Senrab FC ~ East End Legends

I couldn't speak for all those players, but certainly the club do receive a certain amount of quite generous support from some of them without the individuals concerned seeking publicity for it.

The underlying problem in London's areas adjacent to Docklands and The City which Stepney typifies, is the way local boy's clubs have been priced out of the market by the explosion in interest in "Five-A-Side" Power Leagues and the like amongst the business houses and city boys after work. Sports facilities that were intentioned for the local community and under priveleged are now being rented out at exhorbitant rates such as £80 an hour and the very basic school playgrounds and those surfaced in nothing more than tarmac or shale are being highlighted by insurance companies as unfit for purpose and thus they will refuse to underwrite the required insurance cover.

Senrab's local council ~ Tower Hamlets, does nothing for them whatsoever because it is Muslim dominated and that community put pressure on "their own" youth to opt out and play solely in their own competitions. Pathetic and racist if you ask me and an abuse of their social responsibility. Fortunately in Islington and Camden where my son plays and his club draw the majority of their playing strength from, the attitude is more enlightened and far more egalitarian so that they (A Class) have a state of the art 3G full sized and floodlit pitch at their disposal (as do many of the local community and neighbourhood clubs), the teams they run that play in the Camden & Islington Midweek Youth League ALL have to play home and away at the Market Road, Caledonian Park Astro Turf facility (2 full sized and floodlit pitches) whilst the Under 11s who play in the East London & Leyton Sunday Youth League play their matches at the reasonably priced grass (no artificial surfaces allowed in that league) pitches at Wanstead Flats as there are no grass pitches whatsoever in Islington and only the poor standard ones in Regents Park in Camden.

Outer boroughs and districts like Barking, Dagenham, Redbridge, Havering, Enfield, Barnet and Waltham Forest have a plethora of natural grass playing fields and fully floodlit and artificially surfaced grounds on which to coach, play and develope the game; and are all fertile areas of production for professional and semi professional footballers.

I told my Anthony before I left for the Morcambe game, not to try and look like a player from any other club, but just get on the pitch and play his own game.

I came home and asked him if it had worked, "well I was taken off in the 61st minute dad" came back the reply. " thats when I scored my sixth goal of the match.

Nine games played, nine games scored in, 18 goals so far this season, looks like the 54 he got for Newton Spurs a few seasons ago is likely to be beaten this season