THE BADGERS SCENE… CELEBRATING A DOUBLE CENTURY OF EDITIONS… It is with great pride that we roll out this latest edition of our popular and long running club newsletter… for it is our 200 th consecutive monthly edition! Our first edition was published in October 2001 and since then there has been a club newsletter every calendar month ever since! With Editor, Neil Coleman assisted by Bosko Medakovic, the newslet- ter regularly shares many articles, features, photo's, and updates on matters in and around the club. It has proven to be a fantastic way in which information can be shared, with a current email circulation of 694 recipients and an estimated readership in excess of 2000 folk. As ever, the Badgers' Scene Newsletter welcomes relevant features and articles from interested folk… so please feel free to keep sending details to us at:- [email protected]or [email protected]In the meantime… thank you for your continued interest… Founded in 2001 Affiliated to the Worcestershire Football Association since 2002 - An FA Charter Standard Community Club since 2009 The Editor’s Introduction Neil Coleman, Newsletter Editor Welcome to our landmark 200th edition. In this issue we feature on the Final League Tables, Fair Play Winners, Young Volunteer, Newsletter Landmark, CTFC Call Up, England Call Up, Presentation Day Update, AGM Update, Tournament Winners, BCFC Experience, and much more! At L&BBFC, we are very keen to involve our staff, members, and parents in the activities of the club, and that includes contributions for this newsletter! So if anyone has any articles or reports from games attended, or photos and action snaps, please let me know so that it can be in- cluded in future issues of this newsletter. You can email items to me on [email protected]or [email protected]Please note that details need to be received by the Editor a week before the end of the month prior to the relevant edition! If anyone wishes to be included on our email circulation list of this newsletter, please get in touch giving your email details! Also, please let me know if any of you change your email address or wish to be removed from our circulation list. Worcestershire FA's - Charter Standard Community Club of the Year - 2009/10 Malvern Hills District Council's - Junior Club of the Year - 2009/10 Malvern Hills District Council's - Club of the Year - 2012/13 The Badgers' Scene The Official Monthly Newsletter of Leigh & Bransford Badgers FC First Issued In October 2001 – Latest Issue Number: 200 Date: June 2018 Current Newsletter Email Circulation – 694 Addresses
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THE BADGERS SCENE… CELEBRATING A
DOUBLE CENTURY OF EDITIONS…
It is with great pride that we roll out this latest edition of our popular and long running club newsletter… for it is our 200th consecutive monthly edition!
Our first edition was published in October 2001 and since then there has been a club newsletter every
calendar month ever since!
With Editor, Neil Coleman assisted by Bosko Medakovic, the newslet-ter regularly shares many articles, features, photo's, and updates on
matters in and around the club.
It has proven to be a fantastic way in which information can be shared, with a current email circulation of 694 recipients and an estimated
readership in excess of 2000 folk.
As ever, the Badgers' Scene Newsletter welcomes relevant features and articles from interested folk… so please feel free to keep sending
In the meantime… thank you for your continued interest…
Founded in 2001
Affiliated to the Worcestershire Football Association since 2002 - An FA Charter Standard Community Club since 2009
The Editor’s Introduction Neil Coleman, Newsletter Editor
Welcome to our landmark 200th edition. In this issue we feature on the Final League Tables, Fair Play Winners, Young Volunteer, Newsletter
Landmark, CTFC Call Up, England Call Up, Presentation Day Update, AGM Update, Tournament Winners, BCFC Experience, and much more!
At L&BBFC, we are very keen to involve our staff, members, and parents in the activities of the club, and that includes contributions for this newsletter! So if anyone has any articles or reports from games attended, or photos and action snaps, please let me know so that it can be in-cluded in future issues of this newsletter. You can email items to me on [email protected] or [email protected]
Please note that details need to be received by the Editor a week before the end of the month prior to the relevant edition! If anyone wishes to be included on our email circulation list of this newsletter, please get in touch giving your email details! Also, please let me know if any of you
change your email address or wish to be removed from our circulation list.
Worcestershire FA's - Charter Standard Community Club of the Year - 2009/10 Malvern Hills District Council's - Junior Club of the Year - 2009/10
Malvern Hills District Council's - Club of the Year - 2012/13
The Badgers' Scene The Official Monthly Newsletter of Leigh & Bransford Badgers FC
First Issued In October 2001 – Latest Issue Number: 200
Date: June 2018
Current Newsletter Email Circulation – 694 Addresses
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News & Views In And Around The Club
Read all about it! Presentations: Reminder…This season's Club Presentation Fun Day has been set for 23
rd June 2018, note it in your diaries! See updated
feature herein…
Wanted: Prizes for our Presentation Fun Day Raffle & Tombola are required. Donations can be dropped off at our RFS Snack Shack on Satur-
day mornings (9am to 11am) or by contacting Karen Rothan 07585625625 or [email protected]
Helpers: We are looking for volunteers to help with our Presentation Fun Day attractions & stalls. To offer your services, please contact Club
Cakes: Our Presentation Fun Day cake stall will be run by Sam Williams (Parent - Boys Development Squad). Helpers and Cake donations are
required. To offer, please contact Sam 07521920221 or [email protected]
Fair Play: Our congratulations go to our U10's Forest squad who landed the L&BBFC Fair Play Remembrance Cup 2017/18 after achieving the
highest points total for a club side in the MFJFL's Fair Play Awards 2017/18.
Meeting: Reminder…the next Club (5.30pm) & Staff (6.30pm) meetings are scheduled for Sunday 10th June 2018 at the Royal Oak Pub, Leigh
Sinton. Please ensure that all club squads are represented.
Sponsorship: Our thanks go to Craig Taylor, Mitch Luckman at County Windows, and LS Transport who have all agreed to sponsor items for
our newly formed L&BBFC U7's Real squad. We are always interested to hear from would be sponsors and can offer team kit, match ball, ground advertising board, website, and newsletter sponsorship packages. Interested persons are asked to contact Bosko Medakovic on 07979725196. We have around 500 or so parents at our club and if folk made a conscious effort to check with employers and businesses about possible sponsorship deals; then we are sure it would prove beneficial! Just £350 buys a full team kit!
Young Volunteer: Our congratulations go to U14's Palace Team Coach, Joe Dallow upon winning the L&BBFC Young Volunteer of the Year
Award 2017/18. At only 17yrs old, former player Joe has latterly been at the helm of our Palace squad and has shown great leadership ability and maturity in guiding them through their league campaign this season at a time when suitable parental volunteers were lacking.
BCFC: The L&BBFC U11's Saints headed up to St Andrews to take part in the Precision Pass Tour & Tournament hosted by FA Championship
side, Birmingham City FC. See feature further herein…
Tables: With this season's fixture programme finally completed last month, find out where our sides finished in their respective league tables in
the feature further herein…
Under 9's: Our U9's Partizan are keen to attract new players for next season. For further details, interested persons are asked to see the fea-
ture further herein…
CTFC: Our congratulations go to former young Badger, Ross Grimshaw, who was called up last month as the reserve goalkeeper by Chelten-
ham Town FC in their final Football League Two match of the season at Crew Alexandra FC.
Drinks: With the hot weather about, we are reminding all concerned of the need to ensure that youngsters in particular, are well hydrated. Our
venues don’t have running water available so it is up to parents to ensure that youngsters have a suitable drink available at games and ses-sions. Despite some parental expectations… this is not a club or club coach responsibility!
ERU: Our congratulations go to another former young Badger, Ted Hill, who was again called up by the English Rugby Union to represent the
country at U20's age, in a recent game against their South African counterparts.
AGM: Please note that the Club's 2017/18 AGM has been set for Saturday 14th July 2018. Further details to follow…
Tournament: Congratulations to our victorious U9's Spartak side who landed the Crowle Searchers FC Tournament Shield 2018 after a very
closely contested and narrow 1-0 win over Bidford Juniors FC in the final, last month. See feature further herein.
Who’s Who? Current Club Staff & Other Useful Contacts
At L&BBFC, we gratefully acknowledge the contributions made in the name of our club, by our dedicated group of volunteer staff listed below. This page is updated on a regular basis, but if any of the information listed is incorrect, please advise the Editor. Any persons interested in joining our
team of staff are asked to check out our website Join Us page for more information, as well as our Admin page for job descriptions!
Club Officers Chairman - Simon Secretan 07748773388 [email protected]
With games played right up until the recent Bank Holiday, our sides have now officially fulfilled their fixture pro-grammes. Somewhat bizarrely, our U16's Town missed out on the potential runners-up spot due to the league de-claring their outstanding postponed fixture against club mates, U16's County, a drawn game but awarding neither side any points. The result consigned the Town to an eventual fourth place… some three points shy of second spot!
May-18 Badgers Squad Opponents Venue Result Competition
5th U11's Thistle FFA Hurricanes A L 3-0 MJPL Cup Group Game
6th U12's Hibernian Nunnery Wood Colts Condors H D 0-0 MFJFL DH
6th U12's Hibernian Nunnery Wood Colts Condors A L 4-0 MFJFL DH
8th U14's Palace Bidford Juniors A W 4-3 AEFL
9th U16's Town West Worcester Youth H W 1-0 MFJFL
10th U14's Borough Welford Rams A L 4-1 AEFL
12th U11's Saints Cradley Town Juniors A Away Win MJPL Cup Group Game
12th U11's Thistle AFC Telford United H L 5-1 MJPL Cup Group Game
12th U12's City Lenches FC A W 7-0 AEFL
12th U14's Borough Inkberrow Falcons A L 3-1 AEFL
12th U14's Palace Welford Rams H L 4-0 AEFL
13th U12's Hibernian Tenbury United H Home Win MFJFL
13th U16's County Warndon Villages Phoenix A W 7-0 MFJFL
16th U12's Hibernian WCT Raiders A D 3-3 MFJFL
17th U14's Borough L&BBFC U14's Palace A L 2-1 AEFL
17th U14's Palace L&BBFC U14's Borough H W 2-1 AEFL
19th U11's Thistle Mickleover Sports Club Juniors A Away Win MJPL Cup Group Game
19th U14's Palace Inkberrow Eagles H W 5-2 AEFL
20th U12's Hibernian Kempsey Colts H W 5-2 MFJFL
20th U16's County Warndon Villages Phoenix H Home Win MFJFL
23rd U16's County L&BBFC U16's Town A Match Void MFJFL
23rd U16's Town L&BBFC U16's County H Match Void MFJFL
26th U14's Borough Inkberrow Eagles H D 2-2 AEFL
26th U14's Palace Welford Rams A L 5-2 AEFL
27th U16's County West Worcester Youth A L 1-0 MFJFL
MFJFL - Mercian Festival Junior Football League
MFJFL Cup - Mercian Festival Junior Football League Cup
MFJFL DH - Games Were Played As MFJFL 'Double Headers'
Bosko Medakovic, Senior Coach – Boys Junior Football & Development (FA Level 2)
'No Respect = No Referee = No Game' – Get The Message And Support The FA’s Respect Campaign!
'L&BBFC relies heavily on effective communication'…
Wow… is it really 200 times that I have provided a feature in our monthly club newsletter… I must admit that the time seems to have really flown by since our first edition which I recall took the form of a two
sided A4 paper issue!
Running an ever increasing voluntary organisation like L&BBFC relies heavily on effective communication that is able to capture as many of our members, parents,
volunteers, sponsors, benefactors, partners, and supporters as we possibly can, which was the main reason we introduced the Badgers' Scene way back in October 2001.
Today we still run with the newsletter albeit in an electronic format, but our communication network has since been further under-pinned with a club website and more recently a club face book account along-side the usual club meetings and AGM! If you know of folk who say they don't know what's going on or have never seen our newsletter… just send in their email address to our Editor for inclusion on our newsletter circulation list!
Talking of news and following on from the feature in last month's issue… another step in the right direc-tion saw ex-Badgers goalkeeper, Ross Grimshaw (pictured left) called up to the first team for Chelten-ham Town FC in their final League Two match of the season at Crewe Alexandra FC, which ended in a
2-1 defeat and eventual 17th
place finish for the Robins.
Although Ross remained an un-used goalkeeping substi-tute on the day, the experience and confidence that such a call up can give a young player is immense, and says much about his progress and being noticed. At only 18 years old, it is another proud moment for Ross and his
family, as indeed it is for us all at L&BBFC… where it all began. Well done Ross! See the full Robins team sheet
for the game (right)
Also on the bench for the Robins was another local lad, Adam Page who has helped with coaching our U14's
Palace this season alongside, young coach, Joe Dallow.
As an aside, dad Neil (a former club coach and L&BBFC Legends player) told me that to cap off the first team call up, Ross had also been contacted by FIFA PlayStation, who were looking to add him to their player portfolio… that seemed to make his day!
Another former L&BBFC youngster making headway in sport is Ted Hill. The ex-L&BBFC Rangers 'hitman' swapped the round ball for a more 'funny looking' one and has never looked back since! At only 19 years
old, Ted was again capped by the England Rugby Union to represent the U20's against their South African counterparts, in a game played locally at Worcester RFC's, Sixways Stadium last month. Furthermore, we understand that Ted is also in the squad to represent his country in the coming World U20's Rugby Cham-
pionships in France this summer.
Former Rangers Team Coach, Matt Martin contacted me about this fantastic achievement, and jokingly questioned what on earth were the former Rangers' FA qualified Coaches, Franco Adorisio and Paul
Weaver doing to have churned out such a great young rugby talent!
Ted, seen right in his England kit, joined the Badgers as a youngster where he won numerous league, cup, and tournament honours at almost every age level before giving up the game at U16's to concentrate on
his also undoubtedly great rugby abilities. We are very proud to have had Ted among our ranks and we are just as equally delighted that he has excelled at his chosen sport. Well done Ted!
Finally, it seems that the matter of abusing match officials is not as symptomatic a 'grassroots' problem, as many folk would
seem to think! I read recently that a well-known former Premier League referee, Mark Clattenburg (bottom left) quit officiating in this country because of the abuse he was getting from some of the top players and managers in the English game. He claimed
it got so bad that he often turned to drink and upon quitting eventually moved to live and work abroad.
It is a sad state of affairs that a former highly respected and top match official of our game has seen his career in this country finish in such circumstances. I can only hope that someone in the
FA is noting this and dealing with matters accordingly because if it was a grassroots play-er/manager/team dishing out abuse then no doubt such would quite rightly not be involved in the game for too long! Perhaps the professionals should look at the volunteers for some inspiration in this respect? Thankfully, for all the football we play at L&BBFC, we rarely come across such mat-
ters and long may that continue!
FIND OUT WHERE WE FINISHED IN THE…
The weather played its part in dragging out the 2017/18 season with fixtures running through almost up until the end of May for some of our sides. This season we have again experienced the full range of emo-tions with teams involved in battles at the top, at the bottom, and in-between, and rather pleasingly… all
club teams concluded their full fixture programmes!
Because of FA guidelines, we are only able to show tables for teams from age U12's and upwards, who are permitted to play in competitive league formats. Where did your squad finish…
AEFL U12's Pool C
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
C Droitwich Warriors 16 13 2 1 41
R/U Bidford Juniors 16 13 1 2 40
3 L&BBFC U12's City 16 9 1 6 28
4 Broadway United 16 7 2 7 23
5 Ilmington United 16 7 2 7 23
6 Littleton Juniors 16 7 1 8 22
7 Welford Juniors 16 6 3 7 21
8 Lower Teme & Martley Rangers 16 3 0 13 9
9 Lenches FC 16 1 0 15 3
In what was their first season in the AEFL having switched from the MFJFL, the L&BBFC U12's City had
a great debut season, finishing in a highly commendable third place in Pool C. Some impressive results were accrued along the way, but perhaps their finest came courtesy of a hard earned 0-0 draw against eventual
champions, Droitwich Warriors FC!
MFJFL U12's Division One
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
C Nunnery Wood Colts Condors 18 14 4 0 46
R/U WCT Raiders 18 12 4 2 40
3 Worcester Colts 18 11 4 3 37
4 L&BBFC U12's Hibernian 18 11 3 4 30
5 West Worcester Youth 18 10 2 6 32
6 Kempsey Colts 18 8 1 9 25
7 Perdiswell Colts 18 5 2 11 17
8 West Worcester Youth Lions 18 5 1 12 16
9 Newtown Sports Colts 18 3 1 14 10
10 Tenbury United 18 0 0 18 0
After leading the pack for the most part early on in the season with a 100% record after their first nine games, the U12's Hibernian side, who were predominantly represented by players of
U11's age, found the going much tougher and in the end had to settle for a very respectable 4th place finish. Of their fixtures, a notable 0-0 draw against unbeaten league champions, Nunnery Wood Colts Condors FC,
proved the pick of the bunch having lost to the Condors in their previous league fixture (4-0) and also in their league cup final encounter (3-1).
Cont'd…
Cont'd…
AEFL U13's Pool A
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
C Eckington Juniors 12 11 0 1 33
R/U Welland Juniors 12 11 0 1 33
3 Oldbury Park Tigers Siberians 12 7 1 4 22
4 Bidford Juniors 12 6 0 6 18
5 Alcester Town 12 2 2 8 8
6 Broadway United 12 2 1 9 7
7 L&BBFC U13's Alexandra 12 1 0 11 3
Last season's unbeaten AEFL U12's Pool C winners, the L&BBFC U13's Alexandra, found promotion by the AEFL to Pool A this season somewhat harsh having skipped Pool B. However, despite landing the 'wooden spoon' this time round, the Alex did manage a creditable 4-2 victory against fellow strugglers Alcester
Town FC to record their only points of a very tough campaign.
MJPL U14's Division
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
1 MYD Binley Woods 19 13 2 4 41
2 Tividale Minor Colts 19 13 1 5 40
3 Solihull Moors Youth & Junior TC 19 12 2 5 38
4 Tividale Minor 19 11 4 4 37
5 AFC Telford United 19 10 3 6 33
6 Shifnal Harriers 19 9 5 5 32
7 Newport Town 19 9 5 5 32
8 Burntwood Dragons 19 10 2 7 32
9 Littleover Dazzlers 19 10 1 8 31
10 AFC Wulfrunians Juniors 19 10 1 8 31
11 Shepshed Dynamo 19 8 6 5 30
12 Studley Juniors Colts 19 9 0 10 27
13 Coventry Sky Blues A 19 8 2 9 26
14 L&BBFC U14's Orient 19 7 2 10 23
15 Stone Dynamo Development Red 19 7 2 10 23
16 Leicester Road FC 19 7 1 11 22
17 Shrewsbury Development Centre 19 6 3 10 21
18 Nunnery Wood Colts Ospreys 19 6 2 11 20
19 Bromsgrove Sporting Youth 19 5 3 11 18
20 Allscott AFC 19 4 4 11 16
The MJPL is a 'development' league and as such does not run with the more traditional approach to fix-tures and divisions as is the case with the MFJFL and the AEFL. With 53 teams registered this season
within the MJPL at U14's age being recorded as one league, our L&BBFC U14's Orient only came up against 19 other sides over the season, and the above summary table is a glimpse of the final table involving just
the sides that the O's encountered along the way.
The Orient finished in 14th place (but overall 37th out of the 53) having another relatively even time of things. Some strong sides featured, but of their fixtures, two local derbies ensued. A 1-1 draw against Worcester based Nunnery
Wood Colts Ospreys FC saw the Badgers notch a point. However, a fine performance against Worcestershire neighbours, Bromsgrove Sporting Youth FC saw the O's record an impressive 5-1 victory. That said, of their 7 wins for the season,
perhaps the outstanding result of their campaign was their first match of the season at home to eventual table toppers, YMD Binley Woods FC, that saw the Orient narrowly beat their Coventry based visitors 2-1!
Cont'd…
Cont'd…
AEFL U14's Pool B
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
C Cookley Sports Athletic 20 20 0 0 60
R/U Inkberrow Falcons 20 15 1 4 46
3 Welford Rams 20 15 0 5 45
4 L&BBFC U14's Palace 20 11 2 7 35
5 Moreton Rangers 20 9 3 8 30
6 Bidford Juniors 20 7 3 10 24
7 Tewkesbury Town Colts 20 6 1 13 19
8 L&BBFC U14's Borough 20 5 3 12 18
9 Littleton Juniors 20 5 2 13 17
10 Crowle Searchers 20 5 2 13 17
11 Inkberrow Eagles 20 3 1 16 10
In the AEFL U14's Pool B our Palace and Borough sides had two contrasting seasons. The recently re-
vived Palace squad faired the better over the course of the season which saw them eventually settle in a very creditable 4th place. However, with 17 points eventually separating the two sides, the Borough
found the going a bit more of a challenge but nonetheless ended their campaign in a comfortable mid-table 8th spot.
Of their head to head encounters in the league, the club bragging rights fell the way of the Borough courtesy of the odd goal in 7. Borough won 3-1 at home to Palace in the first meeting, but in the return game, Palace only just about nudged
it, 2-1!
MFJFL U16's Division Two
Pos Team Pld Won Drew Lost Pts
C L&BBFC U16's County 16 12 3 1 38*
R/U West Worcester Youth 16 8 2 6 26
3 Warndon Villages Lions 16 8 1 7 25
4 L&BBFC U16's Town 16 8 1 7 24*
5 Warndon Villages Phoenix 16 0 0 16 0
* Adjustment Made by MFJFL
Due to the late withdrawal of several teams from this Division, the MFJFL opted to use the sys-tem of fixtures akin to that of the Scottish leagues in that each side would play each other four
times instead of the more traditional twice.
Following an impressive string of results over the course of the season, our U16's County squad finished the campaign as the only club side to land league honours and in doing so, the side also became the first L&BBFC U16's side to so! Mean-while, the newly formed U16's Town squad were also pitted in Division Two and found the league more of challenge but
nonetheless just missed out on second spot by three points to finish in a very creditable 4th place.
On their way to landing the title, the County also took the clubs U16's bragging rights having won three of the head to head encounters against their Town club mates, 7-3, 5-0, 11-2. The fourth fixture was chalked off as a draw by the MFJFL as the game could not be played prior to the season's end. Neither side were awarded any points for this.
Of the derby fixtures played, the second encounter of the season was perhaps the more memorable as the game was
hosted at Malvern Town FC's HDAnywhere Community Stadium in front of around 60 or so spectators, as part of formal-ising recently agreed links between L&BBFC and Malvern Town FC.
Editor's Footnote… L&BBFC would like to thank the many volunteers, parents, sponsors, benefactors, officials, leagues, and WFA for their combined efforts in helping L&BBFC ensure that our members were able to learn, play, and enjoy their football during
this very busy campaign…
L&BBFC SPARTAK ARE CROWLE TOURNAMENT…
Having successfully completed their MFJFL programme of fixtures last month,
the L&BBFC U9's Spartak took part in their first tournament of the summer on Sunday
the 20th May, 2018 hosted by Crowle Searchers FC…
With a total of 12 teams at U9’s level taking part,
competition was good. Sponsored by Startin Honda, Spartak began real-ly well in their pool of six, winning their first four matches then battling out a closely contested draw against a tough Bidford Juniors FC, 2-2… little did folk know then that these two sides would meet again later on in the competition!
After their five group games the young Badgers side had quali-fied for the knockout section
and were in with a strong chance of winning the Tourna-
ment's U9's Shield.
Having played really well throughout their early fixtures, in the semi-final the Spartak
continued their impressive form, winning 1-0. The result meant that the side had reached their first ever final, whereupon they found themselves up against a group rivals Bidford Juniors FC for the second time in this tour-
nament!
This time round the Badgers seemed to step up a gear, playing some fantastic football, showing real effort and de-termination along with some great skill. Although Spartak dominated matters throughout the game, at full time it
was still goal-less. This meant that a further period of extra-time ensued.
However, the scores continued to remain even and with a dreaded penalty shoot-out looming, the Badgers got the breakthrough they deserved with around 30 seconds of play left on the clock. It took a very special goal to win what
was a testing tournament and young Spartak starlet, George Davies duly obliged scoring the winner from almost the half way line… what a moment… what drama… and what a goal!
After their heroics, Team Coach, Matt Waller claimed, 'it was a fantastic day out and a wonderful effort from all the
boys throughout the tournament. I was really impressed by the whole side. It was one of the hottest days of the year so far and despite plenty to drink, the boys played seven games on the day, and given there were under-
standably some tired legs out there, they didn’t give up! With three more events lined up over the summer we can only hope that Spartak keep up their efforts and reap their rewards!'
The feature photo above shows the victorious Spartak team lining up along with the Tournament Shield following
their hard earned win against Bidford Juniors FC in the final, and was submitted by Team Coach, Matt Waller along with this feature.
Editor's footnote… Well done Spartak on a great tournament performance. Our thanks go to Matt Waller for taking the time to share this with us. If any other club sides have any features & photos they wish to share, please email us accordingly…
L&BBFC U11's SAINTS VISIT…
In what was another great football experience for
L&BBFC players to remember, on Sunday 27th May, 2018 the U11's Saints team attended the
Precision Pass Tour & Tour-nament held at St Andrews Stadium, the home of FA
Championship side, Birming-ham City FC…
What made this particular event all the more exciting was that the games were actually
played on the St Andrews pitch, against teams from across the country that in turn provided for a competitive and memorable day for the players, coaches and families alike.
In addition, the boys were treated to a tour of the ground as well as a display and im-
promptu personal training session with You Tube sensation and 'football freestyl-er', Daniel Cutting, which really made their
day.
All in all a fantastic experience was had by
everyone, and will be remembered as much for the football being played as for
the fun that was had with friends.
Our feature photos show the U11's Saints posing for the paparazzi in front of the home end goal at St Andrews (top right).
Football Freestyler, Daniel Cutting (back row) took a moment between his displays
