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As a lifelong no-league fan I can't let this go without commenting!
There are of course many more clubs in London than just the ones you highloghted. Including my own-DULWICH HAMLET, who play in in Ryman One South; step four of non-league, or a 'regional division 8' if you take Arsenal and Chelsea to play in Division One.
What makes our club worth a visit is a number of fasctors: We are right by East Dulwich station, ten minutes by train from London Brisge, so very easy to get to. Several buses pass by too. Oue colours are unique. How often can you see a team play in our famous Pink 'n' Blue? We have reduced our prices by 25%, down to £^ making us easily the cheapest for our level in the home Counties & the capital. PLUS senior citizens, full time students, unwaged (with their IDs) plus 12 to 16s get in for £2! Under 12s are FREE with an adult. And you can drink throughout the game, either through the glass fronted bar, or take it outside in plastic glasses. What more do you need to entice you down to Champion Hill Stadium?
Far better than wasting a tenner at the thugs & muggers, temporarily in the division above us, whose website you highlighted!
Rabbler | Homepage | 14.08.10 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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Plus: Orpington do have a team, Orpington FC, in the lowly Kent County League. down in Cornwall there is a thriving non-league football set up. Their highest placed club, Truro City, plays in the Southern League Premier Division, & have some of the longest distance oversll travelling in the country. You can catch them just outside the London area when they go to Hemel Hempstead Town; Bedford Town; Chesham United or Windsor & Eton.
Rabbler | Homepage | 14.08.10 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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We do have a crap new High Street in Orpington though thanks to Boris. £2M to widen the pavements and make the whole high street a giant chicane.
Invicta | 14.08.10 - 5:39 p.m. | #
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I'm currently in America and the (American) football season must be starting up again soon, as the sports news is all about how the various teams/universities' training practices are going!!! As if the real thing isn't boring and pervasive enough, they have to go into the minutae of the training too! *yawn*
CornishCockney | 14.08.10 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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I am proud to say that I have stood on the terraces at every London league club! (I haven't remotely done 'the 92' of all league clubs, but very glad I have done all London clubs in the way it was meant, standing!)
London's footie heritage extends beyond the clubs themselves of course. It is also the birthplace of the FA, the FA Cup and the Football League (founded on Fleet Street despite it being a Northern affair for some years).
And not forgetting the home of the national game, with not only Wembley but The Oval and Crystal Palace hosting FA Cup finals in the olden days!
SELondoner | 14.08.10 - 7:20 p.m. | #
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I wonder how far down the football league structure you have to go to have found a team from each borough?
And are there *any* football pitches in The City?!
Mark | Homepage | 16.08.10 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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The Honourable Artillery Company Football Club uses Artillery Gardens in the City.
nigel | 16.08.10 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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I scored the best goal of my life on the HAC ground playing against the HAC. Thirty Five yard screamer, get in. We lost 3-2 so the glory was diluted by the defeat. Even so, it was my best moment on a football ground. Apologies for the self-indulgence but passing the HAC ground always make me smile.
Johnny Topaz | 18.08.10 - 12:34 a.m. | #
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Withdrawal symptoms? With the World Cup this year, the reprieve was mercilessly briefer than normal. The football season and the tedium of the obsession with it is endless.
Gary Netherton | 19.08.10 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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I've always said that my eldest son showed he has got the 'right stuff', and has now proven it further, as he does live in, where else, Orpington!
grandpa1940 | 21.08.10 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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