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ALFOLD ON CLOUD NINE AS CUP DEBUT GRIPS VILLAGE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
6 September 2020

By Alex Thrower
I N 2015, Alfold club secretary Wayne Mouring was erecting a fence around the pitch to stop cars parking on it.
Little did he realise in just five years the small, sleepy, Surrey village would have a team in the FA Cup.
Founded in 1923, the club did little special in the first 90 years of their history. A West Sussex League win here, a Chichester Charity Cup there.
But that all started changing eight years ago when the club gained promotion from Step 7 to Step 6 and began gaining momentum.
The doomed 2019/20 season was their first in the Southern Combination Premier (Step 5)...

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