1st Team

Early last season local young filmmaker Alex Ayre produced a short documentary on former Spartans kitman and member of our Hall of Fame Tony Kennedy. The club were delighted to find out that Alex’s documentary won him the “2013 Chris Anderson Award for Best Young Filmmaker” at the Berwick Film Festival. The Chris Anderson Award celebrates talented young filmmakers aged 19 and under from North East England, the Scottish Borders…

After the success and popularity of the Blyth Spartans AFC Official Podcast last season the show will return next Monday. Produced in association with Radio Northumberland the podcasts will be released every two months throughout the 2013/14 season. The first release of the new season will feature a joint interview with Spartans Manager Tom Wade, Assistant Manager Colin Myers and Goalkeeper Coach John Bottensien as they discuss the club’s impressive…

On Saturday Blyth’s fixture was at Barwell, which is located just on the edge of Bosworth Field where King Richard the Third was killed in 1485. It was a story of human tragedy; slaughter on a massive scale as limbs were hacked off and bodies trampled under-foot. The Battle that is – not the Evo-Stik game which, in contrast, only witnessed a bleeding nose suffered by Barwell’s Richard Lavery and…

By Rory Mitchinson Stand-in Spartans captain Arjun Purewal paid tribute to his central defensive partner Nathan Buddle, after the former Hartlepool United man struck late on to earn the Green Army a deserved victory at Barwell. “I was buzzing for him – he deserved that goal”, said Purewal. “He was brilliant today, and so it’s really nice for him to get the winner. You could see from his celebration what…