Emley have had many tough battles against teams from the North-east over the years and the two matches in the Trophy first qualifying round in 1977 were no exception. The previous Saturday Emley had travelled to Tyneside to meet North Shields and led 1-0 from a...
Emley and Hallam have a long history of rivalry stretching back into the 1970s when both were in the Yorkshire League. In the 1976-77 season the clubs met in a fourth round Yorkshire League Cup tie at the Welfare Ground as Emley went for a league and cup double. The...
In 1976 Stocksbridge Works visited Emley in the Yorkshire League Cup as a Yorkshire League Division 3 side. They were a long way from the Stocksbridge Park steels side we see today riding high in the Northern Premier League Eastern Division. Emley were the Division...
Following the demise of the FA Amateur Cup in 1974 and its replacement by the Vase, Emley’s previous success meant they were placed in the much tougher competition – the FA Trophy, which included the best semi-professional sides in the country. In their first season...
Emley and Yorkshire Amateur enjoyed a number of close battles in Emley’s first few years of Yorkshire League membership. But, in 1974 the teams met twice near the end of the season with the results critical to Emley’s chances of winning the league title. The first...
After their incredible success in the Amateur Cup in their first two seasons – reaching the last 16 on both occasions, Emley had struggled to build on that success with defeats at Spennymoor and Sutton Coldfield in the following years. In the 1971-72 season however...