AGM warm-up

Of course it's vital to warm up properly for a match, but I have decided that it'll help us all to prepare for this week's Annual General Meeting to take a quick look at a few snippets from AGM minutes from days gone by. The excerpts that follow show the lighter side of AGM discussions - while every year there's undoubtedly lots of important, some might say serious business to attend to, equally every year there are some laughs along the way. So...

2001: "Graham to pay £2 for subbing Macca vs Hooter Shooters while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with some French Marxist’s gibberish. Unopposed. Macca to pay £2 for not bringing own shirt and cornering an alarmed Chris in the Gents to use his vs MSW. Unopposed, banana-republic kangaroo-court style."

Also 2001: "There was broad agreement that as a 5-a-side outfit we have reached an upper limit on squad size (12). A moratorium on dealings in the transfer market to bolster the squad with new recruits was unanimously endorsed, even if Thierry Henry begs us, kicks and screams and threatens to tell his Dad."

2002: "Stuart and Ian have worked on a definitive history of every single fixture for the Accies (5-a-side and 11-a-side), as well as for Dinamo Bar Pitch and Streatham North End, including who played when, who scored, who kept a clean sheet – the lot. Apparently on one occasion Stuart phoned Caroline to clarify squad lists and interrupted a conversation about threesomes (and there are people who would pay good money for a transcript of that)."

Also 2002, my personal favourite of this bunch: "Simon holds a ‘UEFA B’ coaching badge, and offered a coaching session – which was unanimously supported." Terrific idea, Mes.

And finally, it seems that in 2003 the Paxton Arms came close to being the club's drinking venue of choice: "The meeting was brought to a close by a brief agenda item of AOB. Andrew raised the matter of a potential boycott of the Bar Pitch bar. However, the meeting decided that it continued to be handy, despite the beer being rotten and almost undrinkable…"