In true acceptance speech style we'd like to say a big thank you to everyone listed below, without their help none of this would have been possible:
Chris Rivett (Northampton Town)
Dean Bavister (Newcastle United)
Stuart Young (Middlesbrough)
Jon Clutton (Chelsea)
Andy Martyn (Northampton Town)
Gareth Davis (Derby County)
Contributors are listed in the order in which they first helped out and the club in brackets represents the club that they support. Just a little nod in their general direction like...
Once things get a bit busier on here, we may well publish league tables of the most helpful supporters so do you bit and help us out and we'll make sure you get the mention you deserve.
Most of us are at a game every weekend so if you are at a stadium where we've not got a photo and/or a video, please send them through. We just need a pan from left to right of where you're sat, doesn't need to be more than a few seconds and mobile phone quality is fine. Send them through to video@stadiadirectory.com for inclusion.
We can't thank the team at website development specialists Uptonaway Media enough for their help. Since first meeting with them we've never ceased to be impressed with their innovative ideas to develop the site and improve on every idea we come up with. Given their experience of working with clients like the English Football League, PGMOL/Refworld.com and various sports clubs, organisations and individuals across the world we were pleased to be able to utilise their expertise to help us evolve the site.
We used their sister company, Uptonaway Design to design and build the site and their high standards for creative concepts and technical expertise have been first class. They've taken time to explain each stage of the process to us and this has meant we were soon able to recognise the importance of things like W3C compliancy, which to be honest we probably wouldn't have had high on our list of priorities until they pointed the benefits out.
A special word too for Meadow Hampton Ltd who've done a great job in kitting out the office with some furniture so we can chill out and unwind when we need to, ready for the big challenge ahead to establish the site. They have launched a new range of contemporary rattan cane furniture too and we that looks pretty cool, if only we had more room in the reception area!