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Thread | COVID Crisis Live Football Zoom Event
at 17:44 27 Apr 2020
Local Colchester United fan Bryn Griffiths and football authors Carrie Dunn and Anthony Clavane have teamed up with Colchester United Football in the Community to support their Coronavirus Community Support Campaign. The CUFITC are supporting Colchester’s Foodbank, Munch Clubs, GO4 Café, Barnardos and Catch 22 in the fight against the Corona Virus when the need in the community is at its highest. The event will be at 745pm on Saturday 2nd May and all you need to do is click on the link at the end of the article to join the event. The event is free of charge but the organisers will be asking you to contribute to the CUFITC Just Giving Page during the course of the evening.
Tom Tayler, Community Development Manager, explained: “It is important for us at an uncertain time like this to be helping our community in any way that we can, whether that be individuals or other organisations who need our support.".
"We have created a JustGiving page dedicated to the community outreach work and would greatly appreciate any donations no matter how small.
"All donations will be used directly to support local organisations in their work to support individuals within the local community, with any surplus fundraising being used to support those most at risk to integrate back into society once government guidelines allow."
On the night local football fans will be able to join two of England’s best football writers discussing the impact of the COVID crisis and how the sport is responding both locally and nationally. The two authors will also draw upon their most recent books to discuss the changing face of football.
After Robbie Cowling’s big announcement we are going to have a lot to talk about. Is the lower league football on the precipice of a huge crisis?
Carrie Dunn will be well placed to throw light on how the game is changing as she has been longlisted for the 2020 Football Book of the Year Award. Carrie has recently published The Pride of the Lionesses the Changing Face of Women’s Football in England which is considered to be one of the best books on the women’s game.
Anthony Clavane is the Sports and Football Book of the Year winner in 2011 and his latest book Moving the Goalposts a Yorkshire Tragedy was one of the Guardian’s Sports Books of the Year in 2016. David Bernstein, the former Football Association Chairperson, said the book ‘Combines social and sporting history with total relevance to the present day’ so he should have plenty to say on the night.
To add a bit of culture to the event Anthony Roberts, from the Colchester Arts Centre, will open the event with a poem. Mike Harwood the poet in residence at Colne Radio, the local community radio station, is also expected to put an appearance in.
The event is been organized by the same team that put together the popular England World Cup event at the Colchester Arts Centre back in 2018.
Colchester United fan and organiser, Bryn Griffiths, said ‘’On Saturday we plan to have a great time with two fantastic authors, local poets and staff from Colchester United. We are thinking of it as a sort of Football Live Aid event but not quite so grand. But even more important than that we want to get right behind the Colchester United Football in the Community Coronavirus Community Support Campaign’’.
You can join the event on the night at from 730 for a 745 kick off by using this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86852606907. The link can also be found on @ColuBryn on Twitter and Instagram. There is no need to have the Zoom app to join the show. |
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Thread | Colchester Football in the Covid crisis
at 09:27 13 Apr 2020
It’s absolutely right that football is suspended but there’s still a lot of football fans missing their fix in the Colchester area.
The Box 39 Show on Colne Radio has served up two local shows for your entertainment in these football barren days.
First up is a non-league community special recorded at the recent ‘El Essexco’ (the Essex answer to Spain’s El Clasico) between Harwich and Parkeston FC and Wivenhoe Town FC. The show features Harwich club Chair Tony Armstrong and Nicky Palmer the club captain. Wivenhoe are represented by Captain Tim Dennis and goalkeeper Ben Gallifant.
The show celebrates the grassroots heroes at the base of the football pyramid. There’s also a bit of Harwich history taking in the Kinder Transport, sinking ferries and pirate radio. The show is hosted by Robert May and in the final part of the show his co-host Bill Lawrance goes to the Hannover Arms to find out about one of his ghostly relatives!
You can listen to the non-league community special here:
https://m.mixcloud.com/Box39/127-box-39-show-53-our-day-out-in-harwich/
Next up is a 15minute podcast entitled ‘A Football Voice in the Lockdown’. Hear @ColuBryn ponder how football and in particular Colchester United have responded to the Covid crisis, will the season ever end and what you can do with these footie free weekends?
https://www.mixcloud.com/Box39/130-box-39-a-football-voice-from-the-lockdown-wit
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