PLAYERS of girls' junior football teams in Hereford have been left upset and disappointed that their county finals will not be played at Edgar Street whereas the boys' teams are.

The Tupsley FC junior boys' teams are playing at the Hereford FC grounds, but the club's girls' junior teams are playing at Pegasus FC next month.

Some parents feel that this sends out the wrong message to girls at the club.

Speaking on BBC Hereford and Worcester, parent Charlie Watkins, said the girls' team had their finals at Edgar Street last year: "It was absolutely buzzing. They were on the ceiling. They were so excited and we kind of built it up. So there was this big build up to it. Some of us went and watched some games at the club and they were really excited to be playing there and they knew how important it was and how lucky and fortunate we were to be playing at that ground."

But Herefordshire Girls' Football League told the parents it was due to capacity issues that this year both sets of teams could not play at Edgar Street.

Charlie told BBC radio: "I am disappointed because again, it's one rule for the boys and one rule for the girls. The girls are, as soon as we said, their game was going to be at a different location, the girls sighed and said, 'We want to go to Edgar Street.'

"And they were just really upset by it. Especially when they get the boys in their class saying: 'We're going to Edgar Street. You're not' which is just nine-year-old antics but it has bothered them."

She added that if nobody had been bothered by it then it would not have been an issue but the girls have been bothered.

In a statement given to BBC Hereford and Worcester, Jamie Wright, Tupsley Girls' FC chairman, said: "The decision to play the girls’ cup finals at Pegasus Juniors FC was unanimously voted in by the members of the league at a recent meeting."

While Richard Wydenbach, chairman of Herefordshire Girls' Football League, said: “We asked Hereford if we could play at Edgar Street and because of their various commitments they could only offer us two evenings. We have tried this in the past and the feedback from parents and coaches was that it wasn’t particularly conductive with it being a school night. At a meeting where all clubs were present it was agreed that if we could not get a full day at Edgar Street we would in fact have a full day at Pegasus. We have held finals previously at Pegasus and they have been declared a great success.”