RPFC

Rushden`s sporting heritage, particularly football, is sadly under-represented on the net, yet for a large proportion of the male population of the town, playing local football is a shared and common experience.It is a place where we meet and form life-long aquaintances and friendships which continue to this day.

In my capacity as Managing Director of a junior football club,South Rushden JFC CIC Ltd, I am now meeting the sons of people I played with and against for Rushden Park FC, which is very gratifying. Football can play such an important part as the glue which holds all generations of a community together, and hopefully at South Rushden, we can continue to do that.

As someone with an interest in social and local history, as well as football, it seemed to me to be a good idea to combine it all in a site about Rushden local amateur football. They always say, "Write about what you know", so initially, this site is about Rushden Park FC, for whom I played and managed a Sunday Reserves side in the late Eighties.