Mahon hopes dashed

Wednesday 9th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Kieran Mahon tracks Jersey’s Michael Weir in the recent Junior Muratti at the Track. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0557575)

KIERAN MAHON’S hopes of a professional career with Northampton Town have sunk.

A management change at the League One club has cost the Junior Murati star, who had been given a verbal offer of a year’s scholarship with the Cobblers. But the resignation of the club’s youth academy manager, who had made the offer, has seen Mahon told by the new academy boss he will not be kept on after all.

Mahon received the news when he was travelling back to the UK after having played in the Junior Muratti. ‘Kieran has taken the news well and fully understands that these things happen in football,’ said his parents.