Crowds soar by 35 per cent at Clipstone

Before the new season began, Clipstone were a club working day and night to give themselves every chance to grow their fanbase while the top leagues in England couldn’t allow spectators to games.

And, after a dedicated campaign, they have been rewarded by an increase of 35 per cent in the average attendance compared to last season.

“We want the football club to become more and more popular locally and we are really putting in the hours to get there,” s aid Clipstone’s media man Daniel Walker.

“For my part; we’re on social media all the time, we want to be in the forefront of people’s minds, we want to keep the content varied, I’m at most games taking photos of the match action, whilst now we have invested in a scaffolding tower so we can put a highlights package on a couple of days after the game too”.

It’s not just about the media for Clipstone though, Chairman Richard Clarey is at the forefront in keeping everyone on their toes with the Coronavirus regulations.

“Richard is our chairman first and foremost but he is determined we all stick to the Covid regulations, we can’t get frustrated and let our standards slip, he won’t allow it .

“Of course, in these uncertain times we appreciate people are still nervous about coming to visit their local non-league club as I’m sure at the back of their minds a worry about social distancing. But we’ve had some lovely comments back about our work.

“When we played Borrowash Victoria just before lockdown I got a message back from someone who attended the game. He told me it’s one of the few times, he has genuinely felt a club was correctly applying Covid regulations. He’s a typical ground hopper and had been to 69 other matches since the new season began. It’s comments like that, for me, that makes all the hard work everyone at the football club puts in worthwhile.”