A non-league soccer membership are cursing the climate as soon as once more after being struck by extreme flooding which has left their whole pitch submerged.
AFC Telford’s fitness center, automobile park, and backrooms weren’t spared the chaos after the Shropshire city was lashed with heavy rain.
The seventh-tier outfit are urging followers to assist them clear the mess at their SEAH Stadium.
Two years in the past the membership suffered the identical destiny after flooding of their workplaces left them pleading for volunteers – a sinking feeling following relegation to the Southern League.
‘This night’s thunderstorm over Wellington has deluged the SEAH Stadium,’ the membership wrote on X on Thursday.
AFC Telford have appealed for followers urgently to assist after their stadium was flooded
The membership’s pitch, fitness center, and automobile park have been all affected after a thunderstorm in Shropshire
Time for the wellies! One unlucky soul might have wanted a raft in the event that they needed to entry their automobile with dry toes
‘If you’re out there tomorrow (Friday) from 9 am onwards we might welcome any assist you would give to assist us get issues straightened up and dried out.’
Some white strains have been nearly seen on the turf however for essentially the most half the pitch was underwater.
The flooding even reached the stands, which is probably an additional incentive for supporters to assist mop up.
Exterior the bottom, a solitary car was perched by a grass verge simply above the flooding.
It comes after followers of AFC Wimbledon awakened on Monday to see their favorite floor had acquired a sinkhole attributable to flooding.
A fundraiser has garnered £118,000 on the time of writing to assist the membership repair the harm, with Newcastle United, who they have been attributable to host within the third spherical of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday this week, pledging £15,000 to the trigger.
That fixture will now happen on Tuesday, October 1 and moved to the Premier League facet’s St. James’ Park stadium 280 miles away.
Wimbledon confirmed on Wednesday that the membership’s residence sport towards Accrington Stanley had been known as off, after makes an attempt to seek out an alternate venue had proved fruitless.
Heavy rain on Sunday evening led to an enormous sinkhole at AFC Wimbledon’s Plough Lane stadium
In addition to damaging the pitch, the membership store and museum was affected by the flooding
Wimbledon’s residence sport towards Newcastle within the Carabao Cup was moved 280 miles north, earlier than Saturday’s League Two conflict with Accrington Stanley was postponed
In addition to their pitch being broken, Wimbledon additionally noticed their membership store and museum flooded.
Tankers needed to take away greater than 100,000 litres of water from their Plough Lane stadium on Monday however the membership are getting again on their toes thanks to assist from mroe than 2,000 donors.
