MAN v FAT Football Crewe

19/01/2026

Season 19 Week 2 Roundup: We’ve made a dint in the catastrophic gain we had last week, but still got some work to do. Keep up the good work off the pitch gents, make good choices and we’ll see you all next week hopefully with more weight losses!

31/12/2025

New Year. New You. New Pitch. New System ⚽🔥

2026 is the year you take control — not in the gym, not on a diet alone — but on the football pitch. As part of our community!

If losing weight has always felt like a solo battle, Man v Fat Crewe proves it doesn’t have to be.

As we kick off Season 19, we’re starting fresh on a brand-new pitch and a brand-new chapter 👇

📅 First game: Monday 5th January 2026
📍 New home: King George V Playing Fields
🏟️ Venue: Crewe FC, CW2 8TT

⏰ Kick-off times:
19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00

🚗 Parking: FREE
🏆 League: 8 teams for the first season, with eyes on moving up to 10 teams by March
🍻 Facilities:
• Fully licensed bar with Sky Sports
• Changing rooms
• Best-in-class 4G pitch

This isn’t just football.
It’s confidence returning.
Fitness improving.
Weight dropping.
And Mondays becoming something you look forward to.

New year. New pitch. New mindset.
Start 2026 the Man v Fat way. 💪⚽

23/12/2025

Season 18 Week 14: A disappointing week on the scales, with Christmas parties in full swing!

First a congrats to Pinks for wrapping up the combined and pitch leagues, a great achievement!

Last night saw Poyser make his last run out and I'm happy to report he got the standing ovation he deserved after (even though he told me I couldn't make it happen!) Poys will be a great miss to the league!

A reminder that forms for both the vacant AC role and the end of season form are both above and especially with the EOS one we would appreciate if you could fill it out if you haven't already!

Summary below:

Total weekly *gain* : 18kg

*Season loss* 148.60kg

*🟣Pinks🟣* top losers in Week 14 with 1.4kg lost

🏆 *Top 6 Losses* 🏆

- Jack Wilkinson 2.7kg

- David “Chunk” Goodfellow 2kg

- ⁠Matt Cartlidge & Craig Adlington 1.4kg

- ⁠Martin Latham & James Killick – 1.2kg

*Attendance*: (56/78) 72%

*Food Tracking*: (45/56) 80%

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

Week 2: ✅✅

Week 3: ✅

Week 4: ✅✅✅✅

Week 5: ✅✅

Week 6: ✅✅✅✅

Week 7: ❌

Week 8: ❌

Week 9: ✅

Week 10: ✅

Week 11: ✅✅✅

Week 12: ✅✅

Week 13: ✅✅

Week 14: ❌

Week 14 Results:

20:00pm 🟢 4 v 7 🟣

20:30pm 🟡 3 v 2 ⚪️

21:00pm 🟠 5 v 0 🔵

21:30pm ⚫️ 7 v 9 🔴

We hope you and your families have a great Christmas and a cracking New Year - we return on the 5th!

An update regarding the new season will be out as soon as it is finalised!

09/12/2025

Week 13 of Season 18 and we were back with a solid loss overall considering there were some hefty gains off the back of Christmas parties!

Firstly, a big shout out to Pez - who has struggled season after season with weight loss, however at the end of last season Az publically outed him and in a quest to prove him wrong, Pez has absolutely smashed it out the park this season and tonight hit his 10%. Unbelievable!

We go into the final week next week with the combined league leaving everything to play for - just a point splits the top 3 teams.

Congratulations to the Black team who have sat comfortably at the top of the weight loss league and have sealed the deal with a couple of weeks to spare!

Pinks can also have a mention for the pitch league, however we’re all here for the weight loss!! …. Right?!

Summary below:

Total weekly *loss* : 12.30kg

*Season loss* 166.60kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 13 with 54.90kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Shane Parkes 5.20kg
- Joe Humphries 2.30kg
- ⁠Paul Cassidy 2.20kg
- ⁠Will Westall 2.00kg
- ⁠Jonny Slack 1.80kg

*Attendance*: (65/79) 82%

*Food Tracking*: (63/65) 97%

Matt Perry entered the 10% Club.

Ryan Heywood entered the 15% Club

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌
Week 9: ✅
Week 10: ✅
Week 11: ✅✅✅
Week 12: ✅✅
Week 13: ✅✅

*Week 13 Results*

20:00pm 🟠 15 v 9 ⚫️
20:30pm 🔴 13 v 4 🟢
21:00pm ⚪️ 5 v 7 🔵
21:30pm 🟣 17 v 13 🟡

08/12/2025

Season 18 Week 12 saw our first weekly gain. Christmas is in sight and we are clinging on to small losses across the board but some really good individual losses and goals! A little push to get to the end of the season let’s push for some decent numbers on the board!

Shout out to Chris Steele for hitting his 35% tonight as well. Monumental effort 💪🏼

Summary below:

Total weekly *gain* : 0.40kg

*Season loss* 154.30kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 12 with 55.80kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Chris Steele 4.20kg
- Jack Wilkinson 3.50kg
- ⁠Ryan Windley 2.60kg
- ⁠Ryan Heywood 2.30kg
- ⁠Dan Gater 2.10kg

*Attendance*: (62/81) 77%

*Food Tracking*: (58/62) 94%

*10% Club*:
Jack Wilkinson

*35% Club*
Chris Steele

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌
Week 9: ✅
Week 10: ✅
Week 11: ✅✅✅
Week 12: ✅✅

*Week 12 Results*

20:00pm 🟢 8 v 13 🟡
20:30pm 🔵 3 v 18 🟣
21:00pm ⚫️ 9 v 0 ⚪️
21:30pm 🔴 5 v 4 🟠

29/11/2025

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27/11/2025

Season 18 Week 11:

This week saw the return of a steps challenge with a mixed bag of participation! The scores on the doors were as follows:

⚪️: 0 Goals
🔴: 1 goal
🟢🔵: 2 Goals
🟣🟠🟡⚫️: 3 Goals

Summary:

Total weekly *loss* : 5.80kg

*Season loss* 154.70kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 11 with 55.10kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Simon Gawne 4.90kg
- ⁠Dean Falland 3.40kg
- ⁠Mike Skaife 3.20kg
- ⁠Craig Adlington 2.20kg
- ⁠Jack Wilkinson 2.10kg

*Attendance*: (56/82) 68%

*Food Tracking*: (55/56) 98%

Chris Humphries entered the 10% club

Si Gawne and Matt Perry entered the 20% club

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌
Week 9: ✅
Week 10: ✅
Week 11: ✅✅✅

*Season 18 Week 11 Results*

20:00pm ⚪️ 7 v 7 🔴
20:30pm 🟠 9 v 10🟢
21:00pm 🟣 25 v 16 ⚫️
21:30pm 🟡 10 v 5 🔵

24/11/2025

Season 18 Week 9 and 10 Summaries:

Week 9 - Total weekly *loss* : 2.00kg

*Season loss* 139.10kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 9 with 44.40kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Adam Thopliss 3.30kg
- Lewis Turner 2.60kg
- Jack Wilkinson 2.40kg
- ⁠Ryan Heywood 2.20kg
- ⁠Reece Tasker 2.10kg

*Attendance*: (64/84) 76%

*Food Tracking*: (67/69) 97%

*Dave Hodkinson entered the 15% Club*

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌
Week 9: ✅

*Week 9 Results*

20:00pm 🟣 15 v 7 🟠
20:30pm ⚪ 7 v 11 🟢
21:00pm 🟡 13 v 6 🔴
21:30pm 🔵 9 v 10 ⚫

Week 10 - Total weekly *loss* : 9.80kg

*Season loss* 148.90kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 10 with 44.90kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Ryan Windley 2.20kg
- ⁠Jack Wilkinson 2.20kg
- ⁠David Gater 1.80kg
- ⁠Mike Primrose 1.50kg
- ⁠Rob Nixon 1.50kg

*Attendance*: (64/83) 77%

*Food Tracking*: (64/69) 93%

*Ryan Windley entered the 25% Club*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌
Week 9: ✅
Week 10: ✅

*Week 10 Results*

20:00pm 🟢 7 v 8 🔵
20:30pm ⚫️ 9 v 10 🟡
21:00pm 🔴 6 v 4 🟣
21:30pm 🟠 8 v 4 ⚪️

17/11/2025

The boys smashed this last week. Around 550 items collected to donate to the cause! 👏

04/11/2025

🚨Challenge Week: You Bring Coats, You Score Goals! 🚨

As the colder nights set in, MvF Crewe is calling on our community to support those in need by donating warm clothing to Chance Changing Lives — a local charity helping keep the homeless warm this winter.

Please donate clean, reusable men’s or women’s winter clothing (no threadbare items, please).

Here’s how teams can earn bonus goals:
• 3 goals for the team with the most donations overall
• 2 goals for donating at least 10 items
• 1 goal for donating 5 items

The challenge runs from 3rd November, and all items need to be brought to the session on the 10th to count.

Let’s come together and help keep Crewe’s streets a little warmer this winter.

04/11/2025

Season 18 Week 8 Round Up:

Another slow week on the scales which I’m going to put down to half term / Halloween madness! Let’s hope to see the return of some decent figures next week or we will have to up the ante when it comes to challenges!

Speaking of challenges we have a slightly different one this week which I’d really love everyone to participate in. It’s completely inclusive and one that nobody should really have an excuse for so I’d be immensely proud if we had 100% participation!

Summary:

Total weekly *loss* : 8.40kg

*Season loss* 137.10kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 8 with 39.40kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top 5 Losses* 🏆

- Si Gawne 2.40kg
- ⁠Andy Lade 2.20kg
- Dave Hodkinson 2.10⁠kg
- George Hyde-Farrington 2.10⁠kg
- ⁠James Tee 1.90kg

*Attendance*: (67/84) 80%

*Food Tracking*: (63/67) 94%

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅
Week 7: ❌
Week 8: ❌

*Results*

🟢 10 v 10 ⚫️
🔴 12 v 7 🔵
🟠 5 v 7 🟡
⚪️ 3 v 10 🟣

27/10/2025

Last weeks summary - Season 18 Week 6:

A disappointing week on the scales overall, but still registering a loss at 4.40kg and some real individual successes which is great to see!

A spin the wheel challenge appears on Monday, with the goals awarded on the night after the game also!

Let’s hope next week sees the return of double digit weight weekly weight losses!

Total weekly *loss* : 4.40kg

*Season loss* 113.60kg

*⚫️Blacks⚫️* top losers in Week 6 with 34.20kg lost season to date

🏆 *Top Losses* 🏆

- Chris Steele 3.60kg
- Ryan Windley 2.00⁠kg
- Dave Durose 1.80⁠kg
- ⁠Matt King 1.50kg
- ⁠David Bourne 1.40kg
- ⁠Rob Nixon 1.40kg

*Attendance*: (62/83) 75%

*Food Tracking*: (61/62) 98%

*5% Club*:
Matt Perry

*10% Club*:
David Goodfellow (Chunky)

*20% Club*:
Matt King
Adam Thopliss

*% club hot streak:*

Week 1: ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Week 2: ✅✅
Week 3: ✅
Week 4: ✅✅✅✅
Week 5: ✅✅
Week 6: ✅✅✅✅

*Results*

⚫️ 18 v 20 🟠
🟢 4 v 8 🔴
🔵 4 v 10 ⚪️
🟡 5 v 10 🟣