Used to be FC Dallas but is probably now some dodgy outfit playing out of Reynosa. And that is true bandit country. I am not prepared to risk life and limb to watch them.
I'm halfway between Betty's Cobblers (oo-err missus!) and Franchise FC. The local team use to be Wolverton Town, playing in various lower leagues, the last being the South Midlands League, before they folded in the 90's. Their ground boasted the oldest surviving wooden grandstand, which was taken down when Wolverton Park was converted into a luxury residential development, but has been restored and re-erected by popular demand, overlooking what used to be the pitch and is now a landscaped park. I remember the Hornets playing a pre-season friendly there in the 1980's. Anyone else go to that?
Way better than the Bobber's Stand, have a look http://www.playedinbritain.co.uk/news-full/20090915-restoration-of-wolverton-park.php The forbidding brick cliff behind the stand is a part of the once mighty Wolverton railway works. The gournd is sandwiched between the bulk of the works on tha side, and the Euston mainline which is behind the other touchline.
Nobody has mentioned Wealdstone or Harrow Borough, my local teams when I lived in North Harrow as a kid .
The "Railway Works" at Wolverton is still very much alive and in business today, thanks to a takeover by a German company Knorr-Bremse after the original owners went into administration. However, it is much reduced from its halcyon days under the London & North Western Railway, the London Midland & Scottish Railway and British Rail. For those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverton_railway_works
Getting off topic, sorry, but. Yes Vic, you're quite right and some of my friends still have jobs. But back in the day it really was the works. They used to say 'if Derby, Crewe or Swindon can't do it, send it to Wolverton, they'll be able to.' Sadly, Wolverton has suffered like many single industry towns.
