STOTFOLD BOOK SECOND SUCCESSIVE COUNTY CUP FINAL
Bedford Town Colts 1 Stotfold 2
Stotfold F.C. academy continues to grow in stature, with their second successive Beds County Cup final. Following on from last season's U16 successful County Cup campaign, this season's u15 Academy side have booked their place in the U15 final with an impressive win over Bedford Town Colts.
Bedford Town Colts are one of the top teams in the Chiltern league and so Stotfold knew they had their work cut out. In less than perfect conditions, but on a perfect playing surface, the football was going to have to be first class. The result was just what the lads needed as a boost, as they have found it tough going in their league this season. After five minutes the ever improving James Macey raced through and planted the ball straight in the bottom right hand corner, assisted by some good work from Jordan Cleghorn. The game was tight for seventy minutes, until Jordan Klugman raced in on a fifty / fifty with the keeper. Klugman was very brave in his challenge with the rebound coming out to Luke Hennesey who calmly lobbed it straight over the keepers head to take the boys 0-2 up and one step closer to the final. The last ten minutes was a bit frantic with Bedford pushing players up to see if they could salvage extra time, until Phil Smeaton went through on goal to wrap things up he was brought down in the box only to get up and see his penalty well saved. Bedford did pull one back with five minutes to go, but all the players gritted there teeth and held on to their place in the final. Some very good performances, but the man of the match was Lewis Sinclair at centre back with what was his best showing of the season. Congratulations to all the players, staff and supporters, you deserve a great day out for all your hard work. The final will be played on 13th of April at a venue to be announced. Despite our success, we are still trying to develop players in all positions. For details on trial dates, please contact Team Manager Andrew Klugman 07740 055010.

Beds County Cup
STOTFOLD 3 DUNSTABLE TOWN 2
This match had to be moved to Hitchin Road and the boys knew it was going to be a tricky encounter against a team that has yet to lose this season. Having quickly to adapt to a team that loved route one football. This seemed to pay off with Dunstable just edging the first half with a few half chances. After 20 minutes news came through that Q.P.R. had drawn Chelsea in the F.A. Cup and this spurred on the Stotfold centre forward Jordan Klugman to swivel on a sixpence and plant the ball straight in the corner of the onion bag to make it 1-0 .More pressure from Dunstable was not enough to take them in level at half time.
The lads knew they could do better in the second half down hill with the wind behind them, but this was not to be with Dunstable coming out of the traps more hungry than us. Some slack defending let in their centre forward to head down with the ball adjudged to have crossed the line by the linesman. Ten minutes remaining skipper Jordan Cleghorn rallied the troops, got stuck in and played the football we should be playing only to see Dunstable go 1-2 up. That was it, did we want to reach the quarter finals of this cup or not? Then an excellent move through midfield involving Wiseman, Ameis and Veness was good enough to let Klugman go on goal with the keeper to beat, he pulled off a great save only to see Klugman slot the rebound away with ease. Two minutes left on the clock and extra time looked certain, but its a funny old game this football, big boot out of defence, Legate controlled it, laid it off to Cruz who then slotted it into man of the match Hennesey to wrap up the victory and take us to the quarter finals. A quick note from the lads to James Macey who unfortunately broke his ankle in midweek and will be a great loss, so get well soon James
Report written by Paul Legatte

Prseident's Cup 21/10/07
Stotfold 2 Witham Town 1

This was Stotfold's opening match in the President's Cup. The first half saw some quality football played by Stotfold, with Jordan Cleghorn breaking up any attack in midfield, spraying the ball at will to James Macey, Carl Cruz and forwards Jordan Klugman, Rob Howard and Nicky Albone. The defence of Maxi Vennes, George Reeney, Lewis Sinclair and Clog had very little to do in this half as Stotfold completely dominated with the ball on the floor, great passing and good attacking football. The break came with Macey breaking from midfield and giving the ball to Klugman who split the defence with a through ball back to Macey to blast the ball from 10 yards.
In the second half the Stotfold lads went to sleep as Witham came at them with all guns blazing. After about 15 mins. a thunderbolt of a shot from about 25 yards hit the back of the Stotfold net. The boys were now in a cup game, end to end stuff. Just as we all thought a draw was on the cards the Stotfold lads had one last fling, As the ball came back into the Witham area, their defender had a moment of madness and handled. Up steps Goalkeeper and fast becoming an u15 legend, Jordan Richardson, breaking the back of the net. Another very entertaining game with the woodwork hit no fewer than seven times and both keepers making first class saves. Jack Legate, Ben Amies, Ollie Sage, Luke Hennessey and Dan Wiseman all came on and contributed to this very good team performance.

Stotfold 1 East Thurrock United 1 (EJA 14/10/07)

This new team are beginning to bond and grow in confidence with every minute they play, they were entertaining league leaders, East Thurrock Utd at the Roker Park. We knew this game was going to be tight and it was a credit to the high standard of football both sides played, a privilege to watch The new Stotfold Academy perform. Jordan Richardson is without a doubt one of the best keepers we have seen at this age group keeping Thurrock at bay for 60 minutes, not many chances for either team with Nicky Albone working hard alongside his
strike partners Jordan Klugman and Rob Howard all of them going close. Work, work, work was the cry from academy manager Andy Klugman and he wasn't disappointed as Clog, Maxi Vennes, Lewis Sinclair and George Renney giving it their all at the back, Jordan Cleghorn running the midfield with Luke Hennesey, Jack Legate and Carl Cruz.
Ten minutes into the second half Thurrock broke away in numbers, a powerful shot could only be parried away with the rebound being slotted into the left hand corner. Thurrock may have thought the job was done but were to be put under constant pressure for the last 20 mins. This was down to a tactical move to gamble and go for broke, looks good when it pays off. Luckily today it paid off when Klugman slipped in behind the two centre backs to hammer Stotfold back level. All in all a fair result from two excellent sets of players.
Ben Ammies, Ollie Sage and Dan Wiseman all came on and contributed to this hard earned point
Well done to everyone of you.