A Match for James (Walker)

[OldBlueLady]

James and Barney were the strike partnership in my first full season watching Southend as a kid. Very fitting that Barney rolled back the years for his former teammate.

I didn't think of it like that, but yes, you're right. Lee's a great bloke, he was one of those first on board with all of this, he's promised he'll be back to see us all soon too. Top man.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

With auctions still ongoing and the donations page continuing to run for the moment, we won't finalise figures for a bit yet but we thought you might like to know where we are at. In short, wow, thank YOU!

 

[hlane17]

I didn't think of it like that, but yes, you're right. Lee's a great bloke, he was one of those first on board with all of this, he's promised he'll be back to see us all soon too. Top man.

Lee is a great guy. I remember being a mascot for a game vs Orient in the JPT quite a few years ago and he was one of the nicest guys in the changing room, signed the front of my match programme as well.

I even chose my football boots based upon whatever Lee was wearing at the time! I thought it would make me score as many as he did, although I never got close!

 

[Hooly]

Maybe you didn't go around the whole pitch. There were several longstanding Blues fans there, including Nobbler's era

Don't dispute that & I did walk round the pitch about 3 times but as I said "one person I knew in the ground" not that there weren't many other Southend fans. I just found that a bit disappointing from a personal pov.

 

[Hooly]

James and Barney were the strike partnership in my first full season watching Southend as a kid. Very fitting that Barney rolled back the years for his former teammate.

They also played a few games together at Maldon & Tiptree in 2018.

This is an old article from our one of our local websites that I forgot to post before

Fundraiser for stricken former Southend footballer who was a hit with local clubs' fans including Maldon & Tiptree FC

Fundraiser for popular footballer and teacher James who was stricken down by life-changing illness

maldon.nub.news

 

[Rayleigh boy]

I thought it was really impressive how many ex players turned up ...

 

[Big Bad Barry Corr]

My match report of James' match is now up on the Yellow Advertiser site.

Blues legends turn out in force for James

Southend United Legends v Farke Knight Rises CFC – Len Salmon Stadium – James Walker Benefit Match – Report Southend

www.yellowad.co.uk

 

[Callum]

Well done everyone 20,000 great amount of money

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

A BEAUTIFUL DAY

Last Sunday saw the Southend United Ex-Players Association (SUEPA) ‘Match for James’ take place at the Len Salmon Stadium (the home of Bowers & Pitsea FC).

www.southendunited.co.uk

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Just a few words on Lee Clark of Farke United charity team. Lee was extremely talkative when he worked in the Tesco petrol station on Southchurch Road. He would even talk or sing to himself when just walking down the shops aisles. So to shut himself up, and give his colleagues a rest, Lol, and raise money, he did the silence thing for weeks at a time to raise money for a worthy cause. It was quite funny as you would tell him what pump etc, and he would do hand signals back. Many of you would have seen it. I think the longest sponsored silence he did was 3 months. Lee's a serial charity raiser. Someone said he has done over 170 fund raisers, raising over 250k in total. Lee has his own issues and struggles, and has gone missing a few times, but thankfully he bounces back. He was preparing for the last London Marathon by trekking from his home in Shoebury to Chalkwell Park. But he does all sorts of challenges, and will basically do almost anything to raise money for a good cause. The next I'm told is to climb Kilimanjaro. So if you see him around the Southend area, say hello, he's a top bloke and will respond nicely.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Yep Lee is a one-off, Kay and I struck lucky to have him with us in our small organising group for a Match for James. He has helped out the Carli Lansley Foundation too which is known to many of you.

The Trust are having the Farke lads down to Roots Hall as our guests for a match next season.

In a few days Lee is appearing in a production of the Full Monty and yep he is off to tackle Kilimanjaro too in a few weeks. He is just relentless.

His fund raising page for his mountain hike, in aid of breast cancer research, is justgiving.com/fundraising/le…

 

[Supershrimper]

Yep Lee is a one-off, Kay and I struck lucky to have him with us in our small organising group for a Match for James. He has helped out the Carli Lansley Foundation too which is known to many of you.

The Trust are having the Farke lads down to Roots Hall as our guests for a match next season.

In a few days Lee is appearing in a production of the Full Monty and yep he is off to tackle Kilimanjaro too in a few weeks. He is just relentless.

His fund raising page for his mountain hike, in aid of breast cancer research, is justgiving.com/fundraising/le…

Looks like the link didn't work so below is the correct link

Lee's Kilmanjaro page

Help Lee Clark raise money to support Against Breast Cancer

www.justgiving.com