As the current crop of players get their season off to a flyer with the amazing unbeaten run, we take another look into the lives of those players who once wore the Amber and Black.

Trevor Benjamin's tour of league clubs continued as he moved from Peterborough to Hereford, the sixteenth different club of his professional career.

'Bruno', now 28, made his debut at Edgar Street against Rotherham in a goalless draw, but he didn't have to wait too long for his first goal for the Bulls, this arrived courtesy of a first half penalty in their next league game, away at Barnet.

Trevor has since netted a second, coming on as a second half substitute to seal a 2-0 win away to Wrexham, and a third with an 80th minute header to help his side to a 3-0 win away to Morecambe.

Trevor's former United strike partner Martin Butler hasn't enjoyed the best of starts to this campaign with his side only scoring three goals and picking up two points from the opening five games. Having missed the first two league games of the season with a virus, Buts got off the mark in his first appearance of the season with a close range finish in the seventh minute in the Saddlers match at home to Swansea.

However, he couldn't prevent his side from losing as they conceded twice before half time on their way to a 3-1 defeat. Walsall did however end their winless streak with a 2-1 victory away to Millwall.

A player who - unlike Butler and Benjamin - didn't quite make a mark at the Abbey, was Tresor Kandol (right).

In his short spell in 2001 he managed only four appearances with no goals scored and was released by then manager John Beck.

After a brief spell with Bournemouth, Kandol rebuilt his career with Conference South side Thurrock, helping them to a best ever finish of 3rd, before moving on to Dagenham and then Barnet.

In November 2006 he moved on loan to the ill-fated Leeds United, making the move permanent in January for a fee of £200,000. Tresor has featured heavily as Leeds embarked upon their new campaign in League One, winning all of their first six fixtures to nullify the fifteen-point deduction imposed upon them for breaching league rules in relation to their spell in administration.

He is currently the joint-top scorer in League One with 5 goals from 6 appearances, including a dramatic last minute winner on the opening day as Leeds overturned a half time deficit away against Tranmere.

It wasn't such a good start to the season for record goal scorer and former manager John Taylor. Shaggy had been managing Ridgeons Premier League side Newmarket Town, arriving as manager of the Jockeys for the last 12 games of the previous season, but following only 3 victories in those games and a poor start to this season, he was relieved of his duties.

Newmarket had only picked up one point from their opening three fixtures, which included a 6-1 humiliation at the hands of Soham. Now 42, Shaggy still wanted to remain in the game and has since signed for Mildenhall. He got his second spell at the club off to a fantastic start with a 12-yard strike to earn his side a 1-0 win against Lowestoft.

The A-Line Arena in Kettering on Saturday, 8th September was the place to be if you wanted to see ex-U's plying their trade, as high-flying Kettering Town took on double relegated Boston United in a Blue Square North fixture. With ten ex-Cambridge United players on the books of the two combined squads no fewer than seven were on show.

Kettering went into the game on the back of six consecutive victories to start their campaign, whilst Tommy Taylor's newly assembled Boston side had amassed eight points from their opening six games with two wins, two draws and two defeats.

Former United captain Matt Bloomer started in the Boston side alongside Ashley Nicholls, who had previously scored on his Pilgrims debut in a 2-0 win against Workington, and Mbiyeye Medine, who is continuing to play part-time football whilst training to become a stock broker, with David Chick, a recent signing following his release from Cambridge City not making the match day 16.

The Poppies starting line-up included Tommy Jaszczun, David Bridges and pre-season trialist Steve Burton, with Craig Westcarr on the bench; Jon Brady and David Theobald were ruled out through injury. The game was decided by a low effort into the corner of the net from the edge of the area by David Bridges on 25 minutes, a spectacular 25-yarder by Tommy Jaszczun in the 39th and sealed by the former Oxford striker Mark Rawle's penalty in the 71st minute, to the delighted of the majority of the 1,934 crowd.

The victory extended Kettering's fantastic start to the season to seven straight wins, but it was only to last another week as despite David Bridges' 9th minute goal in their next game at Workington, Kettering could only draw 1-1. They do however sit proudly at the top of the league, with 'Bridgo' their top scorer with four to his name.

Last season's top scorer Robbie Simpson has struggled to break into the Coventry side since his move this summer, not helped by the fact that Coventry have no fewer than nine strikers in their first team squad.

Simmo's appearances have been limited to two substitute appearances in the league and a further two substitute appearances in the Carling Cup, but this hasn't stopped Robbie finding the back of the net and he netted his first goal for his new side when the Sky Blues took on Steve Thompson's Notts County in the first round of the League Cup. Replacing Dele Adebola in the 73rd minute for his first competitive appearance in a Coventry shirt, he wasted no time scoring his side's third goal with a low finish after good work by Leon Best.

Phil Chapple, one of the mainstays of the extremely successful John Beck side of the early nineties, returned to another of his former clubs earlier this summer. Having been sold by Cambridge at the start of the 93/94 season to Charlton for a fee of £100,000, he found himself back at The Valley to take up the position of Chief Scout. He had previously held positions as a coach at the West Ham academy and as coach at Newmarket Town prior to his return to the Addicks.

One of Chapple's former team-mates and another who left Cambridge for a fee was Gary Rowett. The U's sold Gary in 1994 for £200,000 to Premiership side Everton, and he then forged a successful career at the likes of Derby, Birmingham, Leicester and Charlton before a two-year spell with fellow Blue Square Premier side Burton Albion. Gary had to call time on his career at the end of last season following an ongoing knee injury.

Finally to end this edition with two players who weren't quite as successful as the likes of Chapple and Rowett. Justin Walker and Martin Carruthers didn't enjoy the best of spells with the mighty U's, both appearing in the team that was relegated from the football league.

Having been signed by then manager Steve Thompson in January 2005 to solve the goalscoring problem and to help fire the club towards safety, Carruthers failed to score in all five of his appearances and his short-term deal was not extended.

Walker had a turbulent two-year spell at Cambridge, mixing some good performances with some poor ones and a spell suspended from the team for 'breaching club discipline' along with Terry Fleming, which may have involved alcohol at some point, but that would just be pure speculation!

Walker was involved in teams relegated from the football league in three consecutive seasons, United having signed him from recently relegated Exeter City, and York City being relegated after having Justin on loan whilst he served his suspension from Cambridge; he completed the hat trick of relegations with Cambridge in 2005.

Both players appeared to have slipped off the footballing map in recent times but are plying their trade at Derbyshire based Unibond Premier League side Ilkeston Town under the management of former Nottingham Forest and Shrewsbury player Nigel Jemson.

Until the next time - Come on you U's.

Neal Suckling

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