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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:26:04+00:00

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can't quite help but my PMFL handbook for 1973-74 states that Leatherhead finished League runner-up during 1969-70. The following season they won their section - if that helps but then again you probably know that.
Incidentally, the handbook shows the final section tables for 1972-73 but does not give the play-off results!!
In the above, the columns represent P W D L F A Pts HW HD HL AW AD AL.
Up to & including 1973/4, 2 points were awarded for a home win, and 3 for an away win (a format tried in the early years of what is now the Conference). In 1974/5, this was changed to 3 points for a home win, 4 for an away win, and a bonus point for a win by 3 or more goals. It would appear that the 1973/4 play-offs were a bit of a fiasco, and what was a well-supported competition lost a lot of credibility.
I've always referred to the competition as the Premier Midweek Floodlit League, but I notice from a couple of scanned Handbooks that Roy has kindly sent me, that it appears to have been called the (slightly less grammatical) Premier Midweek Floodlight League.
1971/2 Play-Offs [1 Slough, 2 Walton, other section winners Leytonstone, Hayes], and F:A columns for Sections A, B & D.
1972/3 W/D/L columns for Sections A, B, D & E.
1973/4 - confirmation that no play-off games were played.
Of the last four seasons (1974/5, 75/6, 76/7, and what I believe was the last edition in 77/8), all I have is a solitary Section D table from 74/5.
Haven't got any tables from this competition and we're missing some results but this is what we know about Camberley's involvement if it helps any.
29/11/76 Hampton ? Camberley ?
The dates should all be correct but I'm in the process of correcting anything in our archive and I'm only up to 1965 at the moment.
Records are (10 matches) Home WDL, Away WDL Total F-A Pts.
The Handbook also mentions the Premier Spring Cup; a competition played from March onwards � no details other than competition rules.
Thanks everyone - greatly appreciated.
Are you able to summarise the rules for the Premier Spring Cup? Is there any indication as to the teams invited/permitted to enter?
sorry, don't hold that handbook anymore, but . . . I see Maidonian has one as he mentions it on the other PMFL thread.
Unfortunately I've only got the handbooks for 1969/70, 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons.
I know when I was double checking the accuracy of the league tables for the book I wrote on MUFC that the final table involving the club in 1974/75 season (Section A) was inaccurate with regards to gf-ga, but with the help of others I was able to produce a results grid and resolve the discrepancy. I've got all of the final group tables involving Maidenhead although we didn't enter in 1975/76 season and our sections in 1976/77 (A) and 1977/78 (C) were never completed by the deadline imposed by the competition, but I've got the tables as they were at that time. If anyone wants any of them, just get in touch.
Another snippet has come to light in that my recently acquired copy of the Leytonstone v Staines Town programme from the end of the 1976-7 season refers to them (a) winning their first trophy in 4 years, and (b) mentions that there are still some photo's available in the club shop of the skipper with the PMFL trophy. From this I deduce that Leytonstone were the competition winners that season. Regrettably, they only did a "teamsheet" when Staines visited the next season, so there's no honours list to check against.
No mention of this competition found for any other season.
24.10.72 v. Harlow H 2-0; 13.11.72 v. Daggers A 1-0; 23.01.73 v. Avenue H 1-0; 30.01.73 v. Cheshunt H 4-0; 06.02.73 v. Barnet A 3-1; 13.02.73 v. Cheshunt A 0-0; 06.03.73 v. Avenue A 1-2; 27.03.73 v. Harlow A 0-1; 19.04.73 v. Daggers H 2-1; 11.05.73 v. Barnet H 1-1.
The manager wrote: "We did have a chance to qualify for the final stages of the Floodlight competition, but missed out when we drew with Barnet 1-1 in May. We needed a 2-goal victory to secure a semi-final place. Due to fixture pile-up and other associated returns the committee decided not to compete in this league this season.
Has anyone got a correct final table for 1966/67 please, else I'm going to have to start trying to collect results and create a grid!
I did try to do a grid for this and in fact for all the other seasons, but didn't get very far!
(I'm also missing scorers for a number of other Staines games that season, if anyone can help).
Unfortunately this also disagrees with results to hand for Wimbledon and Leatherhead. I believe that I now have more final tables than there were clubs involved!
As just one of a thousand other things to do this has been on the back-burner, but I have just looked at how far I'd got and it appears that if the Finchley results could be confirmed then I could produce a complete grid, and thus a correct final table. Unfortunately the club themselves have been unable to help.

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