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CARLTON TO LAUNCH LADIES 5 A SIDE LEAGUE

SPRING START FOR NEW VENTURE

Carlton Town tournament Chief Mark Steggles has announced the club will be launching a ladies 5 a side league on Wednesday evenings.

“With the Carlton Cup only playing on a Sunday this year, the pitches will be free on Wednesday nights so once the winter bookings have dropped off, I will be looking to get something up and running” Steggles told us.

“The plan will be to play the games from 6pm onwards, thus an earlier start than the men’s leagues but with an earlier finish.”

Games will last 40 minutes and be charged at £25 per team per game.

Anyone interested can contact Jenny on 07967204972 or email us at info@carltontownfc.co.uk.

CARLTON TOWN V KIDSGROVE OFF

Carlton Town has failed today a morning pitch inspection and the game v Kidsgrove has been postponed.

CARLTON CUP ANNOUNCED

REVAMP FOR WORLD CUP YEAR!

Due to the World Cup, the Carlton Cup will be restricted to 10 teams this year and be played on Sundays only and teams will play 2 games on the day they are competing.

Games will be played on Sunday 24^th May, Sunday 6^th June, 13^th June and 20^th June with finals day taking place on either Sunday 27^th June or Sunday 4^th July.

The 7 aside games will last 40 minutes (20 minutes each way) with the cost per game being only £25 (£50 for 2 games equating to £5 per man if squad of 10 per Sunday competing)

This year’s competition will see two groups of 5 drawn with the top 2 from each group going through to finals day.

Cost of teams for finals day will be £25 per team.

Current holders MSR Newsgroup have confirmed they will be defending their trophy and teams wishing to enter are advised to apply quickly to avoid disappointment

Email info@carltontownfc.co.uk

CARLTON CONFIRM WORLD CUP DINNER

Englands 1990 world cup center half Marrk Wright will be the guest speaker at Carlton's pre world cup dinner in May.

The former Liverpool,England and Derby County centre half played a key part in England reaching the Semi Finals in 1990 before finally going down on penaltys to West Germany with Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle missing their spot kicks.

"The famous picture of Gazza in tears after getting booked,sticks in the memory of most football fans and Carlton are delighted to have secured one of the players who played a key part in that campaign" chairman Mick Garton told the club's website.

The dinner will be at the clubhouse sportsbar on Thursday May 13th with tickets priced at £50.00 including a 3 course meal (members and supporters club £40) standing tickets will also be allocated at only £20.00 (food not included).

NEW CLUB BADGES AVAILABLE NOW!

VICE CHAIRMAN EXCLUSIVE!

Carlton Town vice chairman Chuck Fowler has launched the new club "shield" badge which will sell along side the existing badge in the club shop.

"I'm delighted with the new shield badge' said the club's vice chairman

'It has cost a little more to buy than the original badge due to set up costs but we will keep it at the same price at £3.00.'

It's new for 2010 and hopefully supporters will come and see me at the clubshop during our home games and purchase and wear with pride

Its also a fine collectors item and I'm sure ground hoppers and various away supporters will be looking to get their hands on one."

SKY TV LEGEND AT STOKE LANE

CHRIS KAMARA CONFIRMED

Sky TV legendary presenter and reporter Chris Kamara has been confirmed as the club’s next guest speaker.

The former Bradford City manager and excitable “Soccer Saturday” reporter who also hosts the popular “Goals on Sunday show” will be speaking at the clubs first sporting dinner of 2010.

The dinner will take place in the Carlton Town clubhouse Sports Bar on Thursday 18^th March and will include a 3 course meal.

Tables of 10 are available at £500 or £400 for supporters club and members with individual tickets priced at £50 and £40.

Club chairman Mick Garton told the website “we are delighted to have secured one of the most charismatic characters on television for our 1^st event of 2010.

We weren’t planning on doing another event till the end of the season but the current cold spell has badly dented our cash flow and means we will fall short on budgets.

Players and invoices still need paying but the income has dried up completely. We have had no 5 a side, no bar takings, no pitch lets and no gate receipts for a prolonged period but it’s no good complaining about it, we have to get off our back sides and try and sell some tickets to cover the shortfall.

I would hope everybody at the club will get behind this evening and support it. The fact we have Chris Kamara should obviously help” said the Carlton Town chairman.

CARLTON TO HOLD SPECIAL WORLD CUP EVENTS!

Free food for England’s first game

Carlton Town have announced they will be holding special events in the summer to coincide with England’s fixtures in the competition.

England’s first fixture is on Saturday 12^th June and Carlton will be putting on a free BBQ for everyone who attends the clubhouse sports bar to watch the fixture.

The club is planning on improving it’s viewing screens in preparation for the competition and the chairman Mick Garton has already met with manager Tommy Brookbanks and some of his coaching staff for a brainstorming session on ways they can use the world cup to benefit the football club.

The second game on Friday 18^th June is set to be a discount beer night.

Full details will follow in due course but it promises to be an exciting summer at Stoke Lane.

BURNS THRILLS THE CARLTON FAITHFUL!

Carlton's annual christmas luncheon went down a treat with this years special guest Kenny Burns on fire form.

Chairman Mick Garton and first team manager Tommy Brookbanks jointly compared the event and the club raised close on a thousand pounds from their fund raising events on the day,add the profit from ticket sales and it has come as a vital boost to the club with invoices to pay over the festive season.

Kenny Burns was on fine form and told many great stories from his days with the late Brian Clough.He also took questions from the guests and had supporters and sponsers alike howling with laughter with some great answers.

It was the club's 3rd speakers event of the year following Dean Saunders last season and former Australian cricketer Dean Jones in the summer and it is believed the club will hold 3 similar events in 2010 as part of their overall budget.We will have details here first on this website when the next event is announced.

CONTRACT FOR BARCHERINI

KEEPER REWARDED FOR PERFORMANCES!

Carlton keeper Ali Barcherini has been rewarded for his fine form this season with a contract.

Barcherini follows the footsteps of Anthony Griffith who also signed a contract recently, chairman Mick Garton explained.

"We have a limited budget but a couple of cup wins have made it possible for us to be in a position to reward our young keeper and hopefully increase our chances of a successful season."

"He has been in superb form and the manager has made a recommendation which we have accepted."

CARLTON'S 5 FOR BILL

Former Carlton chairman and president Bill Stokeld's family were in the crowd to witness a 5 star display from Carlton as they defeated Leek 5-2 in a thrilling contest.

It was 5 years sice Bill passed away after being rushed to hospital from the ground this very same weekend and it was fitting that Carlton scored 5 goals to mark the loss of the club's collusus.

Trist Whitman was Carlton's star with a brace and a man of the match display while Martin Ball also had a stormer.Gent and Breach were also prominent in a first class display against a Leek team who had only lost once in the league this season.Gent,Ball and Jenkins from the spot were Carlton's other scorers while Johnson very early and Cope very late got Leek's goals.Karl Slack made his debut for Carlton coming on as a 2nd half subsitute for Steve Chaplin.Bill would have been proud!

CARLTON SUPPORT BOOTS FOR AFRICA

Carlton Town in line with other Unibond clubs are suppoting the boots for Africa campaign and have now set up a collection point in the clubhouse soprtsbar.

"Bar manager Jenny is co-ordinating with the club's coaches,managers and players and maybe the odd supporter who could play a bit to collect boots in and the support of everyone at the club would be much appreciated" chairman Mick Garton told this website.

"We all have a pair somewhere that is still half decent so lets get behind this very worthwhile campaign and give it our support."

"Jenny is going to help and co-ordinate this on behalf of the club for the Unibond league from the clubhouse and im sure she will be on everybody's case in the coming weeks to ensure we reach our target of 50 pairs of boots" concluded the Carlton Town chairman.

CONTRACT FOR CARLTON YOUNGSTER

Young Carlton wide man Anthony Griffiths has been handed a contract by the club after some excellant early season performances which has attracted interest from several other clubs.

Manager Tommy Brookbanks revealed "we have been in talks with Anthony about a contract for several weeks and he finally put pen to paper last week to bring speculation about his future to an end for now."

"We have ambitions ourselves and don't want to lose our best players but at the same time i believe Anthony can go on and play at the very highest level." said the Carlton Town manager.

CARLTON NAMED UNIBOND TEAM OF THE MONTH

UNBEATEN START ACKNOWLEDGED BY LEAGUE CHIEFS!

3 Wins, 2 draws and a win in the FA Cup have seen Carlton Town crowned Unibond South team of the month for August by Unibond League chiefs.

Carlton are set to be presented the award prior to their midweek game against Brigg at Stoke Lane on Tuesday 15^th September.

The prize is made up of 6 bottles of Pol Roger champagne and a certificate.

Chairman Mick Garton admitted they had made a decent start following their play off disappointment last season.

“The manager and his coaching staff continue to impress against the odds and credit must go to the players and particularly the new ones who have settled in well and helped get us off to a decent start.”

FC Halifax picked up the Northern League award while Kendal Town clinched the Premier Division club of the month.

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