News from Arlesey Town Football Club

I first came to Arlesey in 2008 after spending what seems most of my life in non-league Football starting in (I think) 1972 at Dunstable Town my local club at the time. I always worked behind the scenes selling programmes, working the gates and working on the pitch etc., those were great days for a young lad with Barry Fry as manager and players like George Best (briefly) and former England International Jeff Astle in the side. From Dunstable it was down the road to Barton Rovers and doing much the same things until I filled the position as Football secretary in about 1999 when the incumbent secretary left. I was approached by Gary King who was Football Director at Arlesey to be Football secretary at Arlesey as the previous one was moving away. I could see that Arlesey had a modern ground that looked great and were ambitious and this was proved. They had just moved to the Southern League and this was built on rapidly as they won the Central Division twice in the same year in 2010/11. As they say time moves on and as that team split up things gradually drifted in a downward direction leading to relegation again back to the central div of the southern League and then eventually relegation again into the South Midlands League. Arlesey constantly try to produce young players and we have a large youth section and this has recently produced players that have progressed through the reserves to the 1st team which is positive and great news, but even this is tempered by the financial restraints and this season we have with great regret had to drop our reserve team a few years ago because of the costs v the financial return, and we now ground share our pitch with Baldock Town, but at least that keeps football at Arlesey every week with them playing whilst the 1st team play away.

This close season sees our ever hard working but very small and shrinking team of volunteers working as hard as ever to prepare for the coming season. We are unfortunately again facing the drain of volunteers to form the committee and we must always look to find our replacements to keep the club in the community for the next period of time after we have gone, this is a constant challenge and we must get the next generation involved to keep clubs like this afloat. We have installed a new management team With Nick Brown bringing a new dynamism for the start of this season and are trying to restructure the club, we have totally refurbished the clubhouse and improved the look of the front of the building with a brand new sun patio and things are looking far more positive than last season.

We hope to strengthen the squad further as we move toward the new season. Football is in the long term a helter skelter ride of peaks and troughs, we have had highs and more recently lows and the challenge for the coming season is to start climbing up the peaks again.

If you feel you could offer some spare time to come along and join our team of volunteers, we cant promise you wins every week but we can certainly promise you that your help will be much appreciated as you join together with us on our ever eventful journey.

Chris Sterry Arlesey Town Football Secretary

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On a rather different note this month, we have chosen to use this page to include some of the photographs kindly sent to us of the Proclamation Ceremony which took place on Sunday 11th September in Arlesey. Chairman of Arlesey Town Council, Cllr Steve Hamilton lead the ceremony which was well attended by local residents.

We’d love to hear from you if you have any old photo’s you could let us borrow for the usual ‘Down Memory Lane’ page in future issues - please get in touch with us in the usual ways if you do!

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