Sheffield FC have played their games outside of their home city, in Dronfield in North East Derbyshire, since 2001.<\/p>\n
The club has made several attempts to return to Sheffield over the past two decades, with the latest plans unveiled in November 2023 as a joint venture with Sheffield Eagles Rugby League Club.<\/p>\n
McClure said they were looking at “a bunch of places” for a new stadium, with a move to the former Sheffield Transport Sports Club site at Meadowhead remaining a possibility.<\/p>\n
“The planning application is still live and we’re undertaking a review,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to take anything off the table. It’s about engaging constructively with the people in charge in this city, the council and the mayoral authority.<\/p>\n
“I think everybody wants the club back in the city, but there’s only Sheffield that could invent football and build a B&Q car park on it.”<\/p>\n
McClure said he acknowledged there would be some scepticism about a local musician becoming the chairman of the world’s oldest football club.<\/p>\n
“Judge it in a year. If it’s not tangibly in a better place than it is now, come and see me at a match and discuss why you think that’s not the case,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But give me a year to just do some stuff, because I think we’re going to move the dial on this considerably.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to build a community here, and we’re trying to do something for the city, because this city is amazing.<\/p>\n
“For far too long now this city has not shouted about itself. It’s enough now.<\/p>\n
“Now’s our time to stand up and say this city’s brilliant.<\/p>\n
“We invented this game, and this club invented this game, and we’re going to celebrate that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield FC have played their games outside of their home city, in Dronfield in North East Derbyshire, since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-330440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}