Farsley Celtic have launched a fighting fund following the Football Conference's decision to prohibit them from taking part in the Blue Square North.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Farsley Today.101, Still Going Strong will be promoted at Farsley Community Festival, taking place at Hainsworth Park on Saturday , July 4, between 1pm and 5pm.
Official club spokesman, Philip Morris, told
Farsley Today: "We are launching a fighting fund to raise money to cover the cost of specialist sports lawyers to appeal the decision of the Football Conference.
* Click here for latest Farsley news."The club has been in existence for 101 years and is really on the brink, so the message of the fund is one of determination.
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101, Still Going Strong sends the message that we might be down at the moment, but we are not out.
"I would like to thank the organisers of the Farsley Community Festival for allowing us to promote our message – we shall be having a balloon race with the winner of whichever of the 101 balloons that travels the furthest winning a pair of season tickets for next season."
The balloon release is expected to take place around 4.45pm.
Mr Morris added: "We shall be selling badges and other promotional items and hope that the people of the village get behind us, dip into their pockets in a small way and raise some money to allow the club to maintain their Conference North status.
Donations can be made through the Farsley Celtic website at:
www.farsleyceltic.net"This decision does affect a lot of local people, whether or not they follow Farsley Celtic. The volume of people that has passed through the gates has had a positive effect upon the businesses of Farsley over the last couple of years and I hope that the Football Association will recognize the injustice of this decision and reverse it."
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