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Travel for Exeter City (Home)
Date added: 23/08/2010
We have decided that we will be organising group travel to the Exeter City home league game on Saturday 25th September, essentially to pay our respects and join the tributes to the late, great Adam Stansfield.
In all likelihood we will be travelling on our usual train down to Yeovil Junction, the 09.27am from Clapham Junction and returning at 18.29 on Saturday evening. Watch this space for confirmation of these details. If you fancy joining us drop us a line.
And remember, watch this page for updates on further games we make plans to attend. Also, if you are planning a day trip to a game not on our current list of fixtures let us know – it may prove feasible to arrange a car-share or discounted rail travel.
CGs in the Media!
Date added: 21/08/2010
Coverage of our open letter to the Club has been widespread since its publication on this website and on via our mailing list on August 2nd. This only goes to show the growing concern over Yeovil Town’s lack of public communication regarding the current restructuring plans.
We thought it would be worth highlighting articles that not only mention our letter, but also provide what we feel good places to start should you wish to delve further into the issues affecting the Club we all support. Take this as a reading list Glovers!
Firstly of course, our ever reliable friends at Ciderspace and their featured bloggers have as ever, given the issues we highlighted with our letter heavy priority. Start with this summary piece and then make your way to the blog section for thoughts from both Taff and guest contributor Cruncher.
In the wider football world, our letter was directly quoted in the national press as part of Guardian journalist Matt Scott’s ongoing pursuit of answers from the Yeovil Town board. This articles makes up just one of four mentions the Club have had in Matt’s Digger column.
Finally, and although we are not mentioned, the respected football blog TwoHundredPerCent have published their own take on the situation.
If you find any other articles surrounding the ongoing issues at the Club, please let us know. And for the record, we have heard no further word from the Club following our latest email to them.
Adam Stansfield R.I.P.
Date added: 21/08/2010
As the sad passing of beloved former player Adam Stansfield will be marked today at Huish Park with a minute’s applause, we thought we would highlight just two of the many glowing tributes to both the player and the man that have been written over the last week. He was one of our own, and will be much missed by Glovers up and down the country.
Capital Glover, Seb White has contributed this to online magazine, The Sabotage Times. And the Ciderspace tribute will bring fond memories and tears of pride to many a fan’s eyes.
Adam Stansfield will never be forgotten. We’ve all 'come fucking miles' to get to where we are today.
Update re. Open Letter to Club.
Date added: 19/08/2010
Message from Bill Biss, Capital Glover.
Just an update on the recent response we have now received from the Club to our open letter, dated August 2nd regarding the restructuring of assets.
I personally re-sent the Club the open letter via Sara Bradley, Supporter Liaison Officer from my own email account on the morning of August 18th in the hope that we would receive some acknowledgement. We then promptly received a response from Sara, firstly acknowledging our email and secondly, to invite me to a meeting with Mr Fry and Mr Starnes.
As you will be aware, the Capital Glovers as a collective chose to send our letter after consultation with yourselves and the Facebook group. We like to think we are an open group who represent the wishes of as many London and South East based Glovers as we attract. With this in mind I sent the following personal reply to the Club which I hope you will find in keeping with our previous stance on this.
Please feel free to share your thoughts on the matter, we welcome your views.
"Hi Sara,
Many thanks for your reply. Would it be possible to get your IT guys to 'whitelist' the info@capitalglovers.com email address? As our system confirmed the email had been delivered I assume it must have been blocked by your spam filter. Not to worry. I understand that Mr Starnes, if not Mr Fry, has seen the letter regardless of the email.
Getting back to the matter at hand, I fully appreciate the offer to meet with Mr Fry and Mr Starnes. However, we originally sent the letter to Mr Fry as an open letter, emailed to the club and published on our website, with online publicity through Facebook, emails and tweets that the club's webmaster no doubt picked up and passed on. This was a conscious decision as the letter was a collective result of consultation with Capital Glovers and not the works of an individual or two. Consequently we would like any reply to be directed in the same open manner that lets our members receive any information or assurances first hand rather than from the sort of 'Chinese whispers' or misinterpretations that might arise from a private meeting. Much like Yeovil Town Football Club, the Capital Glovers are an open and transparent organisation.
Please can you direct any replies or further responses to my email to the address listed below. I welcome the chance of a personal dialogue with those at the Club but wish for this to remain open to the wider Yeovil-supporting community.
Kind regards,
Bill Biss on behalf of the Capital Glovers
YTFC player sponsorship 2010-11
Date added: 03/08/2010
For the fourth year running the Capital Glovers will be sponsoring the away kit of a YTFC player.
This year's selection for the curse is Paul Huntington, who is following in the footsteps of Lloyd Owusu (one season) and Kieran Murtagh (two seasons).
The format is the same as the last three years. Those who contribute to the sponsorship are put in a hat at the end of the season, with the winner receiving the signed player's shirt along with certificate of authentication.
The Capital Glovers also benefit from a mention in each matchday programme's sponsors page throughout the season, plus an article in the issue which features the sponsored player.
For the last two years the share for each sponsor has worked out at £15 per person, so that's the plan once more for this year (though we don't want anyone to be priced out of it).
If you're happy to join in the sponsorship fun please email info@capitalglovers.com, with your option below.
Depending on numbers there may be an excess so the options are:
A) I'd like to sponsor £15 with any excess being returned to me / deducted from the amount I pay
B) I'd like to sponsor £15 with the excess being put to good use by the Capital Glovers
C) I can't manage £15 at the moment but would still like to be involved - I can contribute £X
By good use we mean along the lines of:
- subsidising Capital Glovers merchandise (look out for the new polo shirts making their debut on Saturday)
- subsidising match fees (last year the extra few pounds went towards our supporters match against the Leeds United London supporters team, ensuring that the cost for our players was capped at £5 per head)
- contributing towards any cost of meeting room or venue hire for Capital Glovers meet ups.
An Open Letter to the Club
Date added: 02/08/2010
Following growing fears amongst the Yeovil Town fanbase and consultation with our mailing list we have decided to send the following open letter to John Fry:
"Mr Fry.
We write to you openly in your position as chairman of the companies, Yeovil Town Holdings Ltd and Yeovil Football and Athletic Club Ltd.
Following your recent announcements regarding these two companies and the effective splitting of Yeovil Town Football Club’s property assets from the Club’s football operation we believe greatly that a number of concerns regarding the future of our wonderful club require addressing.
As we are sure you are aware these concerns were alluded to in a recent article published by national newspaper, the Guardian and are currently the topic of virtually every conversation shared by Yeovil fans. With so many examples of other football clubs having gone down this route and faced significant financial turmoil, administration, the deduction of points by the Football League and the loss of their grounds, we respectfully request confirmation from you regarding the following:
Please can you explain the benefits of pursuing the sale of Yeovil Town’s property assets, potentially including Huish Park and the splitting of these assets from those of the footballing operation?
What long term assurances can you, the Club provide us, the fans with regarding the long-term security of Yeovil Town Football Club? How will you ensure that we will not face the same widely documented problems faced for example by Crystal Palace, Southend United, Stockport County, Rotherham United and Weymouth?
You have often been quoted as wishing to have an open and transparent relationship with the fans regarding the running of the Club and we believe that this is the time that the off-field issues highlighted above require addressing.
We remain 100% loyal to the Yeovil Town team, managed by Terry Skiverton and Nathan Jones and will be giving them our full support over the coming season, and for all those that follow.
Regards,
Capital Glovers – Yeovil Town FC supporters in London and the South East"
Tweeting for Yeovil!
Date added: 01/08/2010
We have added another string to our online bow and have started up a Capital Glovers twitter feed. For all CG news and Yeovil Town related musings, follow us on the link below and feel free to retweet anything we post or use the reply function whenever you fancy!
CGs on Twitter.
Opening Day Party Train!
Date added: 29/07/2010
We’ve probably left it too late to get the very best deals on train travel but we will be organising what group discounts we can for our usual jaunt back home to Yeovil for the first day of the season!
With Leyton Orient - Slade, Forbes, Brown and all being the opponents it should be a good game and we’ll probably have some company on the trains to and from London!
Usual practice for home games is to get to Clapham Junction under your own steam and we then meet, and organise group rail tickets from there.
We aim to leave on the 9.27am train out of Clapham to ensure we make it to Yeovil Junction ahead of the pubs opening and we leave on the 6.29pm party train back to London. For reference, we always make a beeline for the front carriage of the trains we take.
If you fancy joining us and taking advantage of what group savings we can make, please drop us a line at info@capitalglovers.com. Based on multiples of 4 adults travelling together the basic cost of the train tickets is looking like being £19.85 each but we’re working on that...
Travel Plans for the 2010/2011 Season
Date added: 24/07/2010
We have been studying the fixture list for the coming season religiously since it was released back in June and have come to the general conclusion that they’re actually pretty rubbish for us Yeovil Town fans!
As such, we have compiled a list of games that the Capital Glovers will be targeting for our travels this season. We will be arranging what group travel plans we can to ensure that we get the very most out of what promise to be some legendary away days! If you fancy joining us, look out for emails on the mailing list or via this news page.
Please see the list of games we’ll be attending on masse below, including as you’d expect, the London fixtures where we’ll be plotting our usual local all-welcome pub crawls and selected other games spread out across the season. We plan to arrange at least one away weekender again so look out for details on that coming soon.
Sat 7th Aug – Leyton Orient at Home.
Sat 4th Sep – Notts County Away.
Sat 20th Nov – Charlton Athletic Away.
Tue 28th Dec – Sheffield Wednesday Away.
Sat 1st Jan – Plymouth Argyle Away.
Sat 29th Jan – Brentford Away.
Sat 12th Feb – Dagenham & Redbridge Away.
Sat 19th Mar – Exeter City Away.
Sat 26th Mar – Leyton Orient Away
Mon 25th Apr – Peterborough United Away
Sat 7th May – Carlisle United Away.
Fantasy Football
Date added: 24/07/2010
We will again be running a fantasy football league for the coming season so if you fancy joining, or rejoining follow this link.
Once you’ve registered your details and picked your team you can join the Capital Glovers mini-league, all you’ll need is the code to join: 420926-104852
Its only a bit of fun but who knows, if it’s getting competitive, maybe we’ll arrange a prize for the winning manager come the end of the season!
Brighton Away - Formal Wear Required!
Date added: 08/04/2010
The fixture computer has been kind to us this season and given us an away day on the last day of the season (Saturday May 8th) close to London and smack bang in the South East. Having said that, a trip to the Withdean Stadium does have its drawbacks...
We thought we would try and spark a new tradition to try and make it a little more fun, and hopefully relax everyone a bit if it proves to be an important game in the battle for League One safety.
Other team’s fans traditionally have a fancy dress theme for their last away trip of the season so we thought we’d put a twist on it – instead of fancy dress, we thought we’d literally dress up!
So, that means formal wear for all! Suits and your Sunday best please! If you like the idea, there’s a facebook event set up for it and you can always email us on the address above.
Umbrellas and binoculars optional.
Related Link:
Facebook Event
Brentford Away
Date added: 07/04/2010
Our last game in the Capital this season could prove a very important one, Brentford away on Saturday April 24th.
And as we’ve always enjoyed the visit to Brentford we thought we’d go and make the most of what this little corner of West London has to offer. Come and join us if you’re up for the day and are going to game.
We will be starting the day at O’Briens on Brentford High Street at around 11.30. We’ll then aim to work our way up to the ground via The Magpie and Crown and The Brewery Tap.
What with there being a pub on each corner of Griffin Park we’ll be spoilt for choice but our usual haunt is The Griffin on the corner nearest the away end. We’ll be there from 13.30.
Suitably refreshed we’ll then make it inside the ‘Wendy House’ as the away end is affectionately known in time to watch what will hopefully be the game that sees us secure League One status, or thinking positively, what will be a meaningless mid-table scrap!
Post match there are various plans for further fun along the Thames in Chiswick or Putney depending on the weather. All areas are easily in reach of underground stations or mainline stations which will get you back to Waterloo in no time.
Related link:
Facebook Event
Yeovil & Southend Survival Party!
Date added: 15/03/2010
We are hoping to arrange an end of season friendly game and all round survival party (literally in their case), with the boys behind the excellent Southend United fanzine, All At Sea.
Under the guise of much missed Yeovil fanzine On To Victory we’ve been meeting up with and pitting our 5-a-side wits against our counterparts at Southend for a number of seasons. Last time out, ahead of Southend’s memorable FA Cup tie at Chelsea in the 2008/9 season they beat us convincingly so we’ll be looking for revenge!
Edited to update - We can now confirm this friendly and trip to the seaside will take place on Saturday 29th May. If you're interested in playing, just let us know!
Related link:
All At Sea
Facebook Event
Easter Social!
Date added: 12/03/2010
The Capital Glovers 11-a-side bunch of misfits and toerags will be playing a friendly football match against a side based in Battersea Park on Thursday, April 1st.
As the game will only last an hour (7pm-8pm) we thought we might fit in a bit of a social jolly afterwards. Especially as it’s the night before the Easter Weekend starts.
The side and others will be retiring to local hostilery, The Duke of Cambridge for a chat and general get together post-match.
If you would like to play, or just fancy a night out watching comedy football and having a laugh let us know.
info@capitalglovers.com
Join the Facebook Group!
Date added: 11/03/2010
We’ve had a good couple of outings recently, what with the Charlton away game on our doorsteps and the annual away weekender to Norwich just gone by.
Okay, so not the best results we could have hoped for from the games but we had fun at least. See the evidence for yourself on the Capital Glover’s facebook group where an increasing amount of photos and the like can be found!
Why not join and add your odd Glover related photos whilst you're at it!
Charlton Athletic Away
Date added: 10/02/2010
So, it’s one of the big ones! On Saturday February 20th we meet Charlton Athletic at the Valley in a League 1 match! I’m sure we can all look back fondly on our memorable Cup games there, but now we’re meeting them as equals...well, ignoring the points total, respective fan base, stadium facilities, bank balance etc etc.
Whisper it, but I think they even have enough burgers and hotdogs to go round at half-time. Imagine! Anyway, you’d hope so at £25 a ticket.
If that hasn’t put you off, then the Capital Glovers are organising a sedate day, taking in a few pubs in the Greenwich area before making our way to the ground. All are welcome of course, we welcome old faces and new so if you’ve only just moved up to the area, are only here for the day or have been lurking in London for a while come and join us!
We will be in the Cutty Sark Tavern from 11.30 to 12.30. Nearest overground is Maze Hill, or alternatively the nearest DLR stations are, Cutty Sark and Greenwich.
After that we’ll be moving on to The Pelton Arms. This looks like a good stop off for food and you may recognise it as the pub used as the Nag’s Head in the recent BBC Only Fools & Horse’s prequel!
From around 1.15 we’ll be in The Plume of Feathers, which is back right up by Maze Hill overground station. From here we’ll be making our way one stop along the line to Charlton and the short walk to the ground.
Hope to see you along the way!
Leyton Orient Away - Rearranged Plans
Date added: 13/01/2010
As I'm sure you know, Yeovil’s rearranged away game at Leyton Orient has been scheduled for next Tuesday - the 19th.
Pending any further postponement, here are the Capital Glovers plans for the evening...
Our 5-a-side team have a match kicking off at 6pm here.
So if you fancy coming down to lend your support please do so! Why not stop off for an alfresco pint! We're always looking for new players so this is an ideal chance to see what we're about. It's only a short deviation en route to Leyton across town with the pitch being located about 100 metres from Warren St Tube.
After that we're be joining any non-playing CGs in the Birkbeck Tavern, near Leyton Tube for a quick drink before kick-off. Link to the pub is here.
Hope to see you along the way!
Norwich Away Weekender!
Date added: 13/01/2010
At our pre-season meeting we decided that Norwich would be the venue for this season’s annual Capital Glover weekender.
Yeovil Town’s away fixture against Norwich City takes place on Saturday 6th March so we’re looking to organise our group match tickets, travel and accommodation.
Our general plan is to head up on Friday 5th March, take in the sights and the game on Saturday (...plus a bit of the nightlife!) and travel back to London on Sunday 7th March.
Initial planning has shown us that we can do the lot for between £80-90 plus spends but depending on numbers we could reduce this further.
If you’re interested in joining us in having a fun old time following the boys in green n’ white please get in touch via the email address listed on this site.
Up the Glovers!
Capital Glovers Meeting - Tuesday 4th August
Date added: 29/07/2009
First off, an apology for the late notice of this meeting but we thought it important to get together ahead of the new season.
We hope you can make it.
We've got an area booked at the highly recommended pub, the Bree Louise situated close to both Euston and Kings Cross/St Pancreas stations from 19.30 onwards.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/40/4034/Bree_Louise/Euston
http://tinyurl.com/leccpy - multimap of pub location
The pub serves a variety of real ales (with discount for CAMRA members) and good food.
Items up for discussion include:
- Away Shirt Sponsorship (including the draw for last season's signed shirt).
- Home and Away Match Travel.
- Away Weekender.
- Our second international trip.
- The Capital Glovers Website.
- The 5-a-side team (league) and 11-a-side teams (friendlies).
All welcome.
New season, new features
Date added: 13/07/2009
Welcome to the first update of the Capital Glovers website for the 2009/10 season.
We'll shortly be launching a new section of the website aimed at travel to games, both home and away, with planned travel arrangement (rail, bus, plane, car, tube), guides to what it's like and pub reviews from our own real ale guru, Steve Wh-ale.
Keep a look out for our next Capital Glovers meeting, coming soon to a central London pub. At this meeting we'll talk the new season, life in London and the South East, travel for the new season, and a Capital Glovers weekend away. There will also be the prize draw for Keiran Murtagh's signed away kit from last season, though entry is confined to those who helped sponsor his kit. Join in the sponsorship for this season to stand a chance of winning a shirt next year!
If you've not been involved with the Capital Glovers before, now's your chance. If you have, let's have your input to make us a better supporters group for Yeovil Town fans.