Lee Cranmer

ten Doeschate League Champion - 2nd XI premier league champion 🏆

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@BTFC 👏

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@TransferCentre9 Any more rumours for Chelmsford?

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@LouisDunford The @Trotter_uk looks unbelievable! 😍

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@iKillCuriosity How good does that @Trotter_uk look! 😍🪧

[Chelmsford City FC @OfficialClarets]

We are delighted to announce that Lyle Taylor will remain a Claret for the 2026/27 season!✍️

🎶We've got Lyle Taylor🎶

#ClaretsTogether

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🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 🍪

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Sam Cook has spent his career being told he is almost there. 346 first class wickets at 20.6 average. He had been the first English bowler in 50 years to reach 300 first class wickets while keeping his average below 20.
Leading wicket taker in this season’s County Championship before most bowlers have even found their rhythm.
And still, the England cap has come only once, briefly, against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge. Question is not whether he can bowl. Question is whether English cricket is ready to admit that what he does might be exactly what they need next.

James Anderson & Chris Woakes has retired. Old guard of English seam bowling is thinning out & team that Brendon McCullum & Ben Stokes built was constructed around extreme pace & vibes. That worked for a while. But Test cricket in England still moves to a different beat.

The ball will keep swinging in May & June. Pitches will keep offering seam movement under cloud cover. And Cook, at 28, is entering the window where fast bowlers traditionally hit their prime.

He is not express pace. He will not frighten anyone with speed gun readings. What he offers is control so precise it becomes suffocation. He hits the same spot until the batter makes a mistake, then hits it again to confirm it was not luck. Cook has been doing the same thing at Chelmsford for years.

This season he has added some extra motivation naturally, through maturity rather than mechanical overhaul. Wickets have kept coming. 18 wickets so far in this season & leading wicket taker. At 28, with nearly 350 first class scalps & strike rate of 46, he is not a project anymore. He is a solution.

They call him Little Chef at Essex, a nod to his namesake Alastair Cook, who has been his inspiration & grounding force. Sam is the local boy who played football at Chelmer Park on Monday nights, who understands that hitting the same spot again & again is not boring if it wins matches. His Test debut against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge brought 1 wicket & harsh reality that 81 mph on a flat deck leaves slim margins.

But he is not asking for sympathy. He is asking for another chance & he is making it impossible to ignore him.

[Chelmsford City FC @OfficialClarets]

An important win in Wiltshire 💪

CTFC 0-1 CCFC FT #TheClarets

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@FA can you please sort the standard of officiating out it’s absolutely embarrassing at all levels! 🤡 trying to run the game who have no idea!

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@OfficialClarets Beaten by the better side, Dover executed there game plan perfectly.

Didn’t affect the result but the FA need to sort the officiating out! It’s abysmal 3 games in a row we have total muppets! Absolutely no understanding of the game, no control on the game, no flow to the game🤡

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@herbertthomas26 @TUFC1899 Tosser

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@OfficialClarets 👏

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@OfficialClarets Build him a statue

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@OfficialClarets Harrop 👑

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Happy Valentine's Day, Clarets! 😘

HRBFC 1-3 CCFC FT #TheClarets

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GAME. SET. MATCH. MURPHY.

HRBFC 1-3 CCFC 90+8' #TheClarets
📻: https://t.co/PVZJtDtXCk

[Gary Mixture @GMixture]

Happy Dartford Day!

Eight years ago today that my video went viral, clocking up hundreds of thousands of views.

Last minute and we have a corner...

@OfficialClarets

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Was definitely more fight off the pitch then on it!

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Dagenham grab the points.

CCFC 1-4 DRFC FT #TheClarets

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@OfficialClarets Great result! 🌳 points on the 🛣️ Up the clarets!

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@MikeC50507771 @OfficialClarets Could just give them credit for getting 3 points instead of focusing on the negative’s

[Chelmsford City FC @OfficialClarets]

A BIG THREE POINTS 😍

EBFC 1-2 CCFC FT #TheClarets