Vandals' wrecking spree forces football games to be cancelled
Games for 300 junior footballers in Wolverhampton have been suspended after vandals went on a wrecking spree.
Bilbrook Junior Football Club in Pendeford was hit on Sunday night, with the vandals ripping out the goalposts and causing thousands of pounds of damage.
Bosses have said that they will be forced to stop games for around 300 players until the posts can be replaced. It is estimated the cost of the damage is around £2,000.
The club is based on Pendeford Lane, off Wobaston Road.
Chairman Dave Maydew said the discovery was made yesterday morning.
"They have pulled them out of the ground, they have ripped the post from the crossbar and they have bent the crossbar so they are scrap," he said.
"We have got two football pitches and the four posts.
"We are a junior football club and volunteer organisation and we don't know where we are going to find that money.
"Over 300 children will want to play football and we have adults and ladies, we don't know what we are going to do."
The pitches are used every Saturday and Sunday and the goalposts have only been in place for a year.
My Maydew added he was unsure how the vandals had managed to rip out the goalposts as they are secured into the ground.
"I haven't got a clue, they are aluminium and are put in with a spanner, I just don't know," he said.
And he added that the club was now in talks with the council to get secure fencing installed at the ground.
An emergency meeting was being held tonight (TUES) with members of the football club's committee to discuss the way forward and how money to replace them will be raised.
"At this moment in time we just want to put on football for children and without them goalposts we cannot do that," he added.
"It is really upsetting. We are a volunteer organisation where we just want to keep children off the streets."
