Mike Richards - Club Development Officer

For non-Reading fans ... Mike is the one on the right !!  Seen here with Reading's Ivar Ingimmarsson  on the occasion of receiving the FA Charter Standard. Mike has been with the club for 11 years. Starting out like many watching his son then 6 (now 17) on a Sunday morning at Pinewood. All went well i.e. duties went no further than putting up Samba goals, until an U9 summer tournament at Bracknell Town, when Mike was asked to manage the "C" team, which beat the "A" team and caused an upset by reaching the semi final. From there he was asked to coach the Panthers team, and together with the rest of the coaching team over the next 5 years, saw what was an East Berks Div 3 team develop into a North East Hants Premier League team, finishing 4th two seasons in a row and reaching the League Cup semi-final. 

In 2004 Mike took up the role of Club Chairman, over-seeing the introduction of goal keeper training in the Club and a number of other improvements. He retired in 2007 with his son moving to another Club but has remained with Pinewood, taking up his current role as Club Development Officer, with the primary objective of replacing the ageing Club house and proposing a Club Development Plan. 

Proudest football moment - watching his son play in the North East Hants representative side and win the Southern Counties Inter-League Cup in Southampton.

Favourite football team: Reading FC 
Favourite player of all time: Gordon Banks
Best sporting achievement: as a civilian being part of an Army side who won the Services Hockey Cup in Aldershot

Name

Position

Mary Hadden

Chairman:

Adrian Powell

Vice Chairman:

Paul Clayton

Club Sec & Devel.

Emma Sharpe

Ast Sec

Neville Stone

Treasurer:

Karl Hadden

Facilities Sec

John Edgar

Fixt. Sec & Web

Patricia Barnden

Social/Press Sec

Barrie Calander

Welfare officer:

Steve Powers

Web Manager:

Paul Clayton

U5+6 Mgr & Web

Barrie Callender

U8's Mgr & Web

Adrian Sumner

U9's Mgr

Terry Trower 

U10's Mgr

Adrian Powell

U11's Mgr & Web

Richard Thomas

U12's Mgr

Graham Watterson

U13's Mgr

Stuart Cameron

U14's Mgr

Karl Hadden

U15's Mgr

Paul Gagie

U16's Mgr

Joubert Gama

U17's Mgr

Lynne Sumner

U9 Web

Paula Ward

U10Web

Claire Thomas

U11 Web

Brenda Watterson

U13  Web

Graham.Shute

U14 Web

Fiona Scholes

U15 Web

Pat Edgar

U16 Web

Dave Brown

Referee

Seb Powers

Referee