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raham Westley gives Boro fans an insight into the first team with his digital programme notes.

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ood evening and welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Oldham Athletic. This Tuesday evening against Oldham should be an interesting game, to say the least….. Not only are the 3 points crucial to both teams, but it pits our old manager Dino Maamria against our new manager Graham Westley for the first time. As most will know Dino worked as an assistant to GW for several years before he went out on his own, so this should be an interesting evening. Added to that, Dino was released from his managerial duties here at Boro and swiftly took up a similar position at Oldham. If that wasn’t enough, we have the added ingredient of Dino accusing our assistant manager of racism after he’d left and taking that to a FA hearing, the results of which we’ll know shortly. So there’s plenty of spice off the field for this one…. On the field I doubt the 2 teams will be interested in any of that and will conduct themselves properly, both Stevenage FC v Oldham Athletic

trying to win the 3 points on offer. We have 20 games to go and this January window is the first chance we’ve had to add and subtract from the squad put together at the start of the season by Dino. We’ve bought Jake Cassidy from Maidenhead for a 5 figure fee as GW likes an established number 9 and he’ll be a welcome addition to us up top. I don’t expect our signings to stop there – we are close to a couple of others but need to be careful at this stage of the season that we get the mix right – we need lads that are ready for a battle. We’ve looked good value in a lot of our games recently and we just need to start finding the back of the net. If we’d taken our chances on Saturday against Port Vale the game would have long been over by the time they were awarded a late pen. We’ll keep on battling and we hope you’ll keep on supporting our lads. We always focus on the next game, one game at a time. It’s about time we went on a nice little run of wins and there’d be no better time to start than tonight. Enjoy the game! www.stevenagefc.com | 7

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Thing you watched on TV: Power Thing you bought: Coffee Football Match you went to: Man Utd vs Chelsea Thing you ate: Pesto Pasta Time you lost your temper: Every Day Goal you scored: Against Solihull Moors Song you listened to: Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (My Favourite)

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THIS OR THAT… Home or Away Kit: Home Burger King or McDonalds: Burger King IOS or Android: IOS Netflix or YouTube: Netflix Beef or Chicken: Chicken Cardio or Weights: Cardio Toilet Paper Over or Under: Under Outgoing or Shy: Outgoing Zidane or Ronaldinho: Ronaldinho Talksport or 5Live: Talksport Dine in or Delivery: Dine In Lie in Or Early Start: Early Start East Terrace or North Stand: North Stand Premier League or Champions League: Premier League Hard or Soft Boiled: Hard Sweet or Sour: Sweet Beach or Pool: Pool Jeans or Trackies: Trackies Text Message or Call: Call Dogs or Cats: Dogs Superman or Batman: Batman Winter or Summer: Summer Postman Pat or Fireman Sam: Postman Pat Old Crest or New Crest: New Crest Save or Spend: Save Rap or Rock: Rap Tea or Coffee: Tea Bath or Shower: Shower X-Factor or Strictly: X-Factor Pasta or Pizza: Pasta 1-0 win or 3-2 win: 3-2

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TOP 3s… Career Moments: Making my Football League debut, Playing for England C & Winning National League North Player of the Year Takeaways: Chinese, Pizza, Thai Players of All Time: Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldinho Players you have played with: Mark Beck – An unbelievable target man. Dom Knowles – Best technical ability I have played with. Callum Howe – A great Centre Half Stadiums you have played in: Bradford City, Chesterfield & Leyton Orient TV Shows: Power, Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones Films: Gladiator, Training Day, Remember the Titans Sports: Football, Golf, Cricket Musical Artists: Stevie Wonder, Michael Buble, Ed Sheeran Meals: Vegetarian Chilli, Thai Red Curry, Steak & Veg Countries to visit: Greece, USA, Spain Breakfast Items: Anything on a Fry Up, Cereal, Porridge Desserts: Lemon Cheesecake Trifle, Brownie Apps: Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat Fruits: Oranges, Grapes, Pineapple Items you take everywhere: Ipad, Iphone, Keys

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ood evening and welcome to the Lamex for tonight’s eagerly anticipated fixture with Oldham Athletic. Since I last wrote in the programme, an awful lot has happened within the Youth Development Phase here at Stevenage FC and we are really excited about the future of not only the Academy but in how we hope to see our young players progress in the future to represent the first team in seasons to come. We have once again added a number of fixtures to our games programme in order to stretch and challenge the talented players under our care, going to Category 1 and 2 Academies such as Spurs, West Ham, Norwich, Watford and Colchester. In matching up with these clubs, we are able to not only see where our individual players are against their Premier League and Championship counterparts, but how our teams can compete on a tactical level, something we see real value in. We are delighted to be able to share with you the names of the U16 players who have each earned their apprenticeships with the football club, a total of 11 players from this age group, the most we have ever offered by a margin of 5! Testament to the hard work of not only the players themselves but to the coaching, medical, recruitment and administrative staff who all play a part in developing our Academy players, as well as each of the boy’s families for their unwavering support. Congratulations to; Alex Aitken, Kwadwo Bugyei-Kyei, George Edgeworth, Max Granville, Cian Halpin, Finlay Johnson, Morgan Mahoney, Obi Onyeagwara, Ben Siggers, Teddy Stevenage FC v Oldham Athletic

Stevenson and Jack Wilson. We look forward to seeing how far this group can go and believe that many of them will grace our hallowed turf and beyond in the coming seasons. The second half of the season is well underway and upon reading this we will have taken part in and hosted various EFL and Premier League festivals since the Christmas break, which provides a competitive environment for our players to practice. Coming up shortly will be a trip to West Ham for our U13’s, Floodlit Cup action for our U15’s and the culmination of the ‘league’ fixtures for our U16’s. Enjoy the game, come on Boro!

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fter a successful summer we were delighted to announce another three years of delivery of the NCS programme at the Foundation. Since 2012 we have been delivering this programme to over a thousand young people in Stevenage and Welwyn. NCS itself is a four-week summer experience taking away 15 to 17-year olds to gain new life skills. The programme has three key phases all with different opportunities and challenges for the young people. Within this it includes a week’s adventurous activities to develop team working skills. A week’s residential at University Halls to promote independent living and life skills. Lastly two weeks based in Stevenage providing an opportunity to give back to Stevenage’s community. Two weeks away from the parents always seems a popular attraction from the young people and parents alike! Last year 204 young people came away with us on NCS on three different programme dates. New for the year just gone was a knife awareness workshop run by Paul Hannaford. Paul shares his real-life story involving the dangerous consequences of drugs, gang culture and knife crime. I can safely say Paul made a huge impact to all young

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people watching and moving a few staff members to tears. In addition to this, mental health workshops from Tic Box productions, plus a You vs Trains provided by National Rail and the EFL Trust. On our NCS programme we strongly believe it’s important to educate Young People on issues not directly involved in their curricular education to expand their awareness. The programme continues to make a difference to the local area with our Social Action Projects produced by our groups. We are very proud that we broke our fundraising record by one of our groups. A sponsored fancy dressed treadmill run in aid of the Keech House Hospice saw each member of the group running 2344m to represent the current number of patients. This year 55% of staff working on the programme were returning NCS graduates, providing exit routes and youth employment in the Stevenage area. Currently, we are looking to expand our NCS office team with the addition of NCS Business Administration Apprentice (Full Job Description online). This year we are looking to take 150 young people on the NCS programme over the Stevenage area. If you or anyone you know are interested in the NCS programme, please contact us at the Foundation and we’ll be happy to assist via ncs@stevenagefc.com www.stevenagefc.com | 27

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n this programme we take a look at two players for Stevenage FC Women who we believe will make a big name for themselves in 2020.

Name: ASHLEIGH DEACON Nickname: BABS DOB: 30/01/1996 Occupation: RETAIL Preferred playing position: RIGHT WING Season Apps: 15 Joined Stevenage FC Women: 2017 Previous Clubs: ARSENAL, WATFORD, CAMBRIDGE Babs is a huge character at Stevenage FC Women. This is not just in her personality but also in her footballing ability. The biggest attribute of Babs is her dribbling skills and quick pace, she loves the ball at her feet and taking players on. This season I’ve lost count of the amount of assists she has, another part of her game she’s been working extremely hard on in training. One part of her game I know she wants to improve on is her goal scoring which I’m sure entering into the new year is something she can achieve.

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Name: ERIN POPE Nickname: POPEY DOB: 25/04/1996 Occupation: ADMIN FRAMING COMPANY Preferred playing position: N0.10 Season Apps: 13 Joined Stevenage FC Women: 2018 Previous Clubs: QPR Erin is a player with an abundance of footballing talent. Since joining Stevenage FC Women Erin has had to be versatile, filling in when injuries have occurred, having to play in positions she probably wouldn’t have chosen. With this it’s a huge credit to her that she would put in performance after performance. This season we have tried to play her more in her preferred position of no.10 and she is has found an extra confidence. Injuries have slightly hampered Erin this season but hopefully 2020 can be her year to develop even more.

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SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION

LATEST NEWS WELCOME Tonight, it is my pleasure to welcome the fans and supporters of Oldham Athletic. Graham Westley and Dino Maamria on opposing benches – interesting scenario! My personal felicitations to Elaine Ganderton who is the chair of “Trust Oldham”, doing seriously good work at Boundary Park. It’s great to see you all here this evening. I hope you all have a pleasant time in Stevenage and a safe journey home after the match.

FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS FEDERATION “In an increasingly fragmented society, our professional football clubs stand out as beacons of identity and community, reaching beyond their obvious function as sporting businesses, to have family, social and outreach roles. They are institutions in our national life” These are the words of Roger Titford of Reading Supporters’ Trust in a clarion call to preserve the history of our clubs. Roger goes on to suggest that most lower League football clubs don’t have the resources to maintain and curate artefacts (photo’s, trophies, fans scrapbooks etc.,) but that the great bulk of material is held by “a very few private

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collectors – all male, all 50+ or older”. In my experience, I have to concur. Roger is endeavouring to engage with all club historians in the EFL (and beyond) to create a dialogue via the magazine “When Saturday Comes”. I will ensure Stevenage is involved, and if you should have anything to contribute (or donate) then please let me know. Meanwhile, click here to read Roger’s full article.

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of rivals Oldham County. The Latics as they are known won the Lancashire Combination in 1906-07 and used this as a springboard to enter the Football League. Swift progress saw them win promotion out of the Second Division in 1909-10 and in 1914-15 they were second in the First Division. Always keen to make history, in more modern times Oldham are noted for being founder members of the Premier League in 1992 although they were relegated two years later. They also reached the League Cup final in 1990.

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Oldham find themselves nine points ahead of the Boro but they have had a similarly tough season with an inability to get any real run of form together. Indeed in their last four games the Latics have taken just one point from a possible 12, that a 1-1 draw on Saturday with Macclesfield. Prior to that they had lost away to Cheltenham and at home

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DAVID WHEATER

to Scunthorpe and Salford, conceding nine goals in those three defeats. Oldham are out of all the cups, losing 3-2 to Blackburn in the EFL Cup while in the FA Cup they followed a 2-1 win at Gateshead with a 1-0 exit at home to Burton.

STAR MANâ&#x20AC;Ś David Wheater. The Redcar born centre back, now 32, signed in August 2019 for Oldham and has appeared 23 times this season. With 140 appearances for Middlesbrough and 212 for Bolton, Wheater brings a wealth of experience befitting a player who has won England honours at U-16, U-17, U-18, U-19 and U-21 level. Having played in six Premier League campaigns in his career, 6ft 5in Wheater has proved a key player this season.

DINO MAAMRIA

THE GAFFERâ&#x20AC;Ś Dino Maamria truly is no stranger to Boro. The Tunisian-born head coach of Oldham started his playing career with AS Marsa in his home country before moving to Burnley, Glentoran of the IFA and then joining Doncaster, then in the Conference. Maamria first came to Boro in February 2003 and although he left after 10 appearances, he retuned seven months later for a spell lasting three years. His managerial career has seen spells at Northwich, Southport and Nuneaton before he joined Boro in March 2018. Maamria took over at Oldham in September 2019.

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FIXTURES & RESULTS 2019/20 DATE

OPPONENT

RESULT

BORO SCORERS

AUGUST 2019 Sat Aug 03 Salford City Sat Aug 10 Exeter City

2-0 0-1

Tue Aug 13 Southend United

1-2

Sat Aug 17

Leyton Orient Tue Aug 20 Bradford City

0-0

Sat Aug 24 Mansfield Town Sat Aug 31 Macclesfield Town

0-0

Parrett

0-1 2-2

Guthrie, Wildin

SEPTEMBER 2019 Tue Sep 03 MK Dons

0-3

Sat Sep 07 Cheltenham Town Sat Sep 14 Carlisle United

4-2

Newton (2)

2-3

Guthrie (2)

Tue Sep 17

Northampton Town

0-1

Sat Sep 21

Forest Green Rovers Cambridge United

0-0

Sat Sep 28 OCTOBER 2019

1-1

Cowley

Sat Oct 05 Colchester United

3-1

Cowley

Tue Oct 08 Wycombe Wanderers Sat Oct 12 Grimsby Town

0-1

Cowley

2-1

Guthrie, Carter

Sat Oct 19

1-1

Guthrie

Port Vale

Tue Oct 22 Swindon Town Morecambe

1-0

Sat Oct 26

Cuthbert 1-0 1-1 (4-2) Carter

Tue Oct 29 Fulham U21 NOVEMBER 2019 Sat Nov 02 Scunthorpe United Sat Nov 09 Peterborough United

0-0 1-1

Sat Nov 19

2-0

Peterborough United

Sat Nov 23 Walsall DECEMBER 2019

0-0

Tue Dec 03 Colchester United Sat Dec 07 Crawley Town Sat Dec 14 Sat Dec 21

1-2 1-1 1-5

Thu Dec 26 Forest Green Rovers

0-0

Sun Dec 29 Plymouth Argyle JANUARY 2020

2-1

0-0

Tue Jan 07 Bristol Rovers Port Vale Sat Jan 11

0-1

Sat Jan 25

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0-1

Cambridge United Plymouth Argyle

Tue Jan 28 Grimsby Town FEBRUARY 2020 Sat Feb 01

Leyton Orient

Sat Feb 08 Exeter City Tue Feb 11 Sat Feb 15 Sat Feb 22

Bradford City Salford City Crawley Town Walsall

Sat Feb 29 MARCH 2020 Sat Mar 07

2 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 4 0 0 9 3 5 3 2 5 5 1 5 13 8 7 1 5 30 3 0 4 1 5 2 0

1-0

Sat Jan 04

Sat Jan 18

Cowley (2)

0-0

Newport County Crewe Alexandra

Wed Jan 01 Northampton Town Colchester United

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APPEARANCES PAUL FARMAN........................................................... 30 (0) CHRIS STOKES............................................................26 (0) CHARLIE CARTER..................................................... 23 (3) SCOTT CUTHBERT..................................................... 22 (1) KURTIS GUTHRIE...................................................... 20 (4) KELLAND WATTS....................................................... 18 (2) ELLIOTT LIST................................................................ 17 (2) BEN NUGENT............................................................... 16 (2) MICHAEL TIMLIN......................................................... 15 (7) TYLER DENTON.......................................................... 15 (2) CHARLIE LAKIN........................................................... 15 (1) LUTHER WILDLIN.......................................................15 (0) JASON COWLEY........................................................14 (9) TERENCE VANCOOTEN.......................................... 14 (3) TOM SOARES................................................................. 14 (1) BEN KENNEDY............................................................. 13 (4) DEAN PARRETT........................................................... 11 (4) CRAIG MACKAIL-SMITH........................................... 9 (11) EMMANUEL SONUPE.................................................9 (5) PAUL DIGBY.....................................................................9 (1) NOOR HUSIN................................................................. 8 (4) ARTHUR IONTTON......................................................7 (4) PAUL TAYLOR................................................................6 (5) LUIS FERNANDEZ....................................................... 6 (4) DANNY NEWTON........................................................ 6 (4) JOEL BYROM...................................................................6 (1) SACHA BASTIEN.......................................................... 4 (0) JAMIE FIELDING............................................................3 (3) JOE LEESLEY................................................................ 2 (0) ADAM EL-ABD................................................................ 1 (2) ALEX REVELL............................................................... 0 (2) JOEL ROLLINSON....................................................... 0 (2) LIAM SMYTH.................................................................. 0 (2) ANDRONICOS GEORGIOU...................................... 0 (1)

LEAGUE TABLE 13

Crawley Town

GD Pts

-2

14 Salford City

-5

Scunthorpe United

-3

16 Cambridge United

-3

Grimsby Town

-4

Mansfield Town

-6

19 Leyton Orient

-10

20 Oldham Athletic

-15

Sat Mar 14

Crewe Alexandra Newport County

Carlisle United

-20

Tue Mar 17

Swindon Town

22 Macclesfield Town

-3

Sat Mar 21

Morecambe

23 Morecambe

-24

24 Stevenage

-16

Sat Mar 28 Scunthorpe United APRIL 2020 Sat Apr 04 Oldham Athletic Fri Apr 10 Mansfield Town

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Mon Apr 13 Macclesfield Town Sat Apr 18 Cheltenham Town Sat Apr 25

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STEVENAGE MANAGER: GRAHAM WESTLEY RED & WHITE SHIRTS, RED SHORTS, WHITE SOCKS

1 PAUL FARMAN 2 LUTHER JAMES-WILDIN 3 CHRISTOPHER STOKES 4 PAUL DIGBY 5 SCOTT CUTHBERT 6 THOMAS SOARES 7 CHARLIE CARTER 8 JOEL BYROM 9 JASON COWLEY 10 BEN KENNEDY 11 EMMANUEL SONUPE 12 NOOR HUSIN 13 SACHA BASTIEN 14 JAMIE FIELDING 15 TERENCE VANCOOTEN 16 ARTHUR IONTTON 17 JOEL ROLLINSON 18 DEAN PARRETT 19 DANIEL NEWTON 20 KELLAND WATTS 22 ALEX REID 23 JACK SMITH 24 ANDRONICOS GEORGIOU 25 PAUL TAYLOR 26 JOSEPH WHITE 27 ADAM EL-ABD 28 KURTIS GUTHRIE 29 LIAM SMYTH 30 LUIS FERNANDEZ 31 BEN NUGENT 32 CHARLIE LAKIN 33 TYLER DENTON 34 ELLIOTT LIST 35 CRAIG MACKAIL-SMITH 37 MACKYE TOWNSEND-WEST 38 ALEX REVELL 39 JOE LEESLEY 40 JACK BERMAN 44 MICHAEL TIMLIN

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