Tadley Calleva’s Michael Buck recalls a moment he’ll ‘forever rememeber’ in the first episode of Football in Berkshire’s ‘My Favourite Goal‘.
It wasn’t a particularly pleasant evening on Tuesday 11th November 2008 when MK Dons paid a visit to Larges Lane for a Berks & Bucks County FA Senior Cup tie – Roberto Di Matteo was first team manager for MK at the time, and unusually for a County Cup tie, was in the dugout.
Bracknell would go through about 90 players in 08/09 and finished 21st of 22 in the Southern League South West Division One but avoided relegation due to Winchester City’s three point deduction.
The visit of MK was a rare highlight through a difficult few years, there certainly hadn’t been a Football League side at Larges Lane in many years.
‘Bucky’ has been a youth player with the club and was a crowd favourite having ‘stuck around’ during the lean years. He went on to play for Cove, Sandhurst Town, Reading Town and Mortimer, and is now a player/coach with Tadley Calleva in the Combined Counties League Premier Division South.
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