Worcester City under threat

The future of Worcester City football club is under threat. It’s always questionable whether a club should sell its ground without having a new one to go to. Next season there will be a ground share at Kidderminster which is not an easy journey from Worcester (not least because it means coping with the joys of the Kiddy ring road).

The future of Worcester City football club is under threat. It’s always questionable whether a club should sell its ground without having a new one to go to. Next season there will be a ground share at Kidderminster which is not an easy journey from Worcester (not least because it means coping with the joys of the Kiddy ring road).

The directors at the football club are considering ‘bringing the curtain down on the club’ if season ticket sales do not climb to somewhere near the 1,500 hoped for. This seems to be an ambitious target given that the club attracted 600 to 800 at St. George’s Lane where it played for 108 years. Before then football was played at other sites in the cathedral city.

Worcester is a relatively prosperous small ‘middle England’ city, the one time home of the legendary ‘Worcester woman’ who was supposed to be the decisive swing voter in general elections. For Worcester women and Worcester men, there is the lure of Premiership football at Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion. Nevertheless, one would think that a city like Worcester could support a Conference side).