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Football Fixtures – 11th September 2007

FOOTBALL FIXTURES 2007

RESULTS SO FAR

Hanwell Arms 5 HELMDON 2

HELMDON 0 Hanwell Arms 2 (CUP)

September 20th 2002

Training has now begun for the new season. Sessions start at 3:00 p.m. at the Sports Field on Wappenham Road. Anyone 10 years or over is welcome to come and join us. For more information call Dave bridger on [phone number removed].

May 14th 2002

Up to twenty boys have continued training on Saturday mornings at the sports field and despite losing some of their friendly matches they eventually had their first success with a 6 – 5 victory over Radstone United followed by a creditable 2 – 2 draw against an Old Helmdon side very much older than the current side.

In the game against Radstone, Helmdon were able to turn out in their new kit which has been sponsored by Sony and our thanks goes to Miles Garner for arranging this together with Vanessa Vicars and the Monogram Company for sorting out the logos.

Although it was originally intended that there would be an age limit of 15 on the training sessions it has been decided that this will not be the case and training will continue next season for any boys or girls over 10 years old.

Thanks goes to John Watson, Gary Somerton and Dave Truelove for their help during the season. The date training commences will be advertised on the village notice boards and the web site.

March 23rd 2001

In March 2001 the Sports Club began taking training sessions for the ten to fifteen year olds interested in forming a team to enter a local junior league.

With the crisis involving the foot and mouth epidemic, it was decided to switch the venue from the sports field to the school field. The coaches were delighted to have thirteen boys turn up at the first session, which was basically a game to allow those present to get to know each other. This was particularly important, as there were a couple of boys from Brackley who did not know those boys from the village. With Geoff Watson on one side he was able to use his vast experience of playing for Helmdon in each of the last ten decades, to lead his team to victory.

The second week we had an extra two boys turn up with several telling us that their friends were coming the following week. We started off with warm up exercises and then into a training routine which is designed not only to improve their fitness, but also their skills with and without the ball.

Unfortunately we had to call off the third week because of the adverse weather conditions, this was a shame but there was little we could do. It was very frustrating when we discovered there was hardly any snow in Brackley compared to that in the village.

We are always very pleased to welcome new players. For the foreseeable future we will remain at the school field and anyone interested in playing should come down on a Saturday morning from 10am to 11am or ring Dave on [phone number removed] or John on [phone number removed]