C&D and The Fox at Shipley join forces to sponsor Castlecroft Rangers

We are very happy to announce that in conjunction with The Fox at Shipley we have managed to secure sponsorship on the home shirts and training tops of the Castlecroft Rangers. However, this sponsorship does come with a twist: neither the C&D Consultancy name or The Fox at Shipley name will appear on the shirts. Instead, we've decided to allow the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity to benefit from the exposure.

Speaking to the Express & Star, our very own John Woodward explained:

"We are both big football fans, so wanted to get behind a local team that was going places. If we could help raise the profile of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity in the process then all the better ... Neil Taylor, owner of The Fox at Shipley, has already helped raise £75,000 for the charity after it saved his daughter’s life. When he approached me with the idea of sponsoring the team, it was a no brainer."

The goal of Castlecroft Rangers this season is to gain promotion into Division One of the Birmingham Amateur Football Assocoation League. We wish them luck and will enjoy watching their progress.

Source: Express & Star

Football Pontoon kicking off to raise money for two charities

We'd like to share with you the details of a great fundraising game being run by Graham Large which we hope our readers will be eager to get involved with, especially considering the prizes on offer as well as it being a good cause.

We'll leave it to Graham to explain the details below:

It's that time of year again, the football pontoon is back! And this year it is bigger and better!

As many of you will know, my good friend Neil Taylor is running the New York Marathon next month for two fantastic charities.

The first of which is Birmingham Children's Hospital, where Neil's eight-year-old daughter Kiahna has undergone five major heart operations. The second is Breast Cancer Now in memory of my friend Lucy Smith, wife of our close friend Jason Guy, who sadly passed away earlier this year, aged just 33, following her long battle with breast cancer.

To help Neil's fundraising efforts, I'm organising a game of Football Pontoon. The rules of which are as follows:

• Each person puts £10 in the pot and they are randomly assigned one of the 92 teams in the Football League. Then, once all 92 teams have been sold, the competition will begin.
• The idea is for your nominated team to accumulate exactly 21 goals by the end of any particular sequence of league games. Only league goals will count towards your total.
• If more than one team reaches 21 goals on the same day, the team that scored their 21st goal earliest in their game will be awarded 1st prize.
• Whether there is a full fixture card or not, the teams who play league games will still have their goals added to their total; this is simply the luck of the draw. In the event of a game being postponed no score will be added to either team.
• Goals are tallied up at the end of each match and the totals adjusted accordingly. If by the end of any particular game, your team's goals total exceeds 21, then you will "go bust" and have to start again from zero.
• You are not restricted to one number, so you are welcome to increase your chance of winning by buying a second team!

We have three fantastic prizes on offer for the top three placed teams in the pontoon.

FIRST PRIZE - A pair of tickets in the International Suite for a future Wolves home game, courtesy of John Woodward from C&D Consultancy.

SECOND PRIZE - A pair of tickets in the First4Staff executive box for a future Wolves home game, courtesy of Jason Guy from First4Staff.

THIRD PRIZE - A signed montage of Wolves legends Steve Bull and John Richards.

So, if you are interested in purchasing a team and helping us raise vital funds for these charities, please drop me a line at grahamlargeuk@gmail.com.

Thank you for your support.

Stuart Pearce believes he may get lung cancer because of asbestos exposure

Stuart Pearce is well known to most Brits as a former member of the England football team, but before turning professional he was in fact an electrician. He spent 4 years in the trade working for Brent council in London, but those four years have since filled him with great concern.

At the time, he was not told of the dangers of asbestos to his long term health, and he knows that his chance of exposure to asbestos at work and without safety equipment is very high while he was an apprentice. Understandably, he's a supporter of the HSE campaign to ensure everyone is aware of the substance's dangers.

Book an asbestos awareness course now as awareness training could save your life.

Source: Mirror and Austin Osuide for the image.

Wolves fans can now take a virtual tour of Molineux Stadium

John Woodard has been a fan and supporter of Wolves since 1964, so we couldn't pass up a chance to promote the football club on the 125th anniversary of the Molineux Stadium.

All Wolves fans, and any football fan for that matter, won't fail to appreciet the virtual tour of the Molineux Stadium that has been created to mark the anniversary celebration.

Head on over the the Football Stadium Virtual Tours website to check out Molineux for yourself, right in your browser.

At What Price For The Beautiful Game?

New C&D Consultant Brent Gill gives his thoughts on the work being carried out to bring the World Cup to Brazil and beyond.

At What Price For The Beautiful Game?

Brazil 2014, Qatar 2022, ? 2026.

Being a Sheffield lad the home of the world’s oldest football club (Hallam FC). I was alarmed to read about the appalling Accident figures while building the infrastructure and stadiums for the next two World Cups. I’m not going to throw figures and statistics about willy nilly, but there is cause for concern from any decent specimen of mankind.

These people are having to work long hours under enormous pressure even though official sources deny there is any pressure applied. While the reality is quite the reverse. Even more so at the moment in Brazil many deadlines have been missed and the chances of keeping the tournament are getting slimmer. My point is Great Britain is one of the safest countries to work in. I’m not saying by any means we are perfect, but we have a safety culture in the main.

We have all played our parts, from our fore fathers to you. The mistakes that have happened in the past have helped to mould our future and will continue to do so. Transparency and accountability form a good one-two when combined “take control and show the reasoning behind taking control” simple in it?

Back to the unfortunate souls currently engaged on various projects in Brazil, the accidents, the injuries, and the non payment of wages no doubt all helped along with the national protest against the World Cup. These are lessons learnt long ago in Great Britain (sadly it still happens here). What legacy are FIFA and the rest of the World leaving to the home of the” beautifully played game”? Death, widows, maiming and disability.

Now for a couple of shocking facts for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Up to date 28/01/14, there have been 188 deaths of immigrant Nepalese contractors due to cardiac arrest or cardiac related disease! Why has got to be the question along with how can so many within a wide age group succumb to a related disease. Could it be working long hours in 40 degree heat? Is it their diet? Or lifestyle? The simple answer is NO to all the above. After some surfing of many web sites the answer is! Cardiac arrest or cardiac diseases are not notifiable to the authorities’ simple in it. The current estimate for accidents/injuries for the duration of the construction phase is 4,000! What a legacy to leave behind. While we enjoy our World Cup will they?

We are all in it together to try and make it a safer world.

Thank the lord I work in Great Britain.

Remember there is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people who don’t ask questions.

If you’re not sure ASK! Don’t be Stupid.

Stadium demolition in Brazil makes way for 2014 World Cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup may still be 3 years away, but at least demolition fans are going to have some memorable moments in the run up to the tournament.

A World Cup of course means stadiums that can hold tens of thousands of people, and a spectacle for the world. So Brazil, the hosts in 2014, want to make sure they provide facilities that are worthy of the event. That means demolishing old buildings and stadiums to make way for new ones.

The video included below is just one example of this redevelopment. Of course, our friend Fabio Bruno is involved, and although details are scarce at the moment, it looks as though controlled implosions of the Castelão Stadium will be carried out. As you can see, having the rest of the stadium still standing helps to control the dust.



We look forward to seeing more of these World Cup 2014 implosions.

Brazil prepares for 2014 World Cup with Fonte Nova stadium implosion

Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup and therefore needs to do a bit of demolition to remove the old, rundown stadiums and make way for new ones.

The latest is the Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador, which was imploded on Sunday. It required 700 kilos of explosives to raise to the ground, and sparked a lot of emotion with locals due to memories of people dying there when stands collapsed in 2007.

You can see some more upclose footage in the video below:



Source: Demolition News

Football and construction sites do not mix

The World Cup is over, and we can all get back to enjoying football again. But a word of warning, if you see a football on a construction site do the right thing and lock it up until the end of the day. Otherwise, something like this could easily happen:

The best match calendar for the World Cup 2010

Today is the day it all begins. One whole month of the best football players in the world representing their country in South Africa for the World Cup 2010.

To ensure you don't miss a single minute of the pitch action you need a good calendar telling you when the matches are on, and who is play who. And we think we've found the best one.

The image above doesn't do it justice. You need Adobe Flash installed for it to work which you can get here.

Not sure you have Flash? Then just visit this link and Adobe will tell you.

Now on to the calendar. Click here to have it open.

Free West Bromwich Albion Football tickets!

We have some tickets to give away!

There's a FREE pair of West Bromwich Albion Football tickets to the following games if you book 2 or more training courses (subject to availability):

Sat 12 Sep 09 Plymouth
Tue 15 Sep 09 Doncaster
Sat 26 Sep 09 Crystal Palace
Sat 17 Oct 09 Reading
Tue 20 Oct 09 Swansea
Sat 31 Oct 09 Watford

Contact Harpreet to make a booking and visit our Forthcoming Courses page to see what courses are coming up.