Amateur Football Combination

Affiliated to the Amateur Football Alliance, London F.A., Middlesex F.A. and Surrey F.A.

Spirit of Football

Supported by Carling

Playing in the Spirit of Football, Promoting Fair Play and Respect for All
AFC Season Kickoff                                                AFC Golden Boot                                                 Non League Paper Columnist                                               2010-11 Kickoff - Fixtures for 11th September                                                  AFC Club Membership Form                                                  Captains' Responsibilities for 2010-11                                                  AFC Assistant Referee Training - Saturday 21st August                                                  AFA Referee Training Courses - South London                                                  AFC Preseason Fixture Bureau open                                                    AFC Season Kickoff - 11th/18th September 2010                                                    AFC Annual General Meeting Report                                                 AFC Fines Summary                                                  AFC Annual Dinner - Future Format Survey                                                  Old Camdenians/Old Tenisonians/Old Tiffinians Pitches for Hire                                                  Spirit of Football Winners - Heathrow Seniors, Kings Old Boys, UCL Academicals                                                     Ken Fletcher Club Development Award - Heathrow Seniors                                                  Final Club & Team Ratings 2009-10                                                  Sponsorship Officer Needed                                                   McCarthy Awards for Referees                                                 AFC Referee Registration 2010-11                                                  AFC Microsite                                                  AFA Suspension Lookup

Adobe (PDF) Attachments

Many of the documents the AFC send out to its clubs, referees and officers are Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files. This format is becoming more and more widely used, and is the normal format used by the F.A. as well for sending out documents.

In the past we have sent out documents requiring various bits of software:- Excel, Word, PageMaker, Publisher. All are ideal if you have them on your computer, and if your Firewall doesn't strip them out (increasingly many do) but if you don't you're up a gum tree.

Now, we're converting everything to Adobe PDF - the advantages are numerous - it requires only one piece of software (which is FREE - if you haven't got Adobe Reader go to The Adobe Website (or click on the icon

One problem we've come across is that some systems (usually AOL and Hotmail) can "auto-zip" Adobe attachments (so you receive a .ZIP file - which is smaller, but as they don't tell you they've done it, it's a superb way of potentially confusing you). The newer versions of Adobe Reader cope with this (and automatically "un-zip" the attachment) but older ones don't. So if you get a .ZIP file which you click on and nothing happens, then try downloading the newer version of Reader.
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