Three Bridges FC officially opened their new 3G pitch on Saturday ahead of their win over Beckenham. President Alan Bell officially opened the pitch while Deputy Mayor of Crawley Gilly Hart and Three Bridges chairman Paul Faili gave speeches.
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00:00actually the deputy mayor is going to start uh and say a few words i'll hand it over to you
00:12it's lovely to see someone here and the end of what has been a long hard process that
00:22everybody involved in it has worked so hard um and it's been a joy and a privilege and a pleasure
00:28to work with me paul and chris and all the guys um and three bridges football club it has been
00:36a real pleasure it's been a lot of hard work for them and you know what
00:44let's just do it this week it's been brilliant um to see the the work that has been put in to
00:52raise the money um it's come from from the football association from uh football england
00:59from um corleyborough council and the teams that are all involved with three bridges
01:07they raised seventy thousand pounds of money that was needed and they did it by cycling
01:13from land's end to strong growth on bus on cycling machines they had the little team tiny ones
01:21walking around the pitch and they walked from london to brighton and they did little bits and
01:27they all everybody involved did their little bit and it's all come together and what you see
01:33is the picture up there a lot of hard work a lot of heartache a lot of headache but a lot of
01:40commitment from every single person who's involved in three bridges and i'm proud to be associated
01:48so all i'm going to say is no more puddles
01:54thank you julie thank you very much
02:00i won't lie i wrote this speech about 20 minutes ago so zero expectation please good afternoon
02:07everyone first of all a huge thank you to all of you for actually getting to turn up here
02:12we officially celebrate the opening of our brand new 3g pitch and i have to say your support means
02:18so much now as many of us know corley has uh many towns has had challenges
02:24um fair sharing challenges so when something is positive and this exciting uh lands in the heart
02:30of our community it truly is something to celebrate this pitch isn't just a surface to play on
02:36it's a space for growth unity and opportunity one of the most wonderful things about this new
02:43facility is the breadth of people it serves and three bridges club alone we have 297 children
02:49signed on to our club from every corner of the community from all kinds of social and ethnic
02:55backgrounds and now thanks to this pitch we can continue to give them a place to play and to grow
03:02and to belong beyond their own club this 3g pitch opens its arms to charities and other community
03:10groups too the benefits it brings to corley are countless benefits far more than we can actually
03:17put into those of course none of this would be would have been possible without the tireless
03:22efforts of so many brilliant people i'd be here all day if i started to actually say who they were
03:28and i just can't name everybody who helped us over the last four or five years
03:32the rest assured each and every hero behind this project is acknowledged in today's program so i
03:38would really appreciate it if you just take five minutes to look at the program today and just read
03:42the amount of names that have been tremendous for us now those who know me know me well enough
03:48i can be a little bit fiery
03:55all right
03:58thankfully i've had someone on my side to keep me grounded the charm it's my storm
04:04the yin's my yang my fellow director here at three bridges mr chris irving who deserves a
04:10round of applause by the way
04:29it means that if um i probably would have lost content about 10 minutes if you
04:33do like four songs you're told to leave so uh the real size of the show right here with us today
04:39the kids their energy their joy their love for this new picture what truly makes it worthwhile
04:45seeing their faces light up when they're out here that's what it's all about is the kids
04:50a very quick fact with my first team here both my first team i'm lucky to have today
04:56but our average age on the pitch last week when we played here at home was 19 years old and nine
05:03months for a first day at this level definitely that by the way just shows what a good quality
05:08pathway can do for these children so that that deserves a round of applause again
05:15listen i'm not going to take up any more of your time it's now a great pleasure to introduce the
05:20man who will efficiently cut the ribbon by the way a man who's done so much for this club
05:26and continues to be a huge huge part of our journey going forward
05:29i'd like to welcome our club president mr and