Sportsmans Dinner - A date for your diary

One of the highlights of Forfar Athletic’s off the field activities in a calendar year is the annual Sportsmans Dinner and next year it will be held as usual in the Reid Hall on Friday May 17th.

This will remarkably be the eighteenth such event that the club has run since the first Dinner back in 1996 when former Scotland Rugby Captain David Sole was the first ever speaker.

The club are delighted to have put together what they hope will be an entertaining line-up for next May’s event with all three speakers/entertainers making their first appearance at the event.

Fred Eyre a legend as far as after dinner speaking is concerned south of the border will be travelling up from the Manchester area for the evening. Fred now in his late sixties was a youth team player with Manchester City before going on to play and coach at a host of lower and non league clubs. He subsequently became a successful businessman in his own right, a sports pundit on radio and an author one of his books called Kicked into Touch selling over a million copies.

Joining Fred ‘on the bill’ will be Phil Differ a well known West of Scotland based script writer for many television and radio shows and most notably a former Producer, Director of BBC Scotland’s Only an Excuse. He has also presented alongside Stuart Cosgrove on Off the Ball and in recent years has become an accomplished after dinner entertainer.

Paul Reid the hilarious sporting impressionist will complete the bill. Paul is of course Carnoustie based and works by day with Dundee United’s commercial department but he is now renowned as an entertainer throughout the country and has in recent times appeared on Sky’s Soccer AM and on Only and Excuse to name but two.

It should be yet another night to remember and those on the club’s mailing list for the event will be receiving further detail early in the New Year.

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