The Covid-19 crisis has led to the 2019/20 football season being declared null and void which is a decision that will not be greeted with open arms at all clubs.
With the football season now ended or our local clubs we have been looking at just how well supported our East Devon teams have been during the 2019/20 South West Peninsula League Premier Division East campaign.
Ottery St Mary Football Club are, like so many sporting bodies, under a very real threat in terms of their future as the country battles the Covid-19 crisis.
The Devon and Exeter Football League (DEFL) has fallen in line with other leagues across the country as they have suspended all games for an indefinite period.
The FA have declared that step five and six of the non-league pyramid will end immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Essex Senior League.
The Toolstation Western League has been asked to participate in a Webex meeting today (Tuesday, March 24) with all step 5/6 leagues and the Football Association (FA).
Ottery St Mary Football Club are, like so many similar sized sporting groups, preparing for the ‘long haul’ and what will no doubt be a battle simply to ‘stay in business’ as the Covid-19 crisis runs its course.
Axminster Town manager Josh Stunell was full of praise for the South West Peninsula League secretary following its decision to suspend the competition.
Upottery recorded arguably their finest result of this season – and possible a number of season’s - when they won their Macron League Premier Division game at Bampton 3-2.
Goals from George Hathaway, Aaron Pearse, Jake Sellick and Cody Tratt-Skinner saw Feniton to a 4-1 win over Lyme Regis in a Morrison Bell Cup played out under the Washbrook Meadow floodlights at Ottery St Mary.
