Forest Vets Walking Football Club

International News 🌍🇮🇪

More international success to celebrate! A huge congratulations to Gary Ball, who has been selected for the Republic of Ireland Over-50s Men’s Walking Football Squad, and to Vince Duffy, who has been selected for the Republic of Ireland Over-60s Squad for the Masters this weekend in Wales.

Wishing you both the very best of luck — go out there, enjoy the experience and do yourselves proud!

We’re incredibly proud of you both. 👏⚽🇮🇪

🏆⚽ FOREST VETS ARE THROUGH TO THE REGIONALS! ⚽🏆

What a fantastic evening for Forest Vets Men’s Over 50s! 👏

The lads have won the Notts round of the FA Walking Football Cup and are now through to the Regional Finals at Derby Racecourse in September, where they’ll join our Over 40s and Over 50s Women’s teams. What an achievement!

The squad got off to a great start, beating Santos 3–1, with Nigel Bailey scoring twice and Nigel Beer adding the third.

They then faced Nottingham Reds in a really close game, eventually securing a 1–0 victory thanks to a goal from Vincent Duffy. ⚽👏

A brilliant team effort from start to finish, and we couldn’t be prouder of you all.

Congratulations boys — you’ve done Forest Vets proud! 👏👏👏

Squad
Carl Steggles
Gary Ball
Lyndon Kennedy
Nigel Bailey
Nigel Beer
Vincent Duffy
Ian Parkes
Danny Boyes

Bring on September! 🏆⚽

🌟 MORE INTERNATIONAL CALL-UPS! 🌟

The fantastic news keeps coming, and this time it’s our Over 60s Walking Football Women taking centre stage! ⚽️👏

We’re absolutely thrilled that FOUR of our players have been selected to represent the Celtic Nations in Wales this week! What an incredible achievement and a fantastic reward for all their hard work and dedication to walking football. ❤️

And there’s an extra special honour for our very own Over 60s Captain, Gill Rowley, who has been selected not only to represent her nation, but to CAPTAIN her country! 👏🏆

Gill will be joined by Jo Anderson, Diane McIntosh and Patricia Perry, who will all be proudly pulling on their international shirts and showing just what our Over 60s Walking Footballers can do! ⚽️🔥

We couldn’t be prouder of all four of you. What an amazing opportunity and a fantastic achievement for you, your teammates and our club.

Go smash it, ladies! Enjoy every minute, play with pride and show them what walking football is all about! 💪⚽️❤️

🏆 Four players. One incredible achievement. We are SO proud! 🏆

A huge congratulations to one of our fantastic goalkeepers, Natalie Monaghan-Smith, on receiving her first call-up to the Republic of Ireland Women’s Over 40s Walking Football Squad! 🇮🇪⚽️
Natalie will be representing Ireland at the World Masters next week in Wales — what an incredible achievement!
From everyone at the club, we wish you the very best of luck. Go out there, enjoy every moment and make some fantastic memories.
Well done, Natalie — we’re all incredibly proud of you! 💚🇮🇪⚽️

What a fantastic day at the Women United Tournament in Nottingham!

We entered two Walking Football teams and one running team, and all three came home with silverware!

🏆 Forest Vets Pinks were crowned Walking Football champions.
🏆 Forest Vets Blues won the Plate competition.
🏆 Forest Vets Juniors topped it off by winning the running competition.

Three teams, three trophies, and money raised for a fantastic cause – a perfect day all round.
It was especially nice to see some of our walking footballers' daughters representing Forest Vets in the running team. Seeing mums and daughters wearing the same Forest Vets shirt and supporting each other throughout the day made the occasion even more special.

A huge congratulations to Tracey Duxbury-Mead on being named Player of the Tournament in the running section – a fantastic achievement and thoroughly deserved! 👏

We are so proud of every single player for their effort, teamwork and commitment. A huge thank you as well to our guest players for helping make the day such a success. 💙💛

Our Over 50s men are now just one game away from reaching the WFA Grand Finals Day after a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Nottingham Reds last night.
It was a tight, competitive contest throughout, but goals from Tim Emery and Chris Hudson secured the win. Both goalkeepers were in outstanding form, with Darren Heyes producing a series of superb saves, while the Nottingham Reds keeper also made several excellent stops to keep his side in the game.
One more win to book our place in the WFA Grand Finals Day!

Squad: Darren Heyes, Nigel Bailey, Chris Hudson, Gary Ball (capt), Tim Emery, Nigel Beer, Pete Bradley, Richard Jackson

And in the WFA Central Over 50s we have Viki Smith, Cath Tomlin, Marie-Claire Page & Wendy Shaw Manager. Well done to all