Football chiefs have been urged to step in after three youth football teams were left with no league to play in. The three under-18 teams were left in the lurch after their local league in Tayside collapsed - but the neighbouring Fife youth league refused to let them in.
Now coaches have blasted the Scottish Youth FA, claiming they should have stepped in to find more than 50 players from the three teams a place to play.
The manager of one of the stricken sides from the Dundee and District Youth FA league claims his SOS call to a neighbouring league in Fife was rejected - even after he offered to move his Under 18 team from Dundee to play in Fife.Jimmy Robertson claims he made futile pleas on behalf of his Dundee United Sports Club Lions 07 team to the Scottish Youth Football Association to help find his team a place to play.
His team had ended up folding after most teams in the Dundee and District Youth FA league dropped out, leaving the league unviable.Jimmy said: “The mantra for the SYFA has always been to let the kids play football.
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