St Stephens Borough Veterans v Plymouth Argyle Veterans

[Julian Chenery]

ST STEPHENS BOROUGH VETERANS V PLYMOUTH ARGYLE VETERANS

Saltash based local football team St Stephens Borough celebrate ten years as a football club at the end of the 2007/08 season.

As part of the club’s celebrations to mark the occasion they have arranged a veterans football match against Football League Championship side Plymouth Argyle for the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday, 4th May 2008.

The game will take place in Kimberley Stadium, Saltash and will kick-off at 2.30pm.

Plymouth Argyle have named a strong provisional squad for the match and supporters of a certain age will recognise no fewer that seven players who played for Argyle in their FA Cup semi-final against Watford in April 1984.

Those players are: Gordon Nisbet, John Uzzell, Chris Harrison, Leigh Cooper, Tommy Tynan, Andy Rogers and Mark Rowe.

Harrison and Rowe have their own connections to Saltash as both went on to play for Saltash United and Harrison also had a spell managing the Ashes.

Leigh Cooper also had a spell managing Saltash United.

Also included in Argyle’s squad are former Arsenal goalkeeper Rhys Wilmot, Darren Tallon, Doug Anderson, Mark Damerell and Steve Davey.

Borough’s squad will comprise of local players who worn the Borough shirt at some time during the ten years of the club.

These will include the likes of Karl Arrowsmith, Kevin Fedrick, Shaun O’Melia, Rocky O’Rourke, Dave Rowse, Kevin Squires and Lee Stapleton who all played in the 1998/99 season and players from later seasons such as Martin Croft, Peter Footitt, Lee Manuel, Chris Pierce-Jones and James Prynn right up to current players Shane Blanks and Andy Wright.

Goalkeeping duties be shared by two local legends in Gary Homer and Richard Keith.

Current managers Steve Brown and Alistair Sampson will also be making an appearance.

Managing the team will be Borough’s first ever managers Phil Bennett and Mark Montell.

Borough are extremely grateful to local referees Shaun Edge, Keith Olver and Colin Penhorwood who have agreed to be the match officials.

It promises to be a most enjoyable afternoon as the veteran Saltash players take on some of the most successful Plymouth Argyle players of years gone by.

[Julian Chenery]

ST STEPHENS BOROUGH VETERANS V PLYMOUTH ARGYLE VETERANS - UPDATE

Plymouth Argyle have released an updated squad list for their veterans match

against Saltash based local football team St Stephens Borough on Sunday, 4th

May 2008, kick-off 2.30pm, in Kimberley Stadium, Saltash.

If facing so many former professional players, some of whom have graced an

FA Cup semi-final was not a hard enough proposition on its own for Borough

Argyle have stated that this is possibly the best squad they have put

together for some time.

New additions to the squad include striker Micky Evans who recently had a

testimonial match at Home Park, ex Saltash United goalkeeper and current St

Blazey manager Dave Philp, Martin Barlow, Colin Randell and John Matthews

who also played for Arsenal.

The full squad is now: Dave Philp, Mark Damerell, Mark Rowe, Chris Harrison,

Darren Tallon, Andy Rogers, Leigh Cooper, Tommy Tynan, Micky Evans, Martin

Barlow, Gordon Nisbet, Neil Hague, Steve Davey, Dougie Anderson, John

Matthews, Jamie Morgan, Colin Randell.

The Borough squad is: Gary Homer, Richard Keith, Karl Arrowsmith, Phil

Bennett, Shane Blanks, Steve Brown, Martin Croft, Kevin Fedrick, Peter

Foottit, Paul Guinan, Kristian Laine, Shaun O'Melia, Rocky

O'Rourke, Chris Pierce-Jones, Jame Prynn, Dave Rowse, Alistair Sampson,

Kevin Squires, Lee Stapleton, Andy Wright.

With the match taking place over the Bank Holiday and Saltash May Fair

weekend this will be a great opportunity to see some of Argyles finest

players from years gone by putting on their boots once again and to see how

the local players get on against them.

[Guest]

And there was me thinking I was off to see the match at the Salt Mills.

[Guest]

Very good game and highly enjoyable

[Guest Postie Pidge]

No elaborration on the score?