PAUL ARMSTRONG REFLECTS ON THE CHARM OF VILLAGE FOOTBALL AND THE ‘AGRICULTURAL!GAME’…

VILLAGE Football. Don’t you just love it? Well, probably not judging by the lack of support it now gets. Back in the mists of time when only sailors, squaddies and criminals had tattoos, village teams used to be reasonably well supported.
In the 1960s Chobham FC (now Chobham/ Burymead – Surrey Intermediate League (West)) had 600 non-playing club members, and an estimated one thousand people turned up for an FA Cup preliminary round game at home to Hastings Town (not to be ...