Smashed seats, fire starting and drug taking: Bridgnorth football club in community plea after daily damage
One of Shropshire's leading football clubs has issued a plea after youths are reported to have been starting fires, taking drugs and smashing seats at the ground "on a daily basis".
Members of AFC Bridgnorth have spoke of their "distraught emotions" following the incidents, which the club said involves teenagers trespassing and using dugouts to take drugs.
Youths have also reportedly been starting fires and smashing spectator seating on the main stand.
Volunteers have been repairing holes created to gain access to the Crown Meadow ground from behind the main stand, and highlighted the hours of work taken to ensure the community has usable sporting facilities.
Mark Weale, club chairman, said: "It's been going on for a while, but since the Covid-19 situation it's been happening all the time.
"It used to be just at the weekends but they're coming in every other night now. They're playing loud music, they're drinking and there's definitely drug taking – we've found the remnants of drug taking.
