Our paths crossed with Rainham Town many times between 1985 and 1991 – but the club folded at the end of the 1993-4 campaign. For the entire time between 1977 and the club’s demise, they’d been in the lower reaches of the Isthmian League. After finishing bottom in their final campaign, relegation to Division Three was next. But it never happened, clearly, as they resigned from the league and left the scene.
