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After the success of last year’s Season Review DVD, Blue Square have produced a similar FREE DVD for the 2008/09 season. The DVD includes the story of the season in the Blue Square Premier, culminating in the Play-Off Final at Wembley Stadium (featuring Spartans ‘Hall of Famer’ Adam Bartlett). There is more footage this year from across the season, as well as again featuring the Blue Square Premier Fan Awards….
Date/Time: 25 June 2009 @ 19.00 Present: Andrew Westgarth, Jeff Young, Anthony Seghini, Deborah Wall, Martin Hunter, Dave Charlton, Bobby Bell, Derek Birdsey, Scott Dewhurst, Dave Wall and Brian Bell Apologies: None Correspondence: Usual array of bills, orders and requests One letter requesting to join the Supporters Club Committee (As there are two vacancies MH to publish advert on website) Shop: Retail unit looks like it will go ahead in…
The Supporters Club has a couple of vancancies on its committee and is looking for volunteers to fill up the positions. More details of what we do are included in the ‘About Us’ section which can be found on the left hand menu, but basically we are looking for people willing to come up with ideas and help us out in role of providing support for the Football Club. Should…
The above photo shows Nick Kinghorn proudly displaying his Spartans scarf on his Icelandic Trek in September 2008. The four day trek, which took in mountains, volcanos and lava fields, was done to raise over £2,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Part of the money was raised by SpartansFans who took part in the Spartanszone FC match last summer.
The end of the Premier League Season means that the winner of the annual SpartansFans Fantasy Football League Can be announced and for the second time the winner is Mark Oliver. Details of next year’s competition will appear on this section of the site when the details have been released by the official competition. Well down Mark!
SPARTANSFANS YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON – SHAUN REAY The first ever winner of the SpartansFans Young Player of the Year goes to striker Shaun Reay. The forward joined the Spartans midway through the season from Darlington, following an unsuccessful spell at Harrogate Town and his debut saw him change the game against Sheffield FC in the FA Cup. More was to follow as the ‘upfronter’ achieved national fame when…
SPARTANSFANS PLAYER OF THE SEASON – CHRIS MCCABE Now that the season has been completed, the winner of the SpartansFans Player of the Season can be announced and for the second time in the four years that the competition has been running, the honour is awarded to midfield lynchpin Chris McCabe. Hugely important to the way that the Spartans play, the midfielder has played a key role in our survival…
ROBERT DALE – APRIL 2009 The winner of the final SpartansFans Player of the Month goes to Robert Dale. The month started poorly for the Spartans and following the three defeats their Blue Square North status was seriously in jeopardy, but the enigmatic Dale stepped up to the plate when he was needed to steer the Spartans to safety. The highlight of the month (and probably the league campaign) being…
As a follow up to the popular “Spartans Abroad” section of the website, we are keen for photos to be emailed to us which show SpartansFans showing their support for the mighty Spartans in places of interest in the UK as well, one such photo has been received from SpartansFan Tom Crane, who was a spectator at the 2009 World Snooker Championships in Sheffield. Should you have a story or…
The final game of the season against Burscough, also marked the last Blyth match for longtime SpartansFan Mick Scott before he emigrates to New Zealand in June. Mick, who wrote the “and then the corner flag fell down” book detailing his Spartans life, has followed the Spartans up and down the country for years and his famous ‘lobster song’ is a must for any away game. To mark his final…