FOOTBALL ACTION across East London has ground to a halt after the various football governing bodies called off fixtures until 3rd April. The move came in response to the increasing concern over the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic. The ban has been agreed ...

Muhammad Ismael EAST LONDONERS Abdal Ahmed and Emdad Rahman have returned to London after spending the weekend in Bosnia delivering sports coaching to young people. The sports coaches travelled to Sarajevo as part of an aid deployment to the city. ...

Emdad Rahman THE INNER LONDON Football League (ILFL) has announced exciting plans for a new winter league for seven a side players aged 16 and over. Games will be played on Monday nights at Stepney Green Astroturf in a league ...

ALL TICKETS will be just £5 for selected home matches this season – and the first date of match date has just been announced. This special ticket incentive offer ran last year – and fans will be delighted to see ...

Emdad Rahman IN ORDER TO address the startling gang culture mentality and knife crime issues affecting communities, the Hedgecock Community Centre in Barking, in partnership with the Barking Youth Link, hosted a successful ‘United Against Knife Crime’ football tournament. The ...

A FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT will be held this afternoon to try to give young people in Barking & Dagenham a positive focus – helping the general community campaign against knife crime. The event has been organised by the Hedgecock Community Centre ...

THE ENGLAND Women’s Football Team has finished in fourth place in the Women’s World Cup. It was a tournament that promised so much and ended well, but without a medal. England were not at their best in the first half ...

EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

WIGAN FOOTBALLER NATHAN BYRNE was the target of racist abuse after his team drew 2-2 with Bristol City on Saturday. The Club immediately condemned a racist message sent to the player’s Twitter account. Shortly afterwards, a 20 year old man ...

Emdad Rahman NEIGHBOURS IN POPLAR have returned from a deployment to Calais, France, where a team of volunteers led by Sister Christine Frost spent a day at the Refugee Community Kitchen which serves hot, nourishing meals to displaced people every ...