MATCH
Stevenage Borough 6–1 Rainham Town
Vauxhall Opel League Division 2 North · Saturday 8 February 1986
W
Result
H
Venue
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Attendance
K. Berry
Referee
Updated
Goalscorers
Team
Match Notebook
W
D
W
W
W
Martin Gittings scored in 3 successive Boro’ matches. 13 recorded Boro’ players have achieved this run. The most recent other player was Doug Pirie (28 September 1985).
Phil Driver moved above Wes Atwell into 16th place on Boro’s all-time goalscoring list.
This was Boro’s biggest win over Rainham Town by goal margin in the senior archive since July 1980. The previous best was 3–1 on 5 October 1985.
After this match, Boro’s senior record against Rainham Town since July 1980 stood at P2 W2 D0 L0.
Ian Adcroft moved into 3rd place for Boro’s highest win ratio (minimum 10 appearances): 78.57% — 11 wins in 14 matches with recorded results.
Boro scored 6 goals in a match for the first time since a 6–1 result against Ware on 21 September 1985.
This was Boro’s joint-6th biggest win by goal margin in our recorded competitive history.
With 7 goals, this was Boro’s joint-9th highest-scoring competitive match in our recorded history.
This was Boro’s 4th 6–1 win since July 1980 — their joint 20th-most common senior scoreline at the time.
This was the 1st Stevenage match refereed by K. Berry. Boro’s record with K. Berry is W1 D0 L0.
Boro’ have now played 1 competitive matches on 8 February — winning 1, drawing 0 and losing 0. We’ve scored 6 goals, conceded 1 and kept 0 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 9 matches.
This result completed Boro’s latest five-match form sequence shown above.