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COMING UP A BIT SHORT…

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
3 June 2018

MINNOWS Eaton Socon have been denied promotion in the Steps 5-7 summer shake-up – because their pitch is four metres too short.
The Kershaw Cambridgeshire Premier side had hoped to be included in the new Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Step 6 set-up.
But FA inspectors ruled that while their River Road ground was up to scratch in every other way, their pitch was not long enough.
The club needs to apply for planning permission to extend the pitch, because there are six houses at one end, and a council path at the other. It has been estimated that making the pitch 100 metres long to comply...

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