Glory Days in the Kent League!

Well, what can you say about the 1970's in Sheppey's history? We started out the decade playing in the Metropolitan London League, rejoined the Kent League at the start of the 1972-73 season and won 3 titles, 2 Kent League Cups, the Kent Senior Shield and came close to at least another 2 league titles before the decade was out!

From a personal point of view, this was when I first started being taken to watch the Sheppey play by my dad and have many fond memories of watching the likes of 'Trigger' Hunn and others play.

The start of the 1980's weren't quite as succesful but, at the end of 1984, after finishing runners-up to Sittingbourne in the Kent League and losing to Cray Wanderers in the Kent League Cup final, the club once again returned to the Southern League - an ambition the club had had throughout the 1970's was finally achieved.

A picture of the Kent Senior Shield - one of the many trophies won by the club in this most succesful of periods in the club's history