Stags are dreaming big and Mansfield can thrive with them

Last weekend, I was dining in the Capo Lounge on Stockwell Gate.

There is a comprehensive menu and I tucked ravenously into a delicious lounge breakfast and there was no way my daughter was sharing her Tapas with me – we are like that in our family.

The service, like the food, was excellent and we had a window seat upstairs overlooking the Market Square.

It was a Saturday and Mansfield Town were playing Exeter.

Because of the pandemic, the One Call Stadium is unable to accommodate supporters presently, but there were still plenty of blue and yellow scarves around .

Although Stags’ results have been inconsistent over the last few seasons, the club continues to move forward under the Radford Revolution with owner John and his wife, Carolyn.

An influential figure behind the revolution is Steven Hymas, a local man who is yellow and blue to the core.

He is a director and shareholder with the club and looks over the Radford – Hymas Academy at Pleasley.

Steve eulogises about the young talent that is coming through from the academy such as Tyrese Sinclair (son of Frank) and local lad, Jimmy Knowles who is on loan at Notts County.

Steve would like to see the club progress into Football League Division One and then into the Championship.

He realises that the club can only sustain that success if the crowds increase their flow into the One Call.

Stags, like the town itself, have had ups and downs over the years but supporters keep coming along to the matches believing that the yellows will achieve Steve’s vision of playing in the Championship on day – and taking the town along with it.

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