MATCH
Ford Sports 0–5 Stevenage Borough
United Counties League Division 1 · Saturday 2 May 1981
W
Result
A
Venue
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Attendance
Unknown
Referee
Updated
played at Broadhall Way, Stevenage
Goalscorers
Team
Match Notebook
W
W
D
W
W
Danny Dance scored his 25th league goal for Stevenage.
Trevor Metcalfe scored his 25th league goal for Stevenage.
Jimmy Daintree reached 15 Boro’ goals in 32 recorded appearances — the 4th quickest player in the recorded archive to that milestone.
Danny Dance scored in 5 successive Boro’ matches. He became the 2nd recorded Boro’ player to do so. The most recent other player was Peter Gittings (27 September 1980).
This was Boro’s biggest win over Ford Sports by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The previous best was 4–2 on 4 April 1981.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Ford Sports since July 1980 stood at P3 W2 D0 L1.
Martin Allinson made his 25th Stevenage appearance.
Jimmy Daintree moved into 5th place for Boro’s highest win ratio (minimum 10 appearances): 71.88% — 23 wins in 32 matches with recorded results.
Boro scored 5 goals in a match for the first time since a 5–2 result against Corby Gainsborough on 18 April 1981.
This was Boro’s joint-4th biggest win by goal margin in our recorded competitive history.
Final league game record: W1 D0 L2, F8 A6.
This was Boro’s 2nd 5–0 win since July 1980 — their joint 5th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
Boro’ have now played 1 competitive matches on 2 May — winning 1, drawing 0 and losing 0. We’ve scored 5 goals, conceded 0 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day. This was Boro’s biggest win on this date.
Boro’ have now won 2 matches in a row.
Boro’ are now unbeaten in 17 matches.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.