Thanks to Wycombe FC for allowing us to come along to their training ground for a photo with the team before Mr Kirby and Mr Turner teamed up on a tandem next to the Blackburne brothers for what can only be described as a comedy leg! It’s good that Kirby worked out how to use the gears going uphill……!

Well done to Tony Munro who survived sleet and a puncture to complete the Stevanage leg!

Pitch appearances at Bournemouth, Brighton, Watford and MK Dons help continue to spread the word about Always A Chance across football grounds in England and Wales. A special day today at White Hart Lane as Emmanuel Adebayor walked past us with Kevin Bond but instead of asking photo we just stared and muttered utter nonsense! Special mention to Harry and Mathew two of the younger participants who did a great job today at Spurs.

It’s now time to tick of all the London legs and we look forward to pitch appearances at Crystal Palace, Arsenal, QPR, Millwall and Leyton Orient along the way.

Thanks for your continued support!

Join us on Facebook @ Always A Chance to see all of the photo’s and video’s.

16 brave souls and a dog  braved the wet weather on Saturday February 18th to walk the 5.5 miles from Bristol City to Bristol Rovers in time to watch a thrilling 0-0 draw at Rovers Memorial Stadium. Top marks go to 10 year old Sam Page who took part in the half time baton hand over at half time as 6,512 fans watched on as the half time announcer promoted the 92 Club Relay.

Knee’s are sore but spirits are still high as we tick off more clubs!. Next up is a pitch appearance at Bournemouth vs MK Dons on Saturday 25th February.

Well done to Sam Letts for taking on legs 20 and 21 this weekend running 49.5 miles over two days! What an absolute athlete!

We finally arrived at Moilineux a lot later than planned! It was lucky that Tony the marathon runner was on board with us to complete the leg. It’s worth a special mention that Tony has never met Coops or Jam before but he saw an article about Always A Chance and wanted to raise some money for the charity. Absolute hero.

I must also mention when I wrote “we” got lost it was in fact Joe Hallett who got lost!!!

Paul delayed our trip to Shrewsbury due to a hissy fit about his helmet not looking cool enough and that it didn’t suit him. I was more worried about his £10 luminous Donnay trousers.

Chris Brown completed the 30 mile bike ride just before dark and was rewarded for his efforts with a pitch appearance at Molineux for Sunday’s derby in which Wolves got smashed by West Brom!! Matt Murray, Jody Craddock & Kevin Kilbane all joined the boys for a photo during which Brown’s choc muffin was stolen by Kilbane!! Brown commented that he only stole the muffin because he was jealous of his good looks!

Members of Dynamo FC dribbled two football’s for the duration of the leg much to the dismay of local hero Chris McIntosh, the last time Chris participated in any exercise was the Great Ocean Road half-marathon where he was overtaken by a man in a pram on the home straight so you can imagine his disappointment at trailing to a team of dribbling footballers! Macky informed us before starting the leg that his training for this leg consisted of giving up smoking the day before the leg.

Great hospitality from Richard Page in the Trevor Francis suite who talked us through his favourite ever Trevor Francis goals! Chris Kershaw kindly sorted out a half-time presentation on the pitch with an announcement being made to the crowd promoting the 92 Club Relay.

Click on this link for highlights of our Birmingham pitch apperance!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUUQtvjEOk

The weather took a turn for the worst half way through with the downpour of snow, which made cycling on the A45 extremely difficult. We saw quite a few cars stuggling to get grip on the ice so we knew we had a challenge on our hands! We were delighted to get to Villa Park in just under 4 hours, and the snow gave us the perfect opportunity to leave the charity name pitchside.

James Mckenzie, Steve Ogrizovic, Ben Webster and Hugh Bates.

Leg 1: Northampton Town-Coventry City (Sixfields-Ricoh Arena)

Distance: 32 miles

Highlights: Cobblers Andy Holt & Saints star Paul Diggin turning up to support the start of the 92 Club Relay closely followed by sneaking into a shop with two miles to go to the finish to demolish a mars bar for energy! Also, stopping traffic to help a 90 year old man with a zimmer frame cross the road and nearly cramping up because it took him so long.

Lowlights: The man who tried to introduce me to his lorry.

Saturday will see further supporters of Always A Chance leave from Sixfields and head to Coventry City’s Ricoh Arena in time for the half time baton hand over on the pitch and a tannoy announcement!

We’ll be keeping a video blog of our journey to all 92 football league clubs, we’ll post the link on the Always A Chance website and also on the “Cooper and Jam-Always A Chance” Facebook page so please follow our progress your messages of support will keep us going.

Thanks for all of the support in helping making this dream a reality.

Cooper and Jam this is for you boys.

Twitter: @92clubrelay.org.uk

Website: www.alwaysachance.org.uk

Just Giving text donate: Text ‘CLUB12′ £3 to 70070.

Email: info@alwaysachance.org.uk

The support we’ve received from the football clubs has been incredible so a big thanks to all of those clubs that have offered us pitch appearances, bucket collections, programme notes and signed shirts we really appreciate it.

To all of the media, supporters clubs, Universities, friends and footballers who have sent out tweets promoting the 92 Football Club Relay you’re all stars! My personal favorite has to be from the legend that is Shaka Hislop who I was a big fan of growing up so cheers for making my day Shaka!

If you haven’t signed up for a leg then now’s the time, from 0.5-117 miles there’s a leg for everyone.

See you on the road friends…..

We’ve been amazed by the interest in the run so far and are expecting thousands of people to take part in this historic event. Lots of people means lots of planning and so we’re working round the clock to make sure everything runs smoothly come February. It’s also just dawned on me that we have to run the 30 miles from Northampton to Coventry in 84 days time…damn.