We are pleased to invite you to our Football Tournament on Saturday 3rd July 2010, at the University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Wivenhoe, Colchester CO4 3SQ.
The tournament will involve Under 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, 10’s, 11’s, 12’s, 13’s and 14’s, (age group during 2009/2010 season) and hopefully U10’s and U11’s girls’ teams.
The under 7’s – 10’s will be playing 7 a-side. Under 11’s – 14’s will be playing 5 a-side. Both girls’ competitions will be 7 a-side.
The under 7’s & 8’s will all receive a medal for taking part. The under 7’s and under 8’s will be non-competitive but for all other age groups there will be a trophy for the winning team, winners medals and runners-up medals. The entry fee is £22.50 per team.
If you want to attend please complete the attached form and return, as soon as possible, with a cheque for the appropriate fee, cheques should be made payable to Colchester Villa YFC, to: ‘Kate Alden, 31 Spring Chase, Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9QP’ Once your form and payment has been received you will receive a call to confirm your place in the tournament. Two weeks before the tournament you will receive an information pack on the day’s events including details of rules, timings etc.
If you have any queries please contact me on 01206 826974/07702 405019 or log onto www.colchestervillafc.co.uk for more details.
We look forward to seeing you in July. Kate Alden (Events Secretary)
Lawford Junior Football Club would like to invite you to this year’s 5-a-side Fun Day to be held on Sunday 4h July 2010, at our home ground, School Lane, Lawford.
The competition will be affiliated to the Essex County F.A.
Burgers, cold drinks, and other refreshments will be available throughout the day and there will be a number of other stalls, displays and amusements. We very much hope you will want to join us and look forward to receiving your completed entry form.
In its 5th season its always well attended, for more details please go to leamingtonhibs.com festival.
Kind regards Suzie Leamington Hibs FC
BROOMFIELD SUMMER TOURNAMENT (19/02/2010)
February 2010
Dear
It is with great pleasure that Broomfield FC would very much like to invite you to enter our annual 5-a-side competition that is being held over our ‘Fun Days’ weekend on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th June 2010.
The entry fee is £25 per team however, if you would like to enter any additional teams in the same age category the cost for each subsequent team is £20
Broomfield FC is very proud of it’s reputation for running an extremely well organised tournament and is once again looking forward to a highly enjoyable weekend of football and fun for all the family. This is an FA affiliated tournament and all matches will be officiated by independent, fully qualified and FA registered referees.
In addition to the football tournaments there are many other attractions including numerous stalls and sideshows, bouncy castles, a fully licensed bar with TV’s, BBQ’s and other refreshments. Extensive car parking is also available on site.
We very much hope that we will be seeing you and your team(s) over the course of the weekend. Please feel free to pass on this information to the managers of other teams at your club who may also be interested in taking part in what has always been a very popular and enjoyable event.
Should you have any questions or require further information about the tournaments please feel free to contact either of us on the telephone numbers shown on the enclosed entry form.
Yours in Sport,
Andy Rutter Steve Hyde
Broomfield FC ‘Fun Days’ and Tournament Organizers
Most of you attended last years Event in Springfield.A good day was had by all.
This years Event is on Sunday 6th June 2010 so please visit our website for details or connect via the link. http://www.springfieldfc.org.
Alternatively,please reply to this email with all your details.
I hope to see you all there this year.
PS I will be asking that all Managers to allocate there Teams to a parent to run it on the day,so this will allow some time for the Managers to assist on the day in various support throughout the Event.A list of duties will be sent out in due course,but I would ask that as many parents be willing help out in some small way or another during the day.
PPS If any Managers have shirt sponsors that would like to put an advert in the programme at �25.00 please put them in contact with me.
Kind Regards
Steve Sexton Tournament Co-Ordinator
Mobile 07976 850 947 steven.sexton@waverleytbs.co.uk
Ashford Borough FC are pleased to invite your club to participate in our annual 7-a-side Football Tournament which will be held at Sandyacres, Sandyhurst Lane, Ashford, Kent TN25 4PD on 26th and 27th June 2010.
You are invited to enter teams in any of the categories ranging from Under 7 to Under 16. Age groups are for 2009/10 season.
The playing schedule will be as follows:
Saturday 13th AM: Saturday 13th PM:
Sunday 14th AM: Sunday 14th PM:
The playing days and times for various age groups will be sent out nearer the time along with tournament rules and registration forms
All matches, including the finals will be played on the day and all players must participate in their own age group. The closing date for entries is 30 April 2009. Each age group will have 2 or 3 equal groups of teams followed by semi-finals and a final. Normal Mini Soccer rules will apply with the exception of U11 and above where the goalkeeper will not be allowed to drop kick the ball. The exception to this will be the U7 and U8 age groups and these will be run on a non-competitive basis with no semi finals or final. Results will not be recorded for these matches and every player who participates will receive a momento.
All teams must be affiliated with their county FA and your county affiliation number must be included on the application form.
All games will be played on good sized pitches and will be 7-a-side with a maximum of 10 players per team. No player may register for more than one team.
I have enclosed an application form which on completion should be returned by no later than 30th April 2010 to Andy Found, 11 Chichester Close, Ashford, Kent. TN23 4QB along with a cheque made payable to Ashford Borough FC. The cost per team is £30.00. Please note that no refunds will be offered if the event is cancelled due to adverse weather or if teams withdraw for any reason.
When returning your application you should enclose a large stamped addressed envelope to enable us to send out the tournament rules and registration forms. All correspondence will be sent to the club secretary and not to team managers so please ensure that the secretarys details are correct on your application form and must be as held by your county FA.
We recommend an early response to avoid disappointment as we were over subscribed in all age groups for last years tournament.
Please ensure you affix correct postage on stamped addressed envelope.
Please note: There will be charge of £1.50 per car upon arrival at Sandyacres. This will entitle you to a tournament programme and you will then be directed to your car parking space. To avoid queues please have the correct money available and if you leave the site during the day please have a tournament programme on display in your windscreen upon return to avoid a further charge. Thankyou for you co-operation.
Welcome to "The Dragons Cup" 2010 (20/01/2010)
Welcome to "The Dragons Cup" 2010
I would like to personally invite your teams to our competition.
This is our first and not to be missed 6-A-Side
Tournament being held in July 2010 Saturday 17th July 2010: Under 8’s, Unders 9’s, Under 13’s & Under 14’s Sunday 18th July 2010: Under 10’s, Under 11’s, Under 12’s, Under 15’s & 16’s 1st Team £40 subsequent teams £35 each. The Dragons cup is held at Wivenhoe Town Football Club, Colchester, Essex CO7 7HA.
* All teams are guaranteed a minimum of five matches. * All games take place in our Broad Lane Ground, The home of Ridgeons League Premier Division side Wivenhoe Town FC. * The event is six-a-side and you can bring up to 10 players per squad. * Matches will be 5 minutes each way * There will be medals for all Under 8’s players. * There will be cups and medals for the winners and medals for the runners up in each age group.
Please Note in compliance with FA regulations, teams entering age groups Under 11’s and below can include both boys and girls in their squads if they wish. All age groups except the under 8’s in the tournament will be Competitive. 　 The Winning teams from each age group will receive a Cup, medals and will be invited to a pre season friendly match Vs the League One side Colchester United ‘Centre Of Excellence’. Colchester badge.png
Yours In Sport Mo Osman Wivenhoe Town FC manager & Event Organiser
SPURS 6 A SIDE (15/01/2010)
SUMMER 5 A SIDES (06/01/2010)
Message Happy New Year Please find attached the Invitation and entry form for this years tournament.
Range Rovers will host their 6-a-side tournament on the weekend of July 17/18th 2010 at Isle of Sheppey Academy, Minster Road, Isle of Sheppey ME12 3JQ, (this is the same venue as previous years with a new name).
Entries will be �29.50 per team (max 8 players per squad) with a maximum of three teams per club per age group.
This year the age groups for the tournament (subject to demand) will be for Mixed in age groups U7, U8, U9, and Boys in age groups U10s, U11, U12, U13 & U14, U15s, U16s and Girls in age groups U10, U11s, U12s, U13s, U14s, U15s, U16s and Ladies. The tournament will be KCFA registered. As per FA Guidelines the U7s and U8s will be run as friendly tournaments. The schedule for the weekend will be as follows:
Please complete and return the enclosed entry form along with your cheque to the above address no later than 30th May 2010. Entry will be on a first come first served basis but will not be accepted until a cheque and correctly completed application form has been received. Confirmation and further information will be sent out after the closing date.
James Thatcher Club Treasurer
3 Barler Place Queenborough Isle of Sheppey Kent ME11 5BX
We all know that a commentators job is very hard... don't we ? Here are some of the actual things said on tv and radio by some of them...
John Motson specials...
"I was about to say, before something far more interesting interrupted ..." France v Bulgaria
"And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway."
"For those of you watching in Black and White, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip"
Motty on form in the Columbia v Tunisia game, after Tunisia made a substitution: "They've now got Ben Younes, Ben Ahmed and Ben Slimane. I think we'll have to stick to using just their surnames." Sure enough he went on to refer to them as Younes, Ahmed and Slimane.
Terry Venables...
"Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored"
"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again"
"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen."
Jimmy Hill: "Don't sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?" Terry Venables: "I think it's fifty - fifty."
Brian Moore...
"Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins."
"Adams is stretching himself, looking for Seaman"
"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose"
"That would have been a goal if the goalkeeper hadn't saved it"
"I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's completely different"
"A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off"
"They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they've scored in all of them."
Now some Big Rons...
"Zidane is not very happy, because he's suffering from the wind"
"He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces"
"They've picked their heads up off the ground and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders"
"Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw" "He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate"
"I'm afraid they've left their legs at home"
"Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard"
"I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help"
"There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch." - Ron lauds Gordon Strachan, 39.
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat"
"I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better."
World Cup Specials
"Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him" - David Pleat
"Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball" - Ian St John
"I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish" - Ian St John
"The Croatians don't play well without the ball" - Barry Venison
"It had to go in, but it didn't" - Peter Drury
"That's lifted the crowd up into the air" - Barry Davies
"He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss." - Bobby Robson
Kevin Keegan - enough said...
"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game"
"Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders"
"Only one team can win this game - and that team is England" (closely followed by Brian's: "But wait a minute, here's Dan Petrescu...................!")
"Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him..."
"Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice."
"Sometimes there are too many generals and not enough, er, people waving to the generals as they, er, walk past."
A mixed bag...
"Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams..." - Morton fans taunting the Rangers keeper after he had been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia.
"I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones" - Chris Turner, Peterborough manager, before League Cup QF, 1992.
"Tell the German to get his a** up front. We don't pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence." - NY Cosmos executive, on Beckenbauer's positioning.
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" - George Best.
"If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent" - Bryan Robson, Man U, 1990.
"That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on." - John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.
"I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs..." - Andy Gray, Sky Sport
Richard Keys : "Well Roy, do you think that you'll have to finish above Manchester United to win the league?" Roy Evans : "You have to finish above everyone to win the league Richard."
"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday." - Radio 5 Live
"Football today, it's like a game of chess. It's all about money." - NEWCASTLE UNITED FAN, Radio 5 Live
"I'm not a believer in luck..... but I do believe you need it." - ALAN BALL
"Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different." - TREVOR BROOKING
"Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead." - TOM FERRIE
"And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley......unless somebody knocks us out." - DAVE BASSETT
"And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds." - PETER JONES
"What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal." - JIMMY HILL
"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer." - DAVID ACFIELD
"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio" - Gerry Francis
"John Harkes going to Sheffield, Wednesday." - New York Post (1993)
"If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers." - Mick Lyons
"He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head" - Derek Johnstone, BBC TV Scotland (1994)
"The crowd think that Todd handled the ball.... they must have seen something that nobody else did" - Barry Davies (1975)
"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel" - Stuart Pearce (1992)
"Manchester United take more in programme sales than we take on the gate." - Lawrie McMenemy, Southampton
"If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim" - Berti Vogts, Germany coach
"You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey" - Arrigo Sacchi, Italy coach, defending a meagre playing record
"Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time" - Richard Moller Nielsen, Denmark coach
"Why didn't you just belt it son?" - Gareth Southgate's mother reflects publicly on her son's penalty miss
"The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to Eurodisney" - Dean Holdsworth, Wimbledon
"I was shocked when I was first introduced to the fans because they brought out a sheep, cut its head off and then smeared blood over my forehead" - Manchester United's Ronnie Johnsen on life with Besiktas, Turkey
"If the players want to make it hard for me, I am happy to make it twice as hard for them" - Wendy Toms, the first female referee to officiate in a professional game
"The score is Sunderland nil, Leicester nil, the temperature is nil and the entertainment value is not much above nil" - Sunderland v Leicester, Radio 5 Live
"I think having Wasps around here as well gives us that little buzz around the place" - Ray Wilkins on the QPR-Wasps groundshare
"This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players" - praise for the Under-21s from Javier Clemente, Spain's coach
"There are some great defenders here, I just don't know their names" - David Ginola of Newcastle and France
"It took a lot of bottle for Tony to own up" - Ian Wright on the Arsenal captain's confession to alcoholism
"It's sod's law. Now I've got time to improve my golf it's the wrong time of year" - Howard Wilkinson when sacked by Leeds
"The referee was booking everyone. I thought he was filling in his lottery numbers" - Ian Wright
"Asking Ruud Gullit to perform in this sort of match is like asking Kiri te Kanawa to jam with the Spice Girls" - 5 Live's Pat Murphy on the lousy pitch at Derby and the ill-tempered nature of the game
"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem" (Howard Wilkinson)
After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought" (Bobby Robson)
On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country" (Ian Rush)
"Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play" (Peter Lorenzo)
"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised" (Ian McNail)
"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales" (Ron Greenwood)
"A brain scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin" (Jo Sheldon)
"The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation" (Ron Pickering)
"That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe)
"Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back. In fact I'm right behind him" (Stuart Pearson)
"The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day." CHRIS JONES, Evening Standard
"What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?" STUART HALL, Radio 5 Live
"Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot." RAY WILKINS, BBC1
"I've got a gut feeling in my stomach..." ALAN SUGAR, BBC1
"Johnson has revelled in the 'hole' behind Dwight Yorke..." Carling FA Premiership WWW Page
"An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal." DAVE BASSETT, Sky Sports
"Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals." PETER WITHE, Radio 5 Live
"You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals." ALAN GREEN, Radio 5 Live
"What's it like being in Bethlehem, the place where Christmas began? I suppose it's like seeing Ian Wright at Arsenal...." SIMON FANSHAWE, Talk Radio
"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio"-Gerry Francis
"And we all know that in football if you stand still you go backwards..." PETER REID, Tyne Tees Sport Special
"The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes." STEVE COPPELL, Radio 5 Live
"The lads really ran their socks into the ground." ALEX FERGUSON
"Brian Laudrup wasn't just facing one defender - he was facing one at the front and one at the back as well." TREVOR STEVEN, STV
"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday." Radio 5 Live
"...but Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals." TONY GUBBA, BBC Match of the Day
"He's an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side." GARY LINEKER, BBC
"We say `educated left foot'... of course, there are many players with educated right foots." RON JONES, Radio 5 Live
"That's twice now he [Terry Phelan] has got between himself and the goal." BRIAN MARWOOD, Radio 5 Live
"We threw our dice into the ring and turned up trumps." BRUCE RIOCH, ITV
"... and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a ball of string..." IAN DARKE, Radio 5
David Pleat during the United States' game against Iran: "He had to cut back inside onto his left foot because he literally hasn't got a right foot."
Desmond Lynam: "Well, you gave the horse a wonderful ride, everybody saw that"
"To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch." - Ruud Gullit
"Ardiles strokes the ball like it is part of his own anatomy." - Jimmy Magee, RTE
"We'll still be happy if we lose. The game's on at the same time as the Beer Festival" - Noel O' Mahony, Cork City boss before the game in Munich
"I'd like to play for an Italian club , like Barcelona" - Mark Draper (Aston Villa)
Richard Keys: "Ooh! that's a serious injury, isn't it Alan?" Alan Shearer: "Well I dunno, depends if its serious..." (Sky Sports 11/5/03)
WHAT DO FOOTBALLERS EAT? (01/02/2008)
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Professional footballers have to be disciplined with their food. They can have a slap-up meal or a treat now and again, but most of the time they avoid eating rubbish. A healthy diet for a professional footballer will contain plenty of carbs (carbohydrates) together with fruit 'n' vegetables and protein.
Below is a typical example of what a professional footballer would eat while in training:
BREAKFAST Cereal, half a pint of skimmed milk, bread and fruit preserves. Orange or other fruit juice.
LUNCH A meal high in complex carbohydrates with a small intake of protein. Chicken with rice or jacket potato and green vegetables. Pasta is also popular. This will be followed by fruit with an isotonic drink. if players are training in the afternoon they will eat smaller portions but the meal will still be based around carbohydrates.
EVENING MEAL As with lunch, the evening meal should be made up of foods high in carbohydrates. This meal should also contain protein too. Fish and chicken with rice, boiled potatoes, vegetables or pasta are all popular.
KEEPING IT BALANCED Most top clubs employ dietitians to ensure that their players eat a 'balanced diet'. To ensure that your performance is at its peak, you're going to need keep a balance between carbs, fats and proteins, and try to avoid the junk stuff.
Protein sources are: Meat, Fish, Cheese, Eggs, Soya.
REFUELING AFTER THE MATCH Footballers' glycogen levels can be down as much as 75 per cent after a game and those levels have to be restored to normal as soon as possible. You have two to five hours to replace your glycogen stores after a game and it is crucial that you eat the right things. Try to eat plenty of, you guest it, carbs after the game; eating junk food will undo your pre-match food preparation.
FLUIDS The human body is made up of 80 per cent fluid. Some of this fluid is lost every time you exercise. To keep healthy and fit fluids must be replaced. Footballers should drink at least half a litre of water before and after a warm-up. It is also a good idea to consume an isotonic drink before playing a game. Tea, coffee, and any drinks containing caffeine should be avoided.
ISOTONIC DRINKS Isotonic drinks are easily absorbed into the blood stream and provide quicker rehydration than water. There are many specially designed isotonic drinks on the market, but a simple isotonic solution can be made by mixing equal quantities of fruit juice and water.
If a new football forum was launched for grassroots people to discuss/influence the future of football development in the UK, would you use it?
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