FC United fans cant claim the history of Manchester United as Manchester United still exist, so their 'history/culture' begins in 2005 so as much as it pains me to say it - Woking, who have been going since 1889, has defacto more history & culture than FC United & that is statistically not...
Not quite FC Arsenal of London but Dial Square FC are due to be set up in protest of Arsenal FC & join the Combined Counties League next season. They seem to have a satnav somehow even worse than AFC Wimbledon's was in 2002 as they'll be starting life ground sharing with Abbey Rangers in...
The dream is over after a 1-0 defeat against Leamington in the replay last night. That's our cup run quota dealt with for the following decade, we can go back to business as usual next season & get dumped out in the qualifiers to a team lower than us in the pyramid.
Away to Bath City or Concord Rangers if Kingstonian can beat Leamington in the replay tomorrow evening.
Not the worst draw, definitely not the best draw.
Feels weird still being a part of this competition in January, until our replay with Leamington tomorrow at least anyway.
Should we do the unthinkable & win another cup game this season a nice home draw against Notts County or Yeovil would be decent for the income.
Another home Surrey derby...
It was great fun looking from the outside in on this until it screwed K's today...
Yesterday our (now ex) striker & top scorer this season Louie Theophanous had his contract mutually terminated so he could take time away from football.
Today he has been revealed as Tamplin's latest mercenary...
AFC Telford or Leamington at home in R2... I'll take that! Good chance to add to our giant kill list for the season which already includes Dartford, Macclesfield Town under 5's C team & Woking.
Comfortable 3-1 win over Woking. I was fearing that we'd reached our limit going out of the FA Cup to a National League side a couple of weeks ago but looks like we can now add Woking to the list of higher ranked teams we've beaten this season.
Cup run over for K's after a 2-0 defeat against Fylde, ultimately the gap in divisions proved a bit too much for us & was much more evident than the previous round against Macclesfield's youth team. Was a good cup run while it lasted & has made a fair wedge of cash for the club.
In the Greater London area some teams even compete for the senior county cup in London AND in their historical county. We had a period of being in the London & Surrey cups.
The league cups can be useful, if you are having a good season in the league/proper cups it's an opportunity to experiment...
We've avoided our game with Fylde being on the Friday, which for me is fantastic news as that is the wife's birthday. Now I just hope for it to stay Saturday 3pm & not be moved to Sunday for the BBC's show.
GGL or New Defence? (I could check myself, but meh).
New Defence is a tidy little county league ground, we were there 2 years ago for a SSC game. Spent most of the match in the upstairs bar that overlooks the pitch.
As a supporter of a club with no ground & very little money (aside from our ongoing FA Cup run this season) i can safely say he does not appeal! It must be an Essex thing.
About £12k I think it was for Round 1. It was novel to see K's on TV & as I couldn't get to the game (because of the switch to the Sunday so it was bittersweet) I felt it worked well.