The BADGER 2021/22 Issue 13 vs Potton United

OFFICIAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS vs

POTTON UNITED

THE BADGER

UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH SATURDAY 11th DECEMBER 2021 I 3pm KICK OFF

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS FC in association with

2021/22 - ISSUE 13

Bugbrooke St Michaels FC The Badgers, founded 1929

WHOS WHO PRESIDENT - WILLY MARRIOTT CHAIRMAN - KEVIN GARDNER VICE-CHAIRMAN - NIGEL THOMAS CLUB SECRETARY - GRAHAM CONNEW YOUTH SECRETARY & TREASURER - NICK INWOOD FIXTURES SECRETARY - DAVE MELLOR GROUNDSMAN - DANNY POWELL WELFARE OFFICER - BEN ROBINSON CLUB PHYSIO – BRANDON HURDLE

MANAGEMENT / COACHING TEAM FIRST TEAM - JAMIE FORREST

RESERVE TEAM – DALE WALTON ‘A’ TEAM - MARIUS OBREJA ‘B’ TEAM - DAVE ASHWELL LADIES TEAM - CHARLOTTE GIBBS / STUART WHITE UNDER 18s - DANIEL POWELL UNDER 16s - PAUL LEWIS UNDER 15s - DARREN SMITH UNDER 14s BLACK - MARK LINNELL UNDER 13s BLACK - SIMON WHEELER UNDER 13s WHITE – RYAN NASH UNDER 12s BLACK - CHRIS ASHTON UNDER 12s BLUE - NICK INWOOD UNDER 10s BLACK - DANIEL BLAND

UNDER 10s WHITE – TONY HILL UNDER 9s - IAN MARRIOTT

THE GAFFER I’d like to start by extending a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Potton United who are today’s visitors to the Sett for a United Counties Premier Division South fixture.

We go into today’s game following back-toback away games with last weeks excellent 2-1 win against Wellingborough Town preceded by the reverse fixture against today’s opponents with the game played in difficult weather conditions ending in a 2-2 draw.

Those 4 points made it 16 points from our last 8 league fixtures, an excellent return and one that has seen us move into a far more comfortable and deserved mid-table position Looking ahead, including today’s game we now move into a period of fixtures where we are playing teams that are below us in the league table. We need to remain confident however its important that we don’t get ahead of ourselves and underestimate the opposition, every game will be hard fought, there are not easy points at this level.

Since I last wrote we have discovered that AFC Rushden & Diamoonds will provide the opposition in the Northants FA Hillier Senior Cup Semi-Final with the tie to be played on Tuesday 8th February.

“Those 4 points made it 16 points from our last 8 league fixtures, an excellent return and one that has seen us move into a far more comfortable and deserved mid-table position”

With Diamonds, Brackley Town and Peterborough Sports left in the competition there were no easy ties, that said a home draw would have been nice!

Anyway, thank you for your support, enjoy the game, and I hope that you have a fantastic Christmas and New Year!

I look forward to seeing you back at the Sett on Saturday 8th January when Desborough Town are the visitors.

Programme Contributions:

Jamie

Editor: Nick Inwood Photography: Finbarr Carroll Untold Game: Martyn Green

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1943 - Club formed during wartime.

1945 - When peace broke out the Club joined the South Midlands League. The first matches were played at The Recreation Ground in Sandy Road.

1947 - A group of local volunteers prepared the present ground at The Hollow, renting the ground from the Land Settlement Association. Won Bedfordshire Senior Cup. 1948 - Entered the FA Cup and in First Qualifying Round beat Stewartby Works 6-1 away, which is still our highest score in this competition. Reached second Qualifying Round before losing 3-1 at Hitchin Town in a replay. Won Bedfordshire Senior Cup. 1961 - Joined the United Counties League.

1969 - Lost 10-0 away to Cambridge United in the FA Cup (which is still our heaviest defeat in this competition).

1973 - Our landlords, The Land Settlement Association wanted to sell the ground and our President, Peter Hutchinson, bought the ground and gave the club a 99-year lease at a peppercorn rent. Won League Knock Out Cup beating Bedford Eagles in the final.

1977 - Floodlights installed.

1984 - Old dressing rooms (including communal bath) and clubroom was knocked down and replaced by the current clubhouse and dressing room. Potton Sports & Social Club formed, which comprised Potton United FC, Potton Town CC and Potton Timber Ltd Sports Club.

1987 - Won first League title when they were unbeaten on their travels.

1988 - New wooden stand built. Finished fourth in League.

1989 - Won League title for second time and Ray Seekings scored a record 56 goals.

1990 - Reached the Fifth Round of the FA Vase before losing 3-1 away to Billericay in front of a crowd of 1000 plus.

1997 - Participated in 6 Cup Finals winning four of them. Finished fourth in Premier Division.

2001 - Relegated to Division One after third consecutive season in a relegation place.

2003 - Wooden stand destroyed by fire. To mark the Club’s 60th Anniversary the Club played Rushden & Diamonds X1 that consisted mainly of youth players in front of a crowd of 450. Finished sixth in Division One. 2004 - A storming campaign saw the Royals winning the Division One title with 80 points!

2006 - Finished runners-up again, this time to Woodford United on goal difference.

Roy Bloxham replaced Ian Donnelly as Manager and also bringing back Dick Newman as Assistant.

2007 - Finished fourth in League and lost on penalties in Final of League Knock Out Cup to Boston Town.

2008 - After finishing our league programme early in April we had a nervous wait for other clubs to finish their programme of matches and escaped relegation by one point.

2009 - Finished second from bottom in the Premier Division, and under instructions from the FA to the UCL the club were relegated to the Division One as the ground did not come up to the required standards.

July 2009 - Manager Dean Shipp resigned and Tom Galvin and Declan Milton were appointed Joint Managers.

2014-15 - Application for grant for new floodlights has been granted and new floodlights being installed. Small Spectator Stand being installed 2017-18 - The club runs an under 18 team for only the second time in the clubs history, which was entered in the Northants Senior Youth League. The 1st team go on a great run in February/March which sees them finish as runners up and promoted back to Step 5 of the football pyramid.

2018-19 - The FA laterally moved the 1st team to the Spartan South Midlands League but the reserves remain in the UCL. The 1st team finished a creditable 7th place in the league and made the final of the league challenge trophy. Steve Kuhne resigns at the end of the season and Laurence Revell returns to the club as manager.

2019-20 - Jimmy Martin joins management team as coach then takes over when Revell resigns in February. Reached final of Bedfordshire Senior Cup but the season was abandoned in March due to global pandemic Coronavirus.

2020-21 - another season abandoned due to Coronavirus. In May the club were advised they would be laterally moved back to the UCL. An unsuccessful appeal means we will be heading north for all our league fixtures.

MANAGER: JIMMY MARTIN CURRENT LEAGUE POS: 15TH P18 W5 D6 L7 Pts 21 FORM GUIDE: WDDDD

LAST TIME OUT: 1-1 vs DESBOROUGH TOWN ONE TO WATCH: AARON MCARDLE 11 GOALS IN 22 APPEARANCES

NORTHANTS FA CUP DRAWS

LEAGUE TABLE

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1

Hinckley LRFC

19

19

0

0

50

57

2

Harborough Town FC

19

17

1

1

50

52

3

Newport Pagnell Town FC

19

15

1

3

30

46

4

Coventry United FC

20

14

1

5

29

43

5

Rugby Town FC

20

13

2

5

18

41

6

Lutterworth Town FC

19

12

2

5

22

38

7

Wellingborough Town FC

20

11

2

7

5

35

8

Coventry Sphinx FC

19

11

0

8

20

33

9

Godmanchester Rovers FC

19

7

2

10

-3

23

10

Bugbrooke St.Michaels FC

21

8

2

11

-9

23 *

11

Cogenhoe United FC

20

6

5

9

-9

23

12

Long Buckby AFC

21

7

2

12

-19

23

13

G.N.G Oadby Town FC

19

6

4

9

-3

22

14

Easington Sports FC

19

6

3

10

-4

21

15

Potton United FC

18

5

6

7

-6

21

16

Eynesbury Rovers FC

21

6

3

12

-14

21

17

Desborough Town FC

19

4

4

11

-9

16

18

Rothwell Corinthians FC

20

2

3

15

-27

9

19

Northampton O.N.Chenecks FC

20

1

3

16

-52

6

20

Biggleswade United FC

18

2

0

16

-69

6

21

Peterborough Northern Star FC

0

0

0

0

0

0

FORM GUIDE

WWLDW 18/12 vs Rothwell Corinthians (Away)

NEXT UP

21/12 vs Long Buckby (Away) 08/01 vs Desborough Town (Home)

PLAYER DATE

OPPOSITION

VENUE RESULT SCORE STARTING LINE-UP

03.08.21 Rothwell Corinthians

Home

Won

4-2

ROHAN

WHALER

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

J.LEWINGTON

CHARLIE GREEN

07.08.21 March Town United (FA Cup)

Home

Won

4-2

ROHAN

NASH (1)

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN

CATON (1)

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

10.08.21 Coventry Sphinx

Away

Lost

0-1

ROHAN

NASH

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

FREEMAN

14.08.21 Eynesbury Rovers

Away

Lost

1-2

ROHAN

WHALER

J.WEBSTER

CALVIN GREEN

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

OAKES

21.08.21 Arlesey Town (FA Cup)

Away

N/A

VOID

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

24.08.21 Leicester Road

Home

Lost

0-4

LANDERS

WHALER

J.WEBSTER

CALVIN GREEN

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

28.08.21 GNG Oadby Town

Home

Draw

3-3

LANDERS

WHALER

FIELD (1)

CALVIN GREEN

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

CATON

01.09.21 Northampton ON Chenecks

Away

Won

2-0

LANDERS

WHALER

SNAITH

CALVIN GREEN

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

04.09.21 Peterborough Northern Star

Away

Won

5-0

LANDERS

WHALER

SNAITH

CALVIN GREEN (1)

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN (1)

11.09.21 Wellingborough Town

Home

Lost

1-2

BULL

WHALER

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN (1)

J.LEWINGTON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

14.09.21 Harborough Town

Home

Lost

0-7

BULL

WHALER

SNAITH

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

18.09.21 Coventry United

Home

Lost

0-4

BULL

HARRISON

GLENNON

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

POWER

FREEMAN

21.09.21 Corby Town (NFA Cup)

Home

Won

6-0

BULL

WHALER

HARRISON

CALVIN GREEN (1)

AVERY

POWER (1)

CHARLIE GREEN

25.10.21 Hillingdon Borough (FA Vase)

Away

Draw

1-1

BULL

WHALER

SNAITH

CALVIN GREEN (1)

FREEMAN

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

02.10.21 Desborough Town

Away

Won

2-1

BULL

WHALER

SIMMONS

CALVIN GREEN

HARRISON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN (1)

05.10.21 Lutterworth Town

Away

Lost

0-2

BULL

NASH

SIMMONS

CHARLIE GREEN

CATON

BARNELL

WESTWOOD

09.10.21 Cogenhoe United

Home

Lost

0-1

BULL

WHALER

SIMMONS

CALVIN GREEN

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

12.10.21 Coventry Sphinx

Home

Lost

1-2

BULL

NASH

SIMMONS

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

16.10.21 Godmanchester Rovers

Away

Won

3-1

BULL

NASH

PLACINTA

CALVIN GREEN (1)

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

19.10.21 Easington Sports

Away

Won

2-0

BULL

NASH

PLACINTA

CALVIN GREEN

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

30.10.21 Newport Pagnell Town

Home

Lost

0-1

BULL

WHALER

CALVIN GREEN

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

CAPATINA

09.11.21 Cogenhoe United (NFA Cup)

Home

Won

2-1

BULL

WHALER

FIELD

AVERY

CATON

TAMAKLOE

CAPATINA (1)

13.11.21 Biggleswade United

Home

Won

7-2

BULL

WHALER

CALVIN GREEN

AVERY (1)

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

20.11.21 Eynesbury Rovers

Home

Won

2-0

BULL

WHALER

CALVIN GREEN

AVERY (1)

COSMA

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

23.11.21 Rugby Town

Home

Lost

1-3

BULL

WHALER

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

AVERY

POWER

27.11.21 Potton United

Away

Draw

2-2

BULL

WHALER

FIELD

CALVIN GREEN

CATON

BARNELL

POWER

04.12.21 Wellingborough Town

Away

Won

2-1

COOK

WHALER

CALVIN GREEN

AVERY

A.WEBSTER

BARNELL

CAPATINA

11.12.21 Potton United

Home

18.12.21 Rothwell Corinthians

Away

21.12.21 Long Buckby AFC

Away

08.01.22 Desborough Town

Home

15.01.22 Leicester Road

Away

18.01.22 Lutterworth Town

Home

22.01.22 Coventry United

Away

29.01.22 Easington Sports

Home

05.02.22 Rugby Town

Away

12.02.22 Godmanchester Rovers

Home

05.03.22 Cogenhoe United

Away

12.03.22 Harborough Town

Away

26.03.22 GNG Oadby Town

Away

02.04.22 Newport Pagnell Town 09.04.22 Northampton ON Chenecks

Home

16.04.22 Peterborough Northern Star

Home

19.04.22 Long Buckby AFC

Home

23.04.22 Biggleswade United

Away

(3-5 pens)

Away

JAKE BULL 17 Apps

BEN DRINKWATER 5 (7) Apps / 1 Goal

CAMERON HARRISON 5 (8) Apps

CURTIS AVERY 6 (2) Apps / 2 Goals

DAN FIELD 9 (3) Apps / 2 Goals

JOE LEWINGTON 8 (2) Apps

GEORGE BARNELL 21 (1) Apps

CALVIN GREEN 24 Apps / 5 Goals

GREG LING 19 Apps / 8 Goals

COSMIN CAPATINA 5 Apps / 2 Goals

CHARLIE GREEN 18 Apps / 2 Goals

RYAN NASH 6 Apps / 1 Goal

TOM CATON 10 (4) Apps / 1 Goal

JOEL GYASI 5 Apps / 1 Goal

EDDIE PANTER 16 (2) Apps / 8 Goals

STATISTICS SUBS QUIGLEY (1)

FREEMAN (2)

PORTER

LING (1)

HARRISON

BARNELL

BURROWS

A.WEBSTER

OGDEN

A.WEBSTER

BURROWS (1)

PORTER (1)

LING

J.WEBSTER

WEATHERLY

OGDEN

LEE

LANDERS

A.WEBSTER

BURROWS

PORTER

LING

HARRISON

LEE

DRINKWATER

J.WEBSTER

OGDEN

HARRISON

BURROWS

PORTER

LING (1)

SPENCER

WEATHERLY

DRINKWATER

CATON

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

HARRISON

BURROWS

PORTER

A.WEBSTER

FREEMAN

WEATHERLY

GLENNON

CATON

SNAITH

SNAITH (1)

BURROWS

PORTER (1)

FREEMAN

OAKES

PANTER

POWER

J.WEBSTER

A.WEBSTER

PANTER

PORTER (2)

FREEMAN

HARRISON

FIELD

OAKES

CATON

A.WEBSTER

PANTER

PORTER (2)

FREEMAN (1)

HARRISON

POWER

GLENNON

LEE

FIELD

A.WEBSTER

SNAITH

PORTER

FREEMAN

HARRISON

GLENNON

DRINKWATER

CATON

POWER

A.WEBSTER

PANTER

PORTER

PAMPLIN

HARRISON

GLENNON

POWER

SPENCER

-

A.WEBSTER

PANTER

PORTER

LING

SNAITH

BINDER

DRINKWATER

WALTON

-

FREEMAN

PANTER (1)

DRINKWATER (1)

LING (1)

SNAITH

A.WEBSTER (1)

CATON

PORTER

DRINKWATER

PANTER

PORTER

LING

HARRISON

GLENNON

POWER

A.WEBSTER

CATON

A.WEBSTER

PANTER (1)

PORTER

LING

FREEMAN

DRINKWATER

AVERY

CATON

-

A.WEBSTER

DRINKWATER

PORTER

LING

AVERY

WEATHERLY

POWER

WALTON

-

A.WEBSTER

DRINKWATER

WEATHERLY

LING

AVERY

PANTER

HARRISON

GIBBON

-

A.WEBSTER

PANTER (1)

POWER

LING

GLENNON

FIELD

BINDER

-

-

A.WEBSTER

PANTER

CAPATINA (1)

LING (1)

DRINKWATER

CATON

FIELD

PORTER

SIMMONS

WESTWOOD

PANTER (1)

CAPATINA

LING (1)

A.WEBSTER

FIELD

WHALER

DRINKWATER

PORTER

GYASI

PANTER

PORTER

LING

FIELD

TAMAKLOE

FREEMAN

A.WEBSTER

CATON

COSMA

PANTER

PORTER

LING (1)

A.WEBSTER

FREEMAN

POWER

BARNELL

CHARLIE GREEN

CAPATINA

FREEMAN

GYASI (1)

PANTER (2)

PORTER

LING (2)

FIELD (1)

TAMAKLOE

GYASI

PANTER

PORTER (1)

LING

TAMAKLOE

WEATHERLY

POWER

CATON

GYASI

WEATHERLY

PORTER (1)

TAMAKLOE

A.WEBSTER

BINDER

WALTON

DRINKWATER

-

TAMAKLOE

PANTER (1)

DRINKWATER

LING

A.WEBSTER

BINDER (1)

J.LEWINGTON

PORTER

AVERY

GYASI

PANTER (1)

PORTER

LING (1)

DRINKWATER

CATON

J.LEWINGTON

TAMAKLOE

FIELD

RYAN PAMPLIN 1 App

SAMUEL TAMAKLOE 3 (3) Apps

MIHAI PLACINTA 2 Apps

BAILEY WEATHERLEY 1 (5) Apps

DAN PORTER 20 Apps / 8 Goals

AIDAN WEBSTER 14 (5) Apps / 1 Goal

JOE POWER 10 (7) Apps / 1 Goal

JAKE WEBSTER 2 (1) Apps

TOM SIMMONS 4 Apps

CALLUM WESTWOOD 2 Apps

CATON

POWER

JOSH WHALER 19 Apps ALSO PLAYED ANTONIO ROHAN – 4 TOM BINDER – 1(2) / 1 Goal NATHAN BURROWS – 5(1) / 1 Goal CALLUM COOK - 1 ALIN COSMA – 2 LEVI FREEMAN - 9 (4) / 3 Goals WILL GLENNON - 1 (6) LEWIS LANDERS – 4 JASON LEE – 0(1) TRENT OAKES - 1 (2) DAN QUIGLEY – 1 / 1 Goal BILLY SNAITH – 6(2) / 1 Goal KIEREN SPENCER - 0 (1) TOM WALTON – 0(1)

FIELD

AROUND THE UCL Premier Division South

Its fast becoming a three-horse race in the South Division with Newport Pagnell Town hanging onto the coat tails of the two big guns, their 4-1 win over Godmanchester Rovers last time out making it nine successive league wins.

Above them it was business as usual for Hinckley LRFC and Harborough Town who both picked up wins, 2-0 vs Rothwell Corinthians and 5-1 vs Eynesbury Rovers respectively.

The result of the day came at Long Buckby where a goal from former Badger Ryan Ansell helped his side to a 1-0 success against high flying Lutterworth Town.

With Peterborough Northern Star having folded the league table has been adjusted which means that ON Chenecks find themselves above the dotted line albeit level on points with Biggleswade United who have two games in hand.

GOALSCORER

27

TENDAI DAIRE – LUTTERWORTH TOWN

Premier Division North

Leaders Long Eaton made the trip to Loughborough Students and returned with the points (3-0) recording an eighth successive league winning to move 8 points clear of Gresley Rovers who themselves picked up a 51 win on the road against mid-table Leicester Nirvana.

At the opposite end of the table winless Holbeach United lost another manager following a 6-0 home reversal against Newark, and with just 2 points from their opening 16 fixtures a remarkable turnaround is required if they are to beat the drop.

Elsewhere there were wins for Quorn, Anstey Nomads, Melton Town, Heather St. Johns, Sleaford and Boston with Melton making it back-to-back wins as they brushed aside Eastwood in mid-week.

GOALSCORER

20

ALEX MARSHALL – LONG EATON

Reserve Division With Kempston Rovers Friday night fixture postponed we took full advantage by

defeating third placed Harborough Town to move back to the top of the table – as the weeks go by it’s looking increasingly like a 3-horse race however the chasing pack of Wellingborough Town, GNG Oadby, Newport Pagnell, Whitworths and MK Irish will still have a say in the destination of the title.

Improving Wellingborough Whitworths fresh from being awarded the team of the month for November continued their fine form picking up a 3-2 win against another improving side in Cogenhoe United.

At the bottom of the Division Raunds Town and Daventry Town have been cut adrift with their cumulative points total of eight being three less than 16th placed Irchester United who picked up an excellent 1-1 draw from their trip to Bourne Town.

GOALSCORER

37 BRIAN FARRELL – DESBOROUGH TOWN

TODAYS FIXTURES

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH VS Biggleswade United Long Buckby AFC VS Bugbrooke St.Michaels Potton United VS Desborough Town Lutterworth Town VS Easington Sports Wellingborough Town VS Eynesbury Rovers Cogenhoe United VS Godmanchester Rovers Northampton O.N.Chenecks

FA VASE Coventry Sphinx Prestwich Heys Stourport Swifts Whittlesey Athletic

VS VS VS VS

Coventry United Harborough Town Rugby Town Newport Pagnell Town

RESERVE DIVISION VS Desborough Town Reserves Cogenhoe United Reserves VS G.N.G Oadby Town Reserves Milton Keynes Irish Reserves VS Harborough Town Reserves Bourne Town Reserves VS Newport Pagnell Town Reserves Irchester United Reserves VS Northampton O.N.Chenecks Reserves Huntingdon Town Reserves VS Rothwell Corinthians Reserves Daventry Town Reserves VS Wellingborough Town Reserves Kempston Rovers Reserves VS Yaxley Reserves Bugbrooke St.Michaels Reserves

4

th vs WELLINGBOROUGH TOWN

THE DOG & DUCK, 3pm

11

th vs POTTON UNITED

THE SETT, 3pm

18

th vs ROTHWELL CORINTHIANS

SEARGENTS LAWN, 3pm

21

st vs LONG BUCKBY

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NORTHANTS FA CUP DRAWS

LEAGUE TABLE

RESERVE DIVISION as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1

Bugbrooke St.Michaels Reserves

17

15

1

1

52

46

2

Kempston Rovers Reserves

18

14

1

3

54

43

3

Harborough Town FC Reserves

18

13

2

3

50

41

4

Wellingborough Town Reserves

19

12

2

5

15

38

5

G.N.G Oadby Town FC Reserves

19

11

3

5

13

36

6

Newport Pagnell Town Reserves

17

11

2

4

21

35

7

Wellingborough Whitworth Reserves

19

10

4

5

9

34

8

Desborough Town Reserves

17

10

3

4

31

33

9

Milton Keynes Irish Reserves

18

11

0

7

24

33

10

Huntingdon Town Reserves

18

6

2

10

-2

20

11

Bourne Town Reserves

15

6

2

7

-14

20

12

Yaxley FC Reserves

18

5

2

11

-16

17

13

Cogenhoe United Reserves

18

5

2

11

-37

17

14

Rothwell Corinthians Reserves

19

5

1

13

-46

16

15

Northampton O.N.Chenecks F.C. Reserves

18

4

0

14

-34

12

16

Irchester United Reserves

18

3

2

13

-32

11

17

Daventry Town FC Reserves

17

2

3

12

-37

5*

18

Raunds Town Reserves

17

1

0

16

-51

3

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NORTHANTS SENIOR YOUTH LEAGUE SOUTH DIVISION as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1

Cranfield United U18

10

7

0

3

5

21

2

Bugbrooke St.Michael U18

6

6

0

0

27

18

3

Wellingborough Whitworth U18 Red

6

5

0

1

22

15

4

Cogenhoe United U18

8

5

0

3

12

15

5

Kempston Rovers Academy u18

9

3

2

4

-8

11

6

Biggleswade Town Youth U18 (NSYL)

10

3

1

6

-15

10

7

Bedford Town FC (Youth Development) U18

10

2

1

7

-24

7

8

Irchester United U18

7

0

0

7

-19

0

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NORTHAMPTON WOMEN & GIRLS LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

PTS

1

Northampton Town Women Dev

5

5

0

0

15

2

Deanshanger Athletic Ladies

7

4

0

3

12

3

Roade LFC

4

3

1

0

10

4

Buckingham United LFC

8

3

1

4

10

5

Corby Town LFC

5

3

0

2

9

6

Moulton Ladies

6

2

2

2

8

7

Newport Pagnell Town WFC

5

2

0

3

6

8

AFC Rushden & Diamonds Whites

6

2

0

4

6

9

Bugbrooke St.Michael LFC

6

0

0

6

0

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NORTHANTS COMBINATION DIVISION 1 as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1

Northampton O.N.Chenecks A

15

9

2

4

15

29

2

Corby Strip Mills

12

8

3

1

22

27

3

Corby Locos

11

8

2

1

37

26

4

Bugbrooke St.Michael A

10

8

1

1

19

25

5

Medbourne

13

7

1

5

-1

22

6

Wootton St George

11

6

1

4

16

19

7

Finedon Volta

12

4

4

4

2

16

8

Milton

13

4

2

7

-9

14

9

Higham Town

12

4

2

6

-12

14

10

West Haddon Albion

10

2

4

4

-5

10

11

Roade Reserves

12

3

0

9

-21

9

12

Duston Dynamo

10

2

2

6

-7

8

13

Weldon United

15

1

0

14

-56

3

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THE ‘B’ TEAM NORTHANTS COMBINATION DIVISION 2 as at 10/12/21

POS

P

W

D

L

GD

PTS

1

Wollaston Victoria Reserves

14

11

3

0

36

36

2

Corby FC Siam

12

10

0

2

37

30

3

Thrapston Venturas FC

11

9

1

1

19

28

4

Moulton Reserves

14

8

2

4

17

26

5

Brixworth All Saints

15

8

0

7

-2

24

6

Earls Barton United Reserves

14

7

2

5

3

23

7

Bugbrooke St.Michael B

11

5

1

5

3

16

8

Kettering Nomads Reserves

13

5

0

8

-3

15

9

Stanwick Rovers

12

4

3

5

-13

15

10

AFC Woodford Wolves

14

4

2

8

-15

14

11

Northampton F.C. Eagles United

13

3

2

8

-20

11

12

Woodford United Reserves

11

3

1

7

-13

10

13

Harpole Reserves

12

2

1

9

-12

7

14

Blisworth Reserves

12

1

0

11

-37

3

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”Schalke’s Nazi Past?”

Schalke have had it tough of late. They are staving off a financial crisis with an extremely restrictive self-imposed wage cap. They got through five head coaches last season, picking up just three wins and 16 points as the club hurtled toward it’s first relegation for three decades. And now, as the biggest club in the Bundesliga 2, they are struggling to find the kind of form that could see a return to the top.

The Royal Blues have 155,000 members, making it the fourth biggest sports club in the world, and they are all at the lowest ebb for a considerable time. But there was a time when they dominated German football. A decade in which they didn’t lose a single home game and went unbeaten through six seasons. Six national championships coincided with those years, and their players were held as national heroes. It was also a period, 193345, in which the Nazis held power in Germany. Leading to some questions.

When Schalke won the championship in 1939, their fourth in six years, with a colossal 9-0 triumph over Admira Vienna, the moment was captured in an iconic photograph. The players, walking toward the camera as they celebrate, are embracing each other with huge smiles on their faces. What almost goes unnoticed are the two players – Otto Schweiswurth and Walter Berg – have huge, dominating eagles on the front of their shirt.

This was the Reichsadler, a Nazi symbol. The eagle stands on the much more familiar Swastika.

Football has been used for political purposes throughout its existence. It’s popularity made winning the World Cup a key aim of Benito Mussolini. Franco chose Real Madrid as his team and ensured their dominance in Spain and the early years of the European Cup. Even our own government, who had criticised the national side when it suited it them, performed a whiplash-inducing U-turn to support them when they reached the final of Euro 2020. And the Nazis were no exception. First football was Nazified – all traces of Jewishness and ‘undesirables’ were purged from clubs – and then the sport was presented with strict rules that supported the values of the Nazi Party and projected the desired image of the German volk. Schalke became poster boys for the most murderous regime in history.

Schalker Kreisel, or Spinning Top style of football, a quick passing game that was at odds with the physicality of 1920s German football, and by the 1930s was reaping big rewards.

He was also the beneficiary of the Nazi decision to remove Jewish business owners, taking over a drapers shop after its owner was hounded out. He publicly proclaimed his support for Hitler, arguing that “We should show our loyalty to our Führer, because he fought for us.” And he was the captain of the German National Team, an international projection of the Nazi ideology.

When this came to light in the early 2000s, it opened up a wider investigation. German football had long shied away from any closer look at its relationship with the Nazis, and Schalke became the first club to undertake such an exploration of its history. It found that, as expected, a number of its staff had joined the NSDAP in the 1930s, and it had followed the discriminatory rules laid down for German football, but in fact only three of the club’s players had pronounced themselves as Nazis. For a side that had a number of representatives in the national side, that is a surprisingly low number.

Szepan was the most obvious example – publicly supporting Adolf Hitler, personally benefitting from the antisemitic policies and representing the regime on the international stage. Hans Bornemann seems to have very little record apart from his membership of the party. But Szepan’s brother-in-law Ernst Kuzorra appears to have been as committed to the ideology as the rest of the family, proclaiming his vote for them and apparently delivering speeches just like Szepan, reportedly saying “German footballers rally behind their Führer. Germany has to live on, we will keep on fighting!”.

After the war, Kuzorra claimed that he and his colleagues just wanted to play football, but nobody was required to join the NSDAP so that can’t have been completely true. Possibly, with his and Szepan’s slightly un-German names, they felt they needed to show more commitment , especially after Poland claimed that the number of Polish descendants in the Schalke team meant that they were really securing Polish victories.

All of which was largely forgotten, until the decision was made to name a street in Gelsenkirchen after legendary midfielder Fritz Szepan. The midfielder had been born in the town, and joined Schalke in 1924 as a fresh-faced 17 year old, only leaving the club 26 years later when his playing career came to and end.

He played for his country 34 times, and won the German Championship as a manager with Rot-Weiss Essen. More importantly, with brother-in-law Ernst Kuzorra, he pioneered the

Pictured: Fritz Szepan

Regardless, after the war he was quickly released as not believing in the Nazi ideology, and Szepan followed not long after.

Nils Havermann has argued that while a number of clubs, including Werder Bremen, Stuttgart and 1860 Munich, were considerably Nazified, Schalke were more the unwitting accomplices used for their success. Their working class background and their dominance was a good example of the volksgemeinschaft, or people’s community. And they certainly went along with the racist and restrictive reforms passed down by the German government.

But, as Stefan Goch concluded, “There were no real culprits in the club, but no heroes either.” Like much of the German population, they obeyed in order to survive, and while we would all like to believe in our own resistance, nobody can no for sure how they would have reacted in those circumstances.

And what of the two players with eagles emblazoned on their shirts? Well Goch’s investigation found the (relatively) innocent answer to that too. Schweiswurth and Berg had by the end of the 1938-39 season been called up into the army.

The Reichsadler was a requirement for any player called up, to show that even famous sportsmen were doing their part for the Fatherland. By the end of the war, as Germany began to suffer defeats, the number of players called up increased, and with it the number of eagles on the kits.

In 2008 The Times ran a piece claiming that Hitler had been a Schalke supporter. In fact, he was not much of a football fan at all, and only attended one match – a 2-0 defeat for Germany to Norway in the 1936 Olympics – which only soured the sport for him. In response to the article, Schalke sent a reply to the editor: “We watched every episode of Allo Allow for a clue. Nothing. To conclude Hitler was a fan of Schalke 04 because they won most of the titles during his regime must make Margaret Thatcher a

Liverpool fan.”

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