Manchester Walking Football October 2026

Reporter: Kevin Williams

Week 1 – Over 60s Division 1

Over 60s Report

I mentioned the much improved Manchester Old Boys last month, and they continued their upward trajectory with another unbeaten day at a sunny Heywood Sports Village today. It looks increasingly likely that the final two rounds of games will decide if either they, or Wakefield Wanderers, will finish as Runners Up to the ever impressive Bolton Arena.

Wakefield Wanderers themselves continued their impressive record and will not cede second place easily. A couple of close defeats for Fleetwood Town Flyers seem to have resigned them to a mid table berth. They lead a clutch of clubs, Salcom, Burnley Clarets and Winstanley Walkers, into the final quarter of the season.

There weren’t too many goals in the tightly contested games I enjoyed refereeing today, but I did have the opportunity to see two outstanding efforts from Burnley’s Steve Whitehead in the day’s finale against an unlucky Blackpool Senior Seasiders. He’s scored a few like that in recent years, but I doubt he’s scored many better! The Seasiders could have done with taking something from that game, but went down narrowly, it probably signalled their demotion at the end of the season, along with Ribble Valley WFC and Bolton Arena Blues.

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