A SWINDON sporting society whose football team recorded the last ever victory at Wembley Stadium has managed to notch up another success.
The Swindon Irish Golf Society formed a team last year to play the last ever competitive match at Wembley after winning a competition on Radio Five Live.
The team the Swindon Irish Nomads provided the stadium with a fitting farewell by beating their opponents, the Nonames team 5-1.
This time society members enjoyed a trip to Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United Football Club, after winning a competition in the Daily Mirror a fortnight ago.
The competition was won by 36 year-old Tony Whelan, of Old Walcot, a Liverpool fan by heart.
He took 14 of his team mates to watch the Premiership champions beat Leicester City 2-0.
Ten of them were members of the original Wembley team.
After the Old Trafford game, Tony said: "I was gob smacked when I heard I'd won the prize, it took a while to sink in.
"We had an excellent day out in Manchester and the lads had a brilliant time. It has got to be a one in a million chance for a society to have won two such great football prizes.
"I want to thank the organisers for giving us a fantastic day out."
The society, which is made up of around 50 members is usually found to be playing golf at Broome Manor or Shrivenham and the group regularly travels to courses around the South West.
Society member James Mitchell of Stratton St Margaret won the original competition on BBC Radio Five Live by guessing the total number of goals scored in cup finals at Wembley since 1923.
Having given the closest guess of 235 to the answer of 212 goals, he lead the novice football team to Wembley Stadium after some expert coaching by former Swindon Town Football Club manager, Jimmy Quinn.
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