Poole Town Manager Bypasses Stadium Ban By Watching Games From Upstairs Window Of House Across The Street (Photos)

Chris Wright

30th, March 2015

By Chris Wright

Top of the Evo-Stick Southern Premier division by a single point with just eight games left to play, the last thing Poole Town needed was their manager being hit with a six-game stadium ban at such a crucial point in their season.

Alas, that’s exactly what happened, with the FA prohibiting Tom Killick from entering Poole’s Tatnam Ground stadium for six matches for spouting off at a referee during a league game back in January.

However, being an enterprising kind of chap, Killick has found a cunning way to bypass his stadium ban which involves watching his side play from the upstairs window in a house directly across the street from their home pitch.

We can’t use the pictures, so these’ll have to do…

The house actually belongs to one of Poole’s groundsmen, Chris Kelly, with his loft conversion providing panoramic vistas of the pitch he devotes his life to trimming from behind one of the goals.

“I can pretty much see the whole pitch apart from the goalmouth at the end I watch it from,” Killick told the Bournemouth Echo.

“It is quite a good vantage point but being detached from the players makes life difficult.”

Two empty yoghurt pots and about 30 metres of string should do it.

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