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Terry Robson - Mayor of Hexham

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24th August 2010

Newcastle United’s Hexham born goalkeeper Fraser Foster has joined Celtic on a yearlong loan. The twenty two year old spent last year on loan at Norwich City, where he helped the canneries to the First Division Championship with some rave reviews. With competition hot at Newcastle Fraser will gain valuable experience in the Scottish Premier League.

Congratulations to Ryan Gardner who play's for our under 12's who has been offered a trial extension at Carlisle United. He is currently on a 6 week academy trial with the club.

This does however mean he will be unavailable for our Sunday matches over this period, but hopefully will be available for our midweek games at the start of the season.

I'm sure this will be the first of many opportunities for our players to experience playing at a professional club. author JW

Congratulations to Ashington born Michael Oliver, he became the youngest Premier League official ever when he took charge of Birmingham City v Blackburn Rovers at St Andrews (21/08/10). Michael made the national list in 2007 and to date his biggest match was the 2007 Conference play off final at Wembley between Exeter and Morecambe. The club know Michael as he works with the Northumberland FA assisting the development of referees in the county. His Premier League Debut resulted in a 2-1 victory for Birmingham with Michael producing five yellow cards and giving a stone wall penalty. The game had been pretty dour until the penalty award and at that stage BBC reporter Les Roopanarine reported in his match report

“The obvious contender for man of the match at that stage was Oliver, who at 25 years and 182 days old was making an assured Premier League debut.”

The new season is almost upon us so it’s time to start this years under 8’s preseason training. There will be a training session/parents meeting on Thursday 22nd July on the football pitch at Hexham Middle school at 5pm. Everyone is welcome providing they will be under 8 on 1st September this year, the session will last for one hour and you will have the chance to meet our two new Level One coaches Matthew Wilson and Thomas North who will be coaching the team. There will be two teams who will both play in the Tynedale League on a Saturday morning, as always we will be looking for some parental assistance with the team administration and some match day help so any volunteers would be appreciated.