Gloucester City A, Friday 7th April 2023

[Steve T]

Banbury make their first visit to Gloucester's new Meadow Park stadium in their first Good Friday fixture for 41 years. Long gone are the days when clubs played three matches over the Easter weekend, with the Friday and Monday fixtures often being double headers against the same opponents. That last Good Friday match was a 0-2 home defeat by Witney Town in front of just 344 spectators; Witney won the return 3-0 at Marriott's Close three days later. Despite the relative closeness of the clubs, this will be just the fourth public holiday fixture in 28 seasons of league competition.

Banbury's record at Gloucester:

1935-36  BC    W  7-2     
1936-37  BC    W  4-3     
1937-38  BC    D  3-3     
1938-39  BC    L  2-3     
1966-67  SL1   L  3-6  561
1967-68  SL1   W  1-0     
1968-69  SL1   L  1-5     
1971-72  SL1N  W  2-0  451
1972-73  SL1N  D  3-3  385
1973-74  SL1N  W  2-1  320
1974-75  SL1N  W  2-1     
1975-76  SL1N  L  0-1     
1976-77  SL1N  W  4-2     
1977-78  SL1N  D  2-2     
1978-79  SL1N  L  1-2     
1979-80  SLM   D  0-0     
1980-81  SLM   L  4-5     
1981-82  SLM   L  0-3     
1985-86  SLM   L  1-5  263
1986-87  SLM   L  1-6  355
1987-88  SLM   L  0-1  455
1988-89  SLM   L  1-4  524
2002-03  FAT   L  1-2  326
2004-05  SLP   L  1-4  415
2005-06  SLP   D  1-1  341
2006-07  SLP   W  4-1  363
2007-08  SLP   D  0-0  303
2008-09  SLP   D  1-1  215

Pre-WW2 matches were played at Longlevens, seasons 1966-1986 at Horton Road and 1986-2007 at Meadow Park (Low Level...). The original plans for the return to Sudmeadow Road were for a rather grander stadium (below – £5 million at 2012 prices) than has been built but sense prevailed, hence the use instead of low-cost shipping containers.







More GCFC history here:
banburyunitedfc.proboards.com/thread/3417/gloucester-city-tuesday-27th-september

[Sparky]

Another point on the board and a place higher in the league. Whilst we can’t say categorically that we are safe it’s looking a lot better than a couple of weeks ago, a win Monday guarantees things.

[Steve T]

Gloucester were cheated by the ref, according to this: thecityopenforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1615

[Sparky]

Nice to see other teams feel the same as us about the standard of some referee’s at this level. Although when your expecting to win every decision that goes against you is a travesty.