Four pre-season friendlies have been announced, the first of which is scheduled for Friday 5th July, when Northern League Second Division side Ryton & Crawcroook Albion will be the visitors to Hillheads. Just over a week later, on Saturday 13th July we will be at home to former rivals Marske United, who were promoted to...Continue reading
TEN YEARS ON CELEBRATION CHARITY GAME Whitley Bay North 4 Whitley Bay South 2 Sunday 5th May 2019 Whitley marked this week’s tenth anniversary of their first Wembley victory with a special reunion of players from all four FA Vase winning squads. Teams of Bay players from North and South of the Tyne competed for...
Striker Paul Chow will always be remembered as the man who scored the fastest ever goal at Wembley but he has revealed that the goal, coming after just 21 seconds in the 2010 Vase Final against Wroxham was, perhaps surprisingly, not the favourite goal of his career. Along with Lee Kerr, Paul scored in all...
Mark Taylor played in the 2009 FA Vase Final but it was his last game, as soon after that great day out he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Despite his illness, he has been heavily involved in the organisation of the ‘Ten Years On’ event and here he explains more about the special reunion....Continue reading
“2009…this would be the Glossop North End final, our first visit to the new Wembley, in fact we were the first north east team to get there and we had every intention of enjoying it. Gav had done his usual fantastic scouting mission and came back with everything we needed to match and better them....Continue reading
The annual awards were shared around the squad when Whitley’s end of season presentations were made following Saturday’s final game of the 2018/19 season. The keenly contested Golden Boot award was shared after Luke Salmon’s 77th minute goal against Shildon drew him level with Andrei Ardelean on 13 goals apiece. The Supporters Club vote for...Continue reading
After Saturday’s final game of the season, Bay manager Nathan Haslam reflected on the defeat by Shildon and his first few weeks in charge at Hillheads. “It’s a disappointing end, I think we gave three extremely soft goals away but over the 90 minutes I thought we competed, I thought we were the better team...Continue reading
WHITLEY BAY 1 SHILDON 3 Saturday 13th April Whitley’s season ended in disappointing style as they slipped to a third consecutive defeat and dropped one place in the table to finish in 13th position. Nevertheless, this represents an improvement of three places since Nathan Haslam took over as manager last month. Injury and illness left...Continue reading
This is the final weekend of fixtures in the Northern League First Division and Whitley complete their programme with a home game against Shildon. Whitley need a victory to guarantee retaining their 12th place while Shildon will be looking for three points to give them a chance of finishing sixth. It is just five weeks...Continue reading
Manager Nathan Haslam said there was a lack of quality in Whitley’s performance at Penrith, where they slipped to a 2-0 defeat. “It didn’t go to plan to be fair, it was a toothless performance and their keeper hasn’t had a save to make today. They had two attacks and scored from two attacks. I...Continue reading