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Harry Hugo, the bloke who revolutionised Farnham Town, has revealed he decided to invest £197,400 in a Step 3 to 6 club after nearly spending the money on a Ferrari instead.

He studied all clubs within a reasonable travel distance of his house and worked out a top five. Number one target was Leatherhead, also the closest team to his house. He spent four months in and around the club but no deal was done. It's not clear whether he walked away or Leatherhead said no, it is clear he felt they didn't have the vision to see Harry was offering more than just money. He approached Farnham, who were second on his list. The rest is history.

Leatherhead's loss was certainly Farnham's gain.
 
Some people here might remember Graham who sadly passed away two years ago. He was around for the first Altona 93 friendly at Champion Hill in 2015 and, as S. added on Bluesky, played for the DHFC supporters team at the Adolf-Jäger-Kampfbahn in 2013. The website Trauer und Fußball is running an Advent calender with his non league photos (he was a Romford FC and Arminia Hannover supporter) online. You can read more about this project here. (Yesterdays photo was Dulwich related.)
 
What started as farce (kick off delayed as opposition Hilltop arrived without socks!) ended in chaos as this game was abandoned at half time due to threats aimed at the referee. Intrigued to know if anything more had been heard on the non league grapevine?
 
The referee reportedly ordered the person responsible be removed from the ground to permit the game to continue. They refused to leave, so it was abandoned.

It's pretty unusual for the referee to demand a person be removed, so it looks a bit more serious than the usual gobby nonsense you can find. The reference to life threatening in the club statement probably reveals a lot.
 
The referee reportedly ordered the person responsible be removed from the ground to permit the game to continue. They refused to leave, so it was abandoned.

It's pretty unusual for the referee to demand a person be removed, so it looks a bit more serious than the usual gobby nonsense you can find. The reference to life threatening in the club statement probably reveals a lot.
You'd think two squads of players and officials, plus dozens of spectators would have collectively prevailed upon one individual to do the decent thing and just leave quietly. After all, he didn't see the second half anyway, and neither did anyone else! The person responsible must have appeared completely deranged and too potentially dangerous to tackle without Police intervention. I guess he may have mental health issues.
 
I hope it's okay to respond to this serious situation with an anecdote from my playing career. About twenty years ago, we played away at a club called TSV Over-Bullenhausen. It was an early kick off, after a few minutes we were surprisingly two nil up and an elderly man entered the pitch from the beer stand to announce: "I'm calling off the game now." The referee stopped the match and asked the captain of the home team to remove the spectator. But the captain explained quietly: "I can't do that, that's the mayor."
 
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