FILMING MATCHES

PRICING, PAYMENT & DELIVERY

DVD CATALOGUE

OUR YOUTH LEAGUE FILMING HISTORY

Since way back in 1990, we have covered a number of Cup Finals for Youth teams of all age groups in London and surrounding counties (i.e. Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Kent & Surrey). These Cup Finals invariably take place at the end of each season during March, April & May, and we are assisted by experienced freelance cameramen so that we can cope with filming several matches at different venues on the same day.

Back in the early 1990's, we gained most of our bookings to film Youth Team Cup Finals as a result of us filming regularly for Enfield F.C. in the Ryman League on Saturdays. A fair number of Enfield's supporters were involved in local Youth Football, either with Enfield F.C.'s own Youth Teams or with clubs in the same League, and having bought Match Videos or Compilations already, they therefore had no hesitation in using our services whenever their teams reached a Cup Final as they were fully aware of the quality of video that we could produce.

With many of these teams reaching County Cup Finals, it therefore resulted in teams from other areas becoming aware of our services and booking us to film future matches, so we have gradually managed to cover Youth Team matches all over London and surrounding counties since then.More recently, we have been booked to film a number of Cup Finals as a result of Youth teams being able to see examples of our filming, editing & production work on our You Tube channel.

Our contact details and website address is included on the back of every DVD insert that we produce, and many bookings that we receive to film matches are from clubs who have seen another club's DVD and contacted us as a result.

We also receive a lot of bookings for filming Cup Finals because our prices are so low in comparison to other video companies. We prefer to charge a low price for filming, editing & production and charge relatively high prices for extra copies rather than the other way round. This ensures that Youth League teams can afford to have their game filmed in the first place. Full details on how we can film Cup Finals & other matches for Youth Teams can be found under Filming Matches.

Our various filming options  and prices can be found on our Pricing, Payment & Delivery page.

Over the past few years, and especially since we started producing matches on DVD, we have received numerous compliments from satisfied customers who are impressed with our finished product, and we often hear that the youngsters who have played in those matches watch their DVD's almost 'non-stop' afterwards and love showing them off to their friends and relatives. Click here to see just a few of the testimonials we have received.

‘FOOTBALL FOR FANS’ TOURNAMENTS

Since 2008 we have been filming the George Parris Boys’ Tournaments every Summer at West Ham United's Boleyn Ground for Football For Fans, and we hope to cover more Tournaments for them in the future. Football For Fans specialise in giving amateur players the chance to play in a professional club's stadium as part of an all-day Tournament, with a tour of the stadium being included in the price.

The George Parris Tournament sees the pitch split up into four Mini-Soccer pitches, so we therefore have cameramen filming from the Upper Tiers on the half-way line of each pitch (as you will see from the main picture on our Home Page). We also have another cameraman down at pitch level filming the opening parades and also the presentation ceremonies at the end of the Tournament.  The matches are invariably 15, 20 or 25-minutes long and teams normally play a minimum of 80 minutes football throughout the day.

DVD's are produced for each participating team (if requested before the Tournament starts), but these are only available directly from Football For Fans and not via this website.

To enquire as to the availability and cost of DVD's, please contact Tournament organiser Jeff Garner.

OUR YOUTH LEAGUE DVD CATALOGUE

Once we have been paid for the filming, editing & production of a Youth Cup Final (or other matches) by the participating team(s) who have booked us, the match will then be listed in our Youth League DVD Catalogue on this website for the general public to be able to purchase a copy (unless the teams(s) who have specifically booked us to film the match request otherwise). We still have the master copies of Youth League Cup Finals dating right back to 1990 and indeed we often receive enquiries from players who played in matches that we filmed many years ago who have either lost their original copy, didn’t buy one in the first place, or bought it on video and would now like a copy on DVD. Most of the Cup Finals we filmed before 2003 are still on video only, but we hope to be able to transfer them all to DVD and list them all on this website as soon as we can.

We are currently working on producing an online catalogue for this website whereby DVD’s can be purchased individually using credit or debit cards via PayPal. This will completely replace the old system of having to post cheques to our office with a hand-written order form. We hope to have this facility in place at some stage during 2012. To order our DVD’s in the meantime (by BACS payments, cheques or cash), please view our Youth League DVD Catalogue for instructions.

FAMOUS PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED IN YOUTH MATCHES WE HAVE FILMED

We have filmed numerous players in Youth Team Cup Finals over the years who have gone on to play professionally, with several becoming Premier League stars and even Internationals. The most famous of these are undoubtedly Chelsea & England's Ashley Cole, who we captured on film playing for Westward Boys in 1992 and 1993 and for Hackney & Tower Hamlets Schools in 1996, and his former Chelsea & England team-mate Joe Cole, who was filmed playing in two Cup Finals for Chapel Boys Under-12's in 1994. (See picture right). We have also filmed the likes of Tottenham's Ledley King, Aston Villa's Luke Young & Queens Park Rangers’ Shaun Wright-Phillips playing for amateur Youth Teams in their early days, all three of these players being England Internationals of course. In addition to those five players, there are others on the books of Premier League or Nationwide League Clubs who we have filmed playing in Cup Finals for various Youth Teams since 1990 and there will certainly be many more who will make a breakthrough in the next few years.

Our Youth Team Cup Final DVD's are therefore very popular with the players who actually played in the matches, especially when they can show their friends or relatives a DVD of themselves playing with or against somebody who is now famous !