Oxford City have come to the rescue of crisis club Quarry Nomads.

City boss Paul Lee has agreed to lend reserve and youth team players to Headington-based Nomads, who were on the brink of folding due to a shortage of numbers.

Lee decided to help after reading about the Hellenic League Division 1 East club's desperate plight in Tuesday's Oxford Mail.

He said: "I have known Keith (Dolton), their club secretary, for a long time and, after I saw the report in the Mail, I gave him a call and said we were over our really bad injury problems.

"We have a lot of youth team and reserve team players and sometimes they are not going to have a game.

"This way they can play and, if they do well, they could go up to the next level of football.

"I think it's important to help teams like Quarry Nomads out. It's so easily done. I'm surprised more clubs like ours don't do it.

"It's the last thing we want for them to go out of existence. It's important for them to fulfil their fixtures," said Lee, who cut his non-league managerial teeth at Thame United more than 20 years ago, after being a professional player with Hereford United.