Ross Weatherstone – the Binfield manager – is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Manager of the Season (Men’s Game).
Weatherstone has just lead his Moles side on ‘The Great Escape’ as Binfield avoided relegation on the final day of the Isthmian League season.
One nomination for the award said: Rosco has gone into an impossible job and made it possible. The fact he has gone from a 9-0 loss in his early games in charge to the amount of wins he has accumulated, is outstanding. This is more than a new manager bounce, he has brought all parts of the club together again on and off the pitch. We are lucky to have Ross as a manager within our county.”
Another added: “Ross joined Binfield in the busy Christmas period with the club at the bottom of the league, with no wins and just four points and a goal difference of 60+. He has retained just one coach, the physio and seven players from the previous managers’ time and added a further 17 players to his squad, including two Bermudian full internationals and one England Schoolboy International, who recently captained his country.
“With three games left we now have one team below us who can’t catch us and one above us who has one point more with only two games left. Our goal difference has improved but can’t help us. Basically win our games or win one more than Chipstead and we stay in this league. That’s why I’m making this nomination because the club’s management gave Rosco a nigh impossible task to bring in 75% of a new squad and blend them, and his coaching team in no time at all and create a winning ethos, which he has done. If we stay up, that is a phenomenal effort.
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