On this Monday: we look back on Maidstone's dominating 4-0 win over Worthing in the National League South and Bartholomew talks to the British Powerlifting Champion about her journey to success.
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00:00 Hello and welcome along to Invicta Sport, the only show on your TV dedicated to wrapping
00:19 up all of Kent's sporting action. I'm Bartholomew Hall and here's what to expect on this Monday,
00:24 the 25th of September. 60 kilometres. We speak to the charity owner raising money for the
00:31 homeless by walking from London to Medway. Stone powered, Georgia Lacobi's side go into
00:38 the top seven with a dominating 4-0 win in the National South. And the weightlifting
00:44 woman from Sunbridge using her platform to inspire others. We'll be speaking to her live.
00:50 But we start this evening as tributes are pouring in for a football manager who tragically
00:54 lost his life last week. 35-year-old Mitchell Bonney died whilst working at Twickenham Rugby
01:00 Stadium. CAME TV spoke to him just weeks ago as he was campaigning to save his football
01:05 team from having to close. His family have described him as the most loving man. When
01:10 I met Mitchell, it was clear from the first few seconds just how much passion he had for
01:15 giving something back to the children he coached. He was the most loving man with a heart of
01:20 gold and he would do anything for anyone. The words of Mitchell Bonney's wife following
01:25 his sudden death whilst working at Twickenham Stadium. The 35-year-old was a manager at
01:30 Upchurch Colts FC where he coached the club's under-9s boys team. It was there where his
01:36 wife Kayleigh says he touched the hearts of so many people. In a Facebook post she wrote,
01:41 "My Mitchell, my husband, my love, my best friend, my soulmate was taken away from me
01:48 and my children. He absolutely adored us and we were his everything. My heart is broken
01:54 and is shattered. I will never understand why he's been taken away from us. It's far
01:59 too soon." CAME TV spoke to Mitchell just two months ago when he was campaigning to
02:05 save his team from disbanding. He spoke to us highly of the team that he loved so much.
02:10 "They've done superbly well. They've listened. They're a great bunch of players, really good
02:16 characters and again they've just developed and I don't care about the wins. I don't care
02:22 about the scorelines. I don't care about how many goals we scored at the end of the season.
02:26 When I look at each player, an individual player, I look at them and go, 'Right, have
02:29 you improved? Have I done well for you? Have you got a smile on your face? Do you want
02:33 to come back and play again next year?' And if all those are yeses, brilliant. That's
02:37 what football's all about. It's non-competitive. I shouldn't be looking at the wins, the goals.
02:41 It's just down to their general happiness and development."
02:45 In this clip, Mitchell can be heard thanking the boys for behaving and coping so well whilst
02:49 a camera was around.
03:02 According to the Metropolitan Police, Mitchell was working when he fell and died. No other
03:06 details have been made public, however the Health and Safety Inspectorate says that an
03:10 investigation has now been opened.
03:13 The club has now been taken over by Mitchell's best friend, who organised a memorial match
03:17 on Sunday where friends and family set off balloons in his honour.
03:22 If nothing else, the Upchurch Colts boys will always remember Mitchell Bonney by the mantra
03:26 he instilled in them.
03:38 Bartholomew Hall for KMTV.
03:43 And of course, all of our thoughts are with Mitchell and his family at this time.
03:48 Now for a look at the headlines and we start with Kent Cricket this evening who go into
03:52 the final week of the county championship hoping to avoid relegation.
03:56 Soon to be Director of Cricket Simon Cook says he wants to focus on fielding as he believes
04:01 the team doesn't currently have what he calls a true brand of cricket at the moment. He
04:06 told Kent Online that being mentally switched on and trying to make a difference in the
04:10 field would help the team work as a unit. Kent currently sits just one point ahead of
04:15 second bottom Middlesex in the relegation battle as they prepare to host Lancashire
04:19 at Canterbury from Tuesday.
04:22 Platteaf driver Jake Hill had a mixed weekend in the British Touring Car Championships penultimate
04:27 round. A tricky call to swap to wet weather tyres under changing Silverstone conditions
04:32 before the opening race meant that Hill could fly away from the pack after starting fourth
04:36 on the grid. But despite the win, the MB Motorsport drivers' title hopes are now over after falling
04:42 down the order and out of the championship fight in race two following misfire problems.
04:47 Ash Sutton from Rootams Napa Racing UK team leads the championship going into the final
04:53 rounds set for Brands Hatch on the 7th and 8th of October.
04:58 Silverstone's Sean Noakes has extended his perfect professional record after fighting
05:02 past a hand injury to beat Lucas Barabas on points.
05:08 A first round knockdown plus some assured strength allowed Noakes to power through all
05:12 six rounds against his tough opponent. The final score was put as 59-54.
05:18 Sean's brother Sam Noakes was due to join him on the undercard at Wembley's Ovo Arena.
05:23 However, due to a last minute pull out from his opponent, the fight was called off. The
05:28 main event ended with British heavyweight Joe Joyce being knocked out in the third round
05:32 by China's Zhili Zhang.
05:35 And Owen Lacek's third period goal secured a 4-3 victory for the Invicta Dynamos over
05:41 the Chelmsford Chieftains, marking their second consecutive win in the Southern League Division
05:46 1.
05:47 After initially trailing in Gillingham, the Dynamos pushed ahead in the 4-1 in the second
05:51 period. And despite a late Chieftain surge, the Dynamos held on for the win. Head coach
05:56 Carl Lennon says that the scoreline doesn't dictate the game and that there are things
06:00 his players can learn better.
06:05 Now we'll have our usual round-up of the football fixtures in the second half, but first of
06:09 all it's time to meet our first guest. Darren Shaw runs the Chatham homeless charity One
06:14 Big Family, and on the 15th October he's going to take on a mammoth 60km walk from London,
06:20 Victoria, all the way to Medway with 30 other volunteers. I caught up with Darren earlier
06:25 today.
06:26 We wanted to do a soup kitchen in London, Victoria and we wanted to do one here. So
06:31 we kind of think, you know what, this walk from where we do that soup kitchen to this
06:34 one in Chatham. So we came up with the idea six years ago and then we kind of set off,
06:41 I sort of planned the route. I work in London every night so I kind of managed to sort the
06:45 route out. And then yeah, we started to write, okay, let's try and do this walk from Victoria
06:51 to London. We don't know how long it's going to take, Victoria to Chatham, sorry. We don't
06:56 know how long it's going to take, but it ended up taking 15 hours the first one. And there
07:01 was only six of us. And every year it's grown. And so we've increased it to 60km this year.
07:07 So we're going to take in South Bank along to Tower Bridge first. Yeah, and we've got
07:12 like 30 walkers doing it this year. So yeah, we're trying to raise some much needed funds.
07:17 So it's hard work. It's okay when you're running it because you're on your toes all the time.
07:22 When you're kind of plodding flat footed and you've got to make sure that everyone's okay,
07:27 because obviously you've got some people that can walk fast, some people that can walk slow.
07:30 So we always made the rule that we start together, we finish together. I mean, now 30 of you
07:36 as well, that's going to be a big group walking through. But also you're doing it overnight
07:39 as well. The conditions are going to be tough. Yeah. So far, the weather's not looking too
07:44 bad this year. Two years ago, absolutely poured down all night. Strong winds. So luckily we
07:52 have a big van following us with spare clothing and if we need it. But it does get cold about
07:56 three, four o'clock in the morning, you start getting a bit tired. But luckily, you know,
08:01 they have banter in the group. And then we start doing our social medias to say, look,
08:06 we're still doing the walk, please sponsor us kind of thing. And you know, when the sponsors
08:11 start coming in, it kind of gees you up that little bit more. The worst part for us is
08:16 Gravesend to Chatham because that road just goes on forever. And that's the most frustrating
08:22 bit. And yeah, we plan to get back in about 14 hours this year and be back in Chatham
08:27 about 1pm. I mean, I couldn't do that myself. But of course, it is all for a brilliant cause
08:32 for the charity, but also doing it overnight. Does that kind of expose you to kind of the
08:38 realities of, you know, the people that you're doing this all for, for homeless people? Yeah,
08:42 absolutely. And obviously, when we're leaving Victoria, the homeless problem around Victoria
08:45 is horrendous. And so, you know, I mean, we normally buy them coffee and stuff like that
08:50 before we start. And we carry sleeping bags and stuff with us. If we're passing anyone
08:54 in doorways in Bexley Heath, stuff like that, and they haven't got anything, we'll say that,
08:58 you know, leave a sleeping bag. We won't disturb them. We'll just leave some by the side of
09:01 them if they're asleep. So yeah, so it's kind of got double purposes really when we're doing
09:05 it. So yeah, it's gonna be a bit tougher, but I've been training a lot harder this year.
09:11 What does that involve? What's the sort of, how do you train for a 60k walk? Speed walking.
09:14 A lot of walking just on roads, on solid ground rather than treadmills or grass. So you can
09:20 get your trainers and your feet used to that pounding on the concrete. Yeah, and make sure
09:25 you've got the right trousers on, so no chafing, that kind of stuff. So yeah, so it's just
09:30 a bit of preparation needed. I didn't do as much last year and I kind of suffered with
09:33 really bad legs last year. Yeah, so what's the recovery like afterwards? Are you kind
09:37 of, I mean, how long before you get back out there? Well, usually, I mean, last year we
09:41 got in at 2 o'clock, 2pm. Fantastic welcome back in Chatham High Street. And then we,
09:48 I went home, slept for an hour and then went back down to the soup kitchen in the evening
09:51 at 6pm. Wow. So yeah, a lot of people went back and obviously slept. Yeah. The next day
09:55 I couldn't walk very well, that's for sure. But yeah, just straight back down to the soup
10:00 kitchen a couple of hours later and get on with what we should be doing. And any plans
10:04 already for what might happen in the future? Are you gonna carry it on? Well, that's what
10:08 we're gonna see this year. We've got a bigger number doing it. We'll see how it goes. It
10:12 is getting harder to raise money because obviously the cost of living is horrendous for everybody.
10:18 So yeah, so we'll see how it goes. And afterwards we'll be saying never ever doing that again.
10:23 But we've said that for the last five years. You're still going on to six years. Yeah,
10:26 who knows when we get back. Just before we wrap up, tell me a bit about the charity as
10:31 a whole. How can people sort of support you? So we've been going for eight years in the
10:34 local community here. And we've been doing outreach on the streets. We've got a nine
10:39 bedroom accommodation in Chatham where guys get a chance to turn their lives around. They
10:44 get detox and stuff like that and just learn life skills. Because you know, when they're
10:49 on the street for so long, they forget how to do the basic things. So it's a bit of hand
10:52 holding and you know, getting all their bills sorted out there, you know, their money and
10:57 bank and stuff like that. It's to raise money for that. We've got the winter night show
11:02 coming up in October, which will run from the end of October till March and on open
11:07 and most nights when it's cold, just to keep people safe and alive basically. And yeah,
11:14 and so obviously for the soup kitchen, we're really busy and obviously any donation through
11:22 One Big Family on Facebook or on Twitter is amazing. We're blessed that we get a lot of
11:29 help from local communities. I can imagine. Well Darren, thank you very much for joining
11:33 us today and sharing your journey and good luck for the walk. Thank you very much indeed
11:36 for your time. Thank you. Now we've reached half time, which means it's time for a break.
11:40 But coming up, we'll have the usual roundup of the weekend's football fixtures with a
11:44 focus on a refreshed Maidstone and we'll be speaking live to the woman from Tunbridge
11:48 set to represent the country at the World Powerlifting Competition later this year.
11:53 You don't want to miss it.
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15:08 Hello and welcome back to Invicta Sport live on KMTV. Now for a look at the football fixtures
15:15 from over the weekend. Maidstone United, who were relegated from the National League South
15:20 last season, hosted fourth placed Worthing at the weekend. Now they've not really hit
15:26 their stride, winning less than half of their games so far. Well, this week they hosted
15:30 Worthing, as I mentioned, to make it two wins in a row for the first time this season. Let's
15:35 see how they got on and Kent's other highest flying clubs at the weekend.
15:39 This week's action kicks off at Gallagher Stadium where Maidstone United put in their
15:44 best performance of the season as they comfortably dispatched up Worthing. The Stones took the
15:49 lead in the 15th minute after Levi Amanche flicked the ball into the path of Vanju Smith,
15:54 who finished confidently past Roko Reese.
15:56 Worthing almost found an equaliser ten minutes later after a well-worked corner routine was
16:06 put wide by Aaron Rakin. The Rebels looked threatening again after Danny Cashman's header
16:11 from close range was well dealt with by Lucas Colvin.
16:14 The Stones made sure to punish Worthing for their missed chances as Levi Amanche headed
16:20 in from close range after the Rebels failed to clear their lines. Maidstone carried their
16:25 momentum into the second half as they continued to threaten the Rebels' goal. They eventually
16:30 did get their third after some haphazard play by the Rebels. Lamar Reynolds' cross was brought
16:35 down well by Amanche before smashing it past Reese to grab his second of the game.
16:40 Worthing's afternoon went from bad to worse after O'Day Martin Sorondo was sent off for
16:47 receiving two yellows in the space of 30 seconds. But the Rebels wouldn't go away without a
16:52 fight. Jake Robinson's diving effort was superbly saved by Colvin who did well to keep a clean
16:58 sheet. The Stones then put the finishing touches to a perfect afternoon as substitute Razak
17:04 Coleman-DeGroft emphatically finished at the near post to wrap up the game. The win means
17:09 that the Stones remain in seventh place in the National League South as manager George
17:13 Elokobi praised his side's work ethic.
17:16 It's not been easy based on the injuries we've had and the suspensions. We've been stretched
17:22 but again we're having players coming back and the group is just staying together. The
17:26 togetherness is amazing. They've stayed together, they've been working and they're doing a job
17:32 and they're helping each other and you saw that out here today.
17:36 Sticking with the National League South and Dartford emerged victorious over Tunbridge
17:40 in a highly anticipated Kent derby while Dover failed to win again keeping them in the bottom
17:45 three for another week. Moving on to League 2 and Gillingham suffered a shock loss to
17:50 19th place Torncaster. The defeat means the Gills have now lost their hold on the top
17:55 spot in the league with three defeats in the last five games. And on to the National League
18:00 where Eftsfleet United found themselves on the wrong side of a route.
18:04 Altrincham put six past the fleet as they fell to 14th in the National League with just
18:09 one win in their last five. Manager Dennis Kutriup said his side simply weren't good enough.
18:15 We definitely need to watch the game back and need to learn from it because as I said
18:19 it can't happen that we concede six goals away. That's not good enough and as I said
18:24 I saw some positive things in the second half where we should have scored and could have
18:27 scored but it doesn't matter when you go home with a 1-6 defeat you can't find too many
18:32 positive things. And finally coming to the Isthmian League Premier where Chatham Town
18:37 convincingly picked up the victory against Lewes. The win means Chatham hold on to the
18:41 top spot in the league while Folkestone remain in ninth with only one win in their last five.
18:47 And that's your round up of this week's football action.
18:50 And finally this evening a woman from Tunbridge is set to make her debut at the WPC World
18:56 Powerlifting Championships to represent the UK. Helen Redhead found the sport after struggling
19:01 with severe eating disorders for more than 30 years. She moved to Kent after finding
19:06 her coach Jason Swalwell and has since gone on to hold multiple British records and become
19:11 British Champion. Well joining me on the line now is Helen and her coach Jason. Thank you
19:17 both very much for joining me. It's really good to have you here. First of all congratulations
19:22 on being selected to represent the UK. Helen what was your reaction?
19:28 Disbelief at first because I've never really done anything like this at all in my life
19:36 but then just a massive amount of pride. It's just incredible to be representing the country
19:43 in a sport. It's beyond my wildest dreams.
19:46 And you've had quite a journey of course getting there and Jason has had such a big
19:51 part in that being your coach. Jason how much distance has Helen come in all of this?
19:58 An incredible distance in a very, very short space of time. There's a saying within strength
20:07 sports, they call it old man strength because it takes years and years and years to just
20:13 sort of inch your way forward. So I've known Helen what now about 18 months. I took her
20:21 on as a remote power lifter just through another lifter I had and you could instantly see there
20:28 was talent there. She had a very, very big deadlift. And so we went through a few competitions
20:36 through a different federation first of all and then to the federation she lifts under
20:40 now and I lift at the same time as. We've just gone from strength to strength. We were
20:45 at the British Championships single lifts in May, took both the deadlift and the bench
20:50 and then full power was where we do the full squat bench and deadlift all in one day.
20:55 You took the title there and a couple of records there so it's been a bit of a whirlwind to be fair.
21:01 I mean it sounds incredible. Helen 160kg I believe that's your highest deadlift.
21:08 Looking back on it now, you wouldn't have believed that when you first started that
21:12 you'd be able to achieve this I assume. No, no. I mean I remember a few couple of years
21:18 ago being in a gym back home in Manchester and I was really struggling to get 70kg off
21:24 the floor. Terrible form, just feeling disappointed and then what I did was stuck with it. I stuck
21:31 with it in a very general strength training sense for a while and then obviously came
21:36 to Jason's coaching and I've just gone from strength to strength with it. But yeah,
21:42 I would never have believed it. I used to see people, men really, in that gym and think
21:47 how are they doing that? It just looks impossible and now I guess people look at me doing that
21:53 and it's a really strange feeling. No, absolutely. I mean we have pictures that
21:58 we've been showing and that we will continue to show through this. It looks unbelievable
22:02 from my perspective. I would never be able to achieve that. But we were talking to a
22:07 gentleman on Friday who suffered a motorcycle accident and then he picked up, he actually
22:12 also picked up powerlifting as well as other sports and he spoke to us about the sort of
22:17 mental change that it allowed him to have, allowed him to break through the sort of trauma
22:22 of that motorcycle crash. What is it about strength and conditioning sport that gives
22:28 you that sort of part of your mind that you can unlock? There's a number of different
22:34 things. I mean on a very basic level I find it almost like meditation. I go into the gym,
22:40 I pick up the same lifts each time but add more weight or more reps and it's just very,
22:47 very calming when I'm having a bad day or going through stuff to go in there and do
22:53 that. It just kind of resets me. But then on a bigger scale, it's like Jason always
22:59 says, it's a metaphor for life lifting weights because it shows that what you do can affect
23:06 an outcome, your actions, the actions you take can affect an outcome and that's incredibly
23:12 empowering especially for someone who's felt very out of control a lot of their life. It's
23:18 good to be able to make a plan or have a plan, go in, carry it out and then get the results.
23:26 Absolutely. Now let's talk about the Championship. So I understand you're both going to be going
23:32 there. What's that going to be like? Tell us what competitions exactly you're going
23:36 to be taking part in. So I will lift first on the Thursday. So we do the first in the
23:46 big disciplines, what we call full power, where we squat, we then bench and then we
23:51 deadlift. So you get three attempts at each one of those lifts but you've got to make
23:56 a lift and there's a million rules and it's under extreme duress. Everybody's watching
24:03 and you've got your time limited and it's all done by command. It's not a case of just
24:08 putting a lift up. We're told when we lift and when we can do it and the whole thing.
24:13 So you do the squat first and then, provided you make a valid squat, you will then bench.
24:19 Same idea, you've got to make a bench and then you go to deadlift. And then provided
24:24 we make a deadlift, we get what we call the total, i.e. the three highest lifts added
24:29 together and that determines your place. Now that's spread out on depending, it's going
24:35 to be busy, it's a World Championships, I think there's getting on 400 competitors
24:40 this time, multiple countries, it's a big field. So that could be spread out at six
24:45 or seven hours. So you've got to keep yourself up all that time for six or seven hours. I'm
24:51 52, so that becomes more problematic as I seize up like the tin man. Then Helen does
24:59 the same full power on the Saturday and then we both lift on the same day, which is a Sunday
25:07 when we do a single lift, where we just do the bench as one and then the deadlift as
25:13 one. So they're scored independently. So essentially it's three events we will compete in. The
25:23 single lifts are a little less nerve-wracking because if you fail, that's fine, you've
25:29 still got the other one to get into. Whereas full power, obviously the term is bombing
25:35 out. And it's a very real fear. They say you're not a real powerlift until you're bombed
25:41 out, but let's not find that out.
25:43 No, hopefully not. I mean, you spoke there a little bit about having everybody sort of
25:47 watching on. I go back to that sort of mental part of it. How do you sort of get into that
25:52 headspace where it's just you and the weights and you can push yourself to where you need
25:57 to be?
25:58 Sources for courses, I'm completely different, aren't I? I'm quite gregarious. I mean, I'm
26:03 chatting and laughing and joking, taking a mickey.
26:06 Whereas I'll tend to sit in the warm-up room with my headphones on and just trying to keep
26:11 as calm as possible. And then when I get called to platform, I deliberately don't look at
26:17 the spectators. I look at the judge who's giving me the commands to get me started.
26:23 And then I don't even think about the weight on the bar anymore. I just think, right, I'm
26:28 going to do my squat.
26:29 We've got to stop there. I'm so sorry, Helen, for cutting you off. We're just reaching the
26:31 end of the programme. But I wish you both all the best of luck. Really good to talk
26:34 to you there. And hopefully we can follow you along through with the journey.
26:38 That's it for today's episode of Invicta Sport. If you have been struggling with eating disorders,
26:43 you can call BEAT or heading to their website, beateatingdisorders.org.uk, for more details.
26:49 That's it. We'll speak to you later.
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