Off the PitchBBC SportUnverified source· 10 Sept 2026
Gainsborough Trinity condemn fake manager targeting players
A hoaxer has been posing as Gainsborough Trinity's boss to lure players with bogus transfer and wage offers.
Gainsborough Trinity
team
Who
Gainsborough Trinity
What
Impersonation of manager
League
Northern Premier League Premier Division
Tier
Seventh tier
What happened. Gainsborough Trinity have condemned a person who approached players with transfer and wage offers while falsely claiming to be their manager. The club say the individual contacted a number of players across different levels of the non-league pyramid.
- CEO Matt Boles said the approaches did not come from manager Russ Wilcox or the club
- Other clubs' officials contacted Wilcox directly after suspecting the messages were not his
- Boles told the impersonator: 'Enough is enough'
“Enough is enough. Stop impersonating our manager, stop wasting the time of players and clubs”
— Matt Boles
Gainsborough want the bogus approaches stopped to protect players, managers and clubs across non-league football.
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