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Apr 2021
The Football Association has confirmed that it won't move Harrogate Town's FA Trophy final in May so fans can attend, despite a fan petition and the issue being raised in Parliament.
Last season’s postponed FA Trophy final between Harrogate and Concord Rangers will take place behind closed doors at Wembley on May 3, just two weeks before fans can return to stadiums.
It means Town fans will be cruelly denied a trip to the home of English football for the second time in 12 months.
Phil Holdsworth, the club's fan liaison officer, set up a petition that called on the FA to move the date. It received over 1,000 signatures and support from all over the world.
He said fans were "disappointed and angry" with the decision but said due to a busy summer at Wembley, which will host several European Championship fixtures, it was always going to be a tough ask.
Harrogate & Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones backed his petition and asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson at PMQs earlier this month if he would ask the FA to move the date.
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