WITH summer on the horizon and government lockdown restrictions loosening, football players across the North East will be dusting their boots off and getting ready to get back on the grass. While football can be very competitive, most players will be missing the social side of the game as much […]
Over half of councils containing a Premier League football club do not have ANY free-to-use football pitches, an investigation by Connor Benns, Rory Drake and Dom Walker can reveal. A series of Freedom of Information requests (FOIs) were lodged to every council containing a Premier League team to find the […]
Grassroots football pitches across the Gateshead borough may no longer be maintained under proposals put forward by Gateshead Council. At a cabinet meeting held on November 20, the council proposed to cease the maintenance at a number of bowling greens and football pitches under their governance in an attempt to […]