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www.ilkestonlife.com ILKESTON LIFE August 2021 13

GoalFest at TownFest

obins fans were thrilled to The main game ended Ilkeston
Rset eyes on their new pitch. Town 4 Long Eaton Utd 3.
It was the icing on the cake after It seemed the visitors were going to
several other ground improvements spoil the day when they went into
have been made, making it surely a two-goal lead following defen-
one of the best non-League grounds sive errors by the Robins, Gale and
in the country. Walker the scorers.
The brand new all weather 4G play- But a Joe Maguire header on the
ing surface was christened on 31st half-hour gave Ilkeston hope.
July with a friendly game against In the second half Ilkeston were
Erewash rivals Long Eaton United. much better and they raced into a
It was part of the club’s TownFest 4-2 lead through Campbell (2) and
Erewash Sound nominated for Media Innovator Award day which welcomed back former Troke before Long Eaton pulled a
goal back, scored by Jebbison.
players, supporters and families for
an afternoon of football and fun.
rewash Sound could win an- radio station.” “Once votes for our Media Inno-
Eother accolade, having been As well as broadasting on two FM vator Awards are received, our Goalmouth action from Ilkeston’s
nominated for a Media Innovator frequencies and online, Erewash research team will carefully judge game with Long Eaton United.
Award. Sound also has a website and a the nominees based on merit (not Photo: Scott Fletcher
They will find out in October if social media presence. the number of votes) and various
they have been successful. Mr Perry, who presents the popular other criteria through information
that is available both online and in
The Media Innovator Awards Lazy Sunday show, paid tribute the public domain, including any
to the local businesses supporting
2021 will honour businesses and
enterprises regarded as the driving them and their many loyal listeners. materials supplied by the nominees.
force behind the region’s continued Holly Morris, awards co-ordinator “The successful organisations are
growth and success. said:“We are proud to announce then presented with their award and
Ian Perry, spokesperson for the the Media Innovator Awards 2021, complementary marketing materi-
Cotmanhay-based community radio which aims to acknowledge those als that will be invaluable to their
station said: “We are absolutely prestigious businesses, and individ- PR portfolio in publicising their
delighted to be put forward as a uals who have excelled within the win. We also give all nominees the
possible recipient of a Media Inno- industry. The awards programme additional option to be featured in
vator Award. actively welcomes all businesses, our annual winners’ magazine with
“A great deal of hard work is put in enterprises and professionals, from a worldwide-circulation of 155,000
by our volunteer team – particular- print media, to broadcasting and readers, alongside the choice of
ly under very challenging circum- social media, amongst numerous several other personalised market-
stances during the pandemic - to other areas, to get involved with ing items.”
provide a genuinely local 24-hour this valuable opportunity.

As I see it,by Richard Shaw imperilled by a minority. What does achieved by fair means, for a desperate As I write this, people the world we are equipped with a new vision and
Losing our nerve and this tell us? and sufficiently ’out of themselves over are being bribed, penalised and sense of purpose as a result of what we
losing our choice I understand the anger at the behaviour few, it maybe ok to achieve it by foul. shamed towards having the vaccine have gone through - a more imagi-
This doesn’t make it okay of course
where it is available whilst leaders
native and constructive or creative
of English fans before the final, the
Our footballers failed at the final hur- drunken yobbishness, the storming but it can help to explain what happens seen not to be taking it seriously view of ourselves and of the world as
and what lies behind this ‘storming of
enough are likewise condemned.
a result of that period of being turned
of the turnstiles and displacement of
dle in the Euros but they did us proud those who had tickets, the booing of the Bastille’. Everywhere there is unrest or perhaps in on ourselves, of being inclined
in getting there, as did their Manager. the other side’s national anthem and A part of the problem with the Euro a false ‘rest’. Nowhere, it seems, are inwards.
I have noticed before in situations
like this how, at the crucial moment, then the hatred directed at the players final more generally may have been people being willingly helped towards If we avoid the illness we don’t have
that the anticipated victory was being
the benefit of what it could confer. It
who had missed penalties. But we
meeting this threat naturally. Why is
our nerve can seem to fail us. It have to face it; these things reflect an celebrated with copious amounts of this and why does it matter? may be that we don’t need to catch
appears to be something that belongs aspect of our national character too. alcohol even before the game kicked Whatever the questions about safety it, this time around, to help us move
to our national psyche. A certain self And perhaps a sense of exclusion can off! When the result failed to match and efficacy of the vaccines and levels forwards. But, whilst still being
consciousness intrudes to unsettle
us. At other times, this can be a good aggravate matters. the fantasy this could only make the of protection afforded, what does it careful and taking precautions maybe
ultimately that’s for nature to decide
outcome harder to tolerate. I know I’m
I found it almost impossible to get
mean to go through a pandemic rather
thing - it makes us reflective, inventive a ticket for the 2012 Olympics and asking for the impossible here but per- than go round it and with both the and for us to accept. Neither fighting
and imaginative. It fuels our sense of it was the same for many of the haps there’s something to be said for lockdown and the jabs don’t we have it nor seeking it will be in our best
humour. But there is something self stewards, that wonderful band of waiting until after the final whistle, or more of the latter than the former? interests.
effacing about it and with almost a
sense of shame within it. . volunteers who were the heroes of the last penalty, before starting the party Allowing that the vulnerable need to How different a view on this whole
situation we would have if we thought
be protected - be they people or insti-
or drowning our sorrows!
event almost as much as the athletes
Even if we do succeed, there will be a themselves. This was meant to be the tutions - is that actually the best way thus. Then those who weighed up
moment of self doubt to negotiate. As acme of our national coming together * * * to manage this crisis? What are the the options and made their choices
with Andy Murray’s five set victory at where we could feel united and proud. Well said Molly Clark for speaking alternatives and what is the case that accordingly would be more champi-
the U.S. Open in 2012. He had raced your truth and questioning our willing-
into a two set lead before starting to Instead many like me and the stewards ness to accept the narratives of others can be made for them? oned than reviled. And the merit of
So far we only seem to have one
acquiring natural immunity, ahead of
had every right to feel excluded whilst
wobble. It was like he was question- those at the top table and in corporate in the last edition of Ilkeston Life. In ‘official’ narrative wherever you are all the others, could be properly appre-
ing whether he had the right to be in hospitality found themselves all the terms of the application of democratic and opinions raged for or against ciated. Perhaps there is a recognition
this position at all and to claim victory. more privileged. These things do breed principles and the following of ‘the that. Once again it’s all about ‘for or that ‘the great reset’ needs to happen
He came through but it was like he science’ I wonder what sort of truth
had all this stuff to negotiate first. resentment. introducing non quarantine plus fast against’ rather than ‘living with and within ourselves first if it is then to
moving through’. The last won’t be
Of course not everyone could get
happen and authentically, correctly
In some ways, we are fortunate to live into Wembley stadium. The abuse track lines at Heathrow for double for everyone but it should be for those and healthily in the world, and to be of
in such an open and tolerant democ- of the Italian fans after the match jabbed passengers is really express- who can or feel they can do it. And benefit to all and not just a few. And
racy. Yet in other ways it can appear and the displacement of fans inside ing? Has it been scientifically proved they should be supported not pilloried. the same goes for that other phrase to
we are controlled by shame. We don’t that being double vaccination reduces
need to be controlled by more openly with tickets during it was an utter infection or transmission of the virus Underlying all this is a deep misunder- ‘build back better’. Our ideas about
this will be just an abstraction unless
standing of illness and its importance
disgrace and totally sickening. Yet
dictatorial measures as long as we will there is a positive side to these many to this extent? As a understand it, the in the world. Let us confine ourselves something momentous has happened
control ourselves through our sense of negatives. What are they: the need answer is ‘No, it hasn’t’. And yet we on this occasion to viral illness, such within us first. Within our own em-
shame. to achieve and celebrate victory for have these policies introduced as if it as the one we are concerned with here bodied response.
It begins at an early age when as were otherwise.
parents we are anxious about how our tribe; the need to feel a common So what kind of truth and discrimi- and so as to stay relevant to the subject Maybe for some these are strange no-
tions but not for those who feel them
under discussion. (Other situations
purpose, achieve a common goal, feel
our parenting will be perceived by a measure of brother and sister hood, nation are we being offered here? It would need examining on their own to be of the utmost importance.
others. It matters to us what other know the euphoria of triumph, emerge seems that as fast as we have disman- terms). If the balance of nature has been
people think. Perhaps this is less so in as the victor in a gladiatorial struggle, tled discrimination against one group When we fall ill, particularly with a disturbed by our human actions then
other cultures and perhaps it ultimately we have to create another one to dis-
come out on the football pitch. feel transcendent, be filled with joy. criminate against. Now it seems to be viral illness, we have to retreat from nature decrees that the adjustment
These are all desperately hoped and
the world or the hurry and scurry of
should take place in and through us
* * * longed for, after especially after so the non vaccinated who are in the fir- the world - our normal experience - for likewise. Otherwise nature may throw
What about what comes out in the many years of ‘hurt’. And you can ing line whilst the evidence to support a while and take stock. Particularly us an even more curved ball next time.
stands? Mostly this was joyous and understand the desire to be there to this is just as uncertain or unavailable. after the crisis is over, we have time That really would be ‘a variant of
exemplary. But as always it can be see it when it happens. If this can’t be What kind of mentality is this? to reflect and anticipate. We may feel concern’!