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Eric Manangu (sp?) scored our goal IIRC.

Sara Pascoe wrote:Eric Manangu (sp?) scored our goal IIRC.

Correct. The match was played on the 25th November 2003 in the 3rd Round.

Diamonds team :-
1 Karl Daniels
2 Ricky Clark
3 Eugene Burndam
4 Steven Grant
5 Magnus Okounghae
6 Chibuza Chilarka
7 Marcus Kelly
8 Tom Shaw
9 Eric Manangu
10 Simeon Jackson
11 Scott Wark

12 Ashley Stevens
14 Iyad Ahmed
15 Ross Watson
16 Daniel Grainger
17 Oliver Wilkinson

Manager Nev Hamilton

Chibuzor Chilaka played for Bradford last season and is now with Braintree in the BSP.

BartonRaz wrote:Chibuzor Chilaka played for Bradford last season and is now with Braintree in the BSP.

It would be interesting to know the current whereabouts of all our players that played in this match.

BartonRaz wrote:Chibuzor Chilaka played for Bradford last season and is now with Braintree in the BSP.

I saw him play a few times before the Man Utd match and never rated him at all, but against Utd he was outstanding.

I know we started to struggle not long after that game, but it was quite an achievement to have four players from the same youth side becoming regular first team players; Kelly, Shaw, Magnus and Jacko. Plus Grainger who also featured in quite a few games.

8 years ago, no wonder it wasn't lodged in my mind, not that i was there either. never followed the youth team.

just out of interest, what was the united line-up?

DiamondCarvell wrote:just out of interest, what was the united line-up?

You don't want me to dig out the programme again do you?

Looking down the list only Spector and Eagles made the grade in the Prem and neither for ManUre.
Ramon Calliste was highly rated but I don't know what happened to him. None of the others made much of an impact in the Pro scene.

Trek wrote:

BartonRaz wrote:Chibuzor Chilaka played for Bradford last season and is now with Braintree in the BSP.

It would be interesting to know the current whereabouts of all our players that played in this match.

I saw Dan Grainger play for a very poor Thrapston Town side against S & L on Saturday.

Trek wrote:

BartonRaz wrote:Chibuzor Chilaka played for Bradford last season and is now with Braintree in the BSP.

It would be interesting to know the current whereabouts of all our players that played in this match.

The R&D Official Site could be pretty useful for that. Certainly up until this summer if the players made a first team appearence.

A quick google doesn't produce much besides the obvious. Scott Wark is at Ipswich Wanderers (whoever they are), but that's about it. I think Daniel Grainger is knocking around in the UCL somewhere, I played against him in a Uni game around March/April time.

Looking at that squad I think it's fair to say it was probably our best youth team in terms of where those players have gone. Okuonghae is/was Colchester captain, Chilarka, Shaw and Kelly are in the BSP, Manangu played in Step 2 of non-league for a while and may still be there, and then obviously there is Simeon in the Premier League.

I liked the 'Tomlin' youth team but if memory serves only he has made much of an impact on the game. Dominic Langdon was in the BSP with Tamworth but now plays for Solihull Moors in BSN. I forget if Margarson was that age group but he was at Stevenage last year for a bit. Time will tell how good last years youth team was, however I suspect it wasn't as good as either of those from what I saw.