hunt Cup Final.
FINAL REPORT by Steve Gordos ( JW Hunt Cup Vice President.)
Sporting Khalsa won the JW Hunt Cup for the second time in four years thanks to an emphatic 4-1 win over Highgate United in the final at Molineux.
From the start Khalsa called the tune, prompted by man-of-the-match Liam Armstrong, yet the opening goal did not come until the 29th minute when the lively Mensah Kinch cut in from the right to drill home a low shot.
Striker Jay Holdcroft blazed over a good chance soon after half-time but quickly made amends when his low shot made it 2-0 on 49 minutes.
Holdcroft
paved the way for the third goal three minutes later when keeper Brad Catlow blocked his shot only for Mykel Beckley to slot home the rebound.
Highgate’s chances of a recovery were hit when they were reduced to ten, referee Andy Ellis giving
a straight red to McCauley Manning for his tackle on Carlo Franco.
Yet Highate got a lifeline seven minutes from time in this battle of Midland League premier sides when Lei Brown
scored from the spot after being brought down by keeper Sam Arnold.
Trying to reduce the gap two minutes into time added on, Highgate sent Catlow up for a corner but the keeper was left stranded as the ball was cleared and could not get back to
his goal before sub Alex Perry rolled the ball into an empty net.
JW HUNT CUP 2018/19
Round One.
| Bilston Town | 5 | v |
2 | Alvechurch | | Att |
| Bustleholme
| 2 | v | 2 | Rushall Oly U21 | RO
5-4 pens | |
| Sporting Khalsa | 10 | v | 1 | Wrens Nest Utd | | 76
|
| Wednesfield | 1 | v | 1 |
FC Darlaston | Dar 5-4pens | |
| Brocton
| 4 | v | 1 | Paget Rangers |
| 41 |
| Atherstone Town | 1 | v |
0 | Prees FC | WALK OVER | |
| Darlaston Town | 3 | v | 2 |
Warstones Wanderers | | |
| Tividale |
3 | v | 2 | Lye Town | |
|
| AFC Wulfrunians | 8 | v | 2 | Sikh Hunters | | 73 |
|
Lichfield City | 6 | v | 1 | Willenhall
Town | | 47 |
| Heath Hayes | 1
| v | 0 | Lane Head | |
|
| Wellington Amateurs | 0 | v | 0 |
Wolves Sporting | Well Am 5-3 pens | |
| Old
Wulfrunians | 1 | v | 1 | Black Ctry Rang | Old
Wulfs 8-7 pens | 65 |
| Byes; | | | | | | |
| AFC Bridgnorth | | | | | | |
| Highgate Utd | | | | | | |
| Hawkins
Sports. | | | | | | |
| | |
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| | | |
| Round Two | | |
| Brocton | 5 | v | 4 | Heath Hayes | | |
| Wellington Amts | 4 | v | 2 |
Rushall Olympic U21 | Wed 13 Feb | |
| Old Wulfs
| 0 | v | 0 | Highgate Utd |
Highgate 7-6 on pens | |
| Bilston Town | 2 | v | 4 | Darlaston Town | | 100
|
| Sporting Khalsa | 2 | v | 0 | Lichfield City | | 45 |
| AFC Bridgnorth |
2 | v | 2 | Atherstone Town | Atherstone
4-1 pens. | |
| AFC Wulfrunians | 7 | v
| 1 | FC Darlaston | | 60 |
| Tividale | 5 | v | 2 | Hawkins
Sports | | |
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| Round Three | | |
| Sporting Khalsa | 1 | v | 1 | AFC Wulfrunians | Khalsa 5-4 pens. | |
| Wellington Amateurs
| 0 | v | 1 | Highgate |
| |
| Tividale | 3 |
v | 2 | Brocton | | 60
|
| Atherstone Town | 1 | v | 0 |
Darlaston Town | | 125 |
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SEMI FINALS.
1.
Atherston Town 0v 0 Highgate United.Att 80.
Highgate won 4-3 after penalties.
2.Sporting Khalsa 2v1 Tividale.Att 200.
93rd JW HUNT CUP FINAL 2018/19.
HIghgate United 1v4 Sporting Khalsa.
7.30pm Monday 13th May 2019.att 600.
To be played at Molineux, Wolverhampton. Courtesy of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.