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A local team for local people

WE all know the lengths football fans will go to to support their team.
For Manchester United’s prawn-sarnie-munching-southern softies, it’s about 200 miles.
For some lucky Charlton supporters it’s a free 30-mile bus ride. With a trip to Bluewater thrown in. Probably. Which is all very well, but what about local teams for local people?
How far should those wanting to support their community’s next best thing have to go to watch home games? Well, in the case of Kentish Town, the only semi-professional side in these parts, it’s Potters Bar.
Why? Because it seems there’s no enclosed ground in Camden or Islington capable of catering for the club’s Spartan South Midlands League team.
Town are more than grateful to Potters Bar FC for taking them in this season.
But what they’d really love is a ground to call their own, on their own patch.
It’s a dream harboured by a string of ambitious clubs and players in this area I don’t doubt.
But regardless of who achieved it, just imagine it – a club based around the corner, with a team talented youngsters could aspire to playing for, which football fans could easily watch.
We’ve got one you say. It’s called Arsenal. Well it is, but team loyalties apart, ticket prices and the nature of the modern game mean it isn’t. So let’s say enough to shoving houses on every brownfield site that comes vacant, enough to seeing our best over-16s forced to travel miles away just to get a game and enough to having to do the same if you want to support the best your neighbourhood has to offer.
It may be pie in the sky, but it sounds pretty tasty to me.

• What do you think? Tell me your views by emailing sport@camdennewjournal.co.uk or writing to 40 Camden Road, Camden Town, NW1 9DR



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