Tuesday 29 September 2020

A FEW OF LONDON'S UNIQUELY NAMED SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAMS

BAYERN NEVERLUSEN play in the Metropolitan Sunday League Ron Pope Premier Division. Despite their confident name they do occasionally lose games but have won both games they have played this season - 4-0 against Grand Athletic and 7-0 against Bermondsey Town. 

They play their home games at the Samuel Montagu Centre in Kidbrooke. They are one of the many teams with succesful You Tube and social media channels. 



Wouldn't it be great to see MOTTINGHAM FOREST play football league side Nottingham Forest in a charity game? Mottingham is just South of the A20 and Eltham Palace in South London. Forest play in the Woolwich and Eltham Sunday League Pat Tanlsey Division Four. They play their home games at the nearby Metrogas Sports Ground, SE9. 





The uniquely named JEFF'S CHIPPY FC currently play in the Central London Super Sunday League and play home games on Clapham Common. You would think the name comes from sponsorship of a nearby chip shop but it doesn't - The club can trace it's history to the city where the oldest football club in the World play. 

Jeff’s Chippy was a chip shop in Sheffield and for many years they sponsored Nether Edge FC, for whom a number of players and people now associated with the club played for in a highly memorable and legendry match in 1989. 

Nether Edge lost the game 17-0. Sadly the shop closed down but the name lives on to commemorate the momentous defeat. The club was officially founded in January 1998 at Clapham Common when some of the players had moved to down to the Capital. Their first game was a 7-6 victory with a last minute winner scored by Dan Mackie who had overslept and travelled across London by taxi to make the Second Half. 


There have been more than a few REAL ALE MADRID teams in Sunday and Six-A-Side football over the years. This club play in League Five of the Southern Sunday Football League. They tweeted at the weekend that for the first time in one of their games they had too many players turn up and didn't have to play with only seven men for once. It was also great jesture to see Sporting Continental giving them a kit to play in for this season. 


In League Seven of the Southern Sunday League there is OLYMPIQUE MAYONNAISE who play their home games at Wandsworth Common. 








ROVING REPORTERS were formed back in 1965 by three local newspapers journalists - one of whom was John Motson prior to his career with the BBC. The club joined the Barnet Sunday League in 1966 in it's first season and are the only club left in the league to this day. Motson played for the club in the early seasons when he was employed by the Barnet Press. He is still involved with the club as a Life Vice President. They are currently in Division Four of the Barnet Sunday League and play their home games on the Enfield Playing Fields. 


There is more than one PSG in the world as PALACE SAINT-GERMAIN were founded in 2016. At the name suggests the team who play in the Croydon Municipal Sunday Premier League are based close to Crystal Palace and have the famous tower of their badge as shown. 










BOSTON CELTICS FC play in the Hackney and Leyton Sunday League and play their games on the famous Hackney Marshes. 









Like the aforementioned Real Ale Madrid the Camden Sunday League have SURREAL MADRID who were formed back in the late 1980s. They are currently in Division Two of the CSL. 








 PLEASE CONTACT @thecoldend IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER QUIRKY NAMED TEAMS?


 




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