17 Jul, 2025
West Ham United dipped into the summer transfer market earlier this week with the capture of El Hadji Malick Diouf from Slavia Prague. The Senegalese left-back has signed for a fee…
Berkshire’s Step 7 league – the Thames Valley Premier League – has announced its constitution for the 2025/26 season. The top flight now contains sixteen teams – including reigning champions…
Chelsea: world champions. Not many people thought that was a likelihood when the FIFA Club World Cup started. Even after the group stage, the bookies estimated that the Blues only…
The Football Association have released the round dates for the full 2025/26 Adobe Women’s FA Cup. Starting in August and finishing in May, the Women’s FA Cup is expected to feature around…
Notepads at the ready: it’s time for the first batch of pre-season Scout Notes. There are, of course, few meaningful takeaways at this early stage of the summer. The focus…

2025/26 FA Trophy Preliminary and First Qualifying Round draws for Berkshire

The draws for the early rounds of the 2025/26 Isuzu FA Trophy have been released with Ascot United and Binfield the two Berkshire sides in contention. The East Berks rivals will face two rounds before Southern League Premier Division South Step 3 sides Bracknell Town and Hungerford Town enter the draw. Last season Ascot reached […]

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Left-back De Cuyper can be a cult Fantasy hero

Goals, assists, corner-taking duties: new Brighton and Hove Albion left-back Maxim De Cuyper offered it all at former employers Club Brugge. The big question: can he replicate that at Premier League level? The Belgium international has joined the Seagulls for a reported £17.5m and follows centre-halves Diego Coppola and Olivier Boscagli in arriving at the […]

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2025/26 FA Youth Cup Preliminary and First Qualifying Round draws for Berkshire

The eagerly anticipated draws for the early rounds of the 2025/26 FA Youth Cup have been released. Outside of Reading FC, Reading City have been the standout side of recent seasons having twice made it out of the Qualifying Round phase, last season they were beaten in the final Qualifying Round by Forest Green Rovers. […]

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Aimee Claypole has Chelsea contract extended

Berkshire-born striker Aimee Claypole has earned another year to impress at FA WSL champions Chelsea after the club exercised an option to extend her contract. The England under-19 international spent last season on loan in Sweden with Linkoping and then was nominated for Women’s Championship Player of the Season for the second half of the […]

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7 things we learned about Man City at the Club World Cup

We thought we’d have another fortnight before writing this article – but Manchester City’s FIFA Club World Cup run is over. A shock round-of-16 exit at the hands of Al Hilal ended City’s involvement in the bloated 32-club competition early. Having seen the Cityzens across four matches in the States, we thought we’d put together […]

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