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If you're needing to lose a few pounds then the new season of MAN v FAT Football Ipswich might be just what you're looking for.
MAN v FAT Football is quite unique. Every week you get weighed, then play a 30-minute friendly but competitive six-a-side match against players of varying sizes and abilities.
Then the scores are updated with your team's success on the scales. Goals are awarded for a weekly loss, consistent weight loss over three weeks, and hat-tricks awarded for five per cent and 10 per cent losses.
The Ipswich league is hosted at Portman Road on the practice pitch, and the coach is Tom Irving who is the performance nutritionist at ITFC.
TWTD's Gavin Wilding has been playing in his local league since August 2018 and has had considerable success: "I can't recommend MvF highly enough. I'm in my late 40s and hadn't kicked a ball since I was 16.
"I had no skill at all (and I mean none), did no exercise and I was 248lbs (112kg). I saw a feature on BBC's <i>The One Show</i> and thought I'd give it a try. To say I was nervous on registration night is an understatement.
"Fast forward to now, I've just started my third season after losing 46lbs (21kg) and I'm now 202lbs (92kg). I'm now captain of the team, have won two league titles, am holder of our last season’s trophy and my fellow team-mates recently awarded me man of the match for my Linighan-esque performance in a 5-0 win.
"I've recently been to the GP for a general check-up and, while thankfully I don't have a specific problem, all my blood tests have come back normal with improvements made across the board due to my weight loss."
He added: "The new friends I've made I hope are there for life. Our WhatsApp group is very busy and we run an additional weekly 60-minute five-a-side game, and the lads are often grouping up for park runs and bike rides. Our end of season night out was great and can't wait for the next one. We'll also be applying to play at the MCFC's Etihad Training Academy for MvF's national event in July.
"I'm not local to Ipswich, but Town fans have got it good. How I'd love to play behind the Co-op Stand and pick Tom Irving's brain about what happens at the club. I'm sure I could learn a few things too about my own diet from him.
"It costs £25 a month, but that does compare well to other schemes like Slimming World considering the cost of pitch hire and equipment. If you need to lose some weight, then I fully recommend giving it a try."
The next league starts 14th June at 7pm at Portman Road. Go to https://www.manvfatfootball.org/refercode/TWTD9680 for more details. Feel free to add comments below or on the forum and I'll answer any questions you may have.
Apologies to anyone still having an issue with this popup. As I explained earlier, we have to have one by law so we have to persist with it and get it working as it should.
What should happen, is you get the popup ONCE, you make your choices and it gets saved to a cookie. Then when you visit each page it checks that cookie, and if it doesn't find it, display the popup. However a problem is getting in the way of that and some are seeing that every page which is obviously not what should be happening.
I've created a NEW page that deletes our cookies. You just need to visit it, and all the cookies will be deleted. This will log you out if you're logged in, and it stop the forum from being widescreen for example, so you'll have to log in again and change settings.
We are required by law to have one of these on the site. We've had trouble with them, but the latest one should work. If you are getting this popup on every page, then that is obviously not what should be happening.
If that doesn't work, then try and clear your cookies manually on your browser.
It's been said that closing down your browser and your device may help also.
Please let me know if it worked or not. If it DIDN'T, please use the Contact Us page https://www.twtd.co.uk/contact-us/ and use the subject "site bug".
This will send me a copy of your cookies, which I can send to our popup provider and get it sorted.
We installed a new privacy pop-up yesterday, which we're required to have by (European) law. It didn't go as planned as some people had the problem that it didn't go away after clicked.
I need to get this working, so please let me know if it causes you a problem.
I've just learned you can have multiple items in your clipboard and if you use the windows key + V (not ctrl), it brings up a box and you can choose which to paste. You can also pin items so they don't disappear. Optionally you can copy something on one device and paste on another if you're logged in on the same account.
You need to activate this in settings. Just search for "clipboard".
We're taking down the server at 11pm tonight to install a new SSD/hard drive. We had major issues when we last rebooted the server so we'll investigate that and we need to be confident that it won't happen in the future.
We're backing up the site just prior to the work being done, so late posts may be lost if the worst happens.
We aren't sure how long the site will be down for, and it may be slow when it does come back but should be back to normal on Saturday.
Anyone heard of Google Stadia? The idea is that you don't need high-end game consoles to play games. You play the game on their server and they stream the video to any device.
I'd be concerned about latency but I assume they've thought of that.
To come up with one (or more) deal with the EU (such as Canada+++ or whatever), and decide on the deal we want?
If our politicians/parties can't be trusted to have a free vote, then there should be another referendum WITHOUT REMAIN AS AN OPTION. People say we shouldn't have another referendum, but shirley that depends on the question asked/votable answers? If it's purely "we've decided to leave, we now must choose how we leave".
The initial question was far too vague. The PM then had these red lines that she derived from the in/out question alone (no idea how she got them) and we're stuck in this impasse.
Apologies for another brexit thread.
Edit, sorry I mean without REMAIN as an option. Doh
We're having a problem with the site at the moment whereby multiple pages are being loaded at the same time. This is causing blank messages to appear, but also will cause issues with logging in, password resetting etc. It's a weird problem but working on it now.
and you've been told you can play any music you like, no talk for the entire hour. What would you play? No need to get the stopwatch out to be exact, let's assume all tracks are 3 mins long so you need 20 tracks. You can have a running order in mind though, so what would you play first? Last?
20 might be a bit of an ask, so maybe 10 tracks for 30 mins if you like.
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