Cabbie fined for 3 smokes
The club keeps them away from trouble and teaches new skills
start Hackney Wick. Since then the club has had an extraordinary rise, with 17 teams, including a strong women’s side, and a string of awards.
This season the club turned semi-pro and played in the FA Cup for the first time. They also have a 250-member strong academy. Bobby wanted a club to inspire social change and help BOBBY KASANGA ON BENEFITS OF FOOTBALL
Bobby gets news from Robbie. Below, with Wick players people to integrate and connect with their community. He said: “Football is a unifier, you can be the biggest baddest gangster in the world but as soon as you see a football it makes you feel like a child again and you want to have a touch of the ball.”
The club regularly sends its players to local schools to educate kids on the dangers of gang crime.
They also offer elderly members of the community free tickets and travel to matches and sets up games against prison teams. There, Bobby helps to rehabilitate other ex-offenders by encouraging people to turn their lives around when they are released.
Three former prisoners now play for Hackney Wick’s first team.
The club has helped team members get work. Bobby said: “Through playing with the football club, the members can learn leadership skills, how to negotiate, how to command authority and how to work with others.”
He added: “Importantly, it keeps them away from trouble and enables them to support their families.” A CABBIE must pay £980 in total for smoking in her own taxi three times.
Helen Jones, 42, of Newport, Gwent, failed to appear at Cwmbran magistrates where she also faced a littering charge.
A council official said: “Officers will not tolerate breaches of the law.”