Good Evening All.

We want to make an appeal to all players, officials and supporters in the South Devon Football League to remain Covid aware. A great many of our clubs and the hard working volunteers have made great efforts to ensure that games are played in a safe manner and we thank you.

However, I have to tell you that not every club is following FA guidelines and we are only playing football as a result of every member club signing up to an agreement to ‘protect and play’ in the form of a risk assessment.

As you may know, we have a member club where a club official has tested positive and apart from the fixture postponements which is insignificant compared to his family and loss of income as well as his well being as a result of having the virus is unthinkable.

Without going over everything that the FA has delivered in the form of SDFL guidance I would ask you all to renew your efforts and remain vigilant in difficult times.

Finally I want to remind you of two things; Players are not exempt from anything other than the playing of matches, not before and especially afterwards, and secondly even as an away team you should be doing whatever is necessary to protect your own people.

Have a good and safe weekend

Alastair Muirden

Secretary – South Devon Football League