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Perry K, John H, Ollie S, Phil C. Graham N, Mark K, Paul W. An enjoyable way to start the week, helped by the the rain staying away until we'd finished our football. The regular visit to Oxfordshire saw hosts Abingdon Almost Athletic, Highworth Town, Charlbury Town and Calne Town slugging it our for bragging rights in another friendly round-robin.   We got off to a good start against AAA with Mark scoring the only goal of the 20 minute match and racking up three points with a 1 v 0 win. Next up was Highworth, who had our usual keeper, Charlie, in goal!! We took advantage of this added incentive to score, which Paul, Mark and Charlie himself duly did - a  close quarters shot from Paul came in hard and rattled the post before hitting the diving keeper on the back of the head and crossing the line, and t his is now recorded as Charlie's first ever goal for Calne Town Walking Football Club.  The defence played their part under mounting pressure, making sure only a single goal...

Back Row: Graham N, Rob S, Phil C, Perry K. Front Row: Richard G, Alan B, Paul W, Mark K. The rain stayed away and the sun made an appearance on Wednesday 23 August, and eight O65s (with concessions) walking football teams came together to compete in the 2nd AAA Festival, with the winners taking the Derek Nichols Memorial Trophy. Following a mixed set of results, the 'Nero Verdi' finished 4th with 9 points, this put us into the Cup play-offs against top place Bicester. The bottom 4 teams play-off for the Plate. High Wycombe  1 v 1   Calne Town Oxford United  0 v 0  Calne Town Calne Town  3 v 1   Rotherfield Calne Town  0 v 0   Maidenhead Bicester  2 v 0  Calne Town Calne Town  3 v 0   Abingdon Yellows Calne Town  0 v 2 Abingdon Pinks We played out a 0 v 0 draw which took us to penalty shoot-out, winning 5-4 and earning our place in the final against the Abingdon Pinks - a replay of last years final! H...

  Back Row: Jon H, Graham N, Charlie N, Phil C, Andy B. Front Row: Paul W, Richard G, Alan B. A day to remember!  AAA put on another great 3-touch football mini-tournament, which saw four teams; AAAWFC, STWFC, BWFC and CTWFC compete, not for a trophy or medals but for bragging rights.  After some nice league games and play-offs, the final was a local derby match... Swindon v Calne, and due to time constraints it would be decided with a Golden Goal.  On paper the firm favourites where Swindon, and as expected they took the game to Calne, hitting the 'wood-work' on a number of occasions and allowing Calne keeper Charlie to show the full extent of his goal keeping skills.  But this game wasn't played on paper, it was played on G3 and Calne made and took their opportunity on the pitch.  After a short period of pressure from Calne, Swindon conceded a free-kick around the halfway line. It was quickly taken and resulted in a decisive cross which was met by our num...