Our latest guest post sees us welcome Tom Victor. Tom is the Major League Soccer Correspondent for Footy Matters and you can read a selection of his missives here. He's also a proud Hammer and here brings his attention to the extraordinary development of family tradition at that storied east London club.

[I]n an article last year, The Economist coined the phrase `Londonism' to refer to what it regarded as a distinct ideology driven by the office of Mayor. It cited as the central tenets of `Londonism': enthusiasm for the financial services industry; an openness to immigration; and the unceasing pursuit of economic growth.

So, this past Sunday I was invited along to Dagenham and Redbridge's Victoria Ground to interview Spurs coach Clive Allen. Clive was taking part in an 'England Legends' match against a supposed Sunday League side, Ivory FC. The Legends were made up of a number of ex professionals, some who had played a lot more games for England than others, but the main thing they had in common was that they all looked quite old.

Leyton Orient vs Dagenham and Redbridge Penalties Video Highlights 14-13 Johnstone's Paint Trophy Penalty Shootout is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Leyton Orient vs Dagenham and Redbridge Penalties Video Highlights 14-13 Johnstone's Paint Trophy Penalty Shootout is a post from Soccer Blogger.

Admittedly I was a bit slow to publish this...so with the added benefit of one performance, here's the League Two preview!

Who's Looking Good?

Crawley Town: Most bookies favourites, Crawley have the biggest budget in the league, momentum to die for, and probably the deadliest striker in the division in Matt Tubbs.

For the simple reason that we think the Seagulls would have been less likely to stroll to promotion like they did without him, Elliott Bennett takes this year's Young Player award. Of course, the man of the protruding tongue has since caved in to Paul Lambert's advances but given the Canaries' rising star, who can really blame the lad?

There's a whole other article that could be be written on the dynamic between Stockport County and Sale Sharks, but for the purposes of this award we'll focus on the pitch at Edgeley Park. Plenty of football clubs share grounds with those amateur gents of the oval ball, Reading and Wycombe to name but two, and at points those playing surfaces may suffer from the sheer amount of game time

Bas Savage has raised the bar for the wackiest haircuts in football.
With Dagenham and Redbridge battling for survival in League One, the striker attempted to inspire them for their clash against league leaders Brighton with a Spiderman design sprayed on his head.

Cameron Lancaster is the latest of our young players to go out on loan and he will be playing at League One side Dagenham and Redbridge for the next month.

Many of our youngsters have made an impact at their host clubs this season. Harry Kane, Tom Carroll and Paul Jose Mpoku have impressed at Orient, Kyle Naughton is performing well at Leicester and of course Kyle Walker has been called up by England after impressive displays at Aston Villa.

Andy Scott's departure from Brentford may have come as something of a surprise to many, but one of his former signings appears to be reaping the benefits. Brought in from Dagenham along with fellow Daggers Ben Strevens and Danny Foster ahead of the 2009-10 season, winger Sam Saunders arrived with his eyes on the prize, but the intervening eighteen months have seen the Bexleyheathian struggle to

We do love maps here at CultFootball. Via bigthink.com (which got it from qprdot.org), a great map of London:

For reference, here is a Google Map of London showing the grounds of the five London Premier League clubs:

View London Football Grounds in a larger map

Some commentary by the BigThink writer (Frank Jacobs, author of their Strange Maps sub-blog):

It shows the clear geographical slant of football fandom in the British capital: the centres of gravity for each ‘fanland' tend to be around the home grounds of each team.