Copperpot FC Presentation Evening 2009

Date published: 20/06/2009

Arguably the best amateur football club in town, Copperpot FC held their annual Presentation Evening at Richmond Hall at the end of an extraordinary season of success.

The adult team won four major trophies, the Lancashire Sunday Trophy for the third time, the first Rochdale club ever to achieve that distinction, and three in the Rochdale & District Sunday Football League: the Newbold Tyres Premier League, the Chris Shyne Trophy, and the Alan Haughton Trophy.

The Under 16 team won the league in the Rochdale & Oldham Youth Football League and the Under 11 team did the league and cup double, and topped off a fine season by also winning the Bowlee Tournament.

Club Chairman Steve Whitehead explained the club was started in 1975 by Alan Garfield and Malcolm Journeaux (senior) and has now won 31 major trophies. Talking to Rochdale Online he said: “Looking at this packed room tonight makes me very proud. Four years ago our presentation was in a small room in a pub; for the past three years the Copperpot Restaurant but good though that was, we’ve outgrown it and we had to find a function room big enough to fit everyone in.”

Mr Whitehead announced a fitting tribute to one of the club’s founders, Alan Garfield, whose name will adorn the club’s new ‘Legends Board’. The first players ‘inducted’ as club legends were: Graham Garfield, Adrian McDermott, Jason Kay, Mick Moody, Trevor Jepson and Michael Barker.

Trophies and medals were presented to players by each team’s manager and assistants:

Managers
Open Age: Barry and Anthony Luker
Under 16: Mark McCormack
Under 14: Gareth Whitworth
Under 13: Steve Crossley
Under 11: Steve Ronan

Club President Malcolm Journeaux (junior), who played for the club in the seventies and eighties said: “To see the way the club has developed is amazing. It is testament to the hard work of a number of volunteers who week in week out give young footballers the opportunity to partake in a sport that builds team work and individual character. They have every right to be very proud of their achievements.”