CHESTER CITY chairman Stephen Vaughan last night urged the club's fans to get behind the team and cut out the barracking that came from certain sections of the crowd during Tuesday's match against Accrington Stanley at the Deva.
City let a 3-1 half-time lead against the Lancastrians slip, with the game ending in a frustrating 3-3 draw. And in the closing stages a small section of the home supporters started to jeer the team and manager Mark Wright, prompting Vaughan to issue this plea in an exclusive interview with the Daily Post.
"We are all disappointed when a lead slips away, like it did against Accrington. But that is precisely the time when we need our supporters to get behind the team and Mark, in a positive fashion. This sort of negative chanting has happened in a couple of other home games recently and it is beginning to get to the players and management," he said.
"It is crazy really, because we are top of the Nationwide Conference at the moment, we are unbeaten in the last 16 League matches and we have only lost one League game in 20 fixtures so far this season. If we have the same sequence of results in the next 20 League matches we will be champions," blasted the City supremo.
"If we are to achieve our ambition of returning to the Football League we need everybody to pull together at the club and that includes the supporters. This minority of supporters should cast their minds back to just over two years ago and remember what sort of a state the club was in then.
"We have made tremendous progress at Chester City Football Club, but when I hear negative chanting at a crucial point in a match, like I did on Tuesday, I get extremely angry and wonder why I am ploughing as much money into the club as I am."
Meanwhile, the out-of-favour City striker Mark Beesley has turned down a move to fellow Conference side Northwich Vics.
Beesley, who is out of contract at the Deva Stadium at the end of the season, has not made City's starting line-up so far this campaign and Vaughan said: "I would have thought that playing first-team football at Northwich rather than turning out in the reserves week after week here, would be the ambition of most progressive footballers."
