Farleigh Rovers FC is a non-league football club located in the village of the same name in the North Downs a few miles south of Croydon in Surrey, who were formed in 1922.
For sixty years 'The Foxes' competed in the local Edenbridge & Caterham and Croydon Leagues and then the Surrey Intermediate League. From the start of the 1982-83 season, the club became founder members of the Surrey Premier League, going on to become champions at the first attempt.
That competition became known as the Surrey County Premier League from 2000-01, with Rovers remaining there until rejoining the Combined Counties League as members of the newly formed second tier Division One in 2003-04. The club also introduced youth teams, known as Farleigh Foxes.
Farleigh Rovers FC will play in the Surrey South East Combination Intermediate Division One in the 2023-24 season.
My visit
Farleigh Rovers 4 Mole Valley SCR 5 (Wednesday 8th May 2013) Combined Counties League Division One (att: approx 20)
The back end of any football season often sees random midweek fixtures crop up, especially when bad weather intervenes. The 2012-13 season had suffered with lots of rain waterlogging pitches. I scanned my weekly Non League Paper looking for a game at a new venue.
The game at Farleigh grabbed my attention. Years ago I came across some of their match programmes when not too many clubs of their level produced them. The match was to kick off at 6.45pm as Parsonage Field didn't have floodlights, so this would get me home a little earlier.
I could see the near goal of Parsonage Field in the distance. The game was kicking off as I climbed out of the field at the other side as the referee sensibly kicked off five minutes early with the skies darkening earlier than expected.
Rovers near the bottom of the table took the lead against promoted SCR as Ross Price finished a nice move. The visiting skipper and centre forward Phil Page restored parity soon after he had missed a guilt edged chance that he had created himself with a powerful run I expected them to go on after that, as it would seem did their manager.
The 'pep' talk seemed to work as SCR were level within a minute of the restart as Jack Wightwick finished. However a daft penalty was given away to see Rovers regain the advantage. Fabian O'Brien made no mistake from the spot.
The lethal Page hammered in an equaliser as the home keeper, nicknamed Gonzo by his team mates, stood motionless. A lovely flowing passing movement on the decent pitch which had drizzle landing on it led to SCR grabbing the lead for the first time when Lauris Chin scored.
Phil Page completed his hat trick when through as he cleverly lobbed Gonzo to make it 3-5. Farleigh weren't done yet after they were assisted with a lovely glancing header from the SCR full back Mark Toomey-Layne who found the corner of his own net.
It was probably my match of the season and definitely the best value!
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