Thread! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "Over my eight months there, everything imaginable that could have gone wrong, went wrong."

Dean Austin ( @dean316austin) looks back on his stint in charge of Farnborough Town and reveals how he ended up taking out £10,000 to pay the players& #39; wages https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔍" title="Nach links zeigende Lupe" aria-label="Emoji: Nach links zeigende Lupe">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "I started off in Watford’s academy but before I knew it, an opportunity to be a manager came up.

"I’d got to know Brendan Rodgers. He got in touch to say a friend of his was taking over at Farnborough Town. I got the job and took on the biggest challenge of my career."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "We were one of only three or four part-time teams in the Conference at that time. The club had recently been in administration and was fighting to stay out of more financial trouble."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "I was working for a very good guy in Tony Theo. It was all going pretty well, but then Tony lost ownership of Farnborough and two other businessmen came in. They wanted me out, but because the team was doing well they couldn’t get rid of me."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "It was an eventful time. Over my eight months there, everything imaginable that could have gone wrong, went wrong."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "At one point, the owners hadn’t paid the players for three or four months, and I was getting calls from some of the young lads saying they couldn’t afford the petrol to get to training."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "I wanted to show the players how much I cared, so I went to my wife – who was a bank manager at the time – and told her I needed a lot of money. I told her I needed between £7,000 and £10,000 to pay the players’ wages.

"I told her: & #39;I will get our money back.& #39;"

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "I paid the younger players first and then split what was left between the older boys, who all backed my decision.

"That night at training, I was talking to the players in the changing room when the door opened. It was the owner, saying there had been some banking problem."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "The players asked me to leave the room because they wanted to speak to him in private. I went back to my office, but even from there I could hear them tearing strips off him. They were furious that it had come down to me having to pay them."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "The next day, all of the money went back into my account."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣️" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes"> "We had a great group and team spirit – but it was a tough league, and as soon as we had a bad run of results the owners took the opportunity to dismiss me. It was so challenging, but such a good experience for me so early in my career."