Irvine Sports Club double down in pitch row as football team gets boot amid hockey field plan
amateur football team homeless just weeks before the start of the season.At a special AGM on Thursday night, the board of Irvine Sports Club voted to facilitate the return of Irvine Ladies Hockey Club to play their matches on the main grass pitch at Marress playing fields for the first time since the 1990s.The pitch has been used for football in the intervening decades – primarily by the now defunct Clark Drive Amateurs – and for the last four years by Irvine AFC who have rented the park on a pay-to-play basis.But now the amateur side have been told there is no room for them at the facility, leaving them without a home ahead of the season starting on August 7.The club revealed their dismay at the decision in a statement issued on Facebook