Morecambe FC have been saved and for now that will be the only headline. A club that was apparently for sale for three years has been sold several days before a likely fall into liquidation and extinction. Jason Whittingham no longer owns this football club and that is enough to provoke joy, relief and hope.

Next Saturday, 11 players will play against 11 players at the Mazuma Mobile Stadium. That is the lowest bar for a football club, its most basic function of all. Over the course of this hot summer by the seaside, even that felt like the dream of every other town and city in the country but never theirs.

Morecambe FC have been saved and that is why I have come here. It should be Morecambe vs Brackley, the first home league game of the season, but the home team were suspended from the N

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