Sunday, 18 February 2007

the hamlet

As far as i can understand my dad and grandad were followers of dulwich hamlet football club in south london. I sort of inherited it and go on occasions. This year they are performing well and for much of the year they have been in the top three. Yesterday they had a great away win at kingstonian, winning 2 - 5.
When i first went as a child they had a good sized wooden stadium, which i think could of held 25,000, for an amateur club quite extraordinary. I beleive they held england amateur international matches at dulwich. Since those days they have struggled and now play on a ground v close to the original site but on a site owned by sainsburys. They share now with fisher athletic.
It would be great if at the end of the season they could be promoted into the ryman premier.
They are palying attractive football this year and deserve promotion but they still drop too many points in games they should win on paper, like losing away to the bottom club!
Fingers crossed! Unfortunately they don't have a website i can point you to, to show you their distinct shirts which are pink and navy blue, i'm sure not many pro or semi-pro sides have pink as one of their colours!

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