Mick Pamment was without doubt one of the best players in Emley’s history, our record goal scorer, but he was also an important person in the development of the Club through the seventies, eighties and into the nineties. Mick was born in Huddersfield in 1945 and made...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...