CAMBRIDGE City Football Club is 108 years old but everything about it these days is new.
As I arrive to interview player-manager Jamie Cureton, he is inspecting the alignment of the newly painted goal line with the posts on their new pitch, at their new ground, with his almost entirely new squad doing stretches on the halfway line ahead of training for their first game in a brand new division.
Cureton enjoyed an illustrious playing career with Norwich City in 1993-94, then of the Premier League, and taking in Bristol Rovers, Reading, Colchester United and Exeter City among others.
He won the EFL Championship Golden Boot in 2006-07 with Colchester, and then went on to play and then manage in Non-League with the likes of Bishop’s Stortford, Enfield FC and Maldon & Tiptree. Indeed, he remains the only player to have scored in each of the top ten tiers of English football.
All told, Cureton has played competitively for the past 31 seasons, scoring an eye-popping 351 goals. He has registered to play again this season “as cover”, but how long does he think he can go on for?
“I might as well push it as far as I can. The longer it’s gone on, the more I’ve thought, ‘Okay, it’d be quite special to turn out at 50’,” which, to mark your cards, means the August Bank Holiday fixtures of the 2025-26 season.
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ENSIGN TEEN IS TAYLOR MADE!
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DECRUZ IS SINGING THE BLUES FOR DREAM TIE
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GLASSBOYS'JORDAAN IS A SCROOGE FOR BUCKS!
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CLINICAL CALLUM HITS THE BULLSEYE
DARTFORD their D place in the play-off places as a 79th-minute goal from Callum Jones gave Adrian Pennock's side all three points.
ARDLEY'S OFF TO A WINNER!
NEAL Ardley got off to a winning start as Woking boss with victory over play-off chasing Altrincham and then admitted the Robins have set the mantra he would like the Cards to follow.
MADINE'S A MARVEL AT POOLS
GARY Madine's third goal in a Hartlepool United shirt fired his team to within two points of the National League play-offs after a dramatic victory over Yeovil Town.
BEES RATTLED BY TOP TOWN
BARNET slipped behind York City at the top of the National League after they were held to a draw by FC Halifax Town - a result thoroughly deserved by the Shaymen who battled for the whole game and gave the Bees barely a sight of goal.
Rovers denied by resilient Shots
DISAPPOINTED Steve Cotterill believes that his side had enough chances to beat Aldershot Town after dropping two points in their title quest.
KEEPER JOS REVELS AS GOAL HERO
IF you think goalkeepers never score, you must be Bark-ing mad.
