My little contribution to #LetFansIn - could you help the cause too?

I wrote to my MP.

Well it was the least I could do, having urged you lot in this column the previous week to do something positive to help give the #LetFansIn campaign a big push.

I wrote to Gosport Tory MP Caroline Dinenage on Tuesday of last week and I await her reply. Here’s what I said – and if anyone wants to use these words and send similar to their person in Parliament, I’d be delighted.

‘Dear Caroline, I wondered if I could seek your views on the #LetFansIn campaign being promoted across English football. I am a Pompey fan but a Gosport resident, and I'm a sports journalist, so can see in many different areas the effect the lack of fans is having on clubs from the Premier League down to the National League.

‘Gosport Borough are fortunate to be allowed fans into Privett Park and have worked hard to ensure it can be done very safely with protocols in place.

‘It does seem all clubs who are allowed fans are taking the rules very seriously. The question is now - why can't clubs higher up the football pyramid allowed to operate in the same way?

‘Many are in danger of going out of business if their main source of income is not restored soon.

‘I do hope that at some point soon, sense is seen and at least some fan trials are permitted, particularly in areas where Covid rates are lower.

‘I would be interested to hear your thoughts on #LetFansIn, particularly in view of the positive work that has been done at GBFC, where much good work for vulnerable members of the community was also done earlier in the lockdown.

‘I look forward to hearing your views and hope that you are perhaps able to lobby Oliver Dowden and Boris Johnson on this vitally important issue.’

Read more on this in the Pompey programme this weekend - and don't miss another Bone Idle Gossip in the Sports Mail, out on Sunday morning.