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Falmouth Town Oct5_Layout 1 03/10/2013 13:22 Page 4 Today’s visitors Falmouth Town in October last year when Alan Carey resigned. Falmouth Town come to Horsdon Park today with a new manager following the departure of manager Robbie Stevens two weeks ago. Falmouth’s defeats this season have come at the hands of Plymouth Parkway 5-2 (home), Newquay 3-2 (home), Witheridge 1-0 (away), St Austell 1-0 (away), Saltash United 3-1 (home), Launceston 2-1 (home), Godolphin Atlantic 5-0 (home), Cullompton Rangers (4-0 (away), St Blazey 1-0 (away) and Ivybridge Town 2-1 (home). Falmouth are currently lying second from bottom in the South West Peninsula League Premier Division with just one win out of 12 this season. And that win came in a 4-1 away success against the only side below them in the table, Liskeard Athletic. BRIEF HISTORY Former Falmouth goalkeeper John Dent was appointed first team manager following the departure of Stephens with Gary Pascoe remaining as first team coach. Teams have been playing under the Falmouth Town banner since the turn of the century and in 1949 Falmouth Town AFC were formed as a senior club. The move not only re-unites Dent with the club he served so well as a player but also with reserve team manager Bryn Wheeler One early pioneer was ex–Birmingham City goalkeeper Ken Tewkesbury who became the club’s first manager. Dent played for Falmouth Town between 1985 and 1990, making 244 appearances, and scoring one goal (a penalty v Holsworthy in 1987). One season was played in the Cornwall Senior League before in 1951-52 the club became founder members of The South Western League. His debut, also against Holsworthy, was on August 17, 1985, in an away South Western League fixture. Town won that game 3-0, with another Falmouth legend, Neil Phillips, grabbing a hattrick. It was to be the first of 89 clean sheets for Town with Dent between the sticks. Town’s first SWL game, a 3-3 draw against St. Austell, was played on the August 18, 1951, at