Up next for Stevenage is the visit of Crewe Alexandra, who have endured a mixed start to their
season. After the disappointment of 2 defeats from their opening 2 league games, the Railwaymen
returned the following week to smash Barnet for 7! I caught up with the editor from the Vital
Crewe site to talk about Crewe's aims for the new season, who their "star" player is plus an
insight into what to expect from League 2.
Stevenage's first month in League 2 has been pretty mixed, but overall I think it's safe to say
that we are going in the right direction. The opening day draw with Macclesfield was a bit of an
anti-climax after all the hype, but Boro have responded with some good performances that see them
sitting comfortably in 10th place.
WINTERBOURNE UNITED 4-1 CLANFIELDSaturday 4th September
2010Hellenic League Division 1 WestParkside AvenueToday sees me catch up with a friend in Cheltenham, and it is the first time we have met up since
April when we attended the Hednesford Town – Banbury United game.
I caught the second half of the Denmark Iceland game... Thomas Kahlenberg fired in a late winner
via a deflection in stoppage time to send Danish fans into raptures, in much off the game Denmark
played with alot of the ball but didn't really look like breaking down the Iceland mean
defence.
Stevenage visit Cheltenham Town this weekend. The Robins, now managed by former Kidderminster
boss Mark Yates, will be looking forward to getting back to winning ways after a disappointing
defeat against Barnet last weekend. I've caught up with Mark from the Robins Nest Forum to have a
talk about Cheltenham's aims for the new season, what they remember from their days in the
Conference plus their thoughts on former Boro star Barry Hayles.
Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Savage have been having a very public row on Twitter, which culminated
with this from Rio:
"I think you're taking your bitterness with getting released by Man Utd out on me. Are you
ok?? Still hurting?!"
Earlier on, Savage mocked Rio for getting done by Craig Bellamy in the derby at Old Trafford
last season, claiming he was too slow.
It's been quite a while since we crossed paths with the Robins. Cheltenham spent two years in
the Conference in the late 90′s, but didn't wait around long before winning promotion to the
Football League in 1999. Under the stewardship of young manager Steve Cotterill, Cheltenham
finished 2nd in their first season in the Conference before storming to the title the following
year, pipping Brian Talbot's Rushden side.
Few players can be as inxtricably linked with a club's glory days than Anwar Uddin and Dagenham and
Redbridge. Uddin joined the Daggers in 2004 and made 187 appearances as the Daggers transformed
themselves from non-league powerhouse to League One upstarts in the space of little more than half
a decade.
Wycombe finally got their second win of the season at the ninth attempt of asking
beating Barnet 4-2 tonight at Adams Park.
Wycombe raced into a 3-0 lead before the interval with a brace from Adam
Sandell on 19 and 41 minutes, while Lewis Montrose was also on target for
the home side scoring in the 24th minute leaving the Wycombe fans in dreamland.