The BADGER 2022/23 Issue 7 vs Heather St Johns

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 Heather St. Johns who are the visitors to the Sett for today’s Sports Ground Development United Counties Knock Out Cup fixture

Today’s game provides us with a break from the league calendar as we play in First Round of the League Knock Out Cup.

Going into the game we know very little about our opponent with Heather St. Johns playing their football in the Premier Division North which provides us an opportunity to test ourselves against someone new, in fact today’s game is possibly the first ever meeting between our clubs!

Looking back at last weekends game against Histon, once again we found ourselves on the wrong end of a narrow defeat. Having worked hard to take the lead through a fine header from Eddie Panter we weren’t able to see the game out and frustratingly conceded what turned out to be the winner in 8th minute of injury time.

We are a young side learning the hard way in what is a very unforgiving league.

On a brighter note, it was great to watch our Reserves return to winning ways in midweek. The game came at a good time for us as it provided the opportunity to get some minutes for the lads who have been waiting patiently for their opportunity in the First Team. It was an impressive performance from what was a very young side. Well done to Rob and the boys who are at Home again on Tuesday night.

Please come along to support the lads as they attempt to make it back to back wins, we are sure that they will appreciate it.

We can’t today’s notes without mentioning the Ladies Team. Sadly, for them, their FA Cup journey came to an end last weekend with Mansfield Town proving too strong for our girls, that said with only eleven players available those that played did themselves and the Club proud!

As always thank you for your support, enjoy the game and we look forward to seeing you again next Saturday when Coventry United are the visitors to the Sett.

“We are a young side learning the hard way in what is a very unforgiving league.”

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 hard working 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

HEATHER ST JOHNS

The club was established in 1949, with the name taken from a local church.

They joined the Coalville & District League and were promoted to Division One after winning Division Two in 1955 56. The club went on to win the Division One title the following season.

They were league champions again in 1965 66, 1969 70 and 1970 71. In 1973 the club moved up to Division Two of the Leicester & District League and were promoted to Division One in their first season in the league.

They then became a yo yo club; relegation to Division Two at the end of the 1976 77 season was followed by promotion back to Division One in 1980. The club were relegated again in 1980 81, promoted back to Division One the following season, and then relegated back to Division Two again at the end of the 1983 84 season.

Heather were promoted again in 1986 87, only to be relegated in 1989 90. Although they were promoted back to Division One at the first attempt, they were relegated again in 1995. Following promotion to Division One in 1996 97, the club were promoted to the Premier Division for the first time at the end of the 2000 01 season.

They went on to finish as Premier Division runners up in 2001 02. After finishing second again the following season, the club were promoted to Division Two of the Midland Combination, also changing their name to Heather Athletic. Despite only finishing fifth in their first season in the Midland Combination, the club were promoted to Division One.

In 2006 07 Heather Athletic finished sixth in Division One and were promoted to the Premier Division; at the end of the season they reverted to their original name. The club were Premier Division runners up in 2009 10, also winning the Leicestershire and Rutland Senior Cup (with a 1 0 win against Thurmaston Town in the final) and the Tony Alden Memorial Trophy.

After retaining the Senior Cup and winning the Premier Division the following season they were promoted to the Midland Alliance. The club finished bottom of the league in 2013 14, and as the league merged with the Midland Combination to form the Midland League, they were placed in Division One for the 2014 15 season.

Heather St Johns won the Leicestershire and Rutland Senior Cup for a third time in 2018 19, defeating Melton Town on penalties in the final. The season also saw them win the Division One title, earning promotion to the Premier Division. At the end of the 2020 21 season the club were transferred to the Premier Division North of the United Counties League.

12.07.22

KetteringTown(NFACup) Home

NASH SIMMONS 1 SMYTH GLENNON WALTON 30.07.22

WHALER SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 02.08.22 CogenhoeUnited Away

MarchTownUnited Home

MPAMBI SHEHI 1 HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 06.08.22 LongBuckbyAFC-FACup Home

REEVE WHALER SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON 2 WALTON 13.08.22

REEVE MPAMBI SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 20.08.22

RugbyTown Away

LichfieldCity-FACup Away

REEVE NASH SIMMONS SHEHI GLENNON LEON 23.08.22 GNGOadbyTown Home

REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 27.08.22

REEVE NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON LEON 03.09.22

WellingboroughTown-FAVase Away

GodmanchesterRovers Home

NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 13.09.22 DesboroughTown

NASH MPAMBI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 17.09.22

NASH SHEHI HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 24.09.22 EasingtonSports

NewportPagnellTown

NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 27.09.22

MiltonKeynesIrish

NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON 2 WALTON

NASH SIMMONS HALLMARK GLENNON WALTON 08.10.22 HeatherSt.Johns-UCLCup Home 15.10.22 CoventryUnited Home 22.10.22 EynesburyRovers Away 29.10.22 LongBuckbyAFC Away 05.11.22 CoventrySphinx Home 12.11.22 CoventryUnited Away 19.11.22 RothwellCorinthians Home 26.11.22 MiltonKeynesIrish Away 03.12.22 WellingboroughTown Home 10.12.22 RothwellCorinthians Away 17.12.22 GodmanchesterRovers Away 07.01.22 DesboroughTown Home 14.01.22 CoventrySphinx Away 21.01.22 LutterworthTown Home 28.01.22 NewportPagnellTown Home 04.02.22 HistonFC Away 11.02.22 RugbyTown Home 18.02.22 MarchTownUnited Away 04.03.22 EynesburyRovers Home 18.03.22 WellingboroughTown Away 25.03.22 G.N.GOadbyTown Away 08.04.22 CogenhoeUnited Home 11.04.22 LutterworthTown Away 15.04.22 LongBuckbyAFC Home 22.04.22 EasingtonSports Home

01.10.22 HistonFC

SUBS

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

PREMIER DIVISION SOUTH

Eynesbury Rovers Vs Desborough Town

Lutterworth Town Vs Godmanchester Rovers

Rothwell Corinthians Vs March Town United

Wellingborough Town Vs Rugby Town

RESERVE DIVISION

Bourne Town Reserves Vs Wellingborough Town Reserves

G.N.G Oadby Town Reserves Vs Newport Pagnell Town Reserves

Godmanchester Rovers Reserves Vs Rothwell Corinthians Reserves

Huntingdon Town Reserves Vs Harborough Town Reserves

Milton Keynes Irish Reserves Vs Raunds Town Reserves Northampton ON Chenecks Reserves Vs Kempston Rovers Reserves

SPORTS GROUND DEVELOPMENT UCL KNOCK OUT CUP ROUND 1

Wisbech Town Vs Birstall United Social Anstey Nomads Vs Histon FC

Blackstones Vs Long Buckby AFC Bugbrooke St.Michaels Vs Heather St. John's

Clifton All Whites Vs Bourne Town Cogenhoe United Vs Rainworth Miners Welfare Coventry United Vs Belper United Deeping Rangers Vs Newark Town

Gedling Miners Welfare Vs Easington Sports Holwell Sports Vs Sleaford Town Newport Pagnell Town Vs Eastwood CFC

Quorn FC Vs Milton Keynes Irish

Saffron Dynamo Vs Selston FC Skegness Town Vs G.N.G Oadby Town

St Andrews Vs AFC Mansfield

LUKE REEVE KEEPZ GK

RYAN NASH AVAILABLE

MANU MPAMBI AVAILABLE

WILL GLENNON AVAILABLE

TOM WALTON AVAILABLE

TOM SMYTH AVAILABLE

BRANDON HALLMARK AVAILABLE

BEN DIMOND AVAILABLE

RONNIE GIBBON AVAILABLE

TOM SIMMONS

JAKE WEBSTER

KIERAN SPENCER

CAM HARRISON AVAILABLE AIDAN WEBSTER AVAILABLE

TOM BINDER AVAILABLE

TRENT OAKES AVAILABLE

CHARLIE PEARSON AVAILABLE

KEV SHEHI AVAILABLE

RYAN PAMPLIN

FREDDIE KING AVAILABLE

JONES

BAILEY

EDDIE

‘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

Pagnell

” Black History Month

The first black footballer to play in English football, that we know of, did so in 1885, when Arthur Wharton took up a place between the sticks for Darlington. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, then, to find black players in the record throughout the history of the game. Thirty years later, when conflict broke out and football came to a halt, teams signed up together to go and fight in the trenches of France. And yet the story of Walter Tull, a footballer who become one of the county’s first to sign up for military service, has gone largely unheralded in the century since he became a war hero.

Tull’s life is a life of pioneering ‘firsts’. He was born in Folkestone in 1888, three years after Arthur Wharton’s debut, and was the grandson of a Barbadian slave, but when tragedy struck and both of his parents had died by the age of eleven, he was sent to an orphanage in London, before being adopted by a Glaswegian family and moving north of the border. In his new home, he excelled both in sports and academia, becoming the country’s first dentist of mixed heritage before embarking on his footballing career.

Heading back to London in 1908, Tull signed with amateur side Clapton FC, at the time a much fancied team who were considered to be one of the best in the amateur game, at a time when the amateur game was held in high regard. Considered the “catch of the season”, he helped the side to the FA Amateur Cup, the London County Amateur Cup, and the London Senior Cup, and caught the eye of Tottenham Hostpur. They offered to take him on trial, on their tour of South America, where he became the first mixed heritage player to play on the continent, and impressed sufficiently to join the team for the following season.

Walter Tull”

Despite early promise, the level of racial abuse he received from opposition fans was so vitriolic that he was dropped to the reserves after just a few games. He wouldn’t return to the first team for over a year, and in total managed just ten games for the side before the player and the club decided to cut their losses, and he was moved on, this time to a Northampton Town side that was developing under Herbert Chapman. It would be the move that made his career, and over the next three seasons he made 110 appearances for the side, scoring nine goals. Preparing for his fourth season in the summer of 1914, nobody could have guessed what was about to come. War was declared on the 1st August, and despite some attempts to get the season going, the conflict soon engulfed every aspect of life. Footballers were not immune.

Tull signed up for the army in December 1914, less than a week after, and completely separately from, a meeting in London led by players of Clapton Orient to encourage the creation of a footballers’ battalion. He started his training in Cranleigh, and was moved to various training camps before being sent to France, as part of that battalion. Rising fast through the ranks, less than a year had passed before he had made the rank of Sergeant.

In May 1916 he was sent home suffering from shellshock but was returned to France in order to take place in fierce fighting at Delville Wood and Guillemont during the Battle of the Somme. The grim conditions took their toll, however, and by January 1917 he was again returned to Britain, this time with Trench Fever. He made this time work for him, however, and joined a nearby Officer Training Corps.

Despite huge opposition, he was promoted upon its completion to Second Lieutenant. He also secured his post war future by agreeing a move to Rangers, upon the cessation of hostilities.

Sadly, Tull would never take up his position at Ibrox. Returned to France, he became the first black officer to lead British soldiers into battle, at the Third Battle of Ypres, and was recommended for the Military Cross

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As the war began to draw to a close, however, his luck ran out. He died at Arras in March 1918, 2nd Lt. Tull, and his body was never recovered. His name can be found on the Arras memorial in France, just one of 35,000 who died. But his life was not “just one of”, it was “the first of”, right to the end. Enjoy the game.

Martyn Green

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BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS

Manager: Dale Walton

Colours: White / Black / Black

FROM:

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HEATHER ST JOHNS

Manager: Scott Taylor

Colours: Red / Red / Red

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Paul Valentin Mihalache

Kenny Wells TBC