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It had gone through several names including Pennant


ALTHAM Forest FC gained its current name in February 2003 when local businessman Harry Ramis took over as Chairman.


FC, Walthamstow Pennant. Mr Ramis appointed his brother,exprofessional footballer Hakan Ramis-Heyrattin, as manager and the team avoided relegation. The team carried on their form at the beginning of the 2003-04 season winning their first three matches and sit- ting in the top four for much of the first three months of the season. However,the performance levels dipped soon after and the team could only manage to finish 16th. The team continued to make progress, but despite this,


least facing adropdown to play in the Essex Senior League. However,long serving club secretary Andy Perkins managed to entice Terry Back to the club as Chairman in order to provide some finance. Dave Muir and Martin Fitch werepromoted to manage


Mr Ramis, decided at the end of the 2005 to 2006 sea- son to step down from his position. This left the club on the brink of extinction or at very


the first team, and promoted alarge chunk of the youth team with them. However,after four heavy defeats in their first four games Muir and Fitch weredismissed. They werereplaced by Danny Honeyball as player-man-


ager,aposition that he'd held briefly at the club in 2003. Honeyball, along with assistant boss Victor Renner


rebuilt the side quickly and after an outstanding run of form, finished eighth and just missed out on the end of season play-offs. Despite the excellent performance the summer of 2007


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was one of turmoil at the club. Renner moved on to Potters Bar Town and took over half of the first team squad with him, Grieves joined as Danny's player-assistant manager, but left after just six games. Worse was to follow when Back resigned as chairman at the end of October 2007. Despite the loss of their chairman, Waltham Forest bat-


pitch efforts to find asuccessor,those efforts came to fruition when boxing promoter Azumah Cofie agreed to take over in November 2007. Following the change around of chairman again with


tled on, financial constraints meant the club was on the verge of going out of business by December. The committee took vigorous steps and made off-the-


Tony Ievoli taking charge the club announced in March 2008, it would be moving from their home of 12 years at Wadham Lodge at the end of the season. For the start of the 2008-09 season, Waltham Forest


F.C. moved in as tenants of Ilford, and now play their home games at Cricklefield Stadium. After successful negotiations, Azumah Cofie handed the


reins to local businessman and friend Mr.Isaac Johnson, who immediately appointed Olawale Ojelabi as player- manager.This led to asuperb run of form from January to March, which dragged the club out of the relegation places and again Forest survived the drop. Despite poor results offthe pitch, the club did recieve


some good news at the start of the 2010-11 season - that they would be returning to their home, Wadham Lodge. The club is still awaiting the return, but once this move is secured, the club will hope to become the pre- mier non-league side in the borough once more.


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