It’s been 23 years since Dave Bryant and Roger Reed sat outside a meeting room in Brentwood waiting to hear if Enfield Town had been accepted into the Essex Senior League – and now the country’s first fan-owned club have become one of Non-League’s biggest success stories.
It was 20 years ago this week when the Towners became the first fan-owned club in the country after Reed had formed a sizeable pressure group who were lobbying for the original Enfield FC to return to the borough after chairman Tony Lazarou had sold their ground.