By Chris Wright
Second bottom of League Two with just two games left to play, it looks for all the world that Cheltenham Town are going to be playing non-league football next season.
This will no doubt come as a major disappointment to new boss Gary Johnson, who was appointed last month to help steer the struggling club clear of relegation.
Alas, it seems that Johnson’s managerial masterplan was to get his new players to all sign a sheet of paper promising to do their best to keep the Robins in the Football League.
Shockingly enough, it hasn’t worked.
“When I first came in I asked all the lads to sign a sheet of paper to say that they promise they’ll give everything to keep Cheltenham Town in the Football League,” Johnson explained to the Beeb.
“They all signed it. Some signed it and meant it, and some signed it and didn’t mean it.”
“When I came in all the players signed this sheet of paper, some of them meant it and some didn’t” Gary Johnson #ctfc pic.twitter.com/BcPWcpydYP
— Cheltenham Town FC (@CTFCofficial) April 23, 2015
Sorry Gary, but we just don’t think that’ll stand up in court as a legally-binding document.
Still, you get the feeling that somewhere out there Brendan Rodgers is quietly making notes.
“Genius”