opinions4u Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) A guy called Ed Wood. He held the record a quarter of a century ago and wants it back. 235 days (I think) is the target timeframe and he's hoping to do it in under 200 days. Aiming to raise £50k for Prostate cancer charity. Please chuck a couple of quid his way. https://t.co/P8nhQikLBM Berwick Rangers just makes it a little bit different and, while not needed for the record, is a bit of fun. It's a mammoth planning effort and great to see him start at boundary park. Hopefully the club will give him a mention on Saturday. Follow @edwoodchallenge on Twitter Edited August 11, 2016 by opinions4u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 They will not recognise the record if it's speed related (ie trying to do them all in the quickest possible time)... just so you know. Also 93...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaticsPete Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Wembley ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Berwick. It is speed related and he's held the record before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaticsPete Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Ah ! All league grounds in England and Wales ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjointed Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Berwick. It is speed related and he's held the record before. Speed related? Jose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latics and England Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Ah ! All league grounds in England and Wales Feels like it is stretching it a bit. Plenty of other league grounds in Wales unless we are refusing to acknowledge the Welsh League. As O4U won't tell us what this is yet, it only seems fair to try and pull it apart without any details to back up our own arguments I am also going to presume it is by helicopter and ask whether he is forced to take off between Goodison and Anfield or if he can run between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latics and England Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 I have now seen details of this challenge on Twitter and it does look an excellent one, for a great cause (still not sure what Berwick adds to the party though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 A guy called Ed Wood. He held the record a quarter of a century ago and wants it back. 235 days (I think) is the target timeframe and he's hoping to do it in under 200 days. Aiming to raise £50k for Prostate cancer charity. Please chuck a couple of quid his way. https://t.co/P8nhQikLBM Berwick Rangers just makes it a little bit different and, while not needed for the record, is a bit of fun. It's a mammoth planning effort and great to see him start at boundary park. Hopefully the club will give him a mention on Saturday. Follow @edwoodchallenge on Twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 An article --- IT wasnt very long ago that I was bemoaning the lack of eccentrics in modern society. Then I was introduced to a genuine, cast iron, rock solid, 24 carat one. At 3 oclock tomorrow afternoon Ed Wood will be watching the kick-off of Oldham against Walsall in Division One. Nothing unusual in that, hundreds of thousands of football fans will attend a match this weekend. But by this time next week Ed will be going to his seventh match of the season, this time Crawley v Barnet. And for the next six months he will spend the majority of his time travelling to and attending matches the length and breadth of England and Wales. You see Ed is setting out on a quest to regain the world record he set 25 years ago for watching a league game at every one of the football league grounds in the shortest time. Having hit the age of 50, Ed Wood is taking four months off work on a sabbatical, funding himself on the challenge and risking his girlfriend leaving him as he pursues his obsession to reclaim the record he set a quarter of a century ago and raise £50,000 for Prostate Cancer UK on the way. Derby County fan Ed, who lives in Leeds, held the Guinness World Record after visiting all 92 football league grounds in England and Wales plus Berwick Rangers, who play in the Scottish league, in 243 days during the 1991/2 season. But his record was broken by Ken Ferris three years later and still stands at 237 days. Now bank worker Ed is launching his challenge to regain his record at Oldham Athletic tomorrow and needs to watch league matches at all 93 grounds by April 6th next year to do it. As part of his charity fundraising, he is also being set challenges at every ground he visits ranging from being the first in the stadium, working as a turnstile operator, getting a selfie with a club chairman and arriving by various modes of transport, including on horseback. Ed says his obsession with the record started when he was given a Guinness Book of World Records for Christmas when he was seven years-old. I still remember waking up on Christmas Day 1973 and Santa had brought me a Guinness Book of World Records. When I read about the record for visiting all the football league grounds in the fastest time I was fascinated and dreamt of emulating it. Then when I was 25 I broke the record but only held it for a few years. Now I want to reclaim it and raise as much money as I can for a great charity. When I broke the record I was learning to drive at the time and crashed a couple of times and Im hoping that this time around I will have some great experiences and meet some fantastic people along the way. But Ed does have one worry. My girlfriend doesnt like football and has told me that she wont come to any of the matches with me. Im going to be doing so much travelling over the next few months that I wont be seeing much of her, so I hope she sticks with me! Its a great story and one that deserves support, Im sure as word spreads of Eds quest, companies will want to back him in exchange for plenty of profile from an expedition that is going to make headlines. The Guinness World Record record for the Most Peripatetic Fan was first set in 1969 when Michael Jones and Bob Wilson of Shrewsbury watched a league match at all 93 grounds in the country [92 + Berwick Rangers] in the shortest amount of time, 264 days. Ed broke the record during the 1991/2 season when he achieved the feat in 243 days, watching two matches on the same day four times, all while holding down a full-time job. It was recorded in the 1993 & 1994 Guinness Book of World Records. I first met Ed last year. He trained at KPMG with corporate financier, Steve Roberts, a valued adviser during my time at TheBusinessDesk.com and now Im fortunate to have him as my business partner. Steve pointed out that the inordinately intelligent Ed Wood and I would at least have one thing in common supporting Derby County. Charming. But then it turned out we both grew up in the leafy Derbyshire village of Quarndon, probably best known as it was where football legend (well a legend in every place in Britain except Leeds), Brian Clough lived for many years. It turned out our parents knew each other and they lived just a few hundred yards apart. When I read in Eds background information that his favourite Derby County player of all time is Ted McMinn, I called a friend who works for the BBC and knows Ted. My BBC contact said that it wouldnt be a problem to get the former winger, who also played for Rangers and Sevilla and who was known as The Tin Man for his big shouldered marauding runs down the touchline, to go to a match with Ed. When I told Ed the good news, that wed helped fulfil his dream (thank God it was a simple dream), he replied: Im not sure what Im going to say to him? So we wish eccentric Ed well on his quest. He even admits hes not normal, but if he regains his record and raises a tremendous amount of cash for a fantastic charity then that will be more than not normal, itll be extraordinary. If you want to support Eds challenge then you can donate to the Edwood93challenge at www.Justgiving.com/fundraising/edwood93challenge Follow his progress on Twitter @edwoodchallenge and on Instagram: Edwood93challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagger Lee Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 An article --- IT wasnt very long ago that I was bemoaning the lack of eccentrics in modern society. Then I was introduced to a genuine, cast iron, rock solid, 24 carat one. This does seem the sort of quirky thing the English are renowned for. I wish him well, if he goes in the Jimmy Frizzell stand he would have started his new record in the newest named stand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 This does seem the sort of quirky thing the English are renowned for. I wish him well, if he goes in the Jimmy Frizzell stand he would have started his new record in the newest named stand Good shout. I've let him know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 Well he's delighted with the welcome Latics gave him. Thanks to Gordon Lawton, Simon Brooke and the new SLO bloke. He thinks Fane was MOTM. He was also chuffed to get on the pitch at half time, help the ground staff and give the interview even if I couldn't hear it in the RRE. He's off to Brizzle Rovers tomorrow and Chelsea on Monday. Chuck him a couple of quid for his charity (Prostrate Cancer) - he's taken six months unpaid off work to do this. https://t.co/P8nhQikLBM Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 Chelsea tonight. Colchester is game 4 tomorrow. Nearly £600 raised so far. http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/edwood93challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Game 11 Man City v West Ham today. BBC article too: http://bbc.in/2bP4OFf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 (edited) Ed will be on TalkSport after 12.30pm today. Hopefully he will give Latics a mention! EDIT: Also in 5live around 3.45pm. Nearly up to £1,500 raised. http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/edwood93challenge Edited August 29, 2016 by opinions4u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Game 11 Man City v West Ham today. BBC article too: http://bbc.in/2bP4OFf Good to see that we are one of the few clubs to have given him a free ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 Good to see that we are one of the few clubs to have given him a free ticket. He was genuinely impressed with how we looked after him. It wasn't particularly slick, but he appreciated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 Ed will be on TalkSport after 12.30pm today. Hopefully he will give Latics a mention! EDIT: Also in 5live around 3.45pm. Nearly up to £1,500 raised.http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/edwood93challenge He gave Latics a very positive mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 93 challenges included: Match day challenges 1. Be first into the ground 2. Get on local radio on matchday - DONE - Radio Derby ahead of Burton 3. Get in the local paper before or after matchday 4. Raise £100 in cash on match day – in local pubs, wearing an away shirt 5. Selfie with the chairman 6. Stay in ground as long as possible – post match 7. Make contact with the Twang and involve them ( somehow ) 8. Get on the pitch before or after the game - DONE - Oldham Athletic 9. Get on TV, before or after the game - DONE - East Midlands Today 10. Get a mention in the matchday programme - DONE - Chelsea & Ipswich 11. Get a piece of player’s kit used during the game 12. Enter using a ticket from a tout ( cash ) 13. Go corporate 14. Get a massage from a team physio – before or after the game 15. Watch a game from the press box 16. Watch a game from the directors’ box 17. Be involved in the on-pitch half timeentertainment 18. Obtain a full team’s autographs 19. Get a photo wearing the mascot outfit 20. Make a tannoy announcement 21. Have your name called out on the tannoy 22. Play a proper musical instrument during the game ( trumpet, drum or even ring a bell ) 23. Take a football rattle and get told to be quiet 24. Get a photo with a match official 25. Meet the oldest fan at the game (easily researched via a club PR office) 26. Meet the club’s best fan (ie longest unbroken run of attended fixtures – again easily researched) 27. Get in the players bar 28. Get in the changing rooms - DONE at Colchester 29. Get a football used at the match 30. Get into the post-match press conference 31. Get a selfie with a policeman 32. Use a vuvuzela 33. Buy a ticket from a reselling site - DONE for Chelsea - but didn't use as Peter Ford got me in on his season ticket 34. Get a photo in the directors’ lounge/boardroom holding any previous trophy ( no matter how insignificant ) 35. Recreate an event from the first record attempt in 1993 36. Work for the club ( in any capacity ) on matchday 37. Walk around the entire ground – inside the stadium, but not on the pitch Modes of transport for getting to ( or from ) a game 38. Horse ( includes horse & cart ) 39. Removal Lorry (Mike McCarthy offered here) 40. Haulage Lorry 41. Hitchhike 42. Pick up a hitchhiker 43. Genuine car share 44. Cycle 45. Taxi 46. Stretch limo 47. Walk 48. Motorbike 49. Motorbike sidecar 50. Vintage car 51. Bus 52. Supporters club bus – for the away team 53. Train - DONE - Got the Train with Neil Thomas to Man United 54. Boat ( of any description ) 55. Tube 56. Chauffeur 57. Travel by air ( plane/balloon/parachute/helicopter – you choose ) 58. Camp in a tent or motor home before or after the game Attend a game with 59. A relative 60. Sam - this will be tough 61. A member of the “committee” 62. Someone whose birthday it is on matchday 63. A minor ( < 18 ) 64. A previous record holder ( or failing that any current or past Guinness World Record holder – or GWR presenter ) 65. An ex-pro footballer 66. A current pro footballer 67. Someone from Prostate Cancer UK – either a researcher or administrator 68. Another Prostate Cancer UK fundraiser 69. A member of the cloth 70. Attend as a disabled carer 71. Two sisters 72. Two brothers 73. A person called Smith and a person called Jones 74. Someone who has never been to a football match 75. Someone with a title 76. Someone > 70 77. A member of the armed forces 78. Someone who has recovered from prostate cancer and benefited from Prostate Cancer UK research 79. Someone else called Ed Wood ( failing that at least E Wood ) 80. Someone from school or uni who you’ve lost contact with 81. Someone from the old 5 a side team who you’ve lost contact with Attend a game wearing 82. A Forest shirt ( at Forest ) 83. A kilt 84. Full kit of the home team ( exc boots and shin pads ) 85. Dressed as a local celebrity relevant to the venue 86. Dressed as Elvis 87. Dressed as Father Christmas 88. Dressed as a skinhead 89. Hi-vis stewards outfit 90. A top hat 91. A professionally fitted wig 92. Dressed as a superhero 93. Dressed as a tourist ( ie “I love London” t-shirt, camera etc ) – preferably a London venue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdog Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 I've stuck it on my facebook page asking fellow footy fans to spread the word and try and get him in heir grounds for free. I don't know many opposition fans but hopefully between some contacts we can at least raise his profile and get him into some grounds. Well done Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 (edited) Here's the TalkSport interview. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wTxOLXWPm10f Here's the donate page: http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/edwood93challenge Follow on Twitter @edwoodchallenge Follow on Facebook Ed Wood 93 Edited September 1, 2016 by opinions4u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 Ed will hit game 30 in the next few days. Latest interview here: http://www.the92.net/news-blog/ed-wood-sets-out-to-break-the-world-record-for-doing-the-92-93/#.V-Uw-HZ4XCRbmb=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 He should definitely have done #84 at Chelsea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 He's on Sky Fan Zone now. Channel 212. Apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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