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Worcester Park Demoted
Worcester Park Demoted
Worcester Park have been demoted to a lower division after its ground failed to meet grading requirements – despite being crowned league champions.
Saturday 16 June 18 I 00:00:00 I Photo by

The team - part of Worcester Park Athletics Club - were relegated from the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Division One, despite a first-place finish.

 

It comes as the Football Association has enforced stricter rules on clubs meeting certain ground grading requirements.

 

Tony Glackin, a Worcester Park Athletic Club football committee representative, said: “The amount of money that would be needed to be spent on the ground would totally prohibit cricket being played down there and – the point of fact – we can’t comply with all their requirements anyway.

 

“If it was simply a question of putting floodlights in there probably wouldn’t be an issue but it’s not that simple.

 

“The main obstacle would have cost. I mean, another one of the requirements is that we have a 100-seater stand. I can’t remember the last time we had 100 people in the club watching football, let alone sitting down.

 

“The FA really are laying down criteria where you have to spent vast sums of money with no guarantee that you’re going to stay at that level and with no guarantee of your income streams either”.

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Worcester Park Demoted
Worcester Park Demoted
Saturday 16 June 18 I 00:00:00
Photo by

The team - part of Worcester Park Athletics Club - were relegated from the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties League Division One, despite a first-place finish.

 

It comes as the Football Association has enforced stricter rules on clubs meeting certain ground grading requirements.

 

Tony Glackin, a Worcester Park Athletic Club football committee representative, said: “The amount of money that would be needed to be spent on the ground would totally prohibit cricket being played down there and – the point of fact – we can’t comply with all their requirements anyway.

 

“If it was simply a question of putting floodlights in there probably wouldn’t be an issue but it’s not that simple.

 

“The main obstacle would have cost. I mean, another one of the requirements is that we have a 100-seater stand. I can’t remember the last time we had 100 people in the club watching football, let alone sitting down.

 

“The FA really are laying down criteria where you have to spent vast sums of money with no guarantee that you’re going to stay at that level and with no guarantee of your income streams either”.

Copyright Non League Today. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to the Non League Today website as the source and a link back to the Non League Today website.
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