Bottesford Town celebrated the opening of their brand new changing rooms this week with the help of England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce.

The former England and Nottingham Forest full-back officially opened Town's ?350,000 complex at Birch Park.

And Pearce was thoroughly impressed with the new facilities at Bottesford.

"Places like this are fantastic, the amount of teams going through is very impressive," Pearce told the Scunthorpe Telegraph.

"I came through the non-league system as a player so I probably appreciate what this means to a club like this as much as anybody.

"It's good for the community too because it gives men and women, boys and girls all the chance to come and play.

"I played in the equivalent of the Conference (Blue Square Premier Division) and the facilities in my day were nowhere near as good as this.

"Some of the dressing rooms in those days were a right state, so this is a big step up from those days.

"It's a great facility and I think the community are very lucky that a lot of people have put a lot of money and effort into the place."

The fanfare and impressive new changing rooms are all well and good, but how much will it directly effect the club's first team in their efforts to move up the football pyramid?

Well, according to Town first team manager Raz Clayton, it certainly can't hurt in helping him try to attract better quality players to Birch Park.

"It's certainly a big advantage for Bottesford compared to what we had previously, so it's going well for the future," Clayton said.

"On the pitch it's not going as well as I had hoped but sometimes it's like that in football, you don't just get what you want.

"But we'll see if we can attract a few more players."