Walking ... football !

Over-50s want to play football too, even if they don't necessarily want to be sprinting around for ninety minutes on a large pitch.
So... that's why Walking Football has been invented.  Basically, the rules are completely the same except that running is not allowed.

Amazingly, Staffordshire seems to be one of the national hotbeds of this form of the game.  Cheadle Leisure Centre has three sessions of walking football a week.  It's pretty competitive too...

Stoke City - a salute

Stoke City Football Club are hardly the purists’ favourites. The team are big, tough and hot on defence. Neutrals don’t much like Stoke.

But the loud & proud following at the Britannia stadium don’t care; they maybe even like it that way. It feeds a sense of ‘us against the world’. The Stoke crowd is rated one of the most passionate in the country.
They have great humour too. Recently, the crowd even did a wonderful mass mickey-take of the Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, as he was protesting against a referee decision. Even Wenger saw the funny side (eventually).

And, against the odds, the club continue to do pretty well in the Premier League. Last year, they even reached the FA Cup Final, and this year has been pretty comfortable.

Link: Fans take mickey out of Wenger