Carlisle's youth team set for Everton game
Last updated 12:10, Thursday, 03 July 2008
Carlisle United’s youth team will be sent to prison for the second year running ahead of the new season.
Eric Kinder’s Under-18s will spend next Friday at Kirkham Prison in Lancashire where the jail’s gym instructor will put them through their paces.
It is part of a pre-season programme designed to get the teenagers into shape ahead of their own big-kick off at Burnley on Saturday, August 16.
The young Blues take on Everton in their first friendly on Monday at the Toffees’ new academy at Finch Farm.
That heralds a week of training at Myerscough College, near Preston. It will include a match against Rochdale on Wednesday, July 16, which is being used as a coaching game by Kinder and his Dale counterpart Chris Beech.
United then face Huddersfield’s academy youngsters on Tuesday, July 22 and Crewe on Saturday, July 26. They go to Motherwell on Wed July 30, Queen of the South on Aug 2, face Carlisle City on Aug 5, Derby County on Aug 8 and conclude their friendlies with a home clash against Kilmarnock on Aug 11.
Defender Tom Aldred will captain the youth team this season, with coach Kinder hoping for another successful year after last season’s run to the FA Youth Cup quarter-finals and the rise of 17-year-old Gary Madine to the first team.
