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Needham Market is a Ryman League match, the visitors are currently in second place in the table. as The Hamlet continue to push for a play-off spot.

Barkingside is a London Senior Cup tie...a home match against our old & bitter rivals t****g & mitcham united, beckons for the victors in the quarter-finals.

And the Macclesfield Town game sees The Hamlet-only side from our level left in the competition-take on the former Football League side from the National League national division, in the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy. Only two rounds from Wembley....

To be honest I can't really answer that, I've been supporting The Hamlet for almost 43 years now, and when people ask me this I say 'I honestly don't know, it's the way I was brought up as a kid'!


There is a difference, in my opinion, between a local game & local rivalry. For example, a match against, say, Thamesmead Town or Greenwich Borough, would 'be just another game', even though they are local.


Again, my opinion only, rivalries can fluctuate. In the late 1890's to the turn of the last century, when we were playing very local football, I would say our rivalry would have been with Townley Park, but after the great amateur split of 1907, when they chose the AFA route, it became Nunhead FC, who were previously known as Wingfield House. They never came back after the Second World War, & Wimbledon became a big South London rival...t****g & mitcham joined the Isthmian League in the late Fifties, and Wimbledon left it in 1963, to join the professional ranks in the Southern League, so I would guess t*****g evolved as the natural local rivals then.


t*****g are still 'affectionately' referred to by fans of my generation as the 'thugs & muggers'.


There is also a recent dislike/hatred of Leatherhead AKa Levred-SCUM, after 'Wall-gate' in 2013.

Inbetweener Wrote:

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> To be honest I can't really answer that, I've been

> supporting The Hamlet for almost 43 years now, and

> when people ask me this I say 'I honestly don't

> know, it's the way I was brought up as a kid'!

>

> There is a difference, in my opinion, between a

> local game & local rivalry. For example, a match

> against, say, Thamesmead Town or Greenwich

> Borough, would 'be just another game', even though

> they are local.

>

> Again, my opinion only, rivalries can fluctuate.

> In the late 1890's to the turn of the last

> century, when we were playing very local football,

> I would say our rivalry would have been with

> Townley Park, but after the great amateur split of

> 1907, when they chose the AFA route, it became

> Nunhead FC, who were previously known as Wingfield

> House. They never came back after the Second World

> War, & Wimbledon became a big South London

> rival...t****g & mitcham joined the Isthmian

> League in the late Fifties, and Wimbledon left it

> in 1963, to join the professional ranks in the

> Southern League, so I would guess t*****g evolved

> as the natural local rivals then.

>

> t*****g are still 'affectionately' referred to by

> fans of my generation as the 'thugs & muggers'.

>

> There is also a recent dislike/hatred of

> Leatherhead AKa Levred-SCUM, after 'Wall-gate' in

> 2013.



Great post - cheers.

Reg Smeeton Wrote:

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> Somebody please explain, why does this American

> political journalist/broadcaster Keith Olbermann

> have Dulwich Hamlet listed in his profile?

>

Is he the most

> followed Dulwich Hamlet FC supporter on the

> planet?


He became a fan ("Finally I have found my Isthmian League club") when DHFC tweeted a picture of Trump's inauguration with the legend "We've had bigger crowds at Champion Hill."

dc Wrote:

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> For anyone unable to get to or possibly get into

> the game today, a commentary will be available via

> our visitors at this site from 2.55pm:

> http://mixlr.com/macclesfield-town-fc


That is so useful. (tu)

Wasn't able to get along as suffering with the bug that's doing the rounds. Will(or has) footage be appearing on Dulwich Hamlet T.V./You-Tube ? Can't find it as I post.


I hope they can go on and win the competition, being the only "bona-fide amateur" club still left in it. (I know this is an outdated concept/expression ie: now non-league or semi-professional, but I mean that all the other teams are "ex-league" teams).


It also seems to me that it is weighted against teams such as DHFC (further down the pyramid), with the replays being only a couple of days later and players possibly unable to get time off work at such short notice. Why aren't the replays scheduled for the following week (same thing with Braintree)? Anyone with better in depth knowledge?

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