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Post by puritanmk on Sept 9, 2022 11:54:20 GMT 1
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Post by ianb on Sept 9, 2022 12:15:27 GMT 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE Statement: Saturday 10 September Fixtures
Firstly, the National League sends sincere condolences of all Member Clubs on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to His Majesty King Charles III and the further Royal Family.
Further to this morning’s statement by Debbie Hewitt, chair of The Football Association, all National League System, FA Trophy, and grassroots fixtures scheduled for this weekend will not take place as a mark of respect. The Queen was the FA’s patron, and Prince William is its President.
At this moment National League fixtures will go ahead as planned from Monday 12 September onwards although we understand no sporting event of any kind will be permitted on the day of The Queen’s funeral.
The decision to postpone this weekend’s fixtures is taken in line with guidance from the FA in consultation with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The League fully supports this stance.
FA Statement
Her Majesty the Queen was a long-standing Patron of The Football Association and has left a lasting and indelible legacy on our national game.
As a mark of respect, following the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, English football has united to postpone all football fixtures between 9-11 September. This follows Government guidance, which encourages sporting organisations to show respect in an appropriate way.
The FA can confirm that all football fixtures across the Barclays Women’s Super League, Barclays Women’s Championship, the Vitality Women’s FA Cup, and the Isuzu FA Trophy, will be postponed this weekend. We can also confirm that all football fixtures across the National League System [NLS], Steps 1-6, including the Vanarama National Leagues, the Women’s Football Pyramid [WFP], Tiers 3-7, and matches across grassroots football in England will be postponed.
The Premier League and the EFL have all confirmed that their fixtures this weekend will be rescheduled for a later date.
All flags at Wembley Stadium and St. George’s Park will continue to fly at half-mast over the weekend.
Our thoughts remain with our president, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, and the whole of the Royal Family during this time.
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Post by Steve T on Sept 11, 2022 13:14:44 GMT 1
Here's the preview for Banbury's postponed match: _________________________________________ It's been a long time since Kettering had realistic Football League ambitions. It'll be a long time until they have them again. Even if Rockingham Road once had the aura of a Football League ground, it was fading by the time Fulham (top flight) and Leeds United (third rank but on their way back) visited in 2009 for televised FA Cup ties. Two years later, amidst the financial and managerial chaos of Imraan Ladak's chairmanship, Kettering vacated their crumbling and by then sub-standard home of 124 years for a tenancy at Nene Park, home of Rushden & Diamonds, the club that no Poppies fan liked to talk about but which had itself just folded. The stay at Nene Park was a dismal one. Kettering finished bottom of the Conference national division but weren't even allowed relegation to the Northern regional section. They were thrown out of the league and then very nearly out of football as the Southern League appeared reluctant to accommodate a club whose financial troubles seemed as great as R&D's and as likely to end in liquidation sooner rather than later. That Kettering survived to start the 2012-13 season was a minor miracle in itself but when, on Saturday 6th October, they could field only 10 players and were beaten 7-0 'at home' by Bashley in front of just 304 spectators, the game appeared to be up. Nene Park, already looking badly neglected, was padlocked and the power was cut off. Games were postponed and then...Kettering were rescued...by Corby Town! It must have been galling enough for Poppies fans to watch the rise of R&D but now they were being handed a lifeline by the club which some looked down on, which had never managed to be the local rivals its supporters wished it to be but which now resided in a tidy new stadium courtesy of the local authority – a stadium into which it had moved in the summer in which Kettering abandoned Rockingham Road. After a five-week break, Kettering played their first game at Steel Park on November 10th, losing by a single goal to Redditch. They stayed there until the end of the season which saw a second successive relegation. During the summer of 2013, the club negotiated a tenancy at the Latimer Park home of Burton Park Wanderers of the United Counties League. At least the club was back in the borough of Kettering if not in the town (and the borough no longer exists following the collapse of the county council and the reorganisation of local government). A site for a new stadium has been identified in the north of the town, less than a mile from Rockingham Road. In 2015, Kettering won promotion from the SL Div One Central to the Premier Division and from that to National League North in 2019 (had it not been for national events in 2020, they might have gone back down immediately). Both Rockingham Road and Nene Park stadiums were demolished in 2017. The former site is now occupied by housing, the latter remains undeveloped. _________________________________________ Videos of Kettering this season: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZyNe8vCeTQ – v. Bradford 1-1 (the pitch has greened up a bit since!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8DGzmicxdo – v. Telford 2-0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5-zNN4n8U – v. Alfreton 1-3 And this from 16-17, the game Banbury almost snatched at the end having been under the cosh for most of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1r7kgjAoQ Andrew Oluwabori, on loan from Peterborough Utd, has scored half of Kettering's eight league goals. The attendance of 557 for the Bradford game was reportedly Kettering's lowest for a season's opening league match since 1979. Banbury away to Kettering in league matches: 66-67 L 1-2
67-68 L 0-1
71-72 W 2-1
12-13 D 1-1 [526]
16-17 D 2-2 [480]
17-18 L 0-3 [653]
18-19 L 0-3 [760]Kettering Town on the Football Club History Database
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