What is Hashtag United and who else plays for Toby Aromolarans football team?
LOVE ISLAND star Toby Aromolaran is a semi-professional footballer for non-league team Hashtag United. Heres everything you need to know about the YouTube-inspired club. Hashtag United is a semi-pro football club based in Pitsea, Essex. They were founded in 2016 by YouTuber Spencer Owen, originally playing exhibition games. Hashtag Uniteds games were filmed and uploaded to YouTube and became very popular, helping the club build a solid fanbase. Spencer, who has since become the clubs chairman, entered the team into the football pyramid in 2017 and theyve gone on to earn two promotions. Hashtag United will play in the Instmain League North Division next season, the eighth tier of English football. They are still four promotions away from playing professionally in the English Football League. Spencer Owen Carmichael-Brown, better known as Spencer Owen, is a YouTuber. The 32-year-old achieved national fame through his YouTuber channel Spencer FC, which has nearly 2million subscribers. According to his YouTube profile, he has helped raise more than 200,000 for charity. Spencer has also released his own book about Hashtag United and founded the Wembley Cup, a charity tournament that existed between 2015 and 2018. Speaking to The Sun in 2016, Spencer revealed how a group of kids ignored football star Gareth Bale to talk to him instead. He said: After our interview [with Bale], they let these guys come in for a meet and greet with Gareth. 4 YouTuber Spencer Owen started Hashtag United in 2016 Credit: Instagram @hashtagutd  A load of them ran past him towards me, shouting my name. Im like, What are you doing, Gareths over there?  And they were like, We cant talk to Gareth, but youre our mate.  That was a little moment in my head when I understood how they look at me, as opposed to a footballer. Its that feeling you get when youre 14, youre a bit nervous, you see a footballer like a celebrity, probably the same way you look at your headmaster or someone you dont get to talk to on a day-to-day basis. Football, especially in this country, has gone into this hyper-inflation of tens and hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on players, players being treated like gods, and its left a bit of a vacuum. I like to think that the guys who watch my channel get to live vicariously through me as football fans. Hashtag Uniteds most famous current player is Love Island star Toby Aromolaran, who's entered the villa this summer to find love. Former Peterborough, Birmingham, QPR, Swansea and Barnsley star Tom Williams, 40, is also currently on their books. Midfielder Scott Pollock, 20, is arguably the clubs greatest success story having earned a professional contract at Northampton after impressing for the non-league outfit. Although theyd much prefer him to be involved on the pitch, Chelsea captain and Spain international Cesar Azpilicueta, 31, is a board member and co-owner of Hashtag United. 4   Read all the latest Love Island news