Thursday 4th August 2011

Alfreton Town FC's staggering 14-0 pre-season friendly home win over Sheffield Wednesday's Academy side gained the Reds global publicity and recognition.

Within just a few hours of the massive victory, the club had made the 'trends' list on social network site Twitter which shows the most viewed topics of the day.

Numerous football club forums, including as far away as Glasgow Rangers, and a Google search of "Alfreton Town 14, Sheffield Wednesday 0" listed dozens of fans forums and official football club websites that all carried news of the demolition.

Assistant manager Russ O'Neill (left) admitted he had been overwhelmed with the amount of phone calls and texts he received.

He said: "I have had texts from people I know abroad, lots of people in football and mates texting me to tell me how many thousands of hits we have had on Facebook pages."

Thoughts that the management had not learned anything about the side from the one-sided contest were quickly dispelled by O'Neill.

He explained: "At the minute it is all about getting the balance right and at the end of the day we were just trying to progress through pre-season as best we can and we got plenty of things from the game.

"Everything is about gearing up towards the first game of the season and we got as much out of the Wednesday as we possibly could.

"There are obviously sterner tests to come, but the major plus point from the performance was that it showed we have a really high fitness level."

The Reds made the transition from part time training to three days a week a fortnight ago and whilst it has taken a while for some of the players to get used to it, dividends are now being reaped.

O'Neill ended: "We thought it was perhaps a shock to the systems of some of the players who had not been used to training like this.

"It possibly showed in one or two of the early pre-season games, but, irrespective of the nature of the opposition, the players really did look good and worked very hard.

"But we will not realise how fit we are until we get to next week and we lay off and rest up a bit ahead of the first league game".

FINAL FRIENDLY
Meanwhile, the Reds finish their pre-season build-up with a final friendly away at Evo-Stik League First Division South club Rainworth MW this Saturday (6th). Kick-off is 3pm.

Nicky Law's side will then have just one week to wait until their first ever game at Conference national level when they travel to Woking, the temporary home of Hayes & Yeading United, to contest the opening Blue Square Bet Premier Division game on Saturday, August 13th.

NEW KIT
Alfreton Town have launched their brand new home, away and third kits for the 2011/12 season thanks to new suppliers Adidas.

The first choice kit is the usual all red, the second kit will be all blue and there will be a third white shirt which will go with either set of red or blue shorts and socks as necessary.

The shirts are priced at:
£39.95 for adults and £29.95 for children.

For an additional cost of £9.95 per shirt, an adult shirt can have name, number and Blue Square decals added.

Unfortunately, decals cannot be added to Junior shirts due to gambling restrictions.

Supporters can order replica shirts which will be available before the first league game at Hayes & Yeading on August 13th and pre-orders are being taken by commercial manager Steve Elliott on 07980 871258.

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