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SOUTHAM TO TAKE A YEAR OUT

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 June 2017

STRUGGLERS Southam United are to take a year off from the game.
After finishing bottom of the Midland League Division One again – this time without a win and just five points from 38 games – the Saints opted to pull out of the league.
They do, however, intend to re-apply and join Division Three for the 2018-19 campaign and work their way back up the pyramid once they have regrouped.
Chairman Charles Hill said: “We simply haven’t had the financial resources available to compete on anything like a level playing field. However, it is not all gloom and doom.
“Our m...

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