• Club respond to demands to pay for match footage • ‘This reconstruction will help tell the story’

Macclesfield Town have come up with a novel response to being told to pay for footage of their 0-0 draw with Boreham Wood on Saturday, by creating their own tabletop “highlights” reel.

The club usually show their match highlights online but apparently felt put out by demands to pay for video of Vanarama National League games, and came up with their own alternative.

Town posted a video on YouTube which begins: “The following is a dramatic reconstruction of Boreham Wood vs. Macclesfield Town. We were told we would have to pay for use of video footage for highlights packages, so this reconstruction will help tell the story of the game ...”

What follows is an improvised 40-second match with fingers for players on a cardboard pitch, complete with crowd noise. Not a lot happens in the video, much like the drab draw which the 306 fans at Meadow Park went to watch.