MALC STORER

 MALC STORER

 Many years ago, I met Malc when I was Programme Editor at Dunkirk FC, then it would be the odd nod of the head and hello as we passed each other at different grounds, before long me and his sidekick Kev Goodman became good friends who would stand side by side when bumping in to each other at games.

During a conversation one day they told me about their charity blog as I just used to take photos at matches I went to. They knew my son Shawn who has autism and mentioned APTCOO(A Place To Call Our Own) where me and the wife Hazel would go on a Tuesday for a coffee morning, where the kids could play and also the parents could chat and with the funding would have certain speakers come in to advise us parents from benefits to blue badges to applying for grants and specialist equipment. On saturday they would have a music club for the kids and Malc and Kev kindly decided to choose APTCOO as their charity that season and donated over £800. 

I asked Malc and Kev if they had any objections to me setting my own Charity Blog up as I wanted to help the epilepsy unit and that season and I raised over £500, since then the Charity Blog just like Malc and Kev's ONTHEROAD has just snowballed and both blogs have helped many great causes.

Some years back, Malc altered hos blog to a fixtures and results service from all around the Notts and Derbys area from uni footie and to sunday football, it was a place to go to for all info on matches, many a time if he didnt have a NSL Result he would quickly drop me a message or if I was on holiday in Cornwall, I go on to his blog to find out the results from up north. This was superb for groundhoppers, players and clubs to look at results all in one place after the match.

If Hazel had dropped me off at a match, he would always polietly ask how Hazel was and also shawn, though if Shawn was with me, he would listen to Shawns daft dad jokes and laugh.

In November last year, I suffered a heart attack and whilst in Kings Mill Hospital caught covid, but Hazel was able to drop off my laptop to the ward reception, one of the first messages was via twitter private message from Malc wishing me a speedy recovery. On New Years Eve, whilst up at daughters in Preston he send us a Happy New Year message.

A few days later, I heard the sad news that he had been poorly and rushed in to hospital and I sent a private message to him wishing him well, but sadly later that day, the bad news came that he had passed away.

To just invited to his funeral was a privilege and honour to be there and also meet his son Chris and family at the wake, there will never be another Malc and he will always be remembered by all those that met him.

I know Malc would like me to continue onwards with my Charity Blog and this year I have decided to support Butterflys which is helps and supports people that have been in domestic and abuse relationships.

RIP MALC