History

Hedge-To-Hedge Football

“I wouldn’t say that we’re the worst football team in Bristol” announces The Colonel (known to his mum as Andy Purnell), stalwart player with Bristol footballing legends Easton Monday, as he piles up a large chunk of poppadum with diced onion, chutney, a splash of yolk-yellow yoghurt and gracefully stuffs it into his mouth. by Cris Warren of The Bristol Evening Post

In The Beginning

A History of The Bristol Casuals League

Henleaze Corinthians, one of the league’s founder members (a group of parents of children at Henleaze School) put out an appeal to play a fund raising game for Red Nose Day in 1993. The Golden Bottle at Lockleaze came forward. The game turned out to be an eventful game (for all the wrong reasons!!) and the Lockleaze Bottle Boys proved to be too ‘hard’ for the gents from Henleaze. Other more friendly friendlies followed against combined teachers/parents teams and against Chris Carter’s Red Star Bedminster - another founder member.