Quote bren2k="bren2k"The very notion of a single club covering 'London' is potty - it's a massive area and has no single identity, hence the fact that it supports god knows how many wendyball teams who get massive crowds on a weekly basis.
What they really need is all the money that is currently slashed up against the wall on the SL club, to be redirected to the grassroots game - i.e junior teams, schools development and community work, with 2 or 3 lower league teams, covering more of the conurbations, for those people and their families to support.
A SL club may emerge naturally from that in a number of years, but it's become clear that a SL team can't be hot-housed; it hasn't worked in London and it didn't work in Wales.'"
Kind of agree, I'd have hoped the long term view (yes i know 30 years has passed) would be that we would have a Norths, Souths, Easts and Wests in London all doing their part for junior development and having genuine derby games.