Sutton were relegated from L2 alongside FGR last season.

Sutton are currently in 12th place with 47 points (9 March 25). NB they have games in hand over most teams.

8 match current form table:

Overall: FGR = 10th with 12 points  , Sutton =  11th with 12 points  ,

FGR Current Home Form: 5th with 16 points.

Sutton Current Away Form: 11th with 10 points.

Reverse Fixture ; Sutton 1 FGR 2 (Doidge, McCann) – 31 August 24.

March Results:-

Maidenhead 0 Sutton 1

Solihull 1 Sutton 1

Sutton 0 Spennymoor 2 (FA Trophy)

Goal scorer Doidge in the reverse fixture.

Steven Morison started his career at Northampton at the age of 16,. He made his first-team debut in 2002. Morison joined Conference South club Bishops Stortford for an undisclosed fee in November 2004. After just under two years playing regularly at Stortford, he signed for Stevenage for a “small four-figure fee” in August 2006. During his first season with the club, Morison scored the winning goal in the 2007 FA Trophy Final the first competitive cup final to be held at the new Wembley Stadium. He also helped the club win the Fa Trophy again in May 2009, in what was ultimately his last game for the club.

Having scored 86 times in 151 appearances during his three seasons at Stevenage, Morison joined Millwall for £130,000 ahead of the 2009-10 season. He helped the club to secure promotion to the Championship in his first season there. He signed for Premier League club Norwich City in June 2011. After scoring 12 goals in 59 games for Norwich in the top tier of English football, Morison signed for Leeds in January 2013. He rejoined Millwall on a season-long loan after just five months at Leeds. He returned to Leeds for the 2014-15 season, before signing for Millwall on a permanent basis in August 2015.

Morison scored the winning goal in the 2017 EFL L1 Play Off Final to help Millwall achieve promotion back into the Championship during the 2016-17 season. He played over 300 games for Millwall over his two spells with the club, scoring 92 goals, which ranks him in third place in Millwall’s all time goal scorers list Morison joined Shrewsbury on an initial season-long loan agreement in June 2019. Although the transfer was made permanent at the start of the 2019-20 season , Morison announced his retirement from playing in October 2019. Morison also earned eight caps for the England C team, scoring three goals. Morison qualified to play Wales through his Welsh ancestry, and made his senior international debut in August 2010, representing Wales 20 times and scoring one goal.

Having already gained his coaching badges whilst playing, Morison was appointed Northampton Town’s under-18 coach, before later joining Championship club Cardiff as the lead coach of the club’s under-23 team. Following a spell as caretaker manager, he was appointed as first-team manager of Cardiff in November 2021, a position he held until September 2022. He was appointed as manager of Hornchurch in June 2023 and then became the manager of Sutton United in January 2024.

Knowles in action against Sutton in the reverse fixture.

Action from Sutton’s last visit to TNL in League 2 last season which Sutton won 1-0.

Sutton loanee Ashley Nadesan.

Following relegation from L2 at least 21 players left Sutton.

Sutton’s goal threats are Nadesan and Davies.

Ashley Nadesan   The Striker signed on a season long loan from Gillingham in August 24. He first came to attention while playing for Horley Town in the Combined Counties League, scoring nearly 100 goals in two seasons and earning a move to Fleetwood Town at the end of the 2015-16 season. He made over twenty League One appearances for Fleetwood, and had two successful loan spells at Carlisle, before joining Crawley in May 2019. He went on to play around 150 games for Crawley over the next four seasons, his goals including one in their televised 3-0 FA Cup win over Leeds in January 2021. At the start of last season he moved to Gillingham, scoring the only goal of the game in Gills’ 1-0 win against Sutton at Gander Green Lane having scored against Southampton in the Carabao Cup the previous week.

Will Davies – Sutton’s current top scorer. A Striker signed in summer 2024 after leaving York City, who had signed him in November from Braintree Town. Came to prominence with Southern League Premier Division Central team Leiston, where he scored over fifty goals in two seasons, helping them to the play-offs in the 2022-23 season and winning the Supporters’ Club Player of the Year award. He joined Braintree at the start of last season, and the continuation of his scoring form at the higher level earned him a move to York, where he scored five National League goals. He had a spell on loan at Bromley at the end of the season.

Will Davies

Comedian & Sutton Supporter – Tim Vine.

Sutton’s supporters include comedian and actor, Tim Vine, who promotes his club by wearing their shirt or talking about them in interviews. 

But Vine’s most well-known act was when he went viral for a song he wrote about Sutton ahead of their 2022 EFL Trophy final against Rotherham United. 

• Joan Armatrading, singer-songwriter and musician, lived in Sutton.
• Tony Barton, Aston Villa’s 1982 European Cup winning manager.
• David Bellamy, broadcaster/botanist, attended Sutton Grammar School.
• Jeff Beck born and raised in Wallington.
• Noel Coward, actor/playwright, lived in Lenham Road,  until the age of six
• Quentin Crisp, writer and gay icon.
• Clark Datchler, lead singer of Johnny Hates Jazz. The band recently played Stroud Sub Rooms.
• David Fletcher, former Surrey cricketer
• Bradley McIntosh, of S Club 7 attended Greenshaw High School
• Katie Melua, singer/songwriter, lived on Gander Green Lane.
• The Rolling Stones were discovered at the then Red Lion pub (now the Winning Post) in Sutton; the pub was also where Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman became permanent members of The Rolling Stones, on 23 January 1963. Ian Stewart, Rolling Stones co-founder  was from Sutton.
• Sir Harry Secombe, singer, comedian, entertainer and member of the Goon Show cast; the Secombe Theatre in Sutton is named after him
• Neil Sullivan, Sutton-born Scottish international goalkeeper
• Graham Sutherland, painter, attended Homefield Prep School.
• Johnny Borell, guitarist, singer & frontman of the band Razorlight. Andy Burrows the band’s drummer lives in the Stroud area.
• Les Gray, Rob Davis, Dave Mount of the 70’s band Mud
• James Cracknell, Olympic gold medallist in rowing.
• Eddie George (1938–2009), Governor of the Bank of England 1993–2003.
• James Hunt, racing driver.
• Penelope Keith actress,  was born in Sutton.
• Sir John Major, former Conservative Prime Minister.
• Joshua Pascoe, Played Ben Mitchell in Eastenders
• Sir Cliff Richard, singer, attended Stanley Park Junior School.
• Tracey Ullman, actress, comedian & singer, grew up in Hackbridge.

Goalkeeper Steve Arnold joined Sutton in the summer 2023. He played for FGR between 2014 – 2016. He made 43 appearances. His last match was the 3-1 defeat to Grimsby ln the Conference play-off final at Wembley.

Omar Bugiel will be remembered by many Rovers fans.  The German-born Lebanese striker played for Rovers between 2016 and 2018, making 35 appearances and scoring 8 times for FGR in both the National League and League 2.  After a move to Bromley, Omar moved on to Sutton (141 appearances, 22 goals) in 2019. He has now moved to nearby Wimbledon. He has represented Lebanon on 10 occasions, scoring once.

Sutton United Fans Forum –

Fans’ Forum – Sutton United

Sutton Utd played the first ever EFL game in their 123-year history at The New Lawn. The match in Nailsworth was memorable – an opener from Matty Stevens on 30 minutes, an Omar Bugiel (ex-FGR) equaliser on 69 minutes, then an Ebou Adams winner in injury time securing a 2-1 win for Rovers. Sadly Sutton’s stay in the EFL was brief as they were relegated alongside FGR.

It is Sutton’s FA Cup exploits that have brought them most fame.

In 1988–89, Sutton completed one of the biggest FA Cup shocks in the competition’s history, defeating First Division side Coventry (who had won the competition in 1987) 2–1 in the third round. On 28 January 1989 Sutton lost to Norwich of the First Division 8–0 in the fourth round.

Sutton made all sorts of headlines during the 2016–17 season. Starting with the 4^th Qualifying round when they knocked out FGR.  They then reached the Fifth Round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history, beating three Football League teams, Cheltenham, AFC Wimbledon and Leeds Utd on the way.

They finally lost 2–0 at home to Arsenal but all the headlines that day were about their 45-year-old, 23 stone, reserve goalkeeper, Wayne Shaw. Wayne was pictured tucking into a pasty in the 83rd minute of the tie and became an almost instant celebrity.  But things took a turn when the Gambling Commission launched a probe and found that there were odds of 8/1 pre-match that Wayne would be pictured eating a pie during the game.  Wayne was forced to resign!

Sutton have one of the league’s more unusual mascots, and at 9ft, probably one of the tallest.  Jenny the Giraffe lays claim to being one of the very few female mascots and has been strutting her stuff around Gander Green Lane since 2009.

Jenny took part in the 2010 Mascot Grand National and finished 5th out of 41 runners.

Giraffes are not native to Surrey.

 Fan Zone – to the right of the ground entrance, behind the North Stand. Open to home & away supporters.

The Fan Zone has toilets and a large marquee with picnic benches.

The Fan Zone houses the Brewdog Truck & Airstream as well as some other street vendors – Coffee & Bee and Golden Glaze Doughnuts

There is live music by ‘The Sitting Tenants’ in the marquee from about 6:30pm .

 Green Man Pub – Normally home fans only,  serves food and drink.

 Gym Bar – Closed this season.

 Club Shop – Opens 4:30pm.

TNL is a cashless stadium.

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