THE world’s richest and most popular football league has kicked off again and Manchester City deserve a round of applause for their provision for disabled supporters.

But are all the region's Premiership clubs doing as well as City?

Sadly not, if our own research is anything to go by.

Of the North West’s Premiership clubs, only City figures in the top half of our "Accessibility League Table", while fellow big-hitters Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton all languish in the bottom half.

Our charity Revitalise, which runs the Sandpipers centre in Southport, provides respite holidays for disabled people and carers from across the region and beyond.

Accessible excursions are an integral part of what we do, so we wanted to find what Premiership clubs were doing for their disabled fans on match days.

We found all the clubs had signed up to guidelines and promised to improve their provision for disabled people more than ten years ago, but only three Premiership clubs had the recommended number of spaces for wheelchair users.

This is not good enough.

I’d like Globe readers to join me in calling for the region’s football clubs to get on the ball and do the right thing by their disabled supporters.

For more information visit revitalise.org.uk Colin Brook by email.