Page 3 - Yate Town v Man Utd Legends

Welcome to

Yate Town Football Club

Good afternoon,

Firstly, may I welcome you all to, The South West interiors Stadium, for what we
hope will be a fantastic and enjoyable day for all involved.
I would like to extend an extra special welcome to the Manchester United Legends
squad who have agreed to come and play and make this such a special day, also
of course not forgetting the Yate Town players and Staff, which for us, as any
footballer knows, is always great to meet up and have a drink,laugh and talk about
how bad we really were, well some were !!!
I would also like to say a big thank you to Mark Thorne our commercial manager
and Iain Prior, club Secretary, for putting in the work for this game to go ahead,
trust me I’ve been cc’d into the emails, so I’ve seen what’s been going on.
As most will know, or not, I am a Yate lad, born and bred, who was lucky enough
to fulfil the dream of any kid and play professional football, then later managed this
club for ten years, until that inevitable day , however, I am proud and honoured,
to have served the club from player through to my current role of Director of
football.
This was difficult to pick an 18 for this game, as these are the games everyone
wants to be involved in, so if I’ve left anybody out who feels they should be in the
squad, I apologise now.
I would like to think there will be some old favourites and characters on show, old
being the important word here, for all to see, quite a few have been based on my
promotion winning squads of 2003 and 2005 (Yate Town that is, not Man U )
and the Manchester United legends will speak for themselves.
Hopefully, people will enjoy the day and return for some of the up and coming
league campaign and build on what we are trying to achieve here, which we all
know is success is built on great support, you ask those Manchester United lads,
they will tell you.
Finally the charities that will benefit today are Scope UK and Bristol Children's
Hospital's (Paediatric Neurology Department), so let’s all do our best and raise as
much as we can for these worthwhile causes.
Enjoy the day all, look forward to a few beers in the bar after, please mingle and
interact with players from both sides, I certainly know the Yate lads will have a tale
or two, most of them I’ve heard a thousand times.

Thommo