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Big grant may bring young footballers home
Footballers could return to the ground where their club was formed 16 years ago thanks to a massive £320,000 cash injection.
The Football Foundation – the UK's largest sports charity – has handed Fareham Borough Council the money to upgrade the former MoD site at Seafield Park, in Hill Head.
It will hopefully mean local side Crofton Saints FC can go back to using its former home ground after the MoD sold it off a decade ago.
Club secretary John Mundy said: 'We have been waiting for this for a long, long time. 'Hopefully it can go back to being our club ground.'
The club, which has 15 different teams, has had to spread its training over at least six different schools and recreation grounds, and has called Stubbington Recreation Ground its home pitch for the past few years.
But they lost a pitch at the site when part of it became a skate park last year.
A new 600,000 community centre – the Hammond Hall – will be constructed there.
chris.broom @thenews.co.uk
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