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The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation is a charity set up in memory of Daniel Wilkinson who died in 2016 aged 24, while playing the game he loved, from an underlying heart condition called Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC).
Dan played football from an early age and joined Hull City AFC when he was 10, earning a professional contract aged 18. Loughborough University followed where he completed a degree in Accounting and Financial Management while playing non-league football. He was an athlete who enjoyed the gym and took his health and nutrition very seriously. He lived life to the full and had so much ahead of him.
Other than feeling light-headed on a few occasions in the month before he died, he had no symptoms!
SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN THE YOUNG (SCD)
SCD is the leading cause of death in young athletes during sport and the majority of deaths occur with NO SYMPTOMS or family history.
Warning signs may include light-headedness, fainting, palpitations, swollen legs, breathlessness. ARVC can be found in one in every 1,000 to 5,000 young adults - IF IT IS LOOKED FOR.
Every week in the UK, 12 apparently fit and healthy young people (aged 35 and under) die from previously undiagnosed heart conditions.
In Italy, where screening is mandatory for all young people engaged in organised sport, they have reduced the incidence of young sudden cardiac death by 89%.
OUR MISSION
The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation has been set up to raise awareness of SCD and to provide funding towards heart screening, defibrillators and CPR/defibrillator training primarily for grass-roots sporting teams.
Tragedies can be prevented through cardiac screening. It is vital that young people are identified and treated.
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To donate: mydonate.bt.com/charities/thedanielwilkinsonfoundation
ANDYSMANCLUB
WHAT IS ANDYSMANCLUB?
ANDYSMANCLUB is a free peer-to-peer group that provides a place for men to come together in a safe and open environment to talk about the issues or problems that they have faced or are currently facing.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The process is about bringing men together who have been in similar situations, to help each other on a peer to peer basis, sharing how they have dealt with various situations through lived experiences. No matter how big or small your problem feels, we are here to support each other. The 5 questions that are asked each week are designed not only to encourage men to talk, but to start to focus on the positives and on strategies to keep moving forward. There is no pressure to answer any of the questions and it is not uncommon for men to just listen for the first few sessions.
The clubs all run on the same format and adhere to the same guidelines. A key principle of ANDYSMANCLUB is anything that is said in the club, stays within the club.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The club is open to any man 18 or over, who is going through a storm, been through a storm or just wants to meet a good group of people with the aim of improving one another.
WHEN IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUBs meet every Monday at 7pm (excluding Bank Holiday Mondays).
WHERE IS IT?
ANDYSMANCLUB has over 100 locations across the UK. Check our website below for a full list.
HOW DO I JOIN?
Just turn up on the night. No registration or referral is required, all we ask is that you arrive before 7pm. The full list of our locations available on our website.
Column by jon couch
TWO rounds from gracing the hallowed turf at Wembley Stadium, it’s perfectly naturally to assume that players from the 16 clubs competing in this weekend’s Isuzu FA Trophy and Vase quarter-finals are getting pretty twitchy right now.
So, as a football manager, the question is how do you channel those nerves, excitement, and perhaps a tinge of anxiety, into a winning mentality? Is it possible to keep emotions in check and feet on the ground?
Well, as Hartpury University manager Dr Martin Longworth told me this week, the answer is with great difficulty.
Dr Longworth’s entire Hartpury squad are made up of current students aged between 16 and 25 with dreams of a lasting football careers, and they’re making a pretty good fist of it so far, sitting pretty on top of the Hellenic League Premier Division table on the back of a 27-game unbeaten run stretching back to September.
“It’s really hard to keep a 16-18-yearold’s feet on the ground when you’re two rounds from Wembley and we haven’t shied away from that,” Dr Longwell said.
“We’ve made it very clear that that could happen, there’s no point hiding from it – it’s good motivation for us.
“Yes, you’ve got to take each game as it comes but, ultimately, we are
potentially two rounds from Wembley.”
Hartpury’s two-game mission starts this afternoon when Southern Counties East League side Erith & Belvedere are the visitors to the Hartpury University Stadium they share with the Rugby Championship club of the same name.
Many people’s favourites for the Vase, Dr Longwell’s men have won all four of their matches 1-0 to get to this stage, could history repeat itself all the way to the semi-finals this afternoon.
In the other three quarter-final ties, Southern Counties East League play-off chasers Whitstable Town take on Whitchurch Alport, of the Midland Football League, while bookies’ favourites AFC Whyteleafe, of the Combined Counties Premier South, take on United Counties League Premier North opponents Bourne Town.
Re-instated Andover New Street, reprieved by Roman Glass St George fielding an ineligible player, complete the line-up with the Wessex League side hosting United Counties League side Heanor Town, making the last eight for the first time in their history.
The Isuzu FA Trophy is just as intriguing.
Story of the season, undoubtedly, are Step 4 Isthmian League Division One South East club Sittingbourne FC.
Not only are the Brickies the last nonNational League club standing, but they have also won through eight ties, scoring 18 goals along the way.
During that run, Ryan Maxwell’s side have beaten SIX teams on higher standing, including away at National League Southend United in the last round.
According to our friends at @ FATrophyFactfile, their run to the last eight in the club’s 50th FA Trophy campaign, is a competition record.
This lunchtime, Sittingbourne host National League Aldershot Town for whom a victory would equal their best Trophy performances to the semifinals, last achieved 17 years ago.
Since the original Aldershot FC were formed 99 years ago, the club has never reached a Wembley final.
Elsewhere, the Shots’ local rivals, and three times former Trophy winners, Woking, travel to National League North opponents Oxford City who are equalling their best Trophy run from four years ago.
The Hoops will be looking to make it third time lucky against Woking in
the FA Trophy having twice exited the competition at the hands of The Cards in the past.
The only other National League North club still involved are looking to prevent their opponents from avenging a past Trophy defeat. Spennymoor Town travel to National League side and 1980-81 Trophy finalists, Sutton United, hoping to replicate their 3-0 victory over the Us from six years ago.
And in the only all-National League affair, Rochdale, in just their second Trophy campaign, host an Altrincham side aiming to try to lift the Trophy for the third time in the club’s history.
One thing’s for sure, they’ll be 16 squads of players going hell for leather this afternoon in a bid to get one step closer to Finals Day on Sunday May 11.
As the great Ossie Ardiles sung during Tottenham Hotspur’s FA Cup song back in 1981, ‘Ossie’s Going To Wembley, His Knees Have Gone All Trembly’.
If the Vase and Trophy hopefuls aren’t nervous and excited enough this weekend, they’ll be plenty of trembly knees on the terraces, that’s for sure.
Emirates FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium (2023)
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