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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 from Division One downwards. As there are only 8 teams in our Division (due to teams dropping out), we will also be playing in the RICHARD MARTIN MEMORIAL CUP, which will also be for teams in Divisions 3 & 4 only and will be played on a Group basis initially, therefore making up for the missing League fixtures. |
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We were unable to field a team for last season’s First Round match (Away in Sidcup) for that reason and this will be the first time since we became F.A.-Affiliated in 1985 that we have not entered a County Cup competition. Hopefully we can do so again in future seasons once our current players are older. 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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Our change strip is Orange Shirts, Black Shorts & Black Socks. |
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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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From 2015 up until May 2023 we played our Home games at a private ground, the Edmonton Sports & Social Club, but that venue is now only being used for Youth football on Sundays. As Clowes Sports Ground is an Enfield Council Ground, we have to put goalnets and corner flagposts up ourselves before each Home match. This may be done on a rota basis organised by the Team Manager. |
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF SQUADS & UNAVAILABILITY FOR MATCHES - UPDATED |
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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 and a lack of pitches available for them all 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. However, if players are on a rota for putting the goalnets up, then they must arrive one hour before the kick-off. 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 - UPDATED |
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All sessions will be held at Enfield Playing Fields with us meeting 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 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. The deadline for players to be registered to play for us in our first League match of the season is 6.00 pm on the Friday evening before the match, and that Friday evening 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 then exchange their Squad Lists with each other via WhatsApp when confirming the fixture so that their opponents can check for unregistered players before the kick-off or even during the game and then stop them from playing (or claim the match afterwards). 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 2024-2025, we will be charging all registered players a £25.00 ‘Signing-On Fee’ which has to be paid before they play in a match for us this season. That includes playing in Pre-Season Friendlies. Players will then pay £5.00 per match whether they play a full 90 minutes or are substituted/come on as a substitute. 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 new Assistant Treasurer Mike Jordanou at matches or training sessions. (Cash is still needed to pay most Referees). 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 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. The club do have a couple of spare pairs of shinpads in the kit bag for when players genuinely forget to bring their own, but these must not be used as your first-choice pair every week. Also, in all competitive League & Cup matches, all outfield players must wear the same colour shorts & socks as provided by the club. |
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CLUB KIT USE AND DIRTY KIT COLLECTION AFTER MATCHES - UPDATED |
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This season, all players will continue to keep and wear their own shorts, socks and shinpads and wash them themselves after each match. However, 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 in the black kit bag. The only kit which should be in the black kit bag 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 as the company that manufactured them have now gone bust. On paying their £25.00 signing-on fee, subject to availability, all NEW players to the club will be given a pair of squad-numbered black shorts and forest green socks to keep, wash and bring to each match themselves. Players can also buy their own spares as well if they wish. Plain BLACK 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 where we no longer have a 'pub drinking culture'. 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. Nowadays, our only club social event each year is our Annual General Meeting & Presentation Night, which is normally held at the end of June or early-July. In addition to the Trophy Presentations & Agenda, we show a Goal Of The Season Competition and other match video footage and it is always a good 'night out' when we can get a reasonable number to attend. Unfortunately though, due to a lack of interest, we have not been able to arrange a Presentation Night for the past two seasons. Also, with us now having to play Home matches on Council pitches instead of at a private ground with a clubhouse & bar, our players have generally gone straight home after matches, but we have now appointed a Social Secretary for Season 2024-2025 now that our players are all aged 18+ and it is hoped that we can start getting social events and post-match drinking sessions arranged as we used to in the past. |
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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 recently won our first trophy for 29 years (in 2016-2017), our aim is to eventually get back to where we were in Season 2002-2003 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), which 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 2024-2025 we will once again be running just the ONE adult mens 11-a-side team in the
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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 Whole Game (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