The BADGER 2022/23 Issue 16 vs Eynesbury Rovers

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 Eynesbury Rovers who are the visitors to the Sett for today’s United Counties Premier Division South fixture.

Well, what a difference a week makes…… you may recall that last week’s Programme Notes referred to the tough run of fixtures that we’d faced and whilst that was true, we go into today’s game following back-to-back league wins for the first time this season.

On paper they were easier fixtures however football matches aren’t won on paper. Neither game was a ‘give me’ hence I am proud of the

lads for their efforts over the past week. The challenge now is can we sustain the levels that we demand of ourselves between now and the end of the season starting with today’s fixture against an improved Eynesbury Rovers where we hope to make it a hat-trick of wins.

Looking back at the last 7-days there was an element of pressure as we welcomed a much-improved Rothwell Corinthians to the Sett; we went into the game on a bad run of form where defeat could have left us looking over our shoulder. As it was, we did enough to secure the points winning 2-1 thanks to Simmo and Joe Malkin, the latter with his first goal for the club.

Onto Tuesday we made the long trip to Godmanchester, not ideal mid-week! To their credit the lads turned in an excellent performance and despite playing the majority of the second half with ten-men we came away with a 30-win courtesy of goals from Kev Shehi, and the Will’s (Glennon and Jones).

A welcome 3 points on the road lifting us into the top half of the table.

With players starting to return the squad is looking stronger, lets hope this bodes well for a positive end to the season as we aim for a top-half finish.

Away from the First Team we must mention the Reserves who have just picked up the UCL Reserve Team of the Month Award for February, very well deserved on the back of a strong month for Jonesy and the lads.

We also want to say Good Luck to the ‘B’ Team and Under 13s White who both represent the Club this weekend in Northamptonshire FA County Cup Semi-Finals. To get this far is an achievement to be proud of, to make the Finals would be the icing on the cake!

As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again next Saturday when we make the trip to Lutterworth Town.

“Neither game was a ‘give me’ hence I am proud of the lads for their efforts over the past week”

Dale & Daniel

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

EYNESBURY ROVERS

MANAGER:

LAST

TIME OUT:

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TODAYS VISITORS

The club were formed in 1897 and playedfriendly matchesbefore joining the Biggleswade & District League and then the St Neots Junior League, which they won in 1910/11 and 1913/14.

They lifted the Huntingdonshire Senior Cup for the first time in 1914 and won the County Junior Cup in 1921, 1927 and 1932. Whilst the first team competed in the Bedford & District League First Division Eynesbury’s Reserves won 2nd Division championships in 1927, 1931 and 1932.

In 1934 Eynesbury joined the South Midlands League and promotion was achieved at the first attempt whilst the Scott-Gatty Cup was won, but Senior Cup finals in 1937 and 1939 ended in defeat. The post war era began with Rovers joining the United Counties League and they enjoyed spectacular cup success winning the Hunts Senior Cup and Hinchingbrooke Cup four times each in a five-year period. In the 1950-51 campaign a Premier Cup success made it a cup hat trick.

In 1952 Eynesbury joined the Eastern Counties League finishing fourth in their second season. In 1955 a crowd of 4,000 packed into Barford Road to watch a friendly against Fulham with the legendary Stanley Matthews guesting for Rovers. The club continued to enjoy cup success lifting the Senior Cup in 1955 and 1957, the Hinchingbrooke Cup in 1959 and Cambs Invitation Cup in 1962, but they were finding life difficult in the league.

In 1963 they rejoined the UCL. Successes in the Hinchingbrooke Cup in 1967 and Hunts Senior Cup in 1970 masked a continued decline and relegation was suffered in 1972. A top-flight place was regained in 1977 and floodlights were installed in 1981 with Luton Town providing the opposition for the official opening in front of a four-figure crowd. The Hunts Senior Cup was won in 1985 before Gary Pilsworth enjoyed great success as manager, leading Eynesbury to a best ever third place in the league, two Hunts Senior Cup wins, a Premier Cup success and two East Anglian Cup finals, and Alan Day kept the momentum going with a 1993 Senior Cup success. Barry Cavilla was next in the hot seat and the 1995-96 campaign saw Eynesbury finish fifth in the league and win both the Senior and Premier Cups.Peter Schofield took over and done well to keep the team in the Premier Division on a small budget.

Neil King returned and enjoyed success in the Hunts Senior Cup in 2000 but was followed by relegation a year later. Steve Galbraith took over and in 2002 Rovers again won the Senior Cup beating local rivals St Neots Town 3-0 in the final, while the 2003-04 campaign saw them reach the Huntingdonshire Premier Cup final only to lose 42 to Wootton Blue Cross.

In the summer of 2005 Dean Shipp took charge and the following season Rovers reached the final of the South Midlands Floodlit Cup losing 2-1 to Saffron Walden.In December 2007 Rovers appointed the management duo of Al Lenihan and former player Pat O'Keeffe. Season 2008/09 saw Rovers near the top of the table for most of the season but had to settle for 9th place after being deducted six points. Al & Pat resigned at the end of that season and Eynesbury appointed Matt Plumb to take charge for the start of the 2009/10 campaign and with Martin Field he guided Rovers back to the Premier Division in 2013/14. In a record breaking season they finished with a record number of points (98) and goals (118) and recorded a club record 11 consecutive wins. Lee Bassett became the first Eynesbury player to score 50 goals in a season.

Matt Plumb took on the role of chairman in the summer of 2015 before Martin Field resigned in October 2015. Mark Ducket was appointed as manager and in four campaigns he led Rovers to three Hunts Senior Cup Finals, winning 1-0 against St Neots Town in 2017. Whilst in the same season recording 119 league goals and equaling their second best ever league placing finishing fifth. In 2019/20 Rovers rejoined the Spartan South Midlands League and enjoyed their best ever run in the FA Vase reaching the 4th Round. In January 2020 Mark Ducket left to manage Bedford Town and Rovers appointed Steve Kuhne as his replacement.

After two aborted seasons in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division Rovers were moved back to the UCL Premier Division (South). However, Steve resigned in October 2021 and exprofessional Rob Sinclair was appointed as his replacement. He led the team to a ninth placed finish but moved on at the end of the season. The 2022/23 campaign started with former Eynesbury United manager Mark Spavins in charge with ex-player Neil Morris as coach but after a tough start Spavins resigned and Morris took over.

BSMFC LEAGUE TABLE

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

BSMFC 2022/23 RESULTS & APPEARANCES

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

BSMFC TODAYS FIXTURES

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

Milton Keynes Irish Vs Coventry Sphinx

Bugbrooke St.Michaels Vs Eynesbury Rovers

Easington Sports Vs Desborough Town

G.N.G Oadby Town Vs Histon FC

Godmanchester Rovers Vs Lutterworth Town

Long Buckby AFC Vs Cogenhoe United

Newport Pagnell Town Vs Coventry United

Rothwell Corinthians Vs Wellingborough Town

Rugby Town Vs March Town United

RESERVE DIVISION

Cogenhoe United Reserves Vs Bugbrooke St.Michaels Reserves

Wellingborough Town Reserves Vs Raunds Town Reserves

Bourne Town Reserves Vs G.N.G Oadby Town Reserves

Desborough Town Reserves Vs Newport Pagnell Town Reserves

Harborough Town Reserves Vs Godmanchester Rovers Reserves

Kempston Rovers Reserves Vs Milton Keynes Irish Reserves

Wellingborough Whitworth Reserves Vs Daventry Town Reserves

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‘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

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RESERVE DIVISION

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” Playing for the Enemy”

Johan Cruyff was perhaps the most influential footballer of the twentieth century. His playing career, taking on a talismanic role for both Ajax and Barcelona, and the Dutch national team, saw the development of Total Football, from which possession football became the standard, beating the previously unstoppable Italian catenaccio. As a manager of the same clubs, he developed his style yet further, ingraining it into the young players at both clubs, including a fascinated Pep Guardiola. But lesser known about the enigmatic genius is his time playing for the enemy. With his second spell in Amsterdam coming to an end, but not willing to call time on his playing career, Cruyff made the move no Ajax fan could countenance; he moved to arch-rivals Feyenoord.

Johan Cruyff was on a high in the summer of 1983. Heading into the swansong of a glittering career, he had just helped him boyhood club to a league and cup double, and was looking forward to a final farewell season to round off his time on the pitch. After leaving for Barcelona a decade earlier, and having spent a few years bouncing around the United States, he was home, and he was settled. It was something of a shock, then, when the club informed him that they no longer had a place for him. He had served his purpose, he had won them everything they wanted, and he was being put out to pasture.

At least, that’s what his employers in Amsterdam thought. Cruyff was never one to go alone with anybody else’s plan. He had missed the 1978 World Cup, which the Netherlands had been huge favourites to win, with rumours that he refused to play in front of the Argentinian military junta.

Without him, they lost the final to the hosts. With him, who knows what might have been. So, when his club, for whom he was a legend, for whom he had won everything up to and including the European Cup, tried to end his career early, he moved 35 miles to Rotterdam, and signed for their biggest rivals.

Feyenoord were not the same team that had won the European Cup in 1970. Ajax had far surpassed them, and the likes of PSV and AZ Alkmaar were threatening their position, while they spent the first years of the 1980s recording mid-table positions. Not that this encouraged fans, or the staff, that Cruyff should be joining. The press conference announcing the signing was a tepid affair, with Cruyff, his new manager, and the chairman all looking like they wondered if it was a mistake. The Feyenoord supporters certainly believed so, providing the hostile atmosphere at De Kuip that Cruyff had become used to as an Ajax player, when he ran out as a home player for the first time. ‘Feyenoord Forever, Cruyff Never’ read the banner some fans hung, and that was on the softer side of the abuse he received.

The way to win fans over, as Cruyff well knew, was playing well. Feyenoord started the season on fire, winning five of their first six games, as Cruyff got to know his new teammates, including a 21 year old Ruud Gullit. It was another shock, then, when they went to Amsterdam. A hostile atmosphere, with a game marred by crowd trouble, saw the hosts run out massive 8-2 winners. But Cruyff was tenacious, and he carried a grudge. He used the defeat as motivation, as Feyenoord responded with a 15 game unbeaten spell. They slipped to defeat against Groningen, not long before the return fixture against their nemeses.

Ajax travelled to De Kuip still hopeful that another win could derail Feyenoord’s title bid. But this time, things were different. An early goal from Gullit, and then a lovely finish by Cruyff, set the league leaders on their way. Ajax couldn’t get near them, and fell to a 4-1 defeat. Feyenoord wouldn’t lose again to the end of the season, wrapping up the title.

Just to add the icing to the cake, Cruyff also led his team through the ponderous rounds for the Dutch Cup.

Having won the double with Ajax, and been told that his time with the club was over, he led their faltering arch-rivals to the same achievement. And then, on his own terms, he left the field of play. His influence and his legacy have continued for the forty years since, but his playing days were over.

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

Trent Oakes

Kieran Spencer

Aidan Webster

Jake Webster

Will Jones

Eddie Panter

Kevin Shehi

Dan Porter

Calvin Green

Joe Malkin

Finley Amidi

Ben Drinkwater

EYNESBURY ROVERS

Manager:

Neil Morris

Colours: Orange / Black / Orange

FROM:

Mahmood Suleyman

Axel Ampadu

Kwadwo Bugyei-Kyei

Michael King (C)

Jonny Hall

Owen Dunnett

Michael Baulk

George Hedley

Lawrence Mullins-Hammond

Tom Rowley

Victor Osobu

Lucca Ugarte-Edwards

Danny Baulk

Jonny Butler

Nathan McCalla

Elliot Duffy

MATCH OFFICIALS

Stuart Lathan – Christopher Coles – Regan Beaumont