Earlier this week I went to a really nice fundraising dinner with colleagues from Gloucester City AFC. It was a fantastic night. The guest speakers were former Liverpool, Chelsea and Wrexham full back Joey Jones and former British Lions Captain Phil Bennett.
It was well attended and the speeches were funny as well as inspirational. Hopefully we managed to raise some useful cash for the club in the auction. I put my hand in my pocket and bought a wonderful print of Henry Cooper in his prime knocking down my hero Muhammed Ali with that famous left hook in the 1960’s.
But the bottom line, from our guest speakers, the club chairman and our devoted football fans is this – we need the club back in or around our City. Since we lost Meadow Park in the floods last year our supporters have been left travelling to Nailsworth last season and left making a 40 mile round trip to Cirencester this season.
Enough is enough, we need help from our councils to bring us home. Expect to hear more from me on this in a debate in Parliament soon.
