Fitness Referee Training Update - July 10th
This week's fitness session was attended by nine people including fitness training debutant Nigel "Morecombe and Wise" Gibbons. On a hot sunny morning a good workout was enjoyed with exercises including a series of shuttles and a medium intensity run with recovery walk.
There were two games of 2-touch football played with Captain Tim Godfray, Geoff Skillen, Craig Robson and Andrew Misselbrook taking on Captain Nigel Gibbons, Ash Potter, Mike Misselbrook, Mike Desborough and Phil Wilson. In a nip and tuck where both teams worked hard to defend and pass the ball, Godfray Albion truimphed over Gibbons Rovers 1-0 after a late solo run and neat finish from Robson left goalkeeper Ash Potter and co awe-strucken.
The second match saw the Misselbrook's skipper the two teams. Andrew, Desborough, Robson and Potter took on Mike, Skillen, Wilson, Godfray and Gibbons. After working so hard and looking the stronger of the two teams, Andrew's side went one down when Robson gave the ball away in his opponent's end and the resulting clearence ran straight to Gibbons who gratefully tapped the ball home into and empty goal.
Ash reacted immediately though seeing the goalkeeper off his line he kicked the ball from his to sail over the dispairing Pete's fingertips to go in off the crossbar to make in 1-1. However, the man advantage seemed to make more of a difference than in the first match with Mike's team passing the ball well. Mike scored a good goal, which was soon followed by another when Skillen and Mike combined from a corner to set up Godfray to make it a 3-1 victory to Misselbrook City.
Total attendance for fitness training sessions since May 2010
| Name | Attended |
| Craig Robson | 10 |
| Mike Misselbrook | 8 |
| Ash Potter | 8 |
| Dean Treleaven | 8 |
| Geoff Skillen | 6 |
| Andrew Misselbrook | 5 |
| Ken Brown | 4 |
| Mike Desborough | 4 |
| Phil Wilson | 4 |
| Richard Kearsey | 3 |
| Andy Laver | 3 |
| Sean Ward (G) | 2 |
| Keith Brown (G) | 1 |
| Nigel Gibbons | 1 |
| Tom Godfray | 1 |
| Phillip Hodgson (G) | 1 |
| Lucy May | 1 |
Key - (G) - Guest
Fitness training in the Portsmouth area takes place every Saturday morning from 9.15am at King George V playing fields and finishes around 11am. For more information click on the following link: www.portsmouthra.co.uk/rs/fitness.
If you're interested in taking part in fitness training or just want a bit more information on it then please feel free to contact Dean Treleaven at dean@empireleisure.co.uk or join our facebook group for regular updates.