Larkfield and New Hythe Football Club chairman John Michel discusses need for  new sports hub - video Dailymotion

Chairman of Larkfield and New Hythe Football Club, John Michel, talks of the need for a new sports hub

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00:00We're looking to move from our current stadium.

00:03We have been here a long time, but basically we just can't survive staying here anymore.

00:08The costs of running the facility have shot up in the last three years.

00:14And we just basically need to move where we can get a 3G facility and be renting that out and get any income in.

00:21So what we've what we've done is we've working with a developer.

00:26They found a new site for us, which is pretty close, less than a mile away.

00:31And we're going to get a brand new stadium with a state of the art 3G pitch, a 3G training pitch, a new stadium with 250 seats in there,

00:41brand new clubhouse facilities and car parking.

00:46So it's all going to be a really exciting transformation for us as a club and a fantastic opportunity.

00:52But this season, we had 18 games postponed because of the weather.

00:57The rain we've had this year, I've never known anything like it.

01:00In my 30 years, we've never had the deluge of rain we've had and this many cancellations.

01:05It just seems to be getting worse.