Thursday 24 February 2011

The most interesting an lively AGM of an organisation ever!  John Owens Trophy had its first proper AGM, and far from being dull and routine it was lively.  What else did I expect with an ebullient group of footballers from around the world, and people passionate about making football a fun way of doing what is rather boringly called "community cohesion".
Going round the room afterwards to ask people where they came from I found we had people from Cameroon; Eritrean/Italian; DRC; Ivory Coast, and good old England.  Quite moving to think of how so many of these countries are at war with others and themselves, yet everyone present were working together, in harmony, with football.  Not that they agreed I was a good person to chair because of my knowledge of football !

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