Darlington Football Club's much-loved "tin shed" stand could find a new home at the club's £20m new stadium when the Quakers leave Feethams.

Quakers fans have a long affinity with the stand and chairman George Reynolds believes it could be preserved at the stadium on Neasham Road, possibly as a "feature" site for fast food stalls.

He said: "Unless I can get someone to buy it as a package, it's going to come down and it's going to be re-erected on the new stadium as a memento. It's famous, the old tin shed."

The tin shed was built in the 1960/61 season when the roof was put over the northern terracing.

Mr Reynolds said that seven clubs, including Blackpool, had already shown an interest in buying Feethams' Newcastle Breweries Stand.

He said the asking price circulated to clubs across Britain was only £1m, as opposed to the £2.5m referred to in The Northern Echo on Saturday. That figure was actually the price it cost to build in 1998.

Mr Reynolds said buyers would not face the same cost problems which put an end to plans to install a stand bequeathed from Teesside Racecourse in 1992.

Because the stand is a sectional structure, it can be taken apart and reassembled for £500,000.

If nobody wanted to buy the whole stand, Mr Reynolds said he could still sell it in bits with potential buyers already expressing an interest in seats and the bars.

Even sheeting could be sold or used elsewhere, he said, adding he could even make more money selling it piecemeal.

But he said: "Blackpool have shown a bit of interest. They haven't said they will have it, they have got the drawings."

The Quakers could still use Feethams, once the club moves to Neasham Road in August, if it can agree an annual rent with Darlington Cricket Club which shares the trust-owned land.