West London Derby

The West London Derby is on this Sunday!!!!


No not the Fulham v Chelsea FC it will be Kensington Dragons v Chelsea FC Elite, a match that will have both entertainment and heated challenges.

I mean its only an under 18’s match, why would it be so important for it to be a big thing?

Well it’s all good, but the Dragons are the eldest club in the North Kensington area, with Chelsea FC Elite (formerly known as Latimer fc and then FC Kensington) having been mostly associated with Chelsea FC Kickz Project and using the former clubs as a chance to play Sunday youth football.

But why the big importance?

Well as Kickz attracted a good number of kids from the area, it meant a lot of players from Dragons would attend sessions with the hope of ending up at Chelsea.

So when Kickz decided to join a Sunday league a small number were asked but refrained from joining them, and only trained with Kickz, but when I dropped a couple of players, they would almost automatically sign for them. All was good as one summer one of my centre backs decided that he wants to play for CHELSEA FC.. to which I replied, ‘good luck’ as would never want to keep a player from realising his dream, but also warned him that playing for Kickz was not Chelsea FC.

So this was the small start until midway through the season I found out that my captain had played for them illegally on occasions, after i told him i would report the club if he ever done it again, an angry manager phoned me and to this day i will not reveal my reply or the conversation.

The following summer my captain whom had been constantly asked to join them gave in, causing the angry reaction from some of the squad members a bit tired of intrusions.

The teams never met until Chelsea (then FC Kensington) was promoted to the Premier League from the second and us from the 1st as runner ups.

The first meeting showed that no other then 7 of our former players were playing for them, most of them players i had dropped for unruly behaviour and non commitment.

So in the meeting that followed, most games have been heated up, a decent standard of football and lots of goals, with majority of the game being of bad tackles and management have never exchanged words or handshakes, but the players after all the heated tackles, do end up speaking and having a laugh at the end of the game.