Post-Match Thread and Ratings Southend United 4-1 Chertsey Town. FA Cup.

[Maidstone Shrimper]

My first SUFC hero... but I don't remember his aerial ability to be honest. That was more Bill Garner.

My earliest memories of Billy Best were being disappointed that we hadn't signed a giant centre forward then seeing him leap highest in a forest of players to head the ball. He also had pace and was a great striker of the ball but he certainly had aerial ability.

 

[blues exile]

My earliest memories of Billy Best were being disappointed that we hadn't signed a giant centre forward then seeing him leap highest in a forest of players to head the ball. He also had pace and was a great striker of the ball but he certainly had aerial ability.

I don't suppose stats are available but my recollection is that he scored with many a header. He was spring heeled and his lack of height was never a problem even against the tallest defenders.

 

[CaptainSmudger]

Bowers & Pitsea away next round please

How will Chesterfield Away sound to you?
COYB UTB

 

[Micky]

The non-league pyramid, known as the National League System (NLS, not to be confused with the National League) is split into individual ‘steps’, starting at Step 1 (National League) down to Step 7 (what used to be known as ‘Intermediate’ football and is the top division of the Essex Olympian League and Essex & Suffolk Border League).

In our area the steps of the NLS are:
Step 1: National League
Step 2: National League South (Billericay Town, Chelmsford City, Concord Rangers)
Step 3: Isthmian Premier (Bowers & Pitsea, Hornchurch)
Step 4: Isthmian North (Aveley, Basildon United, Grays Athletic, Great Wakering Rovers, Hashtag United, Hullbridge Sports)
Step 5: Essex Senior League & Eastern Counties Prem (Southend Manor, White Ensign)
Step 6: Eastern Counties South (Benfleet, Burnham Ramblers)
Step 7: Essex Olympian League & Essex & Suffolk Border League (Catholic United, Leigh Ramblers)

We are at Step 1 of the NLS and Chertsey are at Step 4 (Isthmian South Central).

If you add in the Premier League and EFL, we’re in the fifth tier of English football and Chertsey are in the eighth tier.

Spot on. The confusion usually occurs with the descriptions "level" "tier" and "step".
Level and tier refer to the whole pyramid, from the Premier League downwards, whereas the NLS is a series of steps, with the National League at step 1.

 

[RobM]

I think Besty got a few tap ins because goalie gloves ? in those days were not as adhesive as today's.

 

[Strykr]

I think Besty got a few tap ins because goalie gloves ? in those days were not as adhesive as today's.

Plus you could clump the goalie and get away with it

 

[Pak Power]

Plus you could clump the goalie and get away with it

True, and I've seen King Billy thump a centre half in the stomach and head the ball in.
And we think the ref's are bad today