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Forest Green Rovers fans have been left in frustration after rumours of new manager to replace Robbie Savage. Rovers are on the hunt for a new manager after the former, Robbie Savage, left the club by mutual consent to take the managerial job at Peterborough United. Savage left the club after just one full season, […]
Football can be a funny old game, with cup competitions at the heart of strange draws and sometimes some upsets. Tuesday night was Francis Hillier Premier Cup Day, where Step Six Mendip Broadwalk faced National League South side, Weston-Super-Mare at the Optima Stadium, which for Mendip, was a monumental tie. Weston lined up with some […]
Dursley Town Ladies coach and treasurer Neil Sharp shared his thoughts after his side’s historic Women’s FA Cup run came to an end with a 3-0 home defeat to Andover New Street. A crowd of 376 gathered for the third qualifying-round tie, the biggest occasion yet for a Dursley Women’s side that have never previously […]
In a clash of the titans, or Gladiators if you will, the University of Gloucestershire’s football and American football stars are meeting in the sport of the former for charity. The two sides (a mix of the men and women’s football teams and the ‘Glads’) will meet at the university’s Plock Court sports campus on […]
Birmingham City Women goalkeeper and ex-Cheltenham Town keeper, Poppy Irvine reveals how crucial her loan spell at the Robins was to her career. “I absolutely loved my time at Cheltenham, the experience is what I needed, but being around the girls and the staff that was really nice as well, it does completely changed how […]
Slimbridge AFC manager Mike Palmer has reflected on one of the most unlikely title wins in recent Hellenic League memory, after the Gloucestershire club clinched the Premier Division championship by four points to seal promotion back to the Southern League at the first time of asking under his joint management alongside Tom Deakin. “I don’t […]
Bishop Cleeve A sealed a record sixth Junior Charity Cup against Southside Star with a 7-6 win in penalties in the final at Kayte Lane. This win moves them above Andoversford F.C. who hold five Cleeve A faced off against Southside twice in the league the first meeting ended in a 6-2 win for Cleeve […]
The Mitres will host bottom-placed Iron Acton at Kayte Lane, where a win would secure a third-place finish, bar unprecedented events in Dursley vs Cheltenham Saracens. A successful season for Bishops Cleeve Ladies, where 11 wins in 19 league games puts them in third with just one to go, is set to culminate with a […]
Cirencester Town were struggling at the bottom of the Hellenic League Premier division in September but turned their fortunes around to make the playoff spots due, in part, to the coaching of John Brough. The former Cheltenham Town defender “went in to fill in for the manager (James Mortimer-Jones) who was unable to attend due […]
Marcus Bignot has left his role as assistant manager at Swindon Town following the Robins ninth place finish in SkyBet League two. Bignot joined Town in June 2024 as a part of head coach Mark Kennedy’s staff, and while Kennedy was dismissed six months later, he stayed and worked under Ian Holloway, helping them stay […]