Tom Davis: The Career Of A Blue Square South Journeyman
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Posts Tagged: "St Albans City"
The Twohundredpercent Pre-season Predictions: The Southern Premier League
The Southern Premier League has a new sponsor this year, the same one as its northern counterpart so make sure you don’t confuse the two. Helpful. Anyway, teamwise the biggest...
A Welcome Return To Ian Ridley
We wrote on the subject of the light at the end of the tunnel at St Albans City, now of the Southern League, at the end of last week, and...
Cautious Reasons For Optimism At St Albans
It has been a wretched season for St Albans City. Twenty-five years at the sixth level of the English pyramid -one of which, the 2006/07 season had been spent a division higher...
The Shaming Of St Albans City
After almost one hundred and three years, St Albans City of the Blue Square South made their first trip to Wembley in an official capacity on Friday, but there was...
Match Of The Week: Lewes 3-1 St Albans City
In heraldry, it’s called The Rule Of Tincture. Metal should never be placed upon metal. St Albans City arrived at Lewes this afternoon with a mix and match kit. Their...
Match Of The Week: Luton Town 4-0 St Albans City
It was in March 1983 that I first went to Kenilworth Road. Parents of the children junior school that I had starting attending had recently knitted what they believed to...
Something Personal About Colin Lippiatt
We didn’t quite realise just how much of an event it was until we arrived at the ground itself. St Albans City had finished in second place in the 2005/06...
League Two And The Blue Square Premier: The Blurring Of The Lines
In 1979, when the Alliance Premier League was founded between clubs from the Northern Premier League and the Southern Football League, there was a fairly clear line in the stand....
Lewes 0-0 St Albans City
It’s a fresh, spring evening, and the eyes of most of the football world are fixed upon the North London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. In one small corner...
The Saints City Trust Fire The Perfect Broadside
We live in challenging times, and these extend to every corner of the game and every aspect of how clubs run themselves. The St Albans City Supporters Trust, however, has...
One Of The Richest Cities In England And One Of The Poorest Clubs
There was a good reason why, when Parker Brothers were deciding upon a UK-wide version of the board game “Monopoly”, they chose St Albans to represent the coveted Mayfair spot....
Match Of The Week – AFC Wimbledon 3-0 St Albans City
In the morning came the doubts and the what ifs. What if half-time comes and Hampton are five up at Maidenhead? However unlikely it seemed, there was no mathematical certainty...
Match Of The Midweek: St Albans City 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
The stutter, then, is becoming a full-blown wobble. A couple of weeks ago, it looked as if the championship race in the Blue Square South was all but over, but...
In Praise Of… “The Beautiful Game? Searching For The Soul Of Football”, by David Conn
In November 2001, I (as was my wont at the time) made the short journey from my flat in the centre of St Albans to Clarence Park to watch The...
Living Vicariously Through The FA Cup
As I hurtle unstoppably towards my late thirties, I tend to find that there is less and less to look forward to. Birthdays long ago became a cause for reflection...
In Praise Of… The St Albans City Club Video (1991/92)
It seems almost difficult to believe now, but there was a time when, if you saw the football on the television, that was it. You’d see the goals once, maybe...
Match Of The Week – St Albans City 1-2 Chelmsford City
Throughout my youth, going to watch St Albans City play wasn’t something that ordinarily provoked the senses very much. The Saints were experts at finishing somewhere between sixth and seventeenth...
A Few Things About Local Derbies
What constitutes a local derby seems, on the face of it, to be a question with a pretty obvious answer. However, if we take a couple of minutes to actually...
A Stupid Song, A Tree & A Record Losing Goalscorer
When St Albans City Football Club was formed in April 1908, few could have imagined the impact that they would have upon English football – not very much at all....