This Saturday Clapton CFC will be travelling into the wide world outside the M25 to take on the Letchworth Garden City Eagles in the second round of the Anagram Records Trophy. For the history buffs, Letchworth was one of the first “New Towns” based on the principles of visionary planner Ebenezer Howard. It inspired the […]
In addition, the club passed on donations from CCFC supporters of £89.08 to the Tull History Project and £673.40 from CCFC and Walthamstow FC for the Newham Bookshop appeal
If you had just caught the scoreline, you might have been forgiven for thinking that Clapton had switched disciplines and taken up Rugby Union. Saturday’s game with Hereford Palace provided, on average, a goal every 7 and a half minutes to entertain a brilliant crowd of 400-plus in the autumn sun. Player-manager Geoff Ocran named […]
Young Clapton CFC fans and their parents drew some great cards this weekend as part of Supporters Direct’s Christmas Card Design Competition. The Christmas cards were designed on the theme of ‘supporting sport’ using inks and fingerprinting before and after the Hereford Palace game. We’ll now send off the designs to the Supporters’ Direct judging panel, […]
There can be no glossing over it, it’s been a massively tough start to life in the football pyramid for Hereford Palace. The brand new Wormwood Scrubs-based side started the Middlesex County Football League season with a whopping 18-0 (yes, EIGHTEEN) defeat at home to NW London. A frustrated club spokesman told us that everything […]
In the absence of a competitive fixture, the Clapton CFC squad played a bounce game between ourselves on our 3G training pitch next door to the Stray Dog. With player-manager Geoff Ocran and several players away, there was also a chance for a few trialists to shine. All the players were able to notch up […]
We are extremely lucky to have some unbelievably talented, giving and patient designers, writers, photographers and logistical superheroes to help make our matchday programme possible. We spoke to the editor, Ed of AcidFC.com, to find out what it takes to keep the programme wheels greased…
On Sunday evening, a cheque for £673.40 was presented to Newham Bookshop for its “Two Doors Down” crowdfunding appeal on behalf of Clapton CFC and Walthamstow FC. The total was raised by the 290 fans who came to our Friday night friendly on 12 October at Wadham Lodge after both clubs agreed to donate the proceeds. Newham Bookshop […]
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The sun gods finally decided to make their way over to E17 for a Tons home game, which helped bring out a huge family-friendly crowd for the first round of the Anagram Records Trophy against Epping Town. There was noise from two sides of the ground with a large bloc of the Brigata Italiana behind the […]
In a season of firsts, Clapton Community FC face the unusual prospect of playing a side for the second time when Epping Town come to town in the Anagram Records Trophy first round. The competition – sponsored by the punk record label – is for clubs from various leagues across London and the South East who […]
Given fans have spent two soggy Saturdays under gazebos at a rainy Stray Dog, it was inevitable that a game under the sheltered stands of Walthamstow FC would feature scorching temperatures more than ten degrees above average. The friendly fixture held the oddity of being possibly the most local derby in football; the Tons taking […]
Clapton Community FC’s Non-League Day cup tie against Epping Town this Saturday was unfortunately postponed for a week due to our opposition’s involvement in another competition. However, the show must go on, so there’s a feelgood Friday friendly fundraiser instead. And it’s local. Very local. So local that one of Deano’s clearances from the Stray […]
There was a deluge of rain and a deluge of goals before Clapton Community FC just missed out on a win in their very first league home game with a heartbreaking late leveller. The weather gods are clearly against us, with East London only seeing two days of rain in the entire month, both falling […]
Clapton Community FC members were delighted to welcome the mayor of our spiritual home borough of Newham to our game on Saturday. Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, who has enacted major change to Newham politics in the six months since being elected, braved the rain in Walthamstow and was treated to an eight-goal thriller. She was joined at […]
It’s another milestone day as Clapton Community FC play their first league game at our temporary home. The Tons come into the game off the back of away wins at Ealing Town and South Kilburn Reserves sandwiching a nail-biting defeat at a damp Stray Dog in the cup against Hutton FC a fortnight ago. Our […]
Clapton Community FC made the trip across town to Wembley on a perfect late September day to take on South Kilburn Reserves in the first round of the Jim Rogers Presidents Division One Cup. The venue, Northwick Park, could not have been more basic, with no roped off pitch, bench or even changing rooms. However, […]
Clapton CFC’s first cup adventure ended in heartbreak last week in the nine-goal thriller in the BBC Essex Premier Cup against Hutton FC. However, don’t fret, there are still two more cup competitions for Geoff Ocran’s side to go for silverware – and it starts in Wembley on Saturday. Our opponents, South Kilburn Reserves, are […]
On Saturday we staged our first ever competitive home match, with a blistering 4 – 5 reverse against Hutton FC in the BBC Essex Premier Cup. Fortunately for us we had a long and proud history of Clapton tradition to draw from when preparing to host the match. It was important to us that we […]
