Proud to be the CEO of Cray Wanderers FC, the oldest footbal club in London. This magical thing called life is a 1 time ride, so enjoy every single minute of it
@davidgoggins
thanks for setting such a test of physical and mental endurance and I'm glad to say I got through it 🏃♂️🏃♂️
The 12am and 4am runs in the middle were definitely the low point!!!
#stayhard
👊👊
Last game at Bromley done ✔️
Now it’s all system’s go to have the new ground ready to go for Pre-season 👊🏻
Working on fixtures currently and will announce soon 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Weekly
@OfficialWands
pitch update!! Final stages of pitch preparation well underway with rubber crumb going down. Concreting on the surrounding areas progressing well and won’t be long now till we have some football taking place on the pitch 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
What a long hard season it has been!!! Never been so pleased it is over!! We Are Staying Up 🧡🖤🧡⚽️ Already looking forward to next season working with
@neil_smudge
🙌👊🏻
I’ve been waiting a long time to do that and to do it on the eve of the season starting made it even more special 👌
So excited about the new era ahead for our great club 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
A huge thank you to all our amazing volunteers that got down to Hayes Lane this morning and worked their socks off to get this game on. Over to you lads now
@OfficialWands
to pay them all back 👊🏻🧡🖤🧡⚽️
So good to get that first training session done for
@OfficialWands
on the new pitch yesterday and looking forward to a busy few months going in to 2024. Special mention to our amazing digital media manager Oz 👏👏🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Can he kick it? Yes he can ⚽️
Our amazing new signing at Cray Wanderers, the wonderful George Taylor at 100 years young fulfilling a desire to kick a ball again for the Wands. Absolutely love it 👊💖⚽️
What a special signing for me personally. Remember it like yesterday when I had to contact the league to ask if
@Sammy_Woodo3
could play for Cray Ressies in pre season as he wasn’t 16 until August! Followed his career ever since, & a pleasure to have him back as a Wand 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Big day ahead for
@OfficialWands
as Londons Oldest football club opens our new ground. We also wish
@England
all the best for their quarter final today 🏴
Gates open at 11am today and the wonderful Brockalites start playing from 11.30am. See you all at Flamingo Park 🧡🖤🧡⚽️🏴
Buzzing to get all the pitches back up at Flamingo Park and looking forward to the season ahead. The future is bright, the future is Amber & Black 💛🖤💛⚽️
Absolutely delighted to get
@neil_smudge
deal done and really looking forward to where we are now going with London’s Oldest Football Club. The future is bright, the future is Amber & Black 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
.Cray Wanderers are delighted to announce that the club confirm
@neil_smudge
as first team manager for the 2022-23 season. This is a first for
@OfficialWands
to have a full time manager in charge. We're delighted to have someone with Neil's experience at Cray Wanderers.
What a fantastic edition
@Charlie_Kerr
has been to our ever growing team at Flamingo Park. Pitches looking top draw for this time of year. Good luck to all the
@OfficialWands
youth teams playing on the pitches this weekend 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
It feels like this game has been so long in the making but tonight
@OfficialWands
finally play their first league match at our new home at Flamingo Park. I’m absolutely buzzing to get those turnstiles open and get going 👊🏻👊🏻🧡🖤🧡⚽️
#COYW
Match Preview -
@OfficialWands
vs.
@CrayValleyPM
-
@IsthmianLeague
Premier - A historic night for Cray Wanderers on Tuesday 13th August as the first ever league match at Flamingo Park sees the visit of South-East Champs Cray Valley PM. KO: 7.45 pm, £12/£6
What an absolute pleasure it was going round to the incredible George Taylor’s house on Saturday to give him his updated shirt. Still lives at home on his own at 101 years old!!! The guys doing the documentary were totally blown away by him & he loved the limelight 🤩COYW🧡🖤🧡⚽️
So inspiring to spend some time with the amazing George Taylor this afternoon and he was delighted with his very own
@OfficialWands
GK shirt 🧡🖤🧡⚽️ He is hoping to get down to a game real soon 🙌
So proud of the lads tonight. This team has literally been thrown together and has got through 2 rounds of the FA Youth Cup with no training together!!! Big shout out to Smudger, Tosh, Vinnie, Phil & Taiwo for working together to make this happen 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Just had the pleasure of a catch up with the amazing George Taylor, who is still doing his own cooking, washing & ironing at the grand old age of 102!! He is a true inspiration & is really looking forward to coming to a
@OfficialWands
game soon 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
#oldestgkoutthere
It was an absolute pleasure to spend some quality time with
@MrAndyAnsah
yesterday at Flamingo Park and reflect on some of the great work both
@OfficialWands
&
@sedonsfc
have been doing and more importantly what we both have planned for the future 👊🏻👊🏻🧡🖤🧡⚽️
This is without a shadow of a doubt the most brutal challenge I've ever done!!! Me and my left knee have had a right falling out!!! 5 to go 👊🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
#4x4x48challenge
Absolutely delighted to have secured
@DKedwell
as our new 1st team manager and really looking forward to working with you on the journey ahead 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
#COYW
BREAKING NEWS! Cray Wanderers are delighted to announce that Danny Kedwell has been appointed as new first team manager for the 2021-22 season. MORE INFO HERE -
Happy birthday
@CWFCChairman
I hope you have a fantastic day. Had so many great moments wit you at
@OfficialWands
and we have many more to come 🧡🖤🧡⚽️🎉🍻🎂
WOW!! What a fantastic end of season youth presentation day that was for
@OfficialWands
🎉🏆 It is a privilege to be the Chairman of the youths & we have an amazing set of boys, girls & parents that really buy in & believe in what we are trying to achieve. COYW 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Flamingo Park is ready for another busy day of
@OfficialWands
youth football. Looking forward to watching the games and catching up with the parents and managers 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Well we certainly turned those predictions from the start of the season upside down!
@OfficialWands
will hang on by the skin of their teeth again!! 😂
Not with
@neil_smudge
&
@ToshBosh4
at the wheel 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Great meeting with the
@OfficialWands
youth team managers last night and great to help a few of them to get the final prep works done at Flamingo Park this morning. Buzzing to have them all back next weekend COYW 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
A remarkable man that I had the pleasure to get to know at the ripe old age of 100!! I took so much from my time spent with George over the past 3 years. He was definitely the happiest & most positive man I have ever met & he will be sorely missed but fondly remembered RIP 🧡🖤⚽️
.
@OfficialWands
@OfficialwandsH
are sad to learn of the passing of George Taylor aged 103. George played for Cray in 1938 & in 2020 at 100 re-signed for the Wands which was covered by
@SkySportsNews
@markmcadamtv
. Thank you George for an incredible life.
The Heritage Cup - Sat 13th July @ 3pm
Cray Wanderers VS
@sheffieldfc
The Oldest Football Club in London
VS The First Ever Football Club
Tickets Available Here -
Sponsored by
@abkbeer
The football season may be over for
@OfficialWands
but we remain focused on the development of the youngsters and there is no one better for this than
@AWfootballcoach
🧡🖤🧡⚽️
A fantastic night on and off the pitch last night for
@OfficialWands
and we are all so grateful for the generous donations from our supporters for the
@lewishamfood
🧡🖤🧡⚽️
After a tough day at the office yesterday for
@OfficialWands
it was great to spend the morning down at Flamingo Park watching our youth teams in action 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
It's amazing what a bit of focus and drive can do for you!!!!
I've just finished a really strong 21 day challenge through August and I am really pleased with the results and more importantly just how fantastic I feel
I have come so far over the past 20 months!!! 👊💪💖
Really looking forward to getting the
@OfficialWands
pre season schedule up and running tomorrow at the site of our new home at Flamingo Park 💛🖤💛🖤 Thanks to
@ianajordan
for getting the pitch looking so good 👌💖⚽️
So I thought football at Flamingo Park was over after yesterday’s final league games!!! Absolutely buzzing down here today with
@CoachAWF
holiday camp and
@OfficialWands
Academy Trials 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
@Sammy_Woodo3
@OfficialWands
Absolutely gutted still mate. You and the lads have been outstanding this season and it’s been an absolute pleasure. That performance last night was exceptional and fine margins ended our journey. Rest up and we go again 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
We look forward to welcoming everybody down to Flamingo Park today and I’m glad to say that we are now fully restocked with ‘The Wands’ after last weeks sell out!!!! 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Cray Wanderers vs Bromley U21s PDS - Pre-season friendly - 20/7/24, 3 pm - Match Preview
The Wands third successive home Saturday friendly sees
@bromleyfc
U21s visit Flamingo Park as pre-season reaches the midway stage. Doors 1.30 pm - £10/£5/£2
Yesterday was such a fantastic way to end the season.
Time to kick back over the BH weekend and then the hard work begins again to be be ready for a historic season for
@OfficialWands
🧡🖤🧡⚽️
Big news coming next week 📣
Was such an honour to have been a part of the last three years of George’s amazing life of 103 years. A beautiful send off for him today and rather fitting that we are playing our first home game tonight too 🧡🖤🧡⚽️ RIP George xx
It’s a sad day for Cray, saying our final farewells to club legend George Taylor who let a remarkable life of 103 years! 💛 Massive thanks to Bartletts Florist for the incredible arrangement 💛
Was great to catch up with the amazing George Taylor on the phone today. Wanted to check he was OK & to see if he needed anything? Was his usual chirpy self & I'm pleased to say he was absolutely fine. Staying indoors until it's safe & looking forward to watching the Wands again
Main pitch at Flamingo Park looking great for
@CudhamUtd
this afternoon and also looking forward to watching
@OfficialWands
U18’s on it tomorrow morning too 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
As we get ever closer to our amazing football club hitting its 160th year anniversary, today sees another big moment in it's proud history as the 1st team train at the new home for the very 1st time.
#footballscominghome
Happy 90th birthday
@billygk1
🎉🎉🍾🥂🎂 The word Legend is often used far too freely, especially in non-league football but you Sir are a 100% LEGEND and more importantly a wonderful person. Have a wonderful day 🧡🖤🧡⚽️
All at
@OfficialWands
&
@OfficialwandsH
wish the great
@WilliamLappage
a very Happy 90th Birthday. A true club legend, a father figure to everyone at Cray Wanderers, a friend to us all & always willing to offer the benefit of his experience. Have a great and enjoyable day Bill.