That what "Sport England" said is crap, As hotpoint will inform you we do meet and have met all the criteria for some time. No new "Sports" have been approved since lottery funding took over and next year the list of 100's of "Sports" will be reduced to about 10 so there will be thousands of clubs out there looking for extra money.
Good article though, Leicester wildcats have had one in the "Leicester Mercury", another due this week in the Harborough mail and a place for all game reports on the BBC new media at
www.bbc.co.uk/leicester
Try your local BBC new media.