Ex-goalkeeper scores with Weight Watchers

Jun 6 2008 by Allison Dickinson, Chester Chronicle

Ex-goalkeeper scores with Weight Watchers

A FORMER Chester City footballer has lost 43lbs in four months with a slimming club – and found a new job.

Legendary goalkeeper Grenville Millington, 56, put on weight after retiring from the game in 1983.

He was prompted to lose weight when, at 15st 7lbs, he suffered from high blood pressure, headaches and fatigue.

Grenville, of Beech Road, Buckley, said: “I was getting fed up with the doctor telling me I had to lose weight.

“I was getting headaches and was on medication for high blood pressure.”

It was just 17 weeks before Grenville reached his goal of 12st 6lbs.

“I did find it hard towards the end but my Weight Watchers leader, Kath Hewson, told me to eat breakfast and start going to the gym, and the final few pounds just melted away.”

Grenville likes to illustrate his weight loss by saying he lost the equivalent of 21 bags of sugar.

Not only that, but he has been taken off his blood pressure medication.

He was so impressed that he decided to work for Weight Watchers. He now runs two slimming groups and wants more men to attend.

Grenville, who still works as a goalkeeping coach, enjoyed a long career with Chester City and was voted the club’s Cult Hero in 2005.

He made his Chester debut as a 17-year-old in April 1969 and played more than 300 games for the team.

He is now goalkeeping coach at Connah’s Quay Nomads and president of the Chester City Supporters Trust.

He runs a Weight Watchers group at the recreation centre on Plas Newton Lane, Upton at 5.45pm on Mondays, and at 7pm at the community centre, Waen Road, Wrexham on Tuesdays.

For more details call Grenville on 07790532344 or visit

www.weightwatchers.co.uk.