CONGRATULATIONS...

Snopper Street is pleased to announce that it`s silverware time for our fleet footed wideman Scott Wagstaff who was part of the Charlton team that clinched promotion from League One to the Championship, following their narrow 1-0 win over Carlisle United yesterday.

A fitting reward, not just for the excellent season Charlton have enjoyed but also for returning triumphant from the 700 mile round trip to the northern outpost in Cumbria.   So, Scott and his chums can look forward to a Football League medal, although whether it will be a winners or runners-up medal has yet to be mathematically decided, although it`s almost certain to be the former.

Now Scott shouldn`t run away with the idea that he`s the only one in the street to have been a footy medal winner.  Oh, no.   First, I have my suspicions that my svelte neighbour, Mr. Slightly, is no mean athlete and in his time he surely must have gathered some silverware.   And then there`s me, of course.   I can boast a clutch of medals, for example a runners-up medal in the Maidstone and District Football League Division 3B (really Division 7) in about 1963.   

I also boast another runners-up medal from about 1958, whilst playing as a midfield dynamo with a good engine and an eye for a pass for Platt reserves in the Sevenoaks and District, err, Reserve Division.   These triumphs, along with a few I picked up for refereeing whilst coincidentally acting as Referees Secretary to another local league, make for a litany of success.

And so, whilst acknowledging that Scotty`s medal might just have been a touch more demanding to win, nevertheless I extend hearty congratulations to him and his team mates and hope there will be many more to come.  As he now adds to the the Snopper Street collection, surely no other street (at least here in Dibley) can boast such a haul of silverware from such an array of talent.