This time last year we celebrated one of our 50s players topping the Dexter Sports Fantasy Premier League (FPL) mini-league. FPL is the official Premier League fantasy football game, played by millions across the world every season. The game has been around for a while now. You might know it better as fantasy football? From…
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In 2015, Paul Kybert set his mind to creating a walking football team as part of the Dexter Sports family of teams. Ten years later, we’ve 60 members, four teams, and a healthy looking future. To commemorate our tenth anniversary, a walking football extravaganza was arranged. Fifteen teams gathered at our home stadium in Hamworthy,…
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Dexter Sports Walking Football Club have renewed their membership to The Walking Football Association (WFA) again. Membership grants the club WFA affiliation status and comes with a number of benefits. The affiliation will last until 31 March 2026. The WFA describe their purpose as being “…to promote and facilitate the playing of Walking Football in…
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A controversial new walking football rule looks like it could be introduced for the 2025/26 season. The new directive from UEFA is being passed down to The FA and could be adopted by all walking football leagues in the country. The new rule will restrict players to just five touches when in possession. Presumably this…
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Not being a fashion critic, or very good at football (walking or otherwise), I’m in no way qualified to review our new kit! However, being someone who always has an opinion, I just can’t help myself! Please bear in mind these are my views and not those of Dexter Sports Walking Football Club or any…
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With a squad of eight players, the squad made their league debut in the Dorset Walking Football 65s League and got off to a positive start. The tournament was held in Dorchester on Thursday 17 October 2024. Clive Robinson and Jonathan Martin made their full debuts in midfield and both performed very well. The rest…
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The start of the 2024/25 Dorset FA Walking Football Season was disappointing for the Dexter Sports 50s teams. Despite doubling the chances to win matches, DSWFC50 managed to avoid marking their results card with any W’s! Between the two teams, Storm and Thunder, just two draws were achieved from eight matches. However, it wasn’t all…
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This coming Sunday sees Dexters Storm and Dexters Thunder enter the Dorset Walking Football League 50s division. For the first time we’ll enter two teams for the season. The way it’ll work is as follows – now try and keep up… we’ve named six players to play for Storm all season. Those players cannot play…
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Dexter Sports Walking Football Club have received their new kit for the 2024/25 and players have also chosen their own squad numbers for the season. Forty-four players are on the squad list for the coming season. Every shirt number from 1 to 30 has been claimed, then there’s some randomness up to squad number 89,…
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Here’s a review of what’s new in the Dorset Walking Football Laws for the 2024/25 season. The new DWFL season starts this Autumn in mid-October. This time round Dexter Sports will be entering four teams across the various age categories, and they’ll all need to understand two significant law changes. These changes involve the ‘not…
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