Extratimemagazine

August 2015

Extra time THE

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The OFFICIAL Tournament

A family’s View

Where you play schedules

We SHOULD remember.

A message from Portsmouth’s Manager Welcome to the first Fes.val of Football 2015 which looks to be an exci.ng and successful event.

It is fantas.c to see the community and so many young people geCng involved to take part in a sport that is supported so passionately in Portsmouth. I have been blown away by the passion that has been shown by the supporters of Portsmouth Football Club since joining and their commitment to suppor.ng their team and city.

I would like to wish all the par.cipants the best of luck over the next two days, this could be the start of a new beginning for all involved and I hope it is enjoyed by all.

I hope you enjoy the tournament Paul

and OUR SPONSORS

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Youʼve made it this far, weʼve arranged it and hope to stage a great FIRST tournament, here in Portsmouth in partnership with the University of Portsmouth, our hosts, Portsmouth Football in Community and Portsmouth Football Club.

The idea of the Festival of Football, in the first instance stems back to 1994, where having played myself in the Portsmouth Royal Mail Cup and since then acted as a coach to the School of Soccer, I made lifelong friends in Barbara O Connell (Wilton & now Cork City), who in fact was desperate for her daughters to get the same experience and football opportunities this great city could offer.

Jesse and Alix will be players for Wilton FC this year and along with many of the teams locally whose coaches remember themselves, playing in the Royal Mail Cup as kids - dreams can be made, dreams can be achieved, fun can be had and FOOTBALL can bring us together AND has done.

I would like to welcome you all to the FIRST PORTSMOUTH FESTIVAL OF FOOTBALL and hope at whatever level you are involved in you will do your part to make this a memorable tournament.

This is a great city with Footballing History.#Playyourpart

David MacAskill Tournament Director

“Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win”

Lionel Messi

PLEASE REMEMBER These are children.

This is a game.

The coaches are volunteers.

The referees are human.

THIS IS NOT THE WORLD CUP

Let the children make their own decisions.

Don始t tell them what to do with the ball.

Mistakes are learning opportunities.

Prioritise developing the player over winning today.

It始s their game, let them play.

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Boys U12 Girls U12

Boys U16

Girls U16 3G

Boys U14

Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds

In case of emergency : Find Portsmouth University staff with walkie Talkie First aid will be administered in the first instance or 999 will be called for ambulance/Paramedic Notify Tournament Director : David MacAskill by walkie Talkie or by mobile : 07783560071 Site office can be found on the main site - in front of the astroturf.

Please be RESPECTFUL of ALL PLAYERS, ALL COACHES, ALL PARENTS of ALL SPECTATORS This is PRIVATE PROPERTY and we are guests (EVERYONE of US) of our hosts Portsmouth University - Staff have the right to ask individuals to leave the site should behaviour be untoward/unruly or unwelcoming towards others. Failure to do as requested could result in police intervention.

Please mind your language both on and off the field of play - there are impressionable young people around of all ages.

The Referees are here to OFFICIATE - without which it would be a kickabout, please encourage your players and parents to be respectful. The referee始s decisions are final.

Please encourage all players and parents to collect your own litter and place into bins around the site - this includes tape, water bottles and other refreshments.

Please pay attention to the road between East and West site - there will be oncoming traffic throughout the day.

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In June 2014 year, Portsmouth was selected by Sport England as one of three cities in the running for the coveted title of ‘City of Football’.

The shortlisted cities fought off competition from 22 cities bidding for the title, demonstrating a commitment to uniting public, private and voluntary organisations to do whatever it takes to get more people — particularly those aged 14-25 years — playing all forms of the grassroots game regularly.

“We’re a football based city, everyone knows how famous PFC fans are for being passionate about their club. Narrowly missing out to the City of Nottingham, SPORT ENGLAND LIKED elements of the bid to give over £160,000 to develop new groups and activities.

Crowd funding

Food Banks

As Pompey in the Community push on with only a week or so of their crowdfunding campaign, the organisation have so far raising over £60000 towards the expansion into new facilities next door to their current Anson Road head office.

The charity that has 32 full time members of staff, works with 7000 people each week and delivers over three different counties has been continuously growing and growing in the last couple of years and now the charity finds itself in a situation where demand is outweighing supply.

Thanks to charitable organisation His Church, Pompey in the Community were the grateful recipients of a large food parcel, which is to be distributed in the city and surrounding areas. The food, which was received thanks to His Church and their associations with a number of large food companies, means that school children can now receive a free bowl of cereal to get them in the right frame of mind to start their day.

You can contact us Pompey in the Community Anson Road,Portsmouth, PO4 8TB.

Phone: 023 9272 8899

www.pompeyitc.co.uk

Just some of the teams

Wilton United Ladies FC -­‐ a mixture of U12s and U16 players. Wilton United have a long affilia5on with Portsmouth and football tournaments and are hoping their children can reap the benefits of being involved in a FUN, Friendly Football tournament.

Poole town Wessex U14 play in the Dorset football league and won the league in 2014/15. They are part of the main Poole town football club who play in the southern premier league.

Padnell Rovers U14 have formed this season from AFC Portchester where in 2 seasons coaches Lee Layton and Lee Ray took them to Portsmouth Sunday C league champions and then runners up in Edmonton Rangers are a the Portsmouth Sunday B league .

FA Charter standard This season they are looking at a new challenge in the Saturday mid club that has been Solent A league as Padnell rovers providing the local and off the back of an 11aside BTC community in tournament and are hoping for a North London good tournament this weekend.

with footballing opportuni5es since 1988. The Lions play in the WaZord Friendly League & were promoted last year a\er coming third in their division.

"The South West Football Development Centre is an independently run pre-­‐academy here in Cornwall. With a basis in fitness and technical training, our goal is to put the player first, by successfully raising their profiles with professional clubs here in the Southwest and throughout the country."

Locksheath Boys U16

The majority of this team have been together since U7‘s. They began in the C division and over the last 4 years have had 3 promoHons, one as champions and the other two as runners up.

The last promoHon they are parHcularly pleased about as it Promoted to the A league via the playoffs to a team they had drawn against once and beaten 3 Hmes in the season.

Pickwick youth FC are a local charter standard club from Portsmouth.

We currently have 26 teams competing at all age groups from nursery to under 18. We are based at Alexandra Park.

The current under 13 group have three teams who have just finished 1,2,3 in the A league.

Additional teams that are in : Warsash Wasps, Fleur De Lys Nelson & Victory.

On the back of a successful year Pompey Ladies U12 are looking forward to continuing their run and make new friends.

We welcome everyone that has made the journey to participate and hope you have a great first experience.

Pompey ladies are also entering girls in the U16 division also headed up by Karl Watson - Head of Pompey Ladies Youth.

Football , fun & Friendship starts HERE. #enjoythegame

A little bit of history from a family perspective Barbara OʼConnell from Wilton United, Cork, Ireland It’s a bit frightening to think it’s being 21 years since my first trip to Portsmouth to play in the Royal Mail cup international tournament. Apart from it being my first time away from my family, it was my first time experiencing competition from outside of Cork.

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It was 1994 and my team Wilton United from Cork spent a week at the QEQM residency where I got to play against teams from all over the world, got to meet so many new friends and got to experience what it was like to be a international tournament and WIN IT.

To this day those memories are fresh in my mind and will live with me forever. I can honestly say it was the beginning of a new life for me. It made me fall in love with the game more than ever and it made me friendships for life. I met two people in particular who I kept in contact with on a weekly basis through writing since that year back in 1994. There was no such thing as e mailing or facebook back then. Dave MacAskill and Clare Luddy would be two people who I met back then and both whom I count as great friends of mine. To me, this is what the tournament is all about. I vaguely remember the games we played apart from the finals that we celebrated winning, but I remember the celebration evenings we had at the City’s Guild Hall, where all teams bonded together and for me, this was amazing.Making friendships was as important as playing football.

I spent a few years playing at the tournament until it eventually ended, much to our disappointment. I have some fantastic memories from my years there, some great stories, some of which I couldn’t possibly share ha.

21 years on and I never expected to be bringing my children to a place where I have so many great memories from, but I am delighted in doing so.

I have shared so many stories with my children and they are well aware that my Portsmouth days were some of the best days of my life which I shared with my best friends Aisling and Suzanne. Because of these great memories I am thrilled to be bringing my children Jesse and Alix here to play in the tournament. I want them to experience a lot of what I did. I, along with Pat Bowdren (My coach back in 1994) will coach my children’s teams this year in the tournament and we hope the children have a fantastic experience. I’ve no doubt they will.

Since Dave contacted me regarding the tournament, the excitement is building up week by week back in Cork. The excitement of new gear, a trip away, playing different opposition is something the children are really looking forward to. Trips like these can benefit in so many ways. Hopefully it will help us to attract players to our club and hopefully it will help Dave to build the tournament in the next few years. We are grateful for all his hard work to ensure this tournament will go ahead and we are really looking forward to it.

Barbara Oʼ Connell is a leading sports writer for the Evening Echo and is the current captain of Cork Ladies FC.

Just for fun CAN YOU NAME THEM International 35 +

Premiere League 26-34

Championship 16-25

Division 2 15 and below

What league are you playing ?

It’s what my dad says and you are never too old to start.

#enjoythegame

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Teams, fixtures & Colours U12 Boys & Girls U12 Boys

Team Manager

Colours

TRURO SWDC

Jim Bertrand

yellow with black trim

PICKWICK LIONS

Danny Knight

White

PICKWICK

Mark Blandford

Blue

EDMONTON RANGERS

Shah Queresh

blue& black stripes

Pitch U12 Saturday

Sunday

U12 Girls

TIme

Team

Vrses

Team

10 (56) 60

B.Pickwick Lions

Pickwick

11 (56) 60

B.Truro SWDC

Edmonton Rangers

12 (56) 60

Wilton Utd

Pompey Ladies

930 (56) 60

B.Pickwick Lions

Truro SWDC

1030 (56) 60

Wilton United

Portsmouth Ladies

1130 (56) 60

B.Edmonton Rangers

Pickwick

130 (56) 60

Pickwick Lions

Edmonton Rangers

230 (56) 60

Portsmouth Ladies

Wilton United

330 (56) 60

B.Truro SWDC

Pickwick

Team Manager

Colours

Wilton United

Pat Bowdren

purple shirts

Pompey Ladies

Tim Edwards

blue

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Teams, fixtures & Colours U14 Boys U14 Boys

Team Manager

Colours

TRURO SWDC

Jim Bertrand

yellow with black trim

PADNELL ROVERS

LeeLayton

Yellow shirt with single black stripe

FLEUR DE LYS VICTORY

Gary Granger

White shirts, black sleeves

POOLE FC

John Mckay

Red shirts, white shorts

Pitch U14

TIme

Team

Saturday AM

10 (64) 70

Truro SWDC

Fleur De Lys

11.15 (64) 70

Padnell Rovers

Poole FC

9.30 (64) 70

Fleur De Lys

Padnell Rovers

10.30 (64) 70

Poole FC

Truro SWDC

1.15 (64) 70

Poole FC

Fleur De Lys

2.30 (64) 70

Truro SWDC

Padnell Rovers

Sunday AM

Sunday PM

Vrses

Team

Teams, fixtures & Colours U16 Boys U16 Boys

Team Manager

Colours

MONEYFIELDS

Lee Bligh

Yellow shirts, blue shorts

FLEUR DE LYS NELSON

Simon England

blue, whiteshirt black sleeves

FLEUR DE LYS

Jerome Carroll

White shirt, black sleeves

LOCKSHEATH

Sally Cooper

green

Pitch U16 Saturday AM

Sunday AM

Sunday PM

TIme

Team

Vrses

Team

10am (74) 80

Fleur De Lys Victory

Fleur De Lys Nelson

11.30 (74) 80

Moneyfields

Locksheath

930 (74) 80

Fleur De Lys Nelson

Moneyfields

1045 (74) 80

Locksheath

Fleur De Lys Victory

1300(74) 80

Moneyfields

Fleur De Lys Victory

1420(74) 80

Fleur De Lys Nelson

Locksheath

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Teams, fixtures & Colours U16 Girls U16 Boys

Team Manager

Colours

Wilton United

Barbara O connell

Purple

Pompey Ladies

Karl Watson

Blue

Warsash Wasps

Paul Hammond

Yellow shirts

Pitch U16

TIme

Team

Vrses

Team

Saturday AM

1030 (72) 80

Warsash Wasps

Wilton United

Sunday AM

930 (72) 80

Pompey Ladies

Warsash Wasps

Sunday PM

1300 (72) 80

Pompey Ladies

Wilton United

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Charity links football to the Great War We SHOULD remember Back in August 2014, on the centenary of Great Britain and the Empire entering the conflict which later became known as the “Great War” and latterly, World War 1, a plaque and memorial wall were unveiled at Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth Football Club. That plaque and the memorial wall commemorate the men of the city of Portsmouth and the surrounding area who rallied to the colours, and joined up to “do their bit for King and Country” in the conflict. The choice of Fratton Park for the location of the memorial marks the fact that Portsmouth FC was involved from the very beginning, Fratton Park being one of the main recruiting centres.

When the war began, on August 4th, 1914, the British Army, although highly trained, well equipped and professional, was tiny compared to the vast armies of Germany, Russia and France, who in terms of sheer manpower outnumbered Britainʼs regular army by a factor of 6 or 7 to one. In order to redress the balance, given these vast differences in numbers of men under arms, a massive national recruitment drive was initiated. Nowhere in the country was this effort more vigorous than in Portsmouth, where, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor, the “ Citizens Patriotic Recruiting Committee for Portsmouth and District” urged men from all around the area to join the “Portsmouth Battalion” as it was first known.

The basic premise of the campaign to recruit was the suggestion that it would be a good idea to enlist with your friends, relations, colleagues and workmates. The thinking was that this would quickly create a sense of community and togetherness, enabling men to bond quickly, and forge comradeship and team spirit more easily than if they were thrown together from all parts of the country. As a result of this, some 6,500 men from the Portsmouth area came forward, forming the 14th and 15th battalions of the Hampshire regiment, with a third battalion, the 16th, being a reserve or replacements battalion.

Eventually, these became known unofficially as the “Pompey Pals” and after training and preparation, first went into action in September 1916, during the horrors of the Battle of the Somme, and, like so many other units of the British Army engaged in that battle, they suffered fearful casualties.

It was during the Battle of the Somme that the basic underlying flaw of the whole idea of the “Pals Battalions” became all too tragically apparent.........it might well be a good idea in principle for men to enlist and serve together, but as the Somme graphically demonstrated, they also died together, as communities all over the country were soon to learn when pals battalions from not only Portsmouth, but Bradford, Leeds, Accrington, Barnsley, Rochdale, London, Manchester and Liverpool, were cut to pieces by German machine guns. Indeed, many of those who fell, were killed in very short order within the first few hours of the battle. So it was that in early 2014, with the approach of the centenary of the outbreak of the war, that small group of history buffs and Pompey fans got together with the aim of remembering those men who formed and served in the Pompey Pals battalions.

The organisers and founders of the Pompey Pals Project all took the view that in the years since the Great war, the idea of the Pals battalion has become synonymous with northern communities like Accrington and Rochdale, who suffered grievous losses which proportionally were much worse than losses sustained by bigger towns and cities like London, Leeds, and Manchester.

It has been overlooked that one of the very first pals battalions was raised here in Portsmouth, in 1914, so the project has set up a charity, registered as the Pompey Pals Project,and in conjunction with Portsmouth FC, have set about commemorating those brave men from our community who enlisted in the first few weeks and months of the war. So much of the recruitment was done at Fratton Park, where recruiting stations were set up, that it seemed highly appropriate that the memorial should be set up there. As already mentioned, this memorial was officially unveiled by Dame Mary Fagan, the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, on 4th August 2014.

The Pompey Pals Project, again in conjunction with Portsmouth FC, organised an additional tribute to the Pals, arranging for the clubʼs official kit, worn by the players and fans during season 2014-15 to be a replica of Pompeyʼs 1914 kit, with the added feature of the weave of the shirt incorporating the names of every one of the 1400-plus men of the 14th and 15th battalions, the Pompey Pals, who lost their lives during the great war. Each shirt is, in effect, a War memorial.

The Pompey Pals Project is now working towards setting up and opening a permanent museum within the city, not only to pay tribute to the sacrifices of these men, but also to commemorate the efforts of the people of the City of Portsmouth during the Great War of 1914-1918.The aim is to eventually provide the city with a lasting tribute to everyone from this area who “did their bit for their country” in times of crisis over the past century or more.

Anyone at all who might be able to help with any information, documents, artifacts personal stories or photographs, or who just wants to learn more about what our forbears did for us, contact us for more information. chrispennycook@pompeypals.org.uk www.pompeypals.org.uk REG. Charity no 1159596

FRATTON ROAD The FIRST tournament HEADLINE SPONSOR - Dominoʼs Fratton and the support and direction from Michelle Jay (Marketing) on behalf of TEAM SOLENT.

Portsmouth Community Football Club Chief Executive Mark Catlin, Ashleigh Emberson and new Portsmouth manager Paul Cook for their assistance and support.

Portsmouth Football In the Community programme, especially Director Clare Martin and her team for all of her club based assistance, that included stadium tours ʻCaptainʼs Guard of honourʼ and also match tickets. #Thespiritofacommunityclub.

Our hosts with fantastic facilities and support for the first Festival of Football 2015.

David Goodwin, Paul Lilley, Lisa Wearne and their teams especially making sure we had/have everything we need to provide a first class event To the referees, staff, stewards, chefs, security, parents and anyone that have made the effort to make sure everyone enjoyed the activities and have been safe, friendly, fun and competitive.

YOU - the players and managers that have made the effort to come and take part in this tournament hopefully, had a bit of fun, won a few games and already are looking forward to next years tournament.

RFG PARTIES are pleased to support the Portsmouth Festival of Football 2015 Bookings can be taken for • Discos & childrenʼs entertainment • Childrens Parties/Birthdays - popcorn/candyfloss • Weddings - sweet cart CALL Gary on 07961702237

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