The story of a non-league football club sitting on a valuable piece of land but vulnerable to take-over by those with less than honorable intentions has become something of a morality tale in modern football, but few clubs have fallen prey to it in such a protracted manner as Cambridge City of the Southern League.
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It's time, then, to wind down with our weekly selections of non-league highlights from the last
seven days. Our first match this evening comes from Twerton Park, and it's the Blue Square Premier
match between Bath City and Wimbledon.
A couple of weeks ago, hidden away in the news section of their website, Southern League club
Cambridge City finally confirmed their farewell from Milton Road, the club's home since 1922. The
battle for Milton Road has been ongoing for several years now and is a wearyingly familiar story of
a prime piece of city centre real estate being wrested from the ownership from a small football
club with little thought for anything but making a profit.
Cambridge City denied Boro their 3rd straight pre-season victory with a 1-1 draw at Milton Road.
After an impressive win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday, Stevenage were held to a battling
draw by the Southern League side. Boro boss Graham Westley opted to start with a weakened 11, with
the likes of Ashley Bayes, Eddie Odhiambo and Mark Albrighton playing the full 90 minutes, while
reserve players Jerome Anderson and Chris Doyle made appearances too.
Stevenage continued their impressive start to pre-season with a 2-1 victory over Brighton. I
didn't get to the game, but after reading the reports on the forum and Comet it sounds like it was
a well deserved win over the League 1 opposition. Even some Brighton players, media and fans on
their message board have stated that Boro were well worth the victory and the team looked good
enough to be a league side.
There was a slight delay in getting this post up, as I went to the game a week ago, but as you will
see from the shaky mobile phone photos - it is worth the wait. The above is of course not one of
mine, but a better look at the stadium I was at this [...]
Tom Tully surely performed a double take when he happened upon the match report from
Southampton's final stand at The Dell. Having written so many tales of glory for Roy of the
Rovers, he likely thought his work had been plagarised when news came through that the final
goal at those grounds, after 103 years of football, was a match winner over Arsenal scored from
the foot of modern club legend Matt LeTissier.
More than 100 Zimbabwean ex-pats have gathered in Westcliff on Sea, demanding an end to what they
call "corruption" at the heart of the UK-branch of the political party they support.
The Movement For Democratic Change - led by Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai - has a
healthy following here in Britain, but is currently suffering from unsubstantiated allegations
regarding party funds.
