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FOOTBALL


It’s all part of the fun of being a volunteer groundsman for me, trying to overcome those little problems where you don’t have the money to do anything.


You have to diversify or find another way to get the best out of what you have got available to you


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ranfield United Football Club was formed in 1903 and has spent most of its history playing in the local leagues. They are currently members of the


Bedfordshire County Football League Premier Division. They play their home games at Crawley Road, at the end of the Cranfield Airport main runway and just a stone’s throw from Cranfield University. Lee takes up the story. This was my first face to face visit since February, with the restrictions being eased at the end of May, it was great to get out. Following the government’s guidelines, Wes and I kept at a two-metre distance and conducted the interview outside the clubhouse, luckily it was a nice day.


Wesley’s full-time occupation is running his own double-glazing business - Kempston Windows Ltd. He uses his spare time in between calls, and in the evenings, to tend to the football pitch which, he says, helps to


clear his mind. “I’m not so much on the tools now; I spend a lot of my time doing surveys and quotes. I have found myself doing a lot more evening work as people are at work during the day, which has given me a bit of time in the day to work on the pitch. I use that time to break up my week, and it’s nice to come down to the pitch and walk with the brush, mark out etc. When you run your own business, it can be quite stressful, especially when there is a lot is going on and you are the centre of everything. As strange as it may sound to some people, I find coming up here for four to five hours during the week, divoting or doing 14,000 steps helps clear my mind and sets me up for the rest of my appointments.” Wesley first found himself on a mower at Elstow Abbey Football Club in Bedfordshire where he was manager/ player in 2015. He tells me the players were moaning about the quality of the pitch as it was a bit long and it was not looking the


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