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
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