Note:The story starts on my second season with Harrogate,after winning promotion and championship in BSN on the last match of the season
BREAKING NEWS!
Harrogate Town wins promotion to the Blue Square Premiere on the last match of the season!
Harrogate Town wins promotion to the Blue Square Premiere on the last match of the season!
After a dramatic season full of excitement and a tremendous run in the second leg of the league,Harrogate won a much earned promotion to Blue Square Premiere.Both the board and the fans have expressed their delight to the greek manager Marios Mpofilakis,for achieving this greate feat(Harrogate was bidded to lie mid table this season).The manager and the players will now take a long restand prepare themselves for the next season.
A WORD ABOUT THE MANAGER:
30 years old manager Marios Mpofilakis was born in Greece on the August of 1980.He enjoyed a football carreer as a sunday league player at Renty Soccer Club,before retiring at the age of 27.Having just got his licence,Marios stood up and took the challenge of managing Harrogate.In his one season at the club,the team won 33 out of their 50 games(64% of the games)while drawing 7 games and losing 10.The team scored an astounding 132 goals and conceeded 54.Marios is said to be delighted at the club and awaiting a new contract
HARROGATE THE HISTORY
The demand for a first class 'Association' Town team had been growing for a number of years as the last century dawned. In fact, as far back as 1907/08 a club was registered under the name of 'The Harrogate Town Club', but got no further. In 1914 a club was formed as Harrogate AFC which secured admission to the Northern League for the 1914/15 campaign and were to play their home games at the County Ground behind the County Hotel (now the Mujib Restaurant). However, due to the Great War all games were postponed before fixtures could take place. Harrogate should have been playing at Bishop Auckland on Saturday 5 September, but sent a telegram two hours before kick off stating they would not be arriving as most of the team had joined the Regiments.
After the war a meeting was held at the Imperial Café (now Betty's) on Monday 19 May 1919 to consider the formation of an Association Football Club for Harrogate. All interested were invited by Mr Robert Ackrill Breare who ran the local paper The Harrogate Herald, and later became club Secretary. Eventually Harrogate AFC was formed for the 1919/20 season to play in the West Riding League. The first competitive game was at the Starbeck Lane Ground on Saturday 30 August 1919 against Horsforth with a 3.30pm kick off. In those days it was 5d (2p) into the ground and 1/3d (7p) in the stand. The result was a 1-0 victory for Harrogate and the scorer was L Craven with a header. They played in the English Cup (now FA Cup) that season and won the Whitworth Cup (the senior local cup) 4-0 against Ripon City, the first ever trophy won by the new Harrogate AFC 'Senior Town Team'. They also played a friendly against Leeds City in their last season of league football.
P.S.Hope you like it.this is my first story ever
The demand for a first class 'Association' Town team had been growing for a number of years as the last century dawned. In fact, as far back as 1907/08 a club was registered under the name of 'The Harrogate Town Club', but got no further. In 1914 a club was formed as Harrogate AFC which secured admission to the Northern League for the 1914/15 campaign and were to play their home games at the County Ground behind the County Hotel (now the Mujib Restaurant). However, due to the Great War all games were postponed before fixtures could take place. Harrogate should have been playing at Bishop Auckland on Saturday 5 September, but sent a telegram two hours before kick off stating they would not be arriving as most of the team had joined the Regiments.
After the war a meeting was held at the Imperial Café (now Betty's) on Monday 19 May 1919 to consider the formation of an Association Football Club for Harrogate. All interested were invited by Mr Robert Ackrill Breare who ran the local paper The Harrogate Herald, and later became club Secretary. Eventually Harrogate AFC was formed for the 1919/20 season to play in the West Riding League. The first competitive game was at the Starbeck Lane Ground on Saturday 30 August 1919 against Horsforth with a 3.30pm kick off. In those days it was 5d (2p) into the ground and 1/3d (7p) in the stand. The result was a 1-0 victory for Harrogate and the scorer was L Craven with a header. They played in the English Cup (now FA Cup) that season and won the Whitworth Cup (the senior local cup) 4-0 against Ripon City, the first ever trophy won by the new Harrogate AFC 'Senior Town Team'. They also played a friendly against Leeds City in their last season of league football.
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P.S.Hope you like it.this is my first story ever
