Colne Dynamoes 1-2 Emley – FA Vase 2nd Round
Having reached the final the previous season, Emley got a bye to the second round of the competition and of course fate decreed that their opponents would be the team that beat them in that final – Colne Dynamoes. The game was played at the home of Colne against a...
Emley at Wembley
By 1986 Gerry Quinn had a talented set of players who were pushing for promotion from the Northern Counties East league towards the Northern Premier League. But Emley were also aiming to progress in the FA Vase which held out the reward of a trip to Wembley Stadium...
Emley 2 North Ferriby 2 – Northern Counties East Premier Division
1987-88 was a famous year in Emley’s history which is mainly remembered for the FA Vase run that took the club to the final at Wembley where they narrowly lost to Colne Dynamoes in extra-time. What tends to be forgotten is that Emley also won the Northern Counties...
Colne Dynamoes 1-0 Emley – FA Vase Final at Wembley
In the Spring of 1988 Emley had battled their way through to the FA Vase semi-finals. They played the first leg at Bashley in the New Forest in Hampshire. A Steve Codd goal gave Emley a 1-1 draw to bring back to Emley the following Saturday. There in a howling...
Emley 1-6 Huddersfield Town – Pre-season Friendly
We take floodlights for granted these days in the non-league pyramid, but prior to 1981 the Welfare Ground did not have them. The Yorkshire League at that time did not require them, but that meant the number of games its teams could play was limited by daylight hours...
Emley 0-0 Barton Town – Yorkshire League Division 1
The 1981 season saw Emley battling Leeds Ashley Road for the Yorkshire League title, but they became victims of their own success when a punishing run of games at the end of April and start of May saw the Club fall at the final hurdle in the League and the League...
Emley 2-1 Frickley Athletic – Sheffield Senior Cup Final
The 1980-81 season saw Emley chasing three trophies much the same as this season. They were still in the Yorkshire League Cup and aiming to retain the Yorkshire League Division One title. Coincidentally Winterton Rangers and North Ferriby were also in that race,...
Emley 3-3 Maltby Main – Yorkshire League Division 1
Emley first played Maltby in 1975, but it wasn’t until the 1981 season that the two teams were in the same division again. The two teams met at Maltby on the first day of the season where Emley ground out a 1-0 victory with a goal from Dave Cook. The return match at...
Emley dominate the Yorkshire League – the 1970s
This decade saw Emley build on the wonderful Amateur Cup success and a golden generation of local players such as Mick Pamment, Dennis Brookes, Stuart Greaves, Melvyn Matley, Ian Kettlewell and Roger Wood. Emley had finished runners-up in Division 2 in 1970 but much...
Emley 3-2 Winterton Rangers – Yorkshire League Division 1
Forty-three years ago Emley were riding high in the Yorkshire League, aiming to regain the title from rivals Winterton who had snatched it from the Pewits. Emley had won at Winterton earlier in the season and it seemed that they were not as strong as they had been...