Taking on the world - Part 1

Over the years there is one thing that I love doing & that is Volunteering. In the past I have used my services in many charitable organisations and the odd couple of football teams. I do this as I am an active person & I love to be part of a community.

Back in the day I have work in a shop for the Royal Voluntray Service, I have worked at Dial-a-Ride, I have worked at Sheffield FC on match days in the turnstiles & have been the Kitman for Scarborough Athletic FC. At the moment my love of football has lead me to coaching kids football, down at Biercliffe for under 10's & next season under 11's. Not only having that all under my belt and a job I also do two radio shows on Radio Scarborough. Where I co present The Twelfth Man Sport Show with Jerry Scott, I now have my own show on a Tuesday night called The Mixtape show.

All that is amazing, but this autumn something much bigger in coming...

I'll show you how big, 20,000 people applied for this out of that they had to reduce this to 10,000 & from all them I am now one of the 6,000 pack members that will be at 13 venues around England & Cardiff for this years Rugby World Cup. This is something I've wanted to do since the Atlanta Olympic Games in the 90's, I was gutted I missed out in applying for the 2012 London games & last years Grand Départ last year. 

It's been a long process and I couldn't of done this without the support of my family especially My brother Craig & my Nephew Harry also not forgetting my wife Laura.

In this journey so far I've had to show why I deserved to be a Pack member in a face to face interview by showing community spirit & follow the Rugby code of conduct:

I have to be honest I'm relatively new at Rugby, I only got seriously into it when my nephew stared playing for York RUFC & I went to cheer him on at matches. Me, Craig & Harry even picked rugby teams to support to give it a competitive edge. Harry is a Wasp fan as he was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. At the time they played at Adams Park home of Wycombe Wanderers. Craig is a Leicester Tigers fan, as there sponsor it "Caterpillar" the construction and mining equipment manufacturers as there more commonly known as "CAT" which are his initials. My team are Saracens for the only reason a player called Dan Scarbrough played for Saracens in 2004-08 and not only was he a good player but had a awesome surname & was a Yorkshire man.

I do say I'm relatively new to rugby, but Rugby has always been there. My other brother played it and always loved watching The World Cup, The Six Nations & Autumn internationals. So to now be apart of The Rugby World Cup this time around is awesome in my eyes, there is nothing bigger. The games I'll be covering are the two at Elland Road home of Leeds United. 

So I've done all my training I can do at the moment, I have two big dates of training in early July & in August and I've had a look at my uniform which I get in July.