Pendle Football Blog
The Story Of Stornoway FC
“In 2013 during the England V Scotland friendly, a few of us were in the pub watching it and got speaking about the upcoming 7s league about to start. We joked about entering a team, but after a few beers of course. A week before the league started my brother started a group chat for […]
The Story Of Freiston FC
“I was asked to help out at the club at the beginning of last season after the club had a mass exodus of players leaving a very successful club in dire straits. The gentleman that has run the club Frank Swain is 87 years old and this will be his 50th season in charge. Although […]
The Story Of Whittle Hall JFC
“Whittle Hall JFC was founded in May 1998 by two parents Peter Guy and Gary McLean. Believing that children Under 10 were too young to play in eleven-a-side matches, an opinion later endorsed by the Football Association, they formed the current Whittle Hall Junior Football Club and entered two under 10 teams to play seven-a-side […]
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 […]