Keeper wanted

We are looking for a goalkeeper to play regularly for our Yellow Vets team on Sundays.  Must be aged 35 or over.  We play friendly matches every week throughout the season.

Please email mailbox@fobgfc.org for more information.

Weekend Round-up 14 / 15 December

The First XI went through to the quarter-finals of the Sevenoaks Charity Cup Senior Section with a 5-2 success at home to Kings Hill Reserves. New signing Chris Gottwalles grabbed a brace with the other three shared between Ben Hattley, Kalum Daini and Tucks James. Their reward is a home tie against either Five Oak Green or Horsmonden who both compete in Division One of the Sevenoaks League.

The Saturday Vets were also at home and beat Independent Vets Red 3-1 in a league game. Shaun Cross hit a double with Alex Barnes also on the scoresheet.

The Second XI had no game scheduled.

The Sunday XI were held to a rare goalless draw by FC Elmstead at Farrow Fields in a league game.

The Sunday Second XI and Under 14 Boys had no fixture, while both Vets sides had to cancel their matches through lack of players.

The Under 12s Mustangs defeated Glebe Youth Tigers 3-1 at Farrow Fields in the league to maintain their fine form. Daniel Gasson, Lenny Chapple and Oliver Pearce were on target.

The Under 9s Stallions were away to London Kickers Blue while the Under 8s Foals travelled to play Unity.

Last Man Standing game 4 ended!

Our Last Man Standing game 4 started and finished on the same weekend, with Saturday Vet Steve Bray picking up the prize by not going for Arsenal, Liverpool or Brighton!

We will be launching game 4 soon.  Watch out for the code!

Each week you pick a team to win in the Premier League; if they do win, you continue in the game and if they lose or draw you are eliminated.  This goes on until there is only one person "left standing" or all those remaining in the game are eliminated in the same set of fixtures.

Entry for each full game is £10, £8 of which goes into prize money and £2 goes to FOBG.

We have partnered with Betmate who will be administering the games at no charge.

Full details can be found on their website HERE (Survivor is their name for it), You can download their app HERE.

Paul Raggett joins our First XI management team

We are pleased to announce that Paul Raggett has teamed up with manager Luke Johnson and assistant Paul Eddleston to coach our Saturday First XI. Paul was in charge of our Colts side for the last few seasons and since that team broke up in the summer has been recharging his batteries. He welcomes this opportunity to work with our flagship Saturday XI and in turn Luke is pleased to be able to call on his abilities (and, in Luke's own words, Paul brings some hair to the management team!).

Good luck to Raggy in his new role.

Referees Course

In conjunction with the Kent Football Association, the Kent county football League are looking to run a course for new referees in the New Year for anyone over 18 year olds (16-18 year old maybe considered).

The cost of the course is £145.00, but the league will initially refund you £25.00. Once you have passed the course and officiated 5 games as referee and 5 games as an assistant referee on the Kent County League, you will be refunded a further £60.00.

If you are interested in taking up this opportunity please email Steve Kendall at
steve.kendall@kentcountyfootballleague.co.uk

A minimum of 10 candidates is required to make the course viable to run.

Under 9s and Under 12s match photos

CobraImages.com (Colin Brazier) has uploaded match photos from the Under 9s and Under 12s matches on Sunday 17 November.  You can view them HERE.

Nanny Smith's Deli

The club would like to thank local business Nanny Smith’s Deli for becoming the new supplier of the Vets food on a Saturday and Sunday, and we thank Saturday Vets manager Ben Tomkins for brokering the deal.

To date, Rose has supplied ‘Platters of Joy’ for the Vets home team and their opponents. And very well they have gone down indeed with compliments from all away teams every week, along with the Guild Vets players.

Nanny Smiths Deli are also Club sponsors, who proudly support our Under 12 Mustangs junior side.

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