Everyone at Emley was saddened to hear of the passing of Dennis Brookes on Sunday 18th September. Dennis was a legend of Emley’s first great team in non-league football and was still visiting the Fantastic Media Welfare Ground up to a couple of seasons ago along with...
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 and Winterton have a rivalry that dates back to the 1970’s when the two clubs went head-to-head over several seasons, competing for the Yorkshire League Division One title. They met at Emley early in the 1977-78 season with Winterton as the current Yorkshire...
Forty-six years ago, almost to the day, Emley met Thackley in the fore-runner to the Northern Counties East League Cup, the Yorkshire League Cup, with a semi-final place at stake. On that occasion Emley were lucky to progress despite dominating large parts of the...
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...
Emley first met Maltby Main in a league game in a Christmas fixture in 1975. Maltby had just been promoted into Division One and Emley were flying high with real hopes of winning the title. The match was incident packed, with no less than four penalties be ing...
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 could not have had a tougher start in their second season in the FA Cup when they drew Northern Premier League Macclesfield Town in the First Qualifying Round. Macclesfield were rebuilding at the time, having won the FA Trophy in 1970 they had brought several...