GMWFL Update. 2020 Autumn Season.

The GMWFL has issued the following information.

Following discussions with the public health team at Rochdale Borough Council and the continued addition local measures in place in the Rochdale Borough a decision has been made to cancel all October fixtures in the GMWFL. The safety and wellbeing of all players being key at this time. We will review the position in October for a shortened season in November and December but it now looks highly unlikely that this will happen. Let’s hope that things improve in time for the Spring season in 2021. We will update you further in October.

Training returns at Radcliffe

The Relics enjoyed a long awaited return to training at Radcliffe Boro’s Neuven Stadium training pitches. It was traditional Friday training weather … rain! but that didn’t dampen the spirits of the Relics players who really enjoyed the return and the banter in the tea room afterwards even without Jaffa cakes.

Friendlies Arranged

The first games at our new home at Goshen have been arranged, The Relics will play hosts to Maccabi Old Codgers on two dates later this month. The first games will be played on Tuesday 11th August 2020 with the re-match on Tuesday 25th August. Kick Off is 11am on both dates.

GMWFL Restart Update. 2020 Autumn Season in jeopardy.

The Greater Manchester Walking Football League (GMWFL) has sent an email to all clubs regarding the restart of the league for the 2020 Autumn season which is due to start in September. The text of the email is below.

The Heywood Sports Village are running a phased return programme of all activities and at the moment the 3G facility still isn’t open for competitive walking football. We feel that any form of a league restart in September is now highly unlikely and hopefully we will have more news in the next few weeks. The current restrictions in the Greater Manchester and East Lancashire areas haven’t helped matters either.

There is a meeting of League Officers on 9th September and we are still hopeful of running some sort of league competitions for all age categories starting in October.

The Boys are back in town …

A great turnout by the Relics players (including a welcome return from Charlie Nangle) greeted the return of training (temperature checked and socially distanced of course) at our new home at Goshen after a four month lock down due to COVID-19. Everyone was impressed with the 3G pitch and facilities and it was great to get together again and have a kick around.

It’s nearly a Go for Goshen …

Bury FC The Trust will manage the new 3G all weather pitch at Goshen sports field, and as they have now been handed the keys they invited us down to view the facilities.

As you can see from the video below, it looks great, and boss Keiran, and coach Ken look very pleased with it, the lads gave it a thumps up too.

The FA will be attending on 1st July to oversee a trial day and check for health and safety issues and processes and procedures for coming out of the COVID 19 lock down, we are then hoping to get approval to start using the facility in mid July.

We have booked our training slot for Tuesdays 11am to 12 noon (replacing the sessions at Castle Leisure Centre), and we will also be using it for friendlies and competitions.

Quiz 6 – Final Quiz.

Here is this weeks quiz, the last one, its a hard one so get your thinking caps on and no googling! Answers by Saturday 9th May 2020.

Last weeks Quiz 5 Answers. 23 – Newcastle and Plymouth; 24 – Gianluigi Buffon; 25 – Cesar Azpilicueta; 26 – Duncan Ferguson; 27 – Linfield and Glentoran; 28 – Eric Cantona; 29 – Derby County; 30 – Stoke City; 31 – Hearts of Midlothian; 32 – John Terry; 33 – West Ham United; 34 – West Germany; 35 – Kevin Philips (Sunderland – 1999-2000); 36 – Roots Hall (Southend United); 37 – San Siro; 38 – Peter Shilton; 39 – Colombia; 40 – Norman Whiteside; 41 – (a) Crewe Alexandra (b) Bury FC (c) Bristol Rovers (d) West Bromwich Albion; 42 – Yellow Submarine (their nickname is El Submarino Amarillo, The Yellow Submarine); 43 – Neville Southall; 44 – David Beckham (in 2009); 45 – Santos