O/T UnbeLIEVABLE sacking ! ! !
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:32 amHow do some clubs operate to do this MID match ??? Unreal.
Non-league side Chichester City may have made football history by becoming the first club to sack their manager with a phone call during a match.
Boss Mark Poulton was in the dugout for last month's Sussex Charity Cup match against Redhill when he got the call from club director Gary Walker telling him they were reinstating his predecessor, Adie Girdler, who had been sacked at the end of last season.
Poulton told The Sun: "I must be the first manager in football history to receive a call during a game to say that he had been fired.
"I couldn't believe it. The club are a complete mess and a shambles - I'm better off out of it.
"During the second half I had a call from Gary Walker, one of the directors, who said he was sorry to interrupt me and then told me I'd been sacked."
City were winning 2-1 at the time of the call, just when Poulton had serious on-pitch matters to deal with.
"It could not have come at a worse time as one of my young players, Nathan Paxton, had just been taken to hospital after breaking his jaw, cheekbone, nose and eye socket in a collision with their keeper. But there had been a lot going on ever since I started at Chichester and I feared it might end like this."
The shock dismissal is another chapter in a tumultuous year for the Sussex County League One side.
Non-league side Chichester City may have made football history by becoming the first club to sack their manager with a phone call during a match.
Boss Mark Poulton was in the dugout for last month's Sussex Charity Cup match against Redhill when he got the call from club director Gary Walker telling him they were reinstating his predecessor, Adie Girdler, who had been sacked at the end of last season.
Poulton told The Sun: "I must be the first manager in football history to receive a call during a game to say that he had been fired.
"I couldn't believe it. The club are a complete mess and a shambles - I'm better off out of it.
"During the second half I had a call from Gary Walker, one of the directors, who said he was sorry to interrupt me and then told me I'd been sacked."
City were winning 2-1 at the time of the call, just when Poulton had serious on-pitch matters to deal with.
"It could not have come at a worse time as one of my young players, Nathan Paxton, had just been taken to hospital after breaking his jaw, cheekbone, nose and eye socket in a collision with their keeper. But there had been a lot going on ever since I started at Chichester and I feared it might end like this."
The shock dismissal is another chapter in a tumultuous year for the Sussex County League One side.
