Woking Chairman Reflects on Season as Campaign Limps to a Close
With just one fixture left to endure, Todd Johnson offers his thoughts on another year in the National League South wilderness
As the 2025-26 National League South season mercifully approaches its conclusion, Woking FC Chairman Todd Johnson has emerged from the boardroom to share his reflections on what has been another 'character-building' campaign at the Laithwaite Community Stadium.
With just one remaining fixture standing between the Cards and their summer holidays, Johnson's end-of-season assessment arrives at that familiar time when football chairmen traditionally dust off their diplomatic vocabulary and prepare to spin ten months of toil into something resembling progress.
The timing of Johnson's intervention is hardly coincidental. As any seasoned observer of the non-league calendar knows, the penultimate weekend of the season provides the perfect opportunity for a bit of reflective PR - far enough from the heat of mid-season disappointments to sound measured, yet close enough to the final whistle to avoid making any rash promises about next term.
Johnson's thoughts on the current campaign will no doubt make for interesting reading among the Woking faithful, who have spent another year navigating the peculiar challenges of National League South football. At the sixth tier of English football, every season brings its own unique blend of optimism, frustration, and the kind of plot twists that would make a soap opera writer blush.
The chairman's assessment of the club's overall development comes at a crucial juncture for Woking, a side that knows all too well the fine margins that separate success from mediocrity at this level. In a division where the gap between triumph and disaster can be measured in inches rather than miles, Johnson's perspective on the season's progress carries particular weight.
As the Cards prepare for their final outing of the campaign, Johnson's reflections serve as both a closing statement on the current season and perhaps a gentle scene-setter for whatever summer rebuilding may lie ahead. Whether his assessment will strike the right chord with supporters who have invested their Saturdays and hard-earned cash in following the club remains to be seen.
With the 2025-26 season reaching its natural conclusion, Johnson's thoughts offer a timely reminder that in football, as in life, the view from the boardroom doesn't always match the one from the terraces. Still, credit where it's due - at least he's waited until there's only one game left before breaking out the end-of-term report.