Mexborough Main Street (7)
Mexborough Main Street FC were formed by disgruntled players who were being 'rested' in High Terrace FC's reserve side.
Mexborough Main Street in 1983 with the first of their Montagu Cup wins.
Back Row (L to R); Pete Angel, Mick Prendegast, Keith Peart, Chris Speight, Sean Wilkinson, Alf Haywood, Dave Mulholland, Mick Ryan, Gary Skidmore, Cyril Drabble,
Front Row (L to R): Martin Weir, Colin Wren, Wilf Race, John Hemmingway, George Greenwood, Ronnie Hill
John Hemmingway with the trophy in 1983
Another Mont victory in 2008
Main Street Mont winners 1987
Main Street Mont winners 1984
Year: circa 1992 at LNER
Back Row (L to R): Phillip Earp, Shaun Wilkinson, Paul Greaves, Darrel Newby, Tony Wild, Pete Newey, Dave Hoyland, Steve Sigsworth, Dave Cook (Ideal Travel)
Front Row (L to R): John Temple, Paul Kettleborough, Gary Hough, Wilf Race, Andy Linacre, Chris Watson, Garry Mansell
Mexborough Main Street 1980/81
Back Row (L to R): John Salt. John Hodgson, Brynn Jones, George Greenwood, Keith Peart, Trev Whitaker.
Middle Row: Ronny Hill
Front Row (L to R) : Cyril Drabble, Alf Haywood, John Gilbert, F4, Pete Cutts, Dave Mulholland Gary Skidmore, Colin Sapey
Trophies: Donc. Senior Lge Premier Div K.O. Cup winners, Donc. Senior Lge Premier Div champions (back row); Donc. & District FA Challenge Cup winners, Mexborough Montagu Cup runners-up (front row)
Mexborough Main Street at Millmoor
1991 Rotherham Charity Cup final
Back Row (L to R): Darren Draycott, Chris Watson, Paul Kettlebrough, Taffy Gwillam, Martin Langford , Wilf Race, John Hodgson
Front Row: (L to R): Ike Cotton (senior), John Goulty, Shaun Howitt, Kev Phelan, Ike Cotton, Martin O'Neill, Chris Speight, Steve Sigsworth + Steve Sigsworth Junior
Mascot: Chris Davies
Year: 2005/6
Back Row (L to R): Steve Harper, Cyril Drabble (club legend), Dave Cook (sponsor), Ian Newey, Gary Hibbert, Craig Roden , Travis Purnell, Grant Allott, Paul Mills, Steve Ellor, Chris Cook, Shaun Needham, Ian Cotton (club legend)
Front Row: (L to R): Richard Lindsay, Chris Hulse, Tim Watkinson, Rob Branagan, Danny Jenkinson, Chris Greaves, Mark Nisbett, Ryan Mighali, John Mighali (Gaffer)
Year: 2005/6
Back Row (L to R): Paul Mills, Gary Hibbert, Mark Nisbet, Travis Purnell, Grant Allott , Gavin Allott, Craig Roden, Tim Watkinson
Front Row: (L to R): Richard Lindsay, Daniel Patterson, Danny Jenkinson , Chris Grieve, Steve Ellor, Craig Cooke, Rob Branagan
Trophy: S & H County Senior Premier League Winners
At South Kirby FC
Mexborough Main Street with the Rotherham Charity Cup?
Year : 1992-93?
Crouching (L to R) : Reg Moore, Mick Cronley
Standing (L to R) : Neil Sigsworth, Andrew Caddick, Dave Neale, Andy Linacre, Gary Hough, Ike Cotton, Chris France, Dave Salmons
​Charity cup win 92/93 - v's Rawmarsh Star
FLYING THE FLAG FOR MEXBOROUGH
Published: 15:54 Wednesday 05 October 2005
SOME 40 years ago - in the days when you headed a football and knew about it and the 4-5-1 formation was just the twinkle in a young Mourinho's eye - a group of players who were being "rested" in the reserves at the revered High Terrace FC, broke away to form their own team.
They went to the committee of the Main Street club in Mexborough, persuaded them to offer their backing, and so began a relationship that this summer celebrated the beginning of its fourth decade.
Ian Cotton, Pete Cutts and Brian Wray, with the help of Cyril Drabble, founded Mexborough Main Street Football Club and 40 years down the line, both Ian and Cyril are still actively involved at a club that now flies the flag for Mexborough in Saturday senior football - Ian as president, Cyril as treasurer.
"Ian, Pete and Brian were in the second team at High Terrace and wanted to break away and form their own team," said Cyril.
"I offered to help them set up and as we were all members of the Main Street club anyway, they were the natural choice for us to see about forming a team. They were more than happy to and even bought us a kit.
"We joined the Doncaster Senior League, played our games at the back of the Plant Hotel and started in the autumn of 1965."
The club progressed to the County Senior League in the early 1980s, by which time they had eloped to the LNER ground in Swinton.
The move to their current base at Mexborough Athletic Club was made a few years later by which time they had lifted the County Senior League title for the first time in 1987, a feat they were to repeat in 1994.
Success in '87 coincided with the first season of sponsorship from Mexborough company Ideal Travel.
The business and the football club have formed a fruitful alliance for the past 19 years with Ideal Travel providing Main Street with a new kit every two seasons.
Cyril added: "Ideal Travel have provided us with fantastic sponsorship for nearly two decades. Their support has been a tremendous help to the club."
The trophies didn't stop in 1994 neither with Main Street winning the Montagu Cup and Rotherham Charity Cup this May, a double they achieved five years earlier.
This season, despite being knocked out of the Montagu Cup, their defence of the Charity Cup is at the quarter-final stage and they are hot on the heels of Athersley Recreation at the top of the County Senior League.
But the County Senior League remains the height of Main Street's ambitions.
Four years ago Mexborough Town Athletic folded from the Central Midlands League due to a lack of players and interest, leaving only Main Street and Mexborough Athletic in the Doncaster Senior League as the town's only Saturday clubs.
However, owing to the finances required to climb the football pyramid, Main Street have little chance of emulating Town Athletic.
"We'd have liked to have gone into the Central Midlands or Northern Counties leagues," added Cyril. "But we fall down because we don't have floodlights. We keep applying for grants to lottery funds and so forth but have never had any joy.
"It would be nice to see how far we could get with floodlights. But the only problem is the expenditure wouldn't stop there."
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