DORKING Wanderers boss Marc White believes that football needs more people like York City co-chairman Matt Uggla.

City will finally host Dorking at the LNER Community Stadium this evening (7:45pm) at the third time of asking, having seen their initial meeting postponed due to the Minstermen’s progression to the Second Round of the Emirates FA Cup before freezing temperatures put paid to the rescheduled fixture last month.

Owing to the short-notice postponement of last month's meeting, Uggla has stepped in to offer all Dorking fans half price entry to tonight's fixture.

York will be hoping to garner just a fourth home win of the National League season against fellow strugglers Dorking, who could move level on points with Neal Ardley’s side should they taste victory this evening.

A win would see the Minstermen rise as high as 13th, opening up the distance between themselves and the relegation zone to six points.

White lauded City's set-up and co-chairman Uggla, believing that the sport needs more likeminded people to help push clubs forward.

“I really like York as a club,” he enthused to the Dorking media team.

"Their new set-up is magnificent, and I really appreciate the fact that they’ve got an owner who’s come in and put his money where his mouth is.

“Football needs people like Matt that’s going to put their hard-earned money in and try and take the club and the city forward.

“I had such a great time up there last year. We stayed up there a few nights actually, and it’s an amazing little place, one of the most enjoyable I think in the league. And their fans seem to be decent people.”

White did not mince his words after last month’s fixture was called off just six hours before kick-off, slamming the short-notice postponement on X (formerly Twitter) as “shambles.com.”

Dorking had already reached Chesterfield by that point, but he is grateful for Uggla's gesture at tonight's game.

“We were disappointed to be at the wrong end of the calling off last time,” he stated. “I made a comment of it being a shambles and it was a shambles.

“Obviously the pitch was frozen, but that was directed at the people that run the ground - not York itself, the management company that put constraints on them.

“Matt’s obviously done the right thing, gone out there and shown a bit of integrity and said, ‘that’s not ideal’. They’re doing half-price tickets for our fans, and I believe he is a part of that.”

He also outlined his respect for City boss Neal Ardley, whom he has known for three decades thanks to his association with AFC Wimbledon.

The Dorking boss explained: “Neal is in charge, and I’ve known Neal 30 years based on the fact that he was at Wimbledon, and he played with my friends at Wimbledon when he was a kid.

“I’ve got a lifelong relationship, in that detached way, with Neal, and we’ve come to talk more as he’s been in our division.

“He’s a great manager, he managed my club Wimbledon for many years – I don’t think they’ve ever recovered from when Neal left – he’s done brilliant at Solihull and now he’s there to sort of steer a big ship of big expectation.”