
YTISA Committee
Honorary President - Bryan MooreThe former chairman of Yeovil Town FC officially accepted the invitation to become the first-ever honorary president of the Yeovil Town Independent Supporters’ Association at the beginning of 2003.
Mr Moore served as club chairman from 1991 until present day supremo John Fry took over at Huish Park in the 1995-96 season.
But Mr Moore’s relationship with Yeovil Town extends back over more than 50 years and as a 12-year-old boy he was among the crowd at the old sloping pitch of Huish to watch the Glovers beat Sunderland 2-1 in the famous FA Cup Fourth Round match of 1949.
Since those days he has been heavily involved with the club and now does a lot of work for the Football Association and was chairman of the FA Trophy Competition Committee when Yeovil clinched the trophy in 2002. It was possibly his proudest moment as he presented Yeovil skipper Terry Skiverton with the trophy at an emotional Villa Park.
His support of the Glovers, however, is without question and he boasts a proud record of having watched between 1969 and 1990 a total of 1,308 consecutive matches involving Yeovil in the league, FA Cup, FA Trophy and county cup games.Chair - Mark Kelly
YTISA chairman Mark Kelly is the lifeblood and the ‘brains’ behind the group which he formed in the summer of 1999.
Unstinting enthusiasm and tireless work for the group has seen its membership and standing within Yeovil Town FC grow.
Yeovil Town through and through, Mark can sometimes be guilty of thinking the end of the world is nigh when results do not go according to plan.
But he is there week in week out in support of the Glovers and there is no doubt that his devotion to Yeovil Town is nothing less than 100 per cent.
Mark, who is married to ex-YTISA secretary Sara, has two daughters from a previous marriage, and they are obviously both paid-up younger members of the YTISA.Treasurer/Secretary - Stewart Bratherton
Stewart was born and raised in Manchester, in 1980 he entered the Royal Marines and served all over the world, before his job brought him to RNAS Yeovilton in 1989 and a move to Yeovil, where he settled with his wife and 2 daughters. It was at this time he started to follow Yeovil Town Football Club. He is a trained Military Accountant and Auditor and has a Diploma from the Institute of Administrative Management. He was elected as the Treasurer in 2001 and this year has also taken on the duties of Association Secretary. He is also the editor of the Association’s “Barmy Army Fanzine”, and uses his computers skills to assist with the running of the Associations website.
PR Officer - Steve Sowden
Yeovil born-and-bred, Steve can often be accused of wearing ‘green and white tinted glasses’ from his supposedly unbiased position of the Yeovil Express’ chief reporter covering Glovers’ matches.
Steve, 32, was educated at Huish Primary School, Preston Comprehensive School and Yeovil College before getting a job as a trainee reporter on the Bridgewater Mercury in the summer of 1989. He then had a five-year spell working for the Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News before returning to the Mercury as Deputy Chief Reporter.
He was then ‘dangled the carrot’ of coming home to work on the Yeovil Express in May 1998 with the ‘tough job’ of covering his beloved Glovers in action.
Steve, who first watched Yeovil play in the FA Cup Third Round against Norwich City in January 1980, has now not missed a league game since the opening match of the 1998-99 season.
His role with the Yeovil Express and covering Yeovil Town games has seen him get heavily involved with projects at Huish Park. He was chairman of the Erection 2000 Appeal to raise money to build a roof above the home terrace at Huish Park, was chairman of Warren Patmore’s Testimonial Fund in 2000-01 and also served as a committee member on Tony Pennock’s Testimonial Fund during that same season.
His greatest moments have been in recent years with Yeovil winning the FA Trophy in 2002 and the Nationwide Conference in 2003. His reporting of the FA Trophy success also earned him a commended award in the 2003 Newsquest Editorial Awards in the sports writer of the year category.
He has been writing his Sowden’s About column in the Yeovil Town matchday programme since the start of the 2002-03 season and his catchphrase of ‘keep the faith bruvvers’ has become something of a trademark.Away Travel Coordinator& Committee Member - Roger Brimble
Roger claims to be in his early fifties, and was born and bred in nearby Montacute. He has been married to the lovely Janet for thirty-one years, and has two grown-up children, Sara and Simon. He regularly played cricket and football for both Montacute and Stoke-sub-Hamdon and apparently was good enough at one stage in his life to represent the Yeovil League at football.
Roger was a football referee for eight years, ultimately reaching class 1.
His interests include sport, gardening, traveling and a weakness for Real Ale.
Roger not only wants to live long and healthy, to see the Glovers flourish in the Football League, but also has a long standing ambition to get a drink out of our Chairman!!!Website Administrator & Committee Member - Colin Turner
Colin is another 'foreigner' who moved to the area and began following the Glovers. Born within spitting distance of Hayes Football Club, and raised within earshot of Roots Hall, Southend. Luckily his parents moved to the West Country when he was still at an impressionable age, and he's never supported another football team since his first visit to Huish at the ripe old age of eight. Colin joined the Royal Air Force after leaving Yeovil College in 1986, but was finally forced to leave in 1991 following a horrific motorcycle accident four years earlier.
Shortly after seeing Yeovil win promotion from the Icis League in 1997, Colin moved to the US, living in Seattle and working for Boeing.
Since his return to the UK in 1999, Colin has become even more dedicated to supporting the Glovers, and as a consequence, Colin became a YTISA committee member in 2001.Senior Members & Disabled Supporters Representative - Adrian Gleave
Adrian originally comes from Southampton, but moved to Dorset in 1953, at the age of 17. He lived in Dorchester for 3 years whilst serving in the R.E.M.E., before finally settling in Sherborne in 1961, which is when he first joined the Huish faithful.
Adrian has 4 children and 10 grand children. His son Hugh is a fanatical YTFC supporter and recently 3 of his grand children have been converted.
He worked at Westlands for 21 years before being made redundant 12 years ago. With nothing better to do, he is now once again a full time YTFC supporter both on and off the terrace.