Boro' History

Last Updated: 26 January 2023

Our epic 2022-3 shirt design got us nostalgic for the last time we saw such clobber; the 1999-00 Nationwide Conference season

1999-00: Behind The Numbers

For the first time in a generation, Boro’ opted for a red-fading-into-black home shirt design for the 2022-3 League Two season; a proper shift away from our more familiar red and white clobber – but, in our opinion, a beautiful kit all the same. You have to go back more …

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New Year's Day games (usually) are part and parcel of the season. Here are five of the best for the sake of Auld Lang Syne...

5 Of The Best: New Year’s Day Games

In our heads, New Year’s Day games are part and parcel of your average football season. It’s almost etched into our souls – much like what we consider to be an obligatory Boxing Day get together. Even better were the good old days when you could set your watch by …

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The recent 5-0 win over Barrow counts as one of our best Boro' games of 2022...

5 Of The Best: Boro’ Games In 2022

You know us – we don’t half love a good end of year listicle. In fact, we’re so cynical that sometimes we wonder if some celebrities may try to time their passing in order to make the list of those what we lost this year. After all: last name written …

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Even the best Christmas planning can go wrong. Here are five of the worst festive foul-ups that Boro' suffered over the years...

5 Of The Worst: Festive Foul-Ups

You know the drill. It’s Christmas time and it, traditionally, means all sorts of social gatherings; out with friends or having the fam around for some hearty scran. You also have all the gift buying, food prep, and travel arrangements to figure out. With so much to plan, it’s almost …

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Boro' aren't in action on Friday night all that often – but it's happened before...

Friday Night Lights?

Hello, hello – what’s all this? A Friday night outing for the Boro’? To what do we owe this pleasure? Well – we probably weren’t listening at the start there when it was all announced. But we imagine the Qatar 2022 World Cup has something to do with it. And …

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Now, this is a Cult Classic piece we've wanted to write for ages. We just needed more time to do our research on Andy Hughes...

Cult Classic: Andy Hughes

Now, this is a Cult Classic piece we’ve wanted to write for ages. We just needed more time to do our research on Andy Hughes. In many ways, we still haven’t done that. But we certainly know a lot more now than we did. And what we do know is …

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It's a drum we've banged before. But we're still on the hunt for the missing and incomplete Stevenage line-ups in our database...

The Fading Search For Incomplete Stevenage Line-Ups

It’s a drum we’ve banged before. We make no apologies for that, per se. After all, the fact remains – we’re still on the hunt for the missing and incomplete Stevenage line-ups in our database. So, why are we harping on about it again? Well, we’re starting to fall very …

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The 2007-8 campaign adds weight to our little-known theory that we don't have a good time of things when the year ends in "eight"

2007-8: Behind The Numbers

You know how Spurs fans are still sure that it’s lucky for them when the year ends in “one”? Well, the 2007-8 campaign adds weight to our little-known theory that Boro’ don’t have a good time of things when the year ends in “eight”. Let’s look back over the years …

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Woking 1-5 Stevenage Borough: If there was ever a big win when Boro' met Woking, it usually ended with us being on the wrong end of the score. Not here...

Good Game: Woking 1-5 Stevenage Borough

Good Game: The series looking at the amazing, utterly memorable, unbelievably dramatic and downright ludicrous games that involved Stevenage Borough over the years. But we’ll insist that we accept no blame for memories warped by time, age or alcohol consumption at the time. We’ll never refer to any games involving …

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It's scary to think how many defunct clubs have gone under since helping to shape our story...

5 Of The Best: Clubs No Longer With Us…

At our level, defunct clubs are more of a feature than they should be. Unlike the bigger boys at the top table, there aren’t many with billions to burn and/or questionable reputations who are willing to come in and bankroll a smaller side. And what this means is that teams …

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