FOR two decades teachers in Droitwich Spa have been unwinding from the stresses of the classroom with an informal weekly kick-about.

Nothing, not even ageing limbs or a lack of players, has stopped about 12 staff joining together on a football pitch since the early 1980s.

So here we celebrate 20 years of the Droitwich Spa High School staff football team.

The team, made up of staff past and present, was initially set up to provide worn out teachers with exercise at the end of a hard week and has steamrollered from there.

It is one of the only such teams in the area, with staff teams in decline, making opposition difficult to find.

But the squad usually finds time for three 11-a-side matches a season, including the traditional fixture with Droitwich Veterans.

Players meet every Friday on the astroturf behind the town's leisure centre, in Briar Mill, for a however many turn up-a-side between themselves.

One of the group's longest serving members, Graham Crowe, said: "The most important thing is the stress relief and at the end of a long week getting all that stress out of your system."