IT'S NOT ABOUT MEE!!! IT'S ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!!

Brentford completes the signing of Burnley defender on a vfree transfer and he is attempting to make his move to Brentford sustainable by offsetting his carbon emissions for a year. The 32 year old has signed a two year contract following an 11 year stay at the Lancashire club, relegated from the Premier League last season.

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The former Burnley centre-back signed a two-year deal after joining the Bees on a free transfer, but it is not only on the pitch where he is trying to make a difference. The 32 year old has signed a two year contract, following 11 years and 376 apps at the Lancashire club, Burnley, relegated to the Championship last season. Mee missed the last 13 games of the season fillowing a broken leg in March. He did "run the dressing room",  after Sean Dyche was "sacked" in April.

Mee usually drives an electric car, but made the journey from his home in Hale, Greater Manchester to West London, in a petrol car as he did not know where the nearest charging points were in the area he is staying near his new club. To ensure the emissions created during the 36-hour period of his transfer were covered, the 32-year-old has paid a fee to Carbon Neutral Britain, a UN-certified scheme, to cover his output!!

Mee, who wants to keep learning more about sustainability, said: "I'm conscious that transfers rack up lot of air miles and a lot of driving miles as well, so I'm looking to offset my emissions for this transfer. I'm not perfect, but I want to do my bit to make this transfer carbon neutral." Although it cannot be determined exactly the amount of emissions created through the deal, Mee has ensured he has covered an average person's emissions for a one-year period.

Mee's donation will see the money used to plant 20 trees a month and offset 15 tonnes of CO² per year, with the average output for a Briton being 12-14 tonnes a year. The Bees were due to visit Brenda Roger's side on August 6 at 3pm, but the game been postponed for 23 hours due to the Caribbean Carnibal taking place in Leicester City centre on that Saturday. I wonder how many emissions will be released in Leicester that day. May the Bees survive.

This afternoon, I visited Penistone Church FC who were hosting a friendly against Bacup from over the Pennines, 7 miles south of Burnley. Penistone, The Martlets, won and Bacup Borough FC, had a nice journey home. Their next three games are against Euxton FC (never heard of them), Garstang FC and Ilkley Town in the North West Counties FL Div 1 North.

The Bacup club was founded by brothers and former Vale of Leven (the Scottish club) players, John and Robert Rankine in 1879 as Irwell Springs Football Club, a works' team for the Irwell Springs Dyeing Works. In 1883-4 they reached the third round of the FA Cup, losing 8–1 at Bolton Wanderers. The club joined the Lancashire League during the 1893–94 season, taking over the fixtures of Barrow, who had resigned on 20 November 1893.

Bacup is home to the 17 ft (5.2 m) long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place in the Scottish Highlands.

Bacup is a town in the Rossendale Borough, in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines, close to Lancashire's boundaries with West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.