Good to see them promoted this season, after being evicted from their ground and almost folding less than 2 months ago. They're a volunteer run club and from I can gather, the company who owned the stadium, spat the dummy out when they were refused permission to build housing on the land where Dulwich play, and pulled all funding from the club. Promoted today to the Conference South for the first time, after losing out in the play-offs 3 seasons in a row.
I've seen some of the pictures on Twitter, I was surprise that it was only 3,300 because it looks like a lot more than that.
Wouldve been much more if at Champion Hill which is just round the corner from me. Sad to see the ground boarded and fenced up. The New York billionaire Hedge Fund spending money weekly painting over graffiti, on legal costs to wrongfully claim the name and claim the use of the football clubs name and various derivatives (it doesn't own the team, just the ground) and on a new folly of a planning permission to ram huge amounts of homes into the space that's now got "no use" for a football club. An incredible achievement with everything going on and several times the players only getting paid by community and fan donations. Gavin Rose for next manager? ;-)
Haven't they got a long history of producing top flight players, or am I thinking of another non-league team?
Carl Asaba Leon Cort Andy Gray (former Palace player) and Carlton Fairweather further back Peter Crouch had a loan spell there apparently
That's pretty decent. I think however I'm thinking of another club. I vaguely recall watching a piece on either footy focus or soccer saturday about a lower league London team that had given first starts to loads of premier league players.
Ian Wright was apparently at Dulwich after he played for Greenwich Borough according to some sources, but I can't find any concrete information either way. Wealdstone produced a few players in in the 80's including Stuart Pearce. Weymouth - Graham Roberts and Tony Agana My knowledge is mostly from the 80's and 90's, when I read football books religiously as a kid. I'm much more out of touch these days.
Latest one to step up to the league was Erhun Oztumer, now at Walsall and got into the league team of the year. A young striker called Daniel Carr made it to Huddersfield a few years ago but assume he's been released. They're actually very good to watch. Play football and generally have pacey strikers and big solid centre halves with a midfield creator. Be interested to see how they make the step up, and what the next twist of the saga with the ground owners takes as the local authority, MP's and Mayor have all said they won't entertain working with Meadow (the shell used by the hedge fund). A few weeks ago the local authority voted powers to go ahead with a compulsory purchase. We shall what follows.
Is it Senrab you are thinking of? They are just a kids' team, but Terry and Rio Ferdinand were there amongst others.
No you're right. Just read their Wiki and it's definitely them I was thinking of. Their list of former players is crazy. Not sure why i thought it was Dulwich!!
