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Very little if any early history of the played in the West
BA football team can be found ex- Middlesex League (that has now also
cept an entry in the minutes of the folded) the teams then moved to the
initial minutes of the then Speed- London Commercial League. This
bird Club where the BA Football League had ten divisions in its hey-
team was one of 6 other sporting ac- day with at least 10 teams in each di-
tivities that formed together as part vision and all the teams had to have
of the Sporting and Social Club for their own sports grounds! All this
BOAC. So it seems that the earliest has now gone with companies selling
date we can verify is April 1947 for off the land the private developers or
the BOAC team no such evidence can deciding that they couldn’t afford to
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be found for its counterpart BEA. run sporting activities any longer, no
When BEA & BOAC airlines merged wonder we are all getting fatter!
in 1974 to become British Airways it The Football teams at British Airways
took another 8 years before the foot- have had a very long, successful and
ball teams amalgamated to become proud history in Middlesex Junior
British Airways Football Section. football winning many league and
At that time there were 15 adult teams County honors along the way. The BA
comprising of BA Staff from office Sat 1st team are probably one of the
workers to pilots, engineers and from most successful teams in Middlesex
baggage handling to IT programmers. Junior football they won the London
The teams played at the weekends Commercial League Div. 1 title and
and mid-week in local leagues such Senior League Cup on many, many
as the Hanwell and District mid-week occasions the team have also been
League (folded many years ago) fol- successful in the Middlesex County
lowed by the Airport League which Intermediate Cup winning this cup 8
has now also folded. The Sat teams times and in 2005/06/07 this trophy