North Ferriby United won the FA Trophy
at Wembley last weekend beating fancied Wrexham after extra time
(3-3) and penalties (5-4). Goalkeeper Alex Nicklin save three
penalties. The club had been to Wembley before losing to Whitby Town
in 1998 in the FA Vase.
Manager Billy Heath, who has been round
the block, took charge of his 700th game, not just with
one club. He has been at Bridlington, Frickley and Hall Road Rangers
until 2011. Since then North Ferriby Utd have won the Evo-Stick NPL
Premier title and at Step 2 finished runners-up, missing out in the
play offs. They joined the Conference North in 2013. They have also
been to the Trophy quarters losing to eventual winners Gosport. It
has been a busy time for the village club formed in 1934 from a
population of only a few thousand. The village is under 4,000 strong
now.
North Ferriby is sited on the Humber
Estuary and gets its name from the Danish settlers' name Ferja bi meaning the
place by the ferry. Archaeology has revealed the earliest European “sewn
plank boats” dated to the Bronze Age (2030-1680 BC), Iron Age
barrows and Roman features have also been discovered. So winning the Trophy adds to its
remarkable history. Phil Brown the football manager (once of Hull
City) and Alex Deakin (TV weather forecaster) come from the area.
It will be a northern final in the FA
Vase with North Shields beating Highworth Town 3-0 on aggregate and
Glossop North End scraping through with ten men against AFC St
Austell 2-1 despite losing at home 0-1.
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