I forgot to mention on Friday……the press release I wrote about Parkfield gaining Charter Standard Status got published in the local paper.
For those who don’t get to read the Sutton Coldfield here it is in full……
“Local football club, Parkfield Amateur FC, has been awarded charter standard status by Birmingham County FA, a scheme established by [...]
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I was up in Macclesfield last night visiting old school friends (thanks to Mandy and Robin for the hospitality – never had pomegranate ice cream before!) which meant that I had 150minutes thinking time as I travelled up there and back.
I usually let my mind wander as it helps to relieve the boredom of the M6 [...]
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Posts in consecutive days! A new record for me.
Yesterday’s post got me thinking further about the debate around the branding of Birmingham. The city is actually lucky. It has a lot of positives and a lot going for it. Definitely not perfect, but certainly enough there for a decent brand.
It got me thinking, what about other places. Lets say, how [...]
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I am going to leave the subject of grassroots football for this one.
Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Jon Bounds. Yes, I have to admit until recently it wasn’t a name that I was familiar with. But Jon is one of Birmingham’s bloggers extraordinaire and hosts the site “Birmingham:It’s not shit“.
Another admission is [...]
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Whilst including some details about my so called ‘footballing career’ I covered my university period and had to include some of the diggs team names. There use to be some totally surreal and great names so I thought I would share a few with you:-
We’ve Got An En-Suite Bathroom Utd FC (Players from Jack Martin halls of residence [...]
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Just heard from the new 1st team manger that his application for the 1st team to remain in Division one for the 2008-09 season has been successful despite the team finishing next to bottom last season.
It is quite normal for the standard two up, two down to fall by the way side due to the [...]
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Last night I had the pleasure of representing my club at the Birmingham AFA’s AGM. Oh what fun.
The good news is that the club got re-elected back into the Birmingham AFA. On a three year cycle each club has to be re-elected. The club even got a mention. Mr Drinkwater getting in a dig about [...]
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I forgot to also mention that I got the opportunity to pop into Grassroots Football Live on Friday afternoon.
I managed to get a free ticket (via Mars – or else it would have been £15) and booked the afternoon off from work.
Since I was only there for a couple of hours I didn’t get to [...]
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It has been more than 5 days, Father, since my last confession erm…blog post.
I do have a life outside of football and that is pretty busy at the moment, hence the delay. You might have thought that fits in nicely with it being the off season for football……..
I wish things were that easy. There is still plenty to [...]
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