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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.
Ladies side formed: Elmore will be
running a Ladies team this season in the
Westward Developments Devon Women’s
Football League, Division1.
The team (pictured above) is managed by
Jade Maryan and the secretary is Jo Hill.
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.
The team will be coached by Adam Burden
and Adam Passmore.
New programme editor: Former
Colin is content managing the website and
editing/designing the matchday programme.
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.
Before leaving Tiverton in late 1972, he was
Berkshire being a Royal county, The Royals
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.
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