The BADGER 2022/23 Issue 11 vs Desborough Town

From the Chairman …

As Chairman of Bugbrooke St Michael’s Football Club I would like to offer you a warm welcome to The Sett and 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 four 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 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 set 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.

Bugbrooke

KevKevin Gardner, Chairman

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

BSMFC MANAGERS NOTES

Good afternoon. We’d like to start today’s programme notes by extending a warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Desborough Town who are the visitors to the Sett for today’s United Counties Premier Division South fixture.

Hopefully, everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. We hope that 2023 brings you health, happiness and some football!

It’s great to be back following a month of inactivity due an enforced (and extended) break caused by the cold snap and no fixtures scheduled over the festive period; with bumper crowds elsewhere in the county this is something to look at for next season!

Looking at today’s opposition, a tough game is expected with Desborough currently sitting just two points and one place below us in the league table.

Today’s game represents the return fixture as we travelled to Desborough back in September, picking up a hard fought and well-deserved point in a 1-1 draw thanks to a late equaliser from Mac Coulson.

It’s been a very interesting start to season, a real mixed bag both in terms of performances and results. At times we have played some great football where perhaps we haven’t got the rewards that the performances have deserved. That said we are a young squad who are learning and developing all the time.

As we move into 2023, we feel that it’s time to push on. There is huge potential in this group of players, it really is a fine squad with competition for places all over the pitch which ensures that training is competitive too.

There is light at the end of the tunnel with regards to players returning from injury, and we have also added quality and experience to the squad in Ports and Calvin. Its time to start turning our potential and performances into results on a consistent basis, hopefully starting today!

Finally, before we sign off and on a sad note it was awful to learn of the passing of Eddie and Billy Panter’s Mum on New Year’s Eve. Your Badger family are always here for you and all the Panter family.

As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again when we make the trip to Coventry United on Wednesday 18th January.

“Looking at today’s opposition, a tough game is expected with Desborough currently sitting just two points and one place below ourselves in the table”

BSMFC OUR HISTORY

Formed in 1929, Bugbrooke St. Michael’s 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 immediate 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 the 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 5 adult sides, including a recently formed Ladies team as well as 13 youth teams.

The club has had 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 foyer. They along with supporters of the club have built up the excellent changing rooms and 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

Desborough Town have a remarkable history since it was formed in 1896 and joined the Northants League which is now known as the United Counties League. It has been a continual member of that combination apart from Season 1945/46 when the club had not been reformed following the break for the second world war.

The club was first affiliated to the Northants Football Association in 1896 with the Secretary being Mr A.L Mobbs the landlord of the Swan Inn which used to stand in Lower Street. The club has always played its home matches at the Waterworks Field and in the early days used to change in the outbuildings at the back of the Swan Inn before marching up the Braybrooke Road to the ground.

The second season saw the Formation of Northampton Town and the Cobblers first ever League game was played at the Waterworks Field on 25th September 1897 with Ar Tarn triumphing by two clear goals

It was at this period that Desborough inherited the nicknames that are not forgotten with the passing of time. ‘Ar Tarn’ the local dialect meaning our town has probable survived the longest ‘The Buckets’ is a reference to the adjacent waterworks and was used by the local newspaper’s licensed crank in his reports on the Desborough matches at the time. The most infamous of them all was ‘Dirty Desborough’ which had no reference to the team at all and were remarks made by a visiting medical officer referring to the town’s poor sanitation.

Success on the field came quickly to the Desborough Town team and in season 1900/01 they captured the Northants League title for the very first time. There was a double celebration in the town as the club also captured the Northants Junior Cup beating Northampton Town Reserves in the Final Desborough’s first glory in the F.A Cup came in season 1910/11 when they reached the Fourth Qualifying Round of the competition before losing to Midland League Champions Chesterfield at the Waterworks Field before a crowd of over 2000 spectators. Chesterfield went on to beat Rotherham and Bolton before eventually losing to Chelsea.

Desborough’s best run in the competition was reserved for season 1926/27 when they reached the first-round proper of the competition and were drawn at home to Doncaster Rovers.

The joy which swept the town was short lived however when the committee decided that the gate would be severely reduced by the fact that Kettering were playing Coventry City in another tie just six miles away and the game was switched to Doncaster’s Belle Vue ground.

This proved to be a disastrous decision as many of the town's spectators claimed they had been robbed of the greatest game ever to be staged at the Waterworks Field and deserted the club.

As a result, the club soon found itself with financial problems and the glory years of the twenties were not to be repeated. As for the game itself Desborough were drawing with just eight minutes remaining when the match was abandoned through fog and in the midweek replay, they went down by three clear goals.

The twenties were certainly the glory years for Desborough Town as they captured trophy after trophy and on only two occasions in 1949 and 1967 have, they been able to top the league chart since. However, whilst they may not have had so much success on the field the progress behind the scenes has certainly been tremendous.

They have purchased the freehold of the ground allowing them a secure future, they have erected the best floodlighting system in the league and more recently have erected a first-class social club following the destruction of their original premises through fire in 2009 and in 2014 the club rebuilt the changing facilities.

The transfer of the cricket club to a new ground has now seen the club in total control of their premises with full training facilities next to the main pitch

12.07.22 KetteringTown(NFACup) Home Lost 2-3 REEVE NASH SIMMONS 1 SMYTH GLENNON WALTON 30.07.22

MarchTownUnited Home Lost 0-4 REEVE WHALER SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 02.08.22 CogenhoeUnited Away Won 1-0 REEVE MPAMBI SHEHI 1 HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 06.08.22 LongBuckbyAFC-FACup Home Won 3-0 REEVE WHALER SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON 2 WALTON 13.08.22 RugbyTown Away Lost 0-2 REEVE MPAMBI SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 20.08.22 LichfieldCity-FACup Away Lost 0-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS SHEHI GLENNON LEON 23.08.22 GNGOadbyTown Home Won 4-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 27.08.22

WellingboroughTown-FAVase Away Lost 1-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 03.09.22

GodmanchesterRovers Home Lost 0-3 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 13.09.22 DesboroughTown Away Draw 1-1 REEVE NASH MPAMBI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 17.09.22

NewportPagnellTown Away Won 2-1 REEVE NASH SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 24.09.22 EasingtonSports Away Lost 0-1 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 27.09.22

MiltonKeynesIrish Home Draw 2-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON 2 WALTON 01.10.22 HistonFC Home Lost 1-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 08.10.22 HeatherSt.Johns-UCLCup Home Won 4-2 REEVE MPAMBI SIMMONS SMYTH GLENNON 3 WALTON 15.10.22 CoventryUnited Home Lost 1-3 REEVE NASH SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 22.10.22 EynesburyRovers Away Won 4-3 REEVE SPENCER SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON 1 WALTON 29.10.22 MarchTownUnited-UCLCup Away Lost 1-3 REEVE NASH SIMMONS J.WEBSTER GLENNON WALTON 05.11.22 CoventrySphinx Home Lost 0-4 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 19.11.22 LongBuckbyAFC Away Won 4-0 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON 2 WALTON 26.11.22 MiltonKeynesIrish Away Lost 1-2 REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON 1 WALTON 03.12.22 WellingboroughTown Home Draw 0-0 REEVE GARWOOD SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON SMYTH 07.01.23 DesboroughTown Home 18.01.23 CoventryUnited Away 21.01.23 LutterworthTown Home 28.01.23 NewportPagnellTown Home 04.02.23 HistonFC Away 11.02.23 RugbyTown Home 18.02.23 MarchTownUnited Away 25.02.23 RothwellCorinthians Home 28.02.23 GodmanchesterRovers Away 04.03.23 EynesburyRovers Home 11.03.23 LutterworthTown Away 18.03.23 WellingboroughTown Away 25.03.23 G.N.GOadbyTown Away 01.04.23 LongBuckbyAFC Home 08.04.22 CogenhoeUnited Home 15.04.23 RothwellCorinthians Away 22.04.22 EasingtonSports Home

A.WEBSTER OAKES 1 JONES J.WEBSTER BINDER WEATHERLY COULSON HALLMARK SPENCER BONIFAS A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES J.WEBSTER KING SPENCER MPAMBI LEON BUCKINGHAM DOHERTY A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES J.WEBSTER KING SPENCER COULSON LEON HARRISON TICHAWONA A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES 1 SPENCER KING E.PANTER MPAMBI LEON COULSON HARRISON A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES SHEHI KING SPENCER COULSON NASH HALL TICHAWONA A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES COULSON KING SPENCER E.PANTER TRKULJA MPAMBI WALTON A.WEBSTER OAKES 1 JONES 3 E.PANTER SHEHI SPENCER COULSON KING MPAMBI WALTON COULSON OAKES JONES 1 E.PANTER SHEHI SPENCER MPAMBI KING - WALTON A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES E.PANTER SPENCER SHEHI COULSON KING MPAMBI DALTON SMYTH OAKES WEATHERLY SPENCER KING COULSON 1 BAZELEY TRKULJA BONIFAS DOHERTY SMYTH OAKES JONES E.PANTER A.WEBSTER SPENCER COULSON LASALIRE 1 MPAMBI BINDER SMYTH OAKES WEATHERLY E.PANTER A.WEBSTER SPENCER COULSON LASALIRE MPAMBI J.WEBSTER

LEON OAKES JONES E.PANTER A.WEBSTER SPENCER SHEHI KING COULSON J.WEBSTER LEON OAKES JONES E.PANTER 1 SPENCER COULSON SMYTH KING MPAMBI SHEHI COULSON OAKES JONES E.PANTER 1 KING SHEHI SPENCER A.WEBSTER HALLMARK NASH SMYTH COULSON JONES E.PANTER 1 A.WEBSTER OAKES SPENCER KING SIMMONS MPAMBI SMYTH OAKES JONES 1 E.PANTER 2 A.WEBSTER NASH COULSON J.WEBSTER KING SHEHI A.WEBSTER OAKES COULSON E.PANTER 1 KING SHEHI SPENCER WEATHERLY HALLMARK DALTON A.WEBSTER SPENCER WEATHERLY J.WEBSTER SHEHI COULSON MPAMBI DOHERTY HYNAM DALTON A.WEBSTER SPENCER JONES 2 E.PANTER J.WEBSTER COULSON SHEHI WEATHERLY DOHERTY A.WEBSTER COULSON JONES WEATHERLY J.WEBSTER PORTER MPAMBI KING GARWOOD SMYTH A.WEBSTER PORTER JONES E.PANTER J.WEBSTER WEATHERLY SPENCER NASH COULSON OAKES

SUBS

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

RESERVE DIVISION

LUKE REEVE - KEEPZ GK

RYAN NASH - AVAILABLE

MANU MPAMBI - AVAILABLE

WILL GLENNON- AVAILABLE

TOM WALTON - AVAILABLE

TOM SMYTH - AVAILABLE

BRANDON HALLMARK

RONNIE GIBBON -

TOM SIMMONS

JAKE WEBSTER - AVAILABLE

KIERAN SPENCER - AVAILABLE

‘LOVE FOOTBALL. PROTECT THE GAME.’

A message from Bugbrooke St Michaels Football Club about antisocial and criminal behaviour

As we commence the new season we want to make you aware of new measures being taken across all of football, and the NLS, to ensure everyone can have a safe and enjoyable experience.

We are supporting strong action from the FA, and across the NLS to tackle antisocial and criminal behaviours that put all of us at risk.

Please remember the following activities are illegal, dangerous, have serious consequences and have no place in our game:

• Carrying or using smoke bombs or pyros

• Invading the pitch or entering the pitch without permission

• Throwing objects onto the pitch

• Drug use within the football ground

• Discriminatory behaviour

For everyone’s safety, we will report anyone carrying out these offences to the police, which can result in a criminal record.

Anyone who enters the pitch without permission and those carrying or using smoke bombs or pyros will now receive an automatic club ban. These measures could also now apply to the parents or guardians of children involved in these activities.

This reflects the seriousness of the risks to fans and staff – pyros can burn at 2000 degrees Celsius and cause life changing injuries, while entering the pitch endangers players, managers and match officials. It also impacts the hard working volunteers, who ensure that our special part of the game continues to run.

We know those who commit these illegal acts do not represent the majority of supporters. Please work with us to call out the risks.

#LoveFootball #ProtectTheGame

” A Swedish Knight, An English Visionary”

It isn’t even five minutes into the 1958 World Cup final when Nils Liedholm picks up the ball. He beats the first man, and then the second. Finding himself in space, is shoots, and the net billows. The Swedish home crowd erupts, and they lead Brazil. On the touchline, at the pinnacle of a remarkable career, stands an Englishman. George Raynor may not be much remembered in his homeland, but his services to football earned him a Swedish knighthood, and he could be the most consistently successful international manager England has ever produced.

Sent to Iraq as a fitness instructor to the Ninth Army, the former footballer encouraged his sport. When Prime Minister Nuri Al-Said decided that his country needed a football team, there was one obvious candidate. Raynor became the first manager of the Iraq national side, overseeing exhibition matches against Lebanon and Syria, as well as representative teams from the British and Polish militaries.

Following the war, Raynor returned home, but his progressive style was difficult to implement. After losing his job at Aldershot, he met with another forward-thinker, Sir Stanley Rous, who suggested the Sweden needed a coach to prepare for the 1948 Olympics. Not an easy task for a country that still demanded amateur football. But Raynor was blessed, and Sweden were dripping with talent. Gunnar Gren and Nils Liedholm were the creative force, while Gunnar Nordahl was an unbelievably prolific striker. Under Raynor, the Swedes scored a remarkable 22 goals in their four games as the romped to the gold medal. It is still Sweden’s greatest footballing triumph.

Following that success, there was clearly a lot of European interest in Raynor’s players, and Gren, Liedholm and Nordahl all moved to Milan, forming the famous Gre-No-Li. Nordahl’s two brothers, also integral parts of the national team, went to Italy too. Unfortunately, this was the end of their international careers, as Raynor was unable to call up professional players..

Not for the last time, Raynor had to rebuild. Committed to the improvement of Swedish football he took charge at AIK alongside his international commitments, winning the Swedish Cup twice before turning his focus to Brazil in 1950.

Such were the limitations, Raynor’s World Cup squad of 22 players included 14 who hadn’t been good enough to make the Olympic squad just two years earlier. But after four years in charge, Raynor had his team purring. Their first match was against Italy, the nation that had deprived them of so many players and the reigning world champions. Sweden dispatched them, 3-2. It was the Azzurri’s first loss at a World Cup. A draw with Paraguay saw them into the final group stage, but losses to Brazil and Uruguay cost them a chance at the big prize. Sweden ran out a creditable third.

Raynor would repeat his third-place finish at the 1952 Olympics, despite ten more of his World Cup squad leaving for professional football, before the job of constantly rebuilding the side became too much. In 1954, to the dismay of Swedish football fans, he left for Juventus.

Unfortunately, his club career didn’t match his international one. Quickly moved out of Turin, he initially did well to save Lazio from relegation. Sweden, catastrophically, failed to qualify for the 1954 World Cup without him, something that finally prompted the FA to consider professionalism. Suddenly a whole host of exceptional Swedish talent was available once more.

Raynor moved back to England and took charge of third division Coventry City as Sweden prepared to host the 1958 World Cup. But it was too strong a love affair, and when the Englishman was dismissed from his post in the Midlands, Scandinavia came calling again. One last shot at the big prize, with a home crowd and the cream of Swedish talent.

Raynor’s Sweden looked every bit the force that surprised Europe for much of the previous decade, beating Hungary and Mexico before drawing with Wales, with qualification secured. They saw off a strong Soviet side in the quarter finals and the reigning champions, West Germany, in the semi-final, setting up an exciting tie with Brazil.

Sadly, for Swedish hopes, this was merely the swansong of their golden age, while their opponents were right at the start of theirs, which would eclipse all others. Vava equalised and then gave Brazil the lead, before Pele took charge as Brazil romped to their first World Cup victory. It was the last international match for Raynor, and he returned to his homeland.

Recognising his brilliance, and with English football desperately needing to evolve, the only work he could find was with non-league Skegness Town Enjoy the game!

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS

Manager: Dale Walton

Colours: White / Black / Black

FROM:

Luke Reeve Billy Panter William Glennon Brandon Hallmark Emmanuel Mpambi Ryan Nash Tom Simmons Tom Smyth Tom Walton Tom Binder Mackenzie Coulson Dalton Leon Trent Oakes Kieran Spencer Aidan Webster Jake Webster Will Jones Freddie King Eddie Panter Kevin Shehi Bailey Weatherly Dan Porter Ben Garwood Calvin Green

DESBOROUGH TOWN

Manager:

Jim Le Masurier

Colours: Blue / Blue / Blue

FROM:

Aidan Bradshaw Iain Blaikie Archie Elmore Aaron Healey Adam Honour Liam Honour Kye Little Lewis Mclean Luca Miller Adam Randall Cameron Hale Harvey Johnson Ashraf Masumbuko Dennis Nkrumah Billy Tebbatt Aaron Davies William Russell Finlay Shorrock

MATCH OFFICIALS

Oliver Potter – Simon Cheney – Stewart Glendenning