\n Witham Town announced that \u201cour very own Tom Stagg\u201d had entered the Love Island villa, sharing an image of the forward as a new arrival on the hit ITV dating show.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 23-year-old has built a reputation across the non-league circuit and now looks set to gain a national profile in front of millions of viewers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stagg came through Colchester United\u2019s academy before making his senior debut for the U\u2019s, going on to enjoy spells with a number of clubs including Bury Town, Witham Town, Bowers & Pitsea, Leatherhead, Cheshunt, Weymouth, Grays Athletic, Wingate & Finchley, Cray Wanderers, Hashtag United and Colchester\u2019s under-21 and under-23 sides.\n<\/p>\n
\n The forward has often led the line as a centre-forward, featuring across the Isthmian and Southern League structures and becoming a familiar name to non-league supporters in Essex and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witham Town announced that \u201cour very own Tom Stagg\u201d had entered the Love Island villa, sharing an image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}