VOLUNTEERS
Words: Alan Bond @august––may
INDUCTEE #6:
PAUL NICHOLLS TEAMS:
HELSBY FC LOCATION:
CHESHIRE
In each issue, we celebrate a player
Helsby Football Club, however, who
cony Ultras after the popular draft beer
who deserves to have their grass-
during the pandemic completed the
sold on site, members congregate at
roots career up in lights by induct-
move from their original BICC Sports
the viewpoint on Saturday afternoons
ing them into The Grassroots Post
& Social Club - a traditional working
as the Green Army look to surge for-
Hall Of Fame. For our first national
men’s club - to a new complex 400
ward to a second successive promotion
issue, it’s Paul Nicholls, of Helsby
yards away.
and towards the West Cheshire One
FC in Cheshire.
Overlooking the pitch at Callander
Division (Step 7).
New clubhouse and changing room
Way in the Cheshire village is a glass
Accompanying the crowd of locals
buildings can often be quite clinical for
balcony where, from the beginning of
is a flag reading “Geoffrey Paul is our
those accompanying the modern-day
the 2021/22 season, a new fanbase has
Hero”. It is the reveal of his primary given
4G facilities. This is not the case at
been growing. Named the Madris Bal-
name and, most importantly, an ode to a