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Faithful City
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Posted: Sunday Sep 7th, 2008 07:02 |
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This great man is here for a purpose and that is to make Worcester Warriors the best club in England and to give to OUR players all the guidance and mentoring he can.
Read the who;e article and it seems that Sixways along with Chris Latham are being talked about in the highest of terms
Last week it seemed that we were being introduced in sport to the concept of the mere millionaire. The representatives of the royal family of Abu Dhabi paid more than £32m to bring Robinho to a club they suddenly owned.
While it doesn’t do to demean the inherent size and wonder of football, I still found it wonderfully comforting to be at Sixways, the home of the Warriors, last week. The place looked splendid. The new stand soared, the pitch looked far too good to spoil by staging a match on it.
Not so long ago, they were a park-pitch team. Now they are one of the most fervent clubs in the division. They recently concreted over their back pitches to provide a park-and-r i d e s c h e m e f o r t h e c i t y o f Worcester, but Cecil Duckworth, their long-time owner, a sportsman, not from Abu Dhabi, has built some new pitches across the road so the club’s amateur section and ladies and colts teams can continue to operate alongside the professional giant and all be Warriors together.
Now we can begin to assess their own major overseas capture, but Ruddock and company hardly need more evidence. “He’s been absolutely incredible already,” says Ruddock. “On the day he arrived in England he came straight from the airport to a sponsors’ reception. He told me at the very start that he wanted to be involved in everything, he wanted to mentor the youngsters. He is very influential in training. I just can’t say enough about him so
Full Article HERE
JP
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