Macclesfield Town came up with a novel way to avoid paying for footage of their drab 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 the Vanarama National League game, which featured only three shots on target, was not worth the fee.

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, which accurately replicates what the 306 fans at Meadow Park had to endure.

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