Why Rio Ferdinand and Sadiq Khan are playing for Dulwich Hamlet | Hugo Greenhalgh

The football club has always fought for the community. Now the community is fighting to save the club from developers

Take a walk down south London’s Lordship Lane, past East Dulwich station and up Dog Kennel Hill, and you’ll come across a sorry sight. Tucked away next to the Sainsbury’s lies a barricaded football stadium, festooned with threatening “Trespassers will be prosecuted” signs. Until recently, this was home to one of the country’s oldest and most popular non-league clubs, Dulwich Hamlet.

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