Imagine It’s an early-morning departure as we’re off to south London and collecting Monty & Father Don and Captain Cooper along the way. The first venue is easy to find as it’s triangulated between the BP garage, next door’s forty-six big blac...

• 2020/21 A Team Season's Blog

Happy Christmas It’s been an interesting week, starting with two sleepless nights imagining what Mother Hawkins is likely to say (or do) if Father H actually spends £600 of their hard-earned on that John Lennon poster he saw last week in an antique sho...

• 2020/21 A Team Season's Blog

It’s Limerick Review Time…..obviously!! http://www.gpsfa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Christmas-Match-Report-B-Team-20.m4a I know we played Bath and there’s normally a Match Report (of which I’d say some extended version of ̵...

• 2020/21 B Team Match Reports

Meeting Coach Phil The first district level game of yet another and hopefully the last re-start is upon us. The all-important first hard-fought battle of the day commences. The winners of the battle to be the one parent per child are revealed as they arri...

• 2020/21 B Team Match Reports

Smiler Thursday Thursday morning and the sporting lockdown is finally over. We have a two-hour ‘reunion’ session at a sun-drenched New Meadow Park with the Bs and GCFC U12s for a couple of warm-up games and thirty minutes focusing on pressing the oppo...

• 2020/21 A Team Season's Blog, Uncategorized

Warm-Up Friday I’ve just discovered that Captain Cooper doesn’t like peas or homework, does like The Goonies and Woolacombe Sands and once got extremely embarrassed by falling over his own two feet. And judging by the erudite way in which he explained...

• 2020/21 A Team Season's Blog

The Short Flight to Newport I woke up a little fretful as today was coach Harris’ turn to drive the two of us all the way to Newport, in a socially distanced way of course. I am not saying he is an unsafe driver but he has missed his true vocation of be...

• 2020/21 B Team Match Reports

Breathless Friday It’s St George’s Day and an array of red & white flags flutter gracefully above the patriotic street parties taking place in the Longlevens suburbs. Or they might be, if anyone realised what day it is. It does seem however, that ...

• 2020/21 A Team Season's Blog

Thank God for Second Halves Longlevens was back into the full swing of things as for the first time in months the A Team, B Team and Girls’ Team were all in action. First up for Coach Harris was trying to show the codgers of GPSFA how to use the new...

• 2020/21 B Team Match Reports

Come on Gloucester After a difficult Monday evening of facing a very good football team, Gloucester B needed to pick themselves up to take on testing opposition in the shape of Gloucester City U-12’s. With Bath unable to field two teams today, the City ...

• 2020/21 B Team Match Reports