On The Home Front
Next up at Hillgrounds…
Opponent Aylesbury FC
Competition Southern League South East
Aylesbury’s Current League position 19/22 but will be mathematically safe from the drop this season with two wins or two losses from Arlesey
Last Time They Were Here… The opening match of last season, where Rovers came from behind to win 2-1. Ash Fuller scoring both goals.
Aylesbury’s Current League Form (six games) LLLLLL
Did you know… The name of the town is derived from ‘Old English’, with the first recorded name being Aegelsburgh – meaning Fort of Aegel, although there is no mention of who Aegel is. There have been 57 variations on the town name since the earliest records.
In the bar afterwards We will flip a coin to decide between Hamburg vs Schalke or Roma vs Fiorentina on the big screens.
On this day in Rovers history… If this game ends as a draw it will mean that Kempston’s record for games played on this date will be W7 D7 L7

The biggest win on this day was in1958 in the semi final of the UCL Division One cup against Eynesbury Rovers, Kempston winning four nil.

Aylesbury will arrive at Hillgrounds on a dreadful run of recent form that has seen them ship seventeen and score just two in their last six fixtures. You have to go back as far as Boxing Day to find the club’s last win – a 2-1 over Aylesbury United. Indeed since the turn of the year, Aylesbury have only picked up two points from a possible thirty six in the league, scoring five goals and conceding thirty times. Before the catastrophic loss of form, The Moles had picked up some decent results including away wins at both Beaconsfield and Cambridge City.

Kempston come into the fixture on the back of a five match unbeaten run, continued on Wednesday night with the “Battle of the Bog” over at Cambridge. Jake Newman’s goal that night was his twenty eighth of the season in all competitions and nineteenth in the league, making him the division’s sixth leading marksman. Jake is currently four league goals behind Jermaine Hall of AFC Dunstable in BBC 3 Counties radio’s (almost) prestigious “Part-Time Pele” award for leading semi-pro goal scorer in the region.