FOLLOWING THE SALTMEN

29 October 2024

After a couple of long away trips, Droitwich travel a much more civilised distance to meet FC Stratford at the Arden Garages Stadium tomorrow (Tuesday) evening.

The temptation when writing a piece about Stratford is to over rely upon quotes from its most famous resident. Full disclosure: I don’t even think his writing was that good. Quite frankly, I would sooner quote Jamie Oliver!

Anyway, it has been a good start to the season for FC Stratford who, for reasons beyond my understanding, are nicknamed the Bards. (Given how fashionable it is to sport facial hair, I suspect the internet has left the ‘e’ out.) It’s asy done! The Beards currently sit in 6th place in the league table with 20 points from 12 games; winning 6 games and drawing 2. In their most recent outing they unexpectedly lost 2-3 to Chipping Sodbury. Either CS have signed a lot of new players or Jeremy Clarkson is putting something in the water. There have been a number of impressive results for the Bards including a win over our old oppos Hinckley AFC, now playing at Step 5. FC Stratford’s leading scorer this season is Robbie Sone with 6 goals from his 14 games. In total they have scored 25 leagues gold and conceded 22.

The Saltmen’s early season form continued with Saturday’s 3-5 win at Wantage stretching their unbeaten run to 11 league games.

FC Stratford play their home games at the impressive Arden Garages Stadium, which is shared with the other club in the town. As this is one of our nearest away games it would be good to see as many Spa fans as possible make the trip and cheer the boys on.

Be all my sins remember’d.

Steve

[And not a single reference to you know who!]