Loughborough Students FC Programme Issue 18 by Loughborough University

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WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FC

THE BUILDBASE FA VASE QUARTER FINAL SAT 12 MAR 2022 KO 15:00

ESTABLISHED 1919

WHERE HISTORY BEGINS ISSUE 19

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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

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JAMIE CLAPHAM

HEAD COACH Good afternoon and welcome to today’s FA Vase Quarter-final game here at Loughborough University Stadium. I’m delighted to welcome Wythenshawe Town management team, players, officials and supporters. Todays game follows our midweek win away at Stirling University in the semi final of the BUCS competition. A very solid performance saw us win 3-0 so we now have the final to look forward too later this month. Wythenshawe Town currently sit 3rd in their respective league and are on a good run of results. They have also had some very good results in this competition so far, playing a lot of their games away from home. Today will be a tough encounter, I’m sure both teams will have done their homework and feel ready for the challenge. Having home advantage and hoping for a bumper crowd today please get behind the team to help us get through. As always thank you for your continued support and enjoy the game.

Jamie Clapham Head Coach

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TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FC

BEN WHITING (GK)

IONUT-CASIAN ANGHEL

SAM SMITH (GK)

MORGAN BACON (GK)

TOBY LARSEN (GK)

MATTY BOWMAN

KIERAN SMITH

THEO SACKEY-MENSAH

DAMI AGBOOLA

FINN BRENNAN

REFEREE: SCOTT TALLIS

JOSHUA BARDSLEY

PAUL RILEY

AR TOM BOWKETT

CONNOR BROTHERTON

MATTHEW BRYAN

AR ASHLEY CLARKE

JORDAN BURTON

BRAD BYRNE

FOURTH BEN COOKE

KIAL CALLACHER

GARY DA COSTA

OLLIE PARSONS

BEN LE ROUGETEL

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

STEVEN DRYDEN (GK)

GEORGE WARD

RYAN GRAHAM

PAUL FIELD

LEE GREGORY

MAX SMALLCOMBE

STEVEN HEWITT

BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

PAUL MARSHALL

SID KERR

MAX LEORARD

ETHAN O’TOOLE

OLIVER MARTIN (GK)

TOM IACIOFANO

LATEEF OSENI

JOE LLOYD

JAN PALINKAS

LUKE MARTIN

DARIUS PALMA

GEORGE WILSON

JOHN PRICHARD

DYLAN EDWARDS

JAINIERO SALMON-HARRIS

TOPE FADAHANSI

DEANE SMALLEY

CAM MOORE

DOMINIC SMALLEY

JOSH BAILEY

EMMANUEL TCHOUANI

ANTHONY LYNNE

JACK TIMMONS

HARVEY WHYTE

GREGORY WILKINSON

JEROME WRIGHT

DANIEL HAVERN (GK)

MARIUZS KISIEL (GK)

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FC

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

Firstly, congratulations on behalf of the women’s football programme to Jamie and all players for their historic cup run. Its been fantastic to support and see the groups progress. Good luck today, we’ll be supporting! After two Sundays ‘off’ from National League action, the players are raring to go for tomorrow’s fixture vs Wolves. The team’s momentum shift and fearless performances since the Christmas break have been remarkable. A run of 5 games unbeaten has given the group a reward for all their hard work and lifted us out of the relegation zone. We know there is along way to go with many tests left to face to secure ourselves a spot in Tier 3 for next season. Tomorrow will be one of those tests; Wolves are one of the strongest teams in the league. Loughborough Alumni Amber Hughes will be tough to contain as probably Wolves biggest threat. However with the fight shown against the likes of Derby, we’ll be keen to reproduce such team performances tomorrow to come away with more points on the board.Thanks again to all our supporters following our journey this season, your encouragement as our “12th player” is greatly valued!

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TODAYS OPPOSITION

WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FC

The club was founded in 1946 as the North Withington Amateur Football Club and was first played in the South Manchester & Wythenshawe League (1946 - 1958). They were subsequently transferred to the Lancashire & Cheshire Amateur league (1958 - 1972). In 1972 the club were accepted into the Manchester league. In June 1974, under the helm of Chairman Billy Moore, the club’s headquarters were moved from the Princess Hotel in Withington to the newly acquired ground at Timpson Road, Baguley where three pre-fabricated houses were purchased and turned into a clubhouse. It was decided to name the ground after the residing Chairman (Stan Hahn) and the Club Secretary (Eric Renard) out of respect, hence the name Ericstan Park. It was at this point, the club decided to design a new badge incorporating a cockerel and a fox; the cockerel related to founding member Stanley Hahn (the German for cockerel is Hähnchen) and the fox to founding member Eric Renard (the French for fox is Renard), to forever recognise the club’s founding members. In 2014 the club transferred to the Cheshire League Division 2 and went on to win every single league and Cup game, 39 games in total, earning the side the title, ‘The Invincibles.’ The club then set their sights firmly on bringing semi-professional football to the club for the first time in history. That ambition came to realisation at the end of the 2017/18 season when the club secured promotion to Step 6 and the Hallmark Security North West Counties League South Division. There were further changes at the beginning of 2019 when Chris Eaton took over as Chairman with a promise to put the club on a sound business footing. Promotion was narrowly missed at the end of the season but with Manager James Kinsey and his coaching team in charge, the club looked forward to the new campaign with optimism. The optimism proved well-founded as the club showed its confidence in the players and management team was justified with some remarkable highlights and a run in the league that left them in third place and looking forward to a future in the next level.

Their greatest run of success was in the FA Vase where a series of victories against Goole Town, Nostell Miners Welfare, Skelmersdale United, and Northwich Victoria saw them matched against competition favourites big-spending Consett AFC. A draw at home saw Wythenshawe visit the North-East for the replay but the FA’s experimental rule-change for the competition saw the team short of six players while their opponents had a full squad to choose from. Even so it was a narrow one-nil defeat that saw their visions of Wembley come to an end. The highlight of the season was a remarkable two-one away victory over high flying National League North stars Curzon Ashton in the Frank Hannah Manchester Senior Cup and their last game before the season was ended by COVID-19 was in the semi-final of the Division One Cup against Sandbach United. The decision to declare the season null and void robbed the club of what looked to be a certain promotion. Season 2020/2021 saw a remarkable start to the campaign with seven straight wins and 29 goals scored against just 3 in return. Once again, the season was ended by COVID, and it looked as if once again frustration was the order of the day. However, the club got the news it so richly deserved when the FA made the decision to base promotion on the records of the two curtailed seasons and Wythenshawe Town found themselves starting the new campaign in the Premier Division. There was progress off the field as well at the beginning of 2021, when Chairman Chris Eaton, with the unanimous backing of the members, turned the club into a limited company with a promise of great things to come. In the premier Division for the first time Wythenshawe Town made an immediate impact, rising up to third place in the table and holding on to that place for three months. They have already reached the quarter-finals in the FA Vase for the first time in history.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WYTHENSHAWE TOWN 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 12/03/2022

KO 15:00

WYTHENSHAWE TOWN

SAT 26/03/2022

KO 15:00

BOSTON TOWN

1-1 DRAW

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WYTHENSHAWE TOWN FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

THE TEAM

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

SAM STEWART Assistant Coach

HARRIET SIMES

MARGARET FOLWELL

Programme Manager

Secretary

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

SPORT SCIENCE

CALLUM FOSTER MEDICAL TEAM

LAURA DALES

ELLA HUDSON PERFORMANCE ANALYST

TARA PHETHEAN

OLIVER FAIRS VICE PRESIDENTS

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

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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

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

LUKE MARTIN

ETHAN O’TOOLE

JOE LLOYD

MAX SMALLCOMBE

JOSH BAILEY

GEORGE WILSON

FORWARDS

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

CAM MOORE

ANTHONY LYNN

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.

LEICESTER NIRVANA

4-4 DRAW

SAT 09/10/2021