Southend United club secures safety certificate in time for season
A soccer club’s opening recreation of the season will go forward as deliberate after it obtained a brand new safety certificate for its stadium.
Financially-troubled Southend United wanted approval from Southend Council to play at Roots Hall stadium.
The club mentioned Saturday’s Vanarama National League opener towards Oldham Athletic would go forward as scheduled and thanked followers for their help.
The BBC has approached the council for remark.
Southend United – which dropped out of the Football League on the finish of the 2020-21 season – has been earlier than the courts quite a lot of instances in current months, with an order being made in May to make sure the club’s survival by permitting the cost of gamers and accountants.
Last week it paid the wages of employees for the primary time in three months. The Shrimpers are due again in courtroom over their money owed on 23 August.
Mr Martin, the club’s proprietor for 25 years, has repeatedly acknowledged he intends to promote the 117-year-old club.
On Sunday, greater than 100 followers turned out at Roots Hall to scrub and paint the stadium in an effort to assist it acquire a brand new safety license.
Conservative Southend West MP Anna Firth, who joined the trouble, praised the “army” of supporters who helped and mentioned Blues fan Lawrence Austin who organised the occasion “deserved a medal”.
Southend United mentioned tickets for Saturday’s match would go on sale at 10:00 BST on Tuesday.
It mentioned: “The club would like to reiterate how grateful it is to the 160 plus supporters who worked hard on Sunday to help clean-up the stadium, along with Mick Maddocks of R B Emersons whose work has been tireless to ensure the stadium’s safety certificate has been granted by the relevant authorities.”