EPISODE · Apr 2, 2025 · 40 MIN
How to Turn A Group of Friends into a PROPER FOOTBALL CLUB
from Because Football · host Andrew Baggaley
The beauty of football is sharing moments of joy, of desperation, of disappointment with your friends. The beauty of the English football pyramid is that you can get a team of friends together and, technically, rise all the way up 16 ranks to the Premier League.Likely? Probably not.Seductive? Absolutely.As you will learn on Episode 52 of the Because Football Podcast, our guest TJ Savage, co-founder and director of Finchampstead United, has exactly that dream. That’s why he and his friends decided to take what was a casual 5-a-side team and take the step to organized, proper football in the pyramid. From getting battered 14-0 in the church league to advertising on Facebook to attract new players, TJ and Finchampstead United have had quite the rise and currently sit in Division Three of the Thames Valley Premier League, which is the 14th tier of English football.Even though it is decidedly amateur football, it takes a lot of work, on the pitch and off. In this episode, TJ tells us why it’s worth it and why he has no regrets of evolving the team from a casual group into “the big time” of Saturdays football. His story is fascinating, insightful, and quite alluring.Follow TJ Savage and Finchampstead United here:https://www.instagram.com/tjsavagefinchutd/https://www.facebook.com/FinchampsteadUnitedFC/https://www.instagram.com/finchampsteadutd/Finchunitedfc[ at ] gmail.comFind out more about Because Football:https://www.youtube.com/@BecauseFootball_https://www.linkedin.com/in/baggaleyandrew/https://www.instagram.com/becausefootball_/https://x.com/BecauseFtbl
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The beauty of football is sharing moments of joy, of desperation, of disappointment with your friends. The beauty of the English football pyramid is that you can get a team of friends together and, technically, rise all the way up 16 ranks to the Premier League.Likely? Probably not.Seductive? Absolutely.As you will learn on Episode 52 of the Because Football Podcast, our guest TJ Savage, co-founder and director of Finchampstead United, has exactly that dream. That’s why he and his friends decided to take what was a casual 5-a-side team and take the step to organized, proper football in the pyramid. From getting battered 14-0 in the church league to advertising on Facebook to attract new players, TJ and Finchampstead United have had quite the rise and currently sit in Division Three of the Thames Valley Premier League, which is the 14th tier of English football.Even though it is decidedly amateur football, it takes a lot of work, on the pitch and off. In this episode, TJ tells us why it’s worth it and why he has no regrets of evolving the team from a casual group into “the big time” of Saturdays football. His story is fascinating, insightful, and quite alluring.Follow TJ Savage and Finchampstead United here:https://www.instagram.com/tjsavagefinchutd/https://www.facebook.com/FinchampsteadUnitedFC/https://www.instagram.com/finchampsteadutd/Finchunitedfc[ at ] gmail.comFind out more about Because Football:https://www.youtube.com/@BecauseFootball_https://www.linkedin.com/in/baggaleyandrew/https://www.instagram.com/becausefootball_/https://x.com/BecauseFtbl
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