He stayed only a few months, a 1910s foretaste of Harry Kane’s time with Orient or Frank Lampard’s at Swansea, but Charles Buchan - surely the greatest player associated with this club - retained fond memories of Leyton.
Read the article >Three events stand out in this season: achievement of Leyton’s highest ever league position, seventh in the First Division of the Southern League; a change of colours from blue to white shirts, and the signing of Charles Buchan.
Read the article >Former skipper Sandy Tait had moved up to become club manager. The new club captain was to be the Reverend Kenneth Hunt, perhaps the finest player to ever don the Leyton colours.
Read the article >After narrowly avoiding the drop last time around, Leyton needed to step things up for their third season in Division One of the Southern League.
Read the article >Leyton were to find this new season even more challenging than the last. The only significant new signing was Herbert Charles Kingaby from Aston Villa, but that ended in disaster for the player, and the Players’ Union.
Read the article >Following the 1905-6 season’s second-place, Leyton were promoted to Division One of the Southern League, the highest the club would ever play in its 150+ year history. In what was essentially considered to be the unofficial third division of the Football League; seven of the 20 clubs now play in the Premier League, with the majority of the rest either in the Championship or League 1. Only Leyton, now known as Walthamstow, play in non-league football.
Read the article >Trading under the title of Leyton Football and Athletic Clubs Limited, the club was launched onto the public, with a marked degree of success. Anyone purchasing 20 or more of the 10/- shares would become a life member with full admission to all of the matches and a seat in the grandstand. Their sponsors had dreams of Leyton becoming the “Chelsea of the East”.
Read the article >Looking back at the 1909-10 FA Cup run
Read the article >It has been quite a few years since we met Berkhamsted regularly, as fellow members of the Isthmian League and most of those meetings have long since faded from my memory, except one.
Read the article >How a former Leyton player changed world football forever
Read the article >Looking back at the 1985-86 FA Cup run
Read the article >W F Fletcher created the modern football fixture system, but his efforts have been largely forgotten
Read the article >Charlie Buchan was a prolific goalscoring star for both Sunderland and Arsenal, but if it wasn’t for a brief spell at Leyton in the 1910-11 season, he may never have been spotted, and gone on to have the impact he had. He also had a successful career in football journalism when his playing career finished.
Read the article >There won’t be many who remember Dwight Marshall playing for Leyton in 1987 and Leyton Pennant in 2002, but two spells with our club sandwiched what was an unlikley but successful Football League career.
Read the article >The 2005–6 season of the Southern League Eastern Division was one of the more intriguing in recent times.
Read the article >Today, Walthamstow Football Club is solely that; a football club. However, over the years, the club has turned its hand at a number of sports and games; chess, darts, cycling, billiards, cricket and baseball, to name but a few.
Read the article >The story of Billy Barnes, who went from playing for in the east end of London for Leyton, to having a key role in the history of Spanish football.
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