Walton and Hersham is a Southwest London club to follow and embrace

Neighborhood football at its best is on display on Walton-on-Thames

Walton-on-Thames isn’t far from where the fictional AFC Richmond of Ted Lasso fame is based. But in Walton, a real life Cinderella drama is playing out, where Walton & Hersham have achieved three successive promotions since being taken over by a consortium of ambitious young owners in 2019.

Walton & Hersham FC is an embodiment of the local neighborhood, …