I hope you are all keeping well. We are hopefully edging closer to the prospect of football returning to Champion Hill but we are still hampered by a lack of communication from the National League. We have written to them 8 times in the past two months asking for a response on whether the proposed start date for the season would be subject to change if there was a delay to the removal of restrictions on June 21. We have received no information from them other than one holding note saying they would contact us when they had something ‘tangible’ but with less than two months to go to kick off and no reason given for why they cannot publish their plans we have decided to take matters into our own hands and commence our new season preparations based on the information we do have. So whilst the club had hoped to be able to provide a definitive timetable to fans by now the volume of questions we are receiving means we cannot afford to wait any longer and so we will switch to publishing the information we have and then ask you to please bear with us as I suspect there will be regular changes to plans over the next month.

Our plan is as follows:

We will be processing season ticket refunds, deferrals and donations this week ready to publish season tickets for 2021/22 by the end of June, we have still been given August 14 as the potential kick off for the men’s league but are waiting for fixture information for both the men’s and the women’s teams.
We had a tentative friendly schedule commencing July 10 however the extension of restrictions to July 19 means those fixtures are now subject to change as lower league clubs hoping for us to travel to them would prefer us to be able to bring fans and higher league clubs may not be able to play away and visit Champion Hill until the risk is reduced. We will review dates with the men’s and women’s team management in the coming week and will publish our tentative schedules later this week.

Lastly, we are working hard to add new people in each area of club management and thanks to those of you who have already offered. We do still have some skills we would like to add so I will follow up separately on that.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and thanks again for your support.