A football club in south Bristol has been left without proper changing rooms for three years due to delays at Bristol City Council. Park Knowle Football Club “desperately needs” better facilities in Redcatch Park but the council has so far stalled on carrying out essential maintenance work.
Park Knowle FC is coached by Mike Alden, who on December 21 won the Unsung Hero Award at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. The disabled football coach was diagnosed with brittle bone disease aged four, and has broken nearly every bone in his body.
Bristol mayor Marvin Rees congratulated Mr Alden on winning the award, but was also urged to apologise to him and the club for “the mess” the council has left them in. The community applied to the council to carry out the work themselves, but then the application “hit a wall”.
