Tag: Kingstonian

Football protest movements are usually admirable. You wish every good fortune to Millwall and Leyton Orient fans. But Kingstonian fans? Where’s that “head-in-hands” emoji? Ryman League Kingstonian (Ks) will be ground-sharing at Ryman colleagues Leatherhead next season, for “an indefinite period” before Ks’ potential move to a new ground within Kingston borough. It is a one-year deal with an annual renewal option, dependent on the moves’ progress…or otherwise. The scenario, announced on February 22nd, is riddled with uncertainties. Ks ground-shared with then-Ryman colleagues Hampton in February 1988. However, our move to Kingston borough’s Kingsmeadow Stadium was already assured then...

Sometimes you have to admit that your fans aren’t that terrific. Until this week, my only criticisms of a Kingstonian fan-base with many terrific individuals was their fouler-than-average language during matches, their inability to out-sing a mime artist with laryngitis and an occasional tendency to dissolve into whining self-pity. The first issue matters, the second doesn’t. But this week, the third dominated proceedings to the extent that it shook my faith in my club’s future. That future is fraught. Ryman League Ks have been sub-tenants at Kingston Council-owned Kingsmeadow Stadium since entering administration in October 2001 (five years after...

On Monday night Kingstonian, reached the final of the Isthmian League Cup. Or, to give it its full, oh-so-catchy title, the Alan Turvey Trophy sponsored by Robert Dyas. The celebrations of our fortunate penalty shoot-out victory over Wingate and Finchley, in what was awkwardly termed the “Alan Turvey Trophy sponsored by Robert Dyas semi-final,” were aptly minimalist. “An occasion unquestionably befitting of the great Alan Turvey,” noted the “official” match report on Ks’ website, dripping with possibly fine-inducing sarcasm about the league’s president, who has immodestly had “his” league’s trophy named after him while he’s still alive. It appeared...