Steve has been part of Ware FC since 1969. Probably better known beyond the inner reaches of the club as the man who writes the match reports he is currently its press officer and webmaster.

Although he enjoyed playing youth football where he says he was “equally good with both feet” and “that usually meant playing as a left winger” he realised that he was never going to achieve his dream of scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup final. Instead, when Ware reached the first round of the FA Cup at Luton in 1968 this triggered an interest in the administrative side of the game.

He became treasurer of the club for the start of the 1969/70 season and even when his job in central London was relocated to Chessington in 1975 he decided to stay on with the club. He remained as treasurer for another three years, coming by train after work in Surrey to man the entrance gate for midweek matches.

That couldn’t continue especially once his family started to grow so he took a series of other roles within the club such as membership secretary and programme editor. The latter expanded into writing match reports for the Mercury.

After the death of his first wife the weekly routine of club work as much as raising his sons kept him occupied. By then the club had passed its centenary for which Steve recorded its history in the book “An Intention to Play”.

In the new century he became club chairman for one year but was again treasurer for two further spells and briefly secretary. His most recent role has been to research further into the club’s history with the result that the club’s website now boasts a significant archive of results, players, pictures and league tables.

Steve was presented with his medal by the Herts FA (see picture) on the occasion of Ware’s under-18s appearance in the county cup final at Letchworth. He met the two teams before the match and handed out winners and losers medals at the end.