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Sussex Football Teams Change Plans For Lockdown

Happier days, before lockdown, at Lewes Community Football Club (Photo: © John Warburton)

Many football clubs in Sussex are having to change their plans as a result of the coronavirus lockdown — but Brighton's games are still going ahead.

Government regulations, due to be laid before Parliament today (January 5) say "elite" sportsmen and women can continue to train and compete, in Covid-19-safe situations.

This means Premier League Brighton's matches can continue, though without spectators.

For all other people, including non-elite athletes, exercise is limited to once a day, in outdoor public places, where teamwork in contact sports is not possible.

Additionally, lockdown has left at least one of Sussex's other football clubs split by the pandemic.

Lewes announced last night that the women's team can play on.

They're in the FA Women's Championship, England's second-to-top league.

But the men's games, in the Isthmian League Premier Division, the seventh league of the English system, are now suspended.

The same goes for Worthing FC, Horsham FC, and Bognor Regis Town FC.

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