Coach Chris Murray says they are seeing lots of matches regularly called off because of waterlogged pitches on Ashton Park - leaving children disappointed every weekend ⚽
As the LDRS revealed last week, when taken together with a new car park, the additional facilities will wipe out almost 15 percent of the current parkland surface area. Six grass pitches – five of which will be junior-sized – are also proposed, a three-fold increase on the current provision.and also told the LDRS that the plans were “biassed” towards football.
“And you try and tell 22 children who are already in their kits on a Saturday morning that they can’t play because the pitches are waterlogged – even though they know it hasn’t rained for 24 hours and the sun’s now shining. “These little grassroots clubs all around Preston spend a lot of money trying to book pitches, so that sport can continue for hundreds of children,” added Christopher, who recently started managing the Springfields girls under-8s team in Ashton.The football pitches at Ashton Park are often left waterlogged by the Preston weather Pic: BBC LDRS
While his own team currently has a base some three miles away at Penwortham Holme in South Ribble – because of its place in the Mid Lancs Colts Junior League – that will change as soon as the players turn nine, when they will need “a home of their own”.
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