The Albion FC

Harry Carlile : 2013/14 Albion Player of the Year

Goal of the Season

• Harry’s looping belter against Southbank – 2 Votes
• Jindy – It was the assist that made it though.
• Harry’s 30 yarder in the 4-3 win of Royal Lions – 2 Votes 

• Harrys on 1^st day of the season against St George – 3 Votes
• Harry scored a belter into the top corner from out of nothing.
• Players on the opposite pitch applauded during their half time.
• You can’t vote for yourself can you, but if you could I’d vote for the opening goal of the season against St.Georges at home, just saying.

        Winner: Marcus against Wynter – Winner – 5 Votes
            We were down 2-0 and he smacked a curving ball from outside the area into the far top right corner, just past the keeper’s outstretched fingers.

• Was the catalyst to get us going when nothing was going right!)
• Great link up play between 5 or 6 of us with a cracking finish from Marcus

 Match of the Season

Honourable Mention

• V Loco Wimbledon 3-0
• Maybe the best football we’ve ever played, albeit again lower league opposition.
• V AFC Putney 0-0 – 1 Vote
  
•  Old school agricultural Albion winning a two horse dogfight of attrition.V ADF Machico 2-0 – 1 Vote

Had everything that game.

• V Royal Lions 4-3 – 4 Votes
   Epic match, and showed massive character after  the few weeks before being battered in the cup by them and also in the league losing 3-2 from 2 goals up.
  We won 4-2 I think, we showed guts, fire and spirit and converted our chances
• Just really wanted to beat them after having lost twice.
• Because they were so not expecting it and we played consistently well

           Winner: V St. George’s 2-1 – Winner 7 Votes

• Win which included a blinding performance by Walter, multiple goal line clearances, and featured a full 90 minutes from yours truly in the Nick Milne role. Epic performance by the entire squad.
• I have to say that I enjoyed the St Georges game though… even if it was the third ground I’d visited that morning
• Match – St George away when Walter had that mad match
• Unbelievable Jeff!
• Best goalkeeping performance I’ve ever seen, quality strikes from Harry and I dogged performance throughout and an outrageous handball from Stew.
• St Georges was just a 1st class professional robbery of the highest order with the best goalkeeping I’ve ever lay witness to.

Kit Wash of the Season

• Suspended this year in honour of multiple winner, Don Thomas.

“Henri Leconte” of the Season

Soon to be renamed the “Will’s award”.

Honourable Mentions

• Don for forgetting the balls that time.
• Will’s mate who’d never kicked a football in his life (aka. Mike Bryant)
• Steve making dinner reservations for two during team talk.
• Walter cycling across the pitch late with 5 kit bags on his person.
• Ross walking off again and again – resulting in Duncan launching one of their players into orbit.
• Will Slater’s 2 consecutive no look headers, proof that they were both intentional.

          Joint 3^rd – 2 Votes

• Walter’s lateness and assurance he’d be on time the following week.
• Royal Lion’s manager, insisting on shaking everyone’s hand, that hat and generally being a grade A wanker.

         Joint 2nd – 3 Votes 

• Will asking for a knife after a game, ”Has anyone got a fucking knife?!”
• Will C and James both going to every other ground in the league apart from where we were playing Wynter.

         Winner – 4 Votes

• “The Will’s”- The Shin pad Fiasco!

 Player of the Season

Honourable Mention

Walter 2 Votes (8 honourable mentions!)

• There’s no award for it, but Walter deserves some sort of mention for his performance against St. George’s. I could live to a 150 and never see another Albion player be genuinely applauded back into the dressing room.
• Walter has been the difference between us holding out or getting belted… He’s also probably the best goalkeeper I’ve played with.
• The 22 year old half man half machine with hands as quick as a lizards tongue and kicks as unpredictable as a dry Clapham common centre circle it has to be WALTER. A keeper of the highest order.

Winner – Harry 8 Votes

• Top goalscorer in the league with 18 in 15.
• Scored some outrageous goals from impossible positions.
• Voted for in 3 of the “Goal of the Season”.
• Harry has been the difference between us scoring or not in important games by getting some great goals and… I’m going Harry. When we have him it changes how we play.
• Much better than his brother and brings his shin pads.