Exeter City are working against time to ensure Saturday’s League One game against Burton Albion can be played after a fire at their ground.
The control room and medical room at St James Park were badly damaged in a fire last week.
Cabling from the control room, which is essential to run a game safely, was destroyed and is being replaced on Tuesday.
The ground must be approved by the local council’s Safety Advisory Group before the game can go ahead.
“If we can’t provide cover from a control room – they control the stewards and the CCTV cameras and everything like that – then they will make the call that the ground isn’t safe to operate,” Exeter City’s general manager Clive Harrison told BBC Radio Devon.
“In the fire, it was mostly the cabling that melted, the equipment is intact, it’s just the cabling that runs around the stadium that’s the issue.
“You can’t just substitute something in there because there’s fire alarms, the CCTV cables all run around the stadium, so it really needs to be that room, back up and operating.”
