MARTYN GREEK

The Club can confirm that Parky, who died in tragic circumstances on Wednesday 23rd September 2008, was buried on Monday 29th September. He was 38 and had played for Nottsborough for 14 years. He will be forever in our thoughts. Thank you to everyone who has passed on their condolences. If anyone else wishes to please send them to the following e-mail address - webmaster@nottsborough.com ….

NEW PLAYERS WANTED!      

Welcome to Nottsborough FC’s website if this is the first time you have visited. We do pride ourselves on having a ‘home-designed’ and therefore unique website which will be kept up-to-date throughout the season and we hope this reflects our commitment to excellence across the whole Club.

That commitment is articulated best in our desire to win titles and Cups across all five of our teams on the pitch and, to do that, we firmly believe that we need a new influx of quality players at the start of every season.  New faces increases competition and competition leads to improved attitude and performance – particularly from those who begin to think of themselves as ‘regulars’.

So if you like the site and you like the look of our footballing ‘e-card’ and ambition then please get in touch, whatever level you are. To help we see first team level as being in effect … semi-pro and we have indeed taken quite a few players from teams like Basingstoke Town and Hanwell who enjoy that level of football but who do not want the commitment of 2 training sessions a week and matches 100 miles away on a Saturday.

Below the 1s we have an extremely competitive 2s where all players are good enough to represent the 1s and so on down to the 4s. But basically we have a team for anyone who is proficient at the game!

Please contact us at info@nottsborough.com if you want to find out more. Training is on Tuesday evenings and, from October, back at our home ground of Tolworth, Kingston University.

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Nottsborough 20th Anniversary Dinner - the Spirit lives on!                                        

Twenty years to the day after the first ever Nottsborough Summer Dinner (16 people in a strange restaurant on the Fulham Road), it was fantastic and fitting to enjoy the Club’s largest ever turn-out for a Dinner (121!) to celebrate our 20 year anniversary.

A great mixture of Old Boys and Players from all four current sides saw a nostalgic return to the Polish Club in Kensington who, unbelievably, cast aside the reservations of three legendary past Nottsborough events, and welcomed us with open arms!  Our thanks to Michael and his team for their sterling work and our apologies for the now ruined portrait of Rula Lenska… (I blame Andy Cattells’s picture who ‘Straddled’ her for the night…).  Attendees came from far (Dubai in the case of Aidie Samms) and wide (in the case of Jim McDonald’s girth) to hear the collective wisdom of the Chairman, Coach Brian and, er, Steve Whitclock who has now passed into Nottsborough … as probably the most long-winded person in amateur football history.  Colin Riggs – the original Nottsborough Trigger and resident Nottsborough Board – opened the evening with one of his brilliant odes (attached) and so the tore was set for a suitably drunken evening of Nottsborough tales and goals scored….

Too many people to thank but of course a special mention to Brian, who received a framed shirt and lots of much deserved … and thanks a fine night and to all our sponsors who made the evening both more affordable and certainly more enjoyable – amongt those AUS, Setanta, E.ON and many others who also provided Action prizes on the night.

Finally, a thanks to all the players, ex-players and partners who turned up on the night and helped us to celebrate everything Nottsborough – as the saying goes, none of it would have been possible without you!

New Webmaster announced                                     

In true Doctor Who style Steve Beckett is being pensioned off to the Outer World Wide Web after having done an absolutely fantastic job on the Nottsborough FC website over the last three years.  Our heart felt thanks for all of his hard work and dedication over a period that included a total re-vamp of the original site.

The new ‘Doctor’ is Guy Willett, an old mate of mine and Davey H’s and indeed he has already helped us with the design of the new site. Guy, however, lives in Northhampton so will need to be fed stories on a regular basis which is where all of us come in!  If you do have anything you want on the site then please send it to webmaster@nottsbrough.com

Guy is setting up a system that will allow individual teams/Captains/the appointed author to upload scores and reports in the 24 hours after the game happens which should mean we are one of the most up-to-date sites in AFA football. We will see! But it absolutely needs your help so please get writing!