PAUL Sales has jokingly promised to hang up his boots if his new club, VT FC, don't walk the Sydenhams Premier Division next season.
No sooner had the 34-year-old been released by Eastleigh on Saturday than he was on the phone to his long-time admirer, VT boss Dave Diaper, to request a move to the ambitious Portsmouth Road outfit, who finished runners-up to Wessex champions Totton this term.
"If VT don't get promoted next season, I'll hang my boots up! With the squad they've got, it's got to be impossible for them not to finish top next season.
"They should walk the league and do well in the Vase," said the ex-Bashley and Salisbury targetman, who scored 15 goals in 35 league and cup appearances for Eastleigh after re-joining them from Salisbury last August.
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