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CHAIRMAN LEIGH MARSHALL TALKS ABOUT FOLKESTONE OPTIMISTS HOCKEY CLUB · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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The Folkston and Hive Sports podcast, every local sport across the district. This
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is okay here the one, this is Kevin Day, the sports for it
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here and it's a good salve, isn't it? On one of five point
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nine Academy of m bringing you the Folkston on a Hive Sports show. On
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today's show we have football, rugby, hockey, indoor bowls, a report
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on the Headcorn Half Marathon and a few more sporty snippets thrown in. We
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will be joined in the studio by chair of the folks at Otmous Hockey Club,
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Lee Marshall in the first hour and in the second hour former guests of
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the show and budd in sports journalist Tom Ellerby, who will help helping me
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out with a h sporting reports. In the meantime, settled down, get
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sport and music. As we listen to a bit of the Nack of mar
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shar Owner and then we're going straight into a local music. Local music there
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from our very own Clayton Thompson and a song called too Cana Peak. Now
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I'm joining the studio today by the chairman of the Folks and Optimists Hockey Club.
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Lee Marshall, Hello, Lee, how are you? Oh Kevin,
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I'm good, Thank you good, Thanks for coming in. And you only
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just made it then you've got stuck in traffic. I did. Yeah,
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some roadworks I wasn't expecting on Chariton. Oh yeah, dear, Yeah,
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three way lights are probably they'd the worst thing I know, three way lights
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where you think there's changing a number five minutes left A wait. Anyway,
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we're going to talk about hockey today and everything that's going on down at the
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club, but first of all, tell us a little bit about yourself,
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your sporty background and how you became involved with the year Folks and oops.
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Right, okay, So originally I'm from nottingham Sure, so I've not got
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a Kent accent, perfect Ken tacent anyway, But yeah, I was born
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in Nottinghamshire and I joined the Army from school and I was a trombone player
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with the Royal Green Jackets and then I joined the Optimist in nineteen eighty nine.
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We were stationed in Dover and I wanted to play hockey and this was
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the club that I found and decided to join. We liked Folkston, and
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after leaving the army in ninety three, my wife Jane and I we moved
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here. We like being next to the sea. We realized straight away that
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the Optimist Hockey Club was a family club, so we bought a house with
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walking distance, and apart from playing and everything, I started to take part
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in quite a lot of the other club activities. I've captained the side umpire,
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I've done fixture secretary, social events organizer, club secretary, and then
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in twenty fourteen I took over his chair the club fourteen, so he've been
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doing it for ten years. Yeah, oh well right, good as your
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wife a hockey fan, not necessarily yeah, yeah, yeah, she's a
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very good supporter of me being a hockey fan. So yeah, right,
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And I mean moving, are you still in the same house, still in
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walk is absolutely right. That's a great choice. That leaves a car and
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have a few beers. Yeah, excellent. Now the club itself is just
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like absolutely blossom, doesn't it. But we're going to talk about that shortly.
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So your current role as a German, I mean it's a bit of
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a tough question. What does it involve Healthould you have meetings, you have
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any major decisions to make or do you have to sit down with the committee.
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The committee meet every month. Yeah, we meet every month because there's
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normally quite a lot of business to cover. But as far as my role
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is concerned, I probably would say that there's probably some matter or some hockey
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business that I have to deal with every single day. Really Yeah, yeah,
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okay. And since since the demise of the old Hockey Club that we
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both remember, things have just moved on so much, haven't they. It's
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been incredible. Yeah, it's been brilliant, you know. I mean,
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we love the old club. It was iconic. We had some great times
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there and people enjoyed coming. But you know what we've got now is world
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class facility. Is this it's just a super place, right And because they
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are. I've had this conversation with several hockey players, But you've all moved
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on on the surface as well, haven't. You don't play on grass anymore.
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You know that you're going to play on a half decent artificial pitch the
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only way that there are days. There's been a few cancelations where we've had
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so much rain and if there's a frost, but you're pretty guaranteed the game
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every week now, aren't you are. Yeah, we've had a we've got
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into a system now whereas if on Thursday, if we look at the weather
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forecast and we see that it's going to be near zero, we know that
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we need to look at inspect the pitchers on Saturday morning. Yeah, definitely,
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so we do that and I think we've probably lost four games postponed because
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we're lucky is in that by midday or the afternoon the pitchers will probably be
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okay to play on. So it's just some of the early games the sun
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comes around. Ye, I'll ask you this question now. Actually, well
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I was going to ask you later, but with so many teams and pitches,
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how do you they all want to train? Didn't they? Air?
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You get around there? It's we've got very good administrators and organizers in the
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club. You know Amy Bumstered, of course, she coordinates things, and
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we've got the other coordinators and they get together before the season and they'll plan
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all the league games once the fixtures of release and the training as well,
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and we train now Monday to Thursday every single week, you know, and
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Saturday mornings with the kids as well. Yeah, you've hit on a point
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there. With so many teams, do you have one fixture secretary or do
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you have secretaries to you know, we're one club. We've got three sections.
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Obviously we've got the lady section, the men's section, and the junior
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section. But we are one club, so all the all the fixtures and
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training is coordinated as a club, right. I mean, I know this,
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I know the answers to this question, but tell us about how many
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teams you've got stuff like that. At the moment, we've got eight men's
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adult men's teams, we've got five ladies teams, and then we've got the
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juniors. There's I mean, there's about two hundred and fifty juniors on our
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books and we've got junior side from under eights up to under eighteens. So
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it's amazing. Yeah. I think the other week I did a report of
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which Amy sent me. She's brilliant, Amy, She's all those reports are
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in my inbooks on a Monday morning. So if you ever lose Amy kre,
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I don't know what you're going to do. But she sent me a
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report of the twelve games on Saturday, but then there were fourteen games of
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junior games. Results on the Sunday of juniors all around the Southeast and that
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it just goes to show. I mean, why is the sport getting so
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popular? Is it because the facilities have improved or they're getting trained or introduced
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to it at an early age. If you think back to when we moved
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Three Hills, which was spring twenty thirteen, twenty twelve, so we knew
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we were moving. Twenty twelve was the British Olympics, which was a kick
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for the whole sport and it's gone on from then, especially the women's side
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of it because they've had more success than the men. But I think with
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Three Hills, the imprint of the club and the reputation of the club alongside
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the national sort of promotion is that we've prospered from that as well. Yeah.
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And the England Hockey do you get good support from them. Yeah.
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We went through a restructure or England did. England Hockey went through a complete
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restructure in England two years ago. All the leagues, all the setup and
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administrations completely changed. But in Kent particularly it didn't change a lot because we're
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kind of the setup we've got now was pretty similar to the footprint that we
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had before. Okay, right, Well, we're going to take a little
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break there, Lee, but when we come back, I want to speak
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a bit more in depth about what goes on on the pitch, how the
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teams are getting on, and I'm sure you've got loads of information for us.
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So we see you back after the after this song from a Van Morrison
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bright side of the Road. Morrison there singing about the right side of the
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road, classy track. Billy really enjoyed that one. I was in here.
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But look, coming back to you hockey, it's a massive, massive
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set up. I really don't know where to start asking you questions, but
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let's start with like the men's and the ladies. You've got hundreds and hundreds
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of players on your books, haven't you. Are they all quite local or
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do they come from a long way away? Because of the facilities most most
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of the most of our members players come from folks scen area. I'm going
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to say, but we have got a few that you know, live elsewhere
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in Kent. But yeah, so of course our catchment area. We've got
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to see it. It's the same all sports, yeah, but it is.
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But we do well. Yes, So even though we're at the end
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of the m twenty and we've got to see it at the back is that
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we do really well and you know, and we're thriving. The club's doing
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really yeah, great, are there any sort of success is hovering down there?
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The team? So promotions, well you've already mentioned the junior is the
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under fourteen lads who you've got to think you're gonna mention that. Yeah,
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well we mentioned that off here, but we know we've got the under fourteens
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have made the quarterfinals of the National Cup, which I'll be telling you about
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later. Last year the ladies, I was down there at the very day
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that they got promotion. But they started off the season very well. But
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I think they're just sort of mid table now, aren't they. Yeah,
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they've stabilized and they've had some great results against some top oppositions. So things
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are going really well for the and for the men. The men have foalded
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in the last couple of weeks, actually the men's ones, but they've got
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a crack inside. There's some fantastic hockey if you come down and watch it,
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there's some you know, some really entertaining hockey being played by everyone.
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I love going down there and that board comes out and the scores go up,
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and it's like it's like oh the old days checking your football pools.
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You know, you think we've got five wins, are we're going to get
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six? And then some team loses? Oh no, And there's nearly nearly
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been a full house. I do remember it, but yeah, I've got
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the stats. I'll work out the stats now for like like last week it
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was played eleven one, six straw and one, et cetera. So it's
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really really exciting stuff. The men actually, I think in the last month
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they had a clean sweet so all there were seven sides and they won all
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of their games. It doesn't happen very often, but you know, and
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it was. It was celebrated. Yeah. That's the other thing. I've
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said this in the past that if I've been down at the hockey club and
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I'm standing there with an empty pike glass, I look along the bar and
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they were drinking out of jugs. Yeah, it's a bit of hockey well
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I think sport tradition. But yeah, saved, you're going to keep going
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back to the bar cab. Yeah, right, And so we've talked about
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the men's but the ladies and I was really when you introduced the Ladies fifteen.
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I thought, oh, how on earth are they going to do?
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You know, but tell us how they're doing? Absolutely incredible. What's great
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is that the side is a mixture of youngsters and some experience players, including
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some girls, ladies that have come back to playing hockey. Yeah, so
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been away for a few years and come back, and do you know what,
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they're having so much fun and scoring a handful of goals. Yeah,
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I know, yeah I do. I purposely look out for the fifteam because
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I did go down there. I've been down there a few times and watch
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them. And I was speaking to one of the coaches and I can't remember
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her name now, but she's giving back. She's used to be, used
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to be a player, and now she's coaching the fifteen. And I recognize
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some of the ladies as they come in. I thought, I know you
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used to play for the seconds or the first team even Yeah, you must
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have a great team spirit in that fifteen. Oh definitely, yeah, excellent.
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Okay, so let's switch to all those teams, right, They all
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need coaches. Do you have like a program if you like? If someone
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puts around up says I want to be a coach, if can you help
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them? Oh? Absolutely, Yeah, We've never got enough coaches. We've
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never got enough umpires and their coaches. You know, we can always have
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more, that's you know, always. But coaching wise is that if somebody
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wants to do that path, then we will help them qualify, get the
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great qualifications and the vetting safeguarding DBS or that. We'll support them through that
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and we need those people to look after everyone in the club. Yeah,
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we have so many teams, don't you. Now you've you've got a couple
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of things you want to tell me about, Oh yeah, I have.
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Yeah, so interesting. We spoke about the club, but I forgot to
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mention that the club was formed in nineteen twenty six. Sow two years I
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think it is two years is our centenary yea, So we're already got that
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on the agenda every month. It's sitting there. We're starting to make plans
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to celebrate that. What else tell you? Well, you know we're involved
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with the Sports Trust, Yes, as well. We have an excellent relationship
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with them and local schools. The club provides support with coaching to most schools
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in the wider folks In area through initiatives led by the Sports Trust and we
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also independently the club we've got with some funding from the folks in town Council.
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We use that to put our own coaches into a lot of junior schools
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in the area as well. Yeah. Do you think it sounds like it's
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paying off because there's some approach to the schools now you've got Well I know
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for a fact that the other week I think you put out fourteen junior size
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from eighth to eighteen. So it's obviously working, isn't it. It is?
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Yeah, I mean, just so you add into what's coming up,
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there's a when is it the third of March Sunday, the third of March
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Three Hills where we are hosting Kent Under Tens Championships for boys and girls from
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all over Kent, so there'll be hundreds of children taking part in that day.
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You've done that before, have a year? Yeah, I think it's
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gonna be our third or fourth time we've done it. It came up once
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for a quite beer and there was yeah it was fantastic. Yeah, yeah,
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crazy atmosphere and I think I was speaking to Amy at the time and
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she said, well, we've got the facilities. Now, some clubs can't
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do that, can they, because they might just have the one pitch somewhere
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or use a pitch from a school somewhere. So you're oh so lucky.
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So we are lucky, two pitchers. We've got the club which is open
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seven days a week. We've got a great bar, it's got food,
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hot drinks. We've got a stand, scoreboard, you know, the everything
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that you need to enjoy a sport. Brilliant. But I want to talk
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about stuff behind the scenes. Now. You've done a few events in the
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past, haven't year for charity? Yeah, we do. People are always
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doing their own thing with charities, but just thinking about what we've done in
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recent times. We supported Hockey for Heroes with some charity games where we've done
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a collection and made a donation to that charity. Last year the Men's seventh
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to eleven, the Mighty sevens, the Mighty sevens, they raised over five
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pounds for the local Pilgrim's Hospice for a twenty four hour hockey thot. Yes,
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I do remember that. Yeah, yes, the Rainbow Center in Folkston
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we provide lots of every week people would bring excess food or made donations of
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food for the food bank and then just after Christmas, just a small just
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on a small scale, we collected all the plastic Christmas sweet tubs, you
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know the big one like Quality Streets stuff. So we collected a load of
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those, took them to a collection point and that's for McMillan Cancer Support,
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right. So yeah, it's ongoing all the time. That is lovely.
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It's so important now these clubs and there's such a field good factor when the
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clubs get together and do that, and the charities are so so grateful.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent. So we've got the centenary
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coming up. But is there anything else on the horizon? What do you
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want to talk about? Oh? Yeah, So what's coming up soon is
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what we've got. We've got the you mentioned the National Cup quarter final,
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the host the Under tens Championships in April. We've got the Leap Hockey Academy.
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So that's a professional coaching outfit and this will be for twelve to eighteen
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year olds and they're coming to Three Hills and they'll be providing an intensive two
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day program with a really experienced coach and it will include instruction, tactical education,
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video analysis and and you know talking to going into sort of greater depth
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than what you do and already. Yeah, so it's kind of you know,
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if they if they want to get better to highest level they can,
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then this will give them a bit a step on the ladder. Yeah.
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And in May we're hosting this England Hockey Southeast Women's Over forties tournament at Three
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Hills, that's the teenth nineteenth May. Excellent. Well before we go,
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there's always a difficult one and there must be loads of them out there.
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But have you got any thank yous to make? Crikey? Yeah? Do
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you know what I should? Really? I'm going to mention our sponsors.
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Our main sponsors are kap Jenna Construction, Beresford's Accountancy and Smith Woolley Chartered Surveyors,
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but there are other people that make donations to the club as well.
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So thank you for all of that. I mentioned to the staff at Three
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Hills who they look after us all week, every night and especially on Saturdays,
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and they look after our facilities keeping up to a really high quality standard.
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And really again I do it every end of season dinner. But to
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all the players, the coaches, the umpires, the managers, the parents,
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the volunteers and everyone else that makes our club, absolutely fantastic, brilliant.
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So what would you say if there's someone driving around in their corner listening
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to this and they weren't think, Oh, this is a great club.
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I played hockey a few years ago. I want to get back to it
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in some shape or form, not necessarily playing, but volunteering or helping out.
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How do they get in touch? Well, we'll take anybody. If
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you haven't played before, we'll teach you how to play. If you've played
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before and you're really good, please come and join us because we'll take you
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as well. We've got a website, We've got lots of social media platforms
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x formerly, Twitter, Facebook, but the best way the contact is this
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through the website fo HC dot co dot uk or the email addresses inquiries fo
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HC at outlook dot com. Right, Lee, have we forgotten anybody?
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Do you think? Probably? Kevin? Oh, we get complaints in with
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the emails of flying In. So yeah, we're about to get someone in.
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And it's been great Avenue In. You've got so much enthusiasm, so
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much knowledge about this hockey club and which has grown and grown and grond.
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You must be very proud to be the chairman it's brilliant being part of it.
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As soon as I said in eighty nine, we came across and immediately
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knew this is where we wanted to live and I wanted to be part of
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the club. Amazing dream come true. Lee Marshall, Chairman of the Folks
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and Hockey Club, thank you very much. You're welcome to as you be
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faulty there and I've got you be okay. Well, I'm exhausted after talking
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about all that hockey. It's really warmed me out. But it doesn't stop
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there because I'm going to do the weekly roundup for the Optimists and so once
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again put your feet up. Well, it was a busy week. The
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only team that didn't have a game was the men's fourth team because some of
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the leagues have got an odd number, so every week one team misses a
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match, so it's only eleven games to report, only eleven. Now the
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stats this week Readers Follows played eleven one to six, drawn, one lost.
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Four. Goals scored for the Optimists was thirty and goals of gates was
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twenty five, so at least there's more wins than losses. However, the
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Men's and Ladies first team didn't do so well this week. They both slipped
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up. The men's first faced Old Williamsonians in the top of the table clash,
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losing five to four goals coming from Josh Clifford who scored twice, plus
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one apiece from Garrett Llewellyn and Kieran Pain and it sounds like the ladies first
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had a bit of a bad day at the office. They went down five
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to one to Epsom. Moving back to the men's the second eleven beat Ashford
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three to two thanks to goals from Alex Triffitt, Lorcan Doyle and Paul Cheap,
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keeping them top of the table. The third eleven also stayed top of
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their table by beating Marden Russ's by four goals to two, coming back from
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two nil down. Goals were shared between Jake Parsons, Kyle Mackett, Steve
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Timmins and Alex Cross. The fifteen beat Herne Bay four to two. The
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sixteen beat Blackheath of five to four, that was thanks to a late winner
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from Deryl Gellham Jones, and finally for the men, the seventh team drew
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one all with Sittingbourn. As we said earlier, the Ladies first lost five
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one to Epsom, The Seconds lost two one to Ashford, The Thirds beat
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Hulcombe by two goals to nil, thanks both goals come in there from Emma
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Pullen. The fourteen beat Canterbury four nil and finally the Ladies fifteen lost two
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one to gore Court. However they're still top of the table, six points
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clear of Gorcur who are second fixtion wise. This week, well it's what
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they call a slip week, which means, from what I can make out,
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is a week where the rearranged games from previous postponements are played. So
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just a few fixtures. The men's fourth two are away to k Sports,
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the sixth team are at home to HOLDKMB, whereas the seventh team are away
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to hold them and the ladies well just one fixed Jarred. The Thirds are
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away to Old Williamsonian's. That's the Old will is to you now. If
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you remember last week I told you about the under fourteen boys eighteen being wimbled
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and two to one in a National Cup. But the draw has been made
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and they will face saffron Walden on February to twenty eighth at the Three Hills.
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Twelve thirty start in the quarter finals. Yes, that's the last eight
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of a National Cup, so please put that date in your diary and get
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down there and cheer these lads on. This is a great achievement for players,
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coaches, parents and everybody at the club, and I certainly hope to
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be there now. I hope you've been listening to the last half hour or
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so, because we just realized what a fantastic club in the folks and optimists
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we have in the town, and what fantastic facilities are now. I just
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want to double check that date, February twenty fifth. It is twenty fifth,
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that's what I said, twenty eighth. Oh did I? I can't
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read me on all right? And thank you Lee, he's still here.
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He's worse than Amy checking up. So I can't always get it right with
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all these scores. But are do me best? Outside of a bit of
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music? Now from how Jones there we go. Let's give her how Jones
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will would be? How Jones there? What is love? He? He
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didn't make many songs, How Jones, but what he did make was really
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good. Now a bit for serious stuff now, not like us on a
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sports show, but a bit of sad news which by now most of you
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are aware of is the passing of Radio one and Radio two legendary DJ Steve
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Wright, age sixty nine. Tributes have been pouring in from millions of people
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around the globe. After a career he's seeing him go from being the front
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man on Top of the Pops to hosting radio shows for more than four de
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hates. The power of national radio means that his friendly voice found its way
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into most people's houses whilst listening to Steve Wright in the afternoons. He was
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even presenting a radio show on Radio two as recently a Sunday, the eleventh
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of February, his Sunday Love Song Show. Radio two released several CDs with
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the kind of music he used to play on his Sunday Love Song Show.
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And this is really spooky, you know, because I opened up my CD
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player myself and what was in there One of these CD compilations under the banner
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of Steve right now with tributes coming in from stars and fans. I loved
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this quote the best from a regular listener and he did touch our hearts for
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many many years. This regular listener said, thanks to radio he was my
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best friend, but I never met him. Now the song I've chosen to
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play. My tribute is typical of the music he played on a Sunday,
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especially with Valentine's Day early yesterday, This one will definitely pull out a few
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heartstrings. Well, that's my little tribute there to Steve Wright and what a
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loss that's going to be to obviously family and friends, but also the radio
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broadcast in business as a whole. Stay with a bit of a soppy note.
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Now, in the past, I've told you how much I like Heartbeat
26:30
right now, the early songs of Heartbeat really in the sixties. Well that
26:34
era kind of came to an end the other day when Nick Rowan decided to
26:38
emigrate and he's gone off to Canada to be a mounte but his old colleague
26:47
at Sergeant Blaketon, he's come out of the police force now and it was
26:52
a very poignant moment in the show yesterday when and the show always attracts music
26:57
to suit the situ suation. For example, old Blakeson he was having this
27:03
affair, not sordid affair. It was a lovely affair. They were so
27:08
fond of each other, but the lady was married and it was getting a
27:11
little bit you know, pulling out heart strings, and they decided that it
27:18
was probably best. Although they thought the world of each other, that they
27:21
were adult enough to say, look, it's not going to work. So
27:25
they went their separate ways. And this is the song they played yesterday.
27:36
Oh my trouble seems so far. Well, what a brilliant track. And
27:47
you wouldn't expect that from the Beatles back in the day, would you,
27:48
when they were kind of you know, everyone screaming their heads off for that.
27:52
But that was only one minute. Fifty nine seconds of the Beatle were
27:56
nearly all right, we'll say two minutes, but that was sure and sharp
28:00
and to the point, and it used to stop audiences in their tracks,
28:04
it really did. Okay, So times getting on this nearly time for the
28:08
news in the second hour, where has that hour gone? How many cups
28:11
to two you got through? Well you better get out and put the kettle
28:14
on, because you've got another hour of sport and music coming along. And
28:18
we're going to be joined in the second half by a young man who's hoping
28:21
to break into sports journalism, Tom Ellerby, and he's going to be helping
28:25
me with a few reports. So listen, s beauty up a little bit
28:29
and we're going to go up to the news with a bit of Queens see
28:32
you after the break. Is this welcome back to the second hour of the
28:45
Sports show? That first hour, where did it go? In the second
28:56
hour, we're going to be joined by a budding sports journalist, LB is
29:00
going to be helping me out with a few sports reports. We're going to
29:07
be talking about football fosting in Victor five town, Hawkage Town, folks in
29:15
Victor Disability Football Club and I've got a lovely, lovely story that I picked
29:21
up on Facebook about a team called Ross Tall FC, but there is a
29:26
local contact. We've also got a report on folks in indoor balls about a
29:33
young lady that represented England, and a little chat about the Headcorn half Marathon.
29:38
So don't go away. There's loads to listen to. How many cups
29:45
are two? You add? Now? Well, this could be another memo
29:52
feed up to drinking session as we listen to a bit of David Bowie that
30:21
was Callidophone there and a song called what You're made of Now. These lads
30:23
Collidophone I met many years ago when they helped myself and Adam Dowling out a
30:29
charity concert and I got to know him. I've got to stay in touch
30:33
with him over the years, and quite a few of them are Maidstone supporters
30:37
and so they've got a great game coming up to look forward to when made
30:41
Stone go up to Coventry and play in the FA Cup. But when that
30:45
game comes around, I will be talking about it. I know this is
30:48
local sport, but what an achievement by Madstone to you to get into the
30:52
fifth round of the FA Cup. Yeah, I think it's the fifth Yeah?
30:56
All right, okay, So moving on to our second hour, and
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I'm joined today by Tom Mellerby I know, Tom, how are you saying,
31:03
Kevin? Thanks having me on? Yeah? Great? Now, Tom,
31:04
you've been in here as a guest and you came in with your dad
31:08
and you were talking about being a sports journalist and going to university. So
31:12
bring us up today. Have you found a university? Yeah? So obviously
31:17
at the time we were looking at quite a number of them. That shortlist
31:21
has now been narrowed down to two main contenders, who are Bournemouth and Salford.
31:26
Bournemouth made a very generous offer of a CCC no need for an interview
31:30
either. Salford just recently confirmed I've got an online interview on the third of
31:36
March. So it's Sulford, the one that is in Radio City. That
31:40
one, Yeah, the Media City Campacus. Yeah, so it's quite a
31:44
Yeah. The campus there is lovely. I've been see it. It's a
31:47
very nice place. But I think Bournemouth is probably number one at the moment
31:52
on two factors. Firstly, the offer obviously CCC is very much achievable.
31:57
Just explain to myself and Alice as what CCC is just getting three seas in
32:04
your im with you right, three season in your standard Yeah, yeah,
32:07
gotcha. Okay, Well you're going to help us out and get a bit
32:13
of experience actually and hopefully it's going to get you a little job at the
32:15
end of it somewhere. But so you've been researching some of the local football
32:20
scene, haven't you, So let's what have you been up to? Tell
32:22
us what you got to Yes, we've got your reports from the games at
32:28
the weekend for hive Town, Folkston and Folkston in Victor DFC Disabled Football Club
32:34
as well. So starting off of course with my club, who'll work for
32:38
hive Town who are in action firstly on Saturday away at Little Hampton Town in
32:43
the Isthmian League Southeast Division. The game ender is a thrilling four to four
32:46
draw. Hive managed to take the lead a grand total of three times,
32:50
but Little Hampton put up a good fight and managed to sport hides afternoon.
32:52
Having been struck by a sudden injury suspension crisis, manager Steve what Was forced
32:57
him to bring in his new backup goalkeeper Jack Duty to start the game,
33:00
as well as bringing in new fallback Troy Howard formerly of Herne Bay and Deal
33:05
Town, and Marvin Hamilton, who was with the club last season for a
33:07
one off appearance. The game starts in Hyde's favor in just the second minute
33:12
of the match, a free kick from Franny Collin was nodded in by top
33:15
scorer at Johann Kaaney Bryan. The host manage to come back to equalize on
33:19
eight minutes through Jordan Leyton, before they took the lead in the tenth minute
33:22
when Dave Herbert picked up the ball and slammed it into the back of the
33:24
net, but Hyde Roy wills make it too too just six minutes later,
33:28
as across from Troy Howard found Kney Bryan once again who slid ins put the
33:31
ball in the back of the net. The Canon stick the lead once more
33:35
when Kney Bryan was fouled in the box, with Franny Collins stepping up to
33:37
score the resultant penalty and give High the three to two lead at the break.
33:42
This will hap to manage the level of scores. On fifty seven minutes,
33:45
Nordebeck Boba Murudov unleased an attempt from the right hand side which flew into
33:49
the far corner. Soon enough, it was four to three to hythe when
33:52
a long thrown from Jack Stevenson was headed on by Lex Allen into the path
33:55
of Jake Embury, who blasted the ball into the roof of the net.
33:59
However, the scores were settled deep into injury time as a ball came in
34:01
from the right and was hooked on by Dion Jarvis for the host to make
34:05
it four to four. It was a difficult result for Hide to take,
34:07
but considering the number of players unavailable, the fans shouldn't be too disappointed.
34:13
Following that result, Hyde now sit twelfth in the league, thirteen points off
34:15
the playoff spot. They were due to play on Tuesday evening away at three
34:20
Bridges, but the matches postponed due to awards log pitch just a short while
34:22
before the game began. On Saturday afternoon, the Canners now traveled to Burgess
34:27
Hilltown, who have had a number of heavy losses recently, giving High the
34:30
good chance to pick up a much needed three points. Turning our attentions now
34:35
to Folks and in Victor, who were due to play on Saturday afternoon at
34:37
home to potters Bar Town in the Isthmian Premier Division, but the match is
34:40
unfortunately called off due to awards log pitch not long before kickoff. The match
34:45
has been rescheduled for Tuesday twenty seventh of February at seven forty five pm.
34:50
Invictor currently sits seventeenth in the table, having had a two to two draw
34:52
in their last game at home to Cray Wanderers on Tuesday sixth. Speaking of
34:57
Invictor, their disability side were in torn action on Sunday, their Premiership side
35:01
r unbeaten in all three of their games, drawing nil nil with Southeast goals,
35:06
before winning one nil against Maidstone Gold thanks to a goal from John Thornton.
35:09
Finally to two draw against Chatham saw John Thornton on the score sheet once
35:14
again netting a Brace and winning the Man of the Match award. Elsewhere,
35:17
their Championship side were unable to win any of their games, with three goal
35:21
of straws against Southeast goals as well as Maidstone, Silver and Copper sides.
35:25
There are also two defeats, a one nil lost to Charlton and a two
35:29
nil defeat to an Curion's. Don Williams picked up the Man the Match award
35:32
for the Championship side. Their next eleven the side game will be against old
35:37
rivals Welling United Death FC on the twenty fifth of February. Now back to
35:40
you, Kevin with the latest on Hawkins Right on Hawkins Yes, thanks Tom
35:45
and for all that information and moving on to Hawkins Town. Now have you
35:49
listen to this report from a Bradley Coolgareth. In their recent cup game,
35:53
Hawkins Town Football Club played under the floodlights Friday night as we face Minster in
35:59
the DFD YES Intermediate Challenge Shield Cup semi final. It was the first time
36:05
since twenty eighteen that the Hawks had progressed past the first round. The first
36:08
fifteen minutes of the game, both teams managed to create opportunities and were defending
36:14
well. It was clear that both sides were well organized and resilient. It
36:17
was on the thirty second minute mark that Mintster had found a way past the
36:21
solid Hawkins defense. It was the same of the first half, with both
36:25
teams looking quite scrappy at times, and the message on the bench was to
36:30
calm down, play football and let the football do the talking. Hawkins kicked
36:34
off the second half one kneel down and seems to cue a number of opportunities
36:37
in the first ten minutes. However, in fairness, never really tested the
36:40
opposition keeping past the basic save. It was again on the fifty third minute
36:45
Minster found the net again from a direct free kick. The keeper seemed to
36:49
be beaten at his near side. For the rest of the game, Hawkins
36:52
tracked everything trying to get back into the game. However, it seems that
36:55
Hawks never managed to get out of the first gear. The game finished two
36:59
nil to Minster. Are disappointing evening for the Hawkins. However, there's no
37:02
time to be disappointed as we continue to be involved in a title challenge at
37:07
the top of the Kent County Premier Division. Hawky for return to league action
37:10
against Tetton Dale this Saturday at a two forty five kickoff. We'd like to
37:15
see as many people as possible to come cheer the boys on up the Hawks.
37:19
Oh thank you Bradley. And as Bradley says, it's home on Saturday
37:22
to Tendon Town as they aim to keep their place at the top of the
37:24
table. Now, last week I told you about Deal Town's FA VAS run.
37:30
They're in the last sixteen away at Bridgewater in Somerset, but like a
37:35
lot of games, last Saturday, it was postponed due to a water log
37:37
pitch. Luckily Deal didn't have to travel. They were told in time and
37:40
didn't make the journey. So it's all going to happen this weekend. So
37:44
let's hope it goes ahead and it will be turning the clock back. As
37:47
I said last time, because I remember when Deal played at Wembley in the
37:52
year two thousand and they won the FA VARs. The town went absolutely ballistic
37:55
and I'm pleased to say that I was at that game. Now, a
38:00
lovely little story I picked up about this was posted on a team called Rustall
38:06
FC facebook page. Now, Russell played their football in the Southern County's East
38:10
Football League and were due to play lid Town last Saturday. But the game
38:14
was called off. However, two LID supporters made their way to the ground
38:17
in Tunbridge Wells, not knowing this fact. But instead of turning around and
38:22
getting the train home, which is how they got there, they decided to
38:24
have a couple of beers and chat with the Home supporters. Well, the
38:28
Rustall social media man picked up on this story and posted on their Facebook page
38:32
that the next time Russell played LID they would like to offer these two LID
38:37
Town supporters free entries to the rearranged fixture and a couple of beers for their
38:42
trouble. Well, the facebook page post worked and the two supporters were tracked
38:46
down only to own up to actually be in Hive Town supporters who've never been
38:51
to Russell Ground before and who've decided to go along and support LID. Now.
38:55
The two supporters in question were Terry King and Miles Hood. Terry and
39:00
Miles both follow Chilton, but when they can they watch Hive. They love
39:04
their sport, often going to watch as well as football, T twenty,
39:07
cricket or speedway. Now I know Terry very well, he's a run director
39:12
at the Folks and Park Run and Miles is still active playing walking football now.
39:15
This gesture from Rustell to Terry and Miles prompted a fantastic response on Facebook
39:21
page with over two hundred positive comments and over three hundred shared posts praising Rustall
39:28
FC, Terry and Miles, plus the non league grassroots community. And it's
39:31
so good to hear a lovely story like this being shared to so many people
39:36
thanks to social media. Social media can sometimes get a right hammering for gossip
39:43
and false stories, but it's so good to hear some good stories like this.
39:46
So well. Down to you, Terry and Miles, and thank you
39:50
so much for rustall LEFC for bringing that story to our attention. Now it's
39:55
time Robert of music. We got a nice long four minutes twenty six of
39:59
the Eagles and one of these nights that was Blondie there with Denie, a
40:16
song released in nineteen seventy eight. You're listening to Kevin Daley alongside myself Tom
40:22
Ellerby here on Academy FM. We're here with you until two and we've got
40:25
some more local sports news to bring you, this time from indoor Bowls where
40:30
Leah Bamford from the Folks and Clubs in Belfast last weekend, representing England in
40:35
the British Isles Under twenty five's competition. Leah played in two of the three
40:38
games, the first of which was in eighty seven to fifty nine win over
40:42
Wales before they beat Ireland by one hundred and seven points to fifty one.
40:45
Finally, England lost overall winners Scotland by eighty six points to seventy five,
40:50
with England finishing as runners up. This is Leah's last game in the under
40:53
twenty five category as she now moves into the Ladies senior team, providing her
40:58
with a much tougher competition for a place. So congratulations to Leah Bamford for
41:01
her efforts. Turning our attention to running. Last Sunday, nine local athletes
41:06
competed in the Headcorn half marathon from the Folks and Running Club. Carla Lander
41:09
finished with a time of one hour, forty five minutes and fifty four seconds.
41:14
John O'Hara finished just nine minutes behind her, with Carla's husband Michael taking
41:17
partner's first half marathon. Colockie in a time of one hour, fifty nine
41:22
minutes and twenty five seconds from the Hawkins Hurricanes, Carlie Pasco and Claire Tetlow
41:28
cross the line together on two hours, six minutes and forty one seconds,
41:31
followed by teammate Vicky Peacock with two hours, nine minutes and six seconds.
41:36
Former guest of This Very Show, Chloe Thrale represented beginners to run as Hive
41:40
in preparation for her London Marathon entry, finishing on two hours, forty eight
41:45
minutes and thirty three seconds, and she said she couldn't have done it without
41:47
her partner Stephen Satchel, encouraging her along the way as they cross the line
41:52
together. Oh thank you, Tom. This excellent and you'll get in the
41:57
anger. This is you. You could do job. Yeah, no,
42:00
brilliant. Okay, tign for a bit of music now this time we've got
42:04
Billy Ocean and when the going gets tough and then John, wait, they're
42:23
missing you. Okay, we're back in a studio and we've got Tom with
42:29
us. Still are you doing Tom as? Did that feel your first on
42:31
air live? Yeah? It was good, I mean it was it was
42:35
fun doing my first intro. Definitely. That's that's something I've been moreing to
42:37
see for many years. But yeah, yeah, you're a real DJ now.
42:42
Yeah, so let's just talk a little bit about what sort of prospects
42:47
you might get at your university. You you're you're following a course, and
42:53
do you have any sort of long term project on what you'd like to do
42:58
when you finish university or you've got to wait and see what's out there.
43:00
Really, I think that the long term goal really is the same as it's
43:05
always been, is to be a presenter on talk sport. That's the that's
43:09
that's the dream, I guess. But yeah, after any I think I
43:13
think it's in this in this industry, it's just a case of taking what
43:16
opportunities you can and see where it leads to you. Really, So,
43:20
I mean I've always I always have that end target. But yeah, well
43:23
well we'll see what comes along the way. Yeah, well, you know,
43:25
at least now that's if you do either get to BOMA for Salford that
43:30
you can find out the local radio stations and I'm pretty sure that they welcome
43:36
people to come in for presenters because it's a voluntary role in community radio and
43:40
it's always good to get a good bed of presenters. And I'm sure that
43:47
anyone would say you just say you've had a bit of experience, they jump
43:51
at the chance. But so let's bring us up today. What are you
43:53
doing in the I know you're down at high tell us your social media roles
43:58
or whatever it is you do down there. But yeah, so at the
44:00
moment, I'm still managing the Instagram page, which I set up myself,
44:06
and I'll do bits and pieces for Twitter and Facebook as well. Up until
44:12
recently we were doing live goal updates. But to be honest, at home
44:15
games, I've got a lot to do as it is, So I'll be
44:19
whenever we score a goal, you know, I'll have to write make notes
44:22
for my match report. I have to do the announcement on the tannoy.
44:27
You know, posting a goal update is kind of a little bit. It's
44:30
too much on top and it doesn't get much interactions. So we've sort of
44:34
scrapped that idea. But yeah, I'm still still very consistent with that,
44:38
you know, on the day of the game, posting saying oh it's match
44:43
day, team news, full time, things like that and just general club
44:46
news. But you do, a report goes on the website. So from
44:52
a practical reporting point of view, how do you do that? Do you
44:55
just jot down notes and then turn it into something neat or do you use
45:00
a voice recorders sort of OFFA Yeah, I mean I used to use a
45:05
notepad to make notes of things, but now I write everything down on my
45:09
phone and I'll just make brief notes just so that I know what's happened,
45:13
because I if I've got it written down and I can I can see that,
45:16
I can almost cast my mind back to when it happened. So yeah,
45:22
that's usually enough for me. And then as soon as the game finishes,
45:23
I'll, you know, I'll get everything sorted. Then I'll do a
45:29
little right up of that and then send a shortened version off to the non
45:32
league paper national newspaper. So yeah, and how are you finding this role
45:38
as a p A man? I mean, we've had PA men and I've
45:40
done the job myself as I know what it's like. You've got to be
45:45
on the ball all the time, haven't you. Yeah, I mean it's
45:49
probably the most fun thing I've done. There, Like the rest of it's
45:51
sort of been very good experience, very enjoyable, but this is just you
45:54
know, it's a different level that you're speaking to everyone, You're getting your
45:59
voice heard, you can and you've got a lot of power really. Yeah.
46:01
Yeah, so I really enjoyed doing that, and yeah, I think
46:06
I'm starting to develop my own style with it, especially when the goals go
46:08
in. You know, when we score, I'll be elated, Like when
46:13
we scored in the FA Trophy against Chorley. You know that was I was
46:15
basically shouting into the microphone at that point. Yeah. And then the other
46:19
night we lost three to one at home to Earth and Belvedere. At that
46:23
point I was whenever they scored, it would just like, oh cool,
46:29
another goal for earything Builder in the twenty seventh minute. Yeah. I feel
46:31
like you have to be the sort of mouthpiece for the fans and that's what
46:35
I try and do. And do you do? You have to keep an
46:37
eye on the sideline and substitutes. Yeah, I mean that's always quite a
46:42
mad rush as soon as you see the board going up or a player coming
46:44
out of the dugout or substitution, who is it? Quick and getting your
46:49
team sheet, you know, having a look at the names. But yeah,
46:52
that's always yeah, keeps keeps me on my feet. Yeah. Yeah.
46:55
Have you made any any mistakes, got a wrong scorer or anything?
46:59
Yeah? Oh? Absolutely, Yeah, it happens all the time. As
47:01
you'll know, you're not a true to Pa men Leslie. You make a
47:05
cut on mistakes exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I did a game to Folcus
47:08
them one time and this lady came over to me. I worked with actually,
47:15
and I saw her the next day at work and I think it was
47:19
Ramsgate and there was three players in the team that had the name Kine.
47:22
It was either the first name or the second name, yeah, And I
47:25
got one of them wrong. And she came over to me and she said,
47:29
oh, you called out my son's name last night he scored a goal.
47:32
She said, he didn't score a goal. She said, I wasn't
47:35
going to tell anyone. Yeah, I mean Ramsgate now got a very strange
47:38
situation where they've got three players called Paxman and two of them called Jack pas
47:43
Yes, yeah, well that's very that was very weird for me on the
47:45
tann with the other Yeah, one of the packsman's Alfie. He used to
47:47
play at Folks and he was a really good fallback. And the other one
47:52
of the others obviously not the same, one with the same name, Christian
47:55
name is his brother. And then the third one came from Maystone I think,
48:00
Yeah, completely unrelated, but the exact same name. Yeah. Right,
48:02
we're looking at the clock, Tom, because it's ticking away and you've
48:07
got to get off to another appointment. But I want to thank you for
48:12
coming in, and I'm hoping that this won't be the last time you're in.
48:15
And I know you're studying at the moment, so perhaps we see you
48:19
again at Easter. Yeah, I think it's cross. Yeah, thank you
48:21
having me on. Well, I've got to own up as I've never heard
48:43
that song before XTC The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead. Well well, well,
48:50
okay, now we're talking about music and sport. They do go together.
48:53
We've said this before, and I just wonder if there's anybody out there that
48:59
wants to play me, if there's anybody out there that's got a song that
49:01
instantly takes him back to somewhere sporty or somewhere anywhere on holiday. You know,
49:09
we were talking in the first hour and Coase you missed the first hour
49:13
about Steve Wright, who sadly passed away recently this week. And it's touched
49:17
a man with his songs that has touched the nation, There's no doubt about
49:21
it. He had a genre that was out there. He just was the
49:27
expert. His voice went into everybody's house in the afternoon Steve right in the
49:34
afternoon show. People have grown up with him, just began to respect him
49:38
and couldn't imagine listening to radio without him being on there. And this is
49:44
one track that it's got no particular significance to me actually, but it's the
49:49
sort of thing that he would have played on a Sunday morning. I just
50:23
love that track there, Paul Weller, you do something to me. And
50:28
to be honest, it's not the sort of song that you'd expect Paul Weller
50:30
to make. What'd you really because he was just like the mainstream behind the
50:35
Jam and the Style Council all these sort of mod songs. But that was
50:40
brilliant. Okay, there's any time for me to go. Now at the
50:44
weekend, I shall be on the mic at the Deal Half Marathon. Now,
50:47
the Deal Try Club this year are supporting a pancreatic cancer. If you
50:52
want to find out more about the race itself, go to the Deal Tri
50:55
Club website or Facebook page and you can enter on the day. I've just
51:01
been speaking to race director Jill Cliff, so it's going to be a bit
51:06
of a wet all day. Just be ready for it, have a change
51:08
of clothing. Anyway, it's a time for me to go. I'll catch
51:13
you all next week.