I AM the manager of Chaddesley Corbett Football Club and I was intrigued to read the article in the Shuttle/Times and News (January 2) headed "Stadium hope for Sugar site".

Chaddesley, Wyre Forest Brintons Football Club and Bewdley Town all compete in West Midlands Regional League Division One South.

All three clubs give the opportunity to promising local footballers to compete in a well-organised regional league.

If any of the three aforementioned clubs were to win Division One South - and Bewdley could well achieve that aim this season - they would be denied promotion because their grounds would not be up to the required standard.

Wyre Forest boasts a superb Stourport Youth League, and an excellent open age Kidderminster and District Football League. Not all players can reach Football League standard and play for Kidderminster Harriers, or indeed reach Dr Martens standard and play for Stourport Swifts.

However, we should encourage good local lads to play the highest standard they can, though in this area we sadly lack the right facility to use as a stepping stone for the Harriers or the Swifts, or for any promising young players to have a goal to aim for.

Football is very, very popular in Wyre Forest and a lot of people have done a lot of work to encourage and organise, not only boys, but girls as well, from under-seven soccer schools up to adult sides to play the game.

Bewdley Town have, over the years, been a credit to local football and have run a host of different age range sides.

If there is going to be a sports stadium developed at the former sugar factory site, then hopefully the decision-makers are aware that local football merits, and clubs like Bewdley Town deserve, a ground with the right criteria to play higher-graded soccer.

MARTIN WESTCOTT

Wordsworth Crescent

Kidderminster