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REPORT: Play Off final 2020

Northampton Town dominated 10-man Exeter City to win the League Two play-off final and gain promotion to League One at an empty Wembley. The Cobblers bombarded Exeter in the opening…

Northampton @ Wembley

A look back at some of the Cobblers previous play off campaigns. 1996/97 The season did not start well! In the opening league match at Wigan, the team coach got…

Stat Preview

• This is Exeter’s third Football League play-off final, losing each of their previous two in League Two in 2016-17 (1-2 vs Blackpool) and 2017-18 (1-3 vs Coventry). • Northampton…

The Opposition – Exeter City

Here is a look at the Cobblers opponents in the Sky Bet League Two Final at Wembley Stadium. Stadium: St James Park Manager: Matt Taylor Nickname: The Grecians Exeter City…

Played For Both: Exeter City

A profile of some of the players who have played for both Northampton Town and todays opponents, Exeter City. Matt Grimes Matt Grimes joined Northampton Town on a season long…

THEO FOLEY – 1937 – 2020

Cobblers Past and Northampton Town Football Club are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Cobbler Theo Foley. Theo was born in Dublin and went to a school…

📺 How to watch the Play-Off Final?

How to watch Sky Sports Football can be found on channel 401 on Sky or 501 on Virgin Media and 402 on BT I don’t have Sky Sports If you…

Match Officials – Play Off Final 2020

Michael Salisbury will take charge of Monday’s Sky Bet League Two play-off final between Exeter City and Northampton Town at Wembley Stadium. Mr Salisbury has been a busy man this…

We’re going to Wembley!

Seemingly with it all to do after Thursday’s 2-0 home defeat, Keith Curle’s Cobblers scored three times without reply at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium to clinch a meeting with Exeter City…

Where are they Now? – Play offs

I look back at the 2013 play offs semi finals when the Cobblers beat Cheltenham 2-0 to get to Wembley. Here’s a look back at that team and where they…

FLASHBACK: Northampton Town 1 – Cheltenham Town 0

Here’s a look back at when we played Cheltenham Town in the league 2 play-offs in May 2013 here is a reminder of how the first leg played out. Roy…

PLAYED FOR BOTH: Cheltenham Town

Looking back through the books, we’ve picked out a few players that have played for both the Cobblers and Cheltenham. Ben Tozer. Current Cheltenham Town skipper Ben Tozer had three…

Statistic Preview

Here is a statistical preview for the Cobblers first play-off Leg v Cheltenham Town at the PTS Academy Stadium. Looking back at this season, we found a few interesting statistics…

Everything you need to know: Where to watch? Where to listen? How to be involved?

The League Two play-off campaign kicks off for the Cobblers on Thursday with a semi-final first leg at Sixfields. Keith Curle’s side face two matches against the Cheltenham, with Exeter…

Walter Tull to be a #CobblerintheCrowd

The image of Walter Tull will be part of the Cobbler in the Crowd scheme at the PTS Academy Stadium on Thursday. Tull was born in Folkestone in 1888 and…

The Playoffs are coming.

On Tuesday afternoon the Sky Bet League Two Play-Offs were confirmed by the EFL. So, now we can really start building up to the games. Here at Cobblers past we…

Frank Large will be a Cobbler in the Crowd!

Frank was labelled “Have boots, will travel,” due to the fact he played for so many clubs in his career. His first spell at Northampton was as a replacement for…

PODCAST: Bootroom Special Josh Low

We’re joined by former Northampton winger Josh Low. Josh talks us through his eventful football career that took in multiple playoffs and promotions with rarely a dull moment. He discusses…

Fred Lessons – Northampton Town

Of all the Cobblers manager probably the one with the lowest profile was ‘Fred’ Lessons who never managed a club before the Cobblers and never got a chance to afterwards…

Colin Larkin

NAME COLIN LARKIN BORN Dundalk, 27th. April 1982 POSITION Striker JOINED 5th. July 2007 DEBUT V Swindon (L1) 11th. August 2007 (25- 106) FIRST GOAL V Bournemouth (L1) 15th. December…

Bootroom Special: Eddie McGoldrick

Some brilliant stories from Eddie McGoldrick, one of the stars of Graham Carr’s 1986-87 4th Division title winners. Eddie talks us through the characters and skill sets of the players…