Hughes Video Services

THE SUNDAY LEAGUE TEAM WHO HAVE BEEN
PROFESSIONALLY FILMING ALL THEIR MATCHES SINCE 1990 !

OFFICE ADDRESS

Flat 7, 18 Ladysmith Road, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 3AA

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HUGHES VIDEO SERVICES is the trading name for Edmonton Rovers Cameraman, Club Secretary & Chairman Laurence Hughes.

After filming Non-League & Amateur football matches for Clubs, the Corporate Sector, Scouting Organisations and Television & Internet companies professionally since 1990, Laurence retired as a full-time cameraman in January 2025 having become an Old Age Pensioner at the age of 66, but (depending on his health & fitness) he will still be voluntarily filming Edmonton Rovers matches on Sunday mornings and also doing occasional paid work (including freelance filming) on Saturdays, in midweek and when Edmonton Rovers do not have a fixture arranged.

Laurence was one of the originators of filming Non-League, Sunday League & Youth League football matches in London and surrounding counties in the early-1990’s and his expertise in the art of one-camera match filming is still very much in evidence 35 years later.

Contact details and Filming, Editing & Production prices can be found below.

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OPTION ONE	FILMING A MATCH & PROVIDING UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF THE WHOLE GAME ONLY
PRICE		£100.00
All matches under this Option will be filmed in 1080p, 35Mbps, 50fps MP4 format (using a Canon XA60 camera) unless we are instructed otherwise. The £100.00 charge includes the hirer supplying us with a suitable SD Card on which to record the raw (best quality) footage onto, or alternatively the footage can be file-transferred online within 24 hours after the match and in a lower specification (e.g. MP4 1080p 50fps 7-10Mbps) if necessary. Payment must be made in full before receiving our footage of the match. (Apart from when freelancing for other companies where end-of-month payments apply).

OPTION TWO	FILMING A MATCH & EDITING UP TO 30 MINUTES OF HIGHLIGHTS (including Titles, Graphics & Slow-Motion Replays) for uploading to YOU TUBE & PROVIDING UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF THE WHOLE GAME
THIS IS THE SERVICE WE PROVIDE FOR EDMONTON ROVERS MATCHES (which you can view on the hughesvideo You Tube channel)
PRICE		£150.00
ADDITIONAL COST FOR HIGHLIGHTS COMMENTARY			£50.00
Matches will be filmed in 1080p, 35Mbps, 50fps MP4 format using a Canon XA60 camera, with the edited & produced highlights being uploaded to our You Tube channel (or transferred via Dropbox) in a lower MP4 1080p 50fps 20Mbps specification. Raw (unedited) Whole Match footage to be converted to a lower (MP4 1080p 50fps 7-10Mbps) specification suitable for online file transfer or uploading to a You Tube channel. £75.00 deposit to be paid before the match. No highlights editing OR unedited footage uploading/distribution to be undertaken until the balance is paid. If the team booking us loses the match and are then unable to pay the balance, their opponents can do so instead. Subject to payment & workload, highlights online within 48 hours of the match finishing. If only one team pays for filming, highlights can be uploaded as 'Unlisted' (if requested) so that only that team will be able to view them. Please be aware that for Youth matches, your opponents will have to give parental permission for highlights to be set as publicly-viewable on You Tube in addition to granting permission for the match to be filmed in the first place.

Further details regarding payment & delivery will be given to clubs in a Confirmation Of Booking letter which will be e-mailed to them should they order our services.

OUR ‘NON-LEAGUE’ FILMING HISTORY

We started off our coverage of Non-League Football back in the early 1990's when Laurence Hughes persuaded his local club, ENFIELD F.C. that by filming all their matches Home and Away and selling copies of the Match Videos in their club shop, it would be a good fund-raising venture. This was immediately taken up, and although we filmed the games free of charge, it proved to be a worthwhile exercise as Enfield F.C. were a successful club at the time and enough money was made from the sales of Match Videos and Compilations to continue filming them on a regular basis throughout the 1990’s. However, as Enfield's fan-base dwindled thereafter due to the sale of their Southbury Road ground and the consequent financial difficulties, we therefore needed to film for a club with bigger support in order to continue as a business, so we agreed to cover ALDERSHOT TOWN during the 1998-1999 Season, mainly due to former Enfield Manager George Borg inviting us to do so after he had been appointed as Manager there for that season. Although we sold three times as many copies of Match Videos and Compilations than we ever did at Enfield, the journey to Aldershot from our base in Edmonton was just too long and we had to decline their offer to continue filming their matches the following season as we were wasting too much time stuck on the dreaded M25 !

We then took a season off to concentrate on designing the original version of this website and the one for our sponsored Sunday League club Edmonton Rovers, while we also used the time to experiment with new computer-based production ideas and catch up on a large backlog of editing work. We then resumed filming Non-League football half-way through the 2000-2001 Season when we covered FARNBOROUGH TOWN’s run-in to the Ryman League Premier Division title under former Enfield player Graham Westley, this proving to be another successful venture for us. Again though, we declined the offer to continue filming for them the following season due to the travelling involved, and for Season 2001-2002 onwards we decided to start covering several different Non-League clubs by just picking and choosing a match each week where we thought there might be a possibility of selling copies to supporters who had not purchased any of our videos before. This coincided with the formation of ENFIELD TOWN F.C. by disenchanted Enfield supporters, and we covered a large number of their games in addition to several for the likes of Dulwich Hamlet, Bishop's Stortford and Cheshunt amongst others, although sales of videos were rather disappointing and it appeared that the novelty was starting to wear off for some clubs.

In 2003 we then received an offer from the Footballers Football Channel to film all Home matches for Nationwide Conference clubs GRAVESEND & NORTHFLEET and DAGENHAM & REDBRIDGE, in which the footage was to be broadcast on the Internet. We immediately took up the offer as it was the first time we had actually been paid for filming and it guaranteed us an income rather than relying on sales of Match Videos. While we were working for the Footballers Football Channel (otherwise known as T.F.F.C.), we did not have access to the footage after matches in order to produce Match Videos, but the venture did not last long anyway as T.F.F.C. unfortunately went bust within a year. Fortunately, when that happened (in early 2004), Gravesend & Northfleet (now known as EBBSFLEET UNITED) agreed to pay us themselves to continue filming every Home match, and with Dagenham & Redbridge deciding to use their own club cameraman, we therefore accepted an offer from Ryman League Premier Division leaders CANVEY ISLAND to film all their Home matches as well (on the same paid basis as Gravesend & Northfleet) for the 2003-2004 Season. That proved to be a wise move, as Canvey Island won the title that season and were then promoted to the Nationwide Conference as well. We then continued to film for both Gravesend & Northfleet and Canvey Island for the 2004-2005 Season as they both invariably played at Home on alternate Saturdays, but when GRAYS ATHLETIC were promoted into the Conference for the 2005-2006 Season, Gravesend and Canvey's Home matches then clashed, so we decided to take up an offer to film for Grays as well so that we would be filming every Saturday and we therefore filmed all Home matches for all three clubs during the 2005-2006 Season.

Unfortunately, Canvey Island voluntarily dropped out of the Conference at the start of the 2006-2007 Season to play at a lower level, so we therefore filmed Home games for Gravesend & Northfleet (Ebbsfleet United) and Grays Athletic only thereafter, whilst also providing footage to Conference TV for showing on the internet and then Setanta for their TV broadcasts until their demise.

At the end of the 2009-2010 Season, both Ebbsfleet United and Grays Athletic were relegated from the Blue Square Bet Premier Division, with Grays voluntarily dropping right down to Division One North of the Ryman League and selling their Home ground to property developers. They now ground-share elsewhere and unfortunately can no longer afford to use our services. Highlights of Grays Athletic matches filmed during the 2009-2010 Season can be found here on our You Tube channel.

During Season 2010-2011 we continued to film Home matches for Ebbsfleet United and we also took up an offer to film a number of Home matches for SUTTON UNITED. This turned out to be a successful season for us as Ebbsfleet ended up gaining promotion back to the Blue Square Bet Premier Division after winning a memorable South Division Play-Off Final, while Sutton won the Ryman League Premier Division to gain promotion to the Blue Square Bet South Division. Highlights of those Sutton United matches filmed can be found here on our You Tube channel.
We then continued to film for Ebbsfleet for the next two seasons, but our nine-year spell filming for the club ended at the end of Season 2012-2013 due to them coming under new ownership and bringing their own staff in to do the job.
From the start of Season 2013-2014 we began filming all Home games plus selected Away games for then Southern League Division One side SLOUGH TOWN for two and a half seasons. This arrangement was made by Ebbsfleet United's former owners MyFootballClub (MyFC), who had begun sponsoring the club. Goal highlights of those games can still be found on Slough Town’s own You Tube Channel in addition to our You Tube Channel. Slough Town were groundsharing at Beaconsfield SYCOB FC at the time, with their hosts allowing a permanent gantry to film the matches to be erected, as you can see in the picture on the right. This gantry was then enhanced for Season 2017-2018 when we began filming for Beaconsfield SYCOB in Division One of the Southern League themselves, having now changed their name to BEACONSFIELD TOWN.
During our time filming for Slough Town, we also covered some Home matches for Ryman League Division One side Harlow Town during Season 2013-2014 and then for Spartan South Midlands Premier Division side St.Margaretsbury during the 2014-2015 Season. Highlights of those St. Margaretsbury matches filmed can be found here on our You Tube channel.

Our main focus for Seasons 2016-2017 & 2017-2018 though was on UNITED LONDON, who were an internet ‘Pick The Team’ club playing below Step 7 level in the Premier Division of the Essex Alliance League. Their Home pitch for their first season was at Hackney Marshes and they then moved to a caged 3G pitch in Romford for their second season. That project finished after just two seasons, but we covered every match for them, Home and Away. Unfortunately that footage is no longer available on You Tube.
From Season 2018-2019 onwards, we returned to filming all Home games for EBBSFLEET UNITED after what was a five-year absence. This situation came about as a result of broadcasters BT Sport requesting that all National League Premier Division clubs use media students to film the matches for them on a voluntary basis each week. However, clubs were given the option to hire professional camera operators to film the games instead and then pay those operators themselves, which is what Ebbsfleet chose to do. The main reason for that is because the students are invariably part of the coaching staff as performance analysts and had therefore been filming the games on a wide angle which is not suitable for match highlights viewing, and that had been the case at Ebbsfleet during the previous five years. We therefore filmed Ebbsfleet’s matches primarily for TV broadcasting and for the club themselves to edit & produce their own match highlights. Those highlights can be viewed here on Ebbsfleet United’s You Tube channel.

Laurence Hughes then decided to resign as Ebbsfleet’s cameraman and go into semi-retirement just before the start of Season 2023-2024 due to a cancer diagnosis and ‘old age’ and he now only does the occasional freelance filming work for FC Video in covering other Non-League clubs on Saturday afternoons and Tuesday evenings.

FOOTAGE OF MATCHES FILMED BEFORE AUGUST 2009

Please note that videos/footage/DVDs of matches played before August 2009 are no longer available to purchase.

Everything we have filmed from August 2009 onwards can be found on our You Tube channel and viewed for free...apart from when we were filming for certain clubs, TV or internet companies who owned the copyright and uploaded the footage to their own social media platforms.

Please note that between 1990 (when we first started) and August 2003, everything we filmed was mastered on now-obsolete S-VHS tapes. Unfortunately these tapes are now in such poor condition that they invariably break and/or chew up when they are inserted into S-VHS players. Also, S-VHS tapes will not play back in the standard VHS players that are currently on the market for VHS to DVD or VHS to digital conversions. If we manage to successfully transfer any footage from an S-VHS master tape to a digital format, it will then be uploaded to our You Tube channel ONLY, as we will no longer be producing DVDs.

Please note that between August 2003 & August 2009 we produced DVDs of matches which are not on our You Tube channel, but we do still have the DVD master copies. As we no longer produce DVD’s for sale from those master copies, we may be able to upload the footage to our You Tube channel on request for a payment of £50.00, thereby allowing all players to watch the match. Please note that payment must be made online by bank transfer ONLY.

OUR SUNDAY LEAGUE FILMING HISTORY

Since way back in 1990, we have covered a number of Cup Finals for amateur Men’s (and occasionally Ladies) Sunday League teams in London and surrounding counties (e.g. Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Kent & Surrey). These Cup Finals invariably take place at the end of each season during March, April & May, and over the years we were assisted by experienced freelance cameramen in coping with filming several matches at different venues on the same day.

Most of the bookings we received to film Cup Finals were as a result of one of the participating teams reaching a Final after beating our sponsored club Edmonton Rovers in an earlier round and then buying a copy of the Match Video/DVD or watching highlights of the match on our You Tube channel.

However, with Hughes Video Services owner Laurence Hughes having been Secretary of Edmonton Rovers since their formation way back in 1976, he has consequently built up a number of contacts in Men's Sunday Football in London and surrounding areas during that time, and several Cup Finals have therefore been filmed on the basis of a good reputation.

In addition to Men’s Sunday League clubs, we have also filmed numerous Cup Finals for ‘grass-roots/park teams’ in Saturday football as a result of their players playing for Sunday League Clubs who have either faced Edmonton Rovers or hired us to film Sunday League Cup Finals.

‘FOOTBALL FOR FANS’ ADULT MENS TOURNAMENTS

Between 2007 and 2016, we filmed the Frank McAvennie Adults Tournaments every Summer at West Ham United's old Boleyn Ground for Football For Fans in addition to other Tournaments that they organised at venues such as Southampton’s St. Mary’s Stadium and Norwich City’s Carrow Road amongst others.

Unfortunately, Football For Fans decided to call it a day once West Ham United moved out of the Boleyn Ground, but we still have DVD Master Copies and digitally-saved footage from these Tournaments that we may be able to upload to You Tube at some stage in the future.

Please note that we will no longer be taking on the organisation of filming, editing & production of Tournaments, as our cameraman Laurence Hughes is now in retirement.

MENS’ SUNDAY LEAGUE MATCHES AGAINST EDMONTON ROVERS F.C.

All Edmonton Rovers matches are filmed by Laurence Hughes (Club Secretary & owner of Hughes Video Services), so if your Sunday Team is lucky enough to be playing them, then you will not have to pay a filming fee to watch the match highlights on You Tube (which you would have to do if you booked us to film a Cup Final for example).

Highlights of matches from Season 2007-2008 onwards plus those from the 2002-2003 Season are now showing here on our You Tube channel if you would like to view some of our footage of Edmonton Rovers in action and see an example of our work. If your team are playing Edmonton Rovers and your Club Secretary or Manager supplies Laurence Hughes with your team line-up on the day (i.e. shirt numbers, full names of players and what position they are playing in), then this information will be displayed in the opening titles on You Tube (exactly as they do on 'Match of the Day' and on Sky). Goal Of The Season and Goal Of The Decade clips of Edmonton Rovers players can also be viewed on our You Tube channel and you can find the links to those goals in The Videos section here on the Edmonton Rovers F.C. Website.

Please note that if Edmonton Rovers reach a Cup Final...which unfortunately does not happen very often !... as in League matches against them, their opponents will not have to pay a filming, editing & production fee in order to view our highlights of the match.

Links to Edmonton Rovers Match highlights on You Tube can be found in the Archive Section of this website. (Just click on a season and go to Match Reports).

OUR YOUTH LEAGUE FILMING HISTORY

Since way back in 1990, we covered a number of Cup Finals for Youth teams of all age groups in London and surrounding counties (i.e. Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Kent & Surrey). These Cup Finals invariably took place at the end of each season during March, April & May, and and over the years we were assisted by experienced freelance cameramen in coping with filming several matches at different venues on the same day.

Back in the early 1990's, we gained most of our bookings to film Youth Team Cup Finals as a result of us filming regularly for Enfield F.C. in the Isthmian League on Saturdays. A number of Enfield's supporters were involved in local Youth Football, either with Enfield F.C.'s own Youth Teams or with clubs in the same League, and having bought Match Videos or Compilations already, they therefore had no hesitation in using our services whenever their teams reached a Cup Final as they were fully aware of the quality of video that we could produce.

With many of these teams reaching County Cup Finals, it therefore resulted in teams from other areas becoming aware of our services and booking us to film future matches, so we gradually managed to cover Youth Team matches all over London and surrounding counties since then.

‘FOOTBALL FOR FANS’ YOUTH TOURNAMENTS

Between 2008 & 2014, we filmed the George Parris Boys’ Tournaments every Summer at West Ham United's Boleyn Ground for Football For Fans in addition to other Tournaments that they organised at venues such as Southampton’s St. Mary’s Stadium and Norwich City’s Carrow Road amongst others.

The George Parris Tournament saw the pitch split up into four Mini-Soccer pitches, so we therefore had cameramen filming from the Upper Tiers on the half-way line of each pitch and another cameraman down at pitch level filming the opening parades and also the presentation ceremonies at the end of the Tournament.

Please note that we will no longer be taking on the organisation of filming, editing & production of Tournaments, as our cameraman Laurence Hughes is now in retirement.

FAMOUS PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED IN YOUTH MATCHES WE HAVE FILMED

We have filmed numerous players in Youth Team Cup Finals over the years who have gone on to play professionally, with several becoming Premier League stars and even Internationals. The most famous of these are undoubtedly Manchester City & England’s Raheem Sterling, who we filmed playing for Brent Schools U-14’s in 2009, Chelsea & England's Ashley Cole, who we captured on film playing for Westward Boys in 1992 and 1993 and for Hackney & Tower Hamlets Schools in 1996, and his former Chelsea & England team-mate Joe Cole, who was filmed playing in two Cup Finals for Chapel Boys Under-12's in 1994. (See picture left). We have also filmed the likes of Tottenham's Ledley King, Aston Villa's Luke Young & Queens Park Rangers’ Shaun Wright-Phillips playing for amateur Youth Teams in their early days, all three of these players being England Internationals of course. In addition to those five players, there are others on the books of Premier League or Nationwide League Clubs who we have filmed playing in Cup Finals for various Youth Teams since 1990 and there will certainly be many more who will make a breakthrough in the next few years.