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Funny old game, football; managerial sackings with less than a season in the hot seat, Wembley semi-finals and high profile figures signing up with non-league non-hopefuls as part of a club publicity stunt. It would never happen at Broad Lane.

Oh, hang on…

Thankfully Wivenhoe Town FC is very much a grass roots community club. Emphasis is as much placed on junior and youth development as it is on the big boys wearing the first team strip for the Dragons (who actually happen to be rather young.)

This belief in community will be on show on Saturday 14th April, when the Dragons are hosting a Community Day up at Broad Lane. The visitors for the Ridgeons Premier Division fixture will be the mysteriously named CRC. This isn’t an acronym for Chelsea R Crap, but in fact a Cambridge based non-league outfit.

Admission on the day will be a bargain £1 for adults, and FREE for U-14′s. Being a community day, it would be a half decent gesture if you could cough up a little more, should you be able to afford it.

The usual FUN elements are all in place - bouncy castle, food, booze. Sounds like FUN. You can never get enough FUN out of capping up the F, the U and the N.

FUN.

But it’s all about the football, Brian. The Dragons are on a bit of a roll since the Christmas period. The proud record reads: P 10, W4, D 3, L 3 - which for Wivenhoe Town FC truly does represent something of a roll.

The team is even third in the table - third from bottom.

The only way is up, etc.

A tremendous amount of work continues to take place behind the scenes up at Broad Lane from a very small but incredibly committed bunch of local folk. Resources are short, but the passion is there. It is no short-term fix, both on and off the pitch. The belief in building from the junior team up will hopefully start to show some payback in seasons to come.

But for now, there is the Community Day on the 14th.

Funny old game.