What is Cardsweb?

beck: photogenic moment, 1979

Cardsweb is the independent Woking FC website. It was invented in a large test tube in a remote Canadian outpost in 1996 - at which point, none of its founding fathermothers (Anthony Page, Beck Kingsnorth and Mike Stirk) had any idea whatsoever about how to make web things. In 1998 Anthony stepped down from his position as webfathermonkey and asked Beck and Mike to take over the reins on a permanent basis. Which they did. Two years later, Beck redesigned the site and continued to look after it on an editorial basis until at the end of the 2004/05 season she stepped down from the role and asked for someone else to take over. That person is me, Mick, also known as colinstrainers or CT and I am hoping I can do half as good a job. I am hoping that I will still have the help of several contributors - including Steve Tervet, Mark Doyle and Trevor Broad, who looks after the fundraising Cardsweb.

For the past five seasons Cardsweb has been sponsored by Scattergoods and we're very grateful for their support.

We have always been a fans' site, and there are plenty of opportunities to have your say. There's the very active Cardboard Discussion Forum, monthly player of the month voting and an online man of the match poll for every game. There is now also the infamous prediction competition. We welcome suggestions and input from anyone and everyone, and articles from various supporters are collected in the vast archive that is Moaners' Corner. If you would like to contribute anything to this or put yourself forward for a match report or have a question or comment about the site you can email Mick and we'll try to send you something interesting and witty in response (quality of said responses depend on the time of day, weather and availability of good quality chocolate and are therefore not guaranteed).