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When taking his dog for a walk in his local park Dave Russell, our former Chairman and current Manager of the Terriers mini-soccer squad, got into conversation with another walker and the talk got around to Little League and the tremendous opportunities it gives for children to engage in sport. To cut a long story short Dave was asked by his companion if Little League provided any activities in which his young grandson could participate, the upshot being that Dave started training sessions for about 5 or 6 boys and girls aged from five upwards. Word quickly spread and soon Dave found that his sessions had grown to such an extent that he had to split the children into two groups to cater for the varying ages and experience.
There is no doubt that these sessions were, and continue to be, very popular and for the last few months these children who by now were known as the ‘Bantams’ have been playing games of football on the Little League mini-soccer pitch every Saturday after the mini-soccer matches have finished with the teams being made up on the day and divided in terms of age and ability.
  The parents of the ‘Bantams’ are very enthusiastic and supported the league with the children taking part in the sponsored walk in October last, they have also obtained sponsorship from the Randall Tavern for a new playing kit. Dave was also successful in securing a second kit sponsored by Royal Mail.
At our Cup Final day on Sunday 14th May the Bantams will have a share of the glory when they play ‘friendly’ matches after the Mini-soccer Cup Final and before the Main League Cup Final, we hope for a good turn-out on this day so that Dave can form four teams to play two matches.
Some photographs of the Bantams taken recently are shown below, you can see that despite some of the games taking place in bitterly cold weather- hence the track suit bottoms - all of the girls and boys are very enthusiastic.
 
 
The following photographs were taken when the Bantams played two exhibition matches on Cup Final day and the two teams are wearing recently sponsored kits, the maroon/blue by Royal Mail and blue/red by patrons of Randall Tavern. Included on the back row are the Bantams managers Dave Russell and Tracy Harris together with Tracy’s daughter Sophie.
Week 5 onward
The Bantams and the Wildcats played some demonstration matches at the 2006/07 Cup Finals and here are the teams:
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