WARRINGTON Town’s home game against Woodley Sports scheduled for
tomorrow, has been called off by the Unibond League because the visiting
team’s squad has been decimated by swine flu.
Woodley called for the game to be called off stating that they only had seven fit players out of a squad of 26.
The club had made application to the League to call off their scheduled match on Tuesday evening at Clitheroe when a number of players had reported sick. This application was rejected but following that fixture, which they lost to a 94th minute goal, more players, management staff and club officials went down with the illness to the extent that the club simply did not have enough fit players to form a team.
By lunchtime today [Fri] fourteen players were ill plus the entire management team and with three long term injuries due to broken bones it left the club with just seven registered players available with no goalkeeper.
The outbreak was so virulent that the club closed down its entire sporting complex facility to the public as well as to its own players in order to have the accommodation deep cleaned in an attempt to sanitise the complex and prevent a further spreading of the bug.
In addition the club’s Reserve team home fixture in the Lancashire League was also called off and Sunday’s Under 18’s fixture in the North West Youth Alliance League is also under serious threat.
Warrington Town Chief Executive Gary Skentelbery said: “It is obviously very disappointing that the game has been postponed at such short notice but the matter is out of our hands.
