IT has been a manic and fantastic year for Bridgwater's Man vs Fat football league.

Organiser Roger Smith takes us through the highs and lows which has seen players lose a total of more than 200 stone in weight.

There have been three venues, six referees, more than 100 players, some nasty injuries including a snapped Achilles and a torn ACL, a thrown punch and a six week ban, 40 balls lost in the football graveyard and some great fun.

The league sees teams gain points not only for scoring goals, but also for how much weight they have lost over the course of the season.

"At the start of the year the group held the first Man v Fat 24hr charity football match - little did we know how hard it was going to be or that we would set the mould for our friends in Manchester who held their own 24hr match in wake in the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in May," Roger said.

The second edition of the league was won by FC Liver Failure with Chris Feltham coming top of the weight loss table. The Bridgwater league also sent two teams to the first Man v Fat St George's Park Takeover event in February.

"League 3 saw us move to 1610 Chilton Trinity and the football graveyard which turned into the bane of my existence," Roger explains.

"It was mightily clear that people were not particularly there purely for the football by the amount of shots that went nowhere near the goal and flew over the fence never to be seen again. K(FC) ran out as deserved winners of League 3."

The league also entered a team into a tournament held at West Bromwich Albion's ground The Hawthorns.

"In July we were challenged to an 11 a-side game against the local Asda store and what started as a potentially terrifying beating by a bunch of young, fit and thin store staff. The Asda team went 2-0 up in no time at all but we quickly turned it into a 13-4 victory," Roger said.

League 4 saw the action move to the 4G pitch at Robert Blake Science College, with the league going down the last game of the season when Borussia Munchonaflapjack won the title.

"We are now in our fifth league and we have an incredible bunch of guys taking park," Roger said.

"One I have to mention is Jon Joyce. He signed up at the start of the year because he wanted to be a better husband and father and be able to run around the garden with his six-year-old son and to date has lost more than five stone."

In December a team took part in the second national tournament at St George's Park with more than 300 other players from all over the country. The Bridgwater lads reached the quarter finals.

"To get from a league that was struggling for players this time last year to where we are now has been an incredible journey," Roger says. "At times it has been blood, sweat and tears but I wouldn’t have swapped a minute of it to be involved with so fantastic blokes, all determined to make a difference to their lives in some way, shape or form."

To find out more about the league visit manvfatfootball.org/bridgwater.