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Weymouth’s glamour clash with Premiership giants Liverpool is almost certainly off following yesterday’s sacking of Reds boss Gerard Houllier. Hopes were high that stars like Michael Owen, Harry Kewell and Steven Gerrard would grace the Wessex Stadium after Houllier had agreed to bring his Anfield outfit to the resort for a pre-season friendly. But the…
TERRAS have been rocked by the resignations of its four longest-serving directors. Dave Higson, Mick Archer, Terry Bennett and Peter Shaw dramatically quit the Wessex Stadium club last night. In a joint letter to chairman Ian Ridley, the quartet said they were leaving to allow others to take the club forward. However, Echosport understands they…
Steve Claridge doesn’t want a mass of trialists turning up when the Terras report back for pre-season training tonight. The new Weymouth boss insists he only wants to work with players who have committed their futures to the Wessex Stadium club. He told Echosport: “It’s been a really frustrating summer because so much work has…
TWO new members have been co-opted on to the board of Weymouth Football Club. The appointments of Andrew Brown and Charles Lesser brings the number of Terras directors up to a total of ten. Weymouth-born Brown has run a number of successful exhibition companies in Bournemouth while Lesser is a London-based commodities broker. Chairman Ian…
Terras fans will get a chance to pay tribute to goal-machine David Laws next month. Nationwide Conference champions Yeovil Town have agreed to provide the opposition for his testimonial game at the Wessex Stadium on Wednesday, May 7 (7.45pm). Laws, who missed Saturday’s goalless draw against Dover Athletic after failing a fitness test on a…
Organisers of the second Weymouth FC Youth Soccer Development School sponsored by Westham Cycles and the Transport & General Workers Union, which was held at the Wessex Stadium on the 16th & 17th April, have hailed the event as a great success as over 180 children enjoyed quality coaching from Terras stars Matthew Hale and…
Terras boss Geoff Butler was making no apologies after his hot-potch side went down 2-0 to a near full-strength Dorchester in last night’s Dorset Senior Cup final at the Avenue Stadium. Butler fielded only three of his senior players and his men were comprehensively out-played by Mark Morris’ Dr Martens Eastern Division promotion-chasers who won…