Parks league not panicking yet

There was no football at Tilekiln again last weekend

Published on 17/01/2013 08:49

East Sussex Football League fixtures secretary Kevin Bray insists he’s not panicking just yet, despite the harsh winter weather putting paid to a number of games again last weekend.

Just seven league fixtures were fulfilled across the seven divisions, with two cup games also played. That means a huge total of 232 matches have now been cancelled this season, making it the worst for postponements since the 2000/2001 campaign.

A league meeting is due to take place tonight (Thursday) to discuss plans going forward, though there are no plans to scrap any cup competitions as yet.

“Some of the minor cups may be put on the backburner until nearer the end of the season,” Bray admitted. “But at the moment we still have time. We have 15 Saturdays still to play with, as well as hopefully Easter Monday. Midweek games will then likely be added to those.

“The problem is nobody knows how long the cold snap might last. Hopefully things will soon pick up, and games will start to be played again.”

The weather has left Bray more concerned for some teams than others, with teams such as Division Two leaders Crowborough Athletic III having just seven league fixtures remaining. Contrastingly, Westfield III, of Division Five, have 16 still to play, as well as being involved in two cup competitions.

The league made December 22 available for fixtures when usually a festive break would have begun, yet just one game was played - on an all-weather pitch in Eastbourne. This had been the case the previous weekend too.

Sport

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Parks league not panicking yet

Top stories

Sport