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Fat Langers

Fat Langers

New member
Dec 27, 2007
272
Evening all,
Just a quick update about what our latest donation is for.
The committee felt that it was only fair, after the huge success of the last REMF match, that the Crystal Palace guys benefit from something for all the time and money that those guys give.
So as a result, we are donating £6000 to the CPFC foundation for their Powerchair team so they are able to purchase a new Powerchair to help with their disabled players.
I'm sure you will all agree this is a worthy cause and well justified.
Thank you to everyone that's helps make this possible! We can't do it without you!
Mike
 




vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,892
Fair do's, the whole idea of the REMF is to try to make peoples lives better, especially relevant to those in Croydon.
 




L

Lindfield by the Pond

Well-known member
Jan 10, 2009
1,887
Lindfield (near the pond)
Great decision. They are just starting out in powerchair football and this will be great for them. Looking forward to some more games against them.
 






Buzzer

Buzzer

Languidly Clinical
Oct 1, 2006
26,121
Fat Langers said:
Evening all,
Just a quick update about what our latest donation is for.
The committee felt that it was only fair, after the huge success of the last REMF match, that the Crystal Palace guys benefit from something for all the time and money that those guys give.
So as a result, we are donating £6000 to the CPFC foundation for their Powerchair team so they are able to purchase a new Powerchair to help with their disabled players.
I'm sure you will all agree this is a worthy cause and well justified.
Thank you to everyone that's helps make this possible! We can't do it without you!
Mike
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Fantastic gesture. Well done all. I really need to get along to one of those Powerchair matches to see them in action. The Albion Podcast with the Albion Powerchair captain Matt Francis and team-mate Jadey Yesilada is a must-listen on how much it means to them. And they are bloody good at it too. A credit to the club.

http://www.albionroar.co.uk/archive.php (12th September show)
 
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Superphil

Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,417
In a pile of football shirts
Excellent Mike, a great way to help out some youngsters, who are less fortunate than most :clap:
 






Wilko

Wilko

LUZZING chairs about
Sep 19, 2003
9,922
BN1
Hold tight, I have some great pics from Kenya to show you later, will add them later on today :)
 


Uncle Spielberg

Uncle Spielberg

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 6, 2003
42,812
Lancing
A BHAFC V CPFC supporters Power Chair game is on he agenda. The donation of £ 6000 for this will make a massive difference to them and it is recognition of the fantastic work the CPFC supporters have put into the REMF since 2001
 










The Albion Roar

The Albion Roar

97.2FM
Aug 11, 2003
2,728
The Open Market
Before the REMF match this year, the Albion and Palace Powerchair teams had a friendly 'match'.

What was evident was the the Albion were streets ahead of the Palace team. The Albion team had been together a while, AITC had been supporting them, they had the equipment, and in Matt Francis a genuinely lovely, enthusiastic fella who was / is the heartbeat of the team. It seemed that Palace were just starting out on this road.

The 'match' such as it was, ended up being more of a kickabout ('pushabout'?, 'knockabout'?), and because of numbers, Brighton players would occasionally swap sides. The result, immaterially, was 8-0 to Brighton, and if it had been taken seriously, would have been 20-0.

We wish the Palace Powerchair team all the best, and this wonderful donation from REMF will only help them.

Incidentally, this coming Wednesday (5 July), it's the Julie Hodder Cup. Julie Hodder was the sister of Steve Darby, a larger than life Brighton fan that many on here know. Julie sadly passed away from breast cancer a few years ago way too young, so Steve and AITC banged their heads together and came up with notion of the Julie Hodder Cup - a powerchair tournament held a Brighton University Sports Hall each year. The BHA PFC team put in a couple of teams, and AITC corporate supporters enter a couple of teams in the 'manual' wheelchair matches. Guy Butters and Danny Cullip often turn up. Danny wrecks the equipment, while Guy gets the cigars out at the back, and much money is raised for AITC and Chailey Heritage.

Do pop along and support them if you're in the vicinity.
 






Paul Reids Sock

Paul Reids Sock

Well-known member
Nov 3, 2004
4,458
Paul Reids boot
It is precisely for these reasons that I cannot find it to 'hate' Crystal Palace. They are great rivals lets be honest. the fact that between the two clubs so much money has been raised and lives genuinely changed says a lot about the two sets of fans.

Even most the 'abuse' they dish out on Twitter is amusing.
 




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Swillis

Banned
Dec 10, 2015
1,568
Lush said:
Should be mentioned that this isn't the first time that money has been given to a Palace-related cause, just in case people think that the committee have taken this long to get around to it!
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Im not sure any of us are particularly bothered to be honest, a good cause is a good cause regardless.
 




Fat Langers

Fat Langers

New member
Dec 27, 2007
272
The Albion Roar said:
Before the REMF match this year, the Albion and Palace Powerchair teams had a friendly 'match'.

What was evident was the the Albion were streets ahead of the Palace team. The Albion team had been together a while, AITC had been supporting them, they had the equipment, and in Matt Francis a genuinely lovely, enthusiastic fella who was / is the heartbeat of the team. It seemed that Palace were just starting out on this road.

The 'match' such as it was, ended up being more of a kickabout ('pushabout'?, 'knockabout'?), and because of numbers, Brighton players would occasionally swap sides. The result, immaterially, was 8-0 to Brighton, and if it had been taken seriously, would have been 20-0.

We wish the Palace Powerchair team all the best, and this wonderful donation from REMF will only help them.

Incidentally, this coming Wednesday (5 July), it's the Julie Hodder Cup. Julie Hodder was the sister of Steve Darby, a larger than life Brighton fan that many on here know. Julie sadly passed away from breast cancer a few years ago way too young, so Steve and AITC banged their heads together and came up with notion of the Julie Hodder Cup - a powerchair tournament held a Brighton University Sports Hall each year. The BHA PFC team put in a couple of teams, and AITC corporate supporters enter a couple of teams in the 'manual' wheelchair matches. Guy Butters and Danny Cullip often turn up. Danny wrecks the equipment, while Guy gets the cigars out at the back, and much money is raised for AITC and Chailey Heritage.

Do pop along and support them if you're in the vicinity.
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Do you know what time they are playing?
 


The Albion Roar

The Albion Roar

97.2FM
Aug 11, 2003
2,728
The Open Market


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