Whitstable Town FC

Picture: Bruce Smith: (center in cap) After 45 years at Whitstable Town  Bruce Smith has decided to call it a day as Kit Man… Bruce and wife Conney have been washing the kit for the last fifteen years and the time has come to hand to job over to someone new.

“There are a lot of people who want to help at a football club and its time for me to hand the job to someone new. This is one of the most important jobs at the club, we mix with the players and management liase with them over fixtures and generally organise the kit around the team.

They are a smashing bunch of lads and we take great pride in seeing them running out onto the pitch in nice freshly laundered kit,” said Smith:

Bruce Smith has held many positions at Whitstable Town F.C. during his time at the club he has been Vice Chairman, club secretary, fixtures secretary and groundsman. Smith said he waited 45 years for promotion, and right up to the last game he could not believe it was real: “I still pinch myself when I think that we are a Ryman Club, after all the years I have been around the club I was thrilled when Marc and the lads won the Kent League and last week was the icing on the cake we went to my old club Dulwich Hamlet and they really looked after Conney and myself. For us to play them in the same league after all this time was special I can tell you.” Bruce will continue to look after the pich together with Joe..

Anyone interested in doing the kit please contact vice chairman Joe Brownett who is at the ground match days or Bruce or ask for any committee member. WTFC ©