MATCH
Stevenage Borough 9–0 Royston Town
Servowarm League Division Two North · Monday 8 April 1985
W
Result
H
Venue
298
Attendance
D. Crick
Referee
Updated
Goalscorers
Team
(--)Match Notebook
D
L
W
W
W
Doug Pirie reached 5 Boro’ goals in 78 recorded appearances — the 27th quickest player in the recorded archive to that milestone.
Steve Armsby scored in 3 successive Boro’ matches. 12 recorded Boro’ players have achieved this run. The most recent other player was Jim Beech (26 December 1984).
This was Boro’s biggest win over Royston Town by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The previous best was 2–0 on 2 March 1983.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Royston Town since July 1980 stood at P7 W6 D1 L0.
Tim Ball made his 25th Stevenage appearance.
Steve Armsby moved into 4th place for Boro’s highest scoring ratio (minimum 10 appearances): 52.94% — 27 goals in 51 appearances.
Tim Ball made his 25th Stevenage start.
Doug Pirie made his 10th substitute appearance for Stevenage.
Boro scored 9 goals in a match for the first time since a 11–1 result against British Timken Athletic on 6 December 1980.
This was Boro’s 2nd biggest win by goal margin in our recorded competitive history.
With 9 goals, this was Boro’s joint-2nd highest-scoring competitive match in our recorded history.
This was Boro’s 1st 9–0 win since July 1980 — their joint 28th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
This was the 1st Stevenage match refereed by D. Crick. Boro’s record with D. Crick is W1 D0 L0.
Boro’ have now played 2 competitive matches on 8 April — winning 1, drawing 0 and losing 1. We’ve scored 10 goals, conceded 4 and kept 1 clean sheets on this day. This was Boro’s biggest win on this date.
Boro’ have now won 3 matches in a row.
Boro’ are now unbeaten in 3 matches.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.