ABBOTT’S WALKOUT RE-OPENS MANAGER MARKET!

MARKET Drayton Town are looking for their third manager of the season after Carl Abbott left the club just two months into the job to take over at ambitious Step 6 club Whitchurch Alport.

The former Hinckley boss was axed after failing to turn around the club’s fortunes in Evo-Stik South amid rumours that the players had not been paid in all the time he was there.

Abbott stood down as the first ever manager of phoenix club Hinckley in October to succeed the axed Martyn Davies at Greenfields, but recent boardroom rumblings and a run of four defeats out of the last five matches has seen the beleaguered Gingerbread Men slip to 17th in the table ahead of yesterday’s visit of runaway leaders Basford United.

Whitchurch, meanwhile, are a club on the up and have targeted Abbott as the man to get them promoted from North West Counties League Division One, where they currently lie fifth in the table.

Market Drayton chairman Ben Cockram told the club’s fans: “Of course we are disappointed to learn Carl has decided to move on so soon after joining the club but that’s football at this level. We wish him all the best at his new club and they are incredible lucky to have such an ambitious manager at the helm.

“The directors and I stand by the decision to appoint him; it was time to move on from the club’s chaotic past and, whilst it is regretful that we have to revisit our plans so soon, we are looking forward to moving on with an equally ambitious manager as soon as possible.”