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Street Child World Cup
Hello all, I am an avid reader of the gasroom but have never posted before. I have been prompted to do so by my forthcoming trip to Doha for the Street Child World Cup (SCWC). You may have seen Phil Catchpole interviewing me about it in the last ‘Pre-Match Drills’.
The SCWC brings together teams of street-connected children to play a football competition in the location of ‘the’ world cup. This year 28 teams (girls and boys) from 25 countries will be taking part. Alongside the football there is an arts programme and human rights workshops.
The SCWC aims to tackle the stigma faced by street-connected children, raise awareness and understanding of their situation, and enable them to campaign in their countries for access to education, protection from violence, birth registration and gender equality.
As part of our participation volunteers (ie me) fundraise for the charity so I have walked from Wembley to Adams Park (around 28 miles – one for each team) and swum 250 lengths (10 for each country taking part). SCWC is a great event and really makes a difference to the children taking part. I would really appreciate it if you could sponsor me. All donations, however small, will be welcome.
The link to my just giving page is: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ckipping
Thank you
cheryl
Re: Matt Bloomfield
I started following Wycombe in 2002, Bloomfield signed in 2003, so for almost the entire time I've been a Wanderers fan Matty B has been part of the club. In that time I've finished uni, backpacked around the world, went back to college, started my chosen career, moved to Somerset, Windsor, Enfield and Nottingham, bought a house, started my own business, and became a father. Anyone who has got anything but good wishes for Matt, get a bloody grip, he's spent half of his life at Wycombe, if he wants to manage Col U then fair play to him and I hope he turns them into a successful team.
Re: RIP Bill Turnbull
Just so incredibly sad tonight - I never met Bill but he was clearly a wonderful, genuine man as so many who did know him have already said. We have lost one of our very best today.
All credit to the Media team today - the club tributes have been absolutely superb and beautifully heartfelt. On Radio 5 this evening they referenced the Wycombe Twitter feed and the mutual passion and love their clearly was between Bill Turnbull and Wycombe Wanderers. I'm sure they've done him proud.
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Re: Ringing The Blues
RINGING THE BLUES! NEW EPISODE...
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Re: Stockdale
John has had some health setbacks in recent years including two replacement hip operations, but remains as cheerful and optimistic as ever. He still lives in the area and retains a great affection for our club. The players absolutely loved his coaching sessions and were very fond of him as a person. He’s a big fan of Gareth and constantly says what a great job he is doing. He’d be so pleased to know that he is still regarded with such affection.
Re: Match day thread: Burton
It's funny what some people think is luck.
Grimmer, Dickinson, Wheeler and others playing above your expectation but as the manager said they would is not due to training hard and well at all?
A feature of the friendlies was hearing the manager and coaches constantly shouting positional info and encouragement. Some on here despite having talked of training ground ownership for years don't seem to realise we have one and use it.
The players converted into new positions, the formation chosen and the playing style again not accidents. Being better than the opposition the same. People saying we are lucky that the early fixtures are some of the weaker ones but not acknowledging that maybe having any bearing in hanging on for the players that we can't attract now but may come available soon.
He's mugged people off here today, spent sod all money yet again and delivered a famous win.
Yep, we might get battered next week, we have before but I've been watching with varying levels of interest for a couple of decades now and our previous managers didn't dig out players out of nowhere to get promotions in style with this frequency.
Re: Match day thread: Burton
Well a bit of an embarrassing afternoon for some Gasroomers.
Predicted fallback excuses of Burton being shit already being deployed.
After 10 years you might just try trusting the fucking manager, even if only until the first match of the season has started.
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