4 years ago I quit football to peruse a career in accounting & finance. I had to start at the bottom and study like no tomorrow but on Friday I was offered my first major role in accountancy!
Can’t wait for the next step of my career to start!
Hard work always wins 👊
⚽️➡️🤓
Very excited to have joined
@Bowerspitseafc
!
A lot of work to be done to get back up to speed and where I think I can get to personally, but I’m looking forward to pushing myself once again and giving it another crack!
🧤 ⚽️
I will be sadly be leaving
@EnfieldFC
.
However given the recent events I feel the least I can do is honour Saturdays fixture and make myself available - as a thank you to those still at the club who have shown me so much support off the pitch for the last 2.5 years.
🧤🤓📚🧮📈
Sadly my time
@walthamstowfc
has come to an end.
Sadly the events over the last week have, in my opinion, made my position at the club untenable.
52 games, 28 clean sheets, 1 goal.
It’s been one hell of a ride and one I’ll look back on with fond memories 💙 Thank you.
Jamo x
Third yellow card of my life at the weekend.
Got the legs to get to the first one... not got the legs to get back!
One regret... should have kicked the second one further 🤪
6 years finally finished
@OpenUniversity
! Just submitted my final exam! 😍
Now just the nervous wait till results day on 20th July!
Last 6 years… you’ve been noting but a joyful pain the the backside 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
6 years of Open University officially finished.
Graduating with a 2:1 BA (Hons.) degree in Business Management & Accountancy whilst also becoming a part qualified chartered accountant.
My pro debut was a special day.
The decisions I’ve made makes this even more special.
⚽️➡️🤓
And that’s a wrap.
Apart from next week where I will put the 🧤s on one more time for my new club due to availability issues, my primary playing days are done.
Very much looking forward to my new role in coaching and giving something back to football and non-league
I will be sadly be leaving
@EnfieldFC
.
However given the recent events I feel the least I can do is honour Saturdays fixture and make myself available - as a thank you to those still at the club who have shown me so much support off the pitch for the last 2.5 years.
🧤🤓📚🧮📈
Today I accepted a promotion to become a Senior Accountant at my current workplace!
Just some further reassurance that I know I’ve made the right career choices ✅
As of 1st July, chapter 3 of my career begins!
⚽️ ➡️ 🤓
Unbelievable 👏
People genuinely don’t realise the sacrifices you have to make to become a top pro.
When I turned pro I didn’t drink any alcohol. No lads holidays. Spent off season in the gym x2 a day. Weighed and measured everything I ate and drank...
That got me to league 1 🤣
Don’t lose your man in the box and let him get an assist.... otherwise you’ll be on the end of an angry Jamo 🤬🤣
(Don’t worry we came back and won the game... A hug at full time and all was made up 😁)
In all walks of life I give my all; work, uni or football.
I’ll be the first to admit I’m half the GK that I used to be but I still keep my expectations high. I made a mistake last night... so instead of having the night off I made sure I did the extra work. Thank you
@ckico13
🧤
Just passed the statistically hardest chartered accountancy exam there is.
Thank you to everyone at
@EnfieldFC
for the break and continued support - it means the world to me!
Up the E’s 🔵⚪️🔵
Year 4
@OpenUniversity
results day;
Management Accounting - 81%
- Distinction
Financial Accounting - 83%
- Distinction
So overwhelmed with the results, better than what I was expecting!
Just reassures me that I’ve made the right career choices ⚽️ ➡️ 🤓
HARD WORK ALWAYS WINS
8 years ago I started my rollercoaster journey thanks to
@PaulWickers1
. Hope you’re proud of me that I chucked it all in to play ESL 🤣 👀
Can’t think of many managers who’d give a 17 year old the chance to play Ryman Div 1... give the young lads a chance! You never know...
I study in my lunch breaks.
I study during my weekends.
I work hard to try and achieve success.
Receiving my first set of
@OpenUniversity
results with these numbers makes it worth while! 😍📈🤓
My priority will be to return to playing regularly should the opportunity arise as I now approach the end of all my studies.
However I am also open to all opportunities such us No.2 / GK coach, as I would love to give something back the the game that has been so good to me.
I will be sadly be leaving
@EnfieldFC
.
However given the recent events I feel the least I can do is honour Saturdays fixture and make myself available - as a thank you to those still at the club who have shown me so much support off the pitch for the last 2.5 years.
🧤🤓📚🧮📈
Happy birthday to the 🤴
84 years young today. In the gym at 6am for our father and son session.
He still has to stroke his own ego and show off to everyone in the gym.
Worlds fittest dad 💪
🐐
Hard work, commitment, desire.
I’ve Come home from football to receive a university assignment mark of 96%! (Financial Accounting)
Lunch breaks, evening and weekend have tirelessly gone into this and it’s so humbling to get a mark like this 😀
Hard work ALWAYS wins 💪🙌😃
Just accepted my first financial controller role in central London.
When I packed up football I set myself a target of being a fully chartered accountant and a group FD before 30… nearly there 🙏 ⚽️➡️🤓
Maybe I became a pro and an international through hard-work, commitment and desire. May not be the keeper I used to be but I still play every game with the same desire because I have a professional attitude.
Unlike yourself who is no doubt a ‘twitter baller’
#SundayLeague
🤫
Martin Tyler trying to justify Allison’s mistakes because it’s a “bitterly cold night”...
All for the GK union but seriously have a day off! Try playing on a frozen pitch on a Tuesday night in the ESL 🤣🤣
3 years ago 😱
4 hours 16 seconds... not bad after Wroxham away the day before! 😰
More importantly almost £4K raised for cancer research who helped save my dads life 🙏
To all my fellow non-leaguers...
Any GK coaches out there looking to do at least 1 session a week + match days? Will have the pleasure of working with ME 😁
Haven’t had GK training since October!
Any RTs and/or recommendations are much appreciated, thank you!
Massive shoutout for all the support! The messages on here and people I haven’t seen in years shouting and cheering for the sides! Will try and get round all you all individually!
Official time 4hr 16s....
Not bad for a 6ft 5 , 16.4st GK 😝😜😎💪🙌😰❤️👊🏃♂️
This time next week I’ll be celebrating finishing 6 years of uni!
Just the small hurdle of an Advanced Management Accounting exam to go! 😭🙏
👨🎓 ⚽️ ➡️ 🤓
3.5 years ago when I walked away from a 3 year contract and probably a career in professional football, I made 1 promise to myself. Never to get unfit.
Lockdown isn’t stopping me!
#JamosGym
Football has been so good to me over the years. I’ve been lucky enough to play at the very highest level.
Now it’s time to slowly step away, continue to focus on my career but also give now give something back to non-league - which was the platform to me going professional
And that’s a wrap.
Apart from next week where I will put the 🧤s on one more time for my new club due to availability issues, my primary playing days are done.
Very much looking forward to my new role in coaching and giving something back to football and non-league
Results day and another passed exam and another milestone ticked off! Along with being able to add a few more letter to my name 🤣
4 more exams and I’ll be fully chartered 🥸
(And add even more letters to my name!)
James A Bransgrove BA (Hons.) CIMA Adv. Dip MA
⚽️🔜🤓
Year 5
@OpenUniversity
results day;
Just about scraped a Grade 2 pass this year but absolutely delighted as it was a tough slog this year!
The end is in sight, one more big push to try an achieve a First Class Honours 🙏
Full steam ahead into Adv. Management Accounting📚
⚽️➡️🤓
Failed my first exam today 😭
A 6 year degree and 11 chartered accounts exams and today is the first hurdle fallen.
Dust down and go again at the end of the week!
💪
Another years worth of no social life and graft has come to an end, year 5 of uni ✅
Just got my latest assignment result, another year successfully finished;
James Bransgrove B.A.
Next year brings the (Hons.)
One step closer to reaching my end goal 🙏
#HardWorkAlwaysWins
A tough week on the ⚽️ scene but this morning puts it all into perspective.
Year 5 of my degree is plodding along steadily. Far from my best result but also far from my worst. A first class honours is still in sight.
These days my career away from the pitch comes first!
⚽️➡️🤓
Everyone shares their goals, assists and saves. Sadly I don’t have any of those. But I do have a video of me kicking an aim less ball the length of the central line 🦵
(Ps. Leg day today cause the kicks still not long enough 🙄)
I was told I was lucky not to get booked for this on Saturday 🤔
Only spent the last 3 days hardly able to move and investing in shares in painkillers 🙄🥴
6 weeks of solid revision, a few questions completely guessed but another exam, another ✅
One step closer to the end goal 🤓
(Makes me one of the 37% of people who pass this exam first time 😎)
Chartered accountant exam 15 of 16 completed 😮💨
1 final ever exam in 8 weeks time.
8.5 years of studying and exams, all self-taught in my spare time… every sacrifice well worth it 🙏
⚽️➡️🤓
Great shame about Soccer AM, only half decent episode was where a stupid goalie beat
@jimmybullard
at You know the Drill… 👀
Not that I like to go on about it 🫠🤣
Devastated.
I would run through a brick wall for this man fully well knowing that he would do the same for me.
It’s a true honour and a pleasure to have represented this man.
Forever a friend and forever MY GAFFER 💙
I've taken the decision to resign from
@walthamstowfc
. unfortunately my desire to win an lack of support behind the scenes to do so after last night's 6-2 win just can't continue.I need a more professional environment an that's not the clubs fault. To my players...I Love ya 👊
When your dad qualifies for the Sainsbury’s “elderly” early morning shop but says he can’t go till Saturday morning because he’s going to be at the gym tomorrow and Friday morning 🤦🏻♂️🤣
MY HERO 💪😍🏋️♂️
What a lovely little early Christmas present this is. Just got my first Advanced Management Accounting assignment back!
2 assignments down...
3 more to go and an exam...
The countdown to graduation is underway 😍
⚽️ ➡️ 🤓
Pleasure, anytime.
Bring the little man over next week and I’ll see if I can dig out some gloves for him!
He may have to wait a few years to grow into them though 🤣 🧤
Good or bad I always share my Uni results.
An average start to Yr 5 (lowest score to date ☹️) but it’s a pass. The final stages will not be easy. This will be my motivation to strive for better next time.
I know what I want to do, I know where I want to be. I will get there. 💪
Year 5 / 6 of my
@OpenUniversity
journey starts tomorrow.
I’ve enjoyed the long break but I’m now ready to go again and continue to achieve my goals and prove that I have made the right career choices! ⚽️ ➡️ 🤓
Thank you also to
@PFA
for their continued support 👍
2 years ago today, London Marathon 2018.
What an amazing experience and glad I could help contribute and raise money for everyone who had helped my dad give the big 🖕 to cancer!
I’ll be back to shave 17 seconds off my time and get in under 4 hours 💪🏃♂️
A small thank you to all who have been in touch and shown an interest in me... I am very humbled and appreciate the messages from various people across non-league.
For me my uni and work come first and I look forward to an exciting end of season
@walthamstowfc
@ryan_maxygaff1
Another season finished and my first full season back playing ⚽️ !
Strikers boast about all their goals so I’m gonna boast about my clean sheets...
Since starting up playing again;
83 games, 43 clean sheets. 🙅♂️
Big shoutout to all my teammates keeping me very well protected!
Working on the biggest kick in non-league ⚽️
Finishing off leg day with a 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣KG single leg, leg press 🦵🏼
(Excuse the little forearm spot… I was a little tired 😪)
Unfortunately extremely limited to appearances this season due to a new job and the final hurdles of my exams (and Jarv being fantastic! 🧤👏 ) but so grateful to management and all behind the scenes for letting me stay on for the journey.
Up the E’s! 🔵⚪️ 🏆
No game for us boys yesterday but
@ryan_maxygaff1
still went out of his way and offered us his spare time to put on a session for us and put us though our paces.
Can’t think of many people who would do that for their boys. Thank you 💙
Exam season officially over 🎉
4th and final exam of a hectic 12 months just finished.
Just the painful 7 week wait for results but now time to relax.
Thank you to all
@EnfieldFC
for the continued support, priceless 🙏
Col U fans don’t know how lucky they are to have the backing of this man. When you work for him and see the daily ins / outs of the football club you get a sense how much he actually cares
#ColU
Robbie Cowling, Owner and Chairman of
@ColU_Official
live right now on
@BBCEssexSport
#colu
saying club in good financial position compared with other clubs despite Covid, but relegation would be painful but he would get the club out of it
Have to admit, absolutely fantastic win today
@CoggeshallTown
! Boys at the back were like brick walls and in front of that that boys grafted so well... While I stood there waving my arms and shouting a load of rubbish!
@Correy_10
at it again 👏🙌
Penultimate Uni module completed. Distinction by a whole 1%! 😍
Result means I can still get a first class honours if I ace my advanced management accounting exam... better get studying 🤓
⚽️➡️🤓
Results day and another passed exam and another milestone ticked off! Along with being able to add a few more letter to my name 🤣
4 more exams and I’ll be fully chartered 🥸
(And add even more letters to my name!)
James A Bransgrove BA (Hons.) CIMA Adv. Dip MA
⚽️🔜🤓