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GRANTHAM TOWN A C A D E M Ywww.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 1 MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF GRANTHAM TOWN ACADEMY | ISSUE 01 | 2022/23 | £1.50 Vs SATURDAY 30TH JULY 2022 THE UNITED COUNTIES FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION ONE Vs CLIFTON ALL WHITES KICK-OFF 3PM

PAGE 2 | ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME CONTENTS 1 COVER: ANDREW GLOSSOP 3 JOE KEARNEY: MANAGERS NOTES 4 MATCH REORT - CLAY CROSS TOWN 5 LEAGUE & FORM TABLES 6 MEET THE TEAM 7 THE UNTOLD GAME - THE CURSE OF BELA GUTTMAN 8-9 2021 - 2022 MATCHFACTS 10 SPORTS GROUND DEVELOPMENT - #UNITED TOGETHER 12-13 THEOPPOSITION: CLIFTON ALL WHITES 14 THE UNTOLD GAME - ETERNAL HOPE 15 UHLSPORT ADVERT Back page TODAYS TEAMS GRANTHAM TOWN ACADEMY STAFF MIDLANDS PROUD BRICKWORK SHIRT SPONSORS CONTRACTOR OF GRANTHAM TOWN ACADEMY www.cmrbrickwork.co.uk ( 01623 259300

JOEKEARNEYACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | PAGE 3 Iwould like to hopefully the results welcome Clifton All have shown this. Whites to the South Kesteven Stadium for We have built a our opening league competitive squad fixture of the season. comprising of scholars from our very We are very excited to successful football start our debut season education programme, at step 6 in the United young local players Counties League. who have been with We know today will professional clubs and be a big test as our experienced players at opponents have been this level. consistent performers This mix of youth and at this level for many experience will allow us years. to have a very positive We do however believe season in relation to we are capable of finishing in a good competing at this level league position, but and are looking forward more importantly, to a positive season. should also see some Due to us losing most of the players progress of the squad from last into the first team. season we were given a blank canvas to build Kind Regards a squad from and as a result we have been Joe Kearney getting better and better week on week during pre season and GRANTHAM TOWN TV

PAGE 4 | ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME MATCH REPORT The Academy completed their pre- season with a narrow defeat at Clay Cross Town. A poor first half performance saw them trail 2-0 at the break from two headed goals. CLAY CROSS TOWN 4 GRANTHAM TOWN ACADEMY 3 They went further behind when a mix up at the back let the hosts in for a third just 2 minutes into the restart. A few changes were made and the Academy rallied pulling two goals back through Oliver Smith and Nathan Brettoner. Clay Cross restored their 2 goal lead before Smith scored his second, but the Academy could not find an equaliser.

Overall TABLESACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | PAGE 5 FIXTURES & RESULTS LEAGUE TABLE P W D L F A GD PTS 2021-22 SEASON Overall 1 Aylestone Park 0000 0 0 0 0 LEAGUE TABLE P W D L F A GD PTS 2 Barrow Town 0000 0 0 0 0 1 Wyberton 32 25 2 5 87 41 46 77 3 Birstall United Social 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Grantham Town Academy 32 23 5 4 92 37 55 74 4 Blacks tones 0000 0 0 0 0 5 Blidworth Welfare 0000 0 0 0 0 3 Lincoln Moorlands Railway 32 19 6 7 99 45 54 63 6 Bourne Town 0000 0 0 0 0 4 Louth Town 32 17 6 9 69 48 21 57 7 Clifton All Whites 0000 0 0 0 0 5 Appleby Frodingham 32 16 9 7 59 41 18 57 8 Clips tone 0000 0 0 0 0 6 Immingham Town 32 15 10 7 82 47 35 55 9 Dunkirk 0000 0 0 0 0 10 Gedling Miners Welfare 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Lincoln United Development 32 16 6 10 76 49 27 54 11 Grantham Town Academy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Nettleham 32 15 6 11 69 65 4 51 12 Harrowby United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Nunsthorpe Tavern 32 15 4 13 83 71 12 49 13 Holwell Sports 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 14 Hucknall Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Barton Town Reserves 32 13 7 12 56 55 1 42 15 Kirby Muxloe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 16 Newark Town 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Grimsby Borough Reserves 32 12 6 14 62 61 1 12 Tetney Rovers 32 11 8 13 62 73 -11 17 Radford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Skegness Town Reserves 32 12 3 17 54 74 -20 39 18 Rainworth Miners Welfare 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 Keelby United 32 8 1 23 59 117 -58 25 19 Saffron Dynamo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 Horncastle Town 32 5 7 20 48 86 -38 22 20 Southwell City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Sleaford Town Rangers 32 3 4 25 32 101 -69 13 21 St Andrews 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 Brigg Town Reserves 32 1 2 29 29 107 -78 5 22 West Bridgford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Up Next: VV V V SAT 30 JUL | 3.00pm SAT 06 AUG | 3.00pm WED 10 AUG | 7.45pm SAT 13 AUG | 3.00pm UCL DIV 1 UCL DIV 1 UCL DIV 1 UCL DIV 1 Fixtures: Saturday 30th July 2022 UCL1 Barrow Town vs. Radford 13:45 vs. Saffron Dynamo 11:00 UCL1 Birstall United Social vs. Harrowby United 15:00 vs. Clipstone 15:00 UCL1 Blidworth Welfare vs. Blackstones 15:00 vs. Newark Town 15:00 UCL1 Bourne Town vs. Clifton All Whites 15:00 vs. Hucknall Town 16:45 UCL1 Dunkirk vs. Aylestone Park 15:00 vs. Kirby Muxloe 15:00 UCL1 Gedling Miners Welfare vs. West Bridgford 15:00 UCL 1 G rant ham Town Academy UCL1 Holwell Sports UCL1 Rainworth Miners Welfare UCL1 Southwell City Sunday 31st July 2022 UCL1 St Andrews

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ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | PAGE 7 The Curse of Bela Guttmann Madrid had been knocked out early, and Guttmann’s victorious side hadn’t tested themselves against them. That time would come, but a piece was missing. When you shoot for the king, you’d better not miss, or so the old saying goes. When that king literally has“Royal”in their name, and are undefeated in the European Cup While in a barber shop in Lisbon, Bela Guttman ran into Brazilian former footballer – the pinnacle of continental competition – for five years, that saying goes double. Jose Carlos Bauer, who had worked under him at Sao Paulo. Bauer told his former So it was in the early history of the Europe’s premier tournament. Real Madrid, boss of a phenomenal talent he had unearthed in Mozambique. The problem was, patronised by General Franco, won every iteration of the competition between its he played for Sporting de Lourenço Marques, a feeder team for Benfica’s biggest inception and 1960. And then, unthinkably, they didn’t. rivals Sporting. In a move that went to the courts and raised questions about But where do you turn to break Spanish dominance? The answer, in 1960, was transfer rules across the world, Guttmann trumped Sporting’s offer of a year as Hungary. an unpaid apprentice by offering actual money, and Eusebio made the move that would define his career. He made just two appearances in 1960/61, scoring in both, Bela Guttmann was not a man who could ever settle. His playing career of 14 and by for the following season was ready for the big time. years took in nine clubs, in three countries and two continents. His managerial career is even more peripatetic – 21 clubs, 2 national sides, 12 different leagues, The 1961/2 European Cup saw Real Madrid return, and Benfica skip the preliminary on both sides of the Atlantic, and no spell longer than three years. That spell, as it round as Champions. They saw off Austria Vienna and Nürburg with relative ease, happened, was at Benfica. before struggling against Bill Nicholson’s Tottenham side, scraping through 4-3 to set up the dream final against Madrid. The Spanish side had dispatched Patizan Benfica had been one of the dominant forces in Portuguese football almost as soon and Standard Liege with a combined score of 13-1, but the quarter-final against as that nation professionalised, and had an early history with Hungarian coaches. Juventus had been taken to a third tie before they finally won through. They went They finished the first ever season of the Portuguese league, 1934-5, second, and into the final with the great Alfredo di Stefano as the competition’s top scorer on 7, won the next three under a different Hungarian, Lippo Hertzka. They won three and Ferenc Puskas finding his feet. Eusebio had managed a creditable 3 in 3, but more titles and four Portuguese Cups in the 1940s, including their first double, Madrid were the free-flowing goalscorers. under Janos Biri. They won the Latin Cup in 1950 against Bordeaux, but couldn’t translate that success into the nascent European Cup, as Real Madrid dominated. In Puskas may have by this stage been Spanish, but he learned his trade as a 1959, they lost the title despite a healthy lead, to Porto, who had been inspired by Hungarian and Guttman must have been cursing his luck as The Galloping Major an unusual, restless, balding Hungarian who they had found languishing in Brazil. took the game by storm, scoring a first half hat-trick. Aguas and Domiciano Cavern Benfica swooped that summer, and Guttman got to work. limited the damage, before early in the second half Mario Coluna brought the game level. The game needed some magic, and it got it through the Mozambican His first task at Benfica was to get rid of the driftwood, and there was a lot of it. 20 teenager. First, Eusebio drilled a great effort from range into the bottom corner, players were released from their contracts, to the concern of the board, and youth with Jose Araquistain looking on helpless, before drawing a foul from the great di players were promoted in their place. The results were immediate, and Benfica lost Stefano to win a penalty, which he calmly slotted home. Benfica had done it, they only one game as they returned to the top of the league in 1960. They were back in were the undisputed kings of Europe and an era of dominance beckoned them into the European Cup, and this time, things would be different. the 1960s. After breezing past Hearts in the preliminary round, Benfica were drawn against Only, when they got home, Bela Guttmann looked at all he had achieved and one of Guttmann’s many previous clubs, Ujpest of Hungary. The first leg was a feast decided he had far exceeded his employer’s expectations. Never a man of much of goals in Portugal, a 6-2 victory, which meant losing 2-1 in Budapest was of little diplomacy, he marched himself off to the boardroom and demanded a pay rise. concern. What was of much more importance, though, was that the invincible Real The board declined. He stormed out of the club and out of Lisbon, heading back to Madrid side, five-time holders, had lost to a spirited display against Barcelona. The South America, but before he did he declared \"Not in a hundred years from now second ever European champions would be crowned, six years after the first, and will Benfica ever be European champions again\". Guttmann was determined that it would be his side. While the eyes of the world were on Barca, Benfica destroyed Danish champions AGF 7-1 on aggregate in the Silly words, perhaps, but Benfica lost the 1963 European Cup final to Milan, Quarter Final. The Semi-Final was a formality against Rapid Vienna, to set up a final and then the 1965 final to Inter, and 1968 to Man Utd. In fact, they’ve played 8 against Barcelona in Switzerland. A chance to take the European Cup away from European finals since Guttmann left Portugal, and lost every single one. Before their Spain for the first time. 1990 European Cup final in Austria, Eusebio went to Guttmann’s grave in Vienna and begged his old mentor to lift the curse. The Hungarian, it seems, still holds his The Hungarian influence on the game is undeniable. Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan grudge. Czibor had been members of the Magical Magyars side that lost the 1954 World Cup final and, statistically, are the greatest national side of all time. Guttmann had Enjoy the game. implemented the lessons of Hungarian football in the Portuguese capital. It was an Martyn Green, The Untold Game even match. Kocsis gave Barca the lead, before Jose Aguas and an Antoni Ramallets own goal gave Benfica the lead before half time. Mario Coluna made it 3 before the If you enjoyed this, find more at TheUntoldGame.co.uk hour, and despite a Czibor goal and late Barcelona fightback, Benfica held on for or on social media @TheUntoldGame their first European Cup. But there was an irritating question hanging over the European Champions. Real

PAGE 8 | ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 2022 Opposition V Competition Att. F-A Goalscorers o.g. Date CLIFTON ALL WHITES H UCL1 Jul Sat 30 KIRBY MUXLOE A UCL1 BLACKSTONES A UCL1 Aug SOUTHWELL CITY A UCL1 BARROW TOWN H UCL1 Sat 06 ST ANDREWS H UCL1 A UCL1 Wed 10 RADFORD A UCL1 Sat 13 DUNKIRK A CUP Sat 20 BOSTON TOWN A UCL1 Sat 27 HUCKNALL TOWN A UCL1 RAINWORTH MW H UCL1 Mon 29 GEDLING MW H UCL1 Sept NEWARK TOWN H UCL1 Sat 03 AYLSTONE PARK A UCL1 WEST BRIDGEFORD H UCL1 Tues 06 H UCL1 CLIPSTONE H UCL1 Sat 10 BOURNE TOWN A UCL1 BLIDWORTH WELFARE Sat 17 SAFFRON DYNAMO H UCL1 Tues 20 A UCL1 KIRBY MUXLOE A UCL1 Sat 24 BIRSTALL UNITED H UCL1 Oct HOLWELL SPORTS WEST BRIDGEFORD A UCL1 Sat 01 H UCL1 CLIPSTONE H UCL1 Tues 11 RADFORD A UCL1 Sat 15 SOUTHWELL CITY Tues 18 HARROWBY UNITED A UCL1 Sat 22 H UCL1 NEWARK TOWN A UCL1 Sat 29 BLACKSTONES H UCL1 Nov CLIFTON ALL WHITES RAINWORTH MW A UCL1 Sat 05 H UCL1 GEDLING MW A UCL1 Sat 12 HOLWELL SPORTS H UCL1 Sat 19 AYLSTONE PARK A UCL1 Sat 26 SAFFRON DYNAMO H UCL1 H UCL1 Dec ST ANDREWS A UCL1 BIRSTALL UNITED Sat 03 HUCKNALL TOWN H UCL1 Sat 10 A UCL1 Sat 17 BARROW TOWN H UCL1 A UCL1 Mon 26 DUNKIRK Jan-23 BLIDWORTH WELFARE HARROWBY UNITED Sat 07 Sat 14 BOURNE TOWN Sat 21 Sat 28 Feb Sat 04 Sat 11 Sat 18 Sat 25 Mar Sat 04 Sat 11 Sat 18 Sat 25 Apr Sat 01 Sat 08 Mon 10 Sat 15 1st Sub 2nd Sub 3rd Sub MoM ������������ Goalscorers in BOLD RED CAPTAIN

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ATTSATCAKT ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | PAGE 11 Statistics don’t tell everything - but they do say something. PRE-Season of GRANTHAM TOWN ACADEMY in numbers 6 Games played 15 Goals scored 2 Won 22 Goals conceded 1 Drawn 6-4 Biggest win Vs Pinxton FC 4 Lost 1-7 Biggest Defeat Vs Sherwood Colliery TOP Oliver Smith - 3 SCORERS Ryan Noon - 2 Nathan Brettoner - 2

PAGE 12 | ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME CLIFTON Clifton All Whites was founded in 1963, originally under the name of Thistledown from Junior Soccer School and Under 7's to Rovers. The club's founder members seniors and in 1999 the club introduced the first included Dick Lambert and Bill Norwell. girls' team. During the 1960s and 1970s Clifton All Whites dominated youth football in Nottinghamshire Clifton All Whites FC is probably amongst the by attracting the best players from all over most recognisable amateur football clubs in the county, now most players are local. In the county due to some of its more famous 1963 there were only four teams in the Young past youth team players going on to play at the Elizabethan League, and as the club developed, higher levels of football in this country both more teams and clubs were founded, many domestically and internationally, and for the with advice and help from Clifton All Whites. By infamous ‘All Whites’ nickname which caused 1966 plans were underway for Clifton All Whites controversy amongst some quarters in the to test their skills abroad in a tournament in mid 90s led to the official scrapping of the the Netherlands, at a time when overseas tours tag which has now and quite rightly so been were rare. In the early days when football clubs reinstated. only usually supplied shirts for their players a new standard was set as Clifton All Whites Player such as Gary Birtles, Jermaine Pennent, supplied a full strip. Another first was when the Darren Huckerby, Jermaine Jenas, Michael under 12's played a top Scottish team before Johnson to name a few have all come through a crowd of over 20,000 before a First Division the clubs youth structure over the past years. match between Nottingham Forest and Clifton All Whites have also been successful Newcastle United. on the pitch, formerly playing in the Midland League and Notts Alliance the club also Professional clubs attempted to persuade reached the third round of the FA Vase in Clifton All Whites to become a nursery club, but 1975/76 and winning the Senior League cup still the club policy is not to become tied to any in 2006, a year later the reserves won their one club. David Staniforth was the first player first NSL honour gaining the first division to make a career as a professional footballer, Championship under the guidance of James with Sheffield United. Turner and Chris Driffill and in 2010 the same management team took the clubs first team Clifton All Whites performed well in FA Youth and delivered the Notts Senior League senior Cup games and eventually gained their own league title for the first time in the clubs history. ground. In 1973 the club ventured out of youth football to senior football and joined the Again in 2013/14 Turner and Driffill along with Midland League. Mick Walker was the first the senior team took the CMFL South division club manager and coach. He later served as title but controversially and unfortunately manager of Notts County. The club resigned due to ground grading issues All Whites were from the Midland League partway the 1977-78 denied promotion to the EMCFL. season. During the 1990s the club played in the Nottinghamshire Alliance and later joined the The club rallied round and in 2016/17 won Nottinghamshire Senior League. In 2010 Clifton the Notts Senior League Title and this time joined the Central Midlands League South gained the promotion they deserved to the East Division and continues to play in that division. Midlands Counties Football League. In 2013-14 Clifton won the South Division championship. On the back of this success the development of the Green Lane ground has been raised and Clifton All Whites are still thriving with teams with the support of the current chairman we hope to carry on to another level.

ALL ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | PAGE 13 WHITES CLIFTON ALL WHITES FACTFILE: YEAR FOUNDED 1963 NICKNAME ALL WHITES CHAIRMAN RICHARD HIPKISS MANAGER JAMES TURNER 3 LEAGUE TITLES STEP 6 HIGHEST LEVEL 1ST QUAL ROUND BEST FA TROPHY RUN 3RD ROUND BEST FA VASE RUN HONOURS Year League Team Honours 2005/06 Winners 2006/07 League Cup Senior Section Clifton FC League Champions 2009/10 League Champions 2011/12 Notts Senior League Div 1 Clifton Reserves Runners Up 2012/13 Winners 2013/14 Notts Senior League Clifton FC Winners 2016/17 League Champions CML League Cup Clifton FC CML League Cup Clifton FC CML League Clifton FC Notts Senior League Clifton FC

PAGE 14 | ACADEMY MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Eternal Hope consistently successful teams, and we have to look Hope. It is the word that makes most sense of the beyond England. Few are more consistently suc- beautiful game, of why we spend hours and days cessful throughout Europe than Celtic. and weeks of our existence obsessing over some- The Glaswegians put together a run of 23 opening thing that, for the vast majority of us, if we’re being day victories, beginning with a 5-0 demolition of really honest with ourselves, has little impact on our Dunfermline in 1998, a Craig Burley hat trick doing lives. And the beginning of a new season is where most of the damage, and ending only last season the hope is at it’s highest. Old heroes have moved with a last minute John Souttar winner for Hearts. on, the failures and successes of last year are in the For their part, Celtic went through twelve different past, and now we look forward. New players to managers on their run, securing 15 league titles and deify, new trophies to be chased, new records to be ten Scottish Cups, as well as losing the UEFA Cup set. Each and every one of us knows, right up until final in 2003. Certainly, opening day victory augurs kick off on the opening weekend of the season, more success in Scotland than it does in England. that this is going to be our year. And, depending But even a run of 23 opening day victories isn’t the on whom you support, that knowledge can last longest. For that we need to head to the Mediter- anywhere from 60 seconds to 60 matches into the ranean, and the Old Lady, where Juventus reign campaign. But, however it goes, every summer we supreme. reset, we get excited, and we believe again. There’s On the opening day of 1982, Juventus, complete comfort in that. with Dino Zoff and Michel Platini, travelled to So now we come to the beginning of our new relative upstarts Sampdoria. The home side were season, and we want to sustain that feeling, feed bolstered by a forward line of Roberto Mancini and the hope, for as long as possible, before the nights Trevor Francis, fed by Arsenal legend Liam Brady, close in and the points are dropped and the rain but it was fullback Mauro Ferroni who scored the hammers down. It won’t take long for most of us only goal of the game in the 67th minute. That to be brought back down to earth, but we all know would be the last opening day that Juventus failed the importance of maintaining the hope for at least to win for nearly three decades, finally falling to one more week, with a good opening day perfor- defeat in 2010 to Bari, the single goal coming, iron- mance. ically, from former Celtic player Massimo Donati. He Leeds certainly know a thing or two about opening was just 18 months old the previous time Juventus day performances, having put together a run of had failed to win in the first match of the season. twenty consecutive opening day wins, from the The Old Lady got through thirteen managers in heady days of Howard Wilkinson’s return to the top that time, counting both Giovanni Trapattoni and flight in 1991, to the depths (by their standards at Marcello Lippi twice, and only won seven league least) of League One in 2009, where Simon Grayson titles in that time, with two Italian Cups. But they oversaw a victorious start to a season that would also counted two European Cups, a Cup Winners end with promotion. That run lasted through Cup, three UEFA Cups and an Intertoto Cup in that thirteen different managers, a league title, a Cham- time, so it’s not all bad. pions League semi-final, two relegations and the So here’s hoping for an opening day victory to real threat of the club going out of business, the kick on to success. It might not lead to Champions longest in the Football League. And yet, throughout League glory, but we can dream. all that turmoil, they kept the opening day a safe haven where, however disastrous it had been, fans Enjoy the game. could go home believing they were on the road to Martyn Green, The Untold Game recovery. For longer runs than that, we have to look to more If you enjoyed this, find more at TheUntoldGame.co.uk or on social media @TheUntoldGame

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TODAYS TEAMS GRANTHAM TOWN CLIFTON ALL WHITES (MANAGER) JOE KEARNEY ANTHONY SPENCER (MANAGER) (AST. MANAGER) JAKE HEMSTOCK DAVE LILLEY (MANAGER) (PLAYER/COACH) (PHYSIO) SIAN LEE TRISTAN SPENCER (COACH) TOM LEGGITT (COACH) ADAM REVUELTA RASHARN ALTAF ROBBIE ATKIN DAVID CHAPMAN LUKE BROWN SAM STANFIELD NATHAN BRETTONER ROMEN CARR ADAM KHAN KYLE COLE BEAU WATSON SID COX ANTHONY BANKS ALEX ENGLAND CONNOR DEAKIN HARRY GIBBONS JOSH GARDINER ANDREW GLOSSOP BEN GOSS SAM LEGGITT TOM JENNINGS KURT HALLAM HARRY JOHNSON JACOB BRANDON JACK JOHNSON ALEX HAUGHTON PIOTREK KUDLA SEKE SPENCE FREDDIE MCGRADY JAMIE WILLIAMSON RYAN NOON SAM BURROWS OLIVER SMITH CALRICK DUNKLEY JAI WEDGWOOD MAZHI SIMMONS JORDAN KIRK-ELLIS RICCO SPENCER LLOYD PATTERSON DOMINIK OZGA VICTOR LUSUKA OFFICIALS REFEREE: GARY CALEY (LINCS. FA) ASSISTANT: DION DEXTER (DERBYS. FA) | ASSISTANT: IAN WILKINSON (DERBYS.FA) NEXT UP FOR THE ACADEMY SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST KIRBY MUXLOE FC - AWAY 3PM KO VENUE - RATBY LANE - LE9 2AQ