Dave Matthew-Jones is calling for fans to have their say on the matchday experience at Cambridge United.

The United fans' director wants supporters to give their views and opinions in an online survey to find out what the club is doing well at the Cambs Glass Stadium and where it could improve next season.

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Wisbech care home receives new ‘wheels’ in memory of former Posh and Cambridge United manager Chris Turner

Glennfield Care Centre, Money Bank, Wisbech tookg part in the National Care Home Open day today Friday (17).

Part of the home’s celebrations was the unveiling of a newly purchased minibus bought from donations made in memory of Chris, the former Posh manager, who was resident at Glennfield before his death in April last year after suffering from frontal lobe dementia since 2006.

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The Football Supporters’ Federation and Supporters Direct will host the joint annual Supporters Summit in London, at Wembley Stadium, on 16th July 2016 - in partnership with the FA.

The event brings fans together from across the UK, from clubs and supporter organisations, to debate the issues at the heart of the game.

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2016 Volunteers’ Week took place between the 1st and the 12th of June and at Supporters Direct we would like to celebrate the value of volunteers to football, especially to supporter-owned clubs.

There are many reasons for volunteering in football, such as gaining new skills or socialising, but on many occasions fans do it just because they want to feel part of the team and want to give something back to organisations that have played a big role in their lives. The attachment some people have to the football clubs they support and to their communities often makes them want to make an impact to these environments without earning any sum of money in return. This attachment is really evident regarding fan-owned clubs, which at the same time give more opportunities to volunteer. Those are business benefits of supporter ownership in comparison with privately owned clubs.

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We all get stressed. The question is: what do you do about it?

This is the theme of Men's Health Week 2016.

It matters because if we don’t release stress, it can turn into something more serious.

This year, one in four of us will develop a mental health problem. That is odds of 3 to 1. Or about the same as France or Germany winning the Euro 2016 football. In other words, it’s likely to happen sooner or later if we let stress build.

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CUFC Lottery 'Accumulator' Results (13 May 2016) - this weeks winning 'Accumulator' numbers are (2932)
-there were no winners of the weekly 'Accumulator' this week, meaning next weeks 'Accumulator' will be £600.

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Did you miss the story Learn to Love Your Coconuts read more here http://www.cambridgefansunited.org/blog/learn-to-love-your-coconuts

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For the past season CFU have run a Man of the Match vote via the website. There has been over 1200 votes during this period.

Find out today who has won the award.

It will be presented after the match against Plymouth

Latest winners -

Luke Berry winner against Notts County

Harrison Dunk won the MOM  against  Morecambe

Thank you to Jonathan Bowyer for running and organising the vote

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 In the age of football clubs becoming billionaires' playthings it does no harm to go back to their beginnings. The English game's ragged, inspirational, late-Victorian roots should be better known but its development has been so phenomenally rapid it has rarely had time to take stock of the culture it has left behind.

Supporters may be only dimly aware but several senior clubs were formed as church teams, encouraged by Christian men in grim industrial districts who believed that sport offered physical exercise for lads with little to occupy them, and nourishing human values too: teamwork, friendship, courage, self-reliance.

The realisation that Everton were formed by boys in the bible class at St Domingo's Methodist Chapel in 1878 recently led Peter Lupson, a semi-retired languages teacher from the Wirral, to devote 11 years to researching the founding stories of Everton and 10 other clubs established by churches: Aston Villa, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Fulham, Manchester City, Queens Park Rangers, Southampton, Swindon Town and Tottenham Hotspur.

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At the match against Mansfield a United Legend was at the Abbey.

Find out who it was below and see him pictured standing next to his shirt on the wall of legends

The following appeared in the Cambridge News  13th February 2015

Where are they now? Andy Duncan

Defender
1998-2007
329 appearances
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Cambridge Fans United to support Foodbank
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Today, 14/12/2015, Cambridge Fans United and Cambridge City Foodbank announced that they will work together to help local people who are in hardship. Although Cambridge is a City of innovation and wealth, costs are high and there are thousands of people in hardship, sometimes having to choose between food and heat. The fans and supporters of Cambridge United Football Club understand the importance of teamwork and supporting each other and Dave Matthew-Jones, Chairman of the Supporters Trust, believes the same spirit applies to helping those in need.

Dave Matthew-Jones said "CFU are really proud to be associated with Cambridge City Foodbank. This is a time of year where, for many, the pressures of trying to provide for themselves and their families can prove really difficult. We would encourage everyone who can help to do so. Even a small amount can mean a lot and make a difference. Cambridge has families and individuals on the breadline. If you can help with some food or a donation to the Energy Voucher Scheme then please do so".

CFU will encourage all supporters to make a donation towards the Foodbank Energy Voucher Scheme or to make donations of needed food items at a local supermarket. Through CFU’s network, it will be possible to ensure that the right types of food are donated so that those receiving have all they need to make nutritious meals.

Cambridge City Foodbank enables people who have plenty, and a heart to help others, to donate in a way that helps directly. CCFb’s partner agencies are in contact with those most in need and can give them a voucher to come to the foodbank. The voucher is exchanged for food or to top-up of a pre-payment meter cards for gas or electricity.
Jon Edney, Coordinator/Director of Cambridge City Foodbank said “We really welcome Cambridge Fans United’s support. This shows what can happen when people from many different backgrounds work together with a common goal. It will have a real impact on real people this winter.”

Cambridge Fans United is the supporters trust associated with Cambridge United. It is the 4th largest shareholder with over 3 million shares in the club. CFU was formed in 2000 and is a member of Supporters Direct the governing body set up by the Government at the time. CFU has nearly 500 members and helps to promote the club while representing and canvassing supporters’ issues.

Cambridge city foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust network of food banks in the UK. Food is collected locally, warehoused and then distributed through seven centres around Cambridge and in Cambourne. Last year more than 4000 people received support and there has been a 4% increase during 2015. Cambridge City Foodbank started an energy voucher scheme in December 2013 since then they have redeemed 337 energy vouchers at the cost of £19,200, helping 261 households in fuel poverty.

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If you need some light reading after recent events then try the October edition of the Amber News.

​I would also like to offer my thanks to Richard Money for helping to turn this club around.

No ifs, no buts....Thank you.

We are now 11 league games into the 2015/16 season with a total of 14 points.  At the same period last season we also had 14 points.

We have played 4 games against teams currently in the top half of the table.  Our record in these 4 games is, Won 0, Drawn 2, Lost 2, For 6, Against 9.

We have played 7 games against teams currently in the bottom half of the table.  Our record in these 7 games is, Won 3, Drawn 3, Lost 1, For 8, Against 6.

If our current form continues we shall reach 58 points by the end of the season and finish in 15th place.  This would be an improvement of 7 points on last season.

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The latest 'September 2015' edition of Amber News is now available here on the CFU website.  

We have also recovered another edition from the archives.  Please also take time to read the January 2014 edition.

Andrew would welcome your opinions and contributions and you never know, they may make it into the next edition of Amber News.

It was in February 1990 that I made my first trip to Champion Hill for a Vauxhall-Opal (Isthmian) League Premier Division match between Dulwich Hamlet and St Albans City. As a youth, I was singular in my interests and the opportunity to visit the home of one of the former giants of amateur football, a stadium that had played host to Olympic football in 1948, before its demolition and conversion into something a little more user-friendly was too good to pass up, even for a sixteen year old boy who should have had more pressing things on his mind, like girls and booze. A couple of decades worth of neglect had certainly taken their toll on the old place, though. By 1990, only the cavernous main stand, smelling slightly of dry rot, pock-marked with elderly men with greased back hair and more than a hint of the greyhound track about them, remained safe to use – the rest of the ground was closed off, though the weeds growing up through the crumbling concrete terracing were clearly visible, even from my vantage point, more than a hundred yards away.

This was non-league football in London during the 1980s. Around the periphery of the capital city, at Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Ilford and beyond, the former homes of amateur football were crumbling. The reasons for the decline and fall of amateur football and its struggle to find an identity in a world that no longer distinguished between amateurs and professionals are many and varied, but may be summed up by the phrase “changing times.” The amateur football clubs of London saw the distinction between themselves and professional clubs formally ended in 1974, but with crowds on the non-league game already starting to have dropped more than a decade earlier, maintaining the interest of local people and in turn the cost of maintaining these big amateur grounds of the past became an increasingly uphill battle.
 
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New overseas deal announced

Just in case you missed it here is the breakdown of the Premier League TV deals with the latest cycle of packages coming from overseas:

- A record £5.136bn was spent by Sky and BT Sport for TV rights for live Premier League matches 2016/17 season to 2018/19 This was announced on 10th February 2015.

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Cambridge United Fans’ Charter has made a difference, says Dave Doggett 

Dave Doggett insists Cambridge United's Fans' Charter has had a positive effect on the matchday experience at the Abbey.

The guidelines for supporters' behaviour were launched jointly with Cambridge Fans United last month and United chairman Doggett felt there was a noticeable change in the atmosphere at the ground as a result.

His view comes despite admitting United had been reprimanded by the Football League for an incident that saw two people throw bottles on to the pitch in frustration at a refereeing decision during their season-opening 3-0 win against Newport County.

In his programme notes from last Saturday's 3-0 defeat to Crawley, Doggett warned the FA and the League could fine United or potentially close sections of the Abbey if there was a repeat of such an incident.

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The Football Association happened on an unusually warm day in Lancashire for its announcement that it will invest £260m in the grassroots game over the next four years but the details, once they had been teased out, did not quite add up to an organisation glowing with warmth. The £260m is mostly not new money; the FA already spends £50m a year of its income – £200m over the last four years – on the “national game”, the millions who play football below the professional ranks and multibillion-pound phenomenon of the Premier League. So this is another £15m a year found for the whole of amateur, men’s, women’s and disability football, including improving dire facilities, coaching and refereeing initiatives, administration and development programmes at England’s 52 county football associations.

The FA’s new chief executive, Martin Glenn, appointed in March from a similar role at the snacks corporation United Biscuits, accepted that a large part of this extra money will come from a substantial redundancy programme, and it is expected to be announced next week that around a quarter of the FA’s 900 staff are to lose their jobs. It might grate on some of them that this announcement projecting a good news story has come first, with the fine, sun-blessed facilities of the Lancashire county FA, and enthusiastic local children, chosen as the backdrop.

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Fan Scene  - for Newport – 8th August 2015

The close season at many a football club is often characterised by a reduced level of activity, as everyone takes a break from the exertions of the previous nine months of matches and staff try to fit in a break from the daily routine.

Players go off to wind down and to recuperate from those niggling injuries which may have hampered their competitive sharpness in the final few games. Management, having issued their released list, start to line up replacements whom they believe can “do a job for us”. Office staff may try to clear up the piles of papers which got shoved to one side in the daily need to keep the schedule on track. Ground staff can get away from the constant need to prepare pitches for 2 matches a week.

Not at Cambridge United, and certainly not in 2015! The phrase “exciting times” hardly seems adequate to describe the range of activity which has been going on at the Abbey over the past two months. If anything, the past few weeks has seen some of the busiest times in the club’s history, almost frenetic at some stages.

Most developments will be covered in more detail elsewhere but, as you might argue that everything that has been done should, ultimately if not immediately, benefit the fans of our club, let me list what has been done:

•We have brought in a raft of new signings, many of whom are players with experience of playing at a level higher than League 2, and some pre-season performances have shown exciting potential for the entertainment value in store, in 2015/16.

•We have ripped up and completely replaced the playing surface with a new pitch and what a good job that looks to be – no excuses for playing lump-it-to the-front-man football, this year!

•We have introduced new home and away strips, which have delighted and disappointed in differing measure. (I leave it to you to continue that debate).

•We have built extensions to the Dublin, the Boardroom and the Endeavour Club spaces and turned them into new, and more useable and marketable rooms.

•We have refurbished the tea bars and the toilets and installed a new shopping "outlet" behind the Main Stand. Chips available in all areas, now, they tell me.

•We have launched the Fans Charter, as a guide to what we think fans should be doing in support of their club, but do not regard it as a stick to beat people with, or as an attempt to prevent fans from expressing an opinion. It is not a set of rules, and we recognise that each individual has the right to choose how they voice their views, so long as the language is tempered and not gratuitously abusive towards anyone. The manager is signed up to it and has promised to watch his language, as well, and we have promised to keep him to it!

•We have seen the development of plans for a refurbished Abbey Stadium, due to be submitted by Grosvenor in September. Planning approval for those would see a real sea change in the facilities which fans could enjoy whilst supporting the team.

•We have given the CFU 'van a clean-up. Come and see us on a matchday and get your programme, your Golden Gamble tickets for the half time draw, Legends Scratch cards, order 100 Years of Coconuts clothing and merchandise, join CFU or renew your membership, sign up to the Play2Win lottery.

Now, then, what have I missed? It looks like interesting times ahead, so here’s to a great season and let’s hope we enjoy the ride!

Robert Osbourn

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Norwich City and Cambridge United are literally changing the rules of football to suit their pre-season schedule

Norwich City will travel to Cambridge United on Friday night for their third pre-season fixture as they continue their preparations for a return to the Premier League.

But, in an unprecedented move, both clubs have decided to change one of the fundamental rules of football and follow the lead of American football to play the fixture in four quarters instead of two halves.

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The ladies match against QPR is the beginning of what should be an exciting and important episode in the history of Cambridge United.

The match is coming off the back of the World Cup when awareness is at its height and opportunity to grow the game is one that can not be missed

Cambridge United Women's team now have the chance to grow and move up the leagues to challenge the elite sides in years to come.

Put the match date in your diary. Be there at the beginning and watch as that journey begins. They need everyone's backing and support.

It may very well be unintentional however the match is being played on the anniversary of the England 1966 World Cup win. That match encouraged people to watch and play the game. I hope this match has a similar impact and  see everyone wanting to become involved with the team either as a supporter, sponsor or playing.

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Cambridge United Women's FC VS QPR Ladies

Tickets for Cambridge United Women’s clash against Queens Park Rangers Ladies on Thursday 30th July (KO 7.45pm), are now available online, over the phone and at the ticket office.

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Exciting times ahead for Cambridge United fans, says chairman Dave Doggett

 Dave Doggett believes fans should to be excited about Cambridge United on and off the field ahead of the new season.

The United chairman said he was thrilled with the quality of signings brought in to bolster Richard Money's squad.

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