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When Mauricio Pellegrino was announced as the new Southampton manager, reactions were mixed. Those fans who follow La Liga, and those who claimed to do so, appeared pleased with the appointment and said that Saints’ ‘sense of identity’ would be coming back; one of high-press attacking with the ability to defend deep when called upon. Those who had no clue who Pellegrino spent most of the next week making puns around his name sounding like a former manager and a...

By Chris Woods Wealdstone drew a disappointing line under the 2016/17 season after a 1-0 defeat away to Hampton & Richmond Borough in the Middlesex Senior Cup Final last night. The only goal of the game came from a combination of two of Hampton's summer recruits, with Taurean Roberts crossing for Max Kretzschmar to glance a header over Jonathan North just before half time. Stones were without several players including two new recruits that were cup-tied. Despite the game being...

By Chris Woods Brought recently to a higher profile outside the non league football world by Internet meme sensation the ‘Wealdstone Raider’, Wealdstone FC are the largest non-league club in West London and are steeped in history and tradition. Currently playing in the Vanarama National League South they were the first club to win the ‘Non-League double’ in 1985 winning the National League Premier (then the Gola League) and FA Trophy. The club also has a proud tradition of bringing...

Tilbury itself, as a Town, dates back to 1812, although there has been a settlement and farms here since before Tudor times. It was at Tilbury Fort that QE1 made her famous address to her troops pre-Armada in 1588. The major industry in the Town is still the Tilbury Docks, though these now employ only a fraction of the people that they did in it's prime years. It is still a hugely busy Port, but now mechanisation and containers dominate....

Aveley has given its name to the Aveley Interglacial period around 200,000 years ago. Important evidence of the local flora and fauna of the period and some signs of occupation by Neanderthal humans have been found there. In Domesday the names has various spellings – Alvithelea, Alvileia and Alvilea. The name means Aelfgyth's wood clearing. A variation, in 1418, is Alvythele. John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, lived in Aveley, which was the home of his father's second wife....

By David Ballheimer Hendon Football Club, members of the top division of the Bostik (Isthmian) League for 55 seasons, are starting their second season at their home of Silver Jubilee Park in Kingsbury. The ground, postcode NW9 7NE for SatNav users, is off Townsend Lane, within a couple of miles of the M1, A5, A41 and A406. The club was formed in 1908, as Christ Church Hampstead and continued as Hampstead Town, Hampstead and Golders Green, before becoming Hendon in 1946. The best years...

Sport News 24/7 Welcome to a new weekly-ish blog piece for TLE, covering Tottenham Hotspur. As the new stadium on Tottenham High Road continues to take shape, Tottenham are over in sunny Orlando taking part in the prestigious pre-season International Champions Cup. A tournament taking place across three locations (the US, China and Singapore) and featuring 17 teams in total, of which only five are actually champions. Sigh. Spurs get their tournament underway on Saturday, taking on PSG – although...

By Rob Overfield Hidden away in a leafy area of affluent suburban SW London, Hampton & Richmond Borough have ambitions beyond the National League South after finishing 7th in the league last season. Formed in 1921, for nearly 40 years, Hampton FC were just another village club in the Middlesex local leagues, with varying amounts of success, before attaining senior status in 1959 and entry to the Surrey Senior League. Improving year on year, Hampton won the Surrey Senior League...

St Albans City FC (nicknamed "The Mighty Saints") was founded in 1908 and plays its home matches at Clarence Park stadium which is situated in a Victorian park, about 800 yards from the city centre, and a 5 minute walk from the City train station (which is just 18 minutes from Kings Cross - St Pancras). The club currently competes in the National League South (previously known as the Conference South) in the sixth tier of the English football pyramid....