Billericay Town's history in the F.A. Vase, F.A. Trophy and F.A. Cup is fairly well documented, but it came as somewhat of a surprise to me to discover that we had once played in the F.A. Amateur Cup.

This programme from 30th September 1972 is for a home fixture against Clapton in the 72/73 competition - the penultimate year before professionalism was allowed into the amateur game, and the competition was abolished.

Anybody know the outcome of this game? Or have details of any other games the Blues played in the Amateur cup? If so, please drop me a line at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Taken from Volume 1 No. 12 (July 1992) of the now defunct 'Team Talk' magazine.

Blues fan Ian Rudkins has kindly provided me with scans of some rare old BTFC programmes (many thanks Ian!).

So to kick off the new Retro section I'm featuring a 4 page programme from the 1960/61 season when we were playing in the Chelmsford and Mid Essex Football League - Premier Division. In these days, Billericay Town were playing up at Sun Corner next to the Archer Hall and were sporting an 'Old Gold & Blue' kit.

I wasn't aware that we were issuing programmes as early as this until recently (I do have one older one from the same season), so I wonder if anybody has any from earlier seasons? If so, scans to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it would be much appreciated!

We lost this game 4-1 according to the report in the following week's programme.

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