Hi Urbanites, Tim here from the Wealdstone FC programme. Recently stumbled upon this forum and boy, what a diverse and interesting read! You seem more erudite than most and it struck me that maybe one of you would pen an article for our programme on March 29, when you travel to Grosvenor Vale to take on the Stones... something along the lines of the re-emergence of 'proper', growing clubs at our level. Hamlet and the Stones (and I suppose the other Stones) are bucking the trend and I'd be interested to hear your views. Not sure whether there is a personal message aspect to this forum, but anyone can email me on tim.fparks@gmail.com if they wish to respond. Looking forward to the game in a fortnight: it should be a cracker, both on the pitch and on the terraces as The Vale is conducive to singing at both ends!
Dulwich Hamlet FC 2013-2014 season - chat, rumours, reports
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Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Blimey, it's the old Enfield Gazette sports reporter! Welcome Tim! 
(Enfield fan speaking)
(Enfield fan speaking)
sankara
Well-Known Member
What a way to butter us up! Nothing like a bit of flattery to get people on your side. Well, I think it's worked. I'm not volunteering myself though as my only bit of published writing was for a student newspaper well over 10 years ago and it was shit.
To be honest, if nobody else volunteers...I'd be happy to, from an 'old skool' perspective, if you let me know how many words...and I get a free programme, because I won't be at the game as I'm working! ;-)
Hello Mr Merlin... yes, that's me. Have moved on a bit since then but still producing essentially the same old bollocks but now a bit further up the food chain. Are you now a Hamlet man? #strangechoiceBlimey, it's the old Enfield Gazette sports reporter! Welcome Tim!
Just drop me an email, Mishi, and I'll outline the details. Yes, I'll send you a programme if you can"t get to the Vale for The Big One
vornstyle76
Dundela FC, Transpontine Diaspora Brigade
Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Am I balls! Enfield Town mate
I remember those old Enfield-Wealdstone battles in the 80s. Wasn't there a halftime snowball fight once? I still haven't forgiven you lot for 1985! I like Urban75 as a whole - it's a beautifully strange place - and this happens to be the only non-league thread. So here I dwell, talking my own brand of bollocks.Am I balls! Enfield Town mate
Good for you Ron. One of the best times on my life was reporting on Enfield under Eddie McCluskey while watching the Stones on the sly... though I was once caught clicking my heels in the air in the car park at Southbury Road after we'd beaten the Es 1-0 in '83, just as the social club door swung open and Nicky ironton, Noel Ashford and the rest of the crew poured out. Quite hard to explain that one away
Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Ha! Oops! You always did a good job for us in the Gazette. I never knew you preferred the 'dark side' - only found out fairly recently. Veh professional job you did.
Happy times
Happy times
Just drop me an email, Mishi, and I'll outline the details. Yes, I'll send you a programme if you can"t get to the Vale for The Big One
By the way Mishi, I'd need your missive by Friday morning....
ska invita
back on the other side
Sad news, but these things happen. How long has he been at Hamlet?
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
nice one mishi, drop urban75 a mention innit 
Ha! Oops! You always did a good job for us in the Gazette. I never knew you preferred the 'dark side' - only found out fairly recently. Veh professional job you did.
Happy times
Last couple of times I've seen Towners v Wealdstone has been in the company of Tim Trew, whom you may recall reported on Enfield for the Gazette's opposition, the N London Weekly herald. Tim still lives in Enfield as did I until only last year. Not surprisingly I've got a soft spot for the club, especially since its reincarnation as ETFC a dozen years ago.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
nice one mishi, drop urban75 a mention innit
"The scummy underside of the glorious grail of football that is DHFC support"
Jamie Wyatt
Well-Known Member
He made his debut a few games into last season!
vornstyle76
Dundela FC, Transpontine Diaspora Brigade
It's actually weird to think I fell in love with Dulwich before he turned up. There's BE and AE.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Sounds like I missed a great hamlet day out, despite losing and the few niggles.
Clapton also lost. But the atmosphere was great and the sun was shining. Made to feel very welcome by the clapton fans during and after the game. Even when myself and a few other Dulwich fans did a few of our chants down the pub at the end of the match
Im up for going back but my blood still runs pink and blue
Clapton also lost. But the atmosphere was great and the sun was shining. Made to feel very welcome by the clapton fans during and after the game. Even when myself and a few other Dulwich fans did a few of our chants down the pub at the end of the match
Im up for going back but my blood still runs pink and blue
Champion_hill
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Bad news...
http://dhst.org.uk/asset-of-community-value-listing/
Hopefully it gets relisted.
I don't know how much difference it makes but it certainly can't hurt.
http://dhst.org.uk/asset-of-community-value-listing/
Hopefully it gets relisted.
I don't know how much difference it makes but it certainly can't hurt.
Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Another name from the past! I remember his reports in the Herald. In fact, for a couple of seasons around the time of the FA Cup 4th round replay, Conference and Trophy-winning seasons I kept both his and your reports in an EFC scrapbook. And Cherry Mosteshar's from the free paper. Still got'em too
Nice of you to still hold us in your heart, although from what I've read on the Wealdstone forum you're regarded as being somewhat 'tainted with Enfield'.
Good luck winning the league. And good luck to Dulwich too. I just want to stay up. Don't think I could bear Heybridge Swifts away again...
EDC
A Slightly Less Invisible Cyber Fan These Days
I've always liked Wealdstone, in the mid-80's fanzine days, after a trip to Sportspages in Cambridge Circus I would end up with a bag of fanzines from clubs I had no affilitation with, Bradford, Celtic, Orient, others were those I really hated like Fulham & QPR but the reading material was great as it seemed everyone had some sort of beef with the running of their club so I could sympathize, it was the decade of less hatred between football fans of course and the love-in after the Valley Parade disaster, everyone except a few naughty in the nineties fellas had had enough of fighting.
Coming away with Champion Hill Street Blues was a bonus, you got to know everyone who was mentioned in it but the one other fanzine I always enjoyed was Wealdsone's "Elmslie Ender". The impression I got was they were a passionately supported club, a bit of a Chelsea link which was nice for me with a good fairly recent history. Non-League football was new to me in those days, I'd heard of a couple of clubs like Yeovil and Kettering for example due to their cup runs but never Wealdstone. I went to the old ground for a home match before it was demolished.
I can't wait for the match against them, even more so after missing Maidstone last weekend.
Coming away with Champion Hill Street Blues was a bonus, you got to know everyone who was mentioned in it but the one other fanzine I always enjoyed was Wealdsone's "Elmslie Ender". The impression I got was they were a passionately supported club, a bit of a Chelsea link which was nice for me with a good fairly recent history. Non-League football was new to me in those days, I'd heard of a couple of clubs like Yeovil and Kettering for example due to their cup runs but never Wealdstone. I went to the old ground for a home match before it was demolished.
I can't wait for the match against them, even more so after missing Maidstone last weekend.
all to nah
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I'd already been to Wealdstone this season - they've got a great section in their fanshop, where you can find a lot of old football books, programmes and fanzines for very human prices. It's worth having a look, I think.
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hiraethified
I don't know who they are but I'm liking the way they sound so wonderfully obscure.
Ron Merlin
Jus de chaussettes
Did you ever pick up Talk of the Town End (my brother's fanzine), In Defence or The Green Traffic Lights Society? All Enfield ones. I know TOTE was in Sportspages as my brother was always in there.
A new Town one has just been launched: On The Town. Traditionally silly - as you'd expect.
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hiraethified
Photos are up from Saturday.
BeerGate
WTFGate
More: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/...-3-4-at-maidstone-in-front-of-a-bumper-crowd/
BeerGate
WTFGate
More: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/...-3-4-at-maidstone-in-front-of-a-bumper-crowd/
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hiraethified
Probably knackered after their jammy win against us.
