I played a couple of seasons for South London Wanderers in the mid 80’s. They were a fantastic group of lads and included Andrew Mighty and his mate Roy. I spent many a hour getting across London to training and matches in the back of a builders van. I think I played a couple of games at Herne Hill but most of the games were at Gunnersbury Park. The main opposition at that time were the Colonials and I think we mostly got the better of them. I remember a London Cup final win against St Mary’s? After the win we were invited to the New Zealand High Commission and performed the Haka on stage.
Lots of Sunday morning games ended with being locked in the cellar at the ‘Church’ until the pubs were allowed to open again. I played some of the games in the NWC league, including one where we travelled all the way to Pilkingtons I think only for the game to be called off for a frozen pitch.
In I think 1990 I got selected to play for a Southern select team to play Russia as a curtain raiser for the GB v Australia test at Wembley. The side were coached by the Moroccan ex pro Hussein M’BarkI.