Halesworth Midfield Maestro Marries

Halesworth centre midfielder married in north norfolk just before Christmas of 2009.

The lovely setting, which was snow covered, made a wonderful venue.

The Kid, and all at Halesworth, wish Adam and his new wife Tor all the best for their future together

The Kid this week takes a look at football from around the globe on the world wide web:

A British amateur footballer has become the youngest-ever international football manager - after taking charge of the world's worst team. Paul Watson, 25, is the coach of the tiny Pacific island of Pohnpei, which has a population of just 34,000, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Their national football team has never won a game and the closest they have ever come to victory was losing 5-4 on penalties to rival island Yap.

However, despite a recent 16-1 thrashing at the hands of Guam, sports writer Paul and his student friend Matthew Conrad, also 25, believe they can turn things around.

The pair, from London, will begin training the Pohnpei team for no pay starting September 17 and friendly games are scheduled to take place in early 2010.

Mr Watson, a freelance sports journalist, said: "By chance we heard the country didn't have a coach at the moment and were looking for someone to take over. Like idiots we said we would consider it.

"Their players have a lot of raw talent but they have never won a game, they lost on penalties once so I guess that almost counts as a win.
"Unfortunately they are the worst team in the world but I don't think they will be for much longer. With training they'll improve dramatically.

"They are really enthusiastic and one of the players who walks one hour and a half just to get to training without wearing any shoes.

"That's why we are so keen to help them out and why we are appealing for sponsors to donate shoes and kit."

*The Kid would like to express that he did not in anyway decided to post this with any intent to say this has any correlation with Nick Jermy and Eli Earl taking up the reserve team managers job...

FLASHBACK

Club Captain Marries

So the season comes to a close, and club captain Matthew Jermy gets a chance to fit in some other duties. He got married to Elaine on the 13th June. Now that's done and dusted, he will now surely focus back on the challenge of competing in the 1st division. The Kid and all at HTFC wish Matt and Elaine all the happiness in the world:

The kid was fortunate to have some photographs of the special day, which included a lovely shot of the trendy centre back Joe Allen, check out his fashion attire.

Photos from Reserves recent game Vs Woolverstone

courtesy of Heather Lindsay

Football Club mascot injures himself in BMX stunt

I was doing some web based research this week and stumbled across an article about a football mascot. Most of you probably know who your own teams’ mascot is, and are fully aware that the likes of ‘Captain Canary’ or ‘Bluey’ are good pre-match entertainment for both kids and adults alike. The Kid personally thinks that mascots are great and that they merely add to what tends to be an expensive day at the football. This brings me to the article I found in the Telegraph:

Oldham Athletic football club's mascot had to be carried from the pitch after injuring himself during the pre-match entertainment. Chaddy the Owl ended up in hospital after falling off a bike in the build-up to his club's League One clash at Carlisle. The 7ft bird, dressed in the club's fluorescent away kit, was pulling wheelies on the BMX before kick off when he fell off and ruptured ankle ligaments.

The mascot, Wayne Hurst, 34, said: "I was entertaining the crowd when I discovered a bike on the terrace behind the net. I was all right on a BMX when I was younger, so I thought I'd give it a go."

"I set off towards the fans and the bike went over. I put my leg down to stop it, but went over on my ankle. I knew as soon as I hit the ground I was in trouble.

"Eventually the St John's Ambulance people came. They wanted me to take my head off so they could give me gas and air, but I said no. It's an unwritten rule that I never take my head off in front of the crowd."

Wayne was then helped on to a wheelchair and taken through the players' tunnel.

"I got a standing ovation from the Carlisle fans, which was nice," he said.
His injuries were expected to rule him out of his team's clash with Crewe today. Oldham's chief executive Alan Hardy bemoaned the latest injury to hit the club. He said: "It looked quite nasty. Clearly the pressure of the end of season run-in caught up with him."

The KID thinks this is superb. Not because ‘Chaddy’ hurt his ankle (no one likes to see people injured). But the way that all involved responded. The Ovation from both sets of fans, the response the CE, the fact that Wayne would not reveal his identity! LEGEND! Now even if Oldham had lost (they drew 1-1), at least the fans have had a giggle regardless of the result. Surely football would be missing something if there were no mascots? Referee Chris Foy disagrees:

‘Billy Badger was trying to liven up the Craven Cottage crowd against Aston Villa with some Half-Time dancing. Referee Chris Foy had to escort Billy from the field as he wanted to get the second half started. He was quoted after the game to say “Mascots are a scourge on the game” (taken from the Daily Mail).’



Now it is obvious that referees have a job to do, and Mr. Foy may not speak for everyone, but there is no doubt there is a place for mascots at any football match. All that’s needed now is to decide what Jimmy O’Connor should dress up as at Dairy Hill on a Saturday afternoon!!!

Dan Buffon Elliot Oakes

A possible new looky likey for the programme? Our own Dan "Buffon" Oakes, and Elliot from ET. What a lovely basket he has!

Kid in Wembley, innit.

The Kid went to Wembley with his pals during the week, to see England Vs Ukraine. The game was a bit hit and miss, but we got there in the end, didn’t we.

A few things cropped up though, did you know Halesworth are represented at Wembley, here’s a photo to illustrate the point. The Kid is wondering whether anyone knew who this was, if so, perhaps they could be unveiled. The Kid would’ve taken his own flag if he’d’ve thought about. Perhaps next time.



If you’re lucky, like the Kid, and get the chance to go to Wembley Stadium, maybe you could join in the game him and his mates played. Getting there an hour before kick off, thinking that they’d never get the chance to do this again, they did an entire lap of the stadium. You can’t do that at many stadiums, can you. If you were at Norwich or Ipswich, no chance, because the stadium’s broken up by each stand....  
and if you went to somewhere like Oxford, then you would have NO chance, they till only have 3 stands!

Anyway, in case you’re wondering, it took about 30 minutes. The main problems you may have, are if you get there a little too late, you’ll be annoying many people, getting them to stand up to get past, and whatever you do, don’t wind them up even more by telling them what you’re doing!!

Ten other uses for Tristan's headband

After arriving early to watch our Reserves recent away fixture with Sporting 87 Res., the Kid was left with the task of entertaining little Eli. Luckily, we came across Tristans infamous headband in amongst his kit: So, to kill a bit of time a new feature was formed - 10 things to do with Tristan’s headband.

Number 1.
Use it to hold yours and your partners legs together in a 3-legged race.

Number 2.
Replace a worn fan belt or alternator belt.



Number 3.
Use it as a blindfold in a game of ‘Pin the Tail on the Donkey’.

Number 4.
Use it for a game of ‘Cats Cradle’.

Number 5.
Fashion your very own catapult or slig shot.



Number 6.
As a sock tie to hold up one of your football socks.

Number 7.
Use it as a muzel for a ferocious dog.

Number 8.
To support a young tree, helping to keep it tied to a supporting cane/stick.

Number 9.
As a handsfree phone kit, as demonstrated by Eli. Pop it round your head and slot the phone in near your ear.



Number 10.
As a sling for a dislocated elbow (or shoulder if you play centre-half for Elmswell)

Canary moves to SIL 4?

I saw something well crazy this week. This might be a shock to you all, but a former Norwich player is playing in our league!! Actually, that's not so unreal, is it, after again falling down due to injury I wouldn't be surprised to see Carl Cort playing at our kind of level soon enough, trying to finish off his career on a high note. Hey, maybe we should be making some equiries ... get on the phone Bo.

Anyway, where was I, oh yeah, did you hear that former Norwich star Peter Mendham is playing in division 4 of the SIL? I'll let the Pinkun take over for a bit here. To be honest, I don't have many qualifications in Journalism, and they'll be able to explain it all a bit better, although I did get an O-Level in English:

"The former Norwich City midfielder is currently at Hollesley Bay prison, near Woodbridge, where he is two years and a month into a five-year sentence after almost killing his ex-girlfriend in a knife attack.

Now it has emerged that 48-year-old Mendham is being allowed out of prison to play for Sproughton Sports in the Metaltec Suffolk and Ipswich League (SIL)."

I had a cheeky gander on the ol' website, and he's scored 4 in 9 games for Sproughton Sports. A shame he's sandwiched between the first team and reserve side. Imagine that, us, playing against Peter Mendham, or imagine if he somehow got involved with us, and was playing with Bo in the middle .....god help us, ha!

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