Gainsborough Trinity
Gainsborough Trinity
FOOTBALL CLUB
This is my fourth season involved with Gainsborough Trinity having
initially become involved with the matchday programme, and
quickly assuming a number of other key roles in the development of
the communication output of the football club.
What started out as an offer to write a couple of articles
for programmes up and down the country, turned into
pulling together all aspects of the programme,
whilst at the same time taking photographs
on a matchday, having found out
the club didn’t, at the time, have a
photographer.
This was the first of many
things that I hadn’t done
before, but turned my hand
to, as I felt it would help
to raise the profile of the
football club. Since then,
I have established the
club’s Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and YouTube
accounts, growing our
online
presence
and
increasing
the
name
Gainsborough Trinity!
If that wasn’t enough,
this pre-season saw the birth
of Gainsborough Trinity Radio,
offering full match commentary
to those not able to make it to
whichever destination, up and down
the country the Holy Blues are heading!
Again, something I never could have
imagined doing five years ago!
So all in all, Gainsborough Trinity, a friendly club with
something of a blank canvas – a supportive chairman – and the
sky the limit, I set about an all-consuming project, to help put
Gainsborough Trinity on the map!
I have a beautiful wife and daughter, who
have had to be so understanding. Juggling
my time is incredibly difficult. As well
as my family, I have a full-time job
and put in countless hours, writing
articles,
proof-reading
and
phoning round and emailing
contributors – and that’s just
on the programme side of
things.
When you start to
factor in the hours that
can be spent editing and
polishing match highlights
for the YouTube channel,
including the graphics
associated to them, it all
mounts up!
Fortunately,
with a fairly settled squad this
time around, the number of
texts requesting hurried press
releases has been something of a
plus!
With two games a week the norm,
particularly this season (it seems a hell of
a lot more intensive this time round) I really
seem to be chasing my tail. Fitting this all around
a full-time job, where I am working long hours in a factory – I
gave up teaching – so I could have the football side of things in
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