Dorking Wanderers have signed a loyal supporter to play in objective forward of their non-league conflict with AFC Totton this weekend.
With first-choice goalkeeper Harrison Foulkes set to be sidelined for 4 weeks with a spleen damage, outspoken supervisor Marc White has opted to signal 54-year-old fan and constant supporter Terry Dunn.
Dunn, who hung up his boots again in 1997, will characteristic for the Wanderers on Saturday of their Nationwide League South conflict at Meadowbank.
54-year-old goalkeeper slated for Dorking Wanderers debut this weekend
With time working out and Foulkes injured, White has been left with no alternative however to name upon the companies of Dunn for an event he’ll almost certainly always remember.
Dunn, 54, whose former golf equipment embody the now extinct North Holmwood FC, is alleged to have received a number of promotions with native sides in and across the Surrey space and is well-known by these on the membership.
“Taking part in in objective is like using a motorbike – you always remember it,” mentioned Dunn after signing for the Wanderers on a short-term deal. “I nonetheless recurrently play strolling soccer. As a Wanderers fan, nobody shall be attempting more durable than me to maintain a clear sheet on Saturday.”
Supervisor and chairman White added: “In an period the place ardour is available in low portions, what Terry lacks in mobility, he’ll make up for in coronary heart – and for one recreation, we’re simply going to need to get on with it.”
Followers have been suggested that Dunn will play only one recreation for the membership, with Dorking set to signal a brand new goalkeeper on Monday forward of a busy interval of video games.
The Wanderers are bidding to earn promotion again to the Nationwide League after relegation in 2023/24. White can be again within the dugout on Saturday after most not too long ago serving a six-match touchline ban for a sexist remark he made about girls on a podcast.
In FourFourTwo‘s view, tales like these remind us why we love the gorgeous recreation a lot. We want Dunn and Dorking all the perfect for the weekend.
If you want to look at extra of the loopy antics at Meadowbank, Dorking’s sensible fly-on-the-wall soccer sequence is on the market on YouTube, with new episodes uploaded each week, within the soccer docu-series ‘Bunch of Amateurs’.
