Once a swimming pool attendant, with a Jamaican background Michail was dragged out of Tottenham's academy as a junior by his mum to do his GCSEs. Michail Antonio is making news just as Jamie Vardy did last season. He was part of Tooting and Mitcham's Junior Club from 12 years old and played his first senior game against Hendon in 2007 at 17. He scored on his debut. From 2008 he spent four years at Reading, played at Tooting again, went to Cheltenham, Southampton, Colchester and Sheffield Wednesday in 2014, was player of the season at Nottingham Forest in 2015 and then joined West Ham United for whom he has played 31 times, making over 280 appearances so far. His total transfers mount up to £8.5 million. I hope T&M FC benefit from his "sell ons".
Tooting and Mitcham FC, located in Morden South London was formed after the uniting of Tooting FC (1887) and Mitcham Wanderers (1912) in 1932. Two major FA Cup runs may be remembered by us oldies; the 1959 entertainment of Nottingham Forest when they lost 0-3 in a replay back at Forest after a 2-2 draw on a frozen pitch. Prior to that they had beaten bother Sutton United and Horsham (two of my old teams!), then beaten Bournemouth in Round One and Northampton in Round Two.
In 1975-6 they eventually lost to Bradford City in a 4th Round tie. Various other honours may be recorded on their boards of honour, especially those linked to the local leagues and Surrey County Cup Finals.
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