WHILE we at Bolton Wyresdale understand people's concerns about the sale of our football pitches, we are bemused by their complete lack of concern for our future as one of the oldest amateur football clubs in Lancashire.

It would appear to me that local residents are not interested in our plight, as long as they get their own way.

I am also disappointed that the Bolton Evening News keeps describing Bolton Wyresdale as open playing area for public use. They are private football pitches and anybody who goes on to them without Bolton Wyresdale's permission is in fact trespassing. I wonder how local residents would react if we started to walk through their gardens and claimed them as open spaces -- I think we all know the answer to that.

If we are forced to walk away from the site, then it will quickly become derelict and overgrown, thus depriving everybody of an open space and Bolton Wyresdale of its very existence.

I would also like to ask the question, why, when we try to sell our land, everybody, including Bolton's councillors, are firmly against us, with one of the main reasons being lack of schooling for children in the area? Yet a planning application which has recently been submitted for building houses on the site of the Moss School seems to have attracted no attention at all. I have submitted my e-mail address, perhaps we should all get together and strongly object to building on the Moss School site as well.

Richard McKenna

Treasurer

Bolton Wyresdale AFC

Brantfell Grove

Breightmet, Bolton

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