The backstory to
Redditch - Champions of the World The story starts in the most unusual of places, 106 miles north of Redditch in Sheffield. Joshua Darling had just qualified his level two coaching badge at the age of 29, he was playing for Sheffield FC but had suffered a back injury and the doctors had told him to stop playing Football due to it so he had decided to finish the season and then get a coaching Job at the club, but come the end of the season, the board were unable to offer him a job at the club due to financial difficulties. So Josh looked elsewhere. He contacted many clubs before he was offered the Job as First team coach at Redditch.
He moved down to Redditch and got himself a nice flat with his very nice room-mate Sean, Everything was set for the beggining of pre-season when the worst happened, The manager was found to be spending money the chairman had given him for the club on himself and was fired. The board asked if anyone at the club wanted the job and only Josh showed interest. He was later offered the job but the previous manager had left the club in bad state. The club was in debt and in a meeting with the board he was told that if he didn't take 1k off the wage budget and stay in the division at the end of the year, the club would go bust. So Josh looked through every player and sold nearly half the squad for nothing taking the wage budget down by 2k. But now Josh had a bigger problem, he had to take a weakened team that was predicted to finish bottom before the clear out to safety. Josh brought in some very young, talented players but the best player came from an unlikely source.
He was in his flat one sunday in June when his flatmate Sean Coburn asked him to come to watch his pub team as he wanted to show he knew the Redditch manager. But when he got there he found more than just praise from fans. It turned out that Sean Coburn was one of the best Players Josh had seen play football in the flesh. Josh had found the player that would keep Redditch in the Blue Square Premier North.
TBC soon.
