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Name: | Ricky Adams |
Age: | 23 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Rochester, Kent |
Campaign: | To tackle swearing in football |
As a football referee and manager I know how it feels to be verbally abused on the pitch.
It doesn’t make you feel good at all. In fact, it can make you feel very low.
There is no place for swearing or offensive language in football and it’s time to tackle it.
Our Fix is a group effort involving the Kent FA Youth Council. We want to create a film to encourage both players and fans to think about the language they’re using.
Abuse is not something we should tolerate.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with my Fix:
Brandon Myers | Jordan Robins | Matthew Bennett |
Ben Chapman | Daniel Sharpe | Connor Charlton |
Tolly Beatsoh | Scott Embery | Thomas Willmott |
Rory Head | Mikey Dalton | Jack Goldsmith |
Harry Sheridan | Greg Skinner | Ellis Londelo |
Lewis Walker | Cameron Heffesnan | Ollie Cooke |
Aaron Simpson | Liam Matthews | Aaron Shinner |
Callum McCarthy | Josh Gilbert | Joe Reeves |
Demi Sage | Robert West | Dwayne Ellis |
Herbie Tyler | Charlie Penfold | Charlotte Richardson |
Nicholas Bremer | Sam Bunn | Kieran Culleton |
Aidan Willis | Joseph Kasper | Holly Warmington |
Callum Drysdale | Harry Needham | Amiee Smith |
Sam Lansdale | Will Sanderson | Luke Baker |
Jessica French | Dan Grech |
The Kent FA supports our Fixers project. My team of Fixers and I are members of the Kent FA Youth Council which is headed up by Lee Suter, Kent FA Football Development Officer. Lee put us in touch with Fixers and has worked with us throughout the project.
Andy Hessenthaler
Andy, former Gillingham boss and football player, has backed our Fix. He was interviewed to appear in our broadcast piece. He was also very complimentary about the film we’ve created.
Soccer Elite FA
The team at Soccer Elite FA support our project. Their players and coaches appear in our broadcast film.
Maidstone United FC have helped us during the course of our project. They allowed us to film at their ground on two separate occasions.
February 2014
News of our Fix appeared on the Kent FA website. Click here to read the article.
We also received positive feedback on Twitter from people who saw our ITV broadcast, you can read some of these tweets below:
'Well done you guys and girls! I managed for eight years and left the game due to foul language etc from opposite parents and players.'
'Great work Fixers and Kent FA!'
'Congratulations on a great interview and film - we fully back you.'
Jo Quinn
Macauley Collinson
Hannah Carter
Shak & Natasha
Olivia G
Kiki
Becky
Sam Barakat
Lauren Taylor
Timothy Cranfield
Chelsie Brown
Liam Thomas
Mason Latey
Sam Womack
Shannon Rawlings
Shano
Tilly and Bella
Jade Kingdom
Ethan Mcinally
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills