I guess it would be impossible for a Rushden & Diamonds fan to write a blog like this - I mean a tub of yoghurt has more history and culture.

Periodically in our history Kettering have gone and signed a 'name' player - Gazza springing most readily to the mind of most.

However, the signing of Tommy Lawton in the mid 1950s was a shock of earthqu… Continue

Over the course of 137 years our history can hardly be described as illustrious in the extreme - but we have had our moments!

All of us will have memories permanently enshrined of events that have taken place on that hallowed piece of turf on Rockingham Road. Our own Holy Ground which itself could become just a memory in a few short years.

Great names have graced our arena from the 15 year old Stanley Matthews in an England Schoolboys trial to the likes of Tommy Lawton, George Best and Gianfra… Continue

With us drawing Barrow at home in the FA Trophy, let's hope there is no repeat of a depressing afternoon almost exactly 30 years ago.

Everything was going tits up at the time as I recall. Just a few months earlier we had been gracing Wembley Stadium in the FA Trophy Final and had come second in the League. Manager Mick Jones had gone onto better things (uh oh, history is repeating itself) and his wonderful team was being speedily broken up.

However, the worst pessimist could not have foreseen… Continue