If you talk about the formation of the Mitcham Football Club, you must first talk about Mitcham’s rural Community and its founding father – William ‘John’ McGlone. Like many Irishmen of the time John McGlone (1829-1892) fled the ravages of the Great Irish Famine and at 25 arrived in a largely unknown land in 1854, to carve out a better life in the British Colony of Victoria