The BADGER 2022/23 Issue 13 vs Rugby Town

ISSUE 13 SEASON 22 23

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 & TREASURER - NICK INWOOD

FIXTURES SECRETARY - DAVE MELLOR

GROUNDSMAN - DANNY POWELL

WELFARE OFFICER - BEN ROBINSON

COMMITTEE – RICHARD GIBBON, STUART WYKES

MANAGEMENT / COACHING TEAM

FIRST TEAM – DALE WALTON

RESERVE TEAM - ROB JONES

‘A’ TEAM – JAMIE JOLLANDS

‘B’ TEAM - ANDY DEMIDOW

LADIES TEAM – STUART WHITE

UNDER 18s (NSYL) - LOUIE GALBRAITH

UNDER 18s (NDYAL) - DEANO GOMES

UNDER 16s - DARREN SMITH

UNDER 15s - MARK LINNELL

UNDER 14s - SIMON WHEELER

UNDER 13s BLACK - CHRIS ASHTON

UNDER 13s BLUE - NICK INWOOD

UNDER 13s WHITE - RYAN NASH

UNDER 11s BLACK - DANIEL BLAND / BEN SMITH

UNDER 11s WHITE - TONY HILL

UNDER 10s BLUE - IAN MARRIOTT

UNDER 10s WHITE – MIKE BRINKLEY

UNDER 8s – ANDREW JACKMAN

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.

Kevin Gardner, Chairman

Bugbrooke 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 Rugby Town who are the visitors to the Sett for today’s United Counties Premier Division South fixture.

We are under no illusions as to the enormity of the task that we face this afternoon, with Rugby Town currently the runaway leaders in the division, 16 points clear at the top having lost once all season.

That said we must be confident in ourselves and our own ability. This is something that we have perhaps lacked at times throughout the season.

One thing that we have learnt is that there are no easy games, you need to be at your best at this level and in this Division otherwise you will get beat, its as simple as that, there is no hiding place.

We come into today’s game on the back of four successive away fixtures and make no bones about it, it’s been tough.

On paper we couldn’t have had a more difficult run of fixtures with trips to Coventry United, March Town, Covertry Sphinx and Histon followed by Home fixtures against Rugby Town and Newport Pagnell Town who are next weeks visitors to the Sett. It doesn’t get much tougher!

We haven’t been helped by availability, or lack of, with the squad currently stretched to its limits due to injuries and suspensions.

We have also seen several departures from the Sett with Bailey Weatherly, Dalton Leon and Emmanuel Mpambi all moving on in search of regular First Team football. We thank them and wish them the best for the future.

On a more positive note, last weeks game at Histon saw us welcome Freddie King back into the group. Freddie returns following a short spell with Wellingborough Whitworths in the Spartan League

We’d like to sign off on a positive note by saying a HUGE well done to Rob Jones and the Reserves who have continued their recent good form and just two weeks ago became the first team to beat Harborough Town this season which they followed up with another excellent win against third-placed Newport Pagnell Town, keep up the good work!

As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again next Saturday when we host Newport Pagnell Town at the Sett.

“We come into today’s game on the back of four successive away fixtures and make no bones about it, it’s been tough”

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

RUGBY TOWN

TODAYS VISITORS

Formed by Keith Coughlan and under the name of New Bilton Juniors, the Valley played its first friendly match in 1955.

In 1956, the club was renamed for the first time, to Valley Sports and entered the Rugby and District Football League. The club progressed to the Coventry and North Warwickshire Football League in 1963, and to the United Counties League in 1969 changing the name to VS Rugby.

The club initially played at Thornfield and then briefly at Hillmorton Recreation ground when Thornfield was taken over for the sports centre before groundsharing with the then Southern Football League side Rugby Town at Oakfield. VS Rugby moved into their own ground, Butlin Road, in 1973 the first competitive game there being a 0

0 draw against Burton Park Wanderers in the United Counties League. In 1975 the club was invited to join the West Midlands League and took part in the FA Cup for the first time in 1976, being knocked out in the first qualifying round.

In 1981, the Valley's most successful manager, Jimmy Knox, took over. He had previously successfully managed the then Rugby Town (for whom he had also made 452 appearances) and AP Leamington. Knox turned around the club's fortunes dramatically and in 1983 they won The FA Vase, defeating Halesowen Town 1–0.

For the 1983/84 season the club joined the Southern League where success continued with the club winning The Midland Division in 1986/87, The Southern League Cup in 1989/90 and The Birmingham Senior Cup in 1988/89 and 1991/92.

During Jimmy Knox's 11 years at Butlin Road the Valley had much success in the FA Cup, their best being a run to the second round in 1987/88 being knocked out by Bristol Rovers after a drawn game at Butlin Road. They also had memorable cup ties against Northampton Town, Bristol City, and Leyton Orient.

In August 1991, VS Rugby played and beat a strong Manchester United side 1–0 at Butlin Road in a testimonial match to recognise Knox's ten years at the club.

Once Knox left the club in 1992 its fortunes started to decline and despite reaching the second round of The FA Cup again in the 1992/93 season they were relegated and the then chairman put the club into receivership. A group of supporters that included founder Keith Coughlan, however, rescued the club, and manager Ron Bradbury stayed on to gain promotion behind newly formed Rushden & Diamonds in 1994. The same season the club also again reached the first round of The FA Cup losing at home to Brentford

VS Rugby changed its name to Rugby United in 2000, and to Rugby Town in 2005.

The club came close to promotion twice under manager Dave Stringer in the 2012–13 and 2013

14 seasons. In 2012–13 they missed out on the title on the final day before losing to Biggleswade Town in the play-off final at Butlin Road. The following season saw them once again in contention for the title on the final day only to fail to secure top spot. Promotion hopes once again ended in the play-offs after a defeat to Slough Town over two legs in the semi-final. The 2014/15 season was less successful with the club failing to make the play-offs after an inconsistent season.

For the first time in the club's history, Rugby Town were moved into the Northern Premier League system for the 2015–16 season. Stringer's replacement, former Rushden & Diamonds midfielder Gary Mills, tendered his resignation early into the season after a poor start and was replaced by ex-Tamworth boss Dale Belford.

At the start of the 2016/17 season James Jepson was appointed manager but lasted but a few weeks being replaced by former player Gary Moran in September 2016. Moran could not guide Rugby away from the relegation zone and they were condemned to relegation to the Midland Football League on the final day of the season with Moran resigning shortly afterwards.

Former manager Dave Stringer returned to the role of manager in May 2017 after leaving Chasetown however Rugby Town parted company with manager Dave Stringer in May 2018 and he was subsequently replaced in the same month by Stratford Town F.C. manager Carl Adams.

MANAGER: Carl Adams

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

BSMFC 2022/23 RESULTS & APPEARANCES

SUBS

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

A.WEBSTER PORTER JONES E.PANTER GREEN 1 OAKES MPAMBI J.WEBSTER COULSON SHEHI

A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES E.PANTER GREEN 1 SHEHI J.WEBSTER HALLMARK GIBBON POWELL

A.WEBSTER OAKES JONES E.PANTER GREEN SHEHI J.WEBSTER SMYTH POWELL

A.WEBSTER J.WEBSTER SHEHI E.PANTER GREEN DIMOND BAZELEY DOHERTY GIBBON

A.WEBSTER OAKES KING J.WEBSTER GREEN SHEHI SPENCER BINDER POWELL

BSMFC TODAYS FIXTURES

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

Lutterworth Town Vs Histon FC

Milton Keynes Irish Vs Desborough Town

Bugbrooke St.Michaels Vs Rugby Town

Cogenhoe United Vs March Town United

Eynesbury Rovers Vs Easington Sports

G.N.G Oadby Town Vs Wellingborough Town

Godmanchester Rovers Vs Rothwell Corinthians

Long Buckby AFC Vs Coventry United

RESERVE DIVISION

Daventry Town Reserves Vs Wellingborough Whitworth Reserves

Desborough Town Reserves Vs Godmanchester Rovers Reserves

Northampton ON Chenecks Reserves Vs Milton Keynes Irish Reserves

Wellingborough Town Reserves Vs Bugbrooke St.Michaels Reserves

Bourne Town Reserves Vs Newport Pagnell Town Reserves

Harborough Town Reserves Vs Kempston Rovers Reserves

Rothwell Corinthians Reserves Vs Raunds Town Reserves

ISUZU FA VASE

Newport Pagnell Town Vs Jersey Bulls

Coventry Sphinx Vs West Didsbury & Chorlton

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1. Position Central Midfield (CDM)

2. Previous Clubs Heyford Athletic

3. Team you support Leicester City

4. First football memory

Playing football at 4-years old with Reggie Reeve down at Campion

5. Best player you’ve played with Eddie Panter

6. Best player you’ve played against Gary Stohrer

7. Best football moment

Playing for the Under 18s against Mansfield Town in the FA Youth Cup 1st Round

8. Most memorable match

Scoring with an overhead kick in youth football to win the game when I was 8 or 9, I score goals for fun!

9. Match you would wish to forget

Wellingborough Town last season, slipped over at the kick-off which they scored from

10. Player/team you would pay to watch Mighty Leicester!

11. Best Manager

I have to say Dale Walton & Daniel Powell

12. Biggest joker in the team

It must be Luke Reeve

13. Any Superstitions?

Always wear cut socks. And a pre-match meal of scrambled Egg and Toast

14. Longest in the shower

My brother Jake Webster!

Ade Webster is in the spotlight to answer this week’s questions….

‘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

BSMFC RESERVE TEAM

RESERVE DIVISION

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” The Bank of England”

With the outlandish spending of Chelsea in the most recent transfer window, the worries about Newcastle’s scarcely understandable level of resources, and the news of Manchester City’s alleged wrongdoing over the last decade and a half, it has never felt more like money is ruining the game we all love. What Arsene Wenger described in 2005 as ‘financial doping’ with regards to Jose Mourinho’s first spell at Chelsea has now become commonplace, even expected, among fans of elite clubs, as they compete with each other for bragging rights on Sky Sports’ transfer tracker almost as much as they do on the pitch. But spending big in the hope of success is nothing new.

Arsenal, ironically, were one of the first clubs to be given the ‘Bank of England’ moniker, as they outspent their rivals in the 1920s and 30s, culminating in three back-toback titles. Chelsea also earned it for a short spell in the 1930s, and Everton in the 1970s. But perhaps the most unexpected financial dopers in the history of the term. For a decade from the late 1940s, the side desperately trying to buy success were Sunderland.

In 1948, the Roker Park side kick-started a new era with the shock signing of Len Shackleton from rivals Newcastle United. The Clown Prince of Football, as he was known for his entertaining style, made the move for a British record fee of £20,500. Ivor Broadis joined from Carlisle for a similar fee in January 1949. He arrived just in time for Sunderland to fall to perhaps the biggest shock in FA Cup history, losing to non-league Yeovil in the fourth round, something of an ill omen. If anything, though, it simply highlighted the need for more spending. Tommy Wright joined, but the following season would be the biggest of all, with Welsh international Trevor Ford singing for a world record £30,000 from Aston Villa.

A third place finish in Ford’s first season proved to be a false dawn. The world record signing never quite connected with his teammates, despite a scoring record that surpassed what he had achieved in the Midlands. He didn’t get on with Shackleton, at one stage even declaring that he would never play in the same team as his strike partner. For Shackleton’s part, he admitted later that there was never really a team at Sunderland at that time, just a collection of highly talented individuals.

Two mediocre mid-table finishes followed before the 1952-3 season finally saw some promise. Sunderland raced into an early lead playing some scintillating football, but the cracks through the squad proved too much to overcome. Shackleton, whose primary focus was always the crowd, clashed horribly with Ford. The Clown Prince had a habit of getting into space and playing short, spinning passes in the direction of his teammates that would skid off of the surface and back to him. Ford, a more professional presence, found Shackleton’s crowd-pleasing antics infuriating. Eventually, a 12-game winless run in the second half of the season saw the Black Cats drop to ninth. Ford left for Cardiff later that year.

To replace him, Sunderland went big once again, spending what was at the time a colossal £70,000 to bring in England internationals Ray Daniels and Billy Eliot, as well as goalkeeper Jimmy Cowan, with an outrageous bid for Jackie Milburn blocked, but all the spending was to no avail. Sunderland struggled against relegation all season and barely survived. More spending followed in the following seasons, including £20,000 for Don Revie, but no success was forthcoming before the project came crashing down.

In January 1957, an anonymous letter to the FA alleged that Sunderland had breached financial regulations, most notably passing envelopes under the table to exceed the maximum wage limit for players. The FA took four months to investigate, issuing a £5000 fine; a paltry amount considering the level of spending over the previous decade. But they went much further too, banning the chairman and three directors for life. More devastatingly, five players at the club, along with Trevor Ford (pictured), were served with suspensions. Manager Bill Murray was issued with a fine and resigned.

Sunderland finished that season with their first ever relegation from the First Division, after nearly seven decades at the top. They returned six years later, but never spent so lavishly again. In reality, they never really recovered from the fallout.

Enjoy the game!

Martyn Green

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BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS

Manager:

Dale Walton

Colours: White / Black / Black

FROM:

Luke Reeve

William Glennon

Brandon Hallmark

Ben Garwood

Tom Simmons

Tom Smyth

Tom Walton

Tom Binder

Mackenzie Coulson

Trent Oakes

Kieran Spencer

Aidan Webster

Jake Webster

Will Jones

Eddie Panter

Kevin Shehi

Dan Porter

Calvin Green

Peter Sweeney

Samuel Lapite

RUGBY TOWN

Manager:

Carl Adams

Colours: Sky Blue / Sky Blue / Sky Blue

FROM:

Matt Hill

Dan Summerfield

Luke English

Liam Francis

Keenah Rosser

Caine Elliott

Barry Fitzharris

David Kolodynski

Edwin Ahenkorah

Alex Lock

Justin Marsden

Loyiso Recci

Madundo Semahimbo

Josh Thomas

Ryan Seal

Andrew Wooldridge

Ben Whitehead

Jordan Wilson

MATCH OFFICIALS

Aaron Lloyd – Gary Capps – Gary Halliday