Hitchin Town Fans Forum

Hi Stew
Sorry for the strop! Happy to help.

As the website is still showing the myth, I assume the Club have not checked the 'evidence'. I give up.

Exciting watch on TV! It was an amazing illustration of the team work needed to ensure his win and the new record.

Francis Shillitoe was one of the founding members of the first Hitchin Football Club and is described on our website thus: Francis Shillitoe was Hitchin's first captain. He was a keen rower and there is evidence that he was a coroner and later lived in Pirton Road at Foxholes. Born in 1848, census r...

Disappointing game last night. I've seen better combination at Step 5 Spartan League matches. Perhaps Gareth Southgate did well not to show off the team's secrets, and we'll see them displayed at the Euros........

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Losing Cirencester to a voluntary relegation (reprieving Thame) has helped keep next season's mileage down. Last season I estimate our travel mileage as about 3300; next season due to relegation we will only be travelling about 1200 miles. North Leigh are an anomaly in South Central; they are nearer...

In five years time I'll be 79! I was hoping we would be heading onwards and upwards, but relegation is always a risk, and we'll have to deal with it. All supporters deserve praise for their loyalty, perhaps, and some should not be dismissed as 'happy clappers'.................................

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No goals for Ezra Forde yesterday at Creasey Park. But in the Southern League 1 Central there was an amazingly prolific list of goals scored by former Canaries. Leading the way was Lucas Kirkpatrick with 4 goals. Harry Draper got a hat trick, Arnold Matshazi 2, Henry Snee 2, and one each for Alex Ma...