The world of English football wobbled a few degrees off its axis yesterday when a club not called Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United or Liverpool won a major trophy. This hadn't happened for four years, since Middlesbrough were victorious in the Football League Cup final against Bolton, but Jonathan Woodgate's one-two with Petr Cech ensured that Tottenham Hotspur would claim their first proper silverware since they won the same competition in 1999 under the stewardship......

Chelsea and Arsenal have both won it in the past, but this year's London Senior Cup, premier competition of the London Football Association, will be fought over by Bromley FC and Tooting & Mitcham United who, as it happens, are also staging the final at their Imperial Fields ground (pictured above). The cup, which these days is "open to all non-F.A. Premier League and non-Football League Senior Clubs affiliated to the Association or approved......

Sixty seconds on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday lunchtime beautifully encapsulated what English football is currently going through. The first forty-five seconds consisted of pained hand-wringing about foreign ownership, fans becoming increasingly helpless in the face of billionaire consortia and the increasingly predictable pecking order at the top of the game. The melancholia was then abruptly curtailed by a rousing fanfare behind an excitable presenter’s voice declaiming: Good afternoon and welcome to Stamford Bridge......

The Premiership hasn't even started but already there's a lot to say about this season's football in the capital. Tonight sees most of our professional clubs in competitive action as the six Football League sides are joined by Arsenal playing their Champions League qualifier away to Dinamo Zagreb (live on ITV, 8pm) minus the 'keeper (suspended) and half the defence from their appearance in the final three months ago as everybody continues to work......

It looks like it’s a season of extremes ahead for the capital’s Football League clubs if the predictions at www.statto.com are to be believed. The site showcases an index based on 25 years of league results and claims a 92% correlation between its forecasts and the results of actual matches. On the eve of the big kick-off the index is predicting that Crystal Palace, Millwall and Brentford will be pushing for promotion while Queens......

Early May sees the domestic football charabanc trundling to its terminus for another year, top deck swathed in streamers and bunting for the winners and survivors, lower deck sheltering the shellshocked who’ve slipped at the last. Few grounds in the country will witness such a nail biting conflict of triumph and despair as the Kassam Stadium in Oxford where the home team must win to retain league status while our very own Leyton Orient......

Barring emergencies, Football League managers will now have to make do with what they’ve got for the rest of the season as the deadline for loan signings passed yesterday. Only a few London clubs were at the last minute bargain counter and by far the most well-known player involved was 36 year old former England international Paul Warhurst who’ll be spending the rest of the season trying to help Barnet secure their place in......

While the Football League and Premiership big boys continue their high profile campaigns the Londonist spotlight falls this weekend on two battles for non-league cup glory. Boreham Wood’s Meadow Park ground hosts Woking in the first leg of their FA Trophy semi-final on Saturday at 3pm. The remarkable thing about this fixture is that, while Woking currently lie 10th in the Nationwide Conference, Boreham Wood are nine points clear at the top of the......

Association football was once again dominated by clubs from the Midlands and the North in 1905, with Newcastle United winning the League Championship and Aston Villa winning their fourth FA Cup. The Capital's sole representatives in Divsion 1, Woolwich Arsenal, could only finish tenth last season and have started the new campaign in equally dismal form, including a 5-1 reverse against Derby County. These are unsettling times at the Manor Ground, with persistent rumours......

Ok, so it's not a whole football team, it's eight players from across two teams...but it's Monday morning and thinking up vaguely clever headlines is a little beyond us. So here's what happened: two teams from Zimbabwe came over to the UK last week to play a friendly up in Bradford. CAPS United and Highlanders FC were due to fly out of the country on Thursday from Heathrow, but some of them didn't make......

There are some intersting noises coming out of Highbury today, where Jes Bains, Chair of the 'Asians in Football' Forum launches a report entitled 'Asians Can Play Football : A wasted decade'. The report comes ten years after the publication of 'Asians Can't Play Football', which served as a clarion call to the game's authorities to start taking a lead in breaking down the barriers that exclude British Asians from our national game. According......

So that's it then for Divisions Two, Three and Four. Except for Brentford and West Ham who have both made it into the play-offs. For West Ham it's a case of déjâ vu. Another year in the play-offs, another year up against Ipswich Town. The Hammers got there thanks to a 2-1 win away at Watford. Anton Ferdinand scored the opener before half time, before the over-fussy referee awarded West Ham with a penalty......

According to the weather forecast on the left of this page, the sunshine of today is going to be replaced by showers on the weekend. Booooooooo. You were thinking of going out to experience the joys of London in the spring, right? Some fresh air? Skipping around Covent Garden or taking a picnic in Hampstead, maybe even piloting a gondola down Regent's Canal! No chance. Your weekend is going to be spent indoors again,......

Barnet made one more step towards regaining their place in the Football League when they thrashed lowly Farnborough 7-1 in the Conference on Saturday. The Bees who were relegated from Division Four in 2001 were 1-0 down after just 6 minutes before beginning their seven-goal spree, helped in part by Farnborough having two players sent off. Hat-trick hero of the day for the North London club was Guiliano Grazioli (although shouldn't non-league players be......

Colin W*nker (who rather amusingly is also an anagram of Neil Warnock) takes his Sheffield United group of ill-disciplined thugs to Highbury on Saturday (12:30 kick-off, live on BBC1) hoping to batter their way into the Quarter Finals of the FA Cup. They won't, of course, but it'll be interesting to see just how well Arsene Wenger's foreign Premiership nancy-boys deal with pure Football League brutality. Ticket fiasco's aside, Brentford travel to the south......

Saturday sees London versus Ex-London, as Brentford take on the club formerly known as Wimbledon. Or to put it another way, the club that was awarded Wimbledon's place in the Football League. Or to put it another way, a completely despicable franchise that should be hounded out of existence by every right-minded football fan in the country. Yes, it may well have happened over two years ago, when a panel of three decided 2-1......

How many football tops do you think a premiership football club will have got through by this point in the season? Go on, have a guess. Fifty? One hundred? More? Well, if you're Arsenal, you've probably managed to get through over 200. How? Because, in the time honoured fashion, you keep swapping them with your opposition. Well football tops don't grow on trees you know and Arsène et al have had to put a......