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Club
news
The annual general
meeting of Elmore
AFC is being held in
the clubhouse at
Horsdon Park on
Monday (October
14) from 7pm.
Praise for new programme:
The new-look Elmore programme has been
receiving quite a lot of plaudits from visiting
clubs and fans.
South West Peninsula League secretary and
websmaster, Phil Hiscox has attended several
games and his online report of the home
game against Tavistock ended with the
following quote: “One word about the off
the field activity at Horsden Park, a superb
programme produced with plenty of gloss
and plenty of reading.”
The programme is designed and edited by
former local journalist Colin Gunney, who
reported on Elmore for the Devon & Somerset
News back in the late 1960s and early 1970s
has taken on the role of PR co-ordinator. He is
content managing the website and
editing/designing the matchday programme.
quickly the nickname was adopted and how
popular it became.”
Colin worked for 16 years as design/studio
manager for a London-based company
designing and producing corporate
communications for a range of national and
international clients. He set up as a freelance
designer in 2001.
Before leaving Tiverton in late 1972, he was
chairman of the Tiverton Youth Centre
Football Club (comprised mainly of young
Elmore players) which gained promotion
from the third to the first division of the
Exeter Sunday League in successive seasons.
A former golf club captain at The Club at
Mapledurham, Colin and his Reading-born
wife Linda, relocated back to his native
Devon last year where he continues his
design business from home.
In Reading, Colin was the Reading FC
correspondent for the Reading Chronicle for five
years, sports editor of the Berkshire Mercury and
later chief sub-editor of the Chronicle group. For
14 years he edited Reading FCs awardwinning matchday programme. He is also the
man behind the club’s nickname change
from The Biscuitmen to The Royals – he
persuaded the directors of Reading FC and
the Chronicle Group management to agree to
find a new nickname via a competition.
He is the press officer for the Berks Bucks &
Oxon (BB&O) Golf Partnership (producing a
quarterly 16-page magazine and content
managing their website); content manager of
the Oxford Ladies County Golf Association
(OLCGA) website; press officer for Caversham
Heath Golf Club (near Reading); designer and
editor of a 12-page staff magazine eight
times a year for the Royal Berkshire Hospital
as well as a quarterly 8-page magazine for
the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust;
and other assorted clients.”
Berkshire being a Royal county, The Royals