It is with extreme pleasure for Sun Sports FC to let everybody know that the club have managed to survive!!
An emergency meeting was held at Kings Langley FC today and it has been agreed that Sun Sports FC will be able to ground share at Global Metcorp Stadium, Gaywood Park, for the remainder of this season.
Whether we will be able to find a new ground to go to, or the FA may demand their £650.000 from the BJB management (the current owners of Sun Postal grounds) and the ground will be given back to the rightful people, all remains to be seen and will certainly all will be revealed as time goes on.
All at Sun Sports FC would like to thank all of the well wishers that have been supportive of the club’s circumstances of the past 48 hours.
It all goes to show that the football family is the biggest in the world and no amount of greed will be able to beat us if we all stay strong together.
This website was also hacked after the initial statement came out, so that the news of the club’s situation would stop being broadcast by certain people not named. Or was it coincidence?!!
Luckily we were able to get in touch with the web site designer to be able to gain access back and change user name and password.
Our thanks especially go to Kings Langley Football Club for their help in our survival. The club may be old rivals but are also true brothers in arms.
We realise that we have been extremely lucky and that there are plenty of other football clubs that go bust through the greed of others or mis-management and other clubs have not been as fortunate as we have been to find a saviour at such short notice….and for that we will be forever in Kings Langley’s debt (unless we play them on the pitch of course!!)
Below are just some of the many, many comments made on this website about this wonderful football club of ours.
This is so sad to see a great club like Sun Sports go.
So many grass roots players have gone through including my son many years ago.
Hopefully you will return one day.
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So so sorry to hear the closure of one great club. I sincerely hope the club will return someday somewhere. Thoughts are with all concerned with Sun Sports FC. God Bless
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Shocking and disgusting!! Social club hang your heads in shame!! Hoping this isn’t the last of Sun Sports, keep the faith!! From all at Colney Heath FC!!
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Absolutely gutted to hear this very sad news. Working so hard for your passion to have it shattered is totally but wrenching. I feel for you all and I know that everyone at WGC FC will feel the same. I loved coming to your club and you will be sorely missed. Thank you for all your great hospitality over the years. I will be hoping and praying that you can re-form somewhere else. All the very best to you. Karen Fisher (WGC FC)
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Sun Sports are a wonderful football club. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there when Bromsgrove Sporting came down. We were welcomed with open arms. I am desperately sorry for your club. You must fight all the way as we did and return stronger.
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That is disgusting treatment of a great club with great traditions, from Tring your name has always symbolises the cream of Watford amateur football , and many a fair competitive match I have played or managed against them , I hope Sun Sports football club does survive in some form and the new owners sit and wallow in an empty shell
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I hope the police have been contacted too and not just the people removed so there is some justice for all the young people and the club they have stolen from. This is disgusting. How sad that another facility has been taken away from the youth.
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That’s very sad played there around 84/85/86 when I was still at school in the Reserves mainly having Senior football experience through Jon Perks & Ron Kelly while we played at the ground for Gadeside Rangers…..Also spent a lot of Saturday’s there in my school days with a former player Barry Smith who was my neighbour ……good memories.. .thanks all at Sun Football Club.
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It’s such a shame and we really feel for you hopefully one day you can regain your former status I personally had some wonderful games against many of your teams good luck in your fight to reinstate your club !!! Paul Roche former Afc odds now Railway arms manager
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Absolutely gutted for you all. As a Bedmond supporter I know how it feels to lose your team, although the different circumstances. Hope you can get it going again in the future.
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A sad day when any club folds but especially when it’s down to mindless greed. I was one of many Bromsgrove Sporting fans who travelled down for last season FA Vase fixture.
We received any excellent reception & well looked after by all, regardless of the result on the pitch that day.
I truly hope that sun sports can rise again.
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This is indeed a sad day. I cut my teeth refereeing in the Herts County League in the mid 1970’s at a very young age and always enjoyed the challenge of officiating at Sun Sports. The days of Lol Bolino, Jim Hatch, Colin Weedon, Alan Mitchell, Ron Chart, Derek Higgs, and many others. Now at the age of 59 and living in Lincolnshire, I still look to see how those clubs of the 70’s and 80’s are getting on. Sun v Rolls Royce Engines – now there was a fixture!!!!! I still have my book with all of the matches I refereed, so I will go a re live some of the memories. Good luck to all of you.
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Terrible news , had a great day with you last season in the vase your hospitality was second to none , on behalf of all fans of Bromsgrove Sporting fc I hope you can rise from the ashes again
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This isn’t right – they don’t own the place – they are a private limited company by guarantee without share capital. If there is no football club they have to pay back the £600K Football Foundation grant (clawback period of 25 years if they fail to provide the terms of the grant). Check out your legal rights.
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So sorry to hear such sad news of another non league club folding and especially so as down to greedy people.
Hope you reform your club…..from a Bromsgrove Sporting fan.
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Terrible news. Bromsgrovians will especially feel your pain as we lost The Rovers back in 2010. Time to re-group and start again as we did with Sporting. Best wishes for the future and hopefully we’ll see Sun Sports resurrected ready for next season
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This is terrible news and from fans who understand what you will be now having to deal with all the best, but please cling to the hope that a restart is possible.
In fact I have spoken to a lot of sporting fans since our visit in the vase to Sun Sports and many of us see that that as being absolutely pivital during our new clubs short history in terms of – that’s the day pinpointed when we really really took off and reconnected with many many old rovers fans and just in general terms of really increasing our new clubs profile within our own town and surrounding areas (south birmingham areas).
I have travelled far and wide or the years following my teams (bcfc & bsfc) and can honestly say that personally visiting yourselves ranks right up there in terms of overall experience…
Things I personally remember from that day
1. Your communication in the build up to the game covering everything imaginable including travel, cost, what you are planning for us on the day etc.
2.A group of us stopped off at your ground at about 10am on the way to our hotel and was meet by a number of delightful sun sports fans who opened up the access to the ground specially so we could get in and have a look around and take some photos.
3. The organisation and set up you had on the day in terms of welcome through the turnstiles, gazebos up, mouth watering bbq on the go.
4) The bar facility you had with decking, especially after the game meeting many sun sports fans who were all very gracious and very praising of sporting in defeat. The sing song many of us had in the bar afterwards as well.
5) The Sun Sports mug I was given free of charge after the game to mark the relationship we had built up in the lead up to the game……non league spirit alive and well
For me and many others that day has been our best away to date even beating days out further along our vase journey. You were all superb on that day, please take strength from that day, if you decided to try and reform you defo have the people to do it.
It wont be easy and whatever journey you decided to take I wish you all the best – from one proper non league club to another – all the very best….
Finally I am sure if you do get something of the ground sporting fans (if only in a small way) would be willing to help in terms of say – donating something for a raffle or something like that…..
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Devastating news and really poor show by greedy and spiteful individuals with clearly no concept of what local football clubs mean to a community.
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Not really any need to add to the above . . . . . . . . Apart from – the sun always rises again and again.