Witham Town are gearing up for a landmark fixture in their club’s rich history.
David Cobb has been researching the history of Witham Town and has worked out through his investigations that Saturday’s Ryman League premier division game against Bognor Regis Town will be the 3,000th that the club has played since reforming after the Second World War.
The game will take place at the Village Glass Stadium in Spa Road and kicks-off at 3pm.
That run of games represents more than a quarter of a million minutes of Witham Town football and the home fixture against Bognor will be yet another milestone in a story that has seen the club as one of the mainstays of the game in Essex.
Cobb has looked back into Witham’s history since the first recorded game in the 1830s when a side representing the town played a fixture at Lanham Green near Cressing a full three decades before the sport was formally codified with the setting up of the Football Association in 1863.
Since the war, Cobb has worked out that 2,999 games involving a Witham Town FC team have taken place, with the most recent coming with Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat by Enfield Town in the Ryman League premier division.
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