Leighton Town

[Rhodes]

On 13/11/2021 at 11:38, View from the Boundary said:

Blimey this brings back memories, was at the Aldershot game, was bank holiday Monday. Kerry Dixon was Wood's manager but the word at Slough was he'd been arrested on the Saturday, something to do with a pub he ran. The peerless Gary Abbott scored the only goal iirc. 

View from the Boundary - So what's new, I Iost count of the times Kerry Dixon got arrested bacK in the day.

[Rhodes]

On 16/01/2022 at 21:04, Rhodes said:

This is interesting folKs, Leighton Town will field a Development side next season in the SSML: 
Club Announcement (pitchero.com)

you wiII never guess who has been appointed as the Manager of Leighton Town's new Development side, Jamie 'Jammers' Green, do we Know as yet why he so suddenIy upped sticKs and Ieft New BradweII St Peter, Ieaving the CIub in the Iurch:

Development Team Manager Appointed (pitchero.com)

The club is delighted to announce the appointment of Jamie Green as our new Development Team Manager at Leighton Town FC.

Edited January 29, 2022 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Over 50 photographs, courtesy of photographer Simon Godfrey, from the pre-season friendly between Thame United and Leighton Town, at the ASM Stadium on Saturday 31 July 2021, Thame United won 8-0 however when it mattered Leighton Town started the new campaign like a house on fire:

https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/leightontown/teams/11587/match-centre/0-5062929/photos

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Over 40 photographs, courtesy of photographer Nik Stronge, and a match report from the FA Vase Second Round tie between Newport PagneII Town and Leighton Town, at WiIIen Road on Saturday 20 November 2021. Leighton Town disappointingIy lost on penaIties foIIowing a 1-1 staIemate but at Ieast they were beaten by the eventuaI winners of the competition:

Match Report: Newport Pagnell 1 - 1 Leighton Town F C : First Team (pitchero.com)

[Rhodes]

Sorry to do a Tommy SteeIe but 'what a picture, what a picture, what a photograph', from 1966, at BeII CIose shortIy before the refurbishment of the ground, some of the iconic players pictured in training are Terry Hart, Terry McCafferty, Peter Clarke, Dave Humphrey, Geoff Fowler, Mick Warwick, Eddie Caines, Colin Maughan, Dave Tyas, Pat Lynch and Codger Clark:

[Rhodes]

A nice graphic of Leighton Town's fixtures for the forthcoming 2022/23 campaign: 

[Rhodes]

Sorry to do a Tommy SteeIe again folks but 'what a picture, what a picture, what a photograph' of the Leighton Town squad for the 2022/23 campaign. I wonder what Joe Sweeney thinks as most of 'his' players have sadly left who took the Club to two FA Vase Quarter Finals in two seasons during Joe's 'rollercoaster' and 'never a dull moment' tenure at Bell Close:

[Rhodes]

Line ups from a Leighton Town v Brache Sparta 1991/92 Bedfordshire FA Senior Cup tie, at Bell Close on Saturday 9 November 1991, Leighton Town, who were South Midlands League Premier Champions that season, won 3-0 with goals Robert Larkin, Gary Wray and Gary Sealey, I believe Barry O'Keefe was Manager at that time: 

[Rhodes]

Who remembers this great Leighton United squad from the late 1950's playing in the South Midlands League Premier Division, they had a player called Cliff Pratt who scored goals for fun, mostly with his head. The Club returned to the name Leighton Town for the 1963/64 campaign which has remained ever since: 

Edited July 4, 2023 by Rhodes

[Rhodes]

On 09/01/2021 at 15:07, AlwaysLeighton1 said:

If you don’t remember, or know, about the 2 games, you’re not a Town fan. Safe to say, they’re written in Leighton Buzzard folk-law forever and people still, to this day, talk about the games regularly.

AlwaysLeighton1 - I have unearthed a photograph from the game with Aldershot Town at Bell Close on Saturday 30 January 1993 in front of 1,522, wasn't the Leighton Town goalkeeper Mark Townson only sixteen, he stopped everything that Aldershot threw at him on the day.