A NON-EXECUTIVE director at Goals Soccer Centres has bought £109,000 worth of shares in the five-a-side football operator.

Philip Burks, who has been on the board at Goals since 2011 and is chairman of its audit committee as well as a member of its nominations committee, bought 50,000 ordinary shares yesterday at 218p each.

The purchase means his holding in the business is now 471,228 shares, equivalent to 0.8 per cent of the issued share capital.

Shares in East Kilbride- based Goals closed the day flat at 217.5p.