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Matt Badcock: A home is where the heart is!

WHAT’S it like building a football stadium? “Very stressful and very expensive – apart from that, great fun,” Cambridge City chairman Kevin Satchell says, dryly.

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Matt Badcock
15 December 2024

Matt BADCOCK
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WHAT’S it like building a football stadium? “Very stressful and very expensive – apart from that, great fun,” Cambridge City chairman Kevin Satchell says, dryly.
We’re sitting in a portacabin at the club’s new FWD-IP Community Stadium in Sawston – a large village outside the university city – just four days before their more than 11-year wait to play a first team match in their own home again is over.
To get to this point has been a saga of on, off and on again planning permission, legal battles, and groundshares with local clubs St Ives Town,...

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