If you had just caught the scoreline, you might have been forgiven for thinking that Clapton had switched disciplines and taken up Rugby Union. Saturday’s game with Hereford Palace provided, on average, a goal every 7 and a half minutes to entertain a brilliant crowd of 400-plus in the autumn sun. Player-manager Geoff Ocran named […]
In the absence of a competitive fixture, the Clapton CFC squad played a bounce game between ourselves on our 3G training pitch next door to the Stray Dog. With player-manager Geoff Ocran and several players away, there was also a chance for a few trialists to shine. All the players were able to notch up […]
The sun gods finally decided to make their way over to E17 for a Tons home game, which helped bring out a huge family-friendly crowd for the first round of the Anagram Records Trophy against Epping Town. There was noise from two sides of the ground with a large bloc of the Brigata Italiana behind the […]
Given fans have spent two soggy Saturdays under gazebos at a rainy Stray Dog, it was inevitable that a game under the sheltered stands of Walthamstow FC would feature scorching temperatures more than ten degrees above average. The friendly fixture held the oddity of being possibly the most local derby in football; the Tons taking […]
Clapton Community FC’s Non-League Day cup tie against Epping Town this Saturday was unfortunately postponed for a week due to our opposition’s involvement in another competition. However, the show must go on, so there’s a feelgood Friday friendly fundraiser instead. And it’s local. Very local. So local that one of Deano’s clearances from the Stray […]
There was a deluge of rain and a deluge of goals before Clapton Community FC just missed out on a win in their very first league home game with a heartbreaking late leveller. The weather gods are clearly against us, with East London only seeing two days of rain in the entire month, both falling […]
Clapton Community FC members were delighted to welcome the mayor of our spiritual home borough of Newham to our game on Saturday. Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, who has enacted major change to Newham politics in the six months since being elected, braved the rain in Walthamstow and was treated to an eight-goal thriller. She was joined at […]
It’s another milestone day as Clapton Community FC play their first league game at our temporary home. The Tons come into the game off the back of away wins at Ealing Town and South Kilburn Reserves sandwiching a nail-biting defeat at a damp Stray Dog in the cup against Hutton FC a fortnight ago. Our […]
Clapton Community FC made the trip across town to Wembley on a perfect late September day to take on South Kilburn Reserves in the first round of the Jim Rogers Presidents Division One Cup. The venue, Northwick Park, could not have been more basic, with no roped off pitch, bench or even changing rooms. However, […]
Clapton CFC’s first cup adventure ended in heartbreak last week in the nine-goal thriller in the BBC Essex Premier Cup against Hutton FC. However, don’t fret, there are still two more cup competitions for Geoff Ocran’s side to go for silverware – and it starts in Wembley on Saturday. Our opponents, South Kilburn Reserves, are […]
