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2009/10 PREVIEW: HISTON

Posted on: Tue 14 Jul 2009

There's 25 days until the start of the season, and today, as we continue our previews the Hatters' opponents next season, we take a look at Steve Fallon's Histon.


Histon

Nickname: The Stutes

Manager: Steve Fallon

Ground: Bridge Road, (also known as the Glassworld Stadium)

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Last season: Conference 3rd

2008/09 average attendance: 1,177

2009/10 BSP title odds: 28/1

Previous meetings: None

Recent history:

The rise of Histon through the pyramid has been one of the biggest success stories in non-league football.

The Stutes were playing in the Eastern Counties League in the mid-1990's, winning promotion from Division One as runners-up in 1996/97 before going onto lift the ECL Premier Division title in 1999/2000 under current boss Steve Fallon.

That meant an elevation to the Southern League, where it took Fallon and the Cambridgeshire outfit four seasons to win promotion from the Division One East as runners-up in 2003/04.

Success soon followed the next season when they won the Southern League Premier Division to lift the title on the final day of the campaign.

By the now the Bridge Road faithful were now watching Conference South football at the start of the 2005/06 season - the highest point in the club's history - and a fifth place finish in their first in Conference South saw them qualify for the play-offs but they lost in the final to St. Albans City.

However, Stutes fans were not to be disappointed for long, though, when the following season they won the Conference South championship and thus earned their fourth promotion in seven years.

A seventh place finish in their first at Conference level saw further success flow for Fallon and co. last season - only to see their campaign end in play-off heartbreak.

They disposed two League 1 sides at Bridge Road in the FA Cup in Swindon Town and Leeds United, but, after a third place finish in the Conference, they lost out to eventual play-off winners Torquay United in the end-of-season lottery 2-1 on aggregate.

FACT: Histon's nickname, The Stutes, is derived from the club's former name Histon Institute - who were formed in 1904.

Official website: www.histonfc.co.uk

Tomorrow: Kettering Town


Previews so far - click the teams below:

AFC Wimbledon

Altrincham

Barrow

Cambridge United

Chester City

Crawley Town

Eastbourne Borough

Ebbsfleet United

Forest Green Rovers

Gateshead

Grays Athletic

Hayes & Yeading

 

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