Andy Ferrell – Recalled by Barrow

13th April 2012

The club can confirm that on-loan midfielder Andy Ferrell has been recalled by parent club Barrow with immediate effect. He will therefore not be available for tomorrow’s home game with Hyde FC (kick off 3pm). In all Fez featured 7 times for the Spartans, scoring in the 3-3 draw with Droyslden on his debut. The club would like to thank Andy for his time at the club and wish him…

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Port of Blyth POTM – Mar 2012

12th April 2012

WAYNE PHILLIPS – MARCH 2012 The Player of the Month for March 2012 is winger Wayne Phillips. The midfielder, signed from Harrogate Town in the summer, had a slow start to the season, but his form has picked up massively since the appointment of Tommy Cassidy and he is now producing consistent, effective performances in a green and white shirt. March saw the Spartans play their best football of the…

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Cassidy is looking forward

With his Blyth Spartans side relegated from the Blue Square North on Saturday manager Tommy Cassidy was thinking of recharging his batteries, and of positives and negatives. “I’m looking forward to the summer holidays and to the new season,“ he said. Don’t think though that I’ll be relaxing because the hard work starts then, actually before that – now! I’ve had a word with the current players and they know…

12th April 2012
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Harrogate Town 0 Blyth Spartans 0 (Match Report)

There was no resurrection for Blyth Spartans over the Easter weekend as relegation from the Blue Square Bet North was confirmed at Croft Park on Saturday, following a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Gainsborough Trinity, before a trip to North Yorkshire on Monday resulted in a miserable goalless draw with Harrogate Town. Dreary conditions at Wetherby Road summed up a game in which two poor sides slogged it out…

10th April 2012
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Presentation Night – 28 April 2012

A change of format for this season’s presentation evening will see the main awards presented after our last home game of the season on the 28th of April in the social club at 6.30pm. The awards, which will be presented by Lissa and Brian Delf from our major sponsor Quantum Elite Ltd will be as follows: – Supporters’ Club Player of the Season – Golden Boot Award – Port of…

7th April 2012
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Scott Bell Benefit Match – 5th May 2012

We can now reveal that the Scott Bell benefit match on Saturday 5th May will be between a Spartans XI and Bedlington XI with many of Scott’s team mates and guests making an appearance, with the Spartans team being managed on the day by Harry Dunn. Admission will be £2 & £1, with under 10’s admitted free if accompanied by an adult. All monies collected on the day will be…

4th April 2012
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Blyth Spartans 2 Solihull Moors 1 (Match Report & Reaction)

Blyth Spartans will live to fight another day after they came from behind to beat Solihull Moors 2-1 and avoid the drop – for the time being anyway – on a stormy Tuesday night at Croft Park. With Hinckley United defeating fellow Blue Square Bet North strugglers Vauxhall Motors by the same score-line anything other than a victory for Spartans would have confirmed their relegation to the Evo-stik Premier division….

4th April 2012
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Vauxhall Motors 2 Blyth Spartans 1 (Merit Marks)

2nd April 2012

Detailed below are the marks for the Vauxhall Motors V Blyth Spartans match played on Saturday March 31st 2012. The merit marks were awarded by Andrew Dodds. Team 1. David Knight – 6/10 2. Dan Groves – 7/10 3. Joe Kendrick – 5/10 4. Neal Hooks – 5/10 5. Carl Jones – 6/10 6. Jordon Mellish – 6/10 7. Lee Mason – 5/10 8. Andy Ferrell – 5/10 9. Glen…

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Vauxhall Motors 2 Blyth Spartans 1 (Match Reaction)

A realistic Tommy Cassidy admitted that his side’s hopes of escaping the Blue Square Bet North relegation zone are ‘pretty much over’ after Vauxhall Motors widened the gap between themselves and Spartans to 14 points with a 2-1 victory at Rivacre Park on Saturday. And unlike in recent weeks the Blyth Spartans manager said after the game that he could take absolutely no positives from what was a dismal performance…

1st April 2012
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Vauxhall Motors 2 Blyth Spartans 1 (Match Report)

It is surely now only a matter of time before Blyth Spartans are relegated from the Blue Square Bet North with Saturday’s 2-1 defeat against Vauxhall Motors leaving them a massive 14 points from safety with just six games remaining. With the Motormen one place above Spartans in the league table it was a game that Tommy Cassidy’s side had to win if they were to give themselves any chance…

1st April 2012
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