| Former Players Appeal For Help 21:50 - Nov 20 with 876 views | SUEPA |
Hello, I run the Southend United Ex Players Association (SUEPA) -- not a glamour role perhaps but we are now the largest former players group in the UK with 430 current former player members (Southend of late of course haven't had much to shout about but running SUEPA has been a real joy).
Membership is free (which helps) but we only include former players who agree to join and who provide us with a contact address (so we can send them our quarterly newsletter). SUEPA can be checked out on Facebook or Twitter
Over the years our two clubs have not had too many players in common though we already have Joe Pigott and your former coach the wonderful Malcolm Webster as members.
There are though others who we are not yet in touch with who we would like to invite to join, namely Kevin Steggles, Trevor Whymark, Kevin O'Callaghan and Chris Barnard. Would anyone please be able to help me contact any or all of these?
I totally appreciate that if you know contact details you cannot provide that to me without the persons permission and such a request from someone unknown to them might be alarming. It might be that I could provide a message to the player(s) you can help with for you to send on to them, or if they are happy I can call them (which tends to be easier, that worked well with Malcolm once I'd contacted a family member).
As hopefully some further reassurance, if you google 'Andrew Leeder Southend United' you will find a link to an article on the club website from last year about myself which references SUEPA.
Having lived in Hadleigh for over 30 years until recently moving to Dorset (which has failed to stop my enthusiasm for my team) I know what a close-knit community the ITFC one is and that a number of former players still stay in touch so hopefully this appeal might be at least partly successful (I have done similar ones on other club fan forums which have often worked well).
I can be contacted by email at suepassoc@gmail.com and am also happy to chat with anyone that might be able to help if easier.
I would also be interested to know if ITFC have a former players group and if so a note of any contact there - I am currently in discussion with the PFA regarding starting up a national network of former player groups and it would be useful to be in touch with any such group for your club.
Thanks at least for reading this message!
Andy |  | | |  |
| Former Players Appeal For Help on 23:27 - Nov 20 with 703 views | Freddies_Ears |
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| Former Players Appeal For Help on 08:34 - Nov 21 with 520 views | DJR |
Have you considered contacting the club? You could try the man in charge of Public Relations in the first instance.
dan.palfrey@itfc.co.uk
I know there is an ex-players' committee, and I believe Mick Mills, Terry Butcher and Matt Holland are on it. |  | | |
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