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It was a leap of faith for Enfield Town – but they made it!

It was 20 years ago this week when the Towners became the first fan-owned club in the country after Reed had formed a sizeable pressure group who were lobbying for the original Enfield FC to return to the borough after chairman Tony Lazarou had sold their ground.
It was

By DAVID RICHARDSON

ENFIELD Town were playing their first pre-season friendly just four weeks after forming when the referee asked if they had any match balls and corner flags.
“We’d done all the big things to start a club but hadn’t thought of that!” laughed chairman Paul Reed, pictured below.
“We had to get a manager, a team, give people volunteering jobs, we got everything together and forgot a couple of the little things. It all seems a long time ago now – we’ve signed players who weren’t even born when we first started it!”

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