Non-League and Academy football writer

The Division One Central of the Middlesex County Football League, becomes the first of the league’s divisions of the 2025/26 season, to be completed. So I thought that I’d write a short review of how the season went. FH Whistlers, who play at Brentham Club, won this step 8 division, with an impressive total of 43 points, 57 league goals scored, and 20 conceded, from 16 league matches played. A team who I’m sure will do well in the Premier Division, FH Whistlers were the most consistent team over the course of the season, in a division which finished with nine teams in it. FH Whistlers also had the top goalscorer in the division playing for them during the season just gone, in Efraim Odette Difuanmna-Ngungi, who scored 18 league goals from 12 appearances.

Bessingby Park Rangers finished four points behind the league winners, on 39 points, after a season of good progress for them. With Ruislip Rangers in third place with 32 points, following their merger with Eastcote British Legion, last summer, who were promoted from the division below. Three points behind Ruislip Rangers, were Harrow Bhoys. An established side in the Middlesex County Football League, they also reached the semi-finals of the Middlesex FA Intermediate County Cup, which they lost on penalties in to Stonewall, from the division above.

Celtic (1995) finished in fifth place (with 20 points), followed by Brent United (on 18 points, and a team who I think will improve further next season), and then Brentham FC on 12 points. The bottom two teams in this division, were London Tigers and London Athletic, respectively. I wish all of the clubs from this seasons’ Division One Central all the very best of luck for next season. And many congratulations to the champions of the division, FH Whistlers.