United: We're still sharing with Vics

12:35pm Monday 7th July 2008

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VICS will share their home with Manchester United again next season.

The Red Devils today told the Guardian that new reserve team boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wanted to keep the team in Wincham.

“We’ll be back next year,” said United spokesman Diana Law.

“The arrangement will stay the same, with all our home league and cup matches taking place at the Marston’s Arena.”

That makes United co-tenants alongside Northwich Victoria with the pair paying landowner Mike Connett to play there.

Last week Vics director Jim Rushe told supporters that the club spent around £1,500 just to host a match – a sum that includes payment to stewards and other costs associated with staging a game.

The club keeps cash paid at the gate plus receipts from programme sales and car parking while food and drink sales are kept by Connett’s company, Beaconet.

The Premier League and UEFA Champions League winners have had a presence in the town already this summer with experts lending a hand to groundsman Joe Biddle as he prepares the pitch for the new campaign.

United hero Solskjaer takes charge with Warren Joyce for the first time this Saturday, July 12, when United travel to Blue Square North outfit Burscough.

Three preparatory matches have been arranged to get Solskjaer’s young side ready for the Lancashire Senior Cup final against Liverpool on July 30.

After the Reds take on Burscough at Victoria Park, they travel to Altrincham’s Moss Lane the following Saturday before facing Oxford United on July 26 at the Kassam Stadium.

All three matches are 3pm kick offs.