Carolyn calls on Stags to make play-off party ahead of Sky Blues
MANSFIELD Town’s players have been ordered to ‘play like their lives depend on it’ as they head into their last two games desperately hoping to pip Coventry City a top seven finish.
The Stags are the only League Two side that can catch the Sky Blues and deny them a place in the promotion mix.
To do that, David Flitcroft’s side – currently three points off City in eighth place – have to win their remaining two games away to Yeovil and then home to Crawley and hope that Mark Robins’ men slip up in their remaining fixtures at Cheltenham Town and home to Morecambe on the last day.
Four points for the Sky Blues would see them over the line but their Nottinghamshire neighbours are not giving up just yet. Chief executive Carolyn Radford pointed out how much time and money her and husband chairman John Radford have put into a campaign that has taken such a downward turn since boss Steve Evans quit with 12 games to go, days after Coventry earned a 1-1 draw with ten men at Field Mill in February. She has demanded the side give their ‘absolute maximum’ in the last two games as the Stags struggle to bridge a three-point gap to the top seven after Saturday’s late heartbreak when Tom Pope’s late equaliser salvaged an unlikely 1-1 draw for Port Vale. “I am feeling massively disappointed by the outcome of today’s result. And that describes it lightly,” said Ms Radford. “Apart from our families and health, time is the most precious thing in life. “And it is time, along with a substantial amount of money, which John and I have invested into our club this season in abundance,” she added.
“To see our season now pan out in such a fashion is disheartening for us.
“We have a minimum of 180 minutes of football remaining and I expect us to play like our lives depend on it.
“We have rebuilt our club from the ashes.
“Everyone can see the time and finance invested in every area of our club and we are immensely proud of the developments we are making off the field.
“That time and endeavour must be matched to its absolute maximum in these next two matches.
“We have worked too hard for anything else. Thank you for your support.”
We have a minimum of 180 minutes of football remaining and I expect us to play like our lives depend on it. Carolyn Radford