MARK CASWELL – BIOGRAPHY

Managing director of MCC Promotions is Mark Caswell and he has been a director

of the company for over 25 years.

Mark has been involved in sport all his working life starting his football career at

Fulham as a schoolboy then going on to play for Weymouth, Poole Town, Swanage

Town & Herston, Portland United, Kingstonian, and Corinthian Casuals.

Cricket has also played a big part in his sporting life, with strong London clubs ie

Wimbledon, Spencer, Sutton and Catford, and as a club professional in Wales and Dorset.

Mark has promoted over 100 sporting and music events, mainly football, athletics, cricket,

tennis and golf, and worked as a consultant on professional boxing shows.

A 'battle of the bands' format worked well for the company for many years.

HISTORY OF SOUTH LONDON FIVES

A South London Five A Side League was formed in May 1981 with games being played at the Ferndale Sports Centre in Brixton. In 1988 the league moved its headquarters to the Wandle Recreation Centre in Wandsworth.

The league has eight divisions with games currently being played every Monday night throughout the year with the exception of bank holidays. Over the years a few players have gone on to play in the Football League:

Andy Gray (Crystal Palace), Alan Pardew (Crystal Palace), Clinton Morrison (Crystal Palace & Republic of Ireland), Hamid Barr (QPR), Darren Annon (Brentford), Stuart Booth (Millwall), Tony Finnegan (Crystal Palace) Moses Ashikodi (Millwall), Jaimie Mordee (Millwall) and Alex Tudor has gone on to be a Surey CCC and England cricketer.

The Darkness Rock Band played in the music league July 2001.

Singer Craig David played for Kensal Town Recording Studios in 2007.

The national 5-a-side cup winners (Radian B Millenium cup winners) was won by Lewisham Town, who are members of the league.

The league cater for all playing standards and all of the games are played in a friendly spirit.

The year is split into two with the winter league (September - February) and a summer league (March - August) and at any one time there can be between 56 - 64 teams registered in the league, with some 400 players taking part.

A one day tournament is played annually on the first week of June, the event being staged at Battersea Park Sports Ground.