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DERBY DAY

After Boxing Day’s highly charged draw at Mann and Joe Raynes earned City the win in front of
Hardenhuish Park, we have the second instalment of just under 1400 fans. The return at Hardenhuish Park
the A4 derby this afternoon and, if recent meetings are on New Year’s Day included a Tom Smith thunderbolt
anything to go by, we can expect plenty of goals! and, despite Chris Zebroski giving the Bluebirds the
For a period, as you will see from the table below, lead, Ryan Brunt and Louis Britton completed the
these matches were the archetypal local derby, with no scoring in a 3-1 victory.
inch given by two teams who know each other inside In what is a rare occurrence, only one player in the
out and, with nobody wanting to lose matches, were current City squad has played for Chippenham and
tight. Who can forget Lewis Hogg’s late penalty winner that is goalkeeper Will Henery who enjoyed a loan
at Hardenhuish in the rain back in 2007 or Martin spell with the Wiltshire side while at local EFL side,
Paul’s injury time leveller in a tense relegation battle in Swindon Town. The Chippenham squad of course
2004? includes a former City trio of forwards in Ross Stearn,
However, since the Bluebirds were promoted to the Adam Mann and Ryan Brunt, although only the former
National League South in 2017, a glut of goals has was involved on Boxing Day. Elsewhere, the long term
been seen, 20 in five matches! With the teams less injured George Rigg, Will Puddy, Ryan Case and
familiar these days with loans aplenty on both sides, former loanee Danny Greenslade have all appeared
the match has a slightly different feel. It is no less feisty for the Romans. Coach Gary Horgan is also a former
however as the list of sendings-off in this fixture show. City player and after a close and fairly even match
last time, outlets hope for another entertaining match
Rhys Tyler saw red in this fixture here last season between these close rivals.
joining the likes of Gary Owers, Phil Walsh, Sam
Allison and Anthony Straker to have left their sides to Chippenham Town – We've met before…
do battle with ten men. FULL RECORD (1901-2020)
Last season, bragging rights went City’s way with an P29 W15 D6 L8 F54 A48
action-packed 3-2 win here on Boxing Day, after they ADAM MATRAVERS
had twice fallen behind to spectacular goals from
George Rigg and Tom Owen-Evans. Ryan Brunt, Adam
Below we look at the meetings with Chippenham in the Southern
League Premier Division and National League South:
26/12/2020 AWAY D1-1 Grant 514
01/01/2020 AWAY W3-1 Brunt, Smith, Britton 1239
26/12/2019 HOME W3-2 Brunt, Mann, Raynes 1397
01/01/2019 HOME W5-0 Stearn (2), Straker (p), Cundy, Mann 1727
26/12/2018 AWAY D2-2 Stearn, Brunt 1455
23/12/2017 AWAY W3-0 Smith (2), Compton (p) 1502
08/08/2017 HOME L2-5 Watkins, Lemonheigh-Evans (p) 1254
09/04/2007 HOME W1-0 Paul 2044 Today sees another Twerton match up between the Romans
and the Bluebirds.
01/01/2007 AWAY W1-0 Hogg (p) 1250
17/04/2006 HOME L0-2 2268
27/12/2005 AWAY L0-2 1612
25/03/2005 AWAY W4-2 Williams (3), Partridge 1624
22/02/2005 HOME D1-1 Coupe 847
03/04/2004 AWAY D1-1 Partridge (p) 1054
21/10/2003 HOME D2-2 Tweddle (p), Shore 1133
26/12/2002 HOME D1-1 Eaton 1972
26/08/2002 AWAY W2-1 Gosling (p), Birkby 1188

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