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Hi Ian - Is there an update on your sad, albeit understandable, decision to dispense with the Forum after 24 years, if you are able to keep the site running beyond the end of this past season, as indicated might be possible in your last post above, I'm sure that will be welcomed. If it's a case of money, you say it costs you a few hundred pounds every year to keep it going, I am sure you can be re-imbursed somehow and, as for not having the time to spend on the site, don't you have an 'army' of Moderators, such as Karen on the SSML page who 'takes no prisoners'. Anyway fingers crossed you can be persuaded to keep the site going, at least for one final campaign. Best wishes.

A match report and over eighty photographs of the action from Stratford Fields courtesy of Sports Shots: https://www.sportsshots.org.uk/2023/05/29/2022-23-ssmfl-div-2-buckingham-united-3-2-pitstone-ivinghoe/

I see that Bedford Town have somehow 'wangled' a pre-season friendly with QPR, although no doubt it will be a QPR XI made up of predominantly youth and fringe first team players. I am sure that at the end of the forthcoming 2023/24 campaign EFL and National League Club's will be fighting over pre-season friendlies with Step 4 Real Bedford: https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/bedfordtownfootballclub/news/eagles-to-face-qpr-2782212.html

Totternhoe have made the decision to appoint their hugely successful Reserve team Management duo from this season, Evan Tracey and Chris Golding, to the First team role, good luck to them:

Lee Hawkes decided to stand down recently after almost three years in charge at Ampthill Park, former Totternhoe boss Chris Harvey has been appointed:

Sadly not Ollie Bayliss's BBC Three Counties Radio Non League Show any longer however the latest episode of the Northamptonshire Football Podcast:

Not SSML but this is really unfortunate isn't it after such a great 2022/23 campaign for Berkhamsted FC:

Burton Park Wanderers have a new Management team, Luke Eaton takes the reins along with his trusted assistant Simon Davidson: http://bpwfc.com/?fbclid=IwAR0e77TaBDWchdrpaKuhCKl5-kjFTj9wJp3Jb_Qnf1I1yDAMZZQoC4VPvuI

Karen - What is the position on SSML Groundshares for next season, is this how it wiII Iook, I don't beIieve any of the newIy aIIocated CIub's groundshare other than FC Romania and AFC Welwyn: Baldock Town at Arlesey Town Thame Rangers Reserves at Thame United Berkhamsted Raiders at Berkhamsted FC Dunstable Town at AFC Dunstable London Tigers at Amersham Town Burton Park Wanderers at Kettering Town Crawley Green at 'The Brache', Luton Rushden & Higham United at AFC Rushden & Diamonds St PanteIeimon at Potters Bar Town Eynesbury United at Eynesbury Rovers FC Romania at Cheshunt FC AFC Welwyn at Welwyn Garden City Buckingham United at Buckingham Athletic

A team sheet from A.C.D. v Bedford United in a 1994/95 South Midlands League Senior Division fixture. A.C.D changed their name more times than the weather, they were originally A.C. Sphinx from 1945 to 1952, then A.C. Delco (Luton) from 1952 to 1980, then Delco Products from 1987 to 1992, then Delco from 1992 to 1994, then A.C.D. from 1994 to 1996 and then, finally, A.C.D. Tridon from 1996 until 1997 when the Club folded, the season before the SSML came into being:

An interesting team sheet from Ampthill Town v East Ham United in a 1981/82 FA Vase Second Round tie at Ampthill Park, Ampthill Town won 4-2 before bowing out of the competition in the next round at Irthlingborough Diamonds who were regularly getting to the latter stages around that period in time:

Here's 'traitor' Lee Bircham in the studio last Saturday for Ollie Bayliss's final BBC Three Counties Radio Non League Show, at least his comments below are spot on: Absolute privilege to be invited in the studio by the legend Ollie Bayliss for the last ever Non League show on BBC Three Counties Radio. Complete madness from the BBC or whoever’s decision this was to let this show go, think a petition of some sort is essential to bring it back.

The excellent Chris Harvey has stood down at Dunstable Road:

A local press report on the Final and Lutterworth Athletic's defeat to a good Ashby Ivanhoe side: https://ashby.nub.news/news/local-news/ashby-ivanhoe-complete-promotion-and-cup-double-with-decisive-victory-over-lutterworth-184505

James Green and Jordan King will no longer be in charge at Haywood Way next term: https://www.aylesburyvaledynamos.co.uk/news/club-announcement-2780876.html