Heartless thugs smashed their way into the clubhouse of a junior football team and trashed their trophy cabinet. Members of Southwick Rangers Junior Football Club arrived at their clubhouse at 9.30am yesterday (November 27) to find their trophy cabinet smashed and trophies strewn on the floor.
Thieves kicked in the back door and protective screen of the clubhouse in Southwick Recreation Ground, Old Barn Way, Southwick, before helping themselves to £60 worth of chocolate that had been bought for the children to eat after their game on Sunday.
The vandals also stole footballs which cost the club £100 for 40, and training equipment including running ladders and cones.
The mindless yobs also smashed the bulbs out of portable floodlights worth £250 each.
Club secretary Sara Tuffin said she did not believe any trophies had been stolen from the two-room brick clubhouse which is used as a storage room, kitchen and trophy room but said that at least half a dozen had been badly damaged. She added: “We usually open up the clubhouse during a game and so all the kids were asking why is it closed today and were upset when we told them why.
“We’re a charity that helps 100 children and everybody in this area knows what we do, so why anybody would want to do this I don’t know. “They have broken trophies that the kids have worked hard for.”
Sussex Police are investigating the incident in Southwick and anyone with information should contact them on 101.
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