You may not have heard of them, but
Long Melford are one of the oldest clubs in England, and indeed the world, having been first formed in 1868 in the village of
Melford on Suffolk's southern border with Essex. At the time of writing they are about to start their seventh season in the
Eastern Counties Football League Division One, the tenth step on the pyramid.
Their biggest successes have come in the
Suffolk Senior Cup, having won the knock-out a total of six times right across their history. They started with a pair of quick wins in 1894 and 1895, waited until the fifties, when they held it three times off the bat starting in 1953, and then again more recently in 2003, when they hammered Stanton 5-0 in the final. They also have five Essex & Suffolk Border League titles, and three league cups from the same organisation under their belts.
They play their home matches at one of the best stadiums at this level in the modern and pretty well-appointed Stoneylands ground, where you can enjoy the delights of the local cult eatery,
Sam's Snack Bar. Newly decked out for the 2010/11 season, they're noted for their bacon and egg bapss - in fact, they'll put bacon in pretty much anything you ask them too - but they'll also serve you with a rather more classy cappuccino too, and as such have perhaps the best catering in the entire tenth tier.
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