Flowers

The only downside of the new football season is that my good friend and fellow big kid Kev is no longer with us to see the ups and downs of ITFC. He loved going to football and enjoyed the banta. Throughout his illness no matter what the weather or what kind of a day/week he was having he always wanted to go to the match.

The club are very good in making match days as easy and enjoyable as possible for their disabled supporters and their carers including free undercover car parking near to the ground. They also helped with organising tickets and parking for the away matches that we went to with him, the last one the long trip to Doncaster at the end of last season, at least the last match he attended was a win and also relegation for the home side something that would have bought a wry smile from him!

Since his death in June the club have been really supportive, I asked the club if we could take some flowers to the first home league match, they more than obliged by keeping Tracey's seat and his wheelchair space free for the match and allowing us into the ground on Friday evening to leave them. They also printed a small piece in the programme in memorial.

Sometimes ITFC is about more than what happens on the pitch.

From the programme