“We would like Brookhouse to be ours” – Salford football team Winton Wanderers desperate to find new permanent home

Winton Wanderers FC are working to find a permanent new home after having their pitches deemed unplayable on multiple occasions.

The club are currently playing their games at the council-run Brookhouse Playing Fields in Eccles and hope to gain more control over different aspects of the fields and making the location a permanent home.

Rob Wilson, Club Secretary and manager of the Under-17s boys’ team as well as the manager of the one the Under-12s girls’ team, summarised what the club’s main aims are.

He said: “Our biggest issue at the moment is getting a home, a piece of land that we can call our own, and maybe look at building some kind of infrastructure whether that’s a pitch, a clubhouse, whatever it is, that’s our main aim at the moment.”

“We are hoping to have an agreement in the new year where we look after the pitches, so we’d cut the grass but that’s all we’d be allowed to do.

“We won’t be able to put any infrastructure there.

“We’ve had one meeting with people in the council, it went very well, but but we would like Brookhouse to be ours.

“We’d like a part of Brookhouse to call our home to do with within reason what we’d like to do.”

The club have experienced many difficulties as a result of not having a permanent home.

Rob explained: “I’ll just say for my team, for an example, you start the season in September but because of weather I think we’ve played four games so far this season.

“They’ve just been called because it’s wet, or recently last week the pitches were frozen.”

Rob also touched on how helpful the council have been with the club.

He said: “To be fair, the council have been quite receptive, but these things take time, we understand that.

“I think there are other professional sporting clubs that are trying to build academies or training centres around there too, which is not a problem.

“I believe there’s enough land round there for everybody.

“We’ve had one meeting with the council about it, it went very well.

“Hopefully we’ll be having another in the new year, but these things take time.”

Rob also detailed what people can do to help out with the cause.

He said: “Contact the council, the local counsellor, that’s all they can do.

“Get on to our social media platforms, have a look, see what we’re doing.