Rotherfield United Walking Football Sides Top Tables

Players at Rotherfield United Walking Football teams aim to push on from their performances so far in the Oxfordshire league.

With a four-month winter break coming into effect, the club, which fields three teams in the over-60s, over-65s and over-70s leagues, are clear at the top of two of their respective tables while the over-65s are bottom of theirs.

Les Upton, 64, who organises the teams and plays in the over-60s side said: “There’s a great standard of football and played in a convivial spirit. The over-70s have already won the cup competition this year and are nine points clear and undefeated in their league.”

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Matches are played once a month on a Wednesday or Sunday during August, September and October, then there is a mid-season break until competition re-starts in March, continuing into April and May. They are played at Barton Park, in Oxford, and each team play all the other four or five teams each day. Other teams include Oxford, Bicester, Charlbury, Abingdon, Brackley.

Club member Ian Beale added: “We take a squad of nine so that allows substitutes to be made during a match and players to be rotated between matches.

“We use our normal twice-a-week club sessions to allow the squads to play as a team in the week before the league matches so they bond together, practice routines, get familiar with playing positions and rehearse tactics.”

Source: https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/football/710632/rotherfied-sides-top-tables.html

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