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Club
news
Ladies side formed: Elmore will be
also be running a Ladies team this season in
the Westward Developments Devon Women’s
Football League, Division1.
Jason Rainey
joins youth
team set-up:
The successful
Tiverton Town Under16 management
team of Jason Rainey
and Neil Hopkins has
moved across town
to join the Elmore
youth set-up.
The team is managed by Jade Maryan and
the secretary is Jo Hill.
The team will be coached by Adam Burden
and Adam Passmore.
Jason Rainey
New programme editor: 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.
Rainey, a defender
who played for
Elmore for 14 years in
the Western league,
and Hopkins will
manage Elmore’s
Under-18 side
alongside Matt
Howe.
All three are qualified
Level 2 coaches and
have extensive
experience at all
levels of football in
the Tiverton area.
Rainey also manages
the County U16s
team and is on the
management team
for the County U18s
side alongside Elmore
first team manager
Pete Buckingham.
Colin is content managing the website and
editing/designing the matchday programme.
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.
Neil Hopkins
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.
Matt Howe
Elmore to run third team: Elmore
will be running a third team in the Devon
and Exeter League Division 8 this season,
managed by Colin Butt with Shawn Legg
assistant manager.
Berkshire being a Royal county, The Royals
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