WEST Felton Football Club will make a welcome return next season.

The club has been re-formed under the management of Micky Willis and will compete in the Greenhous Shrewsbury Sunday League next season.

The return of the club represents the welcome addition of one of Shropshire's traditional clubs.

The club competed in the Oswestry League in the 1950s and returned to join the Wem Sunday League in the 1990s.

A spell in the Shropshire League in 2000 was followed by a move to Oswestry where the club transformed into the briefly existent Oswestry Town in 2005.

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West Felton Football Club players and management.

The club is now back and beginning back in Sunday League football after two decades.

The club is backed by home kit sponsor Now Group Graphic Designs, away kit sponsor Josh Birch and Son Builders and training tracksuit sponsors RJW Electrical and Stove and Chimney Services.

However the club's best efforts to secure a pitch in the village have failed and instead will be playing at Corbett School in nearby Baschurch.

Willis said: "Although we would prefer to be playing in the village which we are still working on. This is the only football pitch available between Oswestry and Shrewsbury which was a big struggle to secure."

The club will be returning to the Punch Bowl after games.

Willis added: "They have aslo just started doing Sunday carvery which is amazing. We want to say a big thank you to them all as without all there help we wouldn't be were we are."

Meanwhile Willis hoped the club's plans for the future would not be negatively impacted by development plans.

He said: "The brewery are trying to build five houses on the pub car park, leaving them with only eight spaces which isn't going to be ideal when around 30 lads turn up after the game and there will already be people there for carvery.

"So the streets would be full of cars if this goes ahead and that's not ideal. Especially with all the kids about."