Video News: Fund-raising 2,200-mile football stadium challenge in aid of Always a Chance gets underway
A MONUMENTAL challenge, which was thought up over a pint in a pub and then planned over the last eight months, finally got underway yesterday as a charity 92 club relay left Sixfields.
The challenge, which will see participants travel between every football league ground using only man-powered modes of transport, departed Northampton shortly after 10am yesterday.
The 2,200 mile trek, which will take eight weeks to complete, is being organised by Always A Chance, the charity set-up following the horrific murder of James Kouzaris last year.
Mr Kouzaris, known as ’Jam’, was shot dead alongside his friend James Cooper while the pair were on holiday in Sarasota, Florida last April.
Joe Hallett and Paul Davies, the chief executives of the charity, alongside another friend of Mr Kouzaris, Tom Woodhouse, started the 32 mile run to Coventry yesterday. The are due at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday, where they will pass on the baton for the second leg.
Joe said: “The whole event is 2,200 miles which is a long way. We will be going back and forth in the car and staying at friends’ houses and it is going to be hard but it is very exciting. It has been eight months in the planning and I am just looking forward to getting on with it now.”
He said his two friends would have approved of the challenge - especially as it involves football.
He said: “They were both massive football fans and they were really passionate and adventurous and we wanted to put on an event that personified their personalities. Football was their biggest passion so I think they would have been made up about the challenge.”
The relay will coincide with the first anniversary of Mr Kouzaris’ and Mr Cooper’s murder as well as the first court appearance of Shawn Tyson, the teenager accused of gunning them down.
Joe added: “It will be a hard time. Obviously it will be the first anniversary of their death and it will be the trial as well.
“We have a few days off around the anniversary so we will be coming home to spend it with our families, which will be comforting.”
To follow the relay online visit www.92clubrelay.org. uk or on Twitter @92Club Relay.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 02:35 PMGood luck
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