South Yorkshire Times April 25.
Worst Season – but Denaby Not Downhearted.
In spring, and almost at the end of the football season, Denaby United’s thoughts are turning to their future.
Without a chance of pulling themselves off the bottom of the league and with their request for extra funds from the local miners welfare scheme, which already subsidises them, hanging in the balance, the big question at Tickhill Square is “what’s going to happen?”
Player manager Harry Hough wasn´t being pessimistic about the situation this week, although this has probably been the worst season in the club’s history.
“I can’t see us having any difficulty in gaining re-election to the league – this is the first really bad season we have had and we are hoping to get things back to normal as soon as possible,” he said.
Financial difficulties at the start of the season forced Denaby to take on a number of local league players without previous Midland League experience when quite a number of their first-team left.
“Whether we are going to get this money are not, I don’t know,” he added, “but I’m sure that Denaby United will carry on no matter what happens. If we do get it, we will be able to get a team together again; it will solve a lot of problems. If not, we will have to look for some other means of raising the money we need.”