Venue: 

End of Season Tour 2007

21 st April Aston Villa V Portsmouth. 3pm kick off
Rearanged to 22nd April 4pm k.o

Well it didnt quite go as well as originally planned. Sky and co put the first spanner in the works moving the game from the saturday to the sunday causing a few of the originals members to drop out due to other commitments.
When contacted the comment was " As a good will gesture I can send you a variety of postcard photographs of a variety of presenters on Sky Sport and should you wish to advise me of your contact address I will arrange this for you. " If any one really feels the urge let me know and i give them your address. ;-)

This caused us to loose the originally planned fixtures and i'd like to say thank you to Matthew Leek and Stephen Tumulty from chelmsley town the under 7's & 10's managers who had put a lot of work into arranging what was to be a great day. maybe later we can meet up!

A bout of sickness and temperatures wittled down the numers by a few more on the weekend of the game but the rest of us braved the journey (and the Children). To add to the excitement the coach company decided to send us coaches with out of action toilets and no functional dvd players leaving the children to make thier own amusement. Thankfully there were a few large plastic bottles floating around.

On arrival and taking our seats we found us sat next Malpas under sevens (small world) and the Aston Villa presenters picked a couple of both our boys and girls out due to the amount of noise they were making and took them down onrto the pitch and interviewed them on the big screen. The five pound an autograph the kids they were asking after was a bit steep though .

We should at this point say a big thankyou to Tracey Colley from Aston Villa the group booking co-ordinator for the hard work she put in and the stewards in our area of the ground for exercising such control faced with such a formidable opposition. (and that was just the under 7's).

The under 10's led by their new found leader of the pack (snooky) were in fine voice with a few verses springing from the back seats.I was reliably informed he kept it going for the full coach trip as well.

Overall it was a good trip and every one seamed to enjoy themselves and there were no complaints. That might be as all were told the submit all complaints in writting with their application form to run next years tour attatched. ;-)


tour photos click here - if any one has got any more please mail them to me