They made Sheppey proud

:: Eddie Harper :: Tom 'Tug' Wilson :: Leonard Nash

This page is going to have a look at the best players to have played for the Sheppey in the club's 100 year plus history. The club has produced a number of players who have either gone on to play league football or have made their mark on the game. I could have started with Art Rule for this section. He was one of Sheppey's best player's from the club's very earliest years and the star of Sheppey's 3-0 away win at the strongest side south of Birmingham at the time - a side by the name of Arsenal (who were at full strength for the game)!

I have found some surprising things in my search for Sheppey players that have gone on to play for Football League clubs. Quite a number of the players listed as having moved up never actually played any league games. With, once again, thanks to Chris Collings, who sent me the link to the Since 1888 website that lists all players who have played in the Football League since it's inception in 1888, I could find no record of F Champion, W Millen, H Johnson and J Hutchins ever having played a league game.

There really is only one place to start, though. No player to have played for the club has gone on the achieve what Eddie Harper did in the game as a player. Click on his link to the left to go to his page. Look out, too, for Herbert Chapman who played for Sheppey United and also played for Tottenham amongst the many clubs he played for before his well documented achievements in football management.