Guinness World Record Attempt - UPDATE

Hi all,

Hope you are well.

The Radio Basingstoke sponsored Guinness World Record Marathon (at 5-aside -football, in aid of Charity) was beaten on the weekend of 17/18 October.

Radio Basingstoke Bandits & Collingwood College Challengers beat the record of 26 hours by 1 hour. Congratulations go out to the exhausted 16 football players, 2 of whom - Nathan Doublet & Sean Ward - are from Basingstoke. We also had the player that scored the most goals on our team, Tom Quy, with a score of 130 !!!.

Many thanks to the volunteer Referee's from www.minirefs.co.uk, the adjudicaters & witness's, Portsmouth FC for donating all the kit, St Johns Ambulance, The Short Film Company, Pyramid Visuals & to the BBC for the publicity. Not forgetting the organiser John Morgan of Surrey County Council.

To support the charities go to NSPCC http://www.justgiving.com/5aside_marathon HART Wildlife http://www.justgiving.com/Football-Marathon/ Princess Alice Hospice http://www.justgiving.com/5asidemarathon