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Check your twitter feeds ! In an attempt to give you your football fix and to relieve some boredom I'll be publishing some AFC Hornchurch matches from my archive. I'd put the link here but it's not working for some reason. Any questions, comments or requests please let me know.

Not the finish we wanted truly believe we would have gone up, big thanks to Mark, his staff and all the boys great effort, and to all you supporters who backed us magnificently all year. Stay safe and hopefully see you all soon

Why reconsider. Surly football matters are totally irrelevant in these very dificult times. Season over let's all move on.

Here's the link. Looks like I've got it to work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjaBxmIymaI&feature=youtu.be

So you are saying Tommy Kanaris was world class. You must explain why he and the numerous other 'world class' players who played at Kentish Town never reached the dizzy heights of the Premier League.

I thought that I had already explained why in an earlier post to Winslow Boy who should know as he lived in Islington for over ten years. These were pretty much all players, as was the case at Haringey Borough too, who were brought up on rough infamous Council Estates such as Broadwater Farm, Edmonton Green, Bunhill and the Marquess Estate on the mean streets of Camden, Islington and Haringey in the 1980's, in one parent families living hand to mouth on benefits when things were extremely tough, there were countless distractions, pitfalls and temptations for local youngsters such as gangs, alcohol, drugs, theft and prostitution. This is not leafy and affluent Winslow, Buckingham, Stony Stratford, Aston Clinton, New Bradwell, Holmer Green, Leverstock Green, Cranfield or Ampthill we are talking about where there is little or no trouble and you are usually born into privilege where parents are more concerned about how much their homes are worth and upgrading their cars and four by fours knowing that their kids are well behaved and keeping on the straight and narrow.

Thanks for the reply, completely understand. Look forward to seeing more vids in the coming weeks.

I've got probably more than 10 years worth of games, some are more easy to transfer over than others. Unfortunately the ESL games fall into the not easy category. I have definitely got the Weymouth one, but I might leave that one for later, maybe for what would have been the last day of the season.

I hope Winslow Boy continues to post his stories as they are interesting. I just wish he would name drop

Winslow Boy - Apologies, I honestly thought you were talking about Shaka Cole of Kentish Town as you didn't make it clear. I never had a lot of time for Ashley Cole due to the way he conducted his personal life and for the way he treated Cheryl however obviously as a player you couldn't fault him. You seem to have friends in high places and enjoy telling us about them don't you.

If this season 2019/20 is void then it should mean that everything is void for the 2019/20 season including fines right? And not just the results and league standings.

That puts you in a minority of one. 🙂

You would certainly like me out of your hair wouldn't you as you hate being held to account with your close and somewhat shady links to certain Club's, I still cannot believe that you were allowed to Officiate on St Panteleimon and New Salamis games this season

Not the way I wanted the season to end thanks to everyone at the club and the Saturday faithfull. We could have won this but life is never straightforward. Onward to next season when ever that may start. Have a great summer and keep safe God bless you all Jean and Pete.

A big thanks to everyone at the club for all their hard work this year. It is a shame how the season has ended and i believe our players had the momentum to win the league or at least the playoffs. I do hope that the squad can be kept together and maybe add a few where needed ready for the next season whenever it starts to come back stronger and get the club up to where it belongs. In the meantime I wish everyone the best of health and hope we can all get through this isolation Up the Urchins.

This really is simple but the FA and SSML bottled it. Points per game would have given you the top 4 promoted. We should have simply had NO relegation. Clubs would have moved around with the proposed changes. Those such as Rayners Lane could appeal. As they wouldn't be in the SSML potentially they could have gone up anyway. If leagues needed to take more than 20 teams in a division for one season would that really matter? After all we have had 24 previously. This is a complete cop out by all those involved. Far too early to make decisions like this. After all who knows when football will be start up. Not for at least 3 months by the looks of it. If it went further lets say into 2021 you could have possibly played the rest of this season out. Null and void suggests ALL league fees, fines etc will be repaid. Certainly there could be a legal case for it. Particularly if the Step 1 & 2 clubs do play it out. At the end of the day lives of people are at stake so that is the most important. But if any sport is to survive it requires credibility and leadership to do so. This appears to be lacking. We should go with the league transformation and take good use of the points per game ratio taking into account where clubs may or may not have been promoted including their facilities for promotion.

Gosh all these players who had the ability to reach the top but playing step 5 and 6 who’d have thunk it, quite something.

David Blaine, David Copperfield and Ben Hanlin spring very much to mind when describing magician Safraz Pivano, an amazing player for Kentish Town in the SSML who, had he taken the game seriously would have undoubtedly reached the very top, his reliability also wasn't the best but when he did turn up for matches Kentish Town rarely lost, if at all. Safraz seemed to prefer playing with his circle of chums in the Islington Midweek League at Market Road where the 3G surface was pioneered back in the day, he later went on to play for Sporting Bengal United and Tripimeni-Olympia in the KOPA League:

I used to watch Josh Scott play for Hayes FC and then Hayes & Yeading United FC he was a top striker. Josh Scott returned to Hayes & Yeading FC a few seasons ago but he was well past his best.

Josh Scott, plied his trade with Kentish Town for a while in the SSML along with his brother Lee, both brothers were on Arsenal's books when they were schoolboys and, although both forwards, could and should have reached the heights of the Charlton brothers. Josh went on to play for Aldershot Town, Hayes & Yeading, Ebbsfleet United and Dagenham & Redbridge where he made 112 appearances for the Daggers and netted 23 times, he played at Wembley in the 2010 League 2 play off Final in a pulsating 3-2 win over Rotherham after scoring four times in the Semi Final First Leg against Morecambe:

Ex Hillingdon Borough FC and Hanwell Town FC striker Blaise O'Brien is now a DJ Blaise O'Brien scored 111 goals in three and a bit seasons at Hanwell Town FC before he hung up his boots during the 2011/12 season.