During Easter week seven keen footballers (and seven less keen adults) went to a four-day tournament at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, joining 2,000 other football mad people of all shapes and sizes. Ages ranged from eight right through to strapping teenage boys and some very scary teenage girl teams! Weather conditions were “varied” (freezing, hail, wind, rain and showers). Three teams in our group came from Trowbridge, with others from Liverpool, Birmingham, Harrow and Andover. Hayden’s explanation where Chipperfield was to the opposition was hilarious but village pride was evident over these “towny” teams. I will pass swiftly over the results but we did manage to win two matches.

It was a wonderful experience for the children and I think the village can be proud of them. We were the guinea pigs for the rest of the Youth Football Teams and hopefully next year we will attend a similar tournament and take more teams from the village. Your roving reporter is bound to be there (for her sins!) to file a report.

Thanks to Paul Hewetson, the ever faithful and encouraging manager for organising our visit and well done to the team: Tom Atkins, Angus Bate, Kathryn Bessant, Hayden Dicker, Harry Hewetson, Ryan O’Sullivan and Cameron Wheeler. Ruth Dicker