For the second league tournament in-a-row our 65s rocked up at the Littledown Centre in Bournemouth to continue their strong start to the season. It was a bright but chilly mid-November Wednesday morning. Starting the day in third spot, the squad of 11 expected to be challenging the top clubs ahead of the Christmas break.…
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Round Two of the Dorset Walking Football League would be the last of 2025 before resuming in January. The weather was good, our captain was back, as was our goalkeeper, and we started the day in fourth place. We were hopeful to push on and finish 2025 on a high. Unfortunately, Dorchester weren’t able to…
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After a bright start to the season, both our squads arrived at the Littledown Centre in Bournemouth for Round Two of the Dorset Walking Football League in buoyant mood. As well as arriving with confidence, we also arrived with a history making Toko Robbins – more on that in a bit. After Round One of…
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Some may have wondered if our third place finish in the Dorset Walking Football League 65s last season was an over-achievement. On the evidence of League Round One this season, maybe those ponderings would have been misplaced. Our 65s squad started the season with a new manager in the shape of Terry Benson. Terry’s been…
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The new 60s season kicked off on a Sunday teatime in mid-October. This season there are nine teams competing with Wimborne joining the league for the first time. The rain was supposed to stop around lunchtime – it’s fair to say it didn’t, and the wind was pretty unpleasant. Despite that all teams turned up…
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For a while now, many of our tournament reports for DSWFC 50s have mentioned potential. Well, the new season has started with us tapping into that potential from the outset. Our new-look Thunder and strengthened Storm squads arrived at our home venue, The County Ground, in Hamworthy for the opening league fixtures of the Dorset…
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Intro and tournament report by John Gray After Dorchester relinquished their place to Dexter’s Eagles, I’d been looking forward to the Regional Finals for four weeks. As the 50’s had won their group in Dorset Qualifying we had around 20 players and supporters making the trip, so we hired a minibus and made a day…
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After a successful county qualifying tournament in August, we earnt the right to represent Dorset at the South-West Regional Finals of the FA Walking Football Cup 2025 in Exeter. Our 60s squad had also secured a place (through the back door) to the regional finals. There were so many of us we hired a minibus…
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At the beginning of August, Dexter Sports Walking Football Club entered the FA Walking Football Cup (FAWFC) for the first time. After the Dorset County qualifying tournament it seemed our DSWFC 60s Eagles team had just fallen short of qualifying for the Regional Finals. Until now… The initial stage of the FAWFC are the county…
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Intro and Eagles reporting by John Gray Having grown up with the FA Cup being a prestigious tournament, when Andy (Madden) first mentioned the FA Walking Football Cup my thoughts were immediately on the final being played at Wembley! Of course, that was a dream. But what the tournament did do was offer an opportunity…
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