As AFC Totton rev up for their big day out at Wembley, catastrophe could be looming for Hampshire's only previous winners of the FA Vase.

Winchester City's future in the British Gas Business Southern League will be up for discussion at a meeting of the Football Association's technical committee today.

City - Vase winners in 2004 - are one of a handful of clubs, including Lymington & New Milton, who did not get their ground up to the required D' grading before the March 30 deadline.

And if the FA come down hard on them, they could find themselves relegated back to the Sydenhams Wessex League.

If that were the case, manager Steve Moss would quit the Denplan City Ground along with the bulk of their senior players.

Secretary John Moody confirmed: "Technically we could be relegated. The threat is there and it's very real, but we're doing all we can to ensure it doesn't happen.

"I met with the chairman on the Southern League on Saturday and we've got deadlines for finishing the work. Hopefully it won't be a problem".

Neither Winchester nor Lymington have the covered terracing required to achieve the grading and City are also lacking a permanent toilet block away from the clubhouse.

"The work's under way, but it hasn't been finished yet," said Moody. "It's not through lack of anything, it's just time, but we are doing it and we will get it finished".

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