Daniel Darlington

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Sports Reporter at Burnham Advertiser

Sports reporter for the Maidenhead Advertiser and Slough & Windsor Express series. Contact me at [email protected] Views are my own.

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Slough Town to host Southend United as Rebels' pre-season schedule is finalised

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Slough Town are set to play nine friendly fixtures ahead of the 2025/26 campaign, starting at home to Virginia Water at Arbour Park in just 18 days’ time. The Rebels have now lined up all their pre-season matches and round off their preparation for the upcoming National League South campaign with a home match against Southend United and a trip to Grosvenor Vale to play Wealdstone.
Slough Town to host Southend United as Rebels' pre-season schedule is finalised

1 week ago | sloughexpress.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Slough Town are set to play nine friendly fixtures ahead of the 2025/26 campaign, starting at home to Virginia Water at Arbour Park in just 18 days’ time. The Rebels have now lined up all their pre-season matches and round off their preparation for the upcoming National League South campaign with a home match against Southend United and a trip to Grosvenor Vale to play Wealdstone.
Slough Town sign experienced defender Reiss Greenidge

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

There are just 18 days until football returns to Arbour Park and Slough Town are in the process of finalising their new look squad as well as their pre-season friendly programme. The Rebels are likely to have at least 10 new players to integrate into the squad during pre-season and have so far lined up eight friendly fixtures with one more home game still to be confirmed ahead of the new league season - which kicks off on Saturday, August 9.
Title-winning captain Jamie Essex to leave Flackwell Heath

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Jamie Essex. Photo credit Glenn Alcock -- Midfielder Jamie Essex has announced he is set for a new challenge after officially leaving Flackwell Heath. Essex captained the Heathens to the Combined Counties Premier Division North title two seasons ago but had less of an impact last season as the club finished third in the Southern League Central Division. He spent much of the campaign playing at Penn & Tylers Green where he was named supporter’s player of the season.
Golden hour for Great Britain at World Rowing Cup in Varese

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

The gold medal winning GB Men’s Eights crew, featuring Windsor-based Cox Will Denegri. Credit is Benedict Tufnell for British Rowing. -- Great Britain enjoyed a golden hour on Lake Varese on Sunday afternoon with three teams scooping gold and another taking bronze at one of the first World Rowing Cup events since last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris.
Marlow welcome Sam Lock into their coaching team

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Sam Lock. Photo: Jonathan Bowker -- Marlow have welcomed Sam Lock into their coaching fold, with the former Holyport manager and Maidenhead United assistant boss keen to get started and ‘help wherever he can’. The Blues are looking to bounce back after a turbulent campaign in the Southern League Premier South saw them relegated in bottom place having managed to earn only 21 points from 42 games.
Finalists for 2025 Berks & Bucks FA Grassroots Awards revealed

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

The finalists for this summer’s Berks & Bucks FA Grassroots awards were announced on Friday (June 13) with the annual awards celebrating and showcasing the dedication of clubs, individuals and volunteers from across the region. The awards night will highlight the hard work done by so many people, in so many guises to ensure the grassroots game runs so beautifully and smoothly on an annual basis.
Hatton misses out on first major after bogey-bogey finish at US Open

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Marlow’s Tyrrell Hatton was in contention to land his first major title at the US Open at Oakmont Country Club on Sunday afternoon, however, a bogey-bogey finish meant he finished four shots back from the winner, American JJ Spaun. Spaun overcame a flooded golf course, and a 90-minute rain delay to clinch the title from Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre on a chaotic final day.
Maidenhead United make goalkeeper Jordi van Stappershoef their third summer signing

1 week ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

Jordi van Stappershoef in action for Aldershot against Maidenhead United at York Road. Photo: Darren Woolley -- Maidenhead United announced their third signing of the summer on Friday, with goalkeeper Jordi van Stappershoef joining the club after two seasons with Aldershot Town in the National League.
Book tells remarkable tale of Australia's first successful World Cup qualifying campaign

2 weeks ago | maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk | Daniel Darlington

The author Duncan Mackay with a copy of his book ‘They Came From A Land Down Under’. -- A book released late last year by Slough Town FC’s former programme editor tells the remarkable tell of how Australia qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in the country’s history. ‘They Came From A Land Down Under’, by the British award-winning journalist Duncan Mackay, is the first definitive account of how the Socceroos defied the odds to reach the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.