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THE SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAM WHO HAVE BEEN |
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NEW PLAYERS WISHING TO JOIN - PLEASE NOTE |
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OUR TEAM & THE LEAGUE WE PLAY IN - UPDATED |
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Several teams in the Barnet Sunday League play in the London Borough of Enfield like ourselves, while others play in the Boroughs of Barnet and Haringey. We joined this League in 2016 after the Waltham Sunday League (which we had previously been in for 28 years) folded. Our first season in the Barnet Sunday League saw us win the Division Two title, but we then struggled in Division One for four seasons (including two disrupted by Covid), so we therefore decided to withdraw when the lockdown ended in April 2021 to re-start the club in the bottom division the following season with our current new group of (then) 16 & 17-year-old players. |
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We will be playing in the Barnet Sunday League’s ROGER JONES SENIOR CHALLENGE CUP, which is for all teams in the League, and also the JOHN MOTSON JUNIOR CHALLENGE CUP, which is for all teams in Divisions One, Two & Three. Other Cup competitions will be arranged during the season if teams start dropping out and if there is no backlog of fixtures caused by the weather. These are normally drawn on a Group basis initially with the winners then progressing through to the knockout stages. |
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Click on the London F.A. Sunday Junior Cup link above to view the Draw & Results from this season’s competition once they appear from late-August onwards. |
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We also have a kit donated to us by one of our Greats Of The Past Kieran McGregor, which is Blue & White Striped Shirts, Blue Shorts & Blue Socks. However, that kit and the Black & White kit only have enough shirts for a squad of 14, so if we have an important game where a full squad of 18 can be used, we may then wear our long-standing second kit of Orange Shirts, Black Shorts & Black Socks. |
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After several Hermosa’s website can be found at livehermosa.com and they can also be followed on Instagram @livehermosa. Sponsors logos and details will be featured at the start of all of our You Tube match highlights throughout the season. |
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Club Secretary For highlights from the current season, visit the Match Reports page and click on the yellow Highlights links. For highlights from previous seasons, go to the Archive Section on this website, then once you have chosen a Season, click on Match Reports and choose the yellow highlights link of the match you want to watch. |
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Thanks to negotiations made by ‘our unofficial Vets team’ Whitewebbs Vets (who have several players registered with This is a private ground used by Herts Senior County League (Step 7) side Hinton’s Reserve & U-23 teams on Saturdays, and unlike our Home ground last season at Enfield Playing Fields, it has changing rooms, showers, toilets, car parking near to the pitch and a clubhouse/bar for our use afterwards. In addition to that, the goalnets will already be up for us, so we will no longer have to bring and put up our own. We have not had proper facilities like this since we were forced to leave the Edmonton Sports & Social Club back in 2023 when Norsemen expanded their Youth section over there, so this new venue should help us attract good new players and keep our existing ones. Due to cricket being the main sport played at Holtwhites, the football pitch will not be available over there until the 27th September and Whitewebbs Vets will be given preference to use it on that date as they have been using the venue for several years. (We will be sharing the pitch with them on alternate Sundays this season). Unfortunately this is only a one-season agreement due to Womens football being given priority for Sundays at Holtwhites from Season 2027-2028 onwards, so we will have to hope that Enfield Council receive some funding to build new changing rooms & toilets at their venues within the next year or so when we are likely to have to return to using a Council pitch. The Holtwhites Sports & Social Club is situated right next-door to Gordon Hill Station, which is on the Great Northern line between Stevenage & Moorgate. For those travelling from Hertford or Cuffley on a Sunday, trains arrive at Gordon Hill at 9.31 & 10.01 am (for a 10.30 am Kick-Off) and for those travelling from Moorgate, Highbury & Islington or Finsbury Park, trains arrive at 9.23, 9.53 & 10.23 am…depending how much of a Pre-Match warm-up you want ! On exiting the station, turn right into an alleyway at the end of the car park which leads into Kirkland Drive and the ground is at the end of the housing estate. It’s just a five-minute walk from the station exit to the club entrance. If the trains are not running, the W9 bus (from Southgate Tube Station) stops right outside the ground in Holtwhites Hill and the W8 (from Edmonton Green or Enfield Town) stops outside Gordon Hill Station. |
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All players are added to a club ‘Player Availability Group’ on Whatsapp once they are registered to play for us. A Poll is then created in that group for each match where players then inform us whether they are available or not. |
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All League & Cup Matches in the Barnet Sunday League generally Kick-Off at 10.30.am., as do the majority of matches in London F.A. Sunday Cup Competitions. However, due to a lot more teams joining the League in recent seasons without a pitch available for them to play in the morning, an increasing number of Away matches will Kick-Off at any time between 12.00 mid-day and 2.00 pm. This is now a League rule and Away teams can no longer opt out due to other commitments in the afternoons. If you are going to be late for the pre-match warm-up or have to cry off on the morning of the match, please post a message in the Club WhatsApp Group or contact whoever is Manager on the day as soon as possible. Players who are not at the ground in time for the warm-up could find themselves being named as a substitute or left out of the squad altogether (at the Team Manager’s discretion). All players who do not drive are expected to make their own arrangements for a lift from their relatives, team-mates, or by using public transport. If players cause a late kick-off by arriving late, they will have to share the cost of the fine between them if the club is fined by the League. |
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FAILING TO TURN UP FOR A MATCH |
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Any player named in a squad who does not turn up for a match without informing a member of the Management Committee of the reason beforehand will be suspended for the next match unless the Team Manager decides otherwise. |
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Club Members who are not in the squad for a particular match and are not in the WhatsApp Group will not be contacted, so if they intend coming along to watch the game, they are advised to check with Laurence Hughes or the Team Manager first to see if the game is still on. In the case of frozen pitches, local Council groundsmen do not call the games off and leave it up to the referee to make a decision, which means we all have to turn up at the venue even if it seems ‘obvious’ that the game will not go ahead. If the opposition are there but the majority of our players don’t bother to turn up because they think the game will be off, then the opposing team will be given the points even if the referee deems the pitch unplayable. |
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Due to most of our players either being away at University during the week or doing jobs where they have to do evening shifts, we will not be arranging midweek training sessions this season. |
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PRE-SEASON TRAINING & FRIENDLIES |
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We normally meet on the pitches behind the trees on the left as you enter the Ladysmith Road car park, the postcode of which is EN1 3AJ. All players must arrive at the venue by 10.00.a.m. for the Sunday morning sessions and as soon as they can after work or college for the midweek evening sessions, which we will try and start at 6.30 pm. We will start training for each session as soon as we have enough players changed and ready. Players who are running late or have decided not to attend when they originally said they would be MUST either leave a message in the Club WhatsApp Group or inform whoever is in charge of the session. Please note that there will be no use of any changing rooms (or floodlights) for Pre-Season Training at Enfield Playing Fields, so players will therefore not be charged any ‘subs’ for attending. Players are also advised to bring their own water (and insect repellant !) Pre-Season Friendlies will be arranged during July & August depending on pitch and player availability. Any Pre-Season Friendlies that are arranged will be announced on the Forthcoming Fixtures page. |
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There are no longer any paper forms to fill in and no signatures required. Players from the previous season will be automatically re-registered to play for the club this season once they have informed the Team Manager that they are still interested and have been added to the club WhatsApp Groups. This will be treated as them giving their ‘Offline Consent’ on the Club Portal for their registration. The deadline for players to be registered to play for us in our first League match of the season is 12.00 mid-day on the Saturday before the match, and that deadline then applies for all Sundays thereafter up until the end-of-season registration deadline on the 31st March. |
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Club Secretaries/Team Managers are then allowed to view their opponents Squad Lists on their arrival at the ground so that they can check for unregistered players before the kick-off and stop them from playing (or claim the match afterwards). This is optional though and most teams do not bother. Club Secretaries/Managers also have to give their starting line-ups, substitutes names and shirt numbers to both the Referee and the opposing Secretary/Manager via WhatsApp 15 minutes before the Kick-Off, and they also have to list their line-ups, goalscorers and Referee’s mark from the match on the Full-Time system by the following evening, otherwise they are heavily fined. Players can therefore get on with their pre-match warm-ups instead of having to sign anything and it is a much better system than was used when we first joined the League. |
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For Season 2026-2027, we will once again be charging all registered players a £25.00 ‘Signing-On Fee’ which has to be paid before they play in a competitive match for us this season. This deadline may also include playing in Pre-Season Friendlies depending on when they are arranged and how soon we need the money to pay our Home pitch fees this season. If we are unable to obtain the necessary level of sponsorship that would allow our players to play every match free of charge (once their signing-on fee has been paid), players will have to pay £10.00 per match this season as our new Home pitch is a lot more expensive than the one we used last season. Players who play for less than 15 minutes in a match will not be charged for that particular match. All signing-on fees and match subscriptions must either be paid online into the club’s Lloyds Business account at 30-98-97 / 80271263 using the player’s name as the Reference or by cash payments made to our Assistant Treasurer Mike Jordanou at matches. (Cash is still needed to pay most Referees, although we prefer online payments). If a new player joins the club half-way through the season, they MUST still pay the £25.00 signing-on fee. |
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When a player is booked in a match and it is sent in to the London F.A. by the Referee, that player (or his parents/sponsor if they are under 18) must pay the London F.A.’s £12.00 fine/administration charge by re-imbursing the club. Players who are booked five times or more in a season while playing for us will be liable to a further F.A. Fine and a one match suspension. |
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When a player is Sent Off in a match and it is sent in to the London F.A. by the Referee, that player must pay the London F.A.’s fine/administration charge by re-imbursing the club. A Sending-Off for ‘Serious Foul Play’ is a TWO MATCH suspension and a £40.00 Fine. A Sending-Off for 'Swearing at the Referee' or for ‘Violent Conduct’ (e.g. Having a punch-up) is a THREE MATCH suspension and a £55.00 Fine. Players who are sent off more than once in a season are invariably given an additional one match (or more !) Suspension. Players who are Sent Off will not be played in matches (as a 'ringer') while they are under an F.A. Suspension. |
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BRINGING THE CLUB INTO DISREPUTE |
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During the past few seasons we have more-or-less phased out fining players ourselves. However, the Management Committee still have the power to suspend or expel any member who they have deemed to be ‘bringing the club into disrepute’ at training, matches or any other club functions. |
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All players are advised that if they play in any match for the club (including Friendlies), Referees will not allow them to take part if they do not have shinpads and/or if they are wearing jewellery. Also, in all competitive League & Cup matches, all outfield players must wear the same colour shorts & socks as provided by the club. Please note that the club do not always have spare pairs of shinpads or spare shorts & socks in the kit bag for when players genuinely forget to bring their own. |
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CLUB KIT USE AND DIRTY KIT COLLECTION AFTER MATCHES - UPDATED |
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This season, all players must continue to wear their own black shorts, green (or black) socks and shinpads and wash them themselves after each match. All shirts (including the goalkeeper’s) will be provided by the club, and these MUST be handed in immediately after each match and put in the white string ‘clothes washing’ bag which is normally kept in the black kit holdall. The only kit which should be in the black holdall at the end of the match is clean (unused) kit. We cannot afford to lose any club shirts from players taking them home after matches and then not playing in the next match. Our current green & white shirts are all short-sleeved, so if players wish to wear base layers or t-shirts underneath, they MUST be either green or white in colour. Referees who are being assessed will not permit any other colour to be worn that is visible underneath our shirts. If the black & white shirts are being worn, base layers will need to be black or white. On paying their £25.00 signing-on fee, subject to availability from further sponsorship, all NEW players to the club will be given a pair of club green socks to keep, wash and bring to each match themselves. Players can also buy their own plain black shorts (and socks for our black Away strip) and they can also cut the feet off the green club socks they are given (if they use Grip Socks). Plain base layers can be purchased from here: https://www.discountfootballkits.com/Base-Layer |
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Since the start of the 2013-2014 Season, we have had to pay for Player Injury Insurance as a club policy. This is now mandatory for all affiliated Sunday League Clubs and full details can be found here at Sportsguard. We generally go for the cheapest option which gives players a £50.00 per week payout if they are off work through injury. It's not much, but it is better than nothing…which is what we had for the first 38 years of our existence ! The cost of this insurance policy is paid for from club funds. |
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For many years since the club was formed back in 1976, we always used to award Marks out of 10 for each player and nominated a Man-of-the-Match after every game. However, that idea was scrapped for the start of the 2014-2015 Season and thereafter when Trevor Hughes emigrated to Cyprus and we appointed a succession of different Team Managers, all of whom felt it was disruptive to team spirit. However, with Club Secretary Laurence Hughes professionally filming every match, we continued to make use of the match footage for performance analysis, firstly by distributing a PDF of ‘Video Notes’ to players pointing out who may have been ‘at fault’ for goals along with other things that we can improve on, then when Tony McKay took over as Manager in 2016, he then studied whole matches himself from viewing the footage after games, which was something that our previous Managers never had time to do. Our players are now given access to watch an unedited version of the whole match on You Tube themselves so that they can analyse their own performances, but ideally we would like to take this even further by using companies to produce various stats on each player’s performance as all professional clubs and most Step 1-7 Semi-Pro Saturday clubs do nowadays. However, we will probably need a significant sponsorship for that ! |
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Since 1986 when we went on our first Club Tour to Holland, we have visited Germany (twice), Spain (twice), Belgium, the Isle of Wight and most recently Prague in 2001, but we have since had difficulties in arranging Club Tours because of family commitments and players leading different lifestyles nowadays. However, if the chance arises for us to undertake a Club Tour in the future, then we will of course try to arrange it if it is suitable for the majority of our players. Up until the last couple of seasons, we always held an Annual General Meeting & Presentation Night at the end of each season, but our new young group of players prefer to visit a nightclub instead and announce end-of-season awards there without trophies being presented. |
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OUR ATTITUDE |
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Our basic policy as a club is for our players to enjoy their football first and foremost. The large majority of our players are intelligent & well-educated and our relaxed attitude and good team spirit is complimented by the club being very well-run in terms of administration & on-the-field behaviour, and quite often we end up being the only club in the League not to get fined or have any players sent off during the course of a season. Indeed we won the Barnet Sunday League’s Sportsmanship Award for Season 2022-2023 for all 8 divisions from marks awarded by Referees and our opponents. We are very proud of our multi-racial, multicultural history where players of all sorts of nationalities and religions have successfully mixed together on and off the pitch ever since we were formed. We make every effort to ensure that both our squad and our Management Committee have a good mix of colours and creeds to accurately reflect the diversity of where we are based and to encourage social integration through football. Having won our first trophy for 29 years in 2016-2017, our aim is to eventually get back to where we were in the late-1990’s and early-2000’s by going up the divisions with a new young side who will stick together for several years and then eventually challenge for a Premier Division title (as we did back in Season 2002-2003 in the Waltham Sunday League). This would therefore allow us to enter the London F.A.’s top Sunday (Challenge) Cup competition and even compete in the F.A. National Sunday Cup. |
For Season 2026-2027 we will once again be running just the ONE adult mens 11-a-side team in 
Our current first choice kit is 
seasons of wearing the same Anthonisz Neville-sponsored Green & Black shirts, we finally found new shirt sponsors last season in
Laurence Hughes is a retired professional cameraman who specialises in the filming of Non-League football matches, and as such, every Edmonton Rovers match has been filmed (properly) since way back in February 1990 (except for about 20 occasions when he was needed as a player !).
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Quite often during the course of a season we have a number of matches called off at the ‘last minute’ (i.e. between 8.30.a.m. & 10.00.a.m.) on a Sunday morning due to waterlogged or frozen pitches. Whenever that happens, all players named in the squad will be informed via the club WhatsApp Group. If the weather looks 'dodgy', but you have not heard anything by 9.30.a.m. (for a 10.30 Kick-Off), then you MUST take it that the game is still on and turn up at the venue. Any player who wrongly assumes that a game will be called off and therefore stays in bed will be left out of the squad for the next match, and especially if it leaves us with less than eleven players.
Unlike other Leagues, the Barnet Sunday League no longer use paper teamsheets that have to be filled in and signed before the kick-off for each match. Instead, they use the Squad List PDF download facility from the F.A.’s Club Portal System that lists each team’s registered players together with their I.D. photos and their ages.
Unlike in the Waltham League (which we played in for 28 years), the Barnet Sunday League do not fine clubs who are unable to provide a 
e past few seasons we have had problems with proper goalkeepers making themselves unavailable now and again and outfield players having to go in goal instead (against their will). We therefore have a rule whereby