Bugbrooke Vs Histon Programme

BUGBROOKE

ST. MICHAELS

25/26 SEASON | ISSUE 1

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HISTON FC

UCL SOUTH PREM

SATURDAY 26TH JULY 3:00 PM KICK OFF

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS FC THE BADGERS, FOUNDED 1929

CLUB COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT: WILLY MARRIOTT CHAIRMAN: KEVIN GARDNER VICE-CHAIRMAN: NIGEL THOMAS CLUB SECRETARY: GRAHAM CONNEW YOUTH SECRETARY: HAYLEY EVANS FEMALE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER / SECRETARY: STEPH NASH (Club Man Of The Year) WELFARE OFFICER: HAYLEY EVANS BAR & FACILITIES MANAGER: TYLER REEVE TREASURER: NICK INWOOD FIXTURES SECRETARY: STUART DIMOND GROUNDSMAN: DANNY POWELL DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER: JASON CHEESEMAN COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICHARD GIBBON COMMITTEE MEMBER: STUART WYKES COMMITTEE MEMBER: RICH FAULKNER (Club Man Of The Year) COMMITTEE MEMBER: STEVE REEVE COMMITTEE MEMBER: JOE THOMAS COMMITTEE MEMBER: STUART WHITE

M A E T G IN H C A O C / T N E M MANAGE FIRST TEAM: SCOTT CARLIN RESERVE TEAM: BRENDAN EMBRA LADIES TEAM: STUART WHITE UNDER 18s GIRLS: JAMES GEDDES UNDER 18s (NYSL): LEE HAINES UNDER 16s: RYAN NASH UNDER 15s: CHRIS ASHTON UNDER 14s BLACK: RICH FAULKNER UNDER 14s WHITE: TONY HILL UNDER 13s WHITE: TOM MURFITT UNDER 13s BLUES: IAN MARRIOTT UNDER 12s: NICK HILLIKER UNDER 13s BLACKS GIRLS: STEPH NASH UNDER 13s WHITES GIRLS: ALAN THOMAS UNDER 11s: ANDREW JACKMAN UNDER 10s: SCOTT ROGERS UNDER 9s BLACK: MANI JOHAL UNDER 9s WHITES: PETE TINSTON UNDER 8s BLACK: JASON CHEESEMAN UNDER 8s WHITE: IAN MARRIOTT Minis : JACK THOMAS

WELCOME TO THE SETT FROM THE CHAIRMAN...

As Chairman of Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club, I would like to offer you a warm welcome to The Sett and I hope that you have an enjoyable visit.

Here at Bugbrooke St Michaels we are working hard to develop a club with a strong inclusive ethos, offering opportunities for players of all ages and abilities.

We are extremely proud of our youth development programme, supporting players from seven all the way up to eighteen. Many of our young players go on to have success with one of our adult teams, with some players going on to even bigger and better things!

There is a great wealth of local support for the club, everyone that helps does so on a voluntary basis and through everyone’s hard work and dedication we have been able to achieve and maintain FA Accredited status.

Whilst some clubs choose to reinvest their revenue into players and wages, here at Bugbrooke we hold a different set of values. All of our profits go into upgrading our equipment and facilities, building a solid future-proof foundation that will be here for future generations to enjoy.

Whilst this can sometimes hold us back from gaining huge success on the pitch, we feel our excellent facilities, youth development programme and ethos on community sets us apart from other clubs.

Success and progression starts from the beginnings.

Thank you for your support today, we hope that you enjoy the game, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Kev Kevin Gardner, Chairman

Bugbroooke St Michaels Football Club would like to place on record our thanks to our team of volunteers, our advertisers and sponsors.

FEMALE FOOTBALL @ THE SETT #HERGAMETOO

SPONSOR SATURDAY. Here at The Sett we are lucky to have amazing support within our female section.

Our female section, Ladies team, newly formed U18 girls and not 1 but 2 U13’s girls teams.

All our players a working extremely hard on the training ground and giving their all for their teams on a match-day.

A big thank you to our fantastic coaches who, selflessly, give up so much of their time to provide football for our girls and ladies at The Sett, Stuart White, Alex DeBoer, James Geddes, Bob Lane, Ryan Nash, Steph Nash, Karl Scott and Alan Thomas.

We are also lucky to have to have been shown support from our sponsors who have provided kit and equipment to enable the girls and ladies to train and play weekly.

Ladies sponsor U18’s girls U13’s girls black

Castle Vehicle Servicing Compressed Air Technologies Challenge-trg Recruitment Tigerbite

U13’s girls white

LJC Brickwork LTD

We cannot thank you all enough!

Steph nash Steph Nash, Ladies Secretary & Women’s Development Lead

MEET THE TEAM!

STEPH

Steph is our ladies development officer and secretary. She has been part of the club since 2021 bringing a youth team to join as U12's.

Steph has made an incredible impact on the club and girls football since joining and now runs her own U13 Blacks Girls team. This season Steph was awarded with Clubman of the year for her contribution and hard work to the club. In her spare time Steph enjoys spending time with her family and is a dedicated Spurs supporter. She is also known for a bag for life after a heavy night out!

HAYLEY Hayley is our club youth secretary and welfare officer. Hayley has been in her role for just over a year and is a dedicated member of the committee here at Bugbrooke. Her passion for helping the club strive and supporting coaches within her roles are invaluable.

In her spare time Hayley enjoys watching her son play within our U16's squad and supporting her daughter with her horse riding. She enjoys going out with her friends and walking her dog.

MANAGERS NOTES Afternoon & welcome to season 25/26 to all officials,committee,players,staff & fans at the badgers & every visting side that will vist the sett during the season & hope you enjoy the vist apart from the result at the end of 90 minutes.

The football season seems to get earlier & earlier which leads to preseason getting more & more challenging as you trying to get the players fit & embedded into systems/styles of play but there always seems to be players away on holiday We’ve had lots of changes within the club in the last 8 months with new managers/coaches coming into club from 1st,reserves & the 18s so now people are in place we now hope this brings stability across the senior teams.

SCOTT CARLIN

We’ve managed to keep 99% of last years squad together & the players that have decided to look at new pastures & we wish them well.

We have added a few older heads that we thought the squad needed from last season & while we think we have recruited well we will never be happy like all managers with what we have.

Looking at season ahead 1st target is getting enough points to retain status in a very tough league with some big teams with big support as we are only a village side,while the likes of Daventry,histon,March etc are big towns & then after that next target is to beat last season points & league position & then see what we can achieve.

Hope you all enjoy the season.

Up the badgers

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OUR HISTORY

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS FC Formed in 1929, Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club took over from Bugbrooke United who folded in 1928 after being in existence since 1910.

The club, which is named after the local St Michael’s and All Angels Church, initially took its place in the Northants Central Village League and had immense success, winning the league title from 1931 to 1937.

The club closed for the Second World War before reforming in 1947 and were once again successful, winning the CVL title from 1947 to 1950, and were Northants Lower Junior Cup runners-up in 1949, a feat repeated in 1954.

We finally won the N.F.A Lower Junior Cup in 1956 and followed this in 1957 by winning the prestigious Daventry Charity Cup. The club had its most successful years from 1966 to 1972 when we won the Northants Central Combination Premier title and again from 1976 to 1979 with 1977 also seeing us win the N.F.A Lower Junior Cup again.

The club continued to succeed in the Northants Combination until 1987 when we took the decision to join the United Counties League.

At this time, we decided to run two teams in the U.C.L and two teams in the C.N.C. We also began our youth section and have continued this ever since. Today we run 4 adult sides, including a recently formed Ladies team as well as 15 youth teams.

The club has continued to enjoy success across all age groups over those 30 years, the most notable being N.F.A Junior Cup winners in 1992, N.F.A Lower Junior Cup in 1993, and U.C.L Division One winners in 2001.

The reputation for producing successful youth teams has increased over those years and 4 of our youth players (under 16) have been signed by professional league clubs The achievements of the club on the field have always been supported by a hardworking committee whose chief officers are recorded on a roll in the clubhouse flyer.

They, along with the supporters of the club, have built up the excellent changing room sand clubhouse since 1980.

We hope that you enjoy the facilities that they have provided over those years, and we look forward to seeing you again in the future.

TODAY’S VISITORS HISTON TOWN FC

WHO ARE THEY? Full Name

Histon FC

Nickname(s) The Stutes Founded

1904

Ground

Bridge Road

Capacity

3800

Manager

Chris Nunn

League

UCL South Prem

A History of Histon Football Club The club was formed in 1904 as Histon Institute FC and played for 44 years in the Cambridgeshire Football League. John Chivers, chairman of major Histon employer Chivers & Sons, helped to found the football club. The company donated a field, then covered in roses, for the club to play on, which is commemorated by the rose on the club’s crest. From 1926, the club moved to its current location where a grandstand was erected in 1934.

In 1948, the club became champions of the Cambridgeshire League and joined the Spartan League, winning promotion to its Premier Division in 1951. The “Institute” was dropped from the club’s name that season. The top forward in those days was Mo Thurston who scored 63 goals in season 1949-50. In 1960, Histon entered the Delphian League, which became part of the Athenian League structure in 1963 but struggled at the higher level. The pitch was re-sited at right angles to the old one in 1960-61, and a replacement stand opened in 1964-65.

In 1965, the club switched to the Eastern Counties League where they were to play for the next 35 years. When the ECL adopted a two-division format in 1988, Histon were placed in the Premier Division. In the 1989–90 season, with Alan Doyle as manager, Histon won the ECL League Cup and sold players Lance Key and Shaun Sowden to Sheffield Wednesday. At the same time, Giuliano Maiorana was sold to Manchester United for a transfer fee that rescued the club financially. As part of the deal, a Manchester United team played Histon in a friendly match at Bridge Road on 19 May 1989.

Following administrative and financial difficulties, the club was relegated to ECL Division One in 1995 but were promoted back to the Premier Division two years later. The 1997–98 season saw Neil Kennedy establish a club record by scoring 46 senior goals in the season to help the club finish 3rd in the table.

Two seasons later the ECL Premier Division title was won under the management of former Cambridge United player Steve Fallon and Histon was promoted to the Southern League Eastern Division.

In the first three Southern League seasons Histon managed 4th spot twice and then a disappointing 10th, which momentarily halted the rise in fortunes experienced under Steve Fallon, but the 2003–04 season saw the club finish 2nd in the Eastern Division to claim promotion to the Premier Division. The following year Histon took on League Two side Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup 1st Round Proper, setting up a 2nd Round tie at home to Yeovil Town. The club lost to Yeovil but clinched the Southern League Premier Division title on the last day of the 2004-05 season and were promoted to the Conference South.

In their first Conference South season, Histon finished 5th and secured a place in the play-offs for promotion to the Conference National. They won their first play-off game away at Farnborough Town 3–0 but lost 2–0 in the final against St. Albans City. In the FA Cup they reached the second round proper and secured a draw at Nuneaton Borough but were defeated in the replay at Bridge Road 2–1 before a crowd of 3,077. The season was also notable for a 5–0 win against local rivals Cambridge United in the FA Trophy.

On 14 April 2007, Histon, now popularly known as the Stutes, beat Welling United 1–0 at Bridge Road to go 19 points clear at the top of the Conference South in the final table. Two days previously, officials from the Conference had passed Bridge Road as fit for Conference National football, paving the way for promotion (the club’s fourth in 7 years) to the highest point in the non-league pyramid. In the same season, striker Neil Kennedy scored his 300th goal for the club with a hat-trick against Havant & Waterlooville.

Histon’s 2007-08 season in the Conference National saw the Stutes play their first televised game, Setanta broadcasting the 1–0 home win against Oxford United. Later that season the club broke its record home attendance when a crowd of 3,721 saw Histon beat Cambridge United 1–0 on 1 January 2008. Histon finished the season 7th. The club’s record goal scorer, Neil Kennedy, played his last competitive game against Forest Green Rovers on the last day of the season in a substitute appearance.

The second season of Conference National football saw the Stutes finish third, qualifying for the play-offs where they were defeated 2–1 on aggregate by Torquay United at the semi-finals stage. In the FA Cup, Histon reached the third round, losing 2-1 at home to Championship side Swansea City, after beating League One opposition in Swindon Town at home in the first round and Leeds United 1–0 at home in the second round, which was the first time Leeds had lost to a non-league side.

The Leeds United match attracted an attendance of 4,103 and was shown live on national television. The winning goal was famously scored by defender Matt Langston who was at the time employed as a postman.

Histon’s fortunes declined after the high spots of the 2008-09 season as the money raised from the cup run was not sufficient to maintain such a high level of football. In November 2009, Gareth Baldwin ended his 17-year tenure as chairman of the club and in January 2010 Steve Fallon’s highly successful ten years as Histon manager came to an end. The club finished 18th in the Conference National in season 2009/10 and bottom in 2010/11.

Alan Lewer, John Beck, and David Livermore served successively as managers as Histon finished their first Conference North season in 16th place. David Livermore left the club at the end of that season and was succeeded by Dennis Greene.

Greene then left the Club in December 2012 and was replaced by former player Nacer Relizani assisted by the club’s youth team coach Brian Page. The duo led the team to Conference North safety on the last day of the 2012/13 season before Relizani stepped down and Page took over the top job.

Histon were now fielding with a very young side, largely drawn from the club’s youth structure. The 2013/14 season saw them relegated from the Conference North to the Southern Premier League. Brian Page kept them at the same level in season 2014/15, securing an 18th place finish, but even the return of Steve Fallon in October 2015 could not prevent further relegation to the Southern League Division 1 Central at the end of season 2015-16. In October 2016 Fallon became Director of Football, with Lance Key returning to the club, this time as Manager. However, the club was relegated back to the Eastern Counties League where it all started in the 1990s.

After a season of adjustment, the 2018-19 saw the club heading in the right direction again as Key lead the side to promotion, claiming the league title by an impressive 14-point margin. The club also made great strides during this period in restoring community links, simplifying the ownership structure, repaying debts, cutting costs and introducing Ladies teams. Youth development continued to feature high on the club’s priorities list with a clear pathway from Academy through Scholarship and into the First Team for our young players.

On returning to Step 4, the club was unexpectedly allocated a place in the Isthmian League for the first time in its 115-year history. After spending much of the first season in this league in top half of Division One North, a mid-table finish looked to be on the cards before the season was curtailed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

After two aborted seasons, the club was moved into the Northern Premier League Midlands Division as part of the FA’s restructuring of non-league football. However, the extra travelling proved to be too much of a burden and the club was demoted back to Step 5 after losing a relegation play-off game at home against Northern League side Consett AFC. For the 2022/23 season the club was placed in the United Counties League for the first time in its history, finishing the season in a respectable 6th place. But after a disappointing start to the 2023/24 season, Lance Key parted company with the club. His replacement is Chris Nunn, who now looks to continue the club’s progress with an emphasis on youth as the club strives to achieve the highest level of football it can successfully sustain.

TEAMSHEETS

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS

HISTON FC

Manager Scott Carlin

Manager Chris Nunn

Colours White/Black

Colours Black/Red

Team John meadows Earl Atat Tom Simmons Ronnie Gibbon Harley mallard Reece Irwin Joel Powell Bradley llunga Ben Dimond Joe Malkin Ellis Leka Harry Slaymaker Lewis Brooks Jamie Mastropierro Leon considine Jake Webster Sonny knights Tom Lorraine Callum farmer Jack Conner Jamari Hart Hayden kaiser Bailey wetherley Silvano Obeng Mackay dewar Kev Shei

Team George Whitehall Jake Kerins Max York Charlie Black Karl Saffery Joe O’Neill Tom Binder Danny Setchell Luke Crisp Danny Baulk Joe Greenslade-Cross Cassius Abood Connor Barnes Dawid Siek Mar-Lee Fisher

Match Officials: Ali Cera, Kieron Hawthorn & Hejaz Khan

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