I thought a report into some actual Football played would be welcome reading in amongst the silly season of linked players.

I have been involved with the Down's Syndrome Association ever since my son, Christopher Everton was born in 2001 and am fortunate enough to currently be a Trustee of this wonderful Charity. This role allows me to support and help when possible with a wonderful program they run called DSActive. DSActive is a Football and Tennis programme for people with Down's Syndrome and is run by a hard working band of excellent coaches as well as a team within the charity. This program allows all people with Down's Syndrome to receive training, the opportunity to play in games and personal confidence with a National Festival held annually.

This Year's Festival was held on Sunday at a facility found for us by the WBA coaches who do a great job on the festival every year. I was delighted to see that this year for the first time Everton were going to enter a side. Their group included last year's unbeaten winners Cardiff City. Everton not only managed to win this game 2-1 but also topped their group.

This set up a semi final against Newcastle who had won the group I was coaching an Allstars team from and like most Newcastle teams had a large fan base that seemed to finally remember how to cheer a winning side, sorry cheap shot, wife's a Geordie. However a one sided game saw Everton win 4-0, could have been 5-0, we lost count on the side lines.

Now to the final itself against a big Charlton side that had won the Festival before and despite some great football for Everton so it turned out again.

But considering that Everton are one of the newer clubs to the program the coaches have certainly been doing a great job with some great players and football befitting of Nil Satis Nisi Optimum.

I was fortunate to be asked to present the medals to all the players and the cup's to the Winners. Everton had the Group Winner cup and the Overall Runners-Up.

Me (far left) presenting the trophies to Everton