Ridgeons League

Ridgeons League: the official home of the Ridgeons Football League, the sponsored name of the Eastern Counties Football League, running Senior, Reserve and Youth Divisions right across East Anglia under General Secretary Nigel Spurling. The archived spring 2006 news desk captures a busy run-in. Stanway Rovers were confirmed as promoted to the Premier Division on 16 April and collected the Ridgeons Team of the Month Award on Easter Monday, a day on which five clubs set their best league crowds of the season. Wroxham and Mildenhall Town won their Youth Divisions, while AFC Sudbury and Bury Town passed ground inspections with Grade E certificates. Cup finals filled the diary: AFC Sudbury v Lowestoft Town in the League Challenge Cup at Diss Town FC (Wednesday 10 May, 7.45pm), the First Division KO Cup Final at Mildenhall Town (Bank Holiday Monday 1 May, 3pm), the Reserve Teams Division KO Cup Final at Hadleigh United (Wednesday 19 April, 7.45pm), the Ridgeons Youth Cup Final at Braintree Town FC, and the Norfolk Senior Cup Final, Dereham Town v Norwich United, at Carrow Road (Wednesday 19 April, 7.15pm). Whitton United hosted the Reserve Teams Championship play-off, Cornard United's Chris Symes took first prize in the FA Groundsman of the Year Awards for the East Midlands & East Anglian Region, the league kept its Supply League status for 2006-07, the Suffolk FA fixed dates for the Club Colours Premier Cup and Alliance Outsourcing Senior Cup Finals, the FA published provisional 2006/07 FA Cup and Vase dates, and Mick Blakeman appealed for career details for the Players and Personalities section of the History of the Eastern Counties League book.

• Ridgeons League archived website (April 2006)