20 April 2013 - Scarborough Athletic v Retford United [Set Two]

People have asked us on numerous occasions, are NCOC Scarborough Athletic supporters? Due to there being a number of feature matches involving the club.  Although we have built up a friendship with people involved at the club from Chairman to avid supporters, we remain neutral in our support of any one team. Our aim is to provide some publicity to clubs, players, officials, volunteers and supporters at all clubs we visit.  What Scarborough Athletic have done is ask us to get involved with them, providing photographs.  This applies to any club we can help during the season, so, if you're reading this and support a club that may benefit from a feature on No Clash Of Colours, don't hesitate in contacting us. We will help as much as we possibly can. You can contact us at : fotografica137@gmail.com or leave a message in the InterAction Box at the side > .

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The second set of photographs from the Scarborough Athletic Promotion Party! If any "Seadogs", that's supporters  and players looking in recognise themselves or their friends/family, drop us a line at the email address in the contact panel. We'd love to hear from you and put names to faces.

Special Thanks to Dave Holland and all at Scarborough Athletic.

Click On Any Photograph To Open A Slideshow

"Thumbs Up from a 'Rudy Funk' "

Competition : Northern Counties East League - Premier Division
Result : Scarborough Athletic 2 Retford United 0
Attendance : 890

"The Bus Shelter" - Queensgate

Wayne - Bridlington Town FC

"The Man With A Table On His Head"

"Unsung Hero"

Wayne - Bridlington Town FC Volunteer

Caravan Holiday Home?

Only available during the football season!

"Away Directors In Front Of The Queensgate Press Box"

"Retford United"

"No Battle No Victory"

Scarborough Athletic - Merch Table

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Candid Portraits & Supporters

Rachel & Josh and Scarborough Athletic Video Cameraman, Ian Thomas.

Rachel, Josh and Sharon

"Billy Seadog"

"Programme Hut"

*Special Thanks to 'Billy Seadog' with Names to Faces"

"£1 A Strip"

"Flag Seller & Non League Dog"

"Programme Collector"

Ian Thomas

Scarborough Athletic - Matchday Video Cameraman

"Too Much To Take"

Bryan Gould 

Northern Counties East League : Secretary & Treasurer

"Seadogs" 

"Thumbs Up"

"Seadogs & The Mascots"

"Seadogs On The Attack - First Half"

Rudy Funk

"1-0"

"Seadogs" Celebrate Bryan Hughes Putting Scarborough Athletic 1-0 Up

"A Minute To Go"

"Scarborough Athletic"

Northern Counties East League 

Champions 2012 / 2013

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The final photographs from what was a momentous day in the history of this football club are those of the supporters. Without the supporters there is no club. Less than six years old, Scarborough Athletic have achieved two promotions from the Northern Counties East League, whilst pulling in healthy numbers, the prospect of moving back to their home town should see the club grow from strength to strength. From our experiences with the club, players, officials and supporters, we wish them all the very best and we hope that the relationship built up between "The Seadogs" and "No Clash Of Colours" will also flourish.

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The Supporters

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All Match Report Links Are On Set One

All Photography : ©fotografica137 / ©Scarborough Athletic FC

Website Links

Scarborough Athletic - Evo Stik Panel At The Side

Retford United - NCEL Panel At The Side

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Our final Scarborough Athletic feature of 2012/13 is from the final League game of the season at Glasshoughton Welfare which will follow shortly.

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My Hero - My Inspiration : Darren Norton

Our latest feature is written by Darren Norton. Father of three, a regular down at Grange Lane (North Ferriby United) and a Bridlington Town programme contributor. Married to Adele, in his spare time, Darren has worked for the Royal Mail for over twenty years. 

These are Darren's words ...

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BOOTHFERRY PARK

My first thought was that this would be a pretty daunting task, especially on the hero front. As I fast approach forty , I’ve watched football from every level , professional to pub league. Over that time I must have seen hundreds, probably thousands of players. A few names sprang to mind straight away. Dalglish, Platini, Rush, Baresi, Zico, Zidane, all played the beautiful game the beautiful way. Skill in abundance, they dominated their respective positions and era’s. Player’s like Butcher, Reid, Adams, Souness also came to mind but more for their influence and passion, a key ingredient in any sport. But the more I thought, the more my earlier influences came back to me. I grew up on the terraces of Boothferry Park, then home to Hull City, from the age of seven in 1980 and that’s where I discovered my first hero, flying winger Brian Marwood. 

BRIAN MARWOOD

Marwood graduated through the youth system in 1978 and made a total of 191 appearances for the Tigers before being sold to Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday in 1984. He would later move onto Arsenal, where he earned his first and only England cap. For five years the diminutive Geordie terrorised the old Third and Fourth Divisions with his pace and trickery, almost single-handed carrying the Tigers to promotion in his final season with them. As an impressionable kid, this crowd pleaser certainly caught my eye, so much so that despite playing right back for my junior teams I insisted on wearing his trademark "Number 7" shirt. The coincidence that we also played in amber and black was not lost on me either. For those ninety minutes on a Sunday morning, I was "Brian Marwood." 

As for inspiration, well I guess I’m in a fortunate position. As a kid growing up, I didn’t need encouraging to play football. I got my early football fix watching my brother and cousin play for a team that my Auntie founded. Flamborough Seabirds FC were a village team playing in the district league on a Saturday afternoon. My cousin, Tony Grand, was captain and centre half. As a player he was a fearsome sight, tall , long hair, with his two front teeth missing, a player that took no prisoners. Years later when I played open age football, I would like to think that he and I shared certain similarities. Not always the fastest or most skillful, we both made up for it in passion and endeavour. Today, he’s a family man in his mid fifties, but his name is still remembered in local non-league circles.

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Links

Darren Norton - #twitterfeed

Brian Marwood - Hull City FC