Barnet are to leave Underhill next season after 104 years. This follows a complex dispute with the local Council about the lease and access to the ground in which each side blames the other. The club may ground share in the short term. However, they have already built a £11m training centre in Harrow and have gained planning permission for a stadium on the 44-acre site.
Barnet are to leave Underhill next season after 104 years. This follows a complex dispute with the local Council about the lease and access to the ground in which each side blames the other. The club may ground share in the short term. However, they have already built a £11m training centre in Harrow and have gained planning permission for a stadium on the 44-acre site.
Barnet manager Lawrie Sanchez fears that Barnet will lose their secret weapon when they leave Underhill – just as his old club Wimbledon did when they left Plough Lane. Sanchez told The Football League Paper, ‘Plough Lane was very similar to this, an old stadium that caused the home team to enjoy playing it and the away teams certainly didn’t.’
‘It’s the politics side of things and that has nothing to do with me or the players … But any club that’s been somewhere for 104 years means it is disappointing wne you are in a situation where you have to move somewhere else.’