On Monday 22nd September, we were presented with the departure of the previous management of Mikey Cockerill and Tyler Ferries, who took up the vacant role as management at Belle Isle FC.

Prior to the Flair Academy duo's appointment on 6th August (starting with Ferries managing alone, before the addition of Cockerill 11 days later), we had a management and coaching committee consisting of 5 players and one club official; Ibraheem Yusuf, Diyar Ahmed and Nahir Salim being the players, and Antonio Chirvase being the official club representative. On the training ground, we had Finley Stawman and Damarni Wiltshire as the coaching duo.

Following internal discussion, on 25th September we reappointed Yusuf as player-manager, with the other four originals from the prior committee remaining as advisors and assistants. Joining the committee, we also had the experience and level-headedness of Harry Ingram, who works as a physiotherapist at Bradford City Academy, and is overqualified to join Yusuf at the post.

This has since been followed by the appointment of Sam Carvalho Da Silva as head coach, with the experienced official taking charge of the first team with immediate effect, as of 22nd November.

We would also like to place on record our best wishes to Mikey and Tyler with their new role.

View our fixture list on our club website, all support is welcome as we look to kick off our season.