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Mrs Stanley Scoops Jackpot

Wed. 02/04/08

The latest winner of the Welfare Six is Mrs Margaret Stanley from Ballingry.

Margaret was the only only person to correctly forecast the six balls picked at ramdom and picks up a cheque for £4,50.

Margaret is pictured right receiving her cheque from Andrew Clark and David Moore from the club.

Next week the Welfare Six prize funds starts at £1,000. The draw is made every Sunday within the Craigie Bar, Ballingry.

 

Comings & Goings

There have been a few additions to the squad and a couple of players have moved on to pastures new.

Two new strikers, Kevin Mcreadie and Reynolds,  were signed late on in the week but both went straight into the team that played Luncarty and both scored on their debuts!

Meanwhile, Paul Campbell has been transferred to Dundonald Bluebell and Colin Jeffrey has moved to Newburgh. The best wishes of the club go to Paul and Colin.

 

St Andrew's Night Ceilidh

Tickets are now on sale for the St Andrew's Night ceilidh. The dance will take place in Lochgelly Townhall on Friday 30th of November and tickets, which are priced at £25 each, can be bought from members of the committee.

 

Ian Porterfield

It is was with sadness that the Club learned of the death of former player, Ian Porterfield, at the age of 61.

Ian played for the Welfare in the early sixty's before moving on to Raith Rovers then in 1967 he was transferred to Sunderland where he made 229 appearances and scored 17 goals. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal for Sunderland against odds on favourites Leeds United.

Below is an obituary written by Brian Ganville of the Guardian.

 

As a football player and manager, Ian Porterfield, who has died of colon cancer in a Surrey hospice aged 61, had a plenitude of clubs in a variety of countries, most recently as coach of Armenia, but he will be remembered above all for the sensational goal with which second division Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup against the powerful favourites, Leeds United.

His goal came after 31 minutes from a Billy Hughes corner. The ball fell to Porterfield, known as a strictly left-footed midfield player, but it was with his right foot that he drove the ball past Leeds keeper David Harvey for the only goal of a dramatic game.

Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Porterfield was signed by Sunderland from Raith Rovers in December 1967 for what was then the substantial fee of £45,000. In September 1974, omitted by Sunderland from pre-season games, he was granted a transfer, but returned to the team before a car crash that December left him with a fractured skull. The injury kept him out until September 1975, and he announced his retirement in August 1976.

Porterfield initially agreed to manage Hartlepool United, but changed his mind and decided to go on playing, moving on loan from Sunderland to Reading, then in the third division. "The sole reason I quit," he explained, "was because I was sick of hearing about insurance claims and medical reports." He was at last enabled to leave the north-east for Sheffield Wednesday in July 1977 for £20,000, as player-coach. He scored 19 goals in 266 appearances for the Wearside club.

His first managerial post came in 1979 at Rotherham United, where in the 1980-81 season he took them up to the second division. But in July 1981, he moved to Sheffield United, then in the fourth division, taking them in three seasons up to the second division while seeing crowds rise to more than 20,000.

In March 1986, however, with results by then dismal, he was sacked with five years still on his contract, pocketed £100,000 compensation, and the following November was made manager of Aberdeen in succession to Alex Ferguson, who was off to Manchester United after remarkable achievements at Pittodrie. Porterfield would later claim that Ferguson had left behind him a team in decline.

In March 1987, his wife Isa, who married Porterfield when she was 19, left him for a wealthy meat trader. In May 1988, when results were bleak and just two weeks after the club directors had given him the traditionally threatening vote of confidence, he resigned. Once again, he would not be unemployed for long, nor would he be long unmarried. In July 1988, he married Elaine Allister - an event marred by a brawl involving his brother Billy and his father, Jack, both of whom were ejected from the reception.

A month after that, Chelsea made him their assistant manager under Bobby Campbell, and his methods proved highly popular with the players. He did much to get Chelsea out of the second division, but in November 1989 he was off again, to manage Reading. That lasted until April 1991, when he was sacked, only to be made full manager of Chelsea two months later.

His demise at Reading coincided with a four-year ban for drink-driving, followed in later years by an eight-year ban. He spent £6m on players at Chelsea, but few managers lasted long under the impatient and autocratic chairman Ken Bates, who dismissed him in February 1993. Yet again, however, he would not stay out of work for long. When the former Wimbledon and Chelsea striker John Fashanu returned that year from the funeral of the 18 Zambian players who perished in an air crash, he approached Porterfield to take over the national team. This he did successfully, but was on the move again in July 1994, signing a vastly lucrative deal to coach a Saudi Arabian club.

That lasted till January 1996, when he returned to England as the assistant manager to Colin Todd, once a team-mate with Sunderland, at Bolton Wanderers. He stayed there only until May, went abroad again to coach the Zimbabwe team, but resigned in 1997, citing "too much unwarranted criticism".

June 2000 found him coaching Trinidad and Tobago, where in a further instance of bad driving, he ran over and killed a pedestrian. Then in August 2006 he signed a contract to coach the Armenian national team. Though he had been suffering from cancer, he steered Armenia to a surprising 1-1 draw against Portugal last month in a European championship qualifier in Yerevan.

He had two sons and two daughters with his first wife, two children with his second, and is survived by his third wife Glenda, whom he married in 2002.

· John Ian Porterfield, footballer and manager, born February 11 1946; died September 11 2007

 

 

£50,000 Donation to Club

Lochore Welfare is pleased to announce as part of their 3-year program to regenerate the team and the facilities at Central Park local businessmen, brothers, John and Luke Devine, today presented the club with a cheque for £50,000.

 

The money is part of a major cash injection by investors and secures the future of the club for the foreseeable future.  

The Club have recent completed the first stage of their pavilion upgrade to include new changing facilities for both home and away teams as well as separate changing facility for male/female match officials.

When handing over the cheque John Devine said, “I must re-emphasize that the regeneration of the club will not happen overnight and that there is no such thing as a quick fix. I hope supporters will continue to back the work of the Committee as they concentrate on taking the Club forward.”

 

 

Website Update

Over the next few months the website will undergo a few changes to give it a fresh look for the new season. One change has already taken place and that is the addition of a match action shots which can be view on the 'Photos page'. These images come from our new official photographer, Alistair Mack.

 

AGM 2007

The Annual General Meeting took place today, Sunday 26th August, and at the meeting a number of changes were made to the Club's Constitution. One change that particularly effects members is that from today all membership fees MUST be paid within 1 month.

All of the members who served on last year's committee have been re-elected to serve again but another change to the Constitution means they will serve a two year term of office.

A copy of the new Constitution will be forwarded to all members of the Club shortly.

 

Annual Membership Subscription

Members are reminded that annual membership fees are due now and must be paid within 1 month of today's date, Sunday 26th of August. fees can be paid to the Treasurer, Mr Peter Clark.

                                      

Welfare Six Won Again!

After only 7 weeks the Welfare Six has been won yet again. On Sunday 15 July Brian Keicher, pictured right, correctly forecast the winning numbers and bagged himself £1,700.

 

 

 

 

Sunday 20 May 2007

After many many weeks of near misses the Welfare Six has been won. The lucky winner, Lochore man, Kevin Payne, is pictured left, receiving a cheque for £14,300 for his £1 stake from Welfare Six convener, Andy Clark .

Kevin correctly forecast the numbers to be 2,6,7,8,9 and 20.

Next week the prize fund return to its starting figure of £1,000 but is still worth the winning.

Tickets are available from many sources including the committee, and selling agents such as Ballingry Post Office, the Co-op in Lochore and Benarty Tavern in Crosshill.

 

 

New Sustainable Strategy Announced

Lochore Welfare is pleased to announce a new sustainable strategy has been put in place by the Committee. The strategy which includes a major cash injection by investors will secure the future of the club for the foreseeable future.  

Initial improvements will be made to the Club’s pavilion which will include new changing facilities for both home and away teams as well as a separate changing facility for match officials. These changes will allow female match officials to have separate changing and showering facilities while at Crosshill.

Another part of the strategy will focus on strengthening the team and the development of new young talent.

It must be emphasized that this is a long-term strategy and as such there will be no short-term quick fixes the Committee will concentrate on the development of a solid foundation for taking the Club forward.

22/10/06

 

 

                                   
 

Last updated 21/08/08

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