Salisbury Athletic...the best programme in the FA Sunday Cup?

I've seen plenty of FA Sunday Cup programmes over the years and the majority tend to be a token 4 page effort, which contains a list of players available from both sides together with a brief history of the teams competing.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with this, as it satisfies the requirements placed on the home side to produce a programme. You also have to bear in mind that playing in the Sunday Cup is probably the only time that most teams issue a programme, so its perhaps unrealistic to expect them to issue anything else.

There are, however, a handful of sides over the years that have gone that extra yard or two and produced an excellent Sunday Cup programme that would rival and indeed better, the efforts of many a semi-pro Saturday team.

Salisbury Athletic are one of those sides and regularly issue one of the best programmes that I've ever seen from a Sunday team. The programmes are superbly produced with high production standards used. They are cram-packed with interesting and informative articles, which are complemented by the quality of glossy paper used.

Salisbury are a club that have definitely embraced the Sunday Cup. Their blog site (sollyblog.blogspot.com) contains several detailed match reports and even video highlights (which they have also posted on youtube).

Salisbury are at home to Lobster on Sunday. The game will take place at Bootle, kick off 13:00. Salisbury's secretary and programme editor, Ian Porter, has told me that they will be issuing a programme for this game.

Back issues are also available from Ian, who can be contacted at: 65 Evered Avenue, Liverpool, L9 2AE or via email on iporter_radical@yahoo.com

Based on the programmes I have seen, I can't think of one team that has consistantly produced a better programme than Salisbury.

In fact, the only programme that could better Salisbury's (in respect of FA Sunday Cup content) that I have seen, would be those produced by Mark Kettlety. Mark is an expert on the Sunday Cup and used to produce the semi final programmes in the early 2000's. He also used to write the excellent Sunday Only magazine. He produces an assortment of programmes for various teams and County FA's up and down the country.