A Christmas Thank You

It’s Christmas, and we thought we’d pay tribute to those people who rarely get a mention, but without whom our clubs would not function- our volunteers.

If you were to get all of your football news from the mainstream media, you’d be forgiven for believing that the game was awash with money. Of course, at our level, the opposite tends to be true- and we owe our football success entirely to people who give up their time, often for fifty-two weeks a year, to ensure that their clubs function.

So whether you operate a turnstile, compile a programme, look after websites or social media, paint white lines, sell programmes or golden goal tickets, brew tea and cook burgers, mark up team boards, work as stewards, provide matchday music, ensure the paperwork is in order, run a club shop, work behind a bar, worry about the finances, point a camera, raise funds, pay officials, commentate on the game, or do something we’ve forgotten to add to this list, thank you. Thank you for your dedication, your passion, your attention to detail, and your love.

On this Christmas Day, we’d like you to take a moment and raise a glass to our Bostik League volunteers. For they truly give us the gift of football.

Headline image- Peter and Ann from AFC Hornchurch