Once again with Wiggleville without a manager and losing Costacurta to Montova it was all change in the 08/09 pre-season, Chairman Pele shuffled the staff and brought in a few new faces most notably Cafu as Assistant manager. And on the morning of the 8th of July, I was appointed as team manager.
My first job in charge was to respond to all the speculation regarding the teams key players. All clubs sowing interest were issued a ‘hands off’ warning and in my first press conference I made it clear no one would be leaving. Everytime an offer came in it was torn up and thrown in the bin.
In terms of transfers in only loan arrivals from our parent clubs, Henri Lansbury arrives from Arsenal and Vladimir Weiss from Man City.
Pre season passed rather uneventfully with Wiggleville playing 6 friendlies winning 5 and losing 1. The results and Wiggleville scorers can be seen below:
- Eastbourne Boro 0-3 Wiggleville (Bishop, Martin, Lee)
- AFC Wiggle 0-3 Wiggleville (Booth, Fletcher OG, Sale)
- Wiggleville 2-3 Newcastle (Beye OG, Martin)
- Wiggleville 7-2 Man City Reserves (Lee x3, Newton x2, Luck x2)
- Wiggleville 4-0 Wolves (Sale, Martin x 2, Taylor)
- Wiggleville 3-0 Arsenal (Newton, Broughton, Luck)
The league cup has drawn us against Norwich in the frst round. And such a good preseason leaves me feeling confident of a good result against Northampton in the first league game of the season.
The expected Line-up is:
GK: R.S. Raastad
DR: J. Bishop
DL: P. Taylor (VC)
DC: S. Mitchell (C)
DC: J. Haskell
MR: J. Garner
ML: R. Lee
MC: B. Levy
MC: B. Newton
ST: J. Martin
ST: W. Luck
