It is a confusing time at lower league football.

They have resumed some friendlies, but without spectators, and now there is news that when the season for real returns that too will be for closed games. But without fans watching, and buying a beer from the bar, how will this be even financially possible? For Radstock Town FC it is not even possible as their ground at the top of the town isn't closed off behind walls.

Nub News caught up with Dave Wilkinson from The Miners as he was painting out the pitch lines for the new season and asked for his personal view.

The former chairman told us: " At Southfield it is technically closed off, but it is still a walk way through to parks and we don't stop anyone walking through. Equally it is the only way into the club house and if the club house is open then people will be going there, so we can't technically play behind closed doors."

Dave who jokes he may be the only one at the side who can measure out a pitch, hence being roped in to help gave a bleak assessment of the beautiful game. " Football right now is a non event, it is very difficult to get motivated because there is nothing really to look forward to. Because the powers to be made a bad decision (in my opinion) in expunging last season's records. That has disillusioned a lot of people, players particularly. "

He is also angry that the FA kept the fine money from last season and the fees for refereeing.

" It is a very unfair game from top to bottom, it is supposed to the same game but it is clearly not. It is not the same game over at Bath City, let alone the Premier League to where Radstock, Welton and clubs like us play. "

Dave added : " If we can start playing league games again and we can get the atmosphere back .. football at this level is very much a social event, the social element of the club pays for the club and if you want to progress you have to improve your social functions etc. Which we have done.

" And yet we are being told that (perhaps) shortly the pubs are going to have to close again. It makes it all a mockery, the country needs to have a direction and it needs to stick with that direction."

The presenter of the TSWesternLeague podcast Ian Nockolds said: " The economics of football at our level mean that Clubs can't play without paying spectators. Its one thing to ask the clubs to limp through a month of friendlies, but a behind closed doors start to the season will only hurt Club finances already stretched by the lockdown."

The Football Association has proposed that all games involving any Step 1-7 club should be played behind closed doors. The FA resubmitted a proposal to the DCMS which they hope will allow fans within the initially outline timescale (September).