 Warriston Playing Fields are among the city's poorest |
The march by protesters in Edinburgh aims to showcase the growing support for their campaign to improve Scotland's run-down sports pitches. The group, established by a small amateur football team, wants Scottish Executive backing on the issue.
Almost �200,000 was recently pledged by city leaders to revamp Edinburgh's run-down playing fields.
Now the club wants that investment mirrored by politicians across the country.
Hutchison Vale Football Club has nurtured such talent as Kenny Miller, Gary O'Connor and John Collins.
However, in recent times the lack of investment by the local authority in maintaining facilities and pitches has led one of the youth coaches, Les Trotter, to take a stand.
With countless examples of run-down pavilions and playing fields throughout the city, Mr Trotter has decided to ask all clubs throughout the country to demonstrate to the executive that this is a nationwide problem.
He believes the future of community sports in Scotland is in jeopardy because the money being spent on sports development is not reaching those involved at the grass roots level.
Mr Trotter said: "Children have plenty of distractions these days to keep them out of sport, from television to computer games, but how can we expect to attract them when facilities are so poor anyway?
"We need to be doing all we can to encourage children to get more active, and the starting point has to be improving the standard of facilities available to them."
He added: "We might be based in Edinburgh, but it is not just this city that has poor facilities - it is indicative of Scotland as a whole."
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