A few hours after organisers of the Fenix Trophy announced Bury’s withdrawal from the latest edition of the competition, an Avro board member took to social media to react.
There’s no place like home, as the old saying goes – and that’s certainly the case for Shawbury United FC who have just started playing within their own village for the first time in 32 years.
It was the story which thrust Thornaby FC into the national media spotlight for all the wrong reasons – but now it has inadvertently given the club a new lease of life.