YOUNG footballers have been left without a kit after their new blue and white strip was stolen. Netheravon U15 manager Donna Jones got home on Sunday evening to discover club's kit had vanished from the boot of her car.

Chairman Jim Castle was horrified at the theft.

He said: "I am shocked that this has happened. Donna is sure that she put the kit in her boot. Either someone has taken it from her boot or picked it up when she put it by her car."

The theft occurred sometime after the Mid-Wilts Youth game against Bradford on Avon which Netheravon won 7-1.

Castle said: "The team had a great win and then we had this dreadful news. We have only played four games in that kit, its devastating."

The kits are only a few months old after the team raised £260 to buy them this summer.

He said: "A lot of people in the village did a lot of work to raise the money for those kits. The boys have been using the men's kit but we will find them some new kit soon."

The club have informed the police and the Wiltshire FA. He said: "There is a distinctive logo of our sponsors RGV on the front of our shirts. The FA have told me that they will keep an eye out. I think it is unlikely a team have stolen it and will use it again. I think someone will sell it at a car boot sale."