Special report by our football correspondent "throw in"
Cobblers manager Jon Brady was left red faced after an attempt at a team bonding exercise caused him to be without 6 first team players for the week.
The enigmatic Aussie was inspired to reenact the Stanford Prison Experiment with the first team squad this past Wednesday after hearing a podcast about it on the way back from Charlton.
Unfortunately, after splitting the group into prisoners and officers - 10 unnamed staff including 6 players were locked in a makeshift “holding cell” (matchday escape room) for 3 days, when “Prison Sergeant” Sam Hoskins misplaced the key.
“Nobody was really sure what was to be gained from doing this to begin with” one furious club insider scowled. After locking up after recreation time, Sam Hoskins quickly got tearful before reluctantly revealing he’d put the keys down somewhere and now couldn’t remember where.
The situation was made worse when club chairman Kelvin Thomas found out about the issue. The unnamed insider said that the chairman was said to be furious that the matchday escape room was being used, and forbid anybody stuck in there from creating a makeshift toilet, as it would cost the club “considerable matchday revenue” in the future.
It wasn’t until Saturday morning, that Hoskin’s grandmother found the keys in his lunch box, after emptying his kit bag for its weekly wash - he’d put them there when he had his midmorning snack of dairylea dunkers.
When asked for comment, ex Rushden and Diamonds man Brady shook his head “it was a bad few days, I only expected the experiment to go as intended - with the lads in the role of prison officers mistreating and possibly tormenting the lads who were prisoners. It was silly of me not to foresee that some kind of mishap would befall us”.
However, with the first team recently getting a valuable point at promotion chasing Doncaster Rovers, Bradey wouldn’t rule out trying the experiment again.
“My job is to win football matches and conduct research into human behaviour on behalf of the PTS Academy. If I let one setback deter me from trying new things, then I’d never learn anything”.
The Cobblers play Oxford United this evening in League One.
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