Imps get sudden fortune

By Nathan Jackson
December 23 2004

The light of fortune has shone on the Imps after it was announced that around half of the Boston United squad has gone down with a severe case of the flu ahead of the massive derby game on Sunday afternoon.

Training was cancelled for Wednesday and Thursday and unless a lot of the players make a miraculous recovery, training will be called off tomorrow as well. This is good news for the Imps as it means that a lot of Boston's regular first team squad could be out on the eagerly antipated game on boxing day.

Boston United manager, Steve Evans said,

“Having taken medical advice, I have told my players to stay at home until Friday. We have a number of players affected and we want to try and minimise the virus spreading. Given we have a very small squad, if I have any players not available to me, I could have James Rodwell at the back and secretary John Blackwell up front against Lincoln City!”