Farnborough say they are "devastated" by the news that the Football Conference have rejected their plans to ground share with Kingstonian.

The club had planned to use the K's Kingsmeadow Stadium for the next three years while their new ground is built.

However, the Conference have ruled that the proposals cannot go ahead because the clubs are in different conurbations.

Chairman Graham Westley said: "If Telford can share with Worcester, we should be allowed to share here".

Saturday 1st December 2001, Kingstonian v Cirencester, FA Trophy 1st round, kick-off 3pm
Wednesday 5th December 2001, Kingston Academy v Cirencester, kick-off 2pm
Saturday 8th December, Kingstonian v Harrow Borough, Isthmian Premier League, kick-off 3pm
Sunday 9th December 2001, Wimbledon Ladies v Exeter, kick-off 1pm.

Home and Away Scarves now reduced to 3.99
Old K's Home Shirts with Cherry Red logo 10.00
Old K's Away Shirts (black and Blue stripes) with Emporium logo 10.00
Latest additions to our stock K's Mugs 4.00
Many other items at reduced prices

Please come and see Brian, Lesley and Nick in the Club Shop on match days.

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David Sadler won the Croydon man of the match with 33 votes.

Bashiru Alimi won the Hitchin man of the match with 22 votes.

Greg Ball won the Heybridge man of the match with 9 votes.

SURREY COMET SUPPORTS THE KS

Kingstonian Football Club today announced that the Surrey Comet has become the exclusive sponsor of the Ks new Family and Disabled Enclosures.

The sponsorship includes perimeter and enclosure branding in the ground, an advertisement in the Club programme and match sponsorships of two local derbies. The sponsorship will launch this weekend when the Ks entertain local rivals, Hampton & Richmond, the other match sponsorship will be, not surprisingly, Sutton on Boxing Day.

In addition, the Surrey Comet will be running competitions every month, starting this Saturday with Faces in the Crowd from the Family Enclosure. Ks season tickets and merchandise will be donated by Kingstonian FC as prizes for the two children featured in next weeks Comet.

To launch the sponsorship, Ks are also offering two free tickets this Saturday for any children under 16 (accompanied by a ticket paying Adult) to the Family Enclosure, which is in Block K of the Main Stand. Tickets will be available at Ks Complimentary Ticket Office.

Ks Director, Malcolm Grant said "We are delighted that the Surrey Comet has agreed a two year sponsorship package with us. This is a tangible demonstration of their commitment to the Ks, an endorsement of our relationship and much needed support in these difficult times. The fact that we are currently in administration doesnt mean that Ks has to stop offering value for money and we hope that other organisations will follow Surrey Comets lead. Our web site www.kingstonian.net features perimeter board opportunities and, as an added incentive, we are now offering 20% off the quoted rates to companies taking an advertising board from this December to the end of this season."

John Payne, the Comets Sports Editor said "The Comet is delighted to be backing the Ks and sponsoring their excellent new facilities. We hope as many people as possible take this opportunity to visit Kingsmeadow Stadium and see for themselves the exciting young side that Steve Sedgley is assembling."

Kingstonian's youth team, managed by Martyn Spong and assisted by Mark Fabian, hit the headlines in the last week by making their memorable FA Youth Cup run even better.

Last Thursday (1 Nov), Oxford United were defeated 2-0 at the Kingsmeadow in the First Round of the competition. Danny Collins opened the scoring after six minutes when the defence was confused by a typically long throw from Jonathan McDonald. The Football League team pressed for most of the rest of the half, but couldn't force goalkeeper Tony Smith to make a save. The second half was dominated by Kingstonian, and the only surprise was that it took so long for the clincher to be scored. With ten minutes remaining, Chevon Cummings robbed a defender just outside the penalty area, and slotted the ball past the goalkeeper with aplomb.

Ks team: Tony Smith, Jon Leacock, Jonathan McDonald, Chris Head, Matthew Bradford, Jake Newton, Danny Collins, Chris Wales, Chevon Cummings, Dean Pitcher (Josh Francois 64m), Josh Rose (Matt Seldon 90m). Unused subs: Tim Hurren, Joe Frimpong, Sam Dean

That wonderful victory set up a Second Round tie at Huish Park on Tuesday 6th with Yeovil Town. The Ks found themselves 2-0 down after 20 minutes, and at times were being run ragged by Yeovil's effective counterattacking. Just before the break, Ks gave themselves a lifeline when Danny Collins and Jon Leacock opened the defence up on the right wing for Chevon Cummings to stab home from close range. After 20 seconds of the second half, Ks had a shot scrambled off the line, and a couple of minutes after, Yeovil were unfortunate to have a man sent off for a foul on Josh Rose. The Surrey side pressed for the equaliser, Dean Pitcher hitting the post with a snap shot that the goalkeeper never saw. Unfortunately, halfway through the half Yeovil stole a goal from a setpiece, and seemingly killed the game off. Chevon Cummings pulled one back with ten minutes to go, setting up a grandstand finish, but the Glovers were able to hang on for the victory. Yeovil Town now face either Swindon Town or Grantham Town in Round Three and will fancy their chances for further progress.

Ks team: Tony Smith, Jon Leacock, Jonathan McDonald (Josh Francois 72m), Chris Head, Matthew Bradford, Jake Newton (Matt Seldon 80m), Danny Collins, Chris Wales, Chevon Cummings, Dean Pitcher, Josh Rose. Unused subs: Tim Hurren, Joe Frimpong, Ryan Paumier.

Kingstonian's youth team now reverts back to its normal set-up with Kingston College, and their next home game is against Chichester College in the British Colleges Sport Centres of Football Excellence League on 14th November at the Kingsmeadow Stadium, kick-off 2pm.

Kingstonian's reserves drew 0-0 at home with Northwood on Saturday and remain top of the table. However, Hayes and Basingstoke Town all have games in hand, but the Suburban League Premier Division is shaping up nicely at around the halfway stage, and is turning into a very close contest.

The reserves find out this Saturday who their opponents will be in the League Cup Third Round as Whyteleafe are at home to Fleet Town. The Ks themselves are at home to the reigning champions Berkhamsted Town on Saturday, kick-off 3pm. Next Saturday they are without a match, but however, they start their Surrey Premier Cup campaign on Wednesday 21st November against Bookham, kick-off 7.30pm

Meanwhile, Wimbledon Ladies scored a single goal victory over Langford in the FA Women's Premier League South Division. This Sunday, they are at home to Berkhamsted Town at the Kingsmeadow Stadium, kick-off 2pm. Admission is free. Next Sunday, the Arsenal come to the Kingsmeadow to play Wimbledon Ladies in the London Women's Cup, kick-off 2pm on Sunday 18th November.

On that morning (Sunday 18th) Kingstonian are hosting a Football Programme Fair, which begins at 11am, ending at 3pm.

Kingstonian turn to Sedgley to restore their equilibrium by Keith Pike

IT WAS not how Steve Sedgley had planned it. When a knee injury cut short his excellent playing career, the idea was to spend a couple of years learning the managerial ropes at one of the foremost non-league clubs before re-establishing his name in the game he loves. Instead, within three months he found himself at the helm of a sinking ship with those ropes having tied his hands behind his back.

Quite how Kingstonian, with two Wembley triumphs in the past three seasons, had sunk so deep and so fast was the question supporters wanted answering, but Sedgley said he had no hesitation in taking over at a club with debts approaching 1 million, in the hands of administrators and forced to release nine of its most experienced players. One month in, results have improved against the odds and that brave gamble already appears to be paying off.

Its been hard, with everyone looking over their shoulder wondering if theyre going to be the next to go, but the best way to learn is by doing the job and so far the players have responded brilliantly, Sedgley, 32, said.

A lot of them are reserve or youth-team players who are playing for no money and been thrown in the deep end, and its a huge credit to them. What happens off the pitch is no concern of theirs or mine. Im just grateful to have been given the opportunity and the club know Ill be giving them 120 per cent.

Behind the scenes, work proceeds apace to rescue a club that owes 180,000 to the Inland Revenue, 430,000 to the bank and had been living beyond its means for a long time. In February, Kingstonian led Bristol City 1-0 with 28 seconds of stoppage time to go and a lucrative place in the fifth round of the FA Cup within reach, but Tony Thorpes equaliser was the first in a series of devastating blows.

Defeat in the replay was followed by relegation from the Nationwide Conference and the dismissal of Geoff Chapple as manager in the summer. Crowds slumped, wages rose nonetheless and when Kingstonian were dismissed from this seasons FA Cup by the minnow of Brockenhurst on September 29, it was described by Bill Williams, Chapples successor, as the longest and darkest hour and a half of my football management life.

Two weeks later Williams returned to Dover Athletic and now Sedgley, previously the head coach and an FA Cup-winner with Tottenham Hotspur, has taken up the baton, encouraging attractive football that has seen a climb away from the lower reaches of the Ryman League premier division and progress in the FA Umbro Trophy. With a young team that listens and wants to learn, Im confident well stay up, Sedgley said.

Nick Hood, of Begbies Traynor Chartered Accountants, said yesterday that the administrators were still in active discussions with two potential new backers one individual, one group and both very much football people, not property speculators. Hood hopes an agreement may be in place by the end of the week and a deal completed within four to six weeks. Between them, he and Sedgley have brought Kingstonian some valuable time.

Green provides welcome respite for Kingstonian by Keith Pike

HEAVILY in debt, voluntarily in administration and undoubtedly in peril they may be, but you would scarcely have guessed on Saturday as Kingstonian, who have been forced to part with nine senior players, continued their love affair with the FA Umbro Trophy. Winners in 1999 and 2000, they temporarily put their off-field problems behind them to reach the second round in dramatic style.

Two minutes of stoppage time had elapsed when Ronnie Green, one teenaged substitute, found Jon Leacock, another of the same, and set off for the return pass. Green had time to turn, gesticulate and then voice his disapproval as his young sidekick delayed, beat one man and delayed again, but he should not have worried. Leacock played the perfect pass through a retreating Hitchin Town defence and Green, applying a clever finish beyond his years, bent his shot around Nick Webb with the outside of his right foot. Hitchin, their Ryman League premier division rivals, felt hard done by and with some justification.

A shade fortunate to be level at half-time David Sadler had twice gone within inches of giving Kingstonian the lead they had recovered from Greg Balls goal, neatly nodded in from Danny Bolts free kick 50 seconds into the second half, to pull level through Shaun Marshalls carbon-copy glancing header from Matt Nolans left-wing cross in the 68th minute. Marshall clipped the crossbar eight minutes from time and Hitchin finished the stronger, but few would begrudge their opponents a lucky break.

Wayne Andrews (Chesham United), Aaron Barnett (Gravesend & Northfleet), Dale Binns (Hendon), Jason Chewins (Aldershot Town), Francis Duku (Gravesend & Northfleet), Davis Haule (Hendon), Vinnie John (Bishop's Stortford), Jon Keeling (Purfleet), John Kennedy (Canvey Island), Lance Key (Kingstonian), Ryan Kirby (Aldershot Town), John Morgan (Grays Athletic), Adam Parker (Aldershot Town), Dean Parratt (Braintree Town), Steve Robinson (Grays Athletic), Lee Spiller (Chesham United), Scott Tarr (Basingstoke Town), Gary Waters (Braintree Town), Craig Wilkins (Gravesend & Northfleet).

MOVE IS ON THE CARDS by Dominic Danatantonio

Wimbledon Football Club are set to look outside Merton borough and link up with non-league side Kingstonian for their new youth academy.

A confidential source from Kingston council has revealed that Wimbledon are in talks to base their administration and academy at the non-league clubs Kingsmeadow ground in neighbouring Norbiton.

The Dons had previously applied to Merton council to build their academy at Prince Georges Playing Field in Raynes Park.

However the land is designated as protected Metropolitan Open Land and last week council leader, Cllr Andrew Judge, said that Merton officers: knew of no instance where housing has been allowed on Metropolitan Open Land.

Ailing Kingstonian voluntarily went into administration two weeks ago and under the proposed agreement Wimbledon would take over the lease of the Kingsmeadow stadium for the remaining 105 year term.

This season the Dons began playing their youth, reserve and ladies matches at the ground but there are no plans for the Dons to move their home Nationwide League matches from Selhurst Park to the 6,125 capacity ground.

Dons fans cautiously welcomed the plans, Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association spokesman Kris Stewart said: At the moment we are concentrating our efforts in getting the club back to Plough Lane.

But for an academy, we cant see an objection at the moment to Kingsmeadow.

Wimbledon chairman Charles Koppel was guarded on the clubs immediate plans.

He said: We are very happy with our relationship not only with Kingstonian but also the individuals at the club.

We are looking at ways to continue the good relationship we have.