SIMON HUGHES shines light on an appeal to give a team formed in 1894 a bright future

THE wooden hub of Marine AFC operations creaks like the underbelly of a pirate ship’s galleon. Here is the reality for a club in the seventh tier of English football: the directors’ lounge and the match-day tea rooms (imaginatively named the Scouse House) converge inside this rickety relic that surely must only just pass safety inspections. Yet it is not the primary problem of a team in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier Division. Marine play attractively and are considered one of the bette...