welcome to football's newest and unlikeliest outpost — nailsworth.ation 5800, pride beyond measure, after this corner of the cotswolds gate—crashed the big—time. forest green rovers‘ win means a town that would have fitted 15 times inside wembley, will be hosting league football next season. not bad for a team dubbed "the little club on the hill". extremely quiet place. it's a village club, and you've only got to drive round the place and you realise there's hardly anyone around. but very close net at forest green, and i think that's why they've become so successful. it's not just what this club has achieved, though, it's the way that it's achieved it. forest green aims to be the greenest and the most environmentally friendly football club in the world. there's solar panels on the stadium, even a solar powered robotic lawn mower, but perhaps most strikingly, the club is all vegan. the players today were tucking into meat free pies, while for the fans the only burgers are of the veggie variety. it's their owner's vision, green energy millionaire dale

how the people of nailsworth and the greater stroud area and gloucestershire taken to that?ze. therefore we can punch above our weight, absolutely. the fans are completely behind it on here we are, in league 2. is leaked to ready for that message? do you think you can spread that message further? absolutely. football is behind the curve on the environment of front for sure. that is part of the reason we are doing this. it's an important area to bring the message, but also to use football as a platform to ta ke to use football as a platform to take the message wider which is working. we went in to wembley with a message of support from 20 different countries. exciting times. hopefully some of them will make the journey to come and watch you in the cotswolds. congratulations. the meetings have already started with the management team, as forest green start to plan for life in the football league. congratulations to them. it was 100 years ago this month that us president john f kennedy was born. across the united states, a series of events are marking the anniversary. an exhibi

they're based in the gloucestershire village of nailsworth and their chairman and backer is dale vincer and owner of a green energy company. he has enforced a vegan diet on the players. one of the scorers yesterday was christian doidge, who says he doesn't miss eating meat, now he's used to a vegan diet. surprised at first and as you go along with it you get used to it and it is absolutely fine now. if i was to act any differently, i would find it weird now. it is what the chairman wants so you've got to do it. it comes from our work in the environment and focusing on sustainability. three areas of life we have control over and account for 80% of environmental problems. we find that represented. we have an organic page, vegan menu, electric cars, and so on. we are showing fans of foot ball cars, and so on. we are showing fans of football that we need to change the way we live for an reasons. —— for environmental reasons. manchester city have another trophy in the cabinet — thanks to the women's team, who beat birmingham city ladies in the fa cup final on saturday. among the scorers in

nailsworth, population 5800, pride beyond measure after this corner of the cotswolds gatecrashed themeans a town that would have fitted 15 times inside wembley will be hosting the league football this season. not bad for a team dubbed the little club on the hill. a truly quiet place, it is a village club and you only have to drive around the place and you realise that there is hardly anyone around. very close—knit at forest green, andi around. very close—knit at forest green, and i think that is why we have become so successful. it is not just what this club has achieved, though. it is the way they have achieved it. forest green aims to be the greenest, most environmentally friendly football club in the world. there are solar panels on the stadium, even a solar powered robotic lawnmower. but perhaps most strikingly, the club is all began. the players today were tucking into meat free pies while of the fans the only burghers of the veggie variety. it is their owners‘ vision, green energy billionaire dale vince, who says both team and supporters have embraced their diet. there are a lo

and the team from nailsworth, in gloucestershire, with a population of under 6,000, can now look forwardthe briton was second for much of the race, despite starting on pole, but overtook vettel‘s ferrari in the final stages. vettel and hamilton have two race wins each as formula 1 rolls on to monaco next weekend. rafa nadal has continued his impressive clay—court season with another win, this time at the madrid masters. the world number four beat dominic thiem in straight sets. it is his third consecutive title, with the first grand slam of the season, the french open, just a week away. ian poulter hopes to use his second place at golf‘s unofficial fifth major, the players championship as a stepping stone for the rest of the season. the englishman finished three shots behind south korea‘s kim si—woo, but he was lucky to be there at all. poulter only played 13 tournaments last year because of a foot injury, and had slipped to 197th in the world, but will now be back into the top 100, after playing some excellent golf. hopes of a first british winner of cycling‘s giro d‘italia are effectiv