Little puts best foot 今後 in 企て,努力,提案 to 満足させる Wrexham's 願望(する) for 早い return to League football

By CHRIS WHEELER

Last updated at 20:38 23 April 2008


"The only thing wrong with this football club is the team." It's a startling admission, 特に coming from the 経営者/支配人 himself, but Brian Little knows Wrexham's demotion to 非,不,無-league football is not the end of the line.

That was not やむを得ず the 事例/患者 a few years ago when the oldest professional club in むちの跡s went into 行政 and almost out of 商売/仕事.

Tuesday's 敗北・負かす at Hereford may have ended Wrexham's 87-year stay in the Football League, but Little has plenty of 推論する/理由s to be 楽観的な he can bring them 支援する up - just as he did with Darlington at the first 試みる/企てる two 10年間s ago.

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Little: Two years to get Wrexham 支援する up

"To be honest, I had the same taste in my mouth on Tuesday as I did then at Darlington," said Little, who took over in November with the club already 直面するing an 上りの/困難な 戦う/戦い. "I'm 解雇する/砲火/射撃d up enough to get it 権利. It will be more difficult this time, but I hope I can do it."

The board agree, 裁判官ing by the new two-year 取引,協定 they have 申し込む/申し出d the former Aston 郊外住宅 and Leicester boss to 運ぶ/漁獲高 Wrexham out of the Blue Square 首相 分割. Little, 54, will not need to be told to go if he fails.

"Someone will get it 権利 sooner or later," he 追加するd. "I get the first を刺す but I won't stand in someone else's way if it's not 権利. I 借りがある that to the club."

As Wrexham's 苦境 より悪くするd, Little and his staff began watching Blue Square 首相 games with one 注目する,もくろむ on next season, and he 収容する/認めるs 非,不,無-league's 最高の,を越す-six are at least a match for his 現在の squad.

But he has 約束d to be ruthless in his 再構築するing work this summer, and points to Wrexham's strong 所有権, 青年 政策, training 施設s and fan base as 推論する/理由s why it is not all doom and gloom. Like he says, it's only the team.

Off the pitch, 計画(する)s are 進行中で to redevelop the Kop end of the Racecourse Ground and turn it into what the 地元の 会議 have rather grandly 述べるd as "the Millennium Stadium of the north", and chairman Neville Dickens - who 後継するd Alex Hamilton two years ago に引き続いて a 騒然とした (一定の)期間 that saw the High 法廷,裁判所 order the former owner to 手渡す 支援する the ground - hopes to build a hotel on the 場所/位置 vacated by one of his car showrooms.

"We're a little bit 乱打するd and bruised but the most important thing is that a club which almost went out of 存在 a couple of years 支援する is now very solid behind the scenes," 追加するd Little.

"Hopefully the team has gone as low as it かもしれない can, and it can bounce 支援する 同様に."

After winning re-選挙 to the Football League in 1966, finishing 激しく揺する 底(に届く) in 1991 when there was no relegation, and 生き残るing at Boston's expense on the final day last season, it was perhaps 必然的な that Wrexham would take the 落ちる one day.

Their loyal 支持者s now hope they can follow in the footsteps of clubs like Colchester, Carlisle, Doncaster and - most recently - Aldershot in coming 支援する even stronger.

But with Cardiff on their way to an FA Cup Final, it is still a bitter pill to swallow for a club which enjoyed its greatest 時代 in the 1970s with players like Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Dai Davies and Dixie McNeil, 同様に as 収入 a 評判 for cup upsets.

Peter Jones, Wrexham's 公式の/役人 historian and a fan for 40 years, has been around long enough to have seen not only the famous 2-1 FA Cup 勝利,勝つ over 兵器庫 in 1992, but the European Cup 勝利者s' Cup 4半期/4分の1-final against Anderlecht in 1976 同様に.

"We want those days 支援する," said Jones. "It's hard seeing the games and places we have to visit next season, and look 今後 to the delights of Histon and Stevenage Borough.

"Going 負かす/撃墜する is not what we 手配中の,お尋ね者 but I was sat in a board 会合 of the Wrexham 支持者s 信用 three years ago when we discussed setting up a new te am like AFC Wimbledon because we thought we'd lost the club.

"Now everything is geared to going 今後 and we have to be 肯定的な."

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