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posts at AFC Wimbledon and as a senior groundsman at Barnet.
He actually started off as a greenkeeper, which he was for eleven years, with success in NVQ Level 2 in Sports Turf at Hadlow College whilst working at Bearsted Golf Club not far from his home in Kent.
He had always had an interest in football pitch upkeep though, and his switch four years ago is proving to be a good career move for him. Coming runner-up in the 2017 lower league Groundsman of the Year awards is a notable notch on his CV in such short time. Looking at the condition of the Victoria Road pitch it is easy to see why he caught the eye.
There may be a ‘right club at the right time’ thing going for Jamie Honeyman too. He’s rightly ambitious, and the Daggers are determined to get back into the Football League where they feel they belong. The appointment by the club of former England Under-21 coach Peter Taylor in June as its new manager has to be a huge indication of just how determined they are to achieve this. He has vast experience of
Football League and non-league management, and even has a claim to full international leadership as stand-in coach to the England team in 2000 for a game against Italy, when he gave David Beckham his first taste of captaincy. Dagenham and Redbridge is a relatively new club, coming first on to the scene in 1992 when the two individually named clubs merged in an effort to combat dwindling gates.
Football club history in the area goes back to 1861, and Redbridge was an amalgamation of Ilford, Leytonstone and Walthamstow Avenue, three of the biggest names in the amateur game. Seven FA Amateur Cups and twenty Isthmian League titles are just some of the spoils the two arms of the club could boast before they joined forces. At the end of the 2006-2007 season, the club took the then Conference League title, putting it into the Football League for the first time. It maintained its Division Two status for two seasons and, at the end of its third at that level, a dramatic 3-2 play-off
victory over Rotherham at Wembley saw it claim a place in Division One.
This proved to be a short-lived highpoint thus far for the club however, because a year later it was relegated back into Division Two, where it remained for five seasons until further relegation in 2016 took it down the fifth level of professional football in England, the National League.
In recent times, the Dagenham and
Redbridge club has notched up an impressive list of record statistics. It has had an uncanny habit of chalking up noteworthy scorelines.
Its 6-0 win over Morecambe in May 2010 is the highest first leg scoreline in the history of all Football League play-offs. It shares - with Brentford - the highest full-time League Cup score of 6-6 in August 2014. Unfortunately, the club lost the match to the Championship side after a penalty shoot- out, but this record tally is forever marked by having the goal nets used for the match on display at the National Football Museum in Manchester. Its 14-13 penalty shoot-out victory over Leyton Orient in a Football
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