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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 13th June 2025 - The Charity Football Special with Marco Sementa from Team Sementa · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PCR Sports. Good evening, I'm Dip Ham and
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welcome to the start of your sporting weekend on PCR Sports
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with myself and Nilesh this evening.
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Thank you for joining us and if it's your first time, a very
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warm welcome to you. Got a cracking show lined up for
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you this evening? We've got Marco Cementer in from
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Team Cementer, who organises local football matches and
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raises tons of money for charity.
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It's a fascinating story and an incredible achievement over the
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last decade or so also. So we'll be hearing from Marco
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in a short while. But as always, let's start the
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show with this week's headlines. And over to Nilesh.
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Thanks. Good evening.
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Thank you, Dipam. Yeah, good to be back again this
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week. And the sun is shining.
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And I'm going to start with some ice hockey news, actually.
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Great Britain ice hockey legend Ashley Tate will lead
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Peterborough Phantoms in a new era at Planet Ice.
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Tate, 49, will replace Slava Kulikov, who had been head coach
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at The Phantoms for 11 seasons before leaving to join National
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League rivals Sheffield Steel Dogs for the 2526 season.
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Tate's most recent coaching post, an associate coach, was as
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an associate coach with the Berkshire Bees last term.
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Moving on to cricket and Peterborough, Town were knocked
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off the top of Northants Premier Division table through no fault
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of their own last Saturday. Town were denied A predictable
1:34
win by the weather and stubborn strugglers Kislingburg
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Temperance at Bretton Gate, while reigning champions Finden
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were rushing to a huge win over Geddington.
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Finden have now assumed top spot after a perfect day for them as
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third placed Oundle were also thwarted by heavy rain in their
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fixture against Old Northamptonians at Milton Rd.
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Finden gained 16 points on Town and 12 points on Oundle, whose
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games were eventually were both eventually abandoned.
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The Town suffered because they failed to bowl next to bottom
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Kislingbury out after inserting them on a blame free batting
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surface. The visitors occupied the full
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50 overs, totalling 180 for eight, and although Town made a
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rollicking reply of 111 for two in just 15 overs, the expected
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heavy rain came and forced an early finish.
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It's a big weekend for Peterborough Town though, and
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that starts tomorrow. With their big game at Oundle
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Town, who are eight points clear of their hosts Oundle were
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probably not far from securing a 25 point return and edging ahead
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of their neighbors yesterday. Oh sorry, last Saturday when the
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weather gods intervened and it's certainly been busy in the
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transfer market at Peterborough United.
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This week they made a transfer deadline day signing from
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Switzerland. Declan Frith, a 23 year old
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winger, has signed a three-year contract after Posh agreed a
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substantial fee with Swiss side FC Tune.
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Frith, a former Chelsea and Villa youngster, helped Tune to
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promotion to the Swiss top flight last season.
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He has pig shoes to fill as he will take the number 11 shirt
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worn with distinction by Kwame Poku at the Western Homes
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Stadium. Poku will leave London Road this
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summer after the expiry of his contract.
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Frith is the second capture of the summer after fellow forward
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Kiral Lisby, who moved to London Road from Braintree at the end
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of May and then off the field. From a coaching perspective,
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Posh coach Dale Tongue has left London Road to join League One
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rivals Rotherham United. The former Rotherham player has
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joined his old club as assistant manager after compensation fee
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has was agreed. Posh have wasted no time though
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in signing his replacement and it's a familiar name for Posh
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fans. Kevin Russell will return to the
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club this summer and link up ahead of pre season training
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which starts later this month, and Posh Women.
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They've also been busy in the transfer window as well.
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Seven players though from the Peterborough United women's
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squad have left the club. Winger Katie Middleton, Ecuador
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international Martin Aguerre, Hannah Dorburn, Alex O'Neill,
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Macey Bannerman, Lloyd, Ella Bale and Jessica Abrantis have
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all departed a team that finished third in National
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Midlands Division One last season.
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Aguerre has returned to South America, while Bale and Abrantis
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have taken U Football scholarships in the United
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States O. Following those departures, OSHA
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made their first signing of the summer and that's defender Anna
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Pitt, 23 years old, who trained with Posh towards the end of
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last season after arriving from the US to continue her education
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and footballing journey. Posh are expected to make more
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signings as well as confirm the players who are staying to have
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another crack at the National Midlands Division One in the
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2520 sixth season and Peterborough Sports.
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They've also been busy in the transfer market.
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Sports have signed a former Peterborough United left back
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Aaron Powell. The Academy graduate didn't make
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a senior appearance for Posh, but he impressed during a loan
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spell at Welling, King's Lynn and last season at Kettering
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Town. It's the second signing of the
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summer for Sports, who have also picked up midfielder Sam
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Mcclintock, another player who spent last season at Kettering.
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In a little bit of more news, don't forget it's the
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Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival next Saturday.
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Racing starts at 10:00 all the way through to around late
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afternoon between 4:00 and 5:00 and it's a free event to attend.
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Go down, it's at the Peterborough Rowing Lake and
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you'll be able to take advantage of watching some dragon boat
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action next Saturday. And finally, for for the younger
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children amongst us, activate at the Central Park takes place
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tomorrow starting at 11 AM through till 3:00 PM at Central
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Park in Peterborough. You can pick up a map, find out
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and have a go at different sports and healthy activities
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and then collect stickers and receive a reward at the end.
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And it's a family friendly free event most importantly.
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So with the weather looking good this weekend, do pop down to
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Central Park in Peterborough and that's all starting at 11 AM.
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And those are your headlines this week, Depam.
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Thank you, Lewis. Lots going on in the city.
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The thing I love about some of the good weather is that there's
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a lot of outdoor activities. You've got a lot of fun
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activities happening. People can try out new sports,
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new activities. It's it's a great time of year
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to to sort of have a go at things, isn't?
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It yeah, compared to last weekend where the rain was
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certainly the winner with many outdoor sports.
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But yeah, there is this opportunity down at Central Park
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tomorrow for children aged 7 to 14 to come down, try out new
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activities, be active and see if a particular sport takes your
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interest and you never know where it might lead you.
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And it's always key, isn't it in, you know, we're close to to
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many clubs who are at the sort of grassroots level in the city
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and having that pathway for kids and introducing kids to sport to
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kind of keep the future of certain sports and clubs alive
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is important. It certainly is, yeah.
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Many will think that sport may be inaccessible due to costs,
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certain clubs thinking it's not for them.
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But activities like this down at Central Park tomorrow will make
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a huge difference and hopefully be well attended and certainly
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the weather will be playing ball and it's now your opportunity to
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go down and try some and take your children, nieces, nephews,
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grandchildren, whoever it may be, get down there and take part
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in the activity. Pull them away from your games
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console and get them there potentially.
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So brilliant. Thank you, Nilesh, as always.
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Right, Let's just take a short break.
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And after the break, we'll be speaking to Marco Cementer, who
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represents Team Cementer, who's done some wonderful work for
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many, many charities by raising thousands and thousands of
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pounds through arranging local football matching.
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Show with myself, Dipam and Nilesh this week and we're in
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the company of Marco Cementer, who's joined us for his 2nd
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appearance. He was here a couple of years
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ago to tell his his story about how he set up a team cementer to
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raise money for good causes and charities through organizing
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football matches. And he's back to give us an
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update on how that's progressing.
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And he's hit a very significant milestone, which we'll hear
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about in a short while. Good evening, Marco.
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How are you? Yeah, good.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me on
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again. No pleasure.
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It's always great to to have you on and thank you.
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You know, the work that you're doing is absolutely inspiring
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and and and fascinating and and, and it is wonderful what you've
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what you've achieved. So, but just got to recap for
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those that perhaps hearing your story for the first time or
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listening to you for the first time, tell us your story and how
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this all started. Yeah, so it started when my mum
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sadly passed away and my mum and dad always used to come to the
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games and watch. So you know, she's come to, you
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know, football such. So yeah, when she passed away I
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want to do something in her memory.
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So the plan was 5 charity games and a £500 target and that's
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that's what the aim was. But we hit that quite quickly
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and then it sort of snowballed and here we are 10 years later,
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still still going still. Doing it fantastic and we might
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as well just break the news early.
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But you were at £65,000 when you joined us last time, let's say a
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couple of years ago. Where are you now?
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Because you've you've smashed the barrier, haven't you?
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Yeah, so a big milestone. So we've just hit 100,000 lbs,
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which is incredible. Yeah, support from everyone's
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been been amazing. It's been a really good team
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effort. Which is amazing to to to go
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from a goal of £500 and five games, yeah, to 100,000 lbs and,
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and how many games is? It so yeah, we're on 306 at the
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moment so yeah, we hit the 300 game mark as well, which is
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which is really good. So yeah, hundred 100 grand, 10
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years and 300 games so which is absolutely incredible.
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It's been really incredible, yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely brilliant. And just going into the detail
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of that and all this and how does it all work?
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How does it all hang together? And obviously, I imagine in the
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early days you you just perhaps found a park pitch and thought,
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let's get a bunch of mates together and play a few games.
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But I imagine it's taken a lot more organization and
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administration since then. Yeah, so initially it was we had
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to borrow kits, borrow footballs.
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Yeah, it's just a mixed match of my old team mates and friends,
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etcetera. And then like I said, it's sort
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of snowballed where more and more old team mates got
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involved, teachers from old school friends, friends from
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work. And it's just all these people
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are people that have sort of met through my life, really.
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And they've they've wanted to be involved.
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And yeah, it's just crazy really, how the people that
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started it, their their children are now playing which which to
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me, I sometimes figure how old I am because when they first asked
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me, can my son play your game? And I'm like, well, we've got to
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be careful. We don't want anyone getting
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hurt. And then they tell me he's 23.
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I think he'll be all right. Like so.
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But yeah, we've had quite a few father and sons now and three
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generations, brothers, partners that have played in the same
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team. So yeah, it's, it's, I do think
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one day I should write all these different stories and, and
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stuff, you know, because there's been lots of really, really
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special memories. We've done memorial games for
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people that suddenly passed away.
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And again, you know, the support for those games has always been
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incredible. So yeah, it's a really good
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team, team effort. Amazing and and how many players
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have you got in the team Cementer squad now then?
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Well, we get we're getting close to 900 now.
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It'd be lovely to get 1000. Maybe that's another milestone.
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And Ganesh, you need to get your Vicks on the pump's already,
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already played All very well, though.
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Now you did brilliant. Yeah.
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So. But that variety goes from, you
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know, 17 all the way to, I think our oldest players 72.
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So it's a it's a real spectrum of players.
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But it's, like I said, described as a bit like a posh kick
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around. It's just people getting
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together. Sometimes they've never met.
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But through football, they've made new friends and, you know,
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a bit of exercise, raised a bit of money and play, play the game
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you love. So absolutely yes, it seems to.
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Work. And then there's probably people
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like me who are kind of at an age where football doesn't
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really feature anymore, but trying to relive classical class
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glories and just, you know, just that kind of feeling of walking
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back onto a pitch and. And I'm going to kick about it.
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Yeah, that in itself is, is is a breakthrough, isn't it?
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Yeah, and it's been lovely the comments, you know, people like
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saying that because, you know, you get like the veterans leave
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at the I, you know, I'm 45 now and I'm most of them are 35,
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just who are still playing regular football.
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So anyone really over the age of 40, unless you're in really good
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shape, it's it's very difficult. There's no over really over 50s
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leagues. The next step is walking
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football, which again, you've got to be over 50.
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So this sort of bridges that gap where people in between can play
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as well. And yeah, yeah, people have come
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out for retirement and just seeing old rivals play on the
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same team together and, you know, it's, it's yeah.
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For me, it's been, it's been really special to play with old
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team mates. Some of them I've known 20
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years, some I've known recently, some I've met along the way.
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So yeah, no, it's just a it's been really, really cool.
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It's good to continue that that that legacy as you say, because
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you know, this city, as we know, has got a fantastic grassroots
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Football League in a setup, haven't they?
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And hasn't it? And like you say, people who are
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rivals, perhaps in in their kind of playing days, are now best of
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friends and playing on the same side.
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Yeah, yeah. So there's been loads of really,
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you know, really cool memories from that.
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You know, people are like, I can't believe he's playing and
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then they played. He's all right, actually, you
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know, like it's still got it. That's still got it.
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Yeah. So.
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But yeah, like I said, when I've got enough worked out, now I've
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got enough for a father and son game, which I'm definitely going
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to do because I think, yeah, we've had a couple, especially
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when I did my game at Posh and people said the first time I
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played my son was at Posh. Like for them it's a really
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special memory. So that's what it's all about,
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people enjoying it and and sort of making the memories.
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That's, you know, that's part of part of all this as well,
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really. Absolutely.
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Let's, I mean, you mentioned Posh there.
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So you've have actually had played, you've played games at
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London Road, at PT United. Yeah.
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Tell me more. Tell us all.
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Tell us more about those. Yes, it start off with one game
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and obviously the the pitch fees are quite high.
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So I thought am I going to get the interest because I want to
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put a bit on top so we make a bit of money for charity
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obviously. Well anyway I had maybe 30
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people in reserve. So I thought well I can
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obviously do more than one game. And then I did three games and
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again another 30 people in reserve.
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Last year I did 5, still more in reserve.
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So this year I thought, can I do 7, which is over 150 people?
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And yeah, I still have people sparing.
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It was just a really epic day of football with people from past
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and present, you know, all coming together.
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I had even had one game that's dedicated to all The Walking
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footballs to play, 11 aside. So yeah, we played it APG who
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had a brought a team like a local company brought a couple
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of teams and sons charity team came down and you know, sort of
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supported. So yeah, it was a really, really
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epic day. I'm still not going to recovered
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yet, but yeah, you played in multiple games.
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Longer to recover now, doesn't it?
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It does. It had 100%.
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Yeah, yeah, it's like a month recovery.
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But how many of the seven games did you play?
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Well, I kind of, I played, I played six like on I haven't had
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a little made sure I, I, you know, sort of played as much as
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I could in those. And then I wasn't due to play in
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the seventh one, but someone got injured so I had to, I had to go
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on there as well. But I wasn't very mobile.
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And yeah, if you see any footage, it looks like it's been
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slowed down 'cause I wasn't moving very quickly.
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Well, you showed us your goal before the show started.
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Yeah, probably pretty special. A lob.
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Lob the keeper from the edge of the area.
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Yeah, yeah, like I said, I wasn't supposed to be playing
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that game, so to come on and score it was, it was a bonus.
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But yeah, I don't score many of those any goals these days for
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many, but so it's always special, especially at Posh.
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So yeah, it was yeah, really, really, really good day and
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everyone seemed to enjoy it. So that's the main thing.
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And do you think the game at Posh will become an annual
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feature now or are you hoping? Yeah, I think like I said, three
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years we've been doing and now and I've already got people
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requesting can I play next year? And there's people who didn't
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play this year that want to play.
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So I think if we've still got the interest and we can still
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make money for charity, then why not?
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My legs still work, So yeah. Fantastic.
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So and obviously they say Posh are the other kind of speciality
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games, but away from when you have your what you call your
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regular games, where are they played?
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How do you realize those? They're all like Yaxley, Yaxley
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FC, there's. No shabby place on it.
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No, that's a, that's a lovely pitch.
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Yeah. And it's all weather as well,
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which is nice. It's obviously got the bar and
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the facilities there. And yeah, it's just, you know,
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people can't blame about bobbling, bobbling footballs
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when they shoot and things. But no, it's a really lovely
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venue. They've been really kind and,
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you know, supportive and always give discounted rates so we can
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make as much as we can. And yeah, it's a nice location.
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It's local to where? Which all the players are local.
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Yeah. So it just, it just works
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really. And this and just to remind the
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listener as well, what you do with Team Cementer isn't your
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job. This is just a hobby or
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something you do aside from your full time job around family and
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all the other commitments that we all have.
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Yeah, like I said, most of the planning and stuff I do it work
19:04
lunch or and all the games are generally when my girls are
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asleep so that it doesn't affect family time in that sense.
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So it's rare we have weekend games as well.
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It's only on the big milestone games.
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So yeah, I'll try and make sure it's balanced.
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Yeah, absolutely brilliant. And what nights do you normally
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play your games? It's normally on Friday nights,
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so yeah, I've got a couple more coming up.
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I've got one this evening and then a couple more through July.
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So yeah, we're still ticking along.
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Exactly. And so how do you kind of
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schedule the matches then? And bear in mind you have got a
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big squad like say 900 odd people to call upon, but how do
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you schedule them in terms of, you know, recovery time or
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availability of pitches, for example?
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Yes, it must be quite a a juggle really.
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Yeah, it's basically works around with availability.
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You know, I say to you actually when you've got a free date, let
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me know. And then it's kind of first,
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first come, first served to sort of post it out.
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And we've got people who are regulars and then there'll be
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people who play every when they can or they're not working and
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things like that. So yeah.
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And then when I get the list of players, I try and balance it
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best I can. Sometimes we need to swap around
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at half time but. Yeah, it's, it's normally, yeah.
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And he actually is quite an in demand facility as well, isn't?
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It, it is. And that's that's why the game
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just kind of slowed down a little bit just because it used
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to be weekly. But yeah, you've got to
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understand that they're business and you know, they've got at the
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end of the day. So I just appreciate them giving
20:26
me the pitch when they can and. It takes you longer to recover
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anyway. It has, yeah.
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Yeah, really. I could do weekly but I need a a
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month between each. Me six months when I'd like.
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To play. So he's telling me, yeah.
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So it's, yeah, I can certainly relate to that Marco.
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So in terms obviously you've got a group of players who are
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playing, you know what, there's obviously great commitment from
20:48
from from the group of players and something like this, you
20:52
know, whilst you're kind of leading it, there's a whole team
20:55
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20:58
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21:01
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21:04
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21:06
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21:08
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21:10
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21:13
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21:16
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21:18
incredible from everyone really. You know, I've got shouts, my
21:22
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21:25
They're my biggest supporters. They've they've been brilliant.
21:29
It was really special for me to play in the same team as my dad
21:31
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21:32
that's happened, but local companies have been brilliant.
21:36
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21:39
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21:42
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21:44
It's there's so many people. I just want to thank everyone
21:47
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21:51
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21:54
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21:56
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21:59
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22:01
So it is a massive team effort. Fantastic, good stuff, right?
22:04
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22:06
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22:09
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Marco Cementer, who's joined us for your second time on on our
25:27
show. He's leading Team Cementer and
25:29
running charity matches in the city, the charity football
25:32
matches and raising enormous amounts of money.
25:34
He's currently smashed through the £100,000 barrier and played
25:38
just over 300 matches, 306 to be precise, and has got a match
25:42
this evening as well. So Marco, that's a phenomenal
25:46
amount of money to raise £100,000.
25:49
It's absolutely incredible. You started off with an ambition
25:52
of five matches and 500 lbs and here we are now.
25:56
It's almost become second nature to you and we're talking
25:58
telephone number amounts now, so it's incredible.
26:02
So I mean, first of all, fantastic, well done.
26:05
If we haven't said it already, thank you.
26:08
Touching on the charity side, you've supported numerous
26:11
charities. How do you sort of select the
26:14
charities? How do you allocate the funds?
26:16
How does that all work? Because obviously that that will
26:18
take a little bit of working out as well.
26:19
Yeah. So started off with charities
26:22
that in my family etcetera supported and then we'd I got to
26:27
the point where people who sponsored the game, I let them
26:30
pick the charity because obviously they're sponsored from
26:32
the game. So it's a charity that they may
26:33
support. And then we've had some memorial
26:35
games where people just suddenly passed away for, you know,
26:38
different, different reasons. So we've supported those
26:41
charities. So yeah, so we're about, I think
26:43
we're about 66 different charities, but it'd be, it'd be
26:45
lovely to get to 1 day to 100 different charities.
26:48
There's another milestone and there's so many good causes.
26:51
That's that's the difficult of but you know, we try and support
26:54
as many people as we can really. Which is incredible.
26:56
So 6 even with my maths are correct. 66 charities, 100,000
26:59
lbs. That's what an average of at
27:00
least 15 and £100 per charity. Yeah, if it does vary on the
27:04
different charities, like I say, some, some we've done a lot for,
27:06
we've did runs and numerous games.
27:09
And so the charities that maybe we've done one or two games.
27:11
So it does vary the amount. But yeah, it's it's, it's nice
27:15
to try and help as many as we can.
27:16
Absolutely brilliant. And you talked about sponsoring
27:18
a match then. So obviously you organise the
27:20
match, get the players together, find the pitch, find a referee
27:24
and then people can actually, and I know how it works because
27:28
I played for the purpose of listeners.
27:30
So players obviously pay to play that's fine.
27:33
But then you also invite sponsors who actually sponsor
27:36
the the match itself, get their brand advertised and then
27:38
contribute towards charity as well if.
27:40
That's it. Yeah.
27:41
So we we don't, we don't get all of them obviously it's lots of,
27:44
lots of, lots of lots of games that be hard to sponsor them
27:47
all. But yeah, when we can, there's
27:49
local companies that get involved, which is brilliant.
27:51
And we, you know, share their information across all the, the
27:54
football pages, etcetera as well to get their name out there.
27:57
And most of the time I invite them to play.
27:59
So they play and, you know, we get photos and stuff as well.
28:01
And yeah, it's, it's, it's been a bit, a really good network
28:05
now. And there's so many local
28:07
companies involved now. It's, it's crazy really.
28:10
So yeah, I want to thank all them for whether it's one game
28:13
they sponsored, 2 games, or you know, any really, they've all
28:17
been anyone who's helps. It's been amazing and I really
28:20
appreciate their. Support and it just to think,
28:22
you know, yes, you're doing it on a local scale, which is fine,
28:24
but the effort you put in to do it, you know, we get the annual
28:28
soccer aid game which is coming up soon actually, you know,
28:29
Robbie Williams and his and his friends or what have you, but
28:32
you know, you're you're actually doing a soccer aid at a local
28:35
level once twice a month, aren't you?
28:36
Which is absolutely amazing. Yeah, yeah.
28:39
And it's, it's really important to, you know, it started off
28:42
with all the the local guys and it's, it's like I said earlier,
28:46
it's the next generation now. Their sons are now playing.
28:48
And yeah, it's just more and more people seem to be hearing
28:52
about it and want to get involved.
28:53
And it's just really key to get the right people.
28:56
They're there for the right reasons, if that makes sense.
28:58
So it's not about, you know, we don't, we don't put the scores,
29:01
we don't put the scorers. It's not about who's the best
29:03
player. It's just people coming
29:05
together, having fun. And that's, that's the key
29:07
thing. And like I said, it's all people
29:08
I know or friends of friends to keep that family feel because
29:11
that's, that's really important. It's not about being the best
29:13
team or anything like that. That's not what the games are
29:16
about. It's just about all
29:17
inclusiveness. Anyone can play and yeah,
29:20
hopefully they all enjoyed. It and you talked about the ages
29:22
early, so 17 to 72 and in terms of genders, is it mixed gender
29:27
as well? Yeah, so, yeah, we've had yeah,
29:29
mixed genders have played and we've had partners play, like I
29:33
said with before brothers. We've had yeah, anyone's
29:36
anyone's welcome to play. One gave me a three generations.
29:39
So the granddad, the dad and the son all played.
29:41
So it's just really nice to see that, you know, it's making
29:45
memories for them. You know, it's, it's, you know,
29:47
for a lot of people who played football for their child to play
29:51
on the same team as, you know, a bit of a pipe dream for a lot
29:55
in, in realistic terms when it comes to competitive or where it
29:57
happens, Don't get me wrong. But these games give though
30:00
that, that, that a chance for that to happen.
30:03
And there's been so many, like I said, so many stories of where
30:05
people have done that. And it's they've, you know,
30:07
they've, they've never thought it would happen.
30:09
And they they got the chance to play on the same team.
30:11
Or sometimes they're like playing against their their
30:12
children. But yeah.
30:15
And you mentioned obviously you've got 900 odd players in,
30:17
in the squad now or in the pool. And, and you know, that's all
30:20
come from just people, you know, who then refer people who refer
30:23
people and, and it's just grown in a trusted way, isn't it?
30:25
So the nature of the matches is, is, is friendly.
30:28
It's, it's, it's not competitive.
30:30
It's not, there's no stupidity. It's, it's done in all in, in a
30:32
good, good nature, isn't it? Yeah, and that's that's exactly
30:35
what we want it to keep it to be.
30:37
And that's why I've kept, I say the circle small.
30:40
It's getting big now, but the idea is to keep it to people I
30:43
know just because I'd hate for someone to come down and there'd
30:47
be a silly tackle or someone something kicks off and it could
30:51
just affect the whole field of the game, you know, you've
30:53
played in the games. The idea is it's family
30:55
friendly. Anyone can come and play.
30:57
People can come and watch. Family can come and watch.
30:59
And yeah, it's just that's that's the way I want to keep
31:01
it. So that's why, you know, I keep
31:04
it to people I know or friends of friends that get the right
31:06
people involved. And luckily for me, ability is
31:09
not taking into account. Either, which is great.
31:12
So you, you, you show you, you know, it's open to people of all
31:16
levels and abilities as well, isn't it?
31:17
To to come. Around come along, there's some
31:19
people who who literally never played football for a team and
31:22
they've played and they've enjoyed it and that, you know,
31:25
getting there, getting the level of football and they've come
31:27
back. So they obviously must have
31:28
enjoyed it. And you know, it's varied.
31:30
We've had people like Marcus Hebden, who's ex Posh player,
31:32
you know, we've had literally the whole spectrum of levels and
31:37
abilities and ages and yeah, it's it's yeah, it's good.
31:41
It's. Interesting He had Marcus
31:42
Septon. That would have been quite a, I
31:44
don't know, I suppose an eye opener to play against somebody
31:46
was a former professional footballer.
31:47
Yeah, I guess he obviously he wasn't firing on all cylinders,
31:51
but I'm sure he's got good quality's there.
31:54
He's he's still got it. He's still got an appear, you
31:56
know, mentally. Exactly.
31:58
It's just that the legs can't keep up sometimes I guess.
32:00
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been like that for
32:02
a long time, but yeah, I know. And the The funny thing about
32:05
that game actually as well, that a big one of our big boss at
32:08
work, he was a massive fan of Marcus Septon.
32:10
And then when he sat down, he didn't know he was playing.
32:12
So he just, he was just staring him like I had his poster on my
32:16
wall. So he actually asked me to get
32:19
Marcus to sign his Posh out for a £50 donation, which Marcus was
32:23
like, of course I'll do that. And so yeah, this for him.
32:27
He said, can I plan the same team?
32:28
So, you know, on my wall are people like Paolo Maldinho or
32:31
Badger. I was never going to play on
32:32
their team, but. You're yet to invite.
32:33
Them maybe next year, but for this guy who's a big Posh fan
32:38
and he's got to play with the guy at the poster as well.
32:41
Like he was absolutely, you know, absolutely chaff which to
32:46
plan to play alongside in the centre mid with Marcus Hepton.
32:48
I mean, he was buzzing. So yeah, that was another
32:50
special, special moment, especially for him, so.
32:53
Like I say, I was gonna say, you know, having played 306 matches,
32:56
you must have some specific memories and and stand out
32:59
moments and then that, you know, obviously you're scoring A posh.
33:02
Yeah, for you personally, but generally for the whole team,
33:05
there must be like you just gave an example there.
33:06
There must be countless other examples where there's just been
33:10
special moments. Yeah, you know, we have one of
33:12
my friends suddenly passed away and we did a game in his memory
33:16
and, you know, his chart, we put his lad down and we set him up
33:19
for a hat trick. You know, we made him man of the
33:21
match, made him captain for the day and just, you know, and he
33:25
seemed to really reap and the family seemed to really, really
33:27
appreciate. And then, like I said earlier, I
33:29
got to plan same to him with my dad and brothers, which has
33:31
never happened. That was really special.
33:33
And yeah, there's been, there's been so many games that, you
33:38
know, we've had some of these people involved that yeah, it's
33:42
just hard to think of more. But it's been, yeah, there's
33:44
been so many really special games and memories, so.
33:46
Absolutely incredible. And touching on the sponsoring
33:50
you mentioned about sponsoring matches, how does anyone
33:53
listening want, if they want to sponsor a match either
33:55
personally or as a from a sort of corporate branding
33:58
perspective, how do they? Yeah, So on social media, if
34:02
they look for Team Cementer and just send over an e-mail if
34:05
they're interested, then I'll get in touch.
34:06
And yeah, we can. And like I say, we're at the
34:08
point now. I'm happy to support the people
34:11
who sponsor their charity because a lot of time they've
34:12
got a charity close to their hearts.
34:14
So yeah, it's important to sort of, if they're sponsoring the
34:17
game, we'll do it for, you know, their charity.
34:19
It's good they can use Team Cimento as a vehicle to to raise
34:22
money for their chosen charity. Definitely, which is incredible.
34:24
And you're on Facebook, you're on Instagram, you're on X.
34:28
So there's multiple ways. For ways to get in contact, you
34:30
can. Contact you and I know you're
34:31
very responsive on social media so yes, you will get back to my.
34:34
Notes. I will.
34:34
Yeah, definitely. Fantastic.
34:36
Good stuff. So next match tonight, how's the
34:39
preparations come along for that?
34:40
Yeah, no, it's going, it's going good.
34:42
We've got I think 14 aside, so plenty of players this for this
34:46
one. And yeah, again, it's a mixed
34:49
bag, mixed bag of people got we've got actually I think 3 or
34:51
4 new players again. So again, a bit we're building
34:53
up that getting close to that thousand players milestone.
34:58
But yeah, look forward to it. Nice weather, nice weather.
35:00
It should be a bit cooler a bit later.
35:02
So yeah, we should be another good one.
35:04
Absolutely brilliant. Good stuff and along the way,
35:08
apart from obviously amazing amounts of money for charity,
35:12
the milestones you've you've hit the the match is a posh you've
35:15
had other accolades as well. I think Pride of Britain
35:18
finalists a. Couple of times, yeah, that that
35:21
was really good. Once and then Pride of
35:22
Peterborough another time. That's it, yeah.
35:24
And then BBC Cambridgeshire fundraiser you and it's never
35:28
been for anything like that, but that sort of raised the profile
35:30
of games. And from that more people have
35:33
come in and supported and, and, and stuff like that.
35:35
So like I said, yeah, that's, it's sort of helped to raise
35:38
the, the profile of the games, which is, which has been really,
35:41
really good as well. And Amy, my wife as well, she,
35:45
she did a skydive. Well, so she, she's raised over
35:48
£1000 in a skydive and the other weekend as well.
35:51
So yeah, over there the two weekends of the game and the
35:54
skydive raised over £4000 which was really, really good amount.
35:58
So I think I'd rather stick to play football.
36:00
I'm. Sort of skydive.
36:02
Me too, yeah. Quite fun.
36:03
Yeah, maybe that's the next challenge.
36:05
My wife just do want I'm like, I'll take the pictures from the
36:07
ground, don't worry. Hang on.
36:09
You'll play football? Yeah.
36:10
Skydive. You need to roll reverse on
36:12
that, don't we? Yeah, absolutely.
36:13
Skydiving football, Yeah. All right, it's a deal.
36:16
I'm not sure about that. I'll nominate my wife to do that
36:18
part of the deal for me. So brilliant.
36:20
Good stuff, right? Let's take a final break and
36:23
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If you missed any of the show, you can listen back on our
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Marco Cementer's with us today from Team Cementer, who's been
39:13
telling us about his story of raising enormous amounts of
39:17
money for various charities by organising football matches in
39:20
the local area with a group of local people.
39:23
It's a fascinating story. Marco.
39:25
We were just talking before the break about how you know the
39:29
method of which you've you've oh sorry, the number of charities
39:31
that you've raised money for the amount which is 100,000 lbs,
39:35
which is incredible. 6060 plus charities, 66 charities, which
39:39
is huge. What's the kind of plans for the
39:43
future? You know, how do you do you, do
39:47
you, have you kind of stuck to the formula from 10 years ago to
39:49
now or have you evolved things in any way?
39:52
How does this this sort of fantastic vehicle continue?
39:55
It's, it's really been the same pretty much from the start.
39:58
You know, we we book a pitch, we get a ref, we get some players
40:04
and. They'll they'll pay you know, 5
40:07
or to have a game it's. Working.
40:08
Well, Don't. It's working.
40:09
It's not broken. Don't.
40:09
Fix it Yeah, that's it yeah. So it just it just it just seems
40:12
to work and you know, I could you could charge more and all
40:17
the rest of it to make more money, but at the end of the
40:18
day, I want it to keep so it's affordable.
40:21
Everyone, you know 5 LB you pay that anyway for a game.
40:26
So this way it's sort of, you know, keeps the priceline, keeps
40:29
people involved because you don't want to, you know, price
40:31
people out or things like that. It's not what it's about
40:33
everyone being able to play and get involved.
40:35
So I. Mean 5 lbs, you know, it's,
40:38
it's, it's a coffee, it's not even a pint a pint these days in
40:41
some places. But in terms of paying £5 to
40:44
play football, it's the sort of thing we probably we used to do
40:46
at grassroots level when we played anyway.
40:48
Percent generally to contribute towards the pitch higher and the
40:51
refs and the subsidy we used to pay, you know, to, to, to, to
40:54
play. So it's the same principle,
40:56
isn't it? Definitely and after thank
40:58
especially all the refs and everyone has been involved, like
41:00
I said, all the players. I've got to give a shout at
41:03
Scott Henry, who actually refed all seven games, him and his two
41:08
colleagues at Posh. Yeah, he heard about the story
41:11
Team Cementer last year when we did a game, and then he said if
41:14
you ever do anymore, I'll do all of them.
41:15
And he did keep to his words, so fair play to him for doing all
41:19
7. Fantastic, absolutely.
41:21
And he's a qualified referee. Yeah, yeah.
41:23
Who's come along and and supported the the cause.
41:26
Which has been really good. But yeah, again, I just want to
41:28
thank everyone that's had any involvement with it.
41:31
Like I said, this is a good chance to to, to get tell
41:34
everyone again how much I appreciate their support.
41:36
And you know, Team Serrano, we wouldn't have gone past the five
41:41
past one game if people hadn't got involved.
41:44
So where do you see it going? I had a deep sigh.
41:49
Well, not a sigh, actually, a deep breath.
41:51
Just. You've got to see where you've
41:54
come from. Take it all in.
41:55
Yeah. Absorb that.
41:56
And. Yeah, I mean.
41:58
You know, where would you like to see it go?
42:01
I mean, it's just. Even if you've thought about it,
42:02
you may not have. Done.
42:03
I've not really, I mean, we'd love to get to 100 charities as
42:06
another milestone. That's that's another one that
42:08
would be lovely to hear. And I mean, I said until my legs
42:11
stopped working, but then my dad said, well, you could always be
42:13
a manager and carry on anyway. So I don't know who knows.
42:16
I think as long as I've, I've still got a support, which
42:19
luckily I've still got so many people that want to be involved
42:22
and it doesn't affect, you know, family life and stuff too much.
42:25
I'm just going to just, you know, just stick with it.
42:27
And people always said you're a long time retired.
42:29
Once the boots are, you know, for a lot of people that that's
42:32
it then. So I want to, I want to sort of
42:34
try and keep it going as as long as I can.
42:36
And as we talked about earlier, there's players far older than
42:38
you that are playing. So there's inspiration there,
42:41
isn't there? Yeah.
42:42
I mean, some of the guys like, you know, mid 60 run up and
42:45
bombing up and down. I mean, you know, not being fun.
42:48
I'd be happy to be here at that age, let alone being able to run
42:50
up and down and all the rest. I mean, some of the people that,
42:53
you know, that obviously keeping in shape and all the rest of it
42:55
is fair play to it. It's incredible, you know, yeah,
42:59
to to have all these people involved.
43:01
And yeah, like I said, I want to just shout out to.
43:04
Yeah, give a you go give a shout out to as many people as you.
43:07
Like Amy, Isabella and Sienna, my girls, thank you for, you
43:10
know, all the support over the years and being the biggest fans
43:13
and my dad and brother being involved.
43:15
And literally everyone who's put in a pair of boots, made a
43:18
donation, bought a raffle ticket, then a skydive.
43:22
Then, you know, another shout out really.
43:24
David Scales, he's done 24 hour walk.
43:26
He run the run the London Marathon for Team Cementer.
43:30
He's in cycling. And there's so many people I
43:32
could thank individually, but we haven't got time.
43:35
So I just want to thank everyone that's had any involvement.
43:38
Thank you for playing. Thank you for, you know, being
43:40
involved and having me on here. So yeah, thank, thanks everyone
43:43
who's had any. Parts always a pleasure and I
43:46
saw on your socials and just clarified for me because I hope
43:50
I read it right, but there was some link to Guinness Book of
43:52
Records and marathon running. Yeah.
43:54
Tell us more about that. So that David Scales that I
43:57
mentioned he ran in the London Marathon and apparently it was
44:01
the most runners that's ever been for the.
44:03
Yeah, This year the marathon just gone.
44:05
Yeah. Yeah.
44:05
So everybody who took part in that are effectively world
44:08
record holders because it's the biggest marathon that's ever
44:11
been. That's it.
44:12
And he's sort of as a, as a little gift got me one for team
44:15
Cementer, a little certificate as well.
44:16
So that's what that's for. So oh.
44:18
OK. So because he represented Team
44:19
Cementer, he got a certificate from the Guinness Book of
44:21
Records with Team Cementer. Because he ran for it.
44:24
So yeah, that was really nice. Amazing gesture.
44:26
And just the side of that marathon related, they've
44:29
actually got a world record now for the number of applications
44:31
for the 2026 event as well. So over a million people have
44:35
applied for a London Marathon play.
44:37
So yeah, anybody who does get a place, good luck and fingers
44:42
crossed for you. But yeah, hats off to anybody
44:44
completes a marathon as well, because that's an achievement in
44:46
itself. Yeah, no, it's incredibly
44:48
incredible achievement. Yeah, it's about the runnings, a
44:52
unique kind of ability, I think because you know, on a football
44:55
pitch like the, the, the day you played six stroke, seven
44:58
matches, you potentially ran the equivalent of a marathon.
45:01
Probably you had a, if you had a pace, maybe 1/2 marathon, But
45:05
you mean, but to run it in a concentrated way.
45:08
I mean, it is, it's a completely different level, isn't it?
45:11
Yeah, and, and but he was, he is the running man.
45:13
He, he does run like just I remember him a few years back,
45:16
just I reckon I could do a marathon and he didn't train.
45:19
He just did 26 miles on a weekend just because he felt
45:23
like it. So he's got that gene of running
45:25
and natural ability. Yeah.
45:27
And when we played the five games a few years back, he
45:29
played all 5. And I can guarantee he did a lot
45:31
more steps than I did. I was, you know, pottering
45:34
around. He was running around.
45:35
So. So yeah, no.
45:37
And again, that just helps all these other things.
45:39
The skydive, the marathon, the 24 hour walks that people have
45:42
done like cycling, it just it just helps to raise more and.
45:47
So people are now contributing by non footballing.
45:50
Yeah, as well, though, that's it.
45:51
Yeah. So people that have maybe
45:52
football's not their main thing, they like running and stuff.
45:55
And can we run for, you know, support charity you're you're
45:58
willing to support. So yeah, it's like I said, it's
46:00
getting, it's a, it's a massive team effort.
46:02
And for the football matches then obviously the the held at
46:04
Yaks DFC most of the time and obviously at Posh, as you
46:06
mentioned, can people come and spectate and if they even if
46:09
they don't want to play, yeah, come and watch friends or family
46:11
that are playing. It's well, it's welcome to
46:13
anyone. There's no charge or anything.
46:14
Even the games that posh, some people charged.
46:16
I mean, who's going to come pay people like me play football so
46:20
it's free. Anyone can anyone can come.
46:21
Friends and family are always welcome.
46:24
I will if OK, just a shout to Carl Rumble as well, because he
46:28
was he's the photographer for all the games.
46:30
He's been there from day one. So I've got to give him a shout
46:33
out because he's been incredible and what he's done as well is
46:35
captured all these memories of these people playing, you know,
46:38
so. There's a book coming here,
46:40
isn't there? There's got to be a picture book
46:44
of every game moment. There.
46:46
Could be something along those lines and you were talking
46:48
about, you know, perhaps a, a biography, a biography, but a
46:52
book from your perspective as well.
46:53
Just some words to go up against that.
46:55
With all those stories, yeah, yeah, I think, I think that's
46:58
good. I have thought about that.
46:59
It's just Clayton all and and. Time to do it.
47:01
Yeah, and I, I quite like writing poems and stuff.
47:04
And I was, I thought about a team Cementer like a children's
47:07
book where Team Cementer plays, I don't know, Vikings and
47:10
dinosaurs. Like in my head, I've got an
47:12
idea of like a little book where it's all rhyming and Team
47:16
Cementer sort of plays all these different teams, aliens and all
47:19
sorts. I don't know, it's just an idea.
47:21
I. Know it's good.
47:22
Keep thinking of these things. So fantastic Marco, absolute
47:25
pleasure as always. Thank you for coming back today
47:28
and giving us a fantastic update and and wishing you continued
47:32
success because you know what you do is like I say, it's just
47:34
absolutely amazing and to blows my mind what you've, what you've
47:37
achieved in 10 years. So you know, any support you
47:40
need from us in any way or we're always here and happy to support
47:43
your 'cause I really appreciate you by playing on the other
47:45
occasion as well. Thank you for having me on.
47:47
I really appreciate that. No.
47:48
Fantastic. Thank you.
47:50
And again, just a reminder for anyone who's interested in
47:52
sponsoring a match, whether they're corporate or personal,
47:54
how do they get in touch with you?
47:56
Yeah, just on social media, if you're just looking for Team
47:58
Cementer, like we say on X Facebook and Instagram, send me
48:02
a message and yeah, we'll we'll get in touch.
48:04
And like I say, we're happy to support the charity that that
48:07
might be close to their hearts as well.
48:08
So. Fantastic.
48:10
Good stuff. Brilliant.
48:11
Thank you, Marco, and hopefully see you again in future when you
48:14
hit quarter of a million. Thank you.
48:15
I'll see you 2 both on the pitch there.
48:18
Once he jumps out of a plane. Brilliant.
48:21
Thank you Nilesh, as always. Brilliant.
48:22
Thank you very much. Just a shout out again for the
48:25
Activate at Central event tomorrow, which takes place at
48:28
Central Park such as the 14th of June, 11 till 3:00.
48:32
And it's a free children's activities, family friendly
48:35
event and it's an opportunity for you to try out lots of
48:39
different sports. It's all free, and there's even
48:41
a little reward at the end for you as well.
48:43
Fantastic get along to that. The weather's going to be nice,
48:45
so there's no excuse. And thank you again for
48:48
listening. We'll be back again.
48:49
Same time, same place, 6 till 7 for the start of your sporting
48:52
weekend. Have a great one, take care and
48:54
we'll see you soon. Bye for now.