There’s a non-league legend that one-time Southern League Secretary and Chairman Dennis Strudwick used to work out the season’s fixtures on the back of a fag packet. He was apparently quite proud of this, though it’s not so funny when you’re travelling to Sittingbourne on...
At a time where every club has an Official Noodle Parter and can’t be taken seriously unless you’ve got a Forex and Online Financial Trading Partner, there remains one corner of the market that appears to remain relatively untapped. Save for a few experimental collaborations,...
Today, Walthamstow Football Club is solely that; a football club. However, over the years, the club has turned its hand at a number of sports and games; chess, darts, cycling, billiards, cricket and baseball, to name but a few. This wasn’t uncommon in England in the...
The story of Billy Barnes, who went from playing for in the east end of London for Leyton, to having a key role in the history of Spanish football. Players who have made the jump from playing for Walthamstow FC (and its predecessors) to having successful...
There won’t be many who remember Dwight Marshall playing for Leyton in 1987 and Leyton Pennant in 2002, but two spells with our club sandwiched what was an unlikley but successful Football League career. Dwight arrived in the UK from Jamaica with his mother and brother...
Sorry to disappoint the groundhopping fraternity, but they've missed the opportunity for a tick which only comes around once a year. That ground can't be found on the Groundhopper app, nor is it on any football stadium guide. The pitch, if you can call it that...
The clocks going back last Sunday heralded the end of British Summer Time. For the next five months, Saturday afternoon’s 3 o’clock matches will be played out with the help of towering artificial light. The yellow footballs are out (for the privileged, at least) and the real non-league...