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The Club Store will begin their end of season sale this weekend as we welcome AFC Fylde to Croft Park for our latest Evo-Stik Northern Premier League match. The Green Army can grab some bargains when the store opens at 1pm on Saturday afternoon. The store will close whilst the game is in progress but will be open during half time and will reopen at the end of the game…
The club can confirm that the Croft Park pitch was damaged at some point between Saturday evening and Monday morning and Northumbria Police have issued the following statement appealing for witnesses: Police are appealing for information after damage was caused to parts of Blyth Spartans’ pitch. Between 5:45pm Saturday, February 22, and 10am Monday, February 24, vandals broke into the Blyth Spartans football stadium and dug up sections of the…
Following Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at home to Buxton Spartans’ manager Tom Wade ruminated on the twin reasons behind the result. “From our point of view we were flat, didn’t look at all sharp,” he said. “On top of that some of our key players ‘didn’t turn up’. But Buxton did a job on us. They were really strong with an excellent front three and a superb back four. In fact…
Spartans fans may like to watch BBC Look North this Tuesday (6.30pm) when there will be a feature on Munitionettes’ football during the First World War. Blyth Spartans Ladies side were particularly successful. Their star striker, Bella Reay, regularly stole the headlines with her goal scoring exploits. The BBC filmed at Croft Park a couple of weeks ago and interviewed Bella’s granddaughter Yvonne Crawford who still lives in the town….
Everyone at the club were delighted with the turn out and atmosphere at last night’s open night and forum. There were some great questions asked and hopefully the answers given will give everyone in attendance an idea of the way the club is heading. One of the biggest positives of last night was the £103 raised for the Scott Bell Fund from the prize raffle. The club will be looking…
Tonight’s the night for the Open Night and Forum at the Clubhouse at Croft Park. Supporters of all ages are welcome to the evening which will see Manager Tom Wade, Assistant Manager Colin Myers and Chairman Tony Platten take part in an open forum answering questions about the club matters on and off the pitch. There will be a charity raffle with two prizes. Firstly there will be a signed…
An excerpt from Spartans assistant boss Colin Myers’ interview with the matchday programme, which will be available to read in full inside this Saturday’s edition. In the latest in a series of programme features profiling those off the pitch at Croft Park, Spartans assistant boss Colin Myers looks back at his time in the game, both as a player and as a coach. Among the highlights, he remembers Northern League…
There will be few in attendance at Croft Park on a Saturday as well-travelled as Kevin Miles. Kevin – who grew up just metres away from the ground – became Chief Executive of the Football Supporters’ Federation last year, while he was also instrumental in launching anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card back in 1996. He has attended every England game for the past fifteen years, and his lifetime…
Blyth Spartans fans around the world will next season be given further insight into Croft Park thanks to community radio station Radio Northumberland. The station has announced that it will continue to provide live coverage of Blyth Spartans fixtures for the 2014/15 season, including every home game in every competition and selected away fixtures which will be announced in July. The coverage – fronted by Radio Northumberland’s Head of Sport…
The pitch at Stafford Rangers on Saturday ended up reminiscent of St. James’ Park. Newcastle when the Spartans played Wrexham there in 1978. A torrential downpour just before kick off in both games was coincidental and culpable. In both circumstances trying to find any substantial patches of grass after the 90 minutes proved a challenging task. “I don’t think I’ve seen a pitch as bad as at Stafford. It was…