27-11-2021
Belmont Banter Ep89: JOHN AKINDE: From non-league to Pro-League: Whitstable Town Football Club
Belmont Banter Ep89: JOHN AKINDE: From non-league to Pro-League: Whitstable Town Football Club
NOVEMBER 28th 2021: Belmont Banter Episode 89
JOHN AKINDE Official podcast of Whitstable Town F.C.
John moved from London to the Medway area when he was eleven and started playing football with his mate’s but was soon playing for Gravesend Spartans and was picked for Kent Schools which John says was a really a good time. At fifteen he joined Gravesend and Northfleet …now EBSFLEET they offered him a place of the PACE scheme, similar todays Academy set up. He was picked for the first team at seventeen, in his first season he scored ten goals in twenty starts and won the FA Trophy at the old Wembley. During that sixteen to eighteen period, he was loaned out, the first was at Whitstable Town, (John scored on his debut) In his second loan spell was also at Town, then went onto Margate. John then drew interest from Peterborough United. As he was driving up he discovered that Bristol were also interested so he ended up there. John has played for a number of club, Bristol City came in for him and he signed for them. John played for Barnett, and others including Dagenham & Redbridge and Lincoln City and then Portsmouth before moving back to Kent where he now plays for Gillingham FC. John puts the record straight behind him crashing his car days after he moved to Bristol and the Sky Sports ‘chair on the Bus’ story… After John hangs his boots up which he says is not anytime soon he wants to get into management currently he is taking his UAFA B coaching badges and spent five years studying for his business degree: It’s another great listen from Belmont Banter…
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