GILLINGHAM MANAGER GETS FEMALE PO WORKER TO DELIVER TEAMTALK

[TrueBlueTerrier]

GILLINGHAM MANAGER MARTIN ALLEN GETS FEMALE POST OFFICE WORKER TO DELIVER TEAM-TALK

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Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Allen is known for his unusual management techniques, but his latest tactic is special even by his standards.

The Gillingham boss plucked a random autograph hunter from the streets of Stoke-on-Trent to deliver a pre-match team-talk to his squad.

Allen wrote in his programme notes for their recent match against Rochdale: “Last Saturday on the way into Port Vale, as we got off the bus, a lady in a Gillingham shirt asked me for my autograph.

“She told me that she travelled up from Gillingham on her own, on the train, and she never misses a game.

“She told me her name was Donna and she worked for the post office, she was a season ticket holder and her dad was missing his first game for years.

“She bubbled and oozed happiness and a positive attitude, so I took her into the dressing rooms, introduced her to all the players, had some photographs done with the lads and then she gave a speech, or team talk, to the players from a supporter’s perspective.

“She told them all they were great, she told them all to play the way you have been and she told them all we would win 2-1.”

Donna’s psychic skills fell just short of her motivational skills: the match ended in a 2-0 Gillingham victory.

[arnold cheshire]

i thought it was a gillingham do manager getting a female colleague to do wtl

[TeeferTiger]

That's what I thought too lol

[arnold cheshire]

That's what I thought too lol

im glad someone agrees if its a football club it should always have fc in it

[TrueBlueTerrier]

That's what I thought too lol

im glad someone agrees if its a football club it should always have fc in it

I ran out of space still it started a discussion