Match 2024

Thoughts from Sandie

I’m really pleased to let you all know that with the help of Volunteer Mike Ellis (who does all our Clubs amazing articles for the Gazette), we have secured funding for special events for the next 12 months. These are: Our Easter Party, My 2 years of running this amazing club Party, the Clubs 18th Birthday Party, Christmas Party, and next years Valentines Party.

Thank You Stafford Borough Council and the Community Foundation for Staffordshire.

What happened in the 1990s…. part 1

1990 - POLL TAX AND TACHER’S RESIGNATION
Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced the “Community Charge,” more commonly known as the Poll Tax, in 1990 as a flat-rate per-capita tax on every adult in the UK to fund local government.  To say that the poll tax proved unpopular would be a massive understatement.  The unpopularity brought the first serious challenge to Thatcher’s leadership of the Conservatives, and she opted to resign, effectively ending her tenure as Prime Minister.

1991- THE UNITED KINGDOM ENTERS THE FIRST GULF WAR
After then-Iraq leader Saddam Hussein invaded the sovereign nation of Kuwait in 1991, Britain became part of an international coalition to liberate the small country on the Persian Gulf.  Under the operating name “Operation Granby,” 53,462 members of the British Armed Forces participated in the larger Operation Desert Storm and successfully freed Kuwait from the influence of the Iraqi Army

1992 - THE CHANNEL TUNNEL OPENS
Also known as the Eurotunnel or the Chunnel, the Channel Tunnel is an underground tunnel below the English Channel.  Opened in 1992, it has been a vital link for the trade of goods between the UK and Continental Europe as well as a major player in passenger travel.

1993 - FIRST PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
After 1991, 22 top-tier football teams resigned from the Football League to set up their own commercially independent league, the Premier League.  The Premier League became the highest tier of English football, and the 1992-1993 season ended with Manchester United finishing ten points ahead of Aston Villa to secure the league’s first championship.  The Premier League’s success has kept it a driving force in football today and may have partially inspired the ill-conceived European Super League.

1994 - FIRST WOMEN PRIESTS ORDAINED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
March 12, 1994, saw the ordination of thirty-two women as priests into the Church of England.  While previous branches of the Anglican and Episcopalian Churches had ordained women in the past, it was not permitted in the Church of England until the General Synod passed the measure in 1992.  By 2004, one in five priests in the Anglican Church was a woman.