By Mark Carruthers
The Ebac Northern League have confirmed they have written to the Football Association to request an extension to their season.
As it stands, the regular season fixtures are set to be finalised on April 20 and play-off fixtures across both divisions can be completed by Monday, May 6. However, the inclement weather that has battered the North East for the last three months have left clubs facing a serious backlog and left the league with ‘serious concerns about the ability of some clubs to complete their fixtures'.
Ahead of Tuesday night's games, the world's second oldest football league confirmed there were still 322 fixtures to take place between now and the current scheduled end of the season and revealed that means only 60 percent of games have taken place with three quarters of the season behind them.
That means 375 games have already been re-scheduled with around 220 coming via postponements caused by the weather and clubs progressing in cup competitions such as the FA Vase and FA Cup.
League chairman Glenn Youngman said: “We have serious concerns about the ability of some of our clubs to complete their league matches, with a significant number of clubs already 8-10 weeks behind schedule at this stage of the season.”
