| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? 19:28 - May 5 with 1709 views | bellomatic |
Fun but irrelevant fact: The original Shepherd’s Bush FC played at Loftus Road from 1904 until disbanding in 1915. They were a successful team, once beating Athletic Club de Bilbao in Bilbao. They folded due to World War One, but the bigger problem was that they were committed amateurs, rejecting calls to turn professional despite increasing competition from neighbouring clubs including one called Queens Park Rangers, who themselves went on to achieve an unprecedented 11 lower/mid-table finishes in the second tier of English football in the years 2015-2026.
SBFC is an extraordinary community football club. As well as winning trophies (SBFC won the Middlesex Intermediate Cup and has had two promotions, from Step 8 to Step 6), it really supports its players.
SBFC was (re-)founded in 2021 by an amazing chap called Aaron Morgan. SBFC costs Aaron about £20k per year. He can’t keep funding this out of his own pocket.
I met Aaron when our kids were playing on the same team. I’m no football expert, but Aaron strikes me as a football savant. After any match, he can give a wonderfully perceptive analysis of each player’s performance. For my son (who, as an interested dad, I’ve been watching super closely) he articulates things I’ve seen but not been able to verbalise. The fact he can do this for every player - in such detail, with such insight - strikes me as extraordinary.
But what really sets Aaron apart is his heart.
Aaron sees SBFC as a home for talent that the world has often written off: a haven from ‘the madness of the streets’. SBFC have got players on heart monitors from snus abuse (I had to look this up). They’ve got players on probation or other legal restrictions, often for reasons rooted in their environment.
Aaron can’t keep funding SBFC forever. I don’t think he should have to. There must be local businesses or charities who can get behind Aaron’s mission to support local footballing talent.
To get the ball rolling, and to articulate the special ethos of SBFC, we built a website: https://www.shepherdsbushfc.co
This forum knows more about football and more about Shepherd’s Bush than I do, so all ideas welcome. Suggestions of people or organisations to chat to - or anything else - would be much appreciated. I'm thinking sure there must be some people who want to get behind this wonderful blend of high-level sport and social impact (and all for 0.1% of the cost of funding QPR!) [Post edited 5 May 19:46]
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| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 08:35 - May 6 with 1354 views | EastR |
Seems like the Club's community trust might be a good point of call | |
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| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 13:21 - May 6 with 1134 views | wombat |
| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 08:35 - May 6 by EastR |
Seems like the Club's community trust might be a good point of call |
seems the perfect thing for us to link up to , wouldnt cost much but would be seen as doing something in the local area [Post edited 6 May 13:23]
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| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 14:56 - May 6 with 1005 views | Boston |
What's their goalkeeper like? | |
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| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 17:31 - May 6 with 880 views | terryb |
I've read that the club disbanded in July 2025!
They are definitely no longer in the Middlesex County League, which they were in 2024/25, but perhaps it is only the mens team that has folded & the youth teams are still going. | | | |
| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 18:12 - May 6 with 824 views | Ghost_on_the_Westway |
Sod’s law they play in the same kit as Brentford 😂 |  |
| I need a SAGA. What’s the SAGA? It’s ….. Queen’s Park Rangers. |
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| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 21:31 - May 10 with 423 views | bellomatic |
| Helping Shepherd's Bush FC - any ideas? on 17:31 - May 6 by terryb |
I've read that the club disbanded in July 2025!
They are definitely no longer in the Middlesex County League, which they were in 2024/25, but perhaps it is only the mens team that has folded & the youth teams are still going. |
Sorry for the slow reply. For some reason I couldn’t log on, but now I’ve managed to get on with my phone.
Last year their merged with Rising Ballers Kensington, and so competed under that name for the 25/26 season.
Best season they will be back to being called Shepherds Bush FC | |
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