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Relegation to double winners – Maxine Greenwood recalls a historic season and high-flying Cheltenham Civil Service ladies

Maxine Greenwood, a long-time servant to Cheltenham Civil Service Football Club and manager of the ladies’ team for the last seven years since taking over in 2019 described the “unforgettable moments” in developing the most successful team in the women’s team history.  Four seasons, two league and cup doubles. Greenwood and her ladies’ side have enjoyed their most […]

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Gloucester City “Appalled” over alleged spitting incident at recent Barrow fixture

Gloucester City have condemned reports of an incident involving an unnamed Barrow player being spat at during the full time whistle during their recent fixture. It came after the Tigers’ recent FA Cup Fourth Round Qualifying match against Barrow at, which the visitors won 2-0 after two second half goals from Thierry Latty-Fairweather and Arian […]

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University of Gloucestershire Men’s Football midfielder Riley Stokes encourages his side after tough 4-1 defeat to Cardiff University

“It’s a tough one to take today especially with it being our first competitive loss since December last year. As a group we’re not used to losing but it was a really good test for us. Especially playing with a depleted squad we’ve not played a team of that level across the pitch. They had […]

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Klopp inspired Steve Holend hopes to re-invent Cheltenham Civil Service FC men’s first team, described as a “complete change in club’s dynamic”

Steve Holend, who himself was a player at the club until 2014, started his managerial career with the reserves.  He emphasised how it “echoed Klopp joining Liverpool” giving the Liverpool fan inspiration to want to take on the challenge, where he enjoyed a 9 year stay as head coach. The newly promoted Cheltenham Civil Service men’s first […]

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Cheltenham Town manager Steve Cotterill says recent red cards for his side have been “terrible decisions”, and the club are going to be “writing a letter.” 

Steve Cotterill had much to say about the refereeing and red cards against his side this season so far. Two of his players have received red cards in back-to-back league games, including top goal scorer Charlie McCann.  McCann who recently received player of the month, was shown a red card following Cheltenham’s defeat away at […]

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Bristol City’s Michael Skubala proud of “the amount of chances created” in their agonising 1-0 loss to Blackburn at Ashton Gate

Bristol City manager Michael Skubala says there are “some really good positives” despite “difficult afternoon” as they lost 1-0 to Blackburn Rovers. The Robins played well in the first half but conceded a screamer from Dapo Afolayan in the 38th minute. City continued to dominate in the second half but a stellar performance from Balazs […]

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Preview | City look to reach the FA Cup first round proper for the first time since 2012

Gloucester City are back on the road again as they travel to Barrow on Saturday for the fourth round of the FA Cup qualifying.  On Wednesday evening, Gloucester’s scheduled Southern League Premier South fixture against Taunton Town got postponed due to a major traffic incident which led to Taunton Town fans, players and staff being […]

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Oldham vs Cheltenham: Pre-Match Preview

Two of the lowest-ranked possession sides in League Two go head-to-head this weekend as Cheltenham travel up to Boundary Park to face Oldham. Both teams played at home to Premier League opposition’s Under-21s sides and both picked up wins, albeit Cheltenham drew and won the penalty shootout after George Miller, scored a 96th minute equaliser […]