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Manager merry-go-round spins Trams into promotion race
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: Both local clubs are onto their fourth managers of the season, which at Mayfield Road has signalled a chance for consolidation, while at Croydon Arena there’s still all to play for in the closing weeks of the season, … Continue reading
Former Eagles boss takes over as manager at Stormzy’s club
Keith Millen, three times an interim manager at Crystal Palace, has been named as the new boss at Croydon Athletic, the non-league club bought last year by rapper Stormzy and former Eagles hero Wilfried Zaha. Millen’s first game in charge … Continue reading
Gonnella’s table-topping Trams on fast track towards promotion
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: There’s a buzz around Croydon Arena on matchdays that hasn’t been felt for a while, as ANDREW SINCLAIR reports on some positive progress at both local clubs Croydon FC are beginning to dream of a return to Step … Continue reading
Football club delays its kick-off for a hedgehog pitch invader
Last night’s AFC Croydon Athletic under-18s game against Corinthian Casuals at Mayfield Stadium was forced to delay its kick-off – there was a hedgehog on the pitch! The Mayfield at Thornton Heath is surrounded by open ground, havens for wildlife, … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, Football, Gardening, Thornton Heath, Wildlife
Tagged AFC Croydon Athletic, Football, Hedgehog, Mayfield Stadium, Stormzy, Wilfried Zaha
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Seven heavenly seasons’ finishes: but which is your favourite?
Was that the best finish to a Palace season ever? As four Crystal Palace players sign-in for the England training squad ahead of the Euros, life-long Eagles fan JERRY FITZPATRICK looks at how past stand-out years compare, and offers you … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Eberechi Eze, Football, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Oliver Glasner, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged Adam Wharton, Bert Head, Crystal Palace FC, Dougie Freedman, Eberechi Eze, England, Euros 2024, Gareth Southgate, Ian Wright, Jerry Fitzpatrick, John Jackson, Malcolm Allison, Mark Bright, Selhurst Park, Steve Coppell, Terry Venables, Wilfried Zaha
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Rams storm to promotion to the delight of co-owner Stormzy
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: AFC Croydon Athletic have won promotion from the eighth tier of English football with a thrilling, and very tense, 2-1 play-off final win at Knaphill last night. The game was watched by the club’s new-ish co-owner, rapper Stormzy, … Continue reading
Play-off win sets up the biggest match in Athletic’s history
NON-LEAGUE NEWS by ANDREW SINCLAIR Croydon Athletic tonight face the most important match in the phoenix club’s brief history, following the previously most important game which they won in Jersey on Saturday. Jermaine McGlashan’s side will travel to Knaphill for … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, AFC Whyteleafe, Andrew Sinclair, Balham FC, Croydon FC, Football, South Norwood, Sport, Thornton Heath, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged AFC Croydon Athletic, Antonio Gonnella, Croydon FC, Jermaine McGlashan, Liam Giles, South Norwood, Stormzy, Thornton Heath, Wilfried Zaha
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Trophy-winning manager Giles decides its time to leave club
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: An emotional end-of-season announcement for the Trams, while the Rams are heading into Europe (sort of) Liam Giles has resigned as manager of the borough’s oldest non-league club, Croydon FC. Giles made the announcement last night, just a … Continue reading
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Tagged AFC Croydon Athletic, Croydon, Croydon FC, Jermaine McGlashan, Liam Giles, Stormzy, Wilfried Zaha
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Trams all set for challenge of two cup finals in just four days
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: As the football season enters ‘the business end’, both local clubs are in the mix for play-off places and even have a chance of winning some silverware, as ANDREW SINCLAIR reports After 15 years without a cup win, … Continue reading
How Stormzy’s football dream is becoming a Mayfield reality
Former Croydon Advertiser reporter and BBC sports correspondent NEIL BENNETT, pictured right, returned to an old stomping ground in Thornton Heath to catch up with the progress of AFC Croydon Athletic under their new celebrity owners, Stormzy and Wilfried Zaha … Continue reading
Stormzy, Robeson and spies in Croydon – our latest podcast
Our monthly news-wrap podcast, The Croydon Insider, is back as premium content exclusive to paid-up subscribers to this website. Our guests for this episode are TV pundit and newspaper columnist Andrew Fisher, former Olympic athlete Donna Fraser, charity sector worker … Continue reading
Hall’s world record goal propels Trams towards two cup finals
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: You wait 15 years, and then two cup finals turn-up at once. ANDREW SINCLAIR on a world record week for Croydon FC, and more progress from local rivals Athletic David Beckham’s done it. Harry Kane did it for … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, Andrew Sinclair, Balham FC, Croydon FC, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged 2.31 seconds, AFC Croydon Athletic, Croydon Arena, Croydon FC, Guinness Book of Records, Guinness World Records, Jermaine McGlashan, Liam Giles, Mayfield Stadium, Norris McWhirter, Rams, Ryan Hall, Stormzy, Trams, Wilfried Zaha
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Johnson takes football director role at non-league club Athletic
Andrew Johnson, the former England and Palace striker, has been appointed as director of football at the non-league club bought by Stormzy and Wilf Zaha last summer. Croydon Athletic made the announcement on Sunday evening, saying that Johnson has “a … Continue reading
Stormzy’s football club’s ground on council’s ‘For Sale’ list
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council’s ‘asset disposals’ programme is making desperately slow progress, as it adds tennis clubs, community centres, scout huts and a rugby ground to its list of available properties. But few, if any, existing tenants have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Addington Court Golf Club, Conservative, Coombe Wood, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Court Golf Club, Coulsdon Manor, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Purley-John Fisher, Shirley, Shirley Park Golf Club, South End, Stormzy, Thornton Heath, Tory, West Thornton, Wilfried Zaha
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Everything really is political on a stroll around South Norwood
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: This week, KEN TOWL wanders off on a tour of South Norwood, helped with a guide map that is available from one of Croydon’s libraries that is closed for five days of the week… The modern dictum that … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century Society, architecture, Art, Ken Towl, Selhurst Park, South Norwood, South Norwood Library, Wilfried Zaha
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Respected Rayner leaves Rams: ‘Change was going to come’
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: In his first interview since parting company with Croydon Athletic this week, former manager Kevin Rayner tells ANDREW SINCLAIR that he saw the changes coming, and reveals a further exit from the club Despite their team playing well, … Continue reading
Stormzy’s football club parts with 2 managers after 5 games
Even Ken Bates or “Deadly” Doug Ellis, old-school football club owners notorious for sacking their managers with alacrity, never got rid of two at the same time. But that’s what international grime star Stormzy did this week, less than three … Continue reading
Mayor Perry spends £140,000 on gym equipment for Monks Hill
Politics, they say, is all about priorities. So while Croydon Mayor Jason Perry takes away the £13,000 per year grant to the Selsdon Centre for the Retired and increases their rent, after hiking everyone’s Council Tax by 15%, up the … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Kirsty MacColl, Mayor Jason Perry, Monks Hill, Monks Hill Comprehensive, Monks Hill Sports Centre, Quest Academy, Selsdon, Selsdon High School, There's a Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish, Wilfried Zaha
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Football club’s new owner Stormzy is up for the FA Cup
Croydon Athletic’s first game under new ownership drew almost nine times their typical crowd from last season – and the 542nd person through the gate at the Mayfield Stadium for yesterday’s FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round was none other than … Continue reading
Athletic hoping their new season will go down a real Stormzy
NON-LEAGUE NEWS: The (not-so) big kick-off is less than 24 hours away… Here, ANDREW SINCLAIR, right, the go-to-expert for BBC 5 Live and BBC Radio London, looks ahead to what’s in store at Croydon Arena and the Mayfield Stadium The … Continue reading
Zaha transfer saga reaches sad end as player flies off to Turkey
So, farewell then, Wilf Zaha, Crystal Palace’s “G.O.A.T.” – Greatest Of All Time – who is to join Turkish champions Galatasaray on a free transfer with a three-year contract expected to be finalised in Istanbul today.
Planners taking a look at millionaires’ homes on Webb Estate
KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter, on the latest council consultation which seeks to provide a chimera of public input for the planning department’s latest wheeze in an area where Michael Buble, Wilf Zaha and Status Quo’s Francis Rossi have all … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Environment, History, Housing, Lord Roberts on the Green, Planning, Property, Purley, Webb Estate
Tagged Conservation area, Croydon, Croydon Council, Francis Rossi, London Borough of Croydon, Lord Roberts on the Green, Planning, Purley, Ron Noades, Upper Woodcote Village, Webb Estate, Webb Estate Society, Wilfried Zaha
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Stormzy and Zaha team up to buy their hometown football club
Thornton Heath superstars offer AFC Croydon Athletic fans the hope of having their ‘Wrexham moment’ Croydon Athletic, the phoenix club based in Thornton Heath which has battled through tough times over the past decade, this morning announced that it has … Continue reading
Posted in AFC Croydon Athletic, Football, Sport, Wilfried Zaha
Tagged AFC Croydon Athletic, Mayfield Stadium, Stormzy, Wilfried Zaha
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