Posted by Steve on 8/5/2008, 3:45 pm
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Paul Sales has jokingly promised to hang up his boots if his new club, VT FC, don't walk the Sydenhams Wessex League Premier Division next season. No sooner had 34-year-old Sales (pictured) been released by Blue Square South side Eastleigh last Saturday than he was on the phone to his long-time admirer, VT boss Dave Diaper, to request a move to the ambitious Portsmouth Road outfit, who finished runners-up to Wessex champions AFC Totton this term. "If VT don't get promoted next season, I'll hang my boots up! With the squad they've got, it's got to be impossible for them not to finish top next season. "They should walk the league and do well in the Vase," said the ex-Bashley and Salisbury City targetman, who scored fifteen goals in thirty-five league and cup appearances for Eastleigh after re-joining them from Salisbury last August. *********************************************** Paul Doswell has quit as assistant-manager and equity director at Blue Square South club Eastleigh. The shock move comes following Eastleigh's failure to get into the play-offs. Doswell (pictured), who has been at Eastleigh for six years, guided the club to three promotions in his previous spell as manager and has been a driving force behind the scenes at the Silverlake Stadium. ...