Here's a bit of history from the climax of last season - a final appearance in the top flight of the two last remaining founder members teams from the casuals league. At the beginning of May both Barely Athletic and Hill Farm met in a bottom of the table clash that saw both say goodbye to their continuous runs in that division. That had both been there when the casuals were a single division of misfits, sufficiently old fat and knackered even back in the day when we rekindled a true Corinthian spirit of Sunday football that has characterised the league ever since. The picture of the teams has Tony Wilner of Hill Farm shaking hands with Barely’s Nick Ambler to his right and Richie Cormack to his left. All three played in the first fixture between the teams when they first met. For the record it was Barely who this time took the spoils but it was a new form of local football that has been the real winner. Almost a generation ago we started a new kind of local league and after the final whistle Barely have gone forwards with a new adventure in the beautiful game, for the really old, very fat and totally knackered and the new over 45s league.
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