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The Story Of Mill Hill Football Club

“The story behind Mill Hill Football Club. The club was formed in in 1986 when a Legendary name in local football Griffin Celtic changed its venue and name to Kings Inn a local pub in the popular and community area of Mill Hill Blackburn. At the helm of Griffin Celtic were two devoted football people […]

The Story Of Laurencekirk Primary School

“I am a primary school teacher at the school. I started at the school last year. One of the first things I was asked to do was to start a team. The school had not had one for several years and their was a void for it. We started by training the oldest classes in […]

The Story of Grasshoppers Pirates

“Formed in 2017, Grasshoppers Pirates is a friendly team of teenage boys and girls playing their football in the Kernow Youth League in Cornwall. Our newly-formed team began in old Pendle kit kindly loaned to us by a Cornwall Youth Team, however we were able to purchase our first kit from Pendle at the start […]

The story of Westfields FC

“Westfields FC were formed by me and my pale in 1966 as a group of 16 year old lads who were in awe of England winning the World Cup We started playing friendly games and raised money by holding Whist Drives , skittle roll ups and jumble sales to raise money to buy a set […]

The Story of FC Imaan Lions

“In the 2015-16 season in only the 2nd year of our clubs existence we managed to reach the League Cup Final of our League.On our way we defeated 3 major multi team clubs causing big upsets. In the Final we played a club ,Mortimer that was 100 +years old .2 weeks before the Final we […]

The story of Northside FC

“Northside started in 1994 with two people talking about how they could help with the children in the local community so decided to team up with the local boxing club collyhurst and moston so advertised for kids to come and start training that was affordable to everyone at the local football pitches after a few […]

The story of Throstle Nest United

“I decided to start the club in the summer of 2015 when I was aged 20, the main reason being that I stopped playing football when the junior club I played for stopped (as I became too old). I had trained with numerous teams but found it a very intimidating experience. Therefore I decided if […]

The story of Morecambe Hawk

“May 2017 was where it all started. My son, who was 8 then, had a friend who’s dad ran an U9’s football team. “Please can I go down and join” he pestered. We took him down to train but they were full so he couldn’t actually become part of the team itself. He went again […]