"On this page we will try and add some photographs and news reports from the Club's history, especially now that the Club has celebrated its Silver Anniversary.
The club appreciates all the voluntary help that many people have given Brandon Lads and in the last few years the Brandon Lasses. We thank ALL the team managers and coaches, ALL the supporters, ALL the sponsors who have helped us financially and of course most of all, ALL the boys and girls who have come and played football at our club.
Many changes have taken place since the Club was created. From it's birth of just one under-13 squad, the club has now grown to have more than a dozen competitive and non-competitive squads, catering for ages 5 to 16 and older for the Brandon Ladies! The coaches all have attained FA Level 1 coaching certificates and some have reached level 2. The Club also holds an FA Development Club Charter Mark and has recently won Suffolk FA's Development club of the season award, which we all are very proud of.
We hope that all our players will learn and develop their football skills and techniques with us and also have lots of fun along the way. We pride ourselves in being an open club - offering football for all abilities; and having a sympathetic ear to anything that might go wrong. We are always pleased to see players continue to be loyal towards our club and return to us year after year even if their team has not been as successful as others around us and we are always pleased to welcome new players into our club.
Below will be some photos of teams and events from years gone by and if you can name any players or persons then please get in touch. If anyone has any other pictures from some of the missing years, then again let me know and I'll have them added to this page. So enjoy a brief journey back over 25 years ..."
Kevin Briston, Club President, Brandon Lads & Lasses AFC
The first Brandon Lads team, season 1983/84. Team manager and founder of the new club is Tony Godbold,
he is pictured here at the front with kit sponsor Michael Finch (then co owner of Chick King).
I think this is Brandon Rovers around 1978 ? Can you add more names?
Back L-R: Tim Kent; Mark Aymes, Chris Hunter?, Keith Branagan, Steve (Will) Farthing, ?, Gary Smith
Front L-R: Tim Field?, ?, David Granger, Andrew Riley, Jamie Branagan
