AFC Portchester

Reasons To Adopt

Here is the argument for AFC Portchester: England, England FA Trophy, and a ground called Wicor Recreation Ground, Portchester. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• Home is home

  Wicor Recreation Ground, Portchester is the address. Learn the walk from the station to the turnstile and you have most of what supporting a club actually is.

• You get a nickname

  Known as Portchy, Royals. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.

• Easy weekend

  Southampton Airport (SOU) is about 19km from the ground, and Portchester railway station is 2km closer still. A home fixture is a genuinely doable two-night trip.

• The calendar you inherit

  England FA Trophy is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. England does not do easy neutrals.