Victory set sail to assist French revolutionaries

Amid ongoing media speculation surrounding the beleaguered franchise, the Chatham Victory held an emergency press briefing.

Amongst small talk regarding the removal of Mexicana cheese at Victory charity functions, the sacking of Coach Jaques Lemaire, and the ineptness of Ryan Giggs’ super-injunction, super-GM Buff shocked the gutter press by announcing that he has lost 4lbs through a carefully balanced diet of black rum and yakult. He invited the massed journalists to join him in drinking their bladders black and blue on his personal 9 hole golf course to celebrate the occasion.

The troupe then set off into the sunset eye-patches, sand-wedges and spoons in tow.

A likeable tramp informed the massed drunks that the franchise hopes to announce l’escargots successor by Wednesday once GM Buff had finished his complimentary hangover full English.