Loughborough Students FC Programme Issue 2 by Loughborough University

FOOTBALL LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

NEWARK FC

UNITED COUNTIES FOOTBALL LEAGUE SAT 14 AUGUST 2021 KO 15:00

ESTABLISHED 1919

WHERE HISTORY BEGINS ISSUE 2

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CONTENTS 4

WELCOME FORM RICHARD ALLEN

TODAYS TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING LAUNCH

RIA MELVIN

TODAYS OPPOSITION

HOME FIXTURES

10 THE TEAM 12 SQUAD LIST 14 A BRIEF HISTORY 16 FIXTURES AND RESULTS

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK FC

RICHARD ALLEN

DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to the Loughborough University Stadium for our United Counties Premier Division fixture versus Newark FC. After our win away at Staveley Minors Welfare last Saturday in the FA Cup we will be facing Newark again next Saturday after their replay win away at Lutterworth Town. We were pleased with our win against a tough Northern Counties Premier Division side with goals from Tongsoung Lee and Matt Bowman in a very tight game. This was off the back of a disappointing 2-1 home defeat in our opening game versus Melton Town. We have a busy period coming up with our Under 21’s starting their League campaign in the Midland Football League next Saturday versus Nuneaton Borough U21’s followed by a friendly on Sunday 22nd at St Georges Park versus the GB Deaf Team. The bank holiday weekend will see the first team travelling to Eastwood on Saturday 28th August followed by a local derby away at Quorn on the Bank Holiday Monday. With sadness we have to report the passing of Alum and former women’s player, Ria Melvin. Ria was heavily involved in all aspects of the women’s football programme and at only 26 far to young. In a mark of respect our players will be wearing black armbands and we will be holding a minute’s applause to remember Ria prior to kick off. We are pleased to welcome the players, supporters and directors of Newark and look forward to what we hope will be an exciting and entertaining game.

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TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC TOBY LARSEN

BEN WHITING

CAMERON GRIFFITH-NORRIS

SAM SMITH

DAMI AGBOOLA

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

MATTY BOWMAN

NEWARK FC 01

HENRY BEEDHAM

JOSHUA BURKITT

ASHLEY DIXON

DREW GIBSON

AR KEVIN FRENCH

PHILIP GRAY

JORDAN HAYWOOD

AR KAYDEN GEARY

KEVIN HEMAGOU

REFEREE: THOMAS BURT

FINN BRENNAN

IAN HILLIER

PAUL FIELD

SANOUSI IBRAHIM

JOE GOODWIN

MUSTAPHA JOHN

BEN LE ROUGETEL

JAMIE LLOYD

OLLIE PARSONS

LORD MARFO

KIERAN SMITH

DANIEL MEADOWS

GEORGE WARD

SOLOMON MILLER

JAKE BOYER

ROMELLO NANGLE

SID KERR

EXAUCE NSIALA

TONGSOUNG LEE

KUWSI OFUSHINE

JOE LLOYD

WILLIAM RAWDON

BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

JOSEPH SEARSON-SMITHARD

ETHAN O’TOOLE

JOSHUA STEVENSON

MAX SMALLCOMBE

TOMMY STREET

DYLAN EDWARDS

DOMINIC SWINGLER

TOPE FADAHANSI

DENZIL WELLINGTON

CAM MOORE

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LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

FIRST LEAGUE GAME FOR LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING We are incredibly excited to get Lightning’s first FA Women’s National League campaign underway tomorrow against Hull. The girls have all worked incredibly hard over our 6 week pre-season, and ultimately bought into where we want to take the programme. Results have been up and down in friendlies, but all vital lessons as a new group of players. There is a great atmosphere amongst the camp, a strong week in training; I have no doubt that the team will get the 3 points they deserve vs Hull. by Issy Martin

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RIA MELVIN Today we will be holding a minute applause to remember Ria, a Loughborough graduate who sadly passed away last week. Ria was a massive part of the women’s football programme during her time at Loughborough and the Loughborough family will miss her greatly. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.

‘Rest in Peace’ 29th September 1995 - 5th August 2021

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK FC

TODAYS OPPOSITION

NEWARK FC

Founded in 1901 as AJ Simpson and Co., the football club began life in the Newark Ironmongers’ League. No records survive from those early days, but it is known that in 1935 the club, now renamed Worthington Simpson, entered the Nottingham Spartan League. After winning back-to-back titles, Simmo’s or the Works (as the club became known locally) joined the Notts Alliance League in 1949, going on to win that title in the momentous football years of 1953 and 1966. The Notts Alliance Cup brought the club’s greatest success up to that point, first in 1970 and then the trophy returning to Newark in 1972, 1981, 1989 and 1999. Name changes followed in the late ‘90s, first to IDP and then to Newark Flowserve, and in 2004 the club’s name was entered into the first level of the FA’s national pyramid by joining the Central Midlands League Premier Division. Following a short break, the first team re-formed in 2013 and finished a creditable third in Notts Senior League (NSL) Division Two, securing promotion to the First Division.

Another successful campaign followed a year later when the team finished runners-up and clinched their place in the NSL Premier Division, taking the club up to step seven football. The Highwaymen - named after the town’s historic links with the ‘noble’ art – won the NSL Premier division and league cup double in magnificent style, finishing a remarkable 25 points clear of runners-up Awsworth Villa, also clinching the NSL League Cup. Season 2018/19 saw the club playing step six football in the East Midlands Counties Football League (EMCFL) where they achieved a second place and promotion to the Midland Football League Premier Division. For the second year running the club also picked up the league cup, this time the EMCFL League Cup! Sadly the 2019/20 season was ended abruptly because of the global CVOID-19 pandemic, however, the club finished in 4th place in the league, were still in the MFL League Cup and were in the semi-finals of the Nottinghamshire FA’s Senior Cup. To add to this, club had

been accepted into The FA Vase for the first time in its history – a debut which saw them bow out in the last 32 of the competition. Notwithstanding the promotions achieved in the previous 3 seasons, it is generally accepted that this was certainly on par with anything else achieved by the club in its long history. During the summer of 2020, the club established a football academy, to provide both education and high-quality football coaching to 16 to 19year olds, and to offer additional coaching to 14 and 15-year olds. In May 2020 after requests from The FA over sponsorship issues relating to any future promotion the club dropped the Flowserve and became Newark FC. Due to problems with the ground tenancy for season 21/22 the club will be ground sharing with Basford Utd of the Northern Premier League. This coincides with us making the lateral Step 5 move from the Midland Football League to the United Counties League Premier North division.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC 2021/2022 SEASON

HOME FIXTURES

DATE

TIME

OPPONENTS

RESULTS 2-1 LOSS

TUE 03/08/2021

KO 19:45

MELTON TOWN

SAT 14/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

SAT 21/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

SAT 11/09/2021

KO 15:00

SLEAFORD TOWN

SAT 02/10/2021

KO 15:00

GRESLEY ROVERS

SAT 09/10/2021

KO 15:00

HEANOR TOWN

SAT 06/11/2021

KO 15:00

DEEPING RANGERS

SAT 20/11/2021

KO 15:00

SELSTON

SAT 04/12/2021

KO 15:00

LONG EATON UNITED

SAT 11/12/2021

KO 15:00

EASTWOOD C.F.C.

TUE 21/12/2021

KO 19:45

HEATHER ST. JOHN’S

TUE 04/01/2022

KO 19:45

LEICESTER NIRVANA

SAT 15/01/2022

KO 15:00

HOLBEACH UNITED

SAT 22/01/2022

KO 15:00

SKEGNESS TOWN A.F.C.

SAT 05/02/2022

KO 15:00

QUORN

SAT 05/03/2022

KO 15:00

ANSTEY NOMADS

SAT 26/03/2022

KO 15:00

BOSTON TOWN

SAT 02/04/2022

KO 15:00

PINCHBECK UNITED

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

THE TEAM

RICHARD ALLEN Director of Football

MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

HARRIET SIMES

Programme Manager Media & Press enquiries h.h.simes@lboro.ac.uk

VICE PRESIDENTS

ALAN GOODLEY, GRAHAM HERRING, GORDON WATSON, PETE SIMMONS, SHIRLEY HORNER, ALEX ACKERLEY MATT STOCK

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK FC

SPORT SCIENCE

CALLUM FOSTER

ELLA HUDSON

OLIVER FAIRS

OWEN SMITH MEDICAL TEAM

AMBER BERRY

LAURA DALES

- PERFORMANCE ANALYST

TARA PHETHEAN

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

SQUAD LIST GOALKEEPERS

TOBY LARSEN

BEN WHITING

CAMERON GRIFFITHNORRIS

SAM SMITH

DEFENDERS

DAMI AGBOOLA

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

MATTY BOWMAN

FINN BRENNAN

PAUL FIELD

JOE GOODWIN

BEN LE ROUGETEL

OLLIE PARSONS

DEFENDERS 13

THEO SACKEYMENSAH

KIERAN SMITH

GEORGE WARD

MIDFIELDERS

JAKE BOYER

SID KERR

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

TONGSOUNG LEE

ETHAN O’TOOLE

MAX SMALLCOMBE

FORWARDS

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

JOE LLOYD

CAM MOORE

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

A BRIEF HISTORY 1919-20 Earliest records of Loughborough Men’s football date-back to 191920 side, under the name of Loughborough Technical Institute and guidance of Principal Herbert Schofield. In 1920 it became a college of Technology, with the football side winning its first silverware on record in the Northern Junior Cup in 1922.

1930-1970 Loughborough Men won their first University Championship in the 1938/39 season and the Leicestershire Senior League in 1940, after the war they returned to winning ways in the University competition (UAU) from 1947 – 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959-1963, 1965, 1966 and 1969. In 1966 Loughborough became a University and also competed in the Leicestershire Senior League Division Two until 1972. The 1970s was an extremely important decade for the Club. Three more University titles followed and former student and then lecturer, Mike Holliday, took up the reigns of Head Coach, a role he would continue into the mid-90s. Early signs of

Mike’s rein included an away victory over a Manchester United XI.

THE 35 YEAR WAIT The side waited 35 years for a return to non-league football, entering the Midland Combination for the first time in 2007-08. After silverware in their first season in the shape of the Midlands League Cup, in 2009 Loughborough won promotion as champions to the Midland Football Alliance. 2011/12 Stuart McLaren’s first term ended with a 5th place finish in the Midland Football Alliance and victory in the League Cup, the club’s highest ever honour so far. The League Cup was retained in 2012/13 as the side equalled their highest ever league finishing position in the MFA of 4th. In May 2012 the Loughborough University Stadium was opened with a showcase game against a Spurs Academy team. Many Loughborough Football graduates and staff also started to carve extremely successful Coaching roles in the Professional Game – a trend that continues to this day.

Former players include Bob Wilson (former Scotland & Arsenal), Bradley Pritchard (Former Charlton & Leyton Orient), Robbie Simpson (Cheltenham City former Coventry City, Exeter City, MK Dons), Leon McSweeney (Former Northampton Town & Leyton Orient), George Williams (Mk Dons & Former Barnsley). Other former players and staff are littered throughout the Premiership and EFL, in a coaching and support staff capacity including Kieran McKenna & Eric Ramsay (Manchester United), Sam Erith (England & Manchester City), Nathan Gardiner (formerly Spurs, Fulham), Matthew Prestridge (formerly Sheffield United), Matt Reeves (Leicester City). In 2014 Loughborough University joined the Midland Football League in its inaugural year. The 2016/17 saw the Scholars have one of their most positive starts to the MFL season in a number of years. However, a disappointing run in from December saw the 16/17 season fall away with the club finishing in 18th out of 22. The 17/18 season also saw the appointment of Richard Allen as Director of Football,

LOOKING FORWARD

in January 2018. Richard joined from the FA where he was head of Talent ID. He has extensive knowledge of academy football with previous roles as Head of Academy at QPR and Head of Recruitment at Tottenham.

PROGRESSING Progressing onto the 2018/19 season Alex Ackerley was appointed Head Coach continuing to work alongside Jamie Hawthorne, who has since moved in 2019/20 to work as an Academy Coach at Southampton FC. 2018/19 season ended in a County Cup Final appearance against Coalville Town, with the Ravens, who play at Step 3, winning the game 4 – 1 at Holmes Park. The 2019/20 season saw the Scholars celebrate their Centenary as well as a new

challenge having been moved laterally during the off season into the Uhlsport United Counties Football League. The scholars were sitting in 4th place in mid March when the 19/20 season was deemed null and void due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Yet again the 2020/21 season was affected by the Covid19 virus and Alex Ackerley and his student coaches, Joel Bonner, Callum Crockard and Ben Day saw the season curtailed in January 2021, whilst sitting at the top of the league. Joel moved to Liverpool’s academy during December 2020 to work with the U16s and Ben to Burton Albion shortly after at the turn of the year. Callum will start 2021/22 on his course placement at Southampton, where he will be working in their academy.

The 2021/22 season sees the club return to using the Loughborough Students name across all the teams, both in the leagues and BUCS competitions, with the addition of a reserve team playing in the Leicester Senior League, the U21s will continue in MFL U21s East. This is a new chapter for the Scholars, with experienced, former professional player and pro-licence coach, Jamie Clapham arriving in the preseason as the new University Men’s Head Coach, together with the appointment of a new University Football Programme Manager, Harriet Simes, joining from Birmingham City Women, following the departure of Mat Stock to Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy and Alex Ackerley to pastures new. As always with Loughborough Students FC, you will see some new faces, not necessarily new students, but players who have worked their way through the programme from U21s to earn their place in the performance squad. Everyone is looking forward to the new season, continuing to build on the foundations that Mat and Alex have put in place.

SAT 07/08/2021