A STRUGGLING amateur rugby club fears for its future after travellers moved in and trashed their clubhouse.
Ten children aged from eight to 14 lobbed bricks through the windows just hours after 20 caravans set up camp on the pitch.
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The yobs, who have also damaged a club burger van, have tried to pull up roller-shutters to break into the building.
Alan Hopkinson, chairman of Worksop Rugby Union Football Club in Notts, said: “So far, I have seen that kids have broken every single window of the clubhouse.
“They have also broken into our burger van – climbing onto the roof and stabbing it with a beer garden umbrella.
“The kids have been trying to pull up the rollers of the clubhouse but they have not been able to get in yet.
“We are on tenterhooks worrying about what will happen if they do get in.
“It would then be game over because we have everything in there, changing rooms, a bar, a function room – they will wreck the place.
“We have only just managed to survive the pandemic, when all games were called off in the 2020-21 season, with the help of grants.
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“We worry this may finish us off.”
He said the volunteer-run Midlands 4 East (North) club had handed CCTV of damage incidents to police who said they were investigating.
