This is the first time in three years we’ve been able to field a thirds team here in Blighty. That should tell you something. Our town’s doing it tough. We’ve even lost the local pub and that’s the heart of any community.

It all comes back to water. Water drives everything out here, our farms, our jobs, our future. And if our towns aren’t resilient, then our food supply isn’t either.

If we lose that, we’re not just losing small towns, we’re losing resilience as a nation.