2026/27 Cup Competitions

[HamptonLifer5]

I am leading the project to launch a new model for 27/28 season and beyond. For this season, I am pleased to say we will still have a standalone youth team and we will be competing in the FA Youth Cup and Middlesex County Cup.

A quote from a previous interview by Mr Monks.

[Les1949]

To think that those players, whoever they were, wore a Hampton shirt and tarnished the name of the club. In the end it is the club's good name that will suffer.

[Lord Elpus]

I am leading the project to launch a new model for 27/28 season and beyond. For this season, I am pleased to say we will still have a standalone youth team and we will be competing in the FA Youth Cup and Middlesex County Cup.

A quote from a previous interview by Mr Monks.

Well (presumably) there's your scapegoat then. Absolutely not good enough and I believe that the club should immediately withdraw from all other youth competitions this season, as well as sending sincere apologies to all concerned.
Come on leaders and club officials, this simply isn't good enough.

[Thelittleowl1]

Just a word on last night's Youth Cup tie.
It finished Bedfont Sports 4-1 HRBFC, but was marred by what can only be described as a really poor evening for our proud football club.

We were represented by a Kinetic Academy side, for anyone that doesn't know them they're a massive organisation originally from South London with lots of clubs and schools they have links to, and was all created by Seth MacFarlane who interim managed Chelsea recently alongside Simmo. Kinetic have a bit of a reputation for being a bit violent and rowdy too unfortunately, as well as sometimes naming teamsheets as fictional as Harry Potter, and sides that play against them are often in for unpleasant evenings, this side was no exception.

We began the game on the front foot, looking the better side before going 2-0 down before the break. At half time we made some changes, got 1 goal back before Bedfont scored 2 very good counter-attacking goals and thoroughly deserved their win. During the game we had 6 Yellow Cards, including one off the ball incident, and BSFC had 5, in what was a high-tempered game from both sides.

A few minutes before the end, a BSFC player riled up one of our substitutes by pulling his shorts down with the referee not looking. This led to our lad having an altercation with him at another set piece incident. Both benches were frantic, one of our coaches got booked in the process. But nothing would predict what was to happen at the end of the game.

Our bunch of Footballers decided they were not going to lose graciously, and a lot of the created a full-on melee swinging punches at opposition players, Bedfont Sports joining in too, with what became around a 30 person brawl with coaches flying in to stop the brawl, our players removing their shirts as to avoid number detection from the referee. It was disgusting to watch. The players had to be separated from going into the changing room whilst the referee dished out the punishment, 5 red cards to our team, 3 to Bedfont, and also has (quite rightly) pinned the blame on us for starting the disorder. Our players seemingly not quite had enough had to be stopped from sprinting in to the crowd to start another fight.

Having done some more digging, this is a team based in Whyteleafe, why the hell they're a HRBFC side is beyond me, and we have given this side the right to use our name in an U19 League despite remaining as Kinetic and playing at Church Road, Whyteleafe. I sincerely hope this is not who we think that building our new academy next season is going to be based around, because it was appalling.

We are due to play Ickenham Youth in the County Cup in a fortnight, but I'm not sure I want to see those utter disgraces who thought they could do as they please, and incur what will be a heavy fine from the FA for they're horrific display of violence last night. Anyone involved in bringing that team over here should take a good long look in the mirror, as last night we were let down. Let down very badly indeed. I do believe there were other things involved, but don't have a place on a public forum until the referee finishes his report, and any other disciplinary action is taken appropriately.

Quite simply, that team has to go. Shameful, Embarrassing, Disgraceful, Abhorrent.

Good Luck Bedfont Sports in the next round, who by the way weren't absolvent of some blame, but didn't disgrace themselves in the manner we did.

As someone who was also present, I can confirm this. Really bad look for the club and the game. Would also agree with withdrawing from the cups.

[JimS]

The silence from the club is deafening. It's all very well talking about the standards we aspire to on the website but when something like this happens the club need to show these are not just empty words.

[Lord Elpus]

The silence from the club is deafening. It's all very well talking about the standards we aspire to on the website but when something like this happens the club need to show these are not just empty words.

Completely agree. I'm hoping we are just taking the time to put together a well worded, watertight and extremely apologetic statement.

[Whoryer]

Jack Lonergan was boosting during commentary of the Chelmsford game he is now in charge of all the clubs social media,so guessing it will be him that makes the statement on behalf of the club.Talking of Jack what has happened to interviews with the management team,not had any after the last 3 games and none before a game for ages,and no chairman updates.

[Lord Elpus]

Jack Lonergan was boosting during commentary of the Chelmsford game he is now in charge of all the clubs social media,so guessing it will be him that makes the statement on behalf of the club.Talking of Jack what has happened to interviews with the management team,not had any after the last 3 games and none before a game for ages,and no chairman updates.

Jack will be the one putting it out there, but I'm sure he won't be the one entrusted with actually writing it. The silence from the club this week on this matter is extremely disappointing to say the least.

[BeaverWatcher]

Whilst not knowing if the club will be making any sort of statement I do know that the Youth Sections Under 18 team has been asked to represent the club in the Middlesex County Cup game against Ickenham at Beveree on the 30th September. With most of these young men having represented the Youth section since they were 6 or 7 years old it would be great to get a decent crowd to support them.

[JimS]

Whilst not knowing if the club will be making any sort of statement I do know that the Youth Sections Under 18 team has been asked to represent the club in the Middlesex County Cup game against Ickenham at Beveree on the 30th September. With most of these young men having represented the Youth section since they were 6 or 7 years old it would be great to get a decent crowd to support them.

Am I missing something? Why could this team not have represented the club against Bedfont Sports?

[BeaverWatcher]

Presumably, because, there was already this arrangement in place with Kinetic. And had what happened on Monday not happened they would have played in the County Cup as well.

[Lord Elpus]

Presumably, because, there was already this arrangement in place with Kinetic. And had what happened on Monday not happened they would have played in the County Cup as well.

So is it possible to infer that Kinetic have been replaced by a proper, more localised Hampton under 18s then? If so then that's great news, but it's still desperately poor that there doesn't seem to have been any public comment.