YORK City have yet to find a potential new site for their proposed new ground, club chiefs have stressed.

The Minstermen began their search for possible new locations when they were first informed that they would need to leave Bootham Crescent, and the hunt became more frenetic when the club appeared to have only a few months to find a new home, with the unfancied Huntington Stadium seemingly their only real option.

The haste of that search has waned now their eviction from Bootham Crescent has been postponed, and club bosses are now saying they are starting again from scratch.

They have also rubbished speculation that Naburn, Heslington or new green-belt land had already been earmarked.

City's stadium development director Ian McAndrew said: "After reading letters in the Press saying, 'We don't want the ground at the university' or other possible sites that have been banded about, we want to make clear that the truth of the matter is we have struck a deal with the council which at this stage only involves finding where we can go in the future.

"We are starting with a clean sheet of paper. There are no done deals.

"We are starting discussions with the local authority in terms of how to organise where we will be looking but there is no preferred location at the moment.

"In fact, there is absolutely nothing other than an agreement to find somewhere."

Updated: 11:28 Wednesday, June 16, 2004