We are intending that this section will be fully populated with memories, facts and photos of days gone by, but as you can imagine, this is easier said than done, and Ray Youngman is working on producing a document, hopefully with help from others.

In the meantime, Ray has pulled a few things out of the record book, with special memories of the high points created by personnel still at the Club.

In the 1982/3 season, Hempnall were struggling to compete, and after much deliberation, Nick Page, our existing general manager, decided he would "pull the club around". He did that with comparative ease, in that not only did he win the fourth Division of the Anglian Combination, but he took the team all the way through the divisions in successive years, to the Premier Division, where they finished in a hugely creditable third position. Nick used his vast experience to recruit players of senior standard to play for the club.

The likes of Mick Ryder, Ray Cooper, Bob Briggs, John Beresford, Andy Pointer, Karl Heffer and many more joined him at Hempnall. Top goalkeeper around, the legendary Mark MacRae, was art of that success, and many who remember Mark will also remember him as "the best sweeper around" due to his speed coming off his line - he often covered the last third of the pitch on his own! Not to be outdone, Mark's wife Lynn, and son, George, are both goalkeepers, and his daughter, Robyn, plays for the Under 15 girls team. Mark now manages the Under 12's.

Nick also brought the flamboyant Arthur Chenery to the club, along with Trevor "Sticks" Buck, and between them they took the reins from Nick, although Nick continued to play and be part of the continuing success.

Nick has been the Club General Manager for several seasons, highly successfully we think, and he continues on this season.

Whilst we have spoken elsewhere on this site about the importance of sponsorship, it is interesting to know that Harry Pointer, the father of our current Chairman, was the first person in local football to sponsor a team, that being the Hempnall Sunday Team, which incidentally contained most of Pagey's Saturday team, and won everything in the South Norfolk Sunday League.