{"id":14,"date":"2013-08-11T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:42:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Woodhouseians FC was established in 1925 to provide competitive football for current and former students of Woodhouse College in North Finchley.<\/p>\n<p>That connection remains an important part of our history, but today Old Woods is open to everyone. We welcome players of all backgrounds and standards, whether or not they attended Woodhouse College.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Mill Hill, we field five Saturday teams competing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernamateurleague.co.uk\/\">Southern Amateur League<\/a>, with our home games played at Old Camdenians Playing Fields.<\/p>\n<p>Old Woods prides itself on being a friendly and sociable club while still taking our football seriously. With five teams across a range of standards, everyone is important \u2014 both on the pitch and as part of the club off it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Old Woodhouseians was awarded the Football Association&#8217;s Charter Standard mark for an Adult Club, recognising the way the club was organised and run.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2>Interested in Playing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>New players are welcome throughout the season. Visit our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/?page_id=1795\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1795\">Join Old Woods<\/a><\/strong> page for training details and information on how to get involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Our Committee 26\/27<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:400px\">\n<p>Chairman: Simon Goldring<br>Hon Club Secretary: Martin Yu<br>Asst Hon Club Secretary: TBC<br>Fixtures Secretary: Brad Fitzpatrick<br>Asst Fixtures Sec: TBC<br>Hon Treasurer: Conor Higgins<br>Social &amp; Fundraising Sec: TBC<br>First XI Captain: Sajad Javarivasal<br>Second XI Captain: Adam Tzimas<br>Third XI Captain: Jay<br>Fourth XI Captain: Ade Olowojoba<br>Fifth XI Captain: Jack Sansum<br>Vets Captain: Chris King\/ Chris Achilles<br>Chairman of Selectors: TBC<br>Training Officers: Mattero Ross\/ Murtaza Shamsi<br>College Representative: TBC<br>Website\/ Press Officer: Cuong Mang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Woodhouseians FC was established in 1925 to provide competitive football for current and former students of Woodhouse College in North Finchley. That connection remains an important part of our history, but today Old Woods is open to everyone. We welcome players of all backgrounds and standards, whether or not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-woods.co.uk\/woods\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}