Loughborough Students FC Programme Issue 17 by Loughborough University

FOOTBALL LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

ANSTEY NOMADS FC

UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUE SAT 5 MAR 2022 KO 15:00

ESTABLISHED 1919

WHERE HISTORY BEGINS ISSUE 18

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CONTENTS 4

WELCOME FROM JAMIE CLAPHAM

TODAYS TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

TODAYS OPPOSITION

HOME FIXTURES

11 THE TEAM 12 SQUAD LIST 14 A BRIEF HISTORY 16 FIXTURES AND RESULTS 18 UPCOMING FIXTURES

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V ANSTEY NOMADS FC

JAMIE CLAPHAM

HEAD COACH Good afternoon and welcome to today’s UCL Premier Division North game here at Loughborough University Stadium. I’m delighted to welcome Anstey Nomads management team, players, officials and supporters. Todays game was going to be third versus fourth in the league despite results on Tuesday night. Due to the cancellation of Anstey’s game it gave us the opportunity to go above them in the league If we beat Holbeach. Holbeach had the potential to be a banana skin. Low on points and potential confidence. We also know how players can up there game coming to play at our stadium but the mentality of the players and the early goal soon got us into our stride and it turned out to be a solid professional display We last played Anstey in October where we came away losing 3-1. I’m sure both teams will feel they have improved since then so it should be an exciting game. After today we will be travelling to Stirling University for the semi final of the BUCS knock out and then return Home for the Quarter final in the VA Vase next Saturday. Our opponents, Wythenshawe Town, beat Todays opposition on penalties in the last round. So todays game is that start of an exciting week of football for the players and staff at loughborough. As always thank you for your support and enjoy the game!

Jamie Clapham Head Coach

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V ANSTEY NOMADS FC

TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC BEN WHITING (GK)

SAM SMITH (GK)

TOBY LARSEN (GK)

MATTY BOWMAN

KIERAN SMITH

THEO SACKEY-MENSAH

DAMI AGBOOLA

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CONRAD LOGAN

JORDAN ANNABLE

REFEREE: TOM BINGLEY

JACON CROUD

HENRY BESTWICK

AR STEWART GLENDENNING

COREY ARMENI

MICHAEL REEVE

BEN BAYLISS

AR KOONER SINGH

FINN BRENNAN

BILLY BLACKSHAW

OLLIE PARSONS

JUDE KINCH

BEN LE ROUGETEL

CHARLIE SCANLON

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

ZAYN HAKEEM

GEORGE WARD

CONNOR BROWN-WINGFIELD

PAUL FIELD

JOEL WOLFE

MAX SMALLCOMBE

KERN MILLER

BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

MASON LEE

SID KERR

JAMES NEALE

ETHAN O’TOOLE

TOM IACIOFANO

JOE LLOYD

LUKE MARTIN

GEORGE WILSON

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

CAM MOORE

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V ANSTEY NOMADS FC

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

It has been a productive week for the Lightning Performance Team who have been training well and working hard in the gym to maintain their momentum as we head into a free weekend. We are hoping to get a friendly in the diary for this weekend but after a run of 5 unbeaten games it gives us a great opportunity to regroup ahead of some tough upcoming fixtures against the likes of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest and Stoke City. Our Lightning Development team are also doing well after a 4-2 win over Lincoln at the weekend. They travel to Stoke City FC at the weekend in the hope to pick up 3 more points. Finally, I would like to wish good luck to our Women’s BUCS 2s who face East Anglia in the Final of the BUCS Cup next Wednesday 9th March, 5pm Kick off at the Stadium. It would be great to get a big crowd down to support and hopefully bring the cup home!

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TODAYS OPPOSITION

ANSTEY NOMADS FC

Before the Second World War two clubs, the St Mary’s and the Prims, were playing in Anstey. It was after the war when the boys retuned from the services, that the two clubs, Marys and the PM decided to join forces under the name of Anstey Meths and Mary’s, which formed in 1946. However after one season it was decided that the name of the club would be changed to Anstey Nomads. With the formation of the Nomads football in Anstey took on a higher status, for Leicestershire Senior League Football – the highest grade of amateur football in the county – came to the village. Early successes in winning the Senior League Division 1 (1951-52 and 1953-54) were followed by heady exploits in the FA Amateur Cup. In their first attempt they reached the first round proper losing 2-1 at Cambridge. In the second season Gedling Colliery knocked them out in the final qualifying round 2-1 a Gedling. The following season the club wrote a new page in Leicestershire amateur football history, after playing through all five preliminary rounds, their big day arrived when 400 supporters hired a train and made the journey to Gray’s in Essex to see the team win 3-1 in the 1st round proper. The 2nd round saw a crowd of 4,500 at Cropston Road with the Nomads losing 2-1 to Hayes. The club then joined the Central Alliance with little or no success. The revamping of Midlands football saw the club in the East Midlands Regional League in 1966-67 and of the six years spent there, top four places were gained in three of them. Back in the Leicestershire Senior League in 1973 and after winning Division Two in their first season the Nomads became one of the powerhouses of local football mainly under the guidance of John Perkins, Willie Wilcox and Denis Moran.

In the Ninetie’s history was created when the Leicestershire Senior Cup and Junior Cup “the double” was achieved in 1994-95. Into the Noughties and 2008-09 was the Nomads most successful season for many a day. Champions of the Leicestershire Senior League and winners of a host of local cups under Stu Deeley. Also gaining promotion to the East Midlands Counties League. And apart from one season steady progress has been made with u/21 and u/18 teams flirted with. Now established in the United Counties league, new dressing rooms and a ground overhaul, season 2021/22, with first team, under 21`s, 3 x under 18`s, women`s senior team and a further 34 junior teams together with a walking football side.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V ANSTEY NOMADS FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC 2021/2022 SEASON

HOME FIXTURES

DATE

TIME

OPPONENTS

RESULTS

TUE 03/08/2021

KO 19:45

MELTON TOWN

2-1 LOSS

SAT 14/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

7-0 WIN

SAT 21/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

3-2 WIN

FRI 10/09/2021

KO 19:45

SLEAFORD TOWN

2-0 WIN

SAT 02/10/2021

KO 15:00

GRESLEY ROVERS

1-1 DRAW

SAT 06/11/2021

KO 15:00

DEEPING RANGERS

5-1 WIN

TUE 16/11/2021

KO 19:45

SELSTON

3-0 WIN

SAT 20/11/2021

KO 15:00

GRESLEY ROVERS

2-0 WIN

SAT 04/12/2021

KO 15:00

LONG EATON UNITED

0-3 LOSS

SAT 11/12/2021

KO 15:00

SANDBACH UNITED

4-0 WIN

TUE 04/01/2022

KO 19:45

LEICESTER NIRVANA

1-0 LOSS

TUE 18/01/2022

KO 19:45

HEATHER ST. JOHN’S

5-0 WIN

SAT 22/01/2022

KO 15:00

SKEGNESS TOWN A.F.C.

2-1 WIN

SAT 29/01/2022

KO 15:00

HEANOR TOWN

4-1 WIN

SAT 05/02/2022

KO 15:00

QUORN

4-2 WIN

SAT 12/02/2022

KO 15:00

ABBEY HEY

3-0 WIN

SAT26/02/2022

KO 15:00

EASTWOOD

2-0 WIN

TUE 01/03/2022

KO 19:45

HOLBEACH

9-0 WIN

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 HOLBEACH UNITED FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

THE TEAM

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary

HARRIET SIMES

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

SPORT SCIENCE

CALLUM FOSTER MEDICAL TEAM

ELLA HUDSON PERFORMANCE ANALYST

OLIVER FAIRS VICE PRESIDENTS

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

TARA PHETHEAN

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V ANSTEY NOMADS FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

SQUAD LIST GOALKEEPERS

TOBY LARSEN

BEN WHITING

SAM SMITH

DEFENDERS

DAMI AGBOOLA

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

PAUL FIELD

MATTY BOWMAN

BEN LE ROUGETEL

FINN BRENNAN

OLLIE PARSONS

DEFENDERS

THEO SACKEYMENSAH

KIERAN SMITH

GEORGE WARD

MIDFIELDERS

TOM IACIOFANO

SID KERR

LUKE MARTIN

JOE LLOYD

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

ETHAN O’TOOLE

MAX SMALLCOMBE

GEORGE WILSON

FORWARDS

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

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.

GRESLEY ROVERS

1-1 DRAW

TUE 05/10/2021