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Please only vote once for your man of the match. We realise you all have your favourite players, but please do not abuse the privilege of voting. As a result of multiple voting for one player, all of those votes have now been invalidated. It will be a shame if, at the end of the season, that player misses out on your juniors player of the season trophy because the one vote per match that you should have made has not now counted. |
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All junior members receive a birthday card, but we now need to have some more printed. We are giving you the opportunity to have your design made into the new batch of cards to be sent to all juniors. You need to submit your design by Feb 26th. The entries will be shown to Sam Ashton, who will decide on the winning design.
Please submit your designs for both the flag and birthday cards to
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FCUM is five years old this year, and we would like to add another junior flag to the "Children of the Revolution" one, designed by Cora, that we have had from the beginning. So, we are holding a competition for you to design the next one. We would like your designs by March 13th. They will then be voted for by all junior members, and the one with the most votes will be made into a flag for the end of the season. |
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Do you collect Match Attax cards? Do you have some swaps? If so, we are going to hold a "swap shop," when you can bring all your extra cards & see if other juniors have the ones you need. The swap shop event will be at Gigg Lane on 27th February between 1.30 and 2 p.m. in the directors lounge next to reception. |
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Martin Raises More Money For Our New Ground. |
Martin Pearson has raised yet more money for the FC development fund by doing a sponsored swim in the freezing Serpentine on New Years Day. When Martin has collected all the money in for this latest venture, he will have raised a total of £810.65p towards our new ground, a fantastic effort. Well done!
Here is Martin's account of the day he froze for the FC cause.My Sponsored Swim
It was 1st January and while you were all tucking in to your left over turkey, the sun was shining over the Serpentine at around 12 noon and it actually felt quite warm. As we made our way towards the changing facilities (behind the bushes) a small crowd gathered, mainly local people with cameras. When we emerged from behind the bushes a larger crowd seemed to have gathered and it grew and grew until we were surrounded by bemused onlookers. We had already seen the signs warning of surface ice on the lake but didn’t take much notice. I did make quite an entrance by sliding down the ramp into the freezing water and made a splash. I thought about getting out but then I said to myself, "I’m already in, what’s the point of getting out?", so I carried on and did my two lengths. I cannot forget when mum (who also did the swim) decided to do four lengths (BIG HEAD) and came out with hypothermia; but we have defrosted her and she is ok. On our way out of the water we got such a cheer from the crowd I thought we had won the World Cup!
When all the money is collected in I should have raised around £382.00.
Many thanks to all who supported me
Martin Pearson
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ALEX BRINGS HOME THE MEDALS. |
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Recently Alex Croft was involved in a wheelchair dance competition. Here is dad Les’s very proud, and funny, account of the competition; "We were approached in September 2008 by Lancasterian School to see if we were interested in Alex joining their power wheelchair dancing team. Apparently not only would it be fun but it would help his wheelchair skills. For the sake of our skirting boards and door frames we jumped at the chance!
Every Friday afternoon Alex was taken from his primary school and transported to Lancasterian School on Elizabeth Slinger Road in West Didsbury. Alex's training started in October 2008 and up until April of this year we knew nothing more apart from that every Friday afternoon after school we had to pick his wheelchair up from West Didsbury. In April the team preformed for the first time in front of the public. Everything went well until the Hocky Cokey, when everybody went in together, and it was carnage because nobody could get back out again due to bits of machinery being attached to other bits of machinery!
In September Alex moved from primary school to the high school department of Lancasterian, and training was turned up a notch in preparation for the national dancing championships in Glasgow on the 8 November. Most people will know that Alex likes his football, and if he's not pretending to be Mr Nugent or Mr Chadwick he's pretending to be Giggs on the playground with a large wheelchair football. However, all this was given up for extra practice! We'd never known Alex to take anything so seriously.
It was decided the trip to Glasgow would be school only to trip give the kids some independence, so we turned up at Lancasterian on the 7 November with a packed bag and packed lunch. A teary goodbye and good lucks were exchanged and the team set off. Unfortunately they only managed to make it to Thunderbird Services near Lancaster before one of the mini buses broke down. Spirits weren't dampened and the team decided to put a dance show on for all the customers of the services. Eventually 9 hours after they set off, the team turned up at the hotel.
I'd like to tell you what happened during the dance competition but as we weren't there we can only give you the outcome! The Lancasterian team won 12 gold medals, 7 silver medals, 2 bronze medals and the Ballroom Shields in category A and C, the Novelty Team Dance Shield and The Manual Freestyle Shield. We ere very pleased and proud when we were informed Alex had won a silver medal in the ballroom and freestyle dancing, and was part of the freestyle team which became national champions!
In true Mancunian style the Lancasterian team was the last people partying on the dance floor, and they were eventually told to leave the dance floor at 1.00am! Thankfully the return journey was not as eventful as the trip there."
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This is Jacob, one of our newest recruits of FC Junior's who volunteer each home match for ballboy/girl duty. These boys and girls are a hardy bunch of juniors who turn out come wind, rain or shine. They are a very much appreciated group, who help the players keep the match flowing smoothly. We would like to add to the group of ballboy/girls who attend games both on Saturday’s and weekdays. You will need to be at least 8 years old and able to concentrate for the whole match. If you think you may be interested please contact
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and we will arrange for you to come and have a go. You will not be under any obligation to be a ballboy/girl for every game, just the ones you are able to. The group of ballboy/girls we have at the moment are very friendly and extremely dedicated. However, they do sometimes need some time off, which is why we would like some more of you to come and help the players keep the games flowing. |
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