Team Edstreme

Charity Pitch Day

26th May 2018

King Power Stadium

Home of Leicester City FC

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Pages 4 & 5 ….……………...…... The Organisers Page 6 …………………. About League Edstreme Page 7 ………………………..………..Story So Far Pages 8 & 9 ………….. Back Story—Privett Park Pages 10 & 11 ………. Back Story—Fratton Park Pages 12 & 13 … Back Story—Madejski Stadium Pages 14 & 15 ……..… Back Story—StadiumMK Pages 16 & 17 ………. Back Story—Fratton Park Pages 18 & 19 …………………...….. Raffle Prizes Pages 20 & 21 ……………….... Game One Teams

Pages 22 & 23 ………………… Game Two Teams

Pages 24 & 25 ……..……..… Game Three Teams

Pages 26 & 27 …...…… The King Power Stadium

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Thank you for taking the time today to travel up to Leicester to support Team Edstreme’s 2018 fundraising efforts for Mancheck. The support that our players along with their family and friends in the crowd offer us every year never fails to make me feel incredibly proud of the work that Team Edstreme carries out.

To be in Leicester today is incredible, the stadium is beautiful, and the Leicester City kits are among the nicest in the Premier League for sure. Not many people can say that they have played at the home of a Premier League winning side.

As a Portsmouth & Tottenham Hotspur fan, Leicester City have been involved in some big parts of my life. Seeing Tottenham scrape past Leicester in the 1999 League Cup Final after an Allan Nielsen goal and Portsmouth’s 2003 Division One title run in will always be special memories to me. Also, let’s not forget Pompey legend Steve Claridge’s achievements at Leicester City.

Both Phil and I are incredibly proud to this year be working alongside Chris Salmon of SG Fleet. Chris is a trustee for Mancheck.org who carry out amazing work.

Enjoy the day guys

Sean Reading

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Having played in last years pitch day at Fratton Park and helping out with the raffle, I was keen to get involved more this year and luckily Phil and Sean agreed to let me join the organising team. I am delighted that we were able to secure the King Power for this years event as it truly is a fantastic arena to play football and the team at LCFC have been a pleasure to deal with. I was overwhelmed when Sean and Phil agreed to raise funds for Mancheck, which is a charity that I am a trustee of. You can find out more about us on page 2 of this programme. I hope you will join us in the Blues Bar after the last game for a drink and who knows – maybe you might win a prize or 2 on the raffle!

Chris Salmon

Welcome to the King Power Stadium and our sixth and biggest event yet! This year we welcome Chris Salmon to the organising team and are grateful that he was able to secure this wonderful stadium, home of the 2015/16 Premier League champions. We are grateful to all of the players taking part today, especially those veterans amongst us who have been at most of our previous events! We really appreciate your support. Make sure you also purchase a raffle ticket or two, we have some incredible prizes and experiences available once again. See pages 18 and 19 for a full list of prizes.

Phil George

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The league was started by Sean Reading in memory, and

named after his brother Ed Reading, who passed away in July 2007 from a condition known as Sudden Death

Syndrome, during a football match. He was a keen and talented footballer whose memory will live on forever with

League Edstreme. The league was between 6 teams that came together to form a league in memory of Ed, who

was known by all that played.

In April 2011 Sean Reading and close friend Phil George formally registered the league with the FA allowing them

to grow the league, using fully affiliated referees and raise more money for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) via a

cup competition where all profits were donated to CRY.

Today League Edstreme consists of 16 teams playing across 2 divisions, continuing to raise money

for local charities.

www.leagueedstreme.com www.facebook.com/leagueedstreme

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⚽ League Edstreme is started by Sean Reading on the 8th January 2009 with 6 teams.

⚽ July 2009 sees the launch of the CRY Cup, a competition from which all match fee proceeds are donated to CRY.

⚽ Expansion in 2011 sees a move to Portsmouth City Girls School and a second league added. Teams increase firstly to 8 and then 16 sides.

⚽ The league changes to 7-a-side and moves to Priory School, Portsmouth, in 2012.

⚽ First 11-a-side pitch day is held in 2013, raising further awareness of CRY.

⚽ League expands to 24 teams in 2014.

⚽ Fratton Park pitch day in 2014 raises £2,500 for CRY.

⚽ Madejski Stadium pitch day in 2015 raises £5,800 for CRY.

⚽ StadiumMK pitch day raises £1,100 for CRY.

⚽ A return to Fratton Park in 2018 raises over £7,500, taking the total raised by League and Team Edstreme to just under £25,000.

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On 12th May 2013, we hosted our first 11-a-side charity pitch day at Privett Park, the home of

Gosport Borough FC. The two teams were made up of players from Edstreme United and Edstreme

Athletic, two teams of players who played at League Edstreme and in the Portsmouth Sunday

League.

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We hosted our second ever pitch day on 8th May 2014.

There were two games taking place on the day, with the architects derby, Holman Reading vs

Helyer Davies, followed by League Edstreme vs Cardiac Risk in the Young. Thanks to all involved

we raised over £2,500 for CRY!

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Holman Reading 2 vs 5 Helyer Davies League Edstreme 3 vs 4 Cardiac Risk in the Young

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Our 3rd event took place on an unfortunately weed killed surface on 31st May 2015 at the Madejski

Stadium, the home of Reading FC. Again we had two games taking place on the day, with the

architects derby, Holman Reading vs Helyer Davies, followed by Portsmouth Historic Dockyard vs HASAG. We

raised an incredible £5,800 and even featured on BBC South Today!

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Holman Reading 0 vs 15 Helyer Davies HASAG 9 vs 0 Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

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Our 4th event took place at StadiumMK on 14th May 2016, the home of the MK Dons.

We held one game on the day with the CRY side

taking on HASAG, who ran out 5-4 winners after a very close game. We raised over £1,100 for CRY and were grateful for a fantastic reception from all

at MK Dons.

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We’ve seen you before!

We hosted our fifth pitch day on 19th May 2017, returning to Fratton Park.

We held two games under the lights, with a

fantastic raffle contributing to over £7,500 raised in our final fundraiser for CRY!

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Otso 1 vs 8 Larcomes LLP Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 6 vs 9 Boulter Mossman

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Tickets are on-sale from the food kiosk in the stand, or from anyone wearing a ManCheck t-shirt. The draw will be made live at 7.30pm across the road in the Blues Bar and live at

www.facebook.com/techarityevents

A small selection are shown on the opposite page!

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Manager: Chris Salmon

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Manager: Graham Middleton

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Manager: Steve Reading

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Manager: John Trimby

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⚽ The all-seater stadium opened in 2002 and has a capacity of 32,312, the 20th largest football ground in England.

⚽ The record attendance at the stadium for football is 32,242.

⚽ It is named after travel retail group King Power, a company owned by the club's owners.

⚽ The site has hosted rugby and football international matches, as well as boxing events.

⚽ The address of the stadium 'Filbert Way,' retains a link to the club's former home Filbert Street.

⚽ Inside the stadium, suites & lounges are named after club legends.

⚽ Finally, of course, it is the home of Leicester City, the 2015–2016 champions of the Premier League

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Find out about our 2019 event first by liking our Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/techarityevents

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Thank you to The Cedar Group for the printing of this programme