With the pre-season friendlies for some clubs beginning next week, for others the new term seems light years away as the non-league re-structuring came back to haunt them.

Those clubs who choose not to join the expanded Wessex League for various reasons, and had opted for the new Hampshire League, were stunned by the Hampshire FA's decision not to sanction it on the grounds that 'it was of no benefit to the development of grass roots football'.

The decision left the likes of Mottisfont, Broughton, Awbridge, Vernham Dean and Upham without a league to play in until most were rescued by the Southampton Senior League, who, after an emergency meeting, created an Elite League for nine of the clubs.

Full story and picture in Friday's Andover Advertiser