Under 8s meet 'Lympic' star

Ollie Monksfield is one of the star players in the Great Britain deaf football team - one of the heroes who won a gold medal in the January 2005 'Deaf Lympics' as they were called!

The gold medallist works as a technician in a deaf school in north London and also works for Tottenham Hotspur as their representative for coaching disabled children as part of their club in the community programme.

Some of the youngsters and coaches who benefited from Ollie's expert advice.

Ollie was good enough to come to one of our own training sessions on 24th May to put the youngsters through their paces, improve their skills and give some excellent advice to the coaches. An added bonus was he let every lad don his Olympic gold medal and signed photographs much to the delight of the lads in maroon.

Meanwhile, our talened youngsters continued their double winning season of success by winning the Pasque Charity Tournament on 19th June, which was held at Barfield College. Not only did the win their age group but did so without conceding a goal.

On 25th June we played host to Hitchin Town U8s at Crawley. The local semi-professional team brought over their two U8s teams to play two of ours. The Crawley 'B' team lost both games 2-0 whilst the 'A' team romped home by 11-1 and 7-0. A great day was had by all involved with Hitchin being very impressed by the Club's outstanding facilities.

(Pics to be added when available)