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Henbury grab top Fantasy Football spot
Pitchcare & Ransomes Jacobsen Fantasy Football League winners announced
FOR many, the 2012-2013 Barclays Premier League will be defined by the last stand of, without doubt, the finest manager of the Premier League era and an all time great, Sir Alex Ferguson.
Throughout Sir Alex’s time at Old Trafford, his ability to identify and bring in star quality, in order to continue winning trophies at the highest level, has been unquestionable - Ronaldo, Cantona, Schmeichel, Van Nistelrooy to name a few.
The intelligent acquisition of the 2012-13 Fantasy Football top scorer, Robin van Persie, was instrumental in United gaining the trophy back from Ferguson’s self-titled ‘noisy neighbours’ and again demonstrated his genius understanding of the formula to win titles and trophies.
Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year, Gareth Bale, was second in the player points table. Bale’s future at Spurs looks uncertain after the club narrowly missed out on a Champions League spot for the second year running. Elsewhere, Luis Suarez’s ill discipline hindered an excellent points scoring season and Santi
Cazorla, Michu and Lambert made huge impressions amongst some familiar scoring top players.
Despite not landing the Old Trafford job, greenkeeper Richard Ponsford of Henbury Golf Club improved on a 6th place finish last year to secure the
consolation of 1st place with his team ‘Stuffed Sage’ and £300 prizemoney, gaining the prestigious title from his colleague James Rowles, last year’s winner. You can imagine the break time discussion at Henbury!
There are plenty of familiar winners in the top 15, including Reading groundsman Dominic Murray, Manchester City groundsman Gary Conway and greenkeepers Richard Ponsford, and Gary Hawley of, guess where, that institution for Fantasy Football management excellence - Henbury Golf Club.
A special mention must go to King William’s award winning groundsman, Mike Atherton, who finished 12th and ensured he kept Pitchcare’s Kiran Contractor (where was he this year?) regularly informed of his managerial performance throughout the year - with his
Henbury Managerial Dream Team - winner, Richard Ponsford, is on the left
Alpine Stripes team finishing ahead of FC Kizzle Kicks by a whopping 116 points.
Talking of Pitchcare, Stock Controller Angela Hunt finished highest of all the staff here, putting the men (many
languishing well past place 100 - mentioning no names) to shame.
A huge thank you to Ransomes Jacobsen for their sponsorship, and a well done to International Marketing Manager Gina Putnam who flew the RJ flag to finish in highest place amongst their staff.
With key managerial moves at Man City, Chelsea, Manchester United and Everton, next season could be the most unpredictable yet - we will keep you posted on details for our 2013-14 game.
Congratulations to all our winners, we hope all participants enjoyed the season!
• 1st place £300 - Richard Ponsford - Henbury Golf Club
• 2nd place £150 - Alan Loose - Royal West Norfolk Golf Club
• 3rd place £100 - Mike Sage - Knowle Golf Club
• 4th place £50 - David Holland - Connacht Rugby
• 5th place £40 - Dominic
Photo winners announced Golf greenkeepers win the April and May categories in our photo gallery competition
April’s winning entry from James R Hutchinson
THE winner of our Photo Gallery Competition for April was James R Hutchinson, a greenkeeper from Fairhaven Golf Club in Lytham. The theme was ‘Spring’, and his picture beautifully captured the cold but sunny mornings experienced at that time of year.
May’s winner was Course Manager, Chris Mitchell from Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club, who entered his picture of a bee into the ‘Flora and Fauna’ category.
The winners were voted for by Pitchcare members from a shortlist of four for each month’s category.
May’s winning entry from Chris Mitchell 4 PC JUNE/JULY 2013
Both James and Chris receive a £100 voucher to spend in the Pitchcare Store (awarded to all monthly winners) and will go into the final selection of monthly winning photographs for the chance to win a new
iPad 5, set to be launched later this year.
We have a different theme each month and, for July, the theme is ‘Parks, Gardens & Wildflower Areas’.
Photos can be easily uploaded from phones, cameras and tablet devices in a matter of a few minutes, so why not show off your facility in all its summer splendour.
Visit the website and follow the links to the Pitchcare Photo Gallery Competition.
WIN an iPAD 5
Apple’s iPad 5 will launch later this year and you could be the owner of this latest technology by uploading your photos to our photo gallery - it’s free to enter, so why not get snapping?
Murray - Reading Football Club
• 6th place £30 - Gareth Yandell - Henbury Golf Club
• 7th place £25 - Goldwyn Bird - Royal West Norfolk Golf Club
• 8th-14th place - £20 - Ian Longdon, Chris Martin, Gary Conway, Mark Sutton, Mike Atherton, David Lyons, Rik Stretton,
• 15th place £15 - Terry Seymour
Winners of the £150 team prize for best total from three managers was, not surprisingly, Henbury Golf Club.
Ransomes Jacobsen have kindly committed to sponsoring next season’s Fantasy Football League, with another £1,000 prize money up for grabs.
Details will be posted online at
Pitchcare.com during July.
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