Tranmere Rovers have been described as seeking "blood money" from a proposed housing development on land set aside as a memorial to Wilfred Owen and his 87 fellow pupils from the Birkenhead Institute who were killed during World War I.
The football club were yesterday granted planning permission by Wirral Council to develop up to 90 homes on the Ingleborough Road memorial field - a site owned by the club and used as a training pitch.
The proposals have outraged the Wilfred Owen Story, an or...
