On the 6th of March the Cobblers celebrate their 123rd Birthday.
📸 Happy Birthday to us! Formed 123 years ago today. We haven’t changed a bit as you can see from our first ever team photo …. #shoearmy #ProudToBe pic.twitter.com/Cb7m3AVwq1
— Northampton Town (@ntfc) March 6, 2020
And then it all started to go strange.
⚽️ Business as usual tomorrow (although no pre-match handshake) as the club, alongside other clubs, continue to follow advice from the EFL and Public Heath England. In the meantime, a number of hand sanitiser stations have been put up around the stadium for supporters to use pic.twitter.com/mL0MiSm9UI
— Northampton Town (@ntfc) March 6, 2020
The 7th of March saw the Cobblers take on Mansfield which turned out to be the Cobblers last game for some time. With Sam Hoskins shown a red card within the first 15 minutes of the match with Mansfield was awarded a penalty. And current Cobblers 29 Danny Rose put man afield in the lead and Mansfield dibbled their lead in the second half, however Harry Smith got one back in injury time.
On 13th March Callum Morton was named Sky Bet League Two player of the month.
.@NTFC's Callum Morton has been named #SkyBetLeagueTwo Player of the Month for February!#EFL pic.twitter.com/an13yYysju
— Sky Bet League Two (@SkyBetLeagueTwo) March 13, 2020
Also on this day at 11am it was declared all EFL Matches would be suspended for three weeks. The FA, Premier League, EFL and Barclays FA Women’s Super League and FA Women’s Championship have collectively agreed to postpone the professional game in England until 3 April at the earliest.
Everybody was doing there bit to help the NHS, community but also keep people entertained.
We are trying our best to bring you articles or videos every day to keep your football fix during the virus outbreak. We hope you are enjoying everything that we are doing. Just remember to keep an eye on https://t.co/48tHuNX9gM everyday for articles or flashback videos.
— Cobblers Past đź‘ž (@CobblersPast) March 17, 2020
On the 21st March we paused as at Cobblers Past we remembered Frank:
Always in our thoughts. Frank will always be a Cobbler https://t.co/mGtBXPdGBc
— Northampton Town (@ntfc) March 21, 2020
We had Cobblers Classic Matchdays:
It's #CobblersClassic Match Day 🙌🏼
Who's tuning in tonight from 7.30 as we re-run that amazing comeback against Stevenage in 2016?@ntfc | #ntfc | #CobblersClassics pic.twitter.com/AVyrmlQy5B
— Cobblers Past đź‘ž (@CobblersPast) March 31, 2020
April
After the club and Fan accounts doing there bit to keep everybody entertained including, full match replays, articles to keep people entertained. Including us Cobblers Past as we tried to look back at season, players, pagers and moments.
Ex-Cobbler Chris Hargreaves Sent one of his old shirts to raise money for Cafe Track. Am axing work!
AUCTION: Chris Hargreaves – Number 20 – Northampton Town Shirt & Signed Photo.
Money raised will go to @cafetracknn. https://t.co/AKxOvk10Wx @ntfc | #ntfc pic.twitter.com/kmNO1hWzYz
— Cobblers Past đź‘ž (@CobblersPast) April 27, 2020
May
Again as the Country was still in Lockdown the club and its accounts still worked hard to keep football going and they continued with the entertainment. But Also the Community trust started a Campaign called Keep Calm and Cobbler on. Which kept the venerable and lonely entertained. Players and Staff would ring them up send them activity packs and much more. It was such an amazing campaign set up by the club.
On May 3rd the Cobblers lost former player Alec Carson, he young Alec showed promise at football and played for Corby Town’s youth team before joining the ground staff at fourth division Northampton Town. He signed professional for the Cobblers in November 1959 and made his Football League debut in a 1-1 draw against Stockport County in April 1961. He made seven appearances the following season before moving to Aldershot in 1963, making five Division Four appearances over two years.
Every Thursday at 8pm everybody clapped for our carers.
Then we could go back and training was underway.
🌞The sun has been shining down on the @PTS_Academy Stadium today ahead of a return to training on Monday pic.twitter.com/lq7Mch6WiJ
— Northampton Town (@ntfc) May 28, 2020