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Chester FC fans celebrate, but will they be stopped from watching the games?
The answer to a quiz question is no longer a joke after Chester FC allegedly broke Welsh Covid rules.
Chester staged two home games over the Christmas season.
The club was warned about playing more home matches.
Andy Morris told the radio station that the joke has become a real problem.
Morris said that the significance of the stadium's unique location had been viewed as less than a quiz question.
He said that it has been something since the stadium was built.
Before devolution and changes in Covid rules, it was not a problem.
Since the number of spectators at events in Wales has been capped, Chester have hosted two home games at Bumpers Lane.
Chester was an English Football side from 1930 to 2000 and again from 2004 to 2009.
They are no longer affiliated with the Welsh FA.
The whole site is located in the administrative area of the council.
The stadium is English and the pitch is in Wales.
The land is owned by the council.
The games are policed by the police.
Morris said they had a meeting on Friday with both local authorities and police.
Nobody really knows what to do with the situation. Some of the Covid restrictions are political.
The stadium site is located in England. The stadium is located in England. It's owned by the two local authorities, so it's very complicated at the moment.
I'm not sure why it's become an issue. We wrestled through Covid for the last two years. We have not had access to any Welsh government support.
Jim Green said that they were asked to attend a meeting on Friday.
We went into the meeting expecting a conciliatory discussion to try and find a way forward. We were warned by the police and council that if we continued to play, we would be in violation of the regulations in Wales.
In the meeting on Friday morning, we said that all parties need to take a step back, reflect and get some more legal advice.
"We're not eligible for financial support from Sport Wales because we're not an affiliated Welsh club," said Morris. If we're not allowed in for a period of time, the impact would be huge. We don't have the money from central funding.
Chester is a fan-owned club. The way we operate is sustainable. We don't have debt, we can't take on loans, and we don't have an overdraft. Matchday income is what we rely on.
If we are forced to play behind closed doors for a long time, that could mean the end of the football club.
The implications of this decision are significant. It's not viable for us to play without fans in the stadium in the short term.
The bigger implication is over the border between England and Wales and how the law is applied on either side of the border.
"We are an English football club, based in an English city, playing in an English league and we would expect that English law would apply to us."
It will need some cool heads and common sense thinking to find a way forward.
Chester are confused as to why this situation was not addressed during the first year of the Covid epidemic.
Green said that they were aware of the regulations in Wales and England.
We played two home games with fans inside the stadium in December 2020.
Welsh clubs were playing behind closed doors as Wales was still in lock down. There is precedent for us.
Morris claims that police advised setting up a fan zone because of the 50 person limit for sporting events in Wales.
He said that they could have 2,000 people standing in a fan park to watch a giant screen.
We can't have socially distanced individuals in a Covid-secure compliance within a stadium because it's in England. It's a farce.
