YOU recently reported that an old established local football club at Turton was developing a new clubhouse with grant aid.
Even more recently was a report that a new football academy has been set up to develop football activity among young people.
About five years ago (May, 2007), a spokesman for yet another club (Bromley Cross FC) made a presentation to Bolton planning committee assuring it that approval to develop all of the remaining green belt in Bromley Cross would see the immediate expenditure of a £1 million grant that it was claimed had been received from Sport England.
It was later established that no such grant award had been made.
As there has been no honouring of the promise made in 2007 and no start made on the eight small and full-sized pitches, should let-down parents be directing their children to one of these two other progressive clubs?
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