CABLES GET IN RIGHT TANGLE

Boss returns days after quitting

- Andrew Simpson

IT was 6.40pm on Friday evening when Prescot Cables shared an update on social media that concluded a remarkable saga.

A short post read: “The club is pleased to confirm that Ste Daley has agreed to rejoin as first-team manager.”

For those that don’t know, he’d started the week in charge at the Merseyside outfit that celebrated wildly securing a return to the Northern Premier League’s top flight as promotion play-offs winners in May.

In between, he resigned and was replaced.

The chairman did the same.

An entire team, a combination of those who had helped end a 15-year wait to play again in at Step 3 and a sprinkling of new signings recruited this summer to help Cables stay there, indicated they wanted to go too.

“In my opinion the damage is irreparable,” rued Dave Dempsey, who left Burscough to become Daley’s successor on Wednesday only to quit less than 72 hours later.

Dempsey and assistant Chris Stammers have now returned to Burscough.