They scored 102 league goals last season with striker Eddie Simon the poster boy – the dentist’s feat of hitting four consecutive hat-tricks earned him a Sky Sports News interview live from his workplace and the moniker of the ‘Non-league Erling Haaland’.Įddie Simon finished as the league's top goalscorer, with an astonishing 43 strikes (Image credit: Walton & Hersham) Alongside assistant Billy Rowley, they have adopted a Manchester City-esque style of play that is crafted year-on-year, developing players and keeping the fans entertained.
They each put in £2,000 to help get the project up and running, and installed Scott Harris as manager. If we totally f**ked it and it folded? Well, at least we’d managed to prolong its life and give it a go.” One of the lads fell asleep on the sofa in the meeting, but that was when we realised that whatever we did, this club couldn’t get any worse. It all clicked one day when we spoke to the chairman in Calog’s front room. “But Calog kept pushing it and a couple of months later it began to sound credible. “I entertained it for about a week and then left the group. “I was thinking, ‘What the f**k is this?’” he confesses. One of the recipients of that message was Tucker, who’d recently started uni. He said that if they went down, he was scrapping it – Walton & Hersham would be no more! That’s when I messaged the lads about us possibly taking over.” There were 40 people there and I ended up talking to the chairman. “That was one of the worst games I’ve ever seen. “I was applying for jobs but also coming to watch Walton,” he says.
His life-changing idea was born at a game against AFC Hayes at the end of 2018. I decided to drop out – but I needed an escape route or my parents would kill me.” “I was doing theoretical physics, living in halls away from home, and I just knew it wasn’t what I wanted. “I was at this point where I’d moved to university in London and it was everything I didn’t want from life. “It was boredom, not knowing what to do in my life,” reflects Scannella in the boardroom of the club’s stadium in Surrey, on the banks of the River Thames. They have known each other since school but now, aged 23, are living out a fantasy at odds with those of most men their age. Scannella, club secretary and director of football, is aided by Sartej Tucker, Thomas Bradbury and Jack Newton, with Reme Edetanlen, Stephan Karidis and Ben Madelin no longer part of the original party of pals to buy the club.
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