Sports suffer shock managerial departure

Hullbridge Sports have announced the resignations of manager Darren Manning and Assistant Manager James Wakeling.

In a statement made at 5PM today, the club paid tribute to the pair, saying:

'We would like to thank Darren and James for everything they have done for the club during their successful tenure, leading Hullbridge Sports to be Essex Senior League Champions in their first full season and promoting the club to the Isthmian Noerth Division for the first time in the club's history. They will always be welcome back to Lower Road.'

Darren had made his own statement a couple of hours earlier, and we include it here as an image- taken from his Twitter account.