YOUR QUICK GUIDE TO THE SHRIMPS FROM MORECAMBE....
Morecambe Football Club MORECAMBE
Ground (from August 2010): Globe Arena,
Westgate, Morecambe,
Lancs, LA4 4TB
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Tel: 01524-411797
Old ground: Christie Park,
Morecambe,
Lancs, LA4 5TJ
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Websites: Official
Message
Board:
Shrimps Voices
Media: BBC
The Visitor
The Citizen
Wikipedia
Getting there
By Car: (approx 228 miles from HW)
M40-M42-M6 northbound. Leave M6 at junction 26 (signposted A683 Lancaster and Morecambe). After 0.8 miles you will enter Lancaster. Follow A683 for further 0.8 miles and then turn left onto the A6 towards Morecambe. After 0.3 miles head straight on to the A589 (Greyhound Bridge Road) and stay on for 2.2 miles. At the Broadway roundabout complex, take the 1st exit into Westgate. The Globe Arena is approximately 3/4 mile along this road on the right. Parking is available at the ground but matchday restrictions may be in place. Visit globearena.co.uk for more details.
Check www.rac.co.uk for specific or more detailed directions.
Train: Morecambe station is just over 1 mile from the Globe Arena. Connections to Morecambe from High Wycombe can be made during the day in around 5 hours, going via Birmingham Snow Hill, changing to Birmingham New Street and then changing at Lancaster for Morecambe. Return trains back to High Wycombe for evening kick-offs are not possible.
Check www.nationalrail.co.uk for specific times and connections of trains.
Morecambe v Wycombe Wanderers programme - 30th January 1993
Chairboy Connections
Players who have played for both Clubs.
Indicates player profile available

Peter Murphy - Midfielder who spent the 2014/15 season at Wycombe following a move from Accrington Stanley. Joined Morecambe in June 2015 after being released a year early from his contract with Wycombe. Made 47 appearances for Wycombe, scoring 7 times.

Jordan Mustoe - Defender who made three appearances for Wycombe on loan from Wigan Athletic during the second-half of the 2013/14 season. Made five loan appearances for Morecambe from The Latics later that season having previously made 12 apperances in an earlier loan spell during the 2012/13 season. During a five year stint with Wigan, where he made just four First Team appearances, also played on loan at Barnet, Carlisle and Bury.

Garry Thompson - A Morecambe legend having made more than 300 appearances and scoring 50 plus goals for The Shrimps between 1999 and 2008 and scoring one of the goals that took them into the Football League via the 2007 Conference Play-Off Final against Exeter City at Wembley Stadium. Moved to Scunthorpe United in May 2008 where he spent four seasons before a move to Bradford City in July 2012. Thompson volleyed Bradford ahead against Arsenal in a League Cup Quarter-Final in December 2012, with Bantams eventually winning on penalties and going on to beat Aston Villa to reach the Final at Wembley where although losing to Swansea, became the first bottom tier Club to reach the League Cup Final since 1962. A year later Thompson was back at Wembley again, this time in the League Two Play-Off Final where a 3-0 victory over Northampton Town secured promotion. In July 2014, Thompson joined Notts County, scoring 11 League goals in 37 appearances before his move to Adams Park in the summer of 2015.

Chairboys all-time record against Morecambe
DATE COMP V R SCORE ATT
Sat, Jan 30, 1993 FAT3 A D 1-1 2,192
Tue, Feb 2, 1993 FAT3r H W 2-0 4,490
Fri, Dec 14, 2007 FL3 H W 2-0 3,821
Sat, Mar 22, 2008 FL3 A W 1-0 2,524
Sat, Aug 9, 2008 FL3 H D 1-1 4,021
Sat, Feb 28, 2009 FL3 A D 0-0 2,005
Sat, Aug 9, 2010 FL3 H W 2-0 4,016
Sat, Mar 26, 2011 FL3 A W 3-0 1,940
Sat, Dec 8, 2012 FL3 H D 2-2 3,238
Mon, Apr 1, 2013 FL3 A W 1-0 1,702
Sat, Aug 3, 2013 FL3 H W 1-0 3,284
Sat, Jan 11, 2014 FL3 A D 1-1 1,575
Sat, Oct 11, 2014 FL3 A W 3-1 1,710
Sat, Apr 25, 2015 FL3 H L 0-1 5,177
Tue, Aug 18, 2015 FL3 A W 1-0 1,395
Sat, Jan 2, 2016 FL3 H L 0-2 3,555
Sat, Nov 12, 2016 FL3 H W 2-0 3,019
Sat, Apr 29, 2017 FL3 A D 1-1 1,742
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 FL3 A L 1-2 1,472
Sat, Feb 24, 2018 FL3 H L 2-4 4,672
Sat, Oct 2, 2021 FL2 H W 4-3 4,161
Sat, Jan 22, 2022 FL2 A L 2-3 3,865
Sat, Oct 29, 2022 FL2 H D 1-1 6,263
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 FL2 A L 0-1 5,040
Sat, Dec 2, 2023 FAC2 H L 0-2 1,604
Key:
FAT = Football Association Challenge Trophy
FL3 = Football League Division Three/'League Two'
FL2 = 'League One'
FAC = Football Association Challenge Cup
Where available click date for match report

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