HOW IT ACTUALLY WENT
Nobody founded this club with a boardroom mission statement. It started because a school pitch near Stadium Road sat empty four nights a week and somebody had a key.
In 2023, that somebody was Imran Qureshi, who put a cricket net up on the square and told eleven kids from his street to turn up at five. Eight of them did. The following year there were forty, and the year after that a parent asked whether we could do something for the ones who did not like cricket.
What has stayed constant is the ethos and the money. Subs cover kit, pitch hire, equipment, insurance, and match fees — nothing else. Two paid positions, both part-time. No shareholders, no franchise fee, and a set of transparent accounts published every March that anyone can read.
