No they can?t be found in the Premiership. Actually it?s very difficult to find them at all in their far flung home at the end of the Northern Line. Nevertheless I?m a determined individual and it was going to take more than engineering works to stop me from seeing the side who are now technically my local club, living as I do in the London Borough of Barnet.

It was my first visit to Underhill and as I descended down the slope which gives the ground its name I caught a glimpse of the stadium between the houses. Corrugated iron and concrete constructing a predominantly terraced ground, I would have been rubbing my hands in anticipation if they weren?t so deeply buried in my pockets safely sheltered from the cold. I was not here to see a gleaming new 60,000 seater stadium with state of the art facilities and a finely cultivated pitch that was for certain. I was here to watch a game of football, played on a surface which could boast more bumps and curves than Jennifer Lopez and watched by fans standing just yards from the pitchside.
(more…)