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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